Topic 1

Assalamualaikum and welcome to my new blog entry for this 2009 year. As usual I am doing this for Madam Yaya’s attention. New lecturer, new subject (COM 4623 Critical Literacy) and of course new topic. I still have to create blogs in this semester 4 whereby I really hope that I will not face any difficulties in posting the blog. First thing first, before I proceed with other interesting topic, I want to tell a little bit about the new subject, Critical Literacy (a.k.a CL). Most of my seniors said that this is one of the killer subjects in semester 4 other than Society, State & Individual (SSI), and Research & Project (R&P). So, let’s take a look about this subject. It is about reading and writing where we have to ‘critical’ understood the purposes of the text. We cannot just simply justify about certain thing that we had read. Not that easy to do so because we must have the skills to identify about the texts.
After all, my class already moved to reading 1.3. In reading 1.2 it is about Stories & Facts which is it related with the article Convicted killer back at work. Lots of thing that I do not know on how to relate the text with the 10 elements. Before this I had read Chapter 1 a little bit, but still could not understand. Then, only I knew about it because with good explanation by the presenter which consist of Adini’s group members. This group had make the whole class understand and clear about Chapter 1. With a good example they make it more clear and understand well.
The explanation about Rules and Regulations for reading 1.3 had been made byn Nabila’s group. Here, not only I myself could not understand about the reading, but it is the same for Nabila’s group members. They afraid that their explanations are wrong, but they had tried their best because of Madam Yaya’s support. Although they do not include all the subtopics in the reading, but they had already combined it with one good explanation. Madam Yaya had a few questioned for them that related to the article in Chapter 1. I thought for this chapter I get all the explanation and for Chapter 2, reading 2.2 my group and I will present about it. Hope that my group can make it.

CRITICAL LITERACY

In the end.....

Choii… it is already the time… finish having the breaks, now I have to get ready for the role play. This whole week my friends and I just go for rehearsal from morning until late night. We having our rehearsal in class and done all the works there. Set up the props, customs and edit the script too.

Come back from the breaks all of us have lots of idea in order to make the role play more interesting. Me as the director accept all the idea and make the story longer because the duration time is 20 – 40 minutes for each group.

Due to that most of the group members don’t get enough rest and makes our body felt very tired and sometimes even don’t have enough time to eat. After this final task finish, I think that all of us manage to get enough rest and having great breaks.

That night, my group is the first team to present our role play. We felt very nervous, but Miss Syidah had calm us and found that we manage to do the best. We promise to do all out just for Miss Syidah attention.

There are lots of audiences that night and we felt very shamed to act. This is the first time we present in front of lots of students. But, we found that it is interesting to do this again. Miss Syidah is very satisfied with our presentation and said that our group had done a good job. She enjoyed our role play very much and will miss our role very much.

So, that’s all for this semester and hope to see you all in the next page. After this, we have to face with our final examination, hope that we manage to answer the entire question without any worries. ~ see you soon and have a nice day…

Diiwali.....

Submitted my assignment makes me feeling relief. Just one final task that I have to do and after that I can sit down has a break. As I mentioned before I have to do a role play. Our group had chosen to do Tragedy of My Third Eyes and I have divided all the work to my group members. As a leader there are lots of works to do and to think about. Thankful that all my friends manage to do all their work without any complain although all of us already tired and sometimes fed up to do so.

Miss Syidah gives us enough time to do the rehearsal, to find our custom and also the props. But, we just don’t have enough time to make it. I am very sad and angry that sometimes there is some argument in my groups. Maybe because each of everyone felt very exhausted and just cannot take it anymore. This is our last assignment and our semester break is just around the corner. That means our final examination will be held soon.

We have to rush for the due date and also have to study for our final examination. I myself felt that I just cannot stand anymore, but with Miss Syidah advice all of us wake up and with one mission to finish this last final task.

Lots of rehearsal and training we had done. Just want to ensure our role play is the best among the best. We are kind of shy person to do the acting part, but after a few times we thought that for our marks we will do whatever we had too.

This weekend we will be having another breaks because of Deepavali which means our time for training is too short. After the breaks we will present the role play. So, during the break all the actress and actor have to find the suitable outfits, props as well as remembered the script. Soon, after the breaks the role play will begin…

Battleship had begun.....

Assignment… assignment… assignment. This week is the busiest week I ever had because I am rushing for the due date and this week my netball team has a tournament with UIA team on weekend. Due to that situation I have to go for training every evening because me myself have not done any training right after went back from KASUKMA.

It is quiet exhausted, but no matter what I have to do so in order to fulfill all my work and role as a student in here. I am still continuing with my reading although I felt very tired to do so. I found that the story is very interesting and I myself can feel the conflict in there because the writer tells about the story in details.

Before this I have already done my third assignment which I have to do the short stories review. Here, I found that it is not difficult for me to finish this assignment. I only just have to follow the contests in the former task and I will manage to finish it up.

Lately, I found that I tend to be mad and quite tension. Maybe because I have lots of work to do and my netball team had a conflict too. I wish that all my work and my tournament will just be good.

It's haunting me.....

Back to work… after having about one week Hari Raya Aidilfitri break, I have to go back to my college. Continue with my role as a student again in MPCIM. Last holiday makes me felt very happy because it was an exciting Hari Raya Aidilfitri that I ever had. Thank God that I had submitted my third assignment which is short stories review and I had chosen Mariah. I have other two assignments that have to submit. Hope that I manage to do so with my lecturer help.

Miss Syidah only having consultation hour with us after all the short stories we had been discuss. We had final assignment which we had to do a role play based on one of the short stories that I had learned. My group and I had already chosen Tragedy of My Third Eyes. Miss gives the opportunity for us to choose our own group members and I had become the director. The due date for this role play is still a long way to go.

Now I want to focus on another assignment which is book review. I never read the book yet, but I hope that I can manage to do so. I am going to read about Charmed the Soul of Bride. From the overview I think that the story might be interesting because I also followed this TV series and I loved to watch about the three witches that very beautiful and gorgeous.

Although I had other assignment to do, but I have to divide my time equally so that all my assignment can be submit just right on time. Thankful that Miss Syidah is very a kind lecturer to us that she always support whatever we do and she too encouraging us to do all the assignment because this subject does not have final examination paper.

All at all I have to finish reading the book because there are not much time left anymore. So, see you all in the next entry.

Bang...bang...boom.!

This week is the last week before we faced the Hari Raya Aidilfitri break. As usually my mind is already at home because this year all my siblings are here and we can celebrate it together. Although my mood is already on Hari Raya mood, but I am still busy catch up my due date for assignment. All my lectures wanted us to submit the assignment before we go home. Poor I because my ticket is on 24 September, Wednesday at night and it mean I only have three days for this week. I hope to finish up all my assignment according to the due date.

As Miss had promised that we will be watching the movie, The Color Purple. On Tuesday we had the chance to watch it at Dewan Cerun (DK – 3) combined with other classes. I found that the movie is very interesting because it tells about a man rebellious towards a woman. He is such a cruel man because he had a crash on his wife where it cannot call as a wife actually. He thinks that he had already give sheltered, food and clothes to the woman and it means the girl had to follow whatever he said. The woman had a sister and wanted her sister to stay with her, but the man refused because he cannot manage to ‘get’ his wife’s sister. Due to that he chases her out and the girl promise to write.

The girl had write lots of letters to her sister, but none of it reached her sister because the man kept the letters. He does not want his wife know about the secret that he been kept for such a long time. All this while the man enjoyed his life with other women out there and his wife just ignores about that because does not want his husband get mad of her. There is one beautiful women whom her husband admirer with. Her husband took the women back home because wanted to help her. His wife make friends with her and the woman had teaches her a lot about the world.

Before this she is afraid to speak up, but after she learned from the beautiful lady she is brave enough. With the lady helps also she manages to find all about her true life and family too. She gets back her family and life without destruction anymore and live happy ever after. ~ thE End ~

From my opinion, this movie had lots of moral values because it tells us about how important to be out spoken nowadays. We cannot afraid to speak up or tells whatever that we do not agree with. We have the right to do so because everyone in this world has its own right. On Wednesday we do not have class with Miss, but only consultation hour. I have shown my novel for book review assessment and Miss said the book can be used. Last but not least my request from Miss is to postpone the third assessment because I cannot manage to finish it. Thank God that Miss is very a kind hearted person that she let us to submit it after Hari Raya. Alhamdulillah, I can go home without any worried anymore.