Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ayat Sempurna: 31 Ogos

Tanggal 31 merupakan hari merdeka
Tanggal 31 pada bulan lapan tahun sembilan belas lima puluh tujuh merupakan hari merdeka
Selamat hari merdeka, selamat hari merdeka!
Tanggal 31 tetap merupakan hari kemerdekaan Malaysia
Hari tersebut pasti menjadi sejarah

Tanggal 31 merupakan hari merdeka
Tanggal 31 pada bulan lapan tahun sembilan belas lima puluh tujuh merupakan hari merdeka
Tanggal 31 merupakan hari yang mulia dan bahagia
Masyarakat Malaysia sambutnya dengan jiwa yang merdeka

Mari kita seluruh wargenegara secara beramai-ramai menyambut hari merdeka
Selamat hari merdeka!
Hari tiga puluh satu bulan lapan tahun sembilan belas lima puluh tujuh merupakan hari kemerdekaan Malaysia
Hari yang mulia negaraku merdeka

Monday, August 25, 2008

2008 Beijing Olympic Open Ceremony on 8 of August

The scene which I missed during the live broadcasting in TV 1.

But luckily I manage to catch up with the scene to light up the Olympic flame. It was a creative idea to light up the Olympic flame. So cool and fantastic!

































Wednesday, October 10, 2007

LHP 459: English for Interpretation

In my opinion, LHP 459 course is an interesting course compare to other courses. I surely will recommend this course to my friends. This is because whenever we attend the class we will not feel tension and stress. However for me, I feel a bit tension whenever need to present in front of the class. Whenever is my turn to present, I will feel nervous. Sometimes I didn’t control my feeling well and the whole class will realize my nervousness. I also don’t know why I still act like this although I already done so many presentation before. Maybe my character is timid type so will easily feel nervous.

Back to the topic, our lecturer, Dr. Jafre is a nice and knowledgeable lecturer and he conduct this course very well. He tried to so something different from the way other courses lecturer do so that we will not feel bored and pay attention in the class. We were having fun in the class. The types of activities we did in the class was to discuss about current issues, watching an interesting movie, compose song, sing song, present forum, writing blogs and presentation about a project. We can choose anything we like to present for the project and the lyrics that we need to compose.

Although all of us were busy with other courses assignments, test and projects, luckily we also manage to handle the activities in this course. This was because most of the activities were in a group work so we had to find a suitable time to discuss. For my opinion, English for interpretation is really an interesting course and we were having fun to take this course. Besides that, I can learn my things from this course too because some of the topic we discuss in class widen my knowledge. Lastly, whoever not yet taken this course make sure you apply for this course coming next two semester.

Trishaw

My group members consist of Joyce, Hanim, Noin, Heliana and me. At first, we felt so headache about the topic we want to present for our last project. After brainstorming for few hours at last we decide to do research on trishaw in Penang. When we talk about trishaw, what come across your mind? For us, we just feel want to know the reason why still so many seniors citizen work as trishaw rider. Why they so old already still want to give this kind of service to the tourists and local people. Some more, nowadays most of us at least have one vehicle at our home except the foreigners.

So on 22 of September, we went to do our research at Georgetown at 10 o’clock in the morning. We travel around to find the trishaw rider. At the end we manage to find them in Explanet, Cititel and Komtar. We interview few of the trishaw rider, they are so kind and friendly. They accept our interview when we approached to them. They give us many information such as the renter for the trishaw, type of foreigners and others thing.

From the interview, I just got to know they work in a shift. They can choose the time they want to give the service. Other than that, there few company which in charge of the riders. Different company have different route to ride. Usually the tourist guide will bring the tourists to the riders and recommend the tourists to have a ride on the trishaw. Whenever the tourist guide led the tourists to the rider, they will have some commission from the money that the rider got from the service.

For your information, most of the riders are still single and the average age for them to become rider is 18 to 75 years old. Most of them become trishaw rider because have a better income and they are not well educated so don’t have any company like to hired them. In conclusion, trishaw is also a type job that will give a better income to the people.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Forum

On Wednesday, 26 September, my group had presented our forum. The topic of our forum is Islam Hadhari. At first, our lecturer divided us into a group consist of either 4 or 5 people. Then, our lecturer gave a topic to every group. My group members are Christina, Siew Leng, Yong Pey, Yen Yeng and me. When I got to know the topic that we need to present is Islam Hadhari. The things that came through my mind were the ten principals. However the knowledge I know about Islam Hadhari was very shallow. I don’t really know well about the content of Islam Hadhari.

That day, I didn’t present the forum very well. This was because I’m busy with others assignments and at the same time the preparation that I had make was not good enough. Other than that, I am worried that the point that I need to discuss is out of topic. At that time, I am too nervous and I didn’t have an eye contact with the audience. Besides that, the comment that had given by our lecturer was we didn’t attract the attention of the audience. This was because some of the group discuss about their own forum behind the class.

I think our topic was a bit bored and maybe they didn’t have enough time to prepare their forum so they used the time to discuss about their presentation. The day before we present was Moon Cake Festival follow the Chinese lunar calendar. We need to use the time to discuss about the forum and we missed the celebration at Tasik Harapan. This was because we have to know which things is our priority. So we let go the joyous time and prepared the presentation at our room.

After all although we didn’t present the forum well, we had tried our best. I have learn more about Islam Hadhari after surf on net and reading books about Islam Hadhari information.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Last Minute

Oh where oh where can my paper be
I’m panicking, it’s killing me
I’ve searched everywhere that I could not rest
So I think I’m gonna go really crazy…I guess

I was in my room, I was lazing around
Hunger got to me, you can hear the sound
Armed with money, I went to McD
Ordered two burgers and a value meal
I was so full, headed back to my room
Switch on my laptop and started to type
The long long lines and the boring phrase
The painful task that gives…me stress

Oh why oh why can’t I do it right?
I’ve tried my best, I cannot fight
This is what happens when you do last minute
There is no time for me to cry…it’s too late

When I woke u the rain was pouring down
My roommate’s sleeping, without a sound
My conscience struck me, oh I knew I had to work
With heavy heart and sleepy eyes
I lifted my my head, looked at the screen and screamed
Where on earth has my paper been?
I tried to search, I’m getting really pissed
The result was none, I won’t live in peace

Well now it’s gone even thought I tried to find
I lost my work, my A … that night.


My group had composed the lyrics above and we used the song names Last Kiss. We sang the song on 20 of September in front of our classmate and our Dr. had record the song that composed by every group. For my group members, we are not good in composing a song and we took few hours to compose a whole new song. This is because our previous song is not fixed with the Sexy Back song. It seems weird because our previous lyric is about our sad feeling towards our assignment and the Sexy Back song seems like a happy song! This was the comment we got from our lecturer. So we decided to change a whole thing all over again. At the end, we choose Last Kiss by Pearl Jam.

Our time was so limited and it was hard for us to find a suitable time for us to do all over again. This is because every one of us is busy with our assignments and test. However, we could make it on time and we sing it on 20 September. This song we talk about student life in university. Students like to do their work in last minute and these make them in a mess. They need to stay awake to complete the assignment. Unfortunately, they lost it in the next day include the soft and hard copies of their work. So this is the meaning we want to bring out about university life.

After all, all of my class people include our lecturer are happy and enjoy the song we had composed by each group. Although, the song we composed was not like the composer create all of us are happy and have fun together.

Malaysia 50th Independent Celebration

We just celebrate our Malaysia 50th Independent Day last month on 31 of August. The theme for this year Independent Day is “Malaysiaku Gemilang”. This historic event was celebrated in a joyous mood by Malaysian from all walks of life. Malaysians display their love for the country by proudly flying “Jalur Gemilang” Malaysia National flag all over the place. We can saw the flag hanging at the shops, housing area, and school. Besides, we also saw the flag was stick on the roof of the car. Others than that, there was poster hang around along the side of the highway.

In addition, some of us Malaysians tried to build a large Malaysia flag. They used their creativity to make it. For example, 15 MIC Youth members used 10 days to make a giant flag measuring 10.7m by 18.2m. After completing the flag, they placed it at the boulder at Bukit Hijau, Island Glades, Penang. Furthermore, we were having Malaysia International Fireworks Competition at Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur. This event started on 18 August until 2 September 2007. This competition features various countries to create brilliant displays. Each country presented unique and spectacular fireworks formation.

We also celebrated our National Day by having “Gegar U” to shoe unity among all of th races in Malaysia. For the school level, they had colouring contests, poster and extra. We as Malaysians, are proud of our country by showing our love with different ways. It was a big celebration, we must be grateful because can live in a peaceful country which is free from disaster and famine.