Monday, September 14, 2009
Apologies Apologies!!
Hey cuppycakes!! Please be informed that i would get my hands busy these few weeks because i have a lot of things to handle and I'm half-insane right now. So, i might not be able to check your blogs regularly. I'm deeply sorry but i will be more than happy to do it anytime soon. One more thing, if you have any questions, text me for a quick reply. You may also contact me in Facebook or simply drop a line here. Miss Dia, signing off...
Monday, September 7, 2009
I Am A Dreamer
Had I been gifted with extra ordinary abilities, I would love to be able to freeze the time. I grew up watching “Charmed”, the story of three witch sisters who are intelligent, stunning and gifted with different power. Among the three, I’m especially yearning for Piper’s power in which she can freeze the time using her hands. How cool is that!..
Here’s the thing, I move slower than normal people. My friends could finish their 5-6-page assignment in just one night but I would take 2-3 days (depending on my mood) to finish the same thing. Then, when it comes to exam, I always found the time was not enough to finish answering the questions. grrrr….Frustrating. Even now, I wake at 4a.m. hoping that I can go to work before 6.30 because after 6.30, I’ll be having difficult time racing with the other oh-so-scary lorries and motorists in Pasir Gudang highway. Still, I’m always short of 5-10 minutes and hence, I need to face the cruel and inhumane drivers. Think about it, if I can freeze the time, then things would be different and I believe my cgpa would be 4.0 and I can straight away finish my PhD and I can drive peacefully and I don’t have to rush things and..yeah, many things would be different
Besides, I’m always dreaming to be a “jumper” or Hiro Nakamura so that I can teleport myself wherever I need to. I always have this fantasy whenever I’m stuck in a traffic jam or whenever I got lost and I don’t know how to get home. You see, I’m still a loser in driving and memorizing location. If I had this ability, I don’t have to drive (which is the thing that makes me feel hopeless the most) and I don’t have to top-up the fuel for my car. Filling up the tank with petrol scares me a lot. I’m so worried that the tank might explode. Whenever I have to do this, I would hold the petrol trigger with the tips of my fingers only and I would stand really really far from my tank. Somehow, doing that makes me feels safe.
One more thing, I wish to be able to speak and understand a new language just by listening to people who speak the language..Whoa!!! Give me that! Give me that! I have this fantasy when people use other language to talk about me, thinking that I wouldn’t understand. If I have that ability, I can tell them straight to their face that they are not the only ones who can speak the language. Then, I want to laugh at their surprised faces. Huh!
The other super human ability that I wish for is to eat and binge out without gaining extra unwanted kilos. Sigh~~What kind of wish is that.. I know..Still, I wish I can just eat those carbs and high-calorie elements without causing any harm to my health and having flabby areas here and there. I wish.. I wish…
Then, this morning, I woke up looking at myself in the mirror and all I saw is the same powerless Dia Widyawati
Friday, September 4, 2009
You Got That Talent!!!
Whoaa!!! Marking your drawings is so much fun. I'm very impressed with your funny and crazy artwork. Check this out
now who says bankers and business people can't draw?
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dia Widyawati bt Amat...That's my name
For those who still do not know my name (even though, i've been teaching you for almost 2 months.grrr) my name is as written above. One more thing, i've seen a variety of spellings for my name (T_T). I prefer my name to be spelled as "Dia" and nothing else, mind you (^o^)
So cuppycakes, what's my name again??...
So cuppycakes, what's my name again??...
I'm Completely Cuckoo
I'm drowned in the sea of papers and I'm suffocated now. I got teary eyes and frozen brain andI need a break. Facebook? I'm tired of it. I want to do something passive like...i don't know. I don't feel intelligent. I'm writing gibberish now. I can't even think and it seems like my words are not coming out. They are hiding somewhere,refusing to show themselves. This must be how you feel when I ask you to do writing. Enough, i need my remedy...
super seductive
Why?Oh why? Can i borrow Harry Potter's wand and turn these pictures into real ice cream? Ok Dia, get real and do your work
super seductive
Why?Oh why? Can i borrow Harry Potter's wand and turn these pictures into real ice cream? Ok Dia, get real and do your work
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
answer scheme
At last! I finally published the answer scheme for your previous quiz. I apologize thoroughly for not publishing it earlier. My hands are full nowadays but it shouldn't be an excuse, i know. Anyway, there you go. I hope you're still interested to check your answers and those whom i asked to see me, stop hiding, come to my room immediately. You know who you are!!
PART A
1. “first language” refers to the mother tongue of the speakers or the language that one learns and uses since he or she was born
2. That is because Spanish language and Portuguese language are similar
3. The greater the differences between a speaker’s first language and his or her second language, the more difficult for the speaker to learn the second language
4. Paragraph 4 is about the hardest languages for British diplomats
5. Tabassaran/Caucasian language
6. Hungarian is difficult for the British because it has 35 cases / Hungarian is difficult for the british because of its grammatical complexity
7. That is because different learners have different factors that cause difficulty in learning a second language. While some learners decide a particular language as the most difficult, the others may disagree
8.
a. Connected / related
b. Same / alike / identical
c. Non-native speakers / non-chinese
d. Difficult / complicated / complex
e. Working very hard
PART B
PARTS OF SPEECH
1. Marco Polo - noun
2. City - noun
3. Was – verb
4. Went - verb
5. His - pronoun
6. Them - pronoun
7. Emperor - noun
8. really - adverb
9. diplomatic - adjective
10. important - adjective
11. between – preposition
12. in - preposition
13. down - adverb
14. specifically - adverb
15. farming – noun / gerund
16. of - preposition
17. to - preposition
18. very - adverb
19. and - conjunction
20. almost - adverb
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
1. were
2. have
3. was
4. was
5. makes
6. was
7. have
8. are
9. were
10. were
11. was
12. is
13. are
14. make
15. were
16. drive
17. need
18. swims
19. grows
20. meet
ERROR IDENTIFICATION AND CORRECTION
Jijah is admitted in the hospital because she has food-poisoning. Everyone is worried about her. The university gives her a week off because of her illness. Her best friend and her family think that the days off are for her own benefit but Jijah says that staying in hospital is too boring. All day long, she only sleeps or walks around the hospital. Since neither her friends nor her rabbit is around, she uses her free time to wander around the place. Luckily, the hospital serves good food. Jijah really loves to have bread and butter to kick start her day as well as fish and chips for lunch. The fish and chips is her favourite, besides a bowl of fresh fruit salad. Every day, her nurse, along with Doctor Berahim comes to check her blood pressure. Since Doctor Berahim graduates from Harvard, his English is very good. Unfortunately, Jijah’s Javanese accent is so strong and therefore, the doctor does not understand her whenever she speaks in English. Somebody who speaks good English has to help her.
ADJECTIVES
bolded words - adjectives
italicized words - related noun
There was a poor girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a pot, which when she said, cook, little pot, cook, would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, stop, little pot, it ceased to cook. The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose. Once on a time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, cook, little pot, cook. And it did cook and she ate till she was satisfied, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world, and there was the greatest distress, but no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one house remained, the child came home and just said, stop, little pot, and it stopped and gave up cooking.
PART A
1. “first language” refers to the mother tongue of the speakers or the language that one learns and uses since he or she was born
2. That is because Spanish language and Portuguese language are similar
3. The greater the differences between a speaker’s first language and his or her second language, the more difficult for the speaker to learn the second language
4. Paragraph 4 is about the hardest languages for British diplomats
5. Tabassaran/Caucasian language
6. Hungarian is difficult for the British because it has 35 cases / Hungarian is difficult for the british because of its grammatical complexity
7. That is because different learners have different factors that cause difficulty in learning a second language. While some learners decide a particular language as the most difficult, the others may disagree
8.
a. Connected / related
b. Same / alike / identical
c. Non-native speakers / non-chinese
d. Difficult / complicated / complex
e. Working very hard
PART B
PARTS OF SPEECH
1. Marco Polo - noun
2. City - noun
3. Was – verb
4. Went - verb
5. His - pronoun
6. Them - pronoun
7. Emperor - noun
8. really - adverb
9. diplomatic - adjective
10. important - adjective
11. between – preposition
12. in - preposition
13. down - adverb
14. specifically - adverb
15. farming – noun / gerund
16. of - preposition
17. to - preposition
18. very - adverb
19. and - conjunction
20. almost - adverb
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
1. were
2. have
3. was
4. was
5. makes
6. was
7. have
8. are
9. were
10. were
11. was
12. is
13. are
14. make
15. were
16. drive
17. need
18. swims
19. grows
20. meet
ERROR IDENTIFICATION AND CORRECTION
Jijah is admitted in the hospital because she has food-poisoning. Everyone is worried about her. The university gives her a week off because of her illness. Her best friend and her family think that the days off are for her own benefit but Jijah says that staying in hospital is too boring. All day long, she only sleeps or walks around the hospital. Since neither her friends nor her rabbit is around, she uses her free time to wander around the place. Luckily, the hospital serves good food. Jijah really loves to have bread and butter to kick start her day as well as fish and chips for lunch. The fish and chips is her favourite, besides a bowl of fresh fruit salad. Every day, her nurse, along with Doctor Berahim comes to check her blood pressure. Since Doctor Berahim graduates from Harvard, his English is very good. Unfortunately, Jijah’s Javanese accent is so strong and therefore, the doctor does not understand her whenever she speaks in English. Somebody who speaks good English has to help her.
ADJECTIVES
bolded words - adjectives
italicized words - related noun
There was a poor girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a pot, which when she said, cook, little pot, cook, would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, stop, little pot, it ceased to cook. The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose. Once on a time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, cook, little pot, cook. And it did cook and she ate till she was satisfied, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world, and there was the greatest distress, but no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one house remained, the child came home and just said, stop, little pot, and it stopped and gave up cooking.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Try This
Here are some activities that you can do to express yourselves. Come on people, get in the move and get out of that shell.
Even though i do this activity with D1D2,D1D1 and D1B2, my D1D1 can try this on your own (will you?). Be a little crazy while acting out the scenes.
Now breathe and get in the mood...
Situation 1- What a Day
You had a morning class, gone to the post-office, waited in long lines during the day and you had just finished your night class. You are walking home with a friend and realize it is getting late. A car pulls up and asks if you want a ride. The driver and his friend seem kind and friendly. Your friend is tired and wants to take the ride but you think it's too risky. What do you do?
Situation 2 – The Trip And the Malaysian Idol Wannabe
You are going on a trip with your classmates. You and your friends want to enjoy the scenery and talk but someone in the van you are riding in decides to sing and does so for 15 minutes.. It begins to get on your nerves and you politely ask her to stop, but she doesn't. What will happen next?
Situation 3 – Neighbour Feud
The neighbours - It's 7:00 AM. You were up until 4:00 AM preparing for an important business meeting. You have to give your presentation at 9:30, and you really need another hour or two to sleep. You can't sleep because the person who lives downstairs is playing the drums.
The music students- You and your friends are drummers, and a music major. Today is your senior recital. If you don't play well you can't graduate so you have to practice as much as possible
Situation 4 – Just My Luck
The hallways at college are crowded. You leave class late because you have been talking with the chemistry teacher. You have an appointment with your dentist in less than 10 minutes. You rush out of the classroom door and bump accidentally into a group of students. Books go everywhere; angry words are exchanged. What can you do?
Situation 5 – The Truth Is Out There
You think your spouse is seeing another man/woman. You found some mysterious emails last week (what did they say?), and there are other signs as well (give some examples). You haven’t mentioned any of this to your spouse – you are especially worried that s/he will be angry that you read his/her email. You want to know if you should mention this to your spouse (if so, how should you bring it up?) or if you should wait till you know more (what will you need to wait for? How will you find out more?)
Even though i do this activity with D1D2,D1D1 and D1B2, my D1D1 can try this on your own (will you?). Be a little crazy while acting out the scenes.
Now breathe and get in the mood...
Situation 1- What a Day
You had a morning class, gone to the post-office, waited in long lines during the day and you had just finished your night class. You are walking home with a friend and realize it is getting late. A car pulls up and asks if you want a ride. The driver and his friend seem kind and friendly. Your friend is tired and wants to take the ride but you think it's too risky. What do you do?
Situation 2 – The Trip And the Malaysian Idol Wannabe
You are going on a trip with your classmates. You and your friends want to enjoy the scenery and talk but someone in the van you are riding in decides to sing and does so for 15 minutes.. It begins to get on your nerves and you politely ask her to stop, but she doesn't. What will happen next?
Situation 3 – Neighbour Feud
The neighbours - It's 7:00 AM. You were up until 4:00 AM preparing for an important business meeting. You have to give your presentation at 9:30, and you really need another hour or two to sleep. You can't sleep because the person who lives downstairs is playing the drums.
The music students- You and your friends are drummers, and a music major. Today is your senior recital. If you don't play well you can't graduate so you have to practice as much as possible
Situation 4 – Just My Luck
The hallways at college are crowded. You leave class late because you have been talking with the chemistry teacher. You have an appointment with your dentist in less than 10 minutes. You rush out of the classroom door and bump accidentally into a group of students. Books go everywhere; angry words are exchanged. What can you do?
Situation 5 – The Truth Is Out There
You think your spouse is seeing another man/woman. You found some mysterious emails last week (what did they say?), and there are other signs as well (give some examples). You haven’t mentioned any of this to your spouse – you are especially worried that s/he will be angry that you read his/her email. You want to know if you should mention this to your spouse (if so, how should you bring it up?) or if you should wait till you know more (what will you need to wait for? How will you find out more?)
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