The Letters Crusade

Discover the boy you never knew.


Sunday, November 15, 2009

Dictionary

Look, I gotta make sure my blog alive every week!!



Last 2 weeks, I went to Midvalley to watched Michael Jackson's This Is It. Well, of course I have already blogged about how wonderful the film is. But there's one more important thing happened on that day.


I bought my 1st English dictionary!!



Talking about dictionary, I came across our very own popular Malay dictionary, Kamus Dewan And its already come out with its fourth edition! But there's something really wrong about the cover. I don't know if it is just me, or it looks like a Chinese New Year's Red Packets Collection Album.



DAMN RED.



Again. Talking about dictionary reminds me of when I was in primary school. My Chinese tuition teacher used to teach us the Art of Wind. That is, we were trained to find respective words in the Chinese dictionary as fast as we can. Every Chinese words have their own 部首, and we could memorize almost all of their page numbers respectively. We were like a biotic search engine. No joke. We even have competition sometimes to ensure that our engine is not rusty.

Ok, back to the English dictionary that I've just bought. As far as I'm concerned, English is more likely to overshadow both Malay and Chinese in near future. Yet, our Maths and Science are reverting from English and to be taught in Malay in secondary school. Malaysia Boleh.



By having a English dictionary as a companion during my tertiary education is indeed a big help. Seriously, IELTS (International English Language Test System) is no joke. At first, I thought blogging might be helpful in improving my English. Yes, it is helpful. For a bit. IELTS writing test is about academic writing. Its totally different from blog writing because when you are viewing my entry now, you imagine me speaking out the words.

And now only I know how shallow my vocabulary is, that sometimes I need to think ages to squeezed out a suitable word to use (happens when blogging too!!) and having problem forming a well organised sentence. (that's why I might spend 2 hour to finish a long entry) I need to improve my vocab bank seriously. So, i decided to "hire" 'The teacher who don't speak.' (direct translate from a Chinese phrase which means dictionary)



Shadaaaap~


Do not underestimate this flat chubby fella, he offers not only the deepest knowledge. When you get frustrated of learning bloody English, you can just smash him like a punchbag to release your stress!!






He's TOUGH!!





Let's say you study like mad and your stomach calls for help. Worry no more, you can study and eat on the go with him.








Eating trees (paper) is the one of the main source of energy for the ancient people what.




And by the time, you feel sleepy after reading 145324 of sample essays, you can just lie your head on him and have a good night sleep.










Now, that's what we called a multi-purposed dictionary!



Have a nice day folks, because Monday blues is on its way!! =)

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Of Decor

Yesterday, me and Dao Zhen went to the boy's student house to start off our big project!! Decoration for the coming Gala Night on 21st November. People say, first impression is freaking important. So, we decided to bombard our guest with astonishing breathtaking panoramic views. And of course with low budget. Money is still the most important part to consider of. We don't want to have an amazing decoration but sucky food. After all, people go there to EAT!!

I had to sacrifice my long Friday midnight, sleeping at 12.30am. O M F G. Woke up at 7.30am on Saturday like I'm going to morning class. FML. Thanks to Muiz (course mate, my hostel neighbour), we don't have to walk to the maze-like student house under the bloody hot sun. He fetched us to our destination in a blink of eye!

Upon arrival, we started off planning what the hell we wanna draw on four freaking big cloth. (We are doing a four seasons theme, so basically everything we need to do is times FOUR!!) Then we started our work with half empty stomach, some's completely empty. Thankfully, David (course mate) rode his bike and go tapao for us. Thanks man! And when David came back with a bag of polystyrene meal boxes, we ended up like those construction workers, having time out and faster go and grab our meal and eat it!!

Ahhh~Talking about decoration, it reminds me again the time when I was in Form 4. In my school, there's the "tradition" that we need to decorate our house camp with blood, sweat, time, soul and money during the annual Sport's Day. Every house will work their very best to decorate their camp respectively. I mean VERY BEST!! Indirectly, we became decoration slaves. I kid you not, some even worked till 2am++ and for several nights. C R A Z Y.

So, during our ruling year (Form 5). We want to abolish this bloody tradition. We ended up putting balloons only onto the camp. The only difference is the colour of the balloons, according to the colour of respective houses. Here goes the record breaking by us again. After the Sport's Day, all the house captain were being called by you-know-who and were threaten to stamp E on their co-curriculum performance. I couldn't calculate for how many times this you-know-who had tried to use the overrating KK to "kill" students. In the end, the case was solved and all of them are now alive and kicking!!

Alright, back to the present. After finished painting, we had dinner at the girl's student house situated at almost the other end of that row. Oh, sorry but I cannot upload the pictures of our paintings to avoid any spoilers!!

The day after is Kah Wai's birthday, so we planned to celebrate it that night. We set up something great to give him a surprise when he came to the girl's student house.






The Legal Number. It was actually made with candle light!



We eat and chat which we seldom do it in our college. I don't know why. But who cares? All of us had a great night.

That night ended with David fetching me back to my hostel with his bike. I had a wonderful opportunity to experience the amazing night breeze with little rain drops on me. Thanks mate!



Last but not least,


Happy Birthday Kah Wai~!!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Discover The Man You Never Knew.

Alright, this is it!!

Yesterday, me and my friends went to Mid Valley to catch a glimpse of Michael Jackson. (OMG!! MJ is still alive!?) To be exact, we are going to watch Michael Jackson's This Is It.







I particularly like the quote above, "Discover the man you never knew." I mean seriously, after I watched that movie, I was so ashamed that I actually not really know him well. I think it all happened the same to all his fans. We always idolize superstars on their stage performance but how many of us actually care what happen after our idol leaves the stage?

Even though there are entertainment news and celebrity gossips going on every day, but you can never tell which is true and which is fake. Its existence is merely to feed people's curiosity about celebrities life, but most of them are of negative stuff. Normally, in a newspaper page, negative news will occupy 80% of the whole page, while the good news appear as a small small part only...


*Spoiler Warning*


In this film Michael Jackson's This Is It, features the juices of the rehearsal, the making of and also the thoughts from the crew towards MJ. During the whole rehearsal, Michael had gave his best effort performing even though he is at his fifty's already. It's hard to believe that there is no significant drop in his dancing skills after retiring from the front stage for so many years. But believe it!! He is the King of Pop.


Who say superstar must have "superstar" attitude? I really admires how Michael conducts the whole performance. He is really keen and sensitive at every tone, melody and step. Professional. He would not be frustrated when the crew doesn't meet his expectation, instead he teaches and guides them one by one until he satisfies the result. The way he speaks, O M G. Its soooo freaking soft and very gentle. Sometimes, he will do something silly and funny during the rehearsal which made all of us, the audience laugh. I never knew that he is such a playful person, like a boy. =)

Finally, after every session of rehearsal, he will always pray for his crew, "God bless you all~" So, even all the crew were exhausted after a day long of practising, hearing a pray from their idol would definitely erased out their tiredness and felt grateful of having chance to work with the legend.


After watching this movie, I felt a kind of satisfaction. I've the chance to discover the things that I most probably wouldn't know for the rest of my life....



The truest Michael Jackson~



Love lives forever~