Friday, April 3, 2009

Limericks....

Limericks??? What is that? I never heard it before. And I would like to thank Dr.Edwin for giving us, me in particular to learn about limericks and do a limerick. Last Tuesday, during the replacement class of EDU 3234, we were doing the activity on limericks. And to be honest, that was the first time I ever heard this word. And a limericks is actually a five line poem that is written with one couplet and one triplet. It has the rhyme of a a b b a, and also have different beats and rhyming. It was interesting that Dr. Edwin assigned us to come out with a limericks on our own using the template that are given in the handbook. Me, Nurul Adha, Hazleen, Farhana Syahira and Wadhihah were in the same group. And as we were advice to the limericks that had the sense of humor, so we decided to do a limericks of a clown. Here is our limericks ;

I once met a clown from Siberia.
Everyday he made people laugh like hysteria.
But whenever he broke the law.
The clown ran away on a trishaw.
The strange clumsy clown from Siberia.

I really did appreciate this chance to do the limericks because I got to see us laughing together and giving our so called ridiculous ideas to each other in order to come out with a limericks that will receive good comments from everybody. And yes, I think when I am out for the teaching next year, I will want to use limericks as one of my post reading activities with my students.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

An Evening With Kee Thuan Chye...

Monday March 30, we were so thankful that we had the chance to meet an interesting writer and playwright writer and also an actor, Mr Kee Thuan Chye. Although this meeting was meant for our juniors in the second semester but we also had the privilege to meet him and shared some of his interesting experiences. He did asked us some questions that triggered our thinking caps. Some questions that we had never want to think about. I do not know about other people but as for me, I think there are few questions that i prefer he did not ask the other day. But yes, he has all the right to asked whatever he wanted and we also have all the right whether to respond and to accept it or not. I respect his views of truth and his ideas of it. He also someone that is very creative and keep on changing his work to make it better and acceptable at a certain point of time. Having said all these, I still believe that there are many things that I wanted to ask him. but i just do not have the time to do so. Maybe people can say that I am afraid of speaking my thoughts but I think there is some things that are better to be left unspoken rather than we speak and hurt others.