basket ball anyone?..

last night, we all had a basketball competition. its a mini and closed tournament. its a requirement in order for me to pass this paper. my team consist of myself, amir, khairul and cheah.our team name? GILE MANTAP. how's that to provoke your opponent ?i know, it's kind of provocative,but who cares. guess what? we didn't win. lol. we lost to the best team. yes, they were good. so, my team manage to get second place only. what happen that night



my hand kene cakar dengan 'kiah'..can u believe it, after he scratched my hand, he said 'oh sorry, kuku i panjang'...wtf man..u know it's against the rules to play with your long nails.duh!

our score : GILE MANTAP 5-0 (forgot already)
GILE MANTAP 1-o Go Libreese Go (team kiah)
GILE MANTAP 2-0 Comot
GILE MANTAP 1-7 Lets have fun (final)
too bad. hahaha..

Chalk

What’s important to remember in all of this is just how absent the film is of any forced dramatics. There are no big doings, no phony plot twists. The biggest conflict comes when Mr. Lowrey curses at a kid and calls him “a horrible student,” a very real incident that winds up haunting the rookie teacher. Other plot points that could be taken as key turning points involve the aforementioned Teacher of the Year contest (in which Mr. Stroope goes overboard in self-promotion) and a cute spelling bee in which teachers must tackle student-approved slang terms (hilariously presented here as a brief, keen parody of such documentaries as “Spellbound”). Such moments have roots deeply planted in what appears to be a drab ordinariness, but remember, in such ordinariness is where we often find the most important parts of our everyday lives.
Those two plot points also serve as a contrast between the male leads. As Mr. Stroope pushes further to win his prize, his attempts at being “the cool teacher” grow more and more obvious in their shallowness. Mr. Lowrey, meanwhile, uses the spelling bee as a way to finally connect to his students, and damn it if by the end we’re not rooting for this nervous fella to win big with the kids.

In fact, Mr. Lowrey is the glue of the film. While the others’ problems offer honest portraits of life as a public school employee, be it through biting comedy or painful personal conflict, it’s the potential rise of Mr. Lowrey that keeps us going. An opening title card informs us that half of all new teachers quit by their third year, and we wonder if Mr. Lowrey will be one of them. His first day of school (cleverly captured on the first day of filming, to help cement the awkward tone between teacher and students on the set) is a train wreck, and he often confesses that he’s not cut out for the job. But will he return for a second year? The journey to that answer is one of the most involving character paths to hit the screen in recent memory.

its the day

Its the day where we all have to submit all of our blog entries and our comments. The day is Monday. And today is Thursday. So, what we all have to do? Well, its blogging time. 15 entries and 10 comments min. To cover all the entries, I have to recall all the things that happened few weeks back. I don’t know if I’m able to recall that far. So, I’m pushing my self to the limit, put aside other assignment, and start on my blog. Its blogging time my friends.

Argumentative and Persuasive

Mr. Vahid came to our class to give a talk about persuasive and argumentative speech. It’s really important since we are having our position paper to be presented. He gave us lots of ideas and how to persuade and argue about your points. Thanks Mr Vahid.

positition paper and research paper

We have to submit and present our paper in the 12th week, so I still have 2 weeks more. For position paper, I have to point an issue or a theme in the given story, and present it in front of the class. As for my research paper, I’m still halfway there; just need few more things to write. So, I hope I manage to complete all of it before the due date. For the research paper, we got help from Miss Amelia and Miss Elisha, they will meet us at least once a week just to observe our progress. So, by hook or by crook, I have to do something to show that I’m working on my papers.

Precious

living a very stressful life of being rape by her father, abused by her mother, obese, poor and unloved by anybody, Claireece Precious Jones always having imagination of her own world where in that world, she is totally opposite with her real life, making that way as the most comfortable way of continuing her life. Blu Rain, her new teacher, inspired her to learn reading. Precious meets sporadically with a social worker named Miss Weiss, who learn about incest in the household when Precious unwittingly conveys it to her. After her mother deliberately drops three-day-old Abdul, her second child and hits Precious, Precious fights back long enough to get her son and flees her home permanently. Shortly after leaving the house, Precious breaks into her school classroom to get out of the cold and is discovered the following morning by Miss Rain. Her mother comes back into her life to inform Precious that her father has died of AIDS. Precious meets Miss Weiss at her office and steals her case file. Precious recounts the details of the file to her fellow students and has a new lease on life. Mary and Precious see each other for the last time in Miss Weiss' office, where Weiss questions Mary about her abuse of Precious, and uncovers specific physical and sexual traumas Precious encountered, starting when she was three. the movie ends with Precious bringing her two children and resolve to improve her life for herself and her children.

The Naughty Little Vampire
We have to create our own fable; it must me modern but still has the sense of morality and good deeds. In a group of 3, no, 4, with Amir was absent, Khairul, Fahmi and myself thought about lots of idea. Lots of drafts were out and lastly, we chose the vampire. The idea was simple, about little vampire, a stubborn one, didn’t listen to his mother and got burnt by the sun. The unique part about our fable is that it didn’t have dialogue. You can just understand by looking at the picture in sequence.

Lean on Me

An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threaten to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.
An extraordinary situation calls for an extraordinary solution. At strife-torn Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, that solution had a name: Principal "Crazy Joe" Clark. With a bullhorn in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, he slammed the door on losers at Eastside. Brought in as a last resort to stop the state government from taking control of the school, Clark chained the doors shut to keep troublemakers OUT and achievers IN. Parents fought him. Teachers resented him. Even his own boss doubted him. But lots of kids loved him. Clark turned Eastside around, appearing on the cover of "Time Magazine" and becoming a national symbol of tough-love education. "If you don't succeed in life," Clark tells his students, "don't blame your backgrounds. Don't blame the Establishment. Blame YOURSELVES." His message is simple: Don't lean on excuses, drugs, crime, or anger. LEAN ON ME...and learn.

you set your own future..

You set your own future!
Well, this is an interesting topic. Arrange marriage is a common topic in Malaysian culture especially in Indian and Malays. Arrange marriage means that your family is picking your own significant other. The issue here is, are you willing to start a life with someone that you barely knew? There are two different timeline here, if you asked a modern people, for sure that they totally disagree about arrange marriage, they would like to life with people that they love, at least they know about the person that they are going to live with. But, not all modern people disagree about arrange marriage, some of them just accept it since they grew with the culture. For example, all the family members were married by arrangement. So, from there, they developed a mind set where they don’t have to worry about finding their significant other since the culture is working for his/ her family.
If you ask me, I kind of in between with this topic. But hey, don’t get me wrong, I still want to get married ok. Its just the arrange marriage culture wasn’t really there in my family. My mom and my dad were lovers, but my older sister was not. Few of my older cousins happen to pick their own life partner, and there were some that chose by their family. And they all live happily until today, so I have a choice and I know whatever I do, my family will always there to support me.

Monalisa Smile

Wellesley College is a women's college where the best and the brightest women of New England's privileged class come to learn, if not necessarily to think. Mona Lisa Smile is about how the new art history teacher, unmarried Katherine Watson (Julia_Roberts), asks the young women of that university to reject the oppressive domestic goddess lifestyle that awaits almost all of them after graduation. Of the three students most affected by Watson, Maggie_Gyllenhaal's Giselle Levy gets the best lines. The alcohol-swilling, sexually promiscuous rebel she plays feels like a product of the '50s, and Giselle quickly adores finding an older role model in Watson. Julia_Stiles does the best work in the film as Joan Brandwyn, who opens up to the possibility that she does not have to marry her sweetheart. Her scene with Roberts after she makes the decision about her future is the best scene in the film because it is the only one in which anybody shows Watson that her beliefs may not be best for everyone. Sadly, the talented Kirsten_Dunst as rich bitch Betty Warren is saddled with the worst scenes and the worst dialogue in the film. She suffers simply because she accepts wholeheartedly what she has been spoon-fed from childhood. Her punishment is so total and so extreme that the film becomes little more than a wholehearted acceptance of Watson's world view. That, plus the cartoonish treatment of Marcia_Gay_Harden as a heartbroken spinster who intensely believes in the importance of properly planned dinner parties, makes Mona Lisa Smile feel like a feminist film made by Wellesley graduates who want you to learn about feminism, but do not ask you to think about it.

who wants to bee the champion

Akeelah and the bee
Maybe on the surface this doesn't seem like a movie that will appeal to everyone, but it really is. It's so much more emotionally involving than the other movies. I really liked that the characters were complicated, not all perfect or all bad. It's more than just heart-warming, because that sounds so vanilla and generic. It really breaks new ground and it shows people struggling to embrace their gifts and be true to themselves.

As for me, this movie taught lots of values. For example, racism, which is quite obvious in the movie, respect and always do your best to achieve your dreams. this may sound awkward, but, yes, i like this movie. Just look at the way she studies and prepare for her competition, i mean, i'm also not very sure whether i can be like that. but then again, the ending was quite predictable, but hey! who cares. she won, and all her effort was paid.

The Ron Clark Story

This is my first time watching the movie. I enjoyed the movie, it showed about how being a teacher, how you handle your class and things that happened in there and what actually goes in his mind. The most essential part of the movie is how he, as a teacher that loved his students, devoted his life (socially and mentally) just to be a good teacher to them. It is true that the ending of the story is obvious, however how it happens and how well seemed to be a mystery throughout the whole movie. The storyline is well developed and while there are a few unrealistic points, I think that it's very good. The children were portrayed very realistically, as were the challenges of teaching such a group. Knowing that it was a true story only heightened my enjoyment of the entire movie.

Field trip!!

Today we all don’t have class. Well, that was a start. Not that I’m looking forward to it. Since we are not going to have class, we’re asked to go to Dewan Besar UPM, oh yeah! field trip. Actually, there was an exhibition there. Although it’s an exhibition, but there were judges too. There lost of section there, amazingly we found a booth where all the familiar faces were there. It’s Dr. Jaya with his master’s student. Guessed what, they actually participate in the name of Grow Game, on which category, i don’t rally know. One more thing, Dr. is one of the judges there (again, see how he did something beyond our expectation). All these things might seen unnecessary to us, right now, but we can take it as reference when we all want to continue or study (sure?) and do a research, this will be a good base. So, just about time to go back, we regroup and listen to what Dr. have to say and then leave.

All hail the Drow Game!

What is Drow Game? Well, its a game, if you notice the word ‘DROW’, it’s a ‘WORD’ spelling backward. See, how interesting that is. Yes, the game was very interesting. We were first introducing to this game during out tutorial when Miss Amelia wanted us to be at the Resource Centre for that day tutorial. Then we have to take one PC each and start following the instructions so that we can begin the game. The game was about guessing the meaning of words in the time given. You have to battle with another person. One more thing, it is an online game. The first person that battled with me was Murni, and guessed what, I won. Oh yeah, I won my first Drow Game battle. Actually, we have to collect as many points as we can because there were prizes to be won. The prizes was not cikai-cikai, it was i-pod touch and i-pod nano.
Can you believe that, i mean by playing with words, you can get I-pod touch? Man, they sure know hoe to spend their money accordingly! (to the contributor). But unfortunately, I don’t have any interest on winning the prizes, not that I looked down on it, it just that I already have one. So, why should I be greedy to win another one? It’s better for me just to play the game for fun and in the sense of learning. There were lots of words that I don’t really get the meaning in the game. I was impressed when I knew that Dr. Jaya was one of the game’s developers (no wonder he wanted us to play the game wholeheartedly). so, good luck to you all, do your best, get the I-pod because its not something that you can get everyday.

muse...

Today in Dr. Jaya’s class, he showed us two video clips. As expected from Dr., he always came up with something that is most of us didn’t thought about it. For example, the first video clip, Toomba by Saaein Zahoor, it was a good song. Although I completely can’t comprehend the lyric, but the rhythm and the music was so eminent. But when you actually understood the lyric, it’s a mind blowing. I mean the meaning, its different, the way the singer sings it; it’s just something that you don’t get to see it everyday. Credit to Dr. Jaya for showing us the magnificent clip.
Then, he move on to something rather dramatic. It’s a Lady Gaga’s Alejandro clip. This time I wasn’t too excited since I’m familiar with the song. It has lots of underlying meaning that only can be found if you look at it in detail. Although it was rather explicit, but we can’t blame Lady Gaga since for her, that was an art. For her, it is how she expressed her feeling and creativity. It depends on us how we level that explicitly. Different people, different way of thinking. But the thing that shocked me the most was when Dr. said how he loved that clip, the way they choreographed it, how it was presented and many more. ‘Don’t call my name; don’t call my name, Alehandro’.