It's holiday!!
and it's going to be over soon :( ( huh..so fast eh?? )
Well hopefully everyone enjoy the holiday especially to those chinese students who were celebrating Chinese New Year. I'm sure all of you had a good time spending your time with your beloved family and friends.
During this CNY holiday, my family and I did not have the opportunity to go anywhere to spend our holiday like we usually did. It was a dull holiday for me since I love to travel around. My parents were busy working and my sisters were busy with their tuition classes. So, most of the time I was left at home with my little brother, doing my Physics homework on my comfy bed!!
And don't worry Mr Derick, I did your English homework as well.
Since I did not go anywhere, I just stayed at home, watching TV, surf the net, chatting, sleep, eat, sleep again n playing around with my brother. I tried my best not to go out shopping and spend my money. So, to avoid myself from any shopping trip, I just stayed at home and spend time with my brother. To be honest, I think spending time with my siblings was great! I think it's mainly because I do not have much time to spend with them like we used to have before. In fact, my siblings and I are very close and since I'm staying at the student's house now, holiday is the only time to hang around with them.
Regarding the documentary that we're supposed to do, I'm glad that we have decided the topic that we're going to do and we had actually discussed the issues before the holiday. I've did some research on the topic we've chose and I searched for some videos too. We even had our group meeting online. ( Jinn Jyh..you're one great group leader! ) And I really hope everything that we have planned for this documentary will go on smoothly.
That's all for now.
See you next week :)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
holiday...homework... and....shopping??
Firstly I would like to tell about the most interesting event happened last week; poetry performance. All of us JPA students were told about this performance during the first week. At first I was not interested but after I've thought about it, ("why should I not give it a try?" it sounds interesting!) so, I decided to go. The performance took place at Pasar Seni. The three-hour performance was unbelievebly fantastic and amazing. It was unexpectedly great performance and I must say I misjudged every single thing about poetry before this. From my point of view poetry is such a beautiful form of arts of expressing our views, ideas, thoughts and feelings. More than that, it is one way of telling ordinary stories in a very different and unique way. Overall, I think the performance was really good especially the Polar Bear performance.
This week in English class, we were asked to perform a play based on the novel that we are studying, BOY. To be honest, I was excited when Nich announced that we need to do the role play. This is due to my major interest in live performance. Though I may not be really good in acting or any live performances, I do enjoy myself whenever I have the opportunity to be involve in any stage performance. When I was in lower secondary school, I was once a director for a play and also as a minor character in the same play. I worked with the other team members well and they were great. Finally, we won the play competition and I was really proud. It was my first time directing such performance and since then, I knew that stage performance is one of the things that I enjoy the most and I was involved in a few performances.
Back to the story, my group members and I discussed about the play and we chose the 'drive-in-a motor car' scene to be performed. I was chosen to be Roald Dahl ( BOY ), the main character. to tell you the truth, though I was involved in this kind of performance before, I never get a role as main character. In this scene as we all knew it well, boy's nose was cut clean off his face! We used fake nose for this scene and thanks to Nad for the prop. The fake nose was much bigger than mine. Haha!! It was great though! my team members had played their part pretty well. I must say it was not that well and perfect, because some of us are not used to this kind of performance. But we should try new things right? get involve, participate and have the experience! even if you don't really like it. To my group members, good job! we did have fun after all. Perhaps we have to perform a play for other novels too?? hurmm?? The End!! haha!!
Besides that, let me just announced proudly that this week all students received numerous "gifts" from lecturers for our so-called long holiday. Our Chinese New Year break will be full of homeworks and assignments. I'm not complaining. Don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to stress the point that we all have a lot of homework to do this holiday. Thus, I'm not going to consider this holiday as a holiday. And actually I would like to thank all the lecturers for giving me lots of work ( honestly! ) because if I did not have any homework or any form of stress that will urge me to study, I definitely will spend everyday of my holiday going to One Utama, The Curve and Pavillion too! Surely all these place will suck up all my money and I'll end up feeling guilty of spending my money and even get frustrated when I don't have sufficient amount of money to buy brand-new shoes and bags. So, lecturers, thank you so much..Homeworks prevent me from my dangerous habit, shopping! I'll try my very best to manage my time so that I can do both, finishing homework and shopping too!!( without feeling guilty)
Enough about homework. This week we've been learning about constructing our essays. Like Mr Derick has taught us, an essay is like a family and paragraphs are the family members. and each paragraph is a body, complete from head to toe and don't forget the neck and the heart too! If all of these are completed, then we'll have a complete and perfect paragraph. I hope I have the clear picture of the idea in constucting my essays after this. That's all for this week.
p/s: happy chinese new year
and happy holiday to everyone!!
This week in English class, we were asked to perform a play based on the novel that we are studying, BOY. To be honest, I was excited when Nich announced that we need to do the role play. This is due to my major interest in live performance. Though I may not be really good in acting or any live performances, I do enjoy myself whenever I have the opportunity to be involve in any stage performance. When I was in lower secondary school, I was once a director for a play and also as a minor character in the same play. I worked with the other team members well and they were great. Finally, we won the play competition and I was really proud. It was my first time directing such performance and since then, I knew that stage performance is one of the things that I enjoy the most and I was involved in a few performances.
Back to the story, my group members and I discussed about the play and we chose the 'drive-in-a motor car' scene to be performed. I was chosen to be Roald Dahl ( BOY ), the main character. to tell you the truth, though I was involved in this kind of performance before, I never get a role as main character. In this scene as we all knew it well, boy's nose was cut clean off his face! We used fake nose for this scene and thanks to Nad for the prop. The fake nose was much bigger than mine. Haha!! It was great though! my team members had played their part pretty well. I must say it was not that well and perfect, because some of us are not used to this kind of performance. But we should try new things right? get involve, participate and have the experience! even if you don't really like it. To my group members, good job! we did have fun after all. Perhaps we have to perform a play for other novels too?? hurmm?? The End!! haha!!
Besides that, let me just announced proudly that this week all students received numerous "gifts" from lecturers for our so-called long holiday. Our Chinese New Year break will be full of homeworks and assignments. I'm not complaining. Don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to stress the point that we all have a lot of homework to do this holiday. Thus, I'm not going to consider this holiday as a holiday. And actually I would like to thank all the lecturers for giving me lots of work ( honestly! ) because if I did not have any homework or any form of stress that will urge me to study, I definitely will spend everyday of my holiday going to One Utama, The Curve and Pavillion too! Surely all these place will suck up all my money and I'll end up feeling guilty of spending my money and even get frustrated when I don't have sufficient amount of money to buy brand-new shoes and bags. So, lecturers, thank you so much..Homeworks prevent me from my dangerous habit, shopping! I'll try my very best to manage my time so that I can do both, finishing homework and shopping too!!( without feeling guilty)
Enough about homework. This week we've been learning about constructing our essays. Like Mr Derick has taught us, an essay is like a family and paragraphs are the family members. and each paragraph is a body, complete from head to toe and don't forget the neck and the heart too! If all of these are completed, then we'll have a complete and perfect paragraph. I hope I have the clear picture of the idea in constucting my essays after this. That's all for this week.
p/s: happy chinese new year
and happy holiday to everyone!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
My Love
This time I would like to write about my family and my interests.
I was grew up in a family of six. My father is a director in an IT company. My mother is a teacher in secondary school. I'm the first child in the family and I have two sisters and a little brother.
My father is a responsible man. His name is Shaiful Anwar Salleh. He's loving and funny too. But when he is serious, no one ever dare to mess up with him. He is a good father, I must say. He taught me a lot. And I always respect him because he is a succesful man. He's a really hard-working man and a very determined person. He never objected my decisions in life as long as he knows what's the best for me and he always support me whenever I need him.
My mother, Norkayati Robani is a great mum. I love her! She's one great woman. She is my role model. Besides being a responsible mother, she's also a successful career woman. She's a loving mother and we share one common interest, shopping. My mother and I always go shopping together. She also loves to hang out and spend time with her children. We watched movies together too. She's an understanding person too since I tell almost all my problems to her.
Now I'm going to tell about my siblings. The second child of my family is Farhana, 17-year-old girl and she's going to sit for her SPM examination this year.She loves photography. She's a very understanding sister and I always turn on to her whenever I need someone to talk to. Though she's my younger sister, everyone thought that she's the eldest one because she looks more matured and she's taller than me. This is the main reason why I wear high heels. (I'm jealous of her actually.haha!!)
My other sister, Nur Liana is 12 years old. She's funny and loving too. She has great interest in arts and she's very talented.
Last but not least, a little super hero in my family, my younger brother, Muhammad Amar. He's 7 years old. Being only a boy in the family, he always want attention and is very naughty. He loves football and video games. I always fight with him but I love him so much as he is my only brother.
About my interest, I am a major shopaholic!! I love to shop and it is very painful when I run out of cash. Though some people might find shopping boring and has no benefits, for me, shopping is my way to release my tension. Besides, it is a good exercise too. I can walk all through One Utama from old wing to new wing with my high heels!!. I feel very happy even by just looking at those beautiful and trendy shoes, clothes and bags. Other than shopping, I enjoy reading too, which is beneficial. I like to read novels and magazines. I also like to travel around, go to new and interesting places and I always dream to travel around the world. I have a great interest in arts too. I'm not so talented in arts but I do love to paint and I have my own collection of paintings.
That is all about myself. I cannot write much but hopefully this will be enough for anyone to get to know me better. I'm a simple girl with dreams and hopes and I'll always pray that one day all my dreams will come true. I know this may sound like a fairytales with a happily-ever-after ending but of course, who does not want a happy life. I want a happily-ever-after ending.
Bye!
I was grew up in a family of six. My father is a director in an IT company. My mother is a teacher in secondary school. I'm the first child in the family and I have two sisters and a little brother.
My father is a responsible man. His name is Shaiful Anwar Salleh. He's loving and funny too. But when he is serious, no one ever dare to mess up with him. He is a good father, I must say. He taught me a lot. And I always respect him because he is a succesful man. He's a really hard-working man and a very determined person. He never objected my decisions in life as long as he knows what's the best for me and he always support me whenever I need him.
My mother, Norkayati Robani is a great mum. I love her! She's one great woman. She is my role model. Besides being a responsible mother, she's also a successful career woman. She's a loving mother and we share one common interest, shopping. My mother and I always go shopping together. She also loves to hang out and spend time with her children. We watched movies together too. She's an understanding person too since I tell almost all my problems to her.
Now I'm going to tell about my siblings. The second child of my family is Farhana, 17-year-old girl and she's going to sit for her SPM examination this year.She loves photography. She's a very understanding sister and I always turn on to her whenever I need someone to talk to. Though she's my younger sister, everyone thought that she's the eldest one because she looks more matured and she's taller than me. This is the main reason why I wear high heels. (I'm jealous of her actually.haha!!)
My other sister, Nur Liana is 12 years old. She's funny and loving too. She has great interest in arts and she's very talented.
Last but not least, a little super hero in my family, my younger brother, Muhammad Amar. He's 7 years old. Being only a boy in the family, he always want attention and is very naughty. He loves football and video games. I always fight with him but I love him so much as he is my only brother.
About my interest, I am a major shopaholic!! I love to shop and it is very painful when I run out of cash. Though some people might find shopping boring and has no benefits, for me, shopping is my way to release my tension. Besides, it is a good exercise too. I can walk all through One Utama from old wing to new wing with my high heels!!. I feel very happy even by just looking at those beautiful and trendy shoes, clothes and bags. Other than shopping, I enjoy reading too, which is beneficial. I like to read novels and magazines. I also like to travel around, go to new and interesting places and I always dream to travel around the world. I have a great interest in arts too. I'm not so talented in arts but I do love to paint and I have my own collection of paintings.
That is all about myself. I cannot write much but hopefully this will be enough for anyone to get to know me better. I'm a simple girl with dreams and hopes and I'll always pray that one day all my dreams will come true. I know this may sound like a fairytales with a happily-ever-after ending but of course, who does not want a happy life. I want a happily-ever-after ending.
Bye!
Friday, January 9, 2009
First of all...
I am sitting for AUSMAT this year and i know it is going to be a really tough year of my study life. All of the students have been warned and advised by the lecturers not to take things easy this year. Therefore, I have set long terms goals for myself. I hope I can get very good marks in every examinations, tests, assignments and presentations since all of these will help me a lot for the final score and thus enable to continue my studies in Australia. Most important thing of all, I really hope that I will study hard and be a good student.
I usually read and study in my room at home. However, if I find this place is not conducive, I will study in a library. Besides having all the reference books I needed, library also provides a conducive environment where I can study without any distarction. The best time for me to read is in the morning and in the late afternoon.
When I was in secondary school, I did not really obey my study time table, thus, I got panicked during the examinations and could not perform well. Since then, I learnt from my mistake and tried my very best to improve myself. I did not set a hectic time table for my studies but I did manage and plan my time well. Normally, I can study for about two hours without a break. During my study time, the type of distraction bother me the most is noises. I think it is very annoying to study in a vey noisy environment especially when the lecturer is teaching a subject that I'm weak at. I need a really condusive condition to study properly. This will also enable me to concentrate fully on the subject and understand what the lecturer is teaching.
I am not quite sure how many assignments I'm able to fininsh in one evening since I did not have much assignments before. This too will depend on types of assignments I will get from different lecturers. Maybe I can do two assignments in one evening provided that I have prepared myself well with the materials needed for the assignments. I will also need more time to do the assignments since I do not want take things easy especially that I know some assignments this year carry more marks than the examinations. Rewards that might work for me would be varied, depends on what type of work I'm required to do. For this year, in AUSMAT, I think the rewards that definitely work for me is marks for my final score.
As for the first week of our semester, I got to know all of the lecturers that will teach us this year. All of them have given the time table as well as the course outline to all of us. There will be lots of assignments, exams and tests. For English this week, we have learnt about the language style such as personafication, allegory, allusion hyperbole and onomatopoeia. Some of them I have heard and learnt before, but some are a few new literary terms that I just learned during the lesson.
I usually read and study in my room at home. However, if I find this place is not conducive, I will study in a library. Besides having all the reference books I needed, library also provides a conducive environment where I can study without any distarction. The best time for me to read is in the morning and in the late afternoon.
When I was in secondary school, I did not really obey my study time table, thus, I got panicked during the examinations and could not perform well. Since then, I learnt from my mistake and tried my very best to improve myself. I did not set a hectic time table for my studies but I did manage and plan my time well. Normally, I can study for about two hours without a break. During my study time, the type of distraction bother me the most is noises. I think it is very annoying to study in a vey noisy environment especially when the lecturer is teaching a subject that I'm weak at. I need a really condusive condition to study properly. This will also enable me to concentrate fully on the subject and understand what the lecturer is teaching.
I am not quite sure how many assignments I'm able to fininsh in one evening since I did not have much assignments before. This too will depend on types of assignments I will get from different lecturers. Maybe I can do two assignments in one evening provided that I have prepared myself well with the materials needed for the assignments. I will also need more time to do the assignments since I do not want take things easy especially that I know some assignments this year carry more marks than the examinations. Rewards that might work for me would be varied, depends on what type of work I'm required to do. For this year, in AUSMAT, I think the rewards that definitely work for me is marks for my final score.
As for the first week of our semester, I got to know all of the lecturers that will teach us this year. All of them have given the time table as well as the course outline to all of us. There will be lots of assignments, exams and tests. For English this week, we have learnt about the language style such as personafication, allegory, allusion hyperbole and onomatopoeia. Some of them I have heard and learnt before, but some are a few new literary terms that I just learned during the lesson.
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