The Two Horns!!!
the world is so not beautiful.
Friday, February 25, 2011
hujung minggu~
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
mengantuk je~~
Monday, January 17, 2011
Coretan hidup di jalan yang bengkang bengkok...
Friday, November 12, 2010
Viva Presentation : battle of the presenter!
The last project of the semester for this subject, was Viva Presentation. In this last presentation, all the student need to sit in groups and present article of their choosing to two groups of panel. The article which the presenter choose come from the first assignment. This is one of the best presentation I’ve ever join.
During the session, the presenter need to present about their article then answer few question from the panels. My group was the second group to present and we all did a really a good job. The best part in the presentation is to be the presenter where you can answered the question by the panels. During that time, the presenter can denied and choose whose question they are going to answer. The power that comes during that short amount of time was precious.
Most of the presenter did a good job while some really excel. I still believed that mu group was the best presenter during The Viva Presentation. To my group members, I am proud of you guys. It was fun and good experience. Credit to the lecturer for coming out with such great idea.
Islamophobia.
The last topic that in learnt in this class was about Islamophobia. The first time I learnt about this was last year in French because of the case of women wearing hijjab. The topic frustrated my mind since I am a muslim and it is related to my brothers and sisters.
After watching the videos of Islamophobia, the video turn out to be a video that condemning the non-muslims which critique the building of mosque at ground zero or the site of 9/11. The news caster, Jon Stewart trying to make fun of the non-muslim politician and he make a really good point where there’s actually a mosque there for more than 40 years. Jon Stewart is actually trying to prove that the act of those politician only to make more and more Americans to hate the muslims. The fact that Jon Stewart is actually a Jew really shock me. From that two videos regarding Islamophobia, I can learn that, truth never lies in fact, it shows stupidity of others.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Euphemism versus Honest & Direct language.
Have you heard about euphemistic language? Probably you do, it just you did not realize it. Nowadays, euphemistic language is widely use because of its soft meaning and its practicality in hiding truth.
Recently, I learnt about it the CL lecture class. Other than euphemism, there also other way to communicate which is by honest and direct language. Well, most people think that honest and direct language is a bit harsh and inappropriate way to communicate since it easily hurt other people feelings and give bad impression about people who used it. During the class, my lecturer showed a video clip about euphemism by late George Carlin. He was a comedian during his life and he likes to make jokes using euphemistic language especially on the American way of living. He also said that being honest is a good way to accept reality rather than lying to their own self. One of his favourite jokes that I liked is when he said that the CIA does not kill people nowadays, they neutral the people.
From my opinion, honest and direct language is much better way of doing communication, but in reality, there are things we should said and things we should not. It is not the matter of being a coward or a chicken, but being a smarter person.