It's raining, it's pouring

The sound of tapping fingers on a keyboard accompanies the rhapsody of rain and storm. I glanced out the window, fascinated by the flashes of lights crashing down, the sound so thunderous it reverberates the earth with the like of the sound of crashing simbals.

I wonder, how those puny worms could stand being assaulted by such loud noise?

Hoho...maybe because they're so slimy (they have lotsa liquid in their mass body) they get to suppress the sound, eh?! I'm such a genius.

Glossary

foodie: stuff that you eat.
chompchompnyumnyum: the act of eating.
aqualibrium: the ability to drink water while dancing around, or while fighting off a big pest without spilling the water itself.
walk like a poodle: jalan lembap macam ..., control ayu.
lick my nose: a sign of disapproval.

Exam!ExamExam!Assignment tak siap lagi! Warghh!!!

siapa boleh tolong?
siapa?
siapa?
emak tak mau tolong buatkan,
assignment saya.
hahaha,
padan muka,
sapa suruh main sakan,
kan dah jadi gila.

Febuari,
ada exam Issues in TESL,
tapi assignment tak siap lagi,
My monthly itinerary is in shamble!
jap gi kang kena la aku sawan B*%#.

Mummy!
Tolong!
Tolong!

Ustaz Kabuye bagi keja manyak,
Dr Mastura suruh buat article review,
sploh page pulak tu,
Dr ISA punya chart bila
nak siap?
Aku tak tau!
huhuhu TT_TT

Bio as your front

I just realized that whenever I sign up for sites, I'm usually required to enter my bio. Front cover is very important for any magazine to be a sell-out. The same goes as your social networking profile. The cooler (or the weirder) your bio is, the more invites you get.
I think it's time for me to step up and redo my bio lah. However, this issue puts me in a dilemma on how to best present myself: I can't seem to write up a cool bio!
Should I do it like this,

Bio

Name: haha collander colonel sanders VII
Age: Forever 17
DOB: Inconsequential. I'm immortal, hah!
Horoscope: Virgo (Virgo pic seems to be way HOT than a ketam bunga)
Height: I'm as tall as a coconut tree
Blood type: ABCDE. What can I say, I'm just out of this world, bebeh.
Favourite: Beautiful people/things
Hate: Ugly people/things

or should i do a normal one like this:

Bio

Name: Peoople call me Saki
Age: 20 now but the 0 behind will change annually.
DOB: I was born in the great 1989, July 4th.
Horoscope: Ketam bunga @ Cancer (no, not Cancer, the disease)
Height: 151 cm
Blood type: Boring O
Favourite: Too many things to be included here.
Hate: Refer to 'Favourite' section.

So, which one should I use?

Kerja banyak!!!

My house is nearby, so it's easy for me to commute to and fro from uni to home lah.
Trying to steel myself against temptation, I decided to not go back home last Friday. Iyelah, cuti 4 hari, boleh main game, lepak-lepak, tengok TV, etc..
"Macam tu bila assignments nak habis, bongok!," said my alter ego.
So I didn't go back home, kononnya nak buat assignments lah.
I ended up sleeping most of the time.
Come Sunday, I looked at my list of assignments:
1)argumentative essay-do outline for the effectiveness of affective education in Malaysia.
2)Why people learn English and outline on ways to facilitate English learning for future generation-do ppt slides.
3)Fry readability chart-find a story that's suitable for form 1-2 students-do an analysis on the text.
4) hafal surah al-Baqarah 101-102, An-Nisaa 34 and the whole surah of Al-Mulk.
5) Buat teks ucapan-BM kerjaya (possible topic: ucapan majlis perkahwinan)
6)presentation on Moral Development in middle childhood.

Tak ada satu pon yang dah siap.
Pergi bilik Ian.Gosip 3 jam. Habis task no.6.

All in all, sama ja balik ke tak: tak habis kerja pun.

timetable

seeing that syahmi has posted his schedule, I'm tempted to show off mine.
ehem, here it goes:

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
10-11.30am Moral Development from Psychological Perspective
2-3pm Bahasa Melayu Kerjaya
5-6-30pm Islam, Knowledge & Civilization

TUESDAY & THURSDAY
8.30-10am English for Academic Purpose
10-11.30am Issues in TESL
2-3.30pm Teaching Reading for Secondary School

FRIDAY
ilek class

SATURDAY
8-10am Family Management & Parenting


It's a very dull schedule, with boring subjects. Yawn~
p/s: I wouldn't mind swapping schedule with you syahmi

Drabbles of this month

I still haven't achieved my GPA target, which sucks, but at least it's not going down either: I'm like the goat who's sitting on the gate, waiting to jump and kiss the flat surface of the earth with its fragrant grass. Ok, I'm crapping again -_-

UIA is not a dump, but its not a droll place either (i guess that's because we still have KLCC nearby, which is to say it's not that cool of a place but still, a monument of civilization nearby calms my heart).

Oh, ahah!
I'm taking up to 8 subjects this semester (didn't I do that every sem? Oh yeah, I did! How wonderful!)
Ehem, UIA is such a wonderful higher education institution. It defies the nature of normality whereby we, it's students are introduced to new subjects every semester, mentioned with effect at the moment it is announced. I still have 8 hours worth of my precious time to be spent for Arabic.

Moving on about book raves: I'm currently hooked on Mallorean saga by David Eddings. It is basically a continuation of the Belgariad series by the same mentioned author. The story is basically about a hero on a quest to save the world and oh, his son is kidnapped by the opposing faction of destiny. There is one part of the story which I like most: Belgarath the Sorcerer was having a conversation with the devious Silk a.k.a Prince Kheldar of Drasnia about good and evil. Belgarath simply said that the concept of good and bad is too complicated. To indirectly quote the sorcerer on his view about the struggle between two fates: It's more about 'them' and 'us'. Good and evil are too much simple too be defined. I kind of agree with him. Each and everyone of us has a fixed concept about good and bad (or evil), and we tend to look at our perspective only, rather than looking at other's. Call me agnostic or whatever, I still think that good and bad is not a fixed concept as truth can be subjective for individuals.

Bilingualism

Def: knows more than 1 language in the same modality (Japanese+Englsih: modality writing), and knows more than 1 language in different modality (Jap:speaking+English writing).

Becoming bilingual:
1)simultaneous learning situation-more than 1 L at the same time.
1P-1L, 1P-2L
E.g: A child learns 2 languages at the same time at home when 1 parent speaks BM and one parent speaks Eng.

2)Sequential learning situation-intro to 2ndL after 1stL has been introduced (possibility: through different stage of acquisition)
E.g: situation with children of immigrants

Transfer effect of L1 on L2 learning-Not every pair of languages can be expected to be acquired at the same rate
1. similarity of syntax
2. similarity of vocab
3. sound system

Language shift: happens when a community abandon their native language and collectively shift to speaking another one instead.
-It can happen slowly or rapidly.
-Happens when 2 cultures/population with differnt languages conme into intense conatact =those who shift are the weaker/minority group (tupically), sometimes majority shift language.

Language Loss:loss of langauge due to langauge standardization, lack of respect for the dialect or culture
= dialect loss
E.g: England is dialect-hostile, made standard English a compulsory-no dialect.

Language Death: complete dissaperance of a language.
-usually a gradual process.
Types of Language death:1. Sudden: all speakers are killed or dead.
E.g: Tasmanian case.
2. Radical- under threat and political repression, or genocide (Nez Perce).
3. Gradual-minority languages dies out in contact with socially dominant language.
4. Bottom-to-top: survives only in a few contexts (e.g: Latin; liturgical use)

Revitalization languages:Refers to any deliberate effort to recover the spoken use of a language that is no longer spoken or learned at home
1. corpus planning
-modernization of lexicon (vocab)
-implement writing system
2. status planning
-build lay loyalty
-accept lanaguage in broader range of social functions