Tense, Tense, Tense...
Tenses. If I said tenses, there's one word that popped out in your head. GRAMMAR, right?
Frankly speaking, I ABHOR grammar. Idon't like grammar. Why? Because it has too many rules. No this, and no that. Despite my hatred towards grammar, I am a grammar nadzi. When I hear people using incorrect grammar, I feel that my ears are tingling and the urge to correct the sentence is too much. Because when the sound doesn't seem right to me, it feels that you are insulting the English language. And I happened to love the English language.
This time around, Madam Baiti fell sick and she had to shorten the class. From three hours, became one. And truth to be told, we didn't do any interesting activity like the 'Project Runway'; instead we just learned about tenses.
I know, you have learned tenses from pre-school. But when I look around my surroundings, they are still people who don't use the correct grammar. And that saddens me. English is not just about getting A in class. English is a language, and you have to practicalise it. If you only know how to write, and not to speak, you are at loss. It is a knowledge, not something that you hold on to get an A. I know pointers or grades are important, but not as important as you carry the knowledge and implying it in your life. So, please. Practice English and with god's will, you will be more successful. =]
Monday 8 October 2012
LG
LG.
I know, you probably think of it as the Korean brand handphone; LG (Life's Good), right? But it's not. It's actually the name of our team for our presentation in our third class - actually, MY third official class.
Okay. LG means Lanamifa Gywa. It indicates our own team members names; which are Laila, Nana, Min, Faza, Geogy and Wawa. Yup! We formed our own Girls Generation team!! Hahahaha!
Anyway, the class was about Project Runway by Madam Baiti, which she was the Heidi Klum in the situation. Fun, right? Yeah, we had a blast!
The challenge that we were getting was to design a new school uniform for secondary school students in Malaysia. So, we came up with the design below. Which, I myself who drew and designed the female's uniform of course. Hahaha!
I know, you probably think of it as the Korean brand handphone; LG (Life's Good), right? But it's not. It's actually the name of our team for our presentation in our third class - actually, MY third official class.
Okay. LG means Lanamifa Gywa. It indicates our own team members names; which are Laila, Nana, Min, Faza, Geogy and Wawa. Yup! We formed our own Girls Generation team!! Hahahaha!
Anyway, the class was about Project Runway by Madam Baiti, which she was the Heidi Klum in the situation. Fun, right? Yeah, we had a blast!
The challenge that we were getting was to design a new school uniform for secondary school students in Malaysia. So, we came up with the design below. Which, I myself who drew and designed the female's uniform of course. Hahaha!
In the presentation, we ought to give the whys and the whats of the design. My design was all about elegance, and professionalism. The design I made was inspired by the movie 'She's Out of My League'. The idea was transpired when I thought of a corporate fashion. When Madam Baiti said for secondary school students, I thought maybe adding a little "Grown Up" features in the school uniform won't be so bad. And in there, lied the simple yet elegant look; also some convinience in the fabric. We thought of cotton for the girls, and dri-fit for the boys because boys are rough and extreme, and easy to sweat.
So, there you go. The new school uniform for the secondary school students. =]
The Wall
The Wall. What is meant by The Wall?
The Wall is a tittle of a poem by Abdul Ghaffar Ibrahim. We learned that in our second class.
Basically the poem is about the walls in our lives. All the barriers and restrictions that stop us from getting what we want.
Everyone must have their walls surrounding them, right? Like me, I have tons of walls in my life; mainly my parents. Why? Because they are your parents of course! Every parents must be protective of their own children, and they always concern about you. Tell me, which one of you don't have parents as your Walls? No, right? I figured...
But as protective as they can be, they are the love of my life. Okay, I admit. It is a bit annoying if sometimes they restrict you from doing what you want, but it is more hurtful if they don't try at all. It means that they probably don't care about you at all. From my understanding, it is the way of them showing their love towards their children. I would too if I have kids on my own someday. =]
Love you, Mummy and Abah!!
The Wall is a tittle of a poem by Abdul Ghaffar Ibrahim. We learned that in our second class.
Basically the poem is about the walls in our lives. All the barriers and restrictions that stop us from getting what we want.
Everyone must have their walls surrounding them, right? Like me, I have tons of walls in my life; mainly my parents. Why? Because they are your parents of course! Every parents must be protective of their own children, and they always concern about you. Tell me, which one of you don't have parents as your Walls? No, right? I figured...
But as protective as they can be, they are the love of my life. Okay, I admit. It is a bit annoying if sometimes they restrict you from doing what you want, but it is more hurtful if they don't try at all. It means that they probably don't care about you at all. From my understanding, it is the way of them showing their love towards their children. I would too if I have kids on my own someday. =]
Love you, Mummy and Abah!!
Sunday 7 October 2012
Name Tag....
Ok, this is my official first class...
Remember I told you that I didn't attend my first class? Yeah...it turned out it was just an introduction to whatever the subject Proficiency English II was about. More like....an ice breaking of some sort...
Anyway...the first official class is all about NAME TAG. Not 'Price Tag' like the song by Jessie J yeah...it's 'Name Tag'. Hahahaha!!! I know, it sounds a bit classy when you read the name like that. The name tag was not an ordinary name tag. We were told to design our own tag using an A4 paper or a test pad paper and draw three things to describe ourselves.
The first one that I drew was an anime character. It's because I love anime so much that I, myself can speak a little Japanese! Konichiwa!! =] Hahaha!!!
Eventhough I am a hard-die-fan of them, but I am not an OTAKU! Do you know what is otaku? An otaku is a name given to those who ADORE anime until they tend to do anything that they can to just get into 'it'. Get it? Like they would buy expensive anime stuff, or any collectible items at any price or anywhere that they can get. They would literally DIE just to collect those stuff. And I'm not that.
The second thing that I drew was myself as a cheerful person. A happy-go-lucky girl! It's because I'm always happy no matter what kind of circumstances that struck me. Because I always believe in this phrase:
Remember I told you that I didn't attend my first class? Yeah...it turned out it was just an introduction to whatever the subject Proficiency English II was about. More like....an ice breaking of some sort...
Anyway...the first official class is all about NAME TAG. Not 'Price Tag' like the song by Jessie J yeah...it's 'Name Tag'. Hahahaha!!! I know, it sounds a bit classy when you read the name like that. The name tag was not an ordinary name tag. We were told to design our own tag using an A4 paper or a test pad paper and draw three things to describe ourselves.
The first one that I drew was an anime character. It's because I love anime so much that I, myself can speak a little Japanese! Konichiwa!! =] Hahaha!!!
Eventhough I am a hard-die-fan of them, but I am not an OTAKU! Do you know what is otaku? An otaku is a name given to those who ADORE anime until they tend to do anything that they can to just get into 'it'. Get it? Like they would buy expensive anime stuff, or any collectible items at any price or anywhere that they can get. They would literally DIE just to collect those stuff. And I'm not that.
The second thing that I drew was myself as a cheerful person. A happy-go-lucky girl! It's because I'm always happy no matter what kind of circumstances that struck me. Because I always believe in this phrase:
"There are always silver linings behind dark clouds."
And truly, they are! I don't understand why those people out there who always see life as a bag of dirt. Just because you have a problem, you decided to end your life right away. Life is more enchanting than we know. You just have to dig it out. We are who we are. And god has created us for some reason. If you think your life sucks, try to see others who are way more unfortunate than we are. You should be grateful.
The last thing that I drew was a guitar. It symbolises on my passion towards music. I love listening to music as I am towards learning it. I had learned guitar with my brother, but he said my hands are too small so I cannot get the chords right. He recommended that I use Ukulele. If you don't know what a ukulele is, it is a small music instrument that represents a guitar but it's not a guitar. The notes are different as the song that it can play. So, I will learn ukulele and maybe be a big performer in music industry one day. =]
Tuesday 2 October 2012
Modals??
I bet you would think about the skinny top models on the television, magazines and all the printed media as soon as you read the tittle of this Blog today; right? I did too. But you know what? It's not. Disappointed? Don't be. It's actually something in English that we use everyday but we don't exactly know what it is until today. I can't lie to you. I too, was surprised at first.
The modals are exactly something that you say to describe the agility, possibility or probability, capability and certainty. It is something solid that you use to describe the things that you would do or should do or might do.
See? Told you you would be surprised. We might think that if we are fluent or even elequent in the language that we speak, we know everything about it, right? Well, someone had said this phrase a long time ago. The phrase goes like this:
"The more we learn, the stupider we become."
Relevant? Of course it does!! =]
The modals are exactly something that you say to describe the agility, possibility or probability, capability and certainty. It is something solid that you use to describe the things that you would do or should do or might do.
See? Told you you would be surprised. We might think that if we are fluent or even elequent in the language that we speak, we know everything about it, right? Well, someone had said this phrase a long time ago. The phrase goes like this:
"The more we learn, the stupider we become."
Relevant? Of course it does!! =]
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