Friday, July 6, 2007

'Your best friend may not be your best working partner." Do you agree with this statement? Write a short response of 100-150 words, bearing in mind that you should write in standard English.

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

I do agree with the statement that Best friend may not be your best partner as when you are doing a project, you tend to consider your friend's punctuality of work and showing biasm towards him/her.

In most cases, the friends will tend to care more on their relationships and neglect their task, thus, I do agree that best friend may not be your best working partner.

In my opinion, the best working partner is anonymous person.

xiiaoxiuxiu said...

(Algin)

i agree with the statement... as some friends might not be able to help you with your homework as if you are in express and your friend is in NA he/she might not be able to help you or the same stream but the teacher have not taught them the topic and some of them is very realistic... e.g. lazy, doesn't have the mood to do so and hate homework or so on...
the best is to ask teacher or parents...

aFi Rockstalgia said...

i agree with the statement that best friend may not be your best partner.I agree because some of the times they help...but somtimes they will not help.When we are in the good situation..they are beside us...but...when we are in the bad situation....they will run away...leave us alone to solve the problem.They aspect us to care about them.What about ourselve?.They care?...sometimes some of them will but not too many.So..the best working partner is the people who have the quality of doing work well.

~Muhd Khalil Afifi(26)~

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The Axis said...

I can't say that i agree with the statement as it depends solely on the person and or his partner as feeling has nothing to do with team work or doing the work itself.
One can be serious with his partner about the work or he can just be playful and do the work in a hurry at the very last.
It pretty much depends on the attitude towards learning and well...maybe the atitude of the two...



Field Admiral
for the
46th Axis Company
62nd Battlion
of the 101st
Airborne.
a.k.a..EL rep..

][mapleboy][ said...

I agree like the other people who comments.Best Friend may not be our best workin partner as you must see which friends are you mixing with.If friends who do not like to study and like hanging around are not good friends as if you follow them you may not feel like study and result will drop.If you make with those who do not hand in homework I advise you don't make up with them cause sometimes friends may ask you to lend them the homework they should suppose to hand in and copy your work.Friends which handed in homework on time,study with you together and hardworking people are the best working partner.So I advise everyone to choose your friends properly cause you never know that best friends can also betray you.I hope you all choose hardworking student =D

From:~Wei Long~(17)

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Slited and Slashed said...

Well, I do agree with the statement as certain people excel in certain areas, if I work in a fastfood restaurant, I may have the experiences and the skills to do the things that are required of me. Like deep frying the fries which I know the timing,proceedures and precautionaries of how to handle the fries. On the contrary, if my best friend were a beginner, he/she may not have the skills to do certain things that I excelled in. Therfore, your best friend maybe ur best friend afterall , however he/she might not be your best working partner not only in fastfood restaurants but also in other areas, and vice-versa.

♥ YUESHI :D
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Ahmad Hannan said...

I Agree! Without A Doubt!

I learnt this about 1 year ago.
Me and my best friend ONCE had a comedic duo act called "Street Comedy". Basically, it simply involved me and him attempting to make the people around us laugh by doing outrageous things.

We did this around a end-year holidays. Till one day, i couldn't bear with him any longer. He was far too annoying, far too predictable (for me), and he was pestering me like a little child.

That was when one day, i just refused to go out with him. Then, he cried. He acted all emotional and cried, put it where EVERYONE of my friends could see it.

Then he went as far as to calling me arrogant, which I totally deny.

In the end, I stopped going out with him cause he was too predictable. Too annoying.

My friend had to say the same. He was called arrogant too after he got pissed off at my best friend because he had caused some mishap in his band.

To this day, I still have my doubts on trusting him. I had almost a breaking point simply even talking to him. I can't stand him.

So to me, the best working partner, is one who you feel you are most compatiable with.

Hannan (15)

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ivory1993 said...

I statement is Yes and No that your best friend may or may not your working partner. We may have different opinions or suggestions on certain works. If that is the case, there may have arguments and worse of all could lead to breaking of friendship.

If both understand each other well and have the same goals and objectives, we will be able to work hand in hand with each other. They can help each other with the work if one of them do not understand how to do it, they can communicate well because they understand each other character well.

Therefore, it depends on what kinds of good friends you meet. They can influence us in good or bad ways.

Ivory expressed my view......

ivory1993 said...

I statement is Yes and No that your best friend may or may not your working partner. We may have different opinions or suggestions on certain works. If that is the case, there may have arguments and worse of all could lead to breaking of friendship.

If both understand each other well and have the same goals and objectives, we will be able to work hand in hand with each other. They can help each other with the work if one of them do not understand how to do it, they can communicate well because they understand each other character well.

Therefore, it depends on what kinds of good friends you meet. They can influence us in good or bad ways.

Ivory expressed my view......

The Axis said...

simply put...

To all who see and to all who hear
life with out the right type of gun,right type of grenade ,right type of armour and or ammunition has no meaning for all of life's challenges comes in a form of a bullet,fast,devestating effect if the wrong choice was chosen,and most importantly,very very sudden.They keep u pinned down like enemy fire and even if u made it ,as you avoided something that may scar u for life as the wounds of war are almost like the wounds of life should you choose to avoid it and forget it,the vivid living memory still taunts you till this day haunting...eating you inside out...so the best way to tackle the problem is definitely not head on...but by tactical form.


it may not seem that this does not mean anything which relates to the topic but just think thru...what it really means...

good friends or not we have weakness and advantages...


After all, we all boil at different degrees...


Field Admiral
for the
46th Axis Company
62nd Battlion
of the 101st
Airborne.
a.k.a..EL rep..

AMRH BELO; said...
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AMRH BELO; said...

I agree with the statement because some of my friends didn't helped me when i need them.So,they may not be my best partner as everything depends on how they reply us and how their attitude is towards us.

I have some friends who have bad attitude but i tend to ignore them as they may not help me.Well,in my opinion,i will rather do my work with someone i don't know because i love to make new friends.

-Siti Ammirah(12)

yanyi said...

Actually, i agree that your best friend may not be your best working partner because when best friends are working together they tend not to treat you as best friend and to treat you as a working partner and sometimes they may neglect you and do not want to help you and thus they are not your best friend anymore.

But sometimes people tend to treat their best friend as a best working partner too. When they work together and do things together then they will treat you as best friends and partners.

Solitudinous said...

I agree with the statement that 'best friend' might not be our best working partner. Well, why do we consider someone as our 'best friend'? It is because, we have similar likings, hobbies or even that's what we want to label them as.

Well, take doing a project with your best friend for example, you tend to give in to their feign hypocrites. That should not be allowed. In work, it should be fair and just. If that kind of working strategy is going to be adapted, it'd be a little unfair for the rest.

Yes, best friend may have the same thoughts, and we tend to agree with their statement. But, is that particular 'statement' of theirs' going to work or rather, is that 'statement' right or wrong?

Well, best friends will often stay in groups and will tend to care more on their relationships and thus, I do agree that best friend may not be your best working partner.

The best working partner is someone anonymous. =D

Shi Jie (32)

Amelia said...

Yes, i do agree that your best friend may not be your best partner.As if you are studying, doing homework or revising with yourb est friend, you may get affected by keep talking to your friend and in the end you may not have even revise finish, do finish your homework or even study finish. Having your best partner must be helpful and never affects you in anything you are doing what that partner. To find a best partner, you may considering someone that really concentrates on the stuff they are doing, and so they wont affect you and you willl not affect them too. They may be even able to help you with your work. Therefore, i do agree with this statement.

Anonymous said...

!~HANI~!

I agrees with it with no regrets.Bare in mind that your best friend may push the job to you knowing that a friend should do anything for a friend.

I have been through this situation before when i was in my primary school.My class had a social studies project and we had to create a design or a drawing of a prediction on how Singapore should be like in the future.Each group is to consist of at least a maximum of 5 students.I partnered up with my best friend.Knowing that we known each other alot, we can do better and get higher grades but i was wrong.She showed her lazy attitude at me.All the designs were my idea and i was not likely to be a very imaginative person.All my ideas were casual and so random.We ended up getting a "C".

I then realised that we will never learn new things if your best friends is your working partner but if you work with unknown people,you get to know more people and therefore increasing your reputation and you can gain more ideas and knowledge of things working with different other people.

I think it is best that anonymous human beings are the best working partners rather than those who are your best friends.You will never know whether they will decide to show their laziness towards you and expecting you to get them some high grades for exam purposes and they would expect you to show some biasm towards them.

BEST FRIENDS = NO !
ANONYMOUS = YES !

michelle said...

I agree and don't agree with the statement that best friend is not the best working partner.For example teacher give us a project which is in pair and he/she will choose their bestfriend to work with,and decide to go library to discuss.They tend to discuss about other thing than about the project.

I also don't agree with the statement.As bestfriend they can communicate easily and comfortably.They may easily and fast to complete the project.

My conclusion is that anonymous person is the best working partner.



michelle chin

WAZHI said...

i cant say there's really a answer yes or no to it. as different people have different thinkings and thoughts. well, maybe your best friend know what you want and you know what your best friend wants, we can work on what we wants together without any argueing.
however, if your working partner dont really understand what you want and you dont understand what your partner want, we tend to quarrel with each other.
but this all depends on different people and different thoughts.


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L0l\l3Y l30! said...

I do agree with it cause best friend tent to make troble during projects works,and you will just thinks of ways and ideas to cover up for him,in the end nothing can be done.

What ever we do or chosing working partner,we must think the strenght and weakness of each and every one and if we chose them what they can do and what they cannot do too.So i agree that best friend may not be your best working partner.

I think that we should work with people who are able to make us learn something.

Lee Teck Siang

L0l\l3Y l30! said...

I agree with the statement that best friend cannot be your best working partners cause, they tent to mak mistake which cause you to think of ideas to cover their mistake up.At the end of the day nothing much will be done.To me,we must think before we chose our group partner.Dont just because they then u chose them, they might cause you more troble.We should chose people who ables you to learn something from even at the end of the day,even the projects fail but you get to learn something.

Lee Teck Siang

Roses & Sunflower {♥} said...

Yes I totally agree with the statement, best friend may not be your best working partner. In many ways we think different and we sometimes we will not be able to agree with one another. Sometimes we will disagree with them in group discussion as we think it is not suitable for the group's idea. Sometime when we needed help they sometime refuse to help as they think we can handle the situation we are in.

Nur Shahirah (11)

Dumb Boy Syazwan said...

I might say I agree with the statement.You see,sometime friends is not the only the person we need to know,we need to know others.Doing project with your partner is also and
advantage.All this while,they may know your ability,what we are acapable of.So,they think we can do this little thing all our own
without help.But in the end,both ge the same mark.
So,if we were to work with other people,we could work together and learn each other ability.

genevieve said...

I do agree with this statement as some friends might help us in our homework,school work , but they will not be able to help us when we are working.As certain people have certain goods in certain things.Therefore, our best friend might not be what we are good at, and we might not be good at what they are good at.I think that if we are working with our best friend,they might distract us,as best friend always talk and we might not be able to concentrate in our work.
So, i think that our best friend might not be our best working partner.

mohd harvey bin ali said...

I cant said that mine best friend could be mine best learning partner.As no one can willed the learner to learn. it depend on the determination of the learner to do well.We should know ourselves as learning is an important process for all children.If we don't study now , we will fall out from the society.
We will be having a hard time getting a good job as mostly good job are opportunities that can let lead us a good life, without worrying about financial problem and not being in the poverty cycle.

In my own opinion , best working partner is yourself.


Harvey Lau (20)