12/26(Sat.) 6 cartoons :D (Host: Tom Lee)

[Tom Lee]

12/26(Sat.) 6 cartoons (Host: Tom Lee)

Don't be serious all the time. It's end of the year.

Let's watch some stupid cartoons with little lyrics and you will be happy all the year.

Session 1:
Try to use your own words to share the videos with other members and tell them what you get.
1. Lambs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hq9rf0XgrI

2. Head Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWDIoW7f6js

3. Funny CGI 3d Animated Short Film ** IT'S A CINCH! ** Adventure Animation Movie by ESMA Team [PG13]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmq94PQmW0I

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Session 2:
Do you understand the following cartoon? Try to explain to your team member.

Trouble In Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5lKJMibr0

The Egyptian Pyramids - Funny Animated Short Film (Full HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6PbonHsqW0

The Last Knit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZjMWLqJvM

Extra clips:
Try to use one sentence to describe the following video.
Catch It - ESMA 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c88QE6yGhfM

Whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodRU8lav7s

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3:45 ~ 4:00pm Greetings & Free Talk / Ordering Beverage or Meal / Getting Newcomer’s Information
4:00 ~ 4:10pm Opening Remarks / Newcomer’s Self-introduction / Grouping
(Session I)
4:10 ~ 4:50pm Discussion Session (40 mins)
4:50 ~ 5:10pm Summarization (20 mins)
5:10 ~ 5:15pm Regrouping / Instruction Giving / Taking a 10 Minutes Break (Intermission)
(Session II)
5:15 ~ 5:55pm Discussion Session (40 mins)
6:00 ~ 6:20pm Summarization (20 mins)
6:20 ~ 6:30pm Concluding Remarks / Announcements
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[Luis Ko]

Session 1:
Try to use your own words to share the videos with other members and tell them what you get.
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Session 2:
Do you understand the following cartoon? Try to explain to your team member.



so, what's the difference between these two?

[Rock]

Session 1:
Try to use your own words to share the videos with other members and tell them what you get.
&
Session 2:
Do you understand the following cartoon? Try to explain to your team member.



so, what's the difference between these two?

They are the same, I guess.

[Rock]

This is the best I can find for the first video. The poodle seems quite happy.

[Rock]

After watching all 6 videos, I feel that I have been brainwashed by Tom. Now I can only see sheep and lambs jumping, and a knitter knitting her hair.

If we want to find meanings in these sheep and lambs, it's easy to get into cliché. There are already too much promotion for this "dare to be different" things in the market, especially targeted at young audience. When you see the first colored poodle lamb jumping, you know what is going on there.

It's easier to please young people that they can be different, special, unique, even in somewhat a shocking way. It makes them happy, of course. Who doesn't want to have the freedom to do whatever they want? But there are several problems to it. One of them is: when being rebelliously shocking become a trend, how do the older population pass their experience? If a kid listens to his dad and behave more conventionally, he automatically become "not cool" among his peers, so he has to learn to "be different" even when it's not necessary. In a group of dyed poodle lambs, it's difficult for someone to keep his own color.

In the end, we see a bunch of colorful, partly shaved lambs jumping happily. Is it a happy ending?

[Luis Ko]

Rock points are always spot on! Indeed "dare to be different" is a great notion in my opinion. however, when it becomes kind of a trend, or out of peer pressure then, highly possible the "different" will end up being the same. That's really no good and in vain.

It's always easier said than done, especially when you don't even know what you say really is, "critical thinking", "human right", "freedomd" and "democracy" to name a few. At the end of the day, what actually matters is to really understand them, and to know what you are doing. But that's just not easy I would say. Ok, guess I made it serious again. Will leave you to it lo~

[Laura]

What a wonderful benefit the host is giving, only watch these fabulous videos to share.

From my angle, short films of session II are upgraded to have more philosophy.

[David Jr.]

One more video about the sheep.

Oh Sheep!