Saturday, October 6, 2012
What is left...
Such Silence, it's so normal yet nostalgic. Officially done with my Degree and looking ahead. So I signed myself up for another year of crazy. Let the games begin. :)
Monday, May 7, 2012
Completed 4 years of my B.A.
So Finally DONE with my Bachelors Degree. Waiting for the classifications is the next big worry. It's funny how this blog gets updated in the end but not in between the weeks till revision week. But still time flew so fast this semester I could not believe it is over! Soon we'll all part ways, its amazing how quick things happen when you're enjoying yourself, in my terms of enjoying ahem, I mean spending sleepless nights doing assignments and juggling with my A.E, the BIGGEST achievement of my life for now. I am proud of how it turned out even with much skepticism that it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Nevertheless it's done and I was crazy enough to do something that I thought was far fetched at one time.
Also I'm happy to receive a conditional offer to do my MA but sadly not in New Media, apparently I cannot escape English Language and Linguistics. Somewhere in the heavenly skies God and the other spiritual beings are laughing at my dramatic irony moment like some funny revelation that I am stuck with Language specifically English. When I started my journey with my B.A. 4 years ago I had wanted to do a degree in Arts -(Drawing Sculpting and Painting) but due to people saying that it's not recognized blah blah blah, I was forced to drop it, and upon entering uni Art was recognized to no end. Good show -wasn't very pleased though. So here I am again with English Lang. and Linguistics, looks like WE are stuck together - with comments from the classifications. I got my fingers crossed. I'll just go with whatever comes my way, someone already has my life story written but it does not mean I can't still pull a few strings before getting there.
Cheerios. :)
Off to plan and paint my wall with Trees.
Also I'm happy to receive a conditional offer to do my MA but sadly not in New Media, apparently I cannot escape English Language and Linguistics. Somewhere in the heavenly skies God and the other spiritual beings are laughing at my dramatic irony moment like some funny revelation that I am stuck with Language specifically English. When I started my journey with my B.A. 4 years ago I had wanted to do a degree in Arts -(Drawing Sculpting and Painting) but due to people saying that it's not recognized blah blah blah, I was forced to drop it, and upon entering uni Art was recognized to no end. Good show -wasn't very pleased though. So here I am again with English Lang. and Linguistics, looks like WE are stuck together - with comments from the classifications. I got my fingers crossed. I'll just go with whatever comes my way, someone already has my life story written but it does not mean I can't still pull a few strings before getting there.
Cheerios. :)
Off to plan and paint my wall with Trees.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
More baby talk~
Today on my ongoing project day, I met with a friend who I have not seen for months and to my surprise there was a little baby in our group. I asked her whose child it was and she said "mine" I thought she was joking 'cos my other two colleagues were claiming the baby to be theirs (they love babies- now nicknamed baby nappers!) After much chatting and my self thought, the baby is indeed my friend's and her husband was there too. This was hilarious cos I did not know she was expecting nevertheless I congratulated her on the arrival of her lovely little bub. Being a silly person as I tend to be, I asked my friend if the baby was a boy or a girl. My colleague who was 'claiming' the baby said to me "he's wearing blue so baby boy la~" I laughed, why didn't I think of that, stereotyped colours; boys wear blue and girls wear pink. My brain probably just thought "yeah the mum can dress her child in any way and coloursshe wants." Silly me.
Her little bub was an angel, throughout the crazy loud noise(his mum, my colleagues and all of us really are LOUD people) he slept peacefully; he's going on two months and his mum says that the noise keeps him at ease because he knows there's people to keep him company and will be upset if its quiet. I was very impressed at what a mother can assess from her child's behaviour even at just a month and a few weeks after his birth. ( I have yet to know, I haven't had any children of my own yet. My lovely nephews, nieces and students receive my doting.) I find the bond between parent and child very intriguing; and speaking of which her little bub already has a list of god mothers to be in line. The lucky baby, I pray that he grows well and be a well to do human being in the future.
And another thing about toddlers, my friend shared this link which I find hilarious. It's about a father trying to convince his daughter that "dad is better than mum" but his child thinks otherwise.
My internet has been terrible so I can't seem to let the embedded link load at all. Here's the link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWFfDyupGpQ&feature=share
Her little bub was an angel, throughout the crazy loud noise(his mum, my colleagues and all of us really are LOUD people) he slept peacefully; he's going on two months and his mum says that the noise keeps him at ease because he knows there's people to keep him company and will be upset if its quiet. I was very impressed at what a mother can assess from her child's behaviour even at just a month and a few weeks after his birth. ( I have yet to know, I haven't had any children of my own yet. My lovely nephews, nieces and students receive my doting.) I find the bond between parent and child very intriguing; and speaking of which her little bub already has a list of god mothers to be in line. The lucky baby, I pray that he grows well and be a well to do human being in the future.
And another thing about toddlers, my friend shared this link which I find hilarious. It's about a father trying to convince his daughter that "dad is better than mum" but his child thinks otherwise.
My internet has been terrible so I can't seem to let the embedded link load at all. Here's the link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWFfDyupGpQ&feature=share
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Entry 11: Children talk
Two days ago, I went to visit an aunt and having some free time my mum and I decided to stay and have a chat. Much to my delight my lovely nephews were there, they live elsewhere but stay with their grandparents at noon because their parents have work. The older one is 3 and a half years old and goes to JIS in the morning, my younger nephew is going on 2 years and will soon be joining his brother in the same school. Now because my nephews don't see me much they were not familiar with me, so it took a while for them to settle with me. Sam*, my younger nephew just woke from his nap and looked at me with a skeptical face thinking " Who is this person?". He stuck close to his care taker and was afraid of me, funny enough in just 20 minutes he was tapping my leg (I was sitting on the carpet with him) and urged me to play with him. The little angel has yet to learn how to talk, but he understands very well what everyone else is talking about.
I think because we were talking out loud, my older nephew Will* woke up from his nap and came downstairs to see us. My uncle then carried down Will's toy truck with huge Lego like bricks.Will took a seat next to me (he hasn't seen me for some time too) assessed me for a bit and then talked to me. I was surprised, I rarely heard him talk even on family gatherings cos he was shy and here he was telling me about "building houses" and tools like his "spanner" and even let me wear his safety hat after I told him how handsome he looked with it. He kept talking about construction and said "make a hole, let the cement dry and then go Boom, boom!" He was so so cute. At only 3 years old he's already showing what he liked to do, possibly from shows of Bob the builder! and I can't help but notice that all the toys designed for boys are of the construction kind. Let's face it : LEGO, Car Wash and service play toys(the one you build on your own) and also Puzzle type toys. Girls tend to have dolls, kitchen sets, cooking sets, and I was surprised when they even have a kid's sewing machine. such stereotyped toys but the kids loved it anyway, its like they already know that's what they would like to do in the future through the nurturing of toys.
I did find it difficult to find what gift to buy for my niece when she was born last year.Baby toys have to be safe in case of choking hazards and I was not fond of soft furry toys in case it might cause allergic reactions from the dust that collects on it. (Babies put everything in their mouths!).
We'll see if I get to design and make baby friend-lier toys in the future.
(* = nick names )
I think because we were talking out loud, my older nephew Will* woke up from his nap and came downstairs to see us. My uncle then carried down Will's toy truck with huge Lego like bricks.Will took a seat next to me (he hasn't seen me for some time too) assessed me for a bit and then talked to me. I was surprised, I rarely heard him talk even on family gatherings cos he was shy and here he was telling me about "building houses" and tools like his "spanner" and even let me wear his safety hat after I told him how handsome he looked with it. He kept talking about construction and said "make a hole, let the cement dry and then go Boom, boom!" He was so so cute. At only 3 years old he's already showing what he liked to do, possibly from shows of Bob the builder! and I can't help but notice that all the toys designed for boys are of the construction kind. Let's face it : LEGO, Car Wash and service play toys(the one you build on your own) and also Puzzle type toys. Girls tend to have dolls, kitchen sets, cooking sets, and I was surprised when they even have a kid's sewing machine. such stereotyped toys but the kids loved it anyway, its like they already know that's what they would like to do in the future through the nurturing of toys.
I did find it difficult to find what gift to buy for my niece when she was born last year.Baby toys have to be safe in case of choking hazards and I was not fond of soft furry toys in case it might cause allergic reactions from the dust that collects on it. (Babies put everything in their mouths!).
We'll see if I get to design and make baby friend-lier toys in the future.
(* = nick names )
Entry 10: Wikipedia Editing
Making a Wikipedia account was not a first for me. I had created one a few year back but could not even log in.I think its dead now. Funny enough for class we get to make one and edit it as part of our coursework! I find this a fun challenge and still awkward to show all my edits, people are judgemental afterall.
I was more than glad to edit our university page and add in more details about our student affairs section. I used two days for data collection and had about an hour and a half to type and sort the fonts, settings and such. Proud of my work, after plenty of edits, I left it be. After finishing the slides and re polishing them up, I decided to check the wiki article I created if there were any edits by other users,so I can edit it on my slides. The most disheartening thing that happened was that my article page was taken down and I was left in a sad state wanting to cry but did not. I continued to read the deletion policies , why it was deleted and everything which made me upset but also a good learning process.( Honestly I think, I've been directed to odd ways to learn things. whichever works as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.)
I am still appealing for my page to be returned . Hope they reply.
I was more than glad to edit our university page and add in more details about our student affairs section. I used two days for data collection and had about an hour and a half to type and sort the fonts, settings and such. Proud of my work, after plenty of edits, I left it be. After finishing the slides and re polishing them up, I decided to check the wiki article I created if there were any edits by other users,so I can edit it on my slides. The most disheartening thing that happened was that my article page was taken down and I was left in a sad state wanting to cry but did not. I continued to read the deletion policies , why it was deleted and everything which made me upset but also a good learning process.( Honestly I think, I've been directed to odd ways to learn things. whichever works as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.)
I am still appealing for my page to be returned . Hope they reply.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Entry 9: Durian,The King of Fruits.
“A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy...” -British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace describing the taste of a durian, 1856
Randomly my parents decided to have durians and satay for a snack. I'm not a fan of the fruit for a number of reasons. It's a 'heaty' fruit, has a strong odour and tastes chemical- ish. Since its out of the blue I decided to have some, true enough it's chemical like flavours don't really appeal to me but it's once in a while so I couldn't bother.
The thing about the king of fruits are really funny. It's a green fruit with spikes. It takes usually abut 7 to 10 years for the plant to bear fruit, with the help of bats to pollinate it. (We have 2 durian trees which are over 10 years of age, I've been pestering for it to be cut down. Some plants apparently try their best to bear fruit when they are threatened. Probably the same way how some people say that your plants and flowers will grow better when you talk to them. It has yet to bear us any fruit. A durian tree is said to be extremely sensitive, once it is planted on the ground, it must not be moved. The roots are very sensitive and the plant will die if it gets moved too much.) When it is ripe the fruit will drop on its own, it can kill you if it falls on your head. The fruit may come in different colours from yellow, white and reddish pink. It ommits a strong smell that is hard to remove, hence it is banned from most places, especially hotels.
Ok that's facts, now with the funny part about them. Here are some traditional remedies passed down from the times of old.After eating durians, the smell may retain on our hands and having too much can make us unwell. Apparently the remains of the fruit (the husks) can help with the problem. Simply use the husk, but not the spiky part use the insides of it and run water from it to wash your hands, this apparently gets rid of the smell.
Resolving the heaty problem: Use a section of the husk and fill the shallow part with some salt and drinking water. By drinking this concoction it removes the 'heati-ness' from eating the durians.
Do you do the same when you eat durians? How do you get rid of the smell Or possibly you dislike the fruit?
Do share your views if you please. I find durians an awfully weird fruit despite growing up knowing what it is. I still wonder why it's the king of fruits and the mangosteen is the queen. Strange, no?
Quote citation: http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Durian
Randomly my parents decided to have durians and satay for a snack. I'm not a fan of the fruit for a number of reasons. It's a 'heaty' fruit, has a strong odour and tastes chemical- ish. Since its out of the blue I decided to have some, true enough it's chemical like flavours don't really appeal to me but it's once in a while so I couldn't bother.
The thing about the king of fruits are really funny. It's a green fruit with spikes. It takes usually abut 7 to 10 years for the plant to bear fruit, with the help of bats to pollinate it. (We have 2 durian trees which are over 10 years of age, I've been pestering for it to be cut down. Some plants apparently try their best to bear fruit when they are threatened. Probably the same way how some people say that your plants and flowers will grow better when you talk to them. It has yet to bear us any fruit. A durian tree is said to be extremely sensitive, once it is planted on the ground, it must not be moved. The roots are very sensitive and the plant will die if it gets moved too much.) When it is ripe the fruit will drop on its own, it can kill you if it falls on your head. The fruit may come in different colours from yellow, white and reddish pink. It ommits a strong smell that is hard to remove, hence it is banned from most places, especially hotels.
Ok that's facts, now with the funny part about them. Here are some traditional remedies passed down from the times of old.After eating durians, the smell may retain on our hands and having too much can make us unwell. Apparently the remains of the fruit (the husks) can help with the problem. Simply use the husk, but not the spiky part use the insides of it and run water from it to wash your hands, this apparently gets rid of the smell.
Resolving the heaty problem: Use a section of the husk and fill the shallow part with some salt and drinking water. By drinking this concoction it removes the 'heati-ness' from eating the durians.
Do you do the same when you eat durians? How do you get rid of the smell Or possibly you dislike the fruit?
Do share your views if you please. I find durians an awfully weird fruit despite growing up knowing what it is. I still wonder why it's the king of fruits and the mangosteen is the queen. Strange, no?
Quote citation: http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Durian
Entry 8: The AMO Times
I was pretty impressed that there was such a news blog the AMO Times for Brunei's youth by Brunei's youth. And many thought Facebook was one of the ultimate newsfeed other than Twitter. Who knew we had such craziness going on in the virtual world. The team are run by Abdul Malik Omar, founder and CEO of the AMO times.
Interested ? You can also join in to make a change. Info below:
Other than that it's nice to see Blogger finally updated their features on publishing.
Interested ? You can also join in to make a change. Info below:
Other than that it's nice to see Blogger finally updated their features on publishing.
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