Sunday, 2 September 2012

30/7/2012 SO DO YOU THINK YOU CAN ACT AND SING!


Dude! Something had made me curious when I came to the class and saw at the whiteboard something that had been wrote by Miss Zu that is So Do You Think You Can Act and Sing? Is that sound interesting? Haha, but I feel very weird with that writing until Miss Zu explained to us the real activity that will be carrying out today. What do you think about that? So, today we have to be an actor and actress and also the singer. How can we do that Miss Zu? Never mind, we will still do the best just to make Miss Zu happy and smile. Haha. As usual, Miss Zu had divided us into 5 groups. Then each group need to pick one piece of newspaper as our title to start our acting. So, let’s enjoy with our drama musical today! Have fun.




The first group are Hanifah’s group with the story of a tourist who came to the Bazaar Ramadhan to buy the food. His members are Jasman, Siti Fara, Amanda, Rosfarina and Rina. They used the Malay songs that been translated to the English song. They have chosen the ‘Cek Mek Molek Song’. However, their show were not ended just like that, they gave us some surprised when they sang a Malay song, ‘Harapan Ramadhan’ with English version. It was very creative and Miss Zu was also happy with that song.




Now, let’s continue with Amir’s group with his members Nisa, Aida, Arina and Suhana. They have choose a Price Tag song for their show as the got a title Shopping for their show. It was about customer who likes to see the good but do not interested to buy it.  



This group’s show was about the government employees who got the bonus from government and they were so happy with that bonus. Their actor and actress for this group were Ikhwan, Fatin, Ferzia, Zahira and Hajar. Their song that had been chosen for this show is Thank You Allah from Maher Zain. The funniest thing that happened in this show was when Ikhwan being the Prime Minister and announced about the bonus in the television.



Yahh, now it’s the turn for me to tell about my group. My members for this show are Muaz, Mimi, Siti Khadijah and Rafidah. We got a title about Kidnapping. So, we had decided to make a story about a student who wants to go home for Hari Raya. Because of too excited to go home, they take a taxi so that they can reach their home faster. Unfortunately, the driver had a bad intention to them and he want to kidnap them. Then, the driver calls the mother of student to have the ransom. For our show, we had chosen the Love You like a Love Song and Wish You Were Here song.



The last group had acted a story about Vote for Election with their actor and actress that are Afiq, Syahira, Rahayu, Shawalni and Zanariah. Their songs are Looking to the Moon and We are Young. As usual, Afiq will become the comedian and he made this group glowing and they were made us happy with their comedy and made Miss Zu and we laughed. 







                     



 





                     

Saturday, 1 September 2012

FORUM

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‘FORUM’. Did you all know what that is? A forum is a place, situation or group in which people exchange ideas and discuss issues, especially important public issues. Haah I’m sure that all of you feel weird right why I was suddenly talk about the forum. Haha, actually Miss Zu had prepared one activity today which is Forum to prepare for our speaking practice.

Let’s talk about our forum. First, I will talk about my own topic. My group had been given trust by Miss Zu to discuss about Inflation and Its Solution. When we got this topic, we are just smiling because this topic was related with our economic subject for the last semester. So, it was easier for us to discuss about this topic. Our group have 5 members which are Ferzia, Muaz, Fatin, Rafidah and me. Ferzia has been chosen by us to be a host. Something that surprised us were Ferzia was did her job very well and Miss Zu also praised her and said that she was improve a lot. We were proud with her.

Overall, I think that we had done our best to complete this task.


The members of second group are Rahayu, Shawal, Amanda, Fara, Amir and Nisa with the topic Effective Way of Conserving Electricity. Shawal had been the host for this group and I was very impressed with her because she did her job very well. I was so proud with her. In my opinion, I feel that this group is also done their task with a good job. 


The third group with the topic Save Our Planet are Rina, Ikhwan, Aida, Arina and Jasman as the host. I think I should give an applause to Ikhwan because he could presented her point with a good explanation even though their other members said to us that he do not did any preparation for that forum. 

The other group are Hanifah’s group with the topic The Cleanliness and Good Maintenance of Public Amenities. He became the host with his members that are Rosfarina, Hajar, Siti Khadijah and Hajar. Hanifah had done a very good job as the host. For me, the way he implement their job as the host is very nice. 

The last group are Afiq the Great’s group and his member are Shahira, Mimi, Zahira and Zana with the topic How to Increase Youth Awareness of Patriotism. My Goodness, this group took about a half hour to present their topic because Afiq became the host. No wonder right? However, we still thanked to this group because they had cheer us with their joke especially. In fact, we were very enjoying with our forum tonight. I think you all should give a big applause to all of us because we had executed our job successfully.


Now, as what Miss Zu wanted, I will choose the three winners which are the best group, the best host and the best panel. 
First I will tell to you all about the best host and of course it should be given to the best from the rest that is Siti Shawalni. Congratulation dear, you did a very good job! The best panel will be given to Shahira. I choose her because I think that he had improved a lot. She always said to me that she can’t present well but she had work hard and the result can bee seen in that night. Congratulation dear! The last but not least is the best group. If I don’t tell you all, I’m sure that all of you had already known the group right. Ok, a very big congratulation to Afiq’s group. You all did a very good job guys :)









Monday 30/7/2012 INTRODUCTION


Ok dude, today I will share with you all about How to Write an Introduction. Before that, let see the function of the introduction. 

* It attracts the reader’s interest to continue reading the essay or get the readers’ attention.
* It supplies background information needed to understand the essay.
* It presents a thesis statement, the main idea of the essay, usually towards the end of the introduction.
* It indicates a plan of the essay’s development (optional).
* Set tone for the rest of the essay

The Parts of the Introductory Paragraph:
1. The Hook - Designed to grab attention immediately and give some indication about the essay’s topic
2. The Transition - Moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay….
3. The Thesis Statement - Makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a blatant announcement.  
 
Now, let see the techniques in writing introduction. It have 7 techniques.

FUNNEL
 
FACTS OR STATISTICS

CONTRAST TO THE THESIS STATEMENT

CURRENT EVENT

PERSONAL OBSERVATION 

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS 

QUOTATION 

So guys, that's all for today. Hopefully it will help you all to write an interesting and                  excellent essay. 




Friday, 31 August 2012

Monday 16/7/2012 THESIS STATEMENT


So guys, what is the Thesis statement? Thesis statement is a line of sentence that include all our main point in essay. The thesis statement is usually found at the end of first paragraph of essay. The main function of thesis statement is to introduce for reader a major topic of the essay. There are several thesis statement for different type of essays.

First of all, I will give you all an example of the thesis statement that I took from my term paper.

Here is the example for the discussion essay.
Having a blast wedding of the year would be the dream of every couple in Malaysia, however, if too much concern being put on the budget of the wedding rather than the budget of the life after marriage it will eventually be a burden to the Malaysian couple in their future life.   

Dude, that is not enough right? Never mind, I will give you all another example. Let us check. 

Cause and effect essay:
Even though Venus and Serena Williams are both professionals tennis stars, they differ in their opinions about men, movies and music. 


Compare and Contrast essay:
In terms of social networking sites, Facebook focuses on presenting your daily life to others, whereas MySpace allows you to focus more on demonstrating your personal style.

Problem and Solution essay:
Many children suffer long-term consequences of bullying. However the problem can be remedied through a three-pronged approach: educating the parents, encouraging a community atmosphere and implementing a peer mediation program. 

Argumentative essay:
Introducing sex education in middle school is very important as many cases of teenage pregnancy have been reported in the past few years.



If you all think that is not enough, you all can search for this web to learn more about this topic. Good luck!




OUTLINE ^_*


Hello guys! After not meet for a long time, I’m back to do my entries again. Do you miss me? Haha. Annoying right? So, today I will share with you all about the outline for my paper term. I’m not joking guys, it’s really hard! I swear. I took about a half day and I did this outline until 4 am with full of sleepy just to complete this task because Miss Zu ask us to send the task before we going back home to celebrate our fasting month. The task must be sent to her or just put the paper in her room on Friday before 12 noon. If we do not do like that, the mark will be zero. I repeat once again, the mark was not deducted guys but ZERO and it really make me worried. I know that Rahayu and I have to put all my effort to succeed this task.

However, all my efforts have been paid after Miss Zu returned back our paper. We had been praised by her because she said that we did a very good work. Yah, I forgot to story with you all about the incident that happened when Miss Zu return back our outline paper. When she called Rahayu and my name, we went to the in front of the class and Miss Zu said that our work was very terrible. I was very shocked at that time when I saw one paper with lots of comment and I thought that it was our paper. I felt very frustrated because I think that all my effort was unappreciated. Suddenly, Miss Zu smiles to us and show our real paper with the full mark and the smiley with the comment VERY GOOD. Seriously, I felt very relieved and soooooooo happppppyyyy dude! Alhamdulilah :)   
   
First of all, I will tell to you a little bit about this outline so that you will more understand about my task. When you do the outline, it is easier for you to organise your ideas by writing an outline rather than writing the complete paper. It will also make you all easy to write so that you can see how the paper organised from the outline. Ok, let me give you all an example of my outline with the topic ‘Wedding of the Year Event’. 

                                        Wedding of the Year Event in Malaysia:      
The negative Effects towards Malaysian Couple.

      I.               Introduction
Having a blast wedding of the year would be the dream of every couple in Malaysia, however, if too much concern being put on the budget of the wedding rather than the budget of the life after marriage it will eventually be a burden to the Malaysian couple in their future life.

    II.             Body
A.   Being married with the grand way has become the trend to the all couple because for them the event can provide comfort to the guest.
1.    Certainly, the wedding of the year will held at the most comfortable venue such as the hall and the hotel.
a.    There, it is provide with lots of facilities like air-conditioner and lots of table so that the guest will do not take much time to get their place. They do not need to wait for their turn until the other guest finish their food.
b.    This will ensure that the ceremony will run smoothly and give satisfaction to the guess and the couple.
c.     Sweeney (2012) found that wedding ceremony is the highest gladness in the world. So, the wedding of the year is the only chance for the couple to express their love and happiness.  
2.    This event can also help to strengthen the bonding of the family members.
a.    This is because when the wedding is placed in the comfortable condition, the couple can invite all their family and relatives without have to worry anything.
b.    They can happily take this chance to gather all their family members and use this opportunity to spend their time together after not meet for a long time.
c.    Based on researcher observation, this event can help them to strengthen the bonding when they help each other to succeed this event and share their happiness together.  
B.   While wedding of the year is the major concern among the Malaysian couple, it causes people to delay their marriage.
1.    This is because they do not have sufficient money for their wedding as they always imagine doing the wedding of the year event.
a.    They were worried that they will be humiliated by other people because they cannot afford to do the wedding of the year. This will make them fear to be married and make them to delay their marriage.
b.    Women, Family and Community Development Ministry had revealed that 25-year-old number of Malaysian that never married is as many as 2.5 million persons or 16.7 percent from the population in our country. 
2.    They also too fussy to choose their partner in their life.
a.    For the women that are materialistic, they only want to wed with the men who are prosperous so that they can have the wedding of the year, while the men do not have enough courageous to propose this women.  
b.    This is proven by the phenomenon of the men who are not married yet because of financial factor while women who are unwed because they do not found the suitable candidates to be their husband (Najihahtussalehah, 2012).
C.   It will cause the large number of wastage.
1.    The person who has dream to have the wedding of the year will spend lots of money just to prepare for their grand wedding.
a.    Since they have a dream to have the wedding of the year, they are enthusiastic to spend lots of money for their wedding as long as their dream become true and everyone will be stunned with them. For instance, they are willing to spend almost thousand ringgit just for their wedding clothes.
b.    A study by Norbahyah (2012) found that most of the couples will expend lots of cost for their wedding ceremony and it will cause wastage. The wedding event supposes to be ordinary and do not burden any couples and also do not waste plenty of money.
2.    In fact, they will also do something ridiculous that will ruin their future life.
a.    Sometimes they are very obsess with the wedding of the year and do not think rationally their deed that will affect them negatively after marriage.
b.    Some of them disposed to disregard the law of the country because of too obsess with this wedding. 
c.    According to Berita Harian (2012), there have a case reported that a woman who has stealing RM 840,000 for her wedding ceremony.  
D.   Instead, the wedding of the year caused Malaysians suffering from various diseases.
1.    When the wedding of the year was held, the guests were served with variety of food.
a.    Rohami (2011) notes that their intention to feast guest as much as possible in the beginning, unfortunately bring the diseases to the guest.
b.    The effect of too much food that was served to the guest caused Malaysians suffering from various diseases such as obesity and diabetes. 
2.    Additionally, this is caused by over-eating and the foods have no nutrient.
a.    The foods that were served in the event have no nutrient that is balanced, needed by food pyramid such as carbohydrates and proteins.
b.    As we know, Malaysian foods contain oil in their ingredient such as ‘nasi briayani’ and ‘nasi minyak’.  Moreover, the dye in the food also will caused diseases to the Malaysian.
c.    “Malaysians die because of over-eating, while the other country’s people die because of starvation” (Rohami, 2011)   
   III.            Conclusion
Wedding of the year is certainly not the propaganda for us to be pretentious. It has numerous benefits. Nevertheless, it is fair enough with the ordinary event so that we will not have to face with any barrier in the future.















Friday, 13 July 2012

Tuesday 4/7/2012 CONTEXTUAL CLUES



Let us learn about contextual clues dude! What is that? Contextual clues are words, phrases or sentences in the article that can help readers to figure out the meaning without referring the dictionary. 

There are 7 types of  contextual clues:
  1. Definition
  2. Examples
  3. Synonyms
  4. Antonyms
  5. Explanation
  6. Restatement
  7. General context

Oke. Let me give you all an example.

Legitimate champions: Real champions
With great trepidation: With great worry
His covert activity: His secret activity 

Guys! Is that enough to make you all understand about what I had explained just now ? What if you all try to search for this link? Maybe it can help you all to understand more than what I had explained. 

Sunday, 8 July 2012

Tuesday 3/7/2012 FACT VS OPINION



FACT vs OPINION? It's sound interesting right? I'm sure that all of you will be interested with this entry. Why I said like that? Because it can help you all to identify whether it is an opinion or a fact. For me, this lesson help me as I was really confused with this topic since I was learnt BEL 260. So guys, these are some tips that you all can use to differentiate the fact and the opinion. 


FACT

  • dates / year
  • statistic / figure / precise number or quotations
  • definition
  • geographical on scientific fact
  • use the word "some"

OPINION
  • adjectives
  • comparison between two things or more
  • possibility, advisability
  • show a belief, a suggestion and a feeling 
  • use the word "all"

Example :)

Siti Nurhaliza is a best singer in Malaysia who has been awarded all the trophies in singing competition.
This is an opinion. Why? Because of the word BEST and ALL.

Siti Nurhaliza is a female singer who starts her career at the early age which is 17. 
This is a fact. Why? Because this sentence has a number and we know that Siti is a female. 


That's all for today guys. Hopefully it will help you to enhance your knowledge. Thank you ^_*