Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Parliamentary Debate in My Class

Look's like I'm so outdated as all these happened on last Friday. I don't mean to disappoint my readers but I had been too busy coping with my assignments and updating my website with new exam papers.

What I experienced on Friday was a very lively English class as for the first time in history, a parliamentary debate had been conducted. I believe that this is significant enough to be blogged as English lessons aren't usually like that, but they are supposed to be filled with this kind of interesting and beneficial learning activities.

The process began when students were separated into groups of three and they were placed into either the government or the opposition party (nothing related to current political situation). Next, they were given topics and after a short discussion, the debate was officially launched. The topics were sort of analytical, example: should parents consent be needed for underage aborsion; do gays have the same legal rights in adopting children; and are beauty contests harmful?

Now for the most interesting part of the game.

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It seems that these two MPs were having their opportunity to voice out their stand on gay rights. As usual, these two active speakers have sparked the liveliness of the class and they argued like no other. Brian (right) who represents the government and supports the idea, came up with detailed elaboration and logical points with his vivacious gestures (as you can see). At the opposition tables, after several attempts of counter attacks by Mun Yee (heir of Teresa Kok as mentioned by "Yang di-Pertuan Alina") and Nicole, Parveen (twin sister of the overthrown Sharizat) tackled the question using her personal emotions as she usually do. She tossed questions such as "how feminine can a feminine male be?" This obviously triggered an abrupt laughter from the whole class.


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Next, we shall look into Sharon (right) who gave her points about the harmfulness of beauty contests. Her usual cheerful yet informative speeches made the whole class dazzled. After that, "Yang di-Pertuan Alina (YDPA)" (left) announced the winners of the day which comprised of the three characters in the photos and many more who weren't mentioned. I will save the information for next time as there are many more yet to come. Soon, my blog will be full of my classmates' photos but they will slowly appear one by one just like the rise of the warriors during the warring days.

How about myself during that day? I was never good in spontaneous speeches and I tend to become tensed up when I realised that every single word that I pronounced is being observed carefully. Definitely, I wasn't satisfied with my performance on that day and I wish that I could improve myself in expressing my thoughts verbally. This is my main weakness because I normally keep my thoughts in my mind, like why should I waste my effort of expressing them to others.

Therefore, I really think that schools and colleges should train students in these sort of speaking skills, besides just writing essays and those techinical stuff. Students must be given more and equal opportunities in practising and enhancing their oral skills to the extreme of daily exercises. For me, it seems that Ms Alina is the founder and the best practical teacher in mastering the art of transferring the true knowledge of the English Language to her students.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Dian's Birthday Party at Neway

Now we will experience Dian's birthday party together since this post is highly in demand. This celebration took place in Thursday, September 4 while the actual date of her birthday was on Wednesday, September 3. For those who don't know Dian (which I doubt nobody don't), she is the 3rd one from the left among the four pretty girls in this photo:

Kar Mun, Germaine, Dian and Yee Von at the Exposition of DBP

When the three young ladies and one girl (guess who is the girl, lol) sings together in one tone, their combination of voices is unstoppable, if you know what that means. Just joking.


Eu Ginn and Bowie singing into the depths with their deep manly voice?

And next, we have two ambitious guys singing on the other part of the room which are Eu Ginn and Bowie. Sadly, the other two guys which are Tien Jiun and ____ are not in the photo. But they will appear in the following videos. Prepare to face your worst nightmares. ^^

Why do I say the videos are nightmares? It's actually nothing to do with our performance in the karaoke room, but something else. You will understand after you see the first video. But don't worry as it will just keep getting better and better as you watch all the videos.


藉口 (Jie Kou)

Now do you know why? Sadly, I have learnt my lesson of not buying cheap cameras anymore (not going to mention which brand is it unless somebody asks). The problem of this digital camera is the defective zooming effect and you would have already noticed how the sound is cut off when the zooming in and zooming out occurs. The second video is not as bad but it is still considered as unsatisfactory.


中国话 (Zhong Guo Hua)

Did you all notice the pro rapper, Tien Jiun if you can barely listen to it in the previous two videos? Anyway, let's move on to how people start to get high during the Climax of DBP. Too bad they give us medium-sized room and this limited our space of moving about. The last time I went during my birthday, I have been offered the large room with one LCD projector and two plasma TVs in the room. We are forced to move the tables away for a mini "dancefloor".


牛仔很忙 (Niu Zai Hen Mang)

Looks like our dancing is kind of retarded but I think it's funny. For you information, I didn't move like that purposely. It was because I accidentally stepped on some food on the floor. Now for the Best Video of DBP.


Girlfriend

This song was always and is always the the trigger of our "highest" state. Everybody will start jumping off the floor during this song, but this time, we didn't perform our best due to the extremely limited space, blocked by obtacles such as the table. Normally, we would jump on the sofa too, but the camera was left in a low level so we can't do much. Everybody was busy enjoying and nobody volunteered to record this video, so it was left on the miserable table.


Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like this small room!!

Neway, Neway, think we need a discount!!


And so, that was just a small part of what we experienced that day. To find out more, you will need to try going KTV with me, hehe.

Finally,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DIAN!!!!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

3, 2, 1, MERDEKA!!


3: Merdeka Day Celebration 2008 at Taylor's

I didn't expect Taylor's to have a celebration on Merdeka Day as Taylor's is just a private university college. Although the celebration was kind of short, it reminded me of some memories in my high school, which is now known as SMK Kota Kemuning (really proud of it!!). We sang "Tanggal 31" and "Keranamu Malaysia" in this Multi Purpose Hall:



2: Flag Posing Ceremony with My Classmates

Here are the three girls who are always together and now they are posing their flags. Do they look slightly disappointed due to the fact that we didn't won the Lucky Draw Competition??

Rachel, Nicole, Li Jhuin


1: Flag Waving Ceremony with My Course Mates

Another four waving the free Malaysian flags given by Taylor's (unlike high school where we were forced to buy them). Unfortunately, I was not in the photo again because I was the one snapping all the photos!!

Kevin, Dian, Bowie and Yee Von


MERDEKA: At Berjaya Times Square

Thanks to Eu Ginn, I was able to participate in this fun game called Cash Flow. This game triggers the mind on how to gain financial freedom or else being wealthy. According to author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki who invented this game, one can learn many skills by just playing this entertaining game.

It really isn't disappointing and I learned that one has to clear all his liabilities to get out of the Rat Race (being stuck in the life of a normal person who has to pay all his monthly expenses without hesitation). Besides, I learned that we have to take risks in order to achieve somthing more than the usual.

The game is really a fun teacher and it isn't as complicated as what I imagined before. I hope that I can play this over and over again and I sure wish that schools and colleges should have these boards to teach students how to manage their finance. Anyway, those who want to know how to deal with their finance can consult me after few more years and you would be filthy rich in no time, haha.

The Board Game which makes you rich!!