My First Blog Post!

Hello and welcome to my very first blog post.

I am Anushka Puniyani, a Product Design student at Asia Pacific University, Malaysia. I am originally from India and I am a creative, imaginative, and intuitive person.

It’s indeed my very first time writing a blog and I started writing this as an assignment for one of my modules- Creativity and Innovation. I am quite intrigued to write my thoughts and views on a professional platform and I desire to learn and make the best out of it.

I feel that expressing your thoughts through either writing or speaking can both be very different experiences on their own. When you speak it’s more of a rapid thinking process, you pick keywords and speak what comes to your mind. On the other hand, writing about the same thing is a more detailed thinking process where you think while you write, and as you are writing you imagine the scenario in your head and these whole different perspectives come to your mind. I expect the same from writing these blogs to think and understand as well as able to express my thoughts more comprehensively.

Thank you for taking the time to read my first blog.

It will be great if you give your valuable feedback or suggestions so that I could positively accept it and improve my next blog.

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