13 August2008. diary

I love to read letter. I love to read diaries. It is short and straight to the point. I remember when I was in primary and secondary school, I write diaries. It is my treasure, my property. I write everything in my diary as it becomes my daily life. I do need to write it everyday as if there is something happen. (Include the one I admire, I hate) for me, that is the way to express myself and indeed, that the only way to make my self happy. In the letter that we read from John Keats to Fenny Brawne, we know that he is a sweet and lovely man. How I wish I am his fiancée, then I will get his entire lover letter and that will really drive me crazy. FALL in love with a man who is talented, a man who can write, will be the best thing ever has. WAHAHA (evil laugh)… However, The Andy Warhol Diaries, has the tone of cynical. He knows a lot of celebrity. I love the way he write his diary, straight and simply.

the prison's lesson

11^th August 2008. Our lesson today is about autobiography. “Auto” mean I while “biography” means depict a character’s life. Autobiography mean a person to depict his life and character. It contains reflection and introspection and is in public audience. Our text for today is Robben Island: The Dark Year ( The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela)

Nelson Mandela is a prisoner and has been apartheid to a place which is called Robben Island. He tells us about his prison life and how he deals with all the obstacles he faces in the prison. Robben Island is a big island and like what he say, he has to move from one place to another is like walking to another country. For me, I think reading Autobiography is interesting and entertaining. It sometime provides some knowledge’s of certain places like Robben Island, and that will spice up our curiosity. This may be an interesting topic to teach in class. Miss Dzeelfa wants us to come out with a lesson plan for this autobiography for this story. This can be a very interesting lesson. Students will like to know what will happen next and what obstacles they face. We can ask students to find out what they kind of obstacles that they are facing and we can also ask them to arrange the events according to the story chronologically. Drawing comics’ strips and writing a poem can be students’ post- reading activities. Asides from that, students can figure out how to fight for their freedom, how to design a plan to escape from the island, are the activities that can be carried out in the post reading activities.

The minority group...

Last week was a memorable day in my life. Classes were cancelled and we were asked to RUN to safe our life due to the horrible H1N1 virus. Commuter station was flooded. Bus was like a tin of sardine fish and peoples were like refugees carrying big bags running out from the campus. Today 6^th August, our tutorial session was about ethnic minority groups – the blacks and the red Indian. Talk about the term "minority group", it often occurs alongside a discourse of the rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. Peoples prone to have different treatment and discrimination may directly perceived by individual in a minority group. Langston Hughes was a black American poet or writer and he has a lot of great story of how his own people discriminate by the whites and he is the main character of our discussion today. But why do people discriminate others races? Their skin colour? Their attire, culture? Or their language?

It is an unfortunate situation when you are facing this circumstance. Most of the human population is drawn to its own race and language and cultural upbringing. It is in a human’s nature to be this way. Lets say you were raised solely by a white family, then you will respect all the white culture, but one day you moved to a different black neighborhood where no one knew you, you are in trouble because you don't have the same skin color, you would be considered offensive and appear to be mocking the black race. It would be the same if vice versa.

The same goes to Malaysia. Malaysia is a multicultural country where peoples hand in hand and stay together harmonically. Yes, we are lucky to be in Malaysia. However, when you come to a class, you will see people sitting in different group in their own ethnic. That is the culture of human being. White discriminate the black and the black will discriminate the white. Even the Red Indian has been discriminate by the white or the black. I do think that these are driven by the ancestor. What they did serve a very enormous impact for us. Get rid of the old history that happen in the pass, I think they cant respect each others as it will still be the same after hundred years.