The Last Class With Madam Baiti.

       The last Profinciency English class with Madam Baiti, is on 27/11/2012 one week before we are start our final exam. I have learn a lot of thing in this class, teamwork, assignment  task and also test. most important thing I learn in this class is just not about assignment but also how to improve our self as human being, how to communicate well in English. there are many thing i want to upload in this blog, but because of certain thing, I cannot pot it; I'm being too busy thing semester. some time I want to post what I have learn in class but madam take the paper and I forget what I suppose to update. sorry for the late update. I have learn the simple thing I forgot such as pronoun, what is pronoun ?  example of pronoun is I, They, she, you and it.

      graph, tenses and also vocab, we have learn this since we are in school day. But in this proficiency English class we learn it again to recap and recall what we have learn to memorize it well. forget to mention the format of report we learn it again and again. it just good to learn the same thing again for us to memorize it well. hopefully when the exam time come we can answer the question well. AMIN.

the last class and I feel sad to say good bye to Madam Baiti and all of my class mate.

Dumb Ways To Die.

There are so many ways to die right? Maybe there are the smart ways to die and the dumbest ways to die is that true? For my post for today Madam Baiti ask us to critic nor preview the MV at youtube and the title is Dumb ways To die. Have you watch this video? What came across your mind when your saw this video? Suddenly when I watch this video I remember about happy three friend cartoon, they are so cute but very gore for the kids. The lyric are very catchy and easy to sing because it repeats the same chorus (dumb ways to die so many dumb ways to die). Even the lyric struck in my mind once I already hear this song. The main focus of the video is about awareness campaign kid’s safety on train. But in my point of view the title is not suitable for kids to learn.

The focus of the video is about awareness campaign on the train but, the contain of the video has cover the whole thing how simple thing can make we dead. the video lyric has make us to think how simple thing can make we die, like we are dig our own graveyard. there are certain word that a not good for kids example use your private parts as piranha bait. the word private parts is not suitable for kids to learn. don't do stupid thing that can cause you die example; teach yourself how to fly. the other message is do not invite death we can take from the video lyric;get your toast out with a fork, invite a pyscho killer inside and dress up like moose during hunting season. 

if i were the producer for the video i will name the video title do not find way to die. 

three good thing about this video is :

• it make us think about the implied message
• the catchy lyric is suitable for everyone to learn.
• the video is attract people to view and view it for many time

three bad thing about this video is:

• the visual of cartoon is frighten and formidable in cute way for kids
• the lyric; Dumb ways To die . (Dumb is not a good word to say)
• there are no bad thing about this video. because it it cute. :)

Social Media (Current Issue) *

I bet many of us have their own social media account right? What is social media? There are so many types of social media nowadays such as Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, M Face, Friendster, MySpace and Twitter. Currently twitter is the most famous social media among the teenager nowadays. Because it is easy to tweet in anywhere and anytime, you just have to, have a smart phone that are connected to internet then you will always connected to twitter. Twitter is also known as micro blog because people using it to share they point of view in certain issue.

To me Twitter has its own benefit and vice versa. Because by using Twitter it keeps people connected and know about current issue, maybe about politics, artist and also news. But today when I open my twitter I has to read the post about, someone are post about something bad and other start to bashing the tweet and ReTweet the post it has make a simple thing become worse. 

My post today is about current issue which is; people are starting using this kind of media to make a small issue become a big issue. For example some people are Tweet about negative thing about Malaysia and Islam. I admit that when I read the post that are made by certain people who doesn’t have common sense and just write what in their mind without thinking what will the circumstance be if they write about the sensitive issue, me myself, I do have a angry feeling. But as a human being we shouldn’t just bashing the person without give them the chance to explanation, why they tweet about something like that in twitter, we have to put our self in their shoe.

By ReTweet and Bashing the tweet it has show that we as teenager doesn’t have a good morale value and polite as a human being. Why should we make a simple thing become worse? Maybe we can give advice to the person to stop Tweet about something is sensitive rather than Bashing the tweet. Don’t forget we are Malaysian and as Malaysian we have to hold our five principle of Rukun Negara. The number five is the most important in shaping our behavior which is KESOPANAN DAN KESUSILAAN. Remember as a Malaysian whatever happens always sticks to our Principle of Rukun Negara.

the conclusion is internet such as social media does bring a good and vice versa benefit to us according to how we use it. think before you act in social media don't make you regret with what you post later on. 

Himizu (Movie preview)

The story is about the family that having a very serious problem in their live, I think the situation has made almost everyone in this story got very serious mental problem. Majority of them are going crazy and make them will doing anything just to out of the situation they are facing. Sumida the main character is high school student, 14 years old. As the main character he facing with a lot challenges in his life, he just want to be normal like other child at his age.  Living in poverty and homeless has made a lot of depression in his life. He only lives on a boat house instead of the real house.

His father is not a good and responsible father, his always asking for money from his own son. He even wants to kill his own son just to get the insurance money. To his father point of view his life would be much better if Sumida died. Sumida father is a drinker and a gambler; he even has a debt to loan shark. Then he left the house and has made Sumida have to face with the loan shark. Sumida mother also has leave the house and just leave a piece of note and tell her son to live happily, to my point of view it just not make a sense for a mother has leave her son and told him to be happy. The main character parents are not responsible and not carry their duty as parents.

Keito Chazawa, is the stalker to Sumida, her adore Sumida and obsess to Sumida so much. She got a really psycho way of showing her love to Sumida. Even her family is also having mental problem they, have built hanging rope for they daughter to commit suicide. The side character in this story is the people that are homeless because of tsunami and stay on Sumida land based on Sumida kindness. This story is about a real life the people in Japan have to face after tsunami, they had a really difficult time. At the climax of the story Sumida have kill his own father and made his life miserable. He then got mental problem don’t know how to decide in his life and thought that his life has end here.

What is the ending of the story? You have to watch it to know what the ending is. Can Sumida lead his life normal like other teenagers or he have to stay in the jail for the rest of his life for what he did? Or will the loan shark kill he because didn’t manage to pay for his father debt. And what will happen to his stalker Chazawa, will she commit suicide? What going to happen to the people who stay in Sumida house, will they being homeless again? To answer this question you have to watch this movie. For this movie I give 4 stars out of 5 stars. It is a must watch movie, to see other people life what are they facing in they life. 

Our Test for proficiency Class.

         Suppose to be we have class as usual at Tuesday at 5 pm same place which is BK 29. But, we request to madam Baiti to cancel it because we have event on that day which is 30 Oct 2012 the forum about maturity/Social media. so Madam want us to replace it on Saturday on 9 am. at 1.30 pm Madam want to hold a test, it is our midterm for this subject. i couldn't remember much about the question paper Madam give to us but there are one question based on paragraph about Justin Bieber. the question, it ask what is debut mean, luckily i'm k-pop fan so i always hear this word. the word mean first public appearance on stage. i think i can get the right answer for that question :)

     the last section question is based on chart just like what we have learn in last class. i don't exactly how to describe the information on the paragraph carefully. when Madam Give our Midterm paper back, Madam Wrote on my last section answer "too long and make it compact" maybe because i don't write based on instruction. the instruction only ask to write about 150 to 180 word. it is my fault because don't read the instruction carefully. next time in my upcoming test i will read the instruction and follow what it instruct.

     

The Chart (Graph).

Today post I would like to talk about chart, because this is what I learn in previous class. I bet many of us already know what is chart. We have learned about chart since us in primary school. There are much type of chart for example pie chart, bar chart, line chart and area chart. But in previous class Madam Baiti give us a module of paper for us to study the paper and we have to make an exercise from the module. The module is about graph chart. We have to analysis the graph and make a report or article based on the graph. It is like study comprehension in school day. But, even though we already in university we still have to learn about it. Because this is Profienciency English class, so we have to learn grammar and all of those thingy back from the starting. We cannot say that if we already in university level our English level is already good enough for us; sometimes it is just good to learn from starting to improve our self.

There are many example of word to use when we are writing based on the information that is given from the graph itself. For example:

Step 1: UNDERSTANDING THE QUESTION

• ·         Analyse the task given
• ·         Underline key words
• ·         Study the stimulus and graphic aid

Step 2: BRAINSTORM/GATHER IDEAS

• ·         Jot down 3 main points quickly
• ·         Expand points
• ·         Use key words or phrases

Step 3: ORGANIZE IDEAS

• ·         Organize your points
• ·         Number your points in logical sequence
• ·         Insert linkers or useful expressions
• ·         The introduction should describe what the graph shows
• ·         The conclusion should describe the important/broad trend shown

 so that all the tips for today, enjoy your day ^^

what is PR job??

What exactly does PR do? What is PR? Who are their? PR stands for Public Relation. They job is to manage other people life, what kind of manage does they do? Their usually manage an artist schedule. But in company their also have PR department in this situation PR will react as the middle person. In today class Madam Baiti ask us to act in our own course job. As for me I’m taking communication and media, there are many jobs in this field for example journalist, editor, gatekeeper, newscaster, and also PR. So as today we choose to act as PR to solve communication crisis. What is communication crisis? Communication crisis is where someone facing with problem that involve miscommunication.

In our situation that we choose today is, the artist is facing with her scandal gossip and need PR to solve her problem. In this situation her manager also acts as her PR to clear her customer image back. And the role are as below; Nana as the main character (the artist who face with her scandal story), Faza (the manager/ PR), Geogy (Host of the talk show) and me, Sharmine (the journalist). It a kind of funny when Madam Baiti give this task to us, just image we need to act in front our classmate, I’m so shy actually. When we are discussing about our story board I can image how we going to act, but when I’m in front of class suddenly I forget what I suppose to ask Nana, because me as journalist. Now I know acting is not an easy job to do.

Our story lines start when nana is having an affair with a famous celebrity.  The gossip and the picture of them are being intimate is spread in the internet. Because Nana scandal is someone else husband so she have to face with all negative view that society give to her. To clear her name back Nana hired Faza as her manager and PR to make a press conference to apologize in what she had done.  Also to clear her name back Nana had to done a volunteer job, based on Faza advise. To make, the society have a good impression toward her back as public figures. Actually PR is one of the tough job or career because we need to have a strong mind and emotional to face with other people behavior.