23/06/08 - Homework

Introduction, Family, Hobbies & Interests
My name is Sheraz Naseeb and I am studying Msc Software Engineering in London Metropolitan University September 2008 Session. I have done BSc Computer Science and have about 4 years of experience of professional software development. My father is enjoying a very good retired. My mother is a housewife and she is my ideal woman in the whole world for me I have learnt a lot from her in fact I am still learning from her experiences of life, her attitude towards us, her way of dealing other people in the social life and lot more. We are 5 siblings 3 brothers and 2 sisters one brother & one sister is elder to me and they both are married, and one brother & one sister is younger to me. We as a family have got very strong emotional bounding with each other and respect each other very much. My elder brother and sister both are married my sister is staying in Qatar with her husband. About the hobbies I would like to say that hobbies can never be the same as you grow up, i.e. when I was a kid I used to play the video games a lot some of them are, Sonic, Mario etc, when I grew up a bit I started playing piano then for some time I played badminton, snooker etc. But at the moment I don’t have any hobby while if we talk about the interests I have only one interest since my childhood to be a generic type of programmer. I developed this interest since I was about 15 years old and it’s still the same in fact getting stronger with the passage of time.

What have I already studied & why did I chose this subject, Plans and career
I have done the BSc. Computer Science (Hons) as my undergraduate programme in which the major was Software Development after completing my degree I started a job as a database programmer and after getting promotions in different times finally I finished my job as a system analyst. After completing my postgraduate I am planning to adopt a career regarding to my professional experience, something in software engineering. Because as a software engineer I believe I can achieve my childhood dream to be a generic type of programmer.

What do I think about London/Briton, British culture, Comparison of British culture with our culture and have I travelled a lot?
First of all I would like to say about London that London is one of the famous cities in the world a bit expensive but that doesn’t matter if we compare this factor to the other facilities available like, free NHS, emergency services, etc. I have not travelled a lot in Briton but still can say would be worth seeing sights. The British nation is really polite and nice while if I compare the British culture with my home culture it’s totally different, there is nothing similar like we wear differently stitched clothes, different type of dishes, except some traditional buildings which we have in both cultures.

Expectations from the course, what do I want to do a lot in my lessons and not so much
My expectations from the course are at the end of the course I would be able to communicate better with the people around me, my classmates, teachers etc. I would have a better command on English as compare to now I have, I would be able to understand lots of new words in English as I would like to do the writings a lot in my course just to have new words added in my vocabulary would like to practice the different words in different scenarios.

Main Self-Study targets for this week
I have set the main self-study by myself by reading the material, articles, newspaper thoroughly and find the new words I don’t have in my vocabulary highlight them and then finding the meaning of them to understand them then after that I’ll post them on my blog for the other classmates to view it and if they would like to give me suggestions on that one would be more than welcome.