When I first opened this powerpoint slide, I realized that it was related to one of our module – Service Skills Methodologist (SSM). It teaches us table manners as well as the different settings of table, which was taught during SSM.
This topic is helpful because learning table manners and how to eat glamorously will create our first impression when we have lunch with important partners. Some of the table manners were taught by my grandmother, because elderly are very traditional people. Hence they tend to get very angry when we place our chopsticks vertically in the rice bowl. I was trained from young by my grandmother regarding table manners, hence this topic is easy for me to understand.

This topic is new and fresh to me and I have been looking forward to this chapter. It had an interest for this topic even before I have started on this module. Social etiquette truly reflects how well-mannered and refine a person is.
I always think that I can never be as refine and graceful as those rich families out there. Under my family tree, my fifth aunt comes from a rich family. One look at their faces and the way they speak, it is easy to tell that they come from a rich family and very well-mannered. Unlike us, who live in normal HDB flats, always talk and laugh loudly.
Therefore, I feel that manners are taught from young, and is easily influenced by the environment that we are brought up in. This is part of our learning journey from young.