Episode #02 - Evaluating Listening Skills & Nonverbal Behavior Review

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Episode #02 - Evaluating Listening Skills & Nonverbal Behavior

During my Poly days, it will take me nearly one hour to reach Nanyang Poly since I lived at Lakeside. I would usually turn on my PSP and play a game. However, the battery was flat. So I sat there and observe the passengers.

There was a couple standing near me. The girl was facing the door and the guy was behind her. Although they were standing still, their body were stiff and the girl was hugging herself. She had a tense face and her eyebrows were frowning. While the guy was hunched over and he has a concern face. He keeps averting his eyes to her and biting his jaw. He looked as if he wanted to say something to her. Whenever he moved closer to her, she would hug herself tighter and keep turn away from him. I can see there are some tension between them. Although there was no verbal communication, but their body language tells it all. The guy was concern about something and wanted to talk to her but she was not in the mood to talk nor listen to him.

I looked around and noticed a baby across me. He was sitting on the lap of a Chinese old lady. The baby was roughly three or four months old. He was sitting quietly and gave out a small squeal. The squeal was subtle and soft. I looked around to see if anyone else noticed the small squealing. There was three secondary school girls standing near the baby. The baby squealed again. Two of them turned and smiled at the baby while still responding to the conversation at hand. Looking across my left, a middle-aged Indian man was sitting at the reserved sit reading the newspaper. He had a deep frown and was occasionally grunting about something. The baby squealed again. I thought it was too soft for him to have heard it. However, he turned his eyes to the baby without putting down the newspaper. To my surprise, he winked at him and continue his reading with a small smile. 

I shook my head and continue my observation of the other passengers with a smile.