Limericks

Learning limericks give me new experience. Limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet and meant to be funny. Each group is asked to make a limerick and write it on the board. Ras, Balkis and me in one group and it is not an easy task to be done. To make a good limerick, we have to alter it a few times just because to make it rhyming. I think before this I’m rarely uses the rhyming words so to make the limerick is quite hard for us. Luckily there is the template given and we just have to fill in with the rhyming words. During writing our limerick on the board, then Dr. Edwin corrected our limerick and this is our final work:

There once was a young lady from Russian Federation,
All the while she hoped for a fairer complexion,
So she wore a latest product,
And the skin become dark,
That dummy young lady from Russian Federation.

Finale: Research Paper

I decided to change my issue from the depression on the children into examine about the children imagination in the both stories. Even though I’m quite confident and sure with my topic now but I still feel worry because I’m afraid that it will be rejected again and I have to start everything all over again. Finally I already finish working on my research paper and we send the first draft to Dr.Edwin. The process of waiting the draft to be returned back to us makes me feel worried again because I’m afraid it will be rejected again but I try not to think about it.
After getting back my draft, I feel really relief because my issue is accepted and there is only minor alteration that I have to do before send in my final piece of my research paper.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

When Dr. Edwin mention about four seasons by Vivaldi, I really have nothing ni mind and feel really clueless. But after hearing a little bit of the music then suddenly I realize that I already heard it somewhere especially in the drama and film as background music. I started to feel familiar with this four season’s song. Dr.Edwin gives ideas that we can bring the instrumental music into the classroom especially for set induction and post reading. I agree that the instrumental music can be put into the appreciation stage because instrumental music is a part of art and we should appreciate art. Furthermore, listening to instrumental music is soothing and also a form of therapy and suitable for the students especially for the examination class. Same with set induction, I think the session of listening to instrumental music should not take a longer time because it will be draggy and the students will feel boring. In conclusion, I agree about the idea on bringing instrumental music into the classroom.

Visiting Malacca

The trip to Malacca was great. That was first time I went to the art gallery and I was really amazed looking at those painting. The feel was different. Suddenly I realize that I like paintings. It really changes my perspective towards the people who appreciate drawing very much and will spend thousands ringgit just for a picture. I think it really worth it and if I have extra money, I will buy it too. Besides paintings, I really interested in one of his work which is a picture of a ‘wayang kulit’ character that really require full attention in order to finish it. Other than that, the inner decoration of Mr Tham’s house was really nice especially because there are three part of his house has open space which makes it different than other house. The idea of bring art into literature classroom is really interesting and I think that I will bring my students to somewhere that they can make them open their eyes and appreciate art greater than before.

The Road Home

This is a Chinese movie starring by Zhang Ziyi as the main character for this movie. Zhang Ziyi is one of the popular actresses from Asia in Hollywood. I watched several movies that she acts like The Banquet and the film that put her name up, Memoirs of Geisha. I like the way she bring out her character in the both films. Now, I have opportunity to watch another movie act by her. In this movie, she acts as a girl that falling in love to the teacher that comes to the village. This story is basically about how a teacher comes to a village and builds a school together with the villagers. He teaches at that school until he died. This story makes me realize how important the role of the teacher in the neighborhood and how they appreciate a teacher. As a teacher, we not only connected with our students but also their family as well. The relationship between the teacher and parents should be close in order to observe the students achievement in their study. However, we don’t really experience it anymore because of some of the parents that not really care about what their children done in school just because they are too busy working and care less about their children.

Autobiography

Reading “The Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela” really gives me the new experience on how autobiography is written and makes me know about Nelson Mandela and what happen to him. Honestly, I heard about his name before but I don’t really know about him and what is his specialty. This text is really inspiring and makes me want to know more about him. I also know what is the different between autobiography and biography. Before this, I always think that the book is written by that particular person but there is another way when the person asks another person to write for them. That difference makes me prefer autobiography rather than biography because the sense of originality is lacking in biography.

Change

The issue that I want to examine in the text Sredni Vashtar and The Rocking-Horse Winner is depression in children in both characters, Paul and Conradin. The reason why I choose this issue is because both characters share the same experience and the way their family members treat them is almost the same. In Sredni Vashtar, Conradin does not like his guardian, MrsDe Ropp which threats him cruelly and he puts his attention to the ferret, that he calls Sredni Vashtar as escapism from Mrs De Ropp. As for Paul in The Rocking-Horse Winner, The lack of money, caused his mother pays little attention to Paul and keep mention that she wants money .Towards the end of his life, Paul still fight to get money for his family unfortunately, his mother not really appreciate it because of money.
Unfortunately, my outline for the research paper had been rejected because there is no sense of depression experienced by the characters. So, I have to brainstorm again to find the suitable issue for my research paper. In my opinion, during the process of choosing the issue, I don’t look detail at the story and make me get the wrong issue. I hope that the new issue will be accepted later.