MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

*singing*

i'm dreaming of a white Christmas....with every Christmas card i write....



this is my favourite Christmas song and i'll even sing it when it's not Christmas time.

it gives me a sense of joy..



now we r coming to the end of the year, i would always call this the time of sentimental because this is the time we will review back all the things we've done thoughout the year. this is also the time where we will slow things down n' reflect on our thoughts.



to all my students, have a blessed Christmas.

always remember to count your blessings

keep in touch! i m blessed to have all of u as my dearest students.

LOVE YOU ALL :) *HUGS*

good news for u guys!!!

hi guys,

i hav a good news for u all, especially JB guys~

YES933 FM (internet radio)com back to internet again!!!

tat means we can online n hear radio again!!!

I'm very pleased to hear it~

At JB, most ppl(especially student) prefer YES933 than others chinese FM radio.

So, listening YES933 at KL feels like i'm staying at hometown,JB~

If u dun know YES933 FM,

nvm i introduce to u.

YES933FM is a No.1 chinese FM radio in Singapore.

It playnew release songs frequently and DJs' style are very diferrent from M'sia.

let's try it >>>>> http://www.yes933.sg/

Final Week (Sept - Dec 2009)

Dear all, Please note that this week will be the exam week. Do check eAdvantage for the final exam time table. For EF group 8 & 9, should you DO NOT want to come for Tuesday (1 Dec 2009) revision class, you may come on Monday (30 Nov 2009). Monday CG01 2pm-3.30pm Tuesday CG02 2pm-3.30pm I'll be checking the marks with you on both the days before submitting to Ms. Arlini. I'll also post the marks on the notice board outside English Department on Monday. Please see me if there's any error for your grade. Thanks.

2012 2012 2012

Since the opening on Thursday, 2012 has received very good response from the public.

Although having many halls, the tickets were mostly sold out.

To avoid disappointment, I am volunteering to buy the tickets the day before we go for the movie.

Please confirm with me your participation in this movie.

I'll need $$$ and your student ID to purchase the tickets.

Please see me in the office on Monday.

Or Option 2, someone buy it on that day before we go.

Any other suggestions??

Former EF students are also encouraged to join if you are free on Tuesday :)

Die Die Die

Sei lo,Jenny wants i participate her blog,but i don't know want to post what kind of thing. And hor, participation carrys 5 % le..~~~~

2012

Dear all,

Please be reminded that next Tuesday (17th November 2009) will be the 2012 Movie Day for EF classes.

We will meet in Mid Valley at about 5.30pm cos' my class will finish at 5pm.

But you guys can go there earlier if you wanna go shopping.

Yesterday when I went, the cinema was not packed n' I think we should be able to get the tickets even if we buy it on the spot next Tuesday.

By the way, The Time Traveller's Wife is romantic :) For those who are into slow romantic movie, go for this one :) It's definitely better than Benjamin Button.

For transportation, I will be driving Jiayie n' gang. Yuin Teng will go the the other girls. N' Ahmad will pick up Teddy n' gang. N' i suppose Looloo n' gang has no problem going as well rite?

Whoever who doesn't have a transport or not sure how to go, please let us know so that we can arrange transport a.s.a.p.

THANKS :)

Dates for Movie Review

Dear awesome students,

In order not to waste time, I suggest that we watch the movie next weekend.

My suggestion is next Saturday (14th Nov) or Sunday (15th Nov).

Saturday I'll be available in the late afternoon unless you guys wanna go all the way to One Utama.

Sunday I'll be free whole day.

Please let me know the dates so that we can buy the tickets earlier to avoid the long queue or out of tickets situation.

Thanks.

Movie Review

Upcoming event will the Movie Review we are supposed to do as part of the classroom activities & participation.

As I need to replace the classes that I canceled during the Hari Raya week, I shall replace it with a movie since we will have 3 hours.

I've previously suggested a movie in the Auditorium, but looks like all my energetic students can't wait to go out from the campus.

Well, upon majority request, we shall watch the movie 2012 in cinema.

Please feedback on which day and what time would you guys like to go.

If possible, please choose a day which is not your class hour because this is supposed to be a replacement activity.

I am not available for upcoming Fridays and weekends. Other timeslots are welcomed :)

Please post your suggestions here.

Thanks.

Power Outage...

hmmmm....tomoro's gonna b the power outage...

actually i'm quite looking fwd towards it..bcos i wanna feel n c how it looks like...

but to think of it, it's really something bad...

bcos everything we do, we need electricity..

for me, i can go without online, without my laptop, without air con...all these things r not my main concern in life.....

but thinking of the elevator...the water dispenser...the kettle...

n' plus i need to work...life in office without air con with those window close...can b miserable..

besides that, i can't go shopping bcos anywhere nearer is having outage as well...

no atm if i don have enuf money...can't go out to eat bcos the restaurant will b stuffy...

altho' everyone muz b feeling happy as classes canceled...

even i can live without air con...but i think there's so much of things that i need to consider..

hmmm....

tonite, gotta make sure that my ipod is full, hp batt is full, laptop batt is also full...so that i can play games if i wanna b skive from assgn again..

again, i'm wondering..will my touch n' go card works tomoro? since there's not gonna b any electricity...

how do u feel abt this?

22Oct PowerCut

Power cut on 22Oct2009(8am~7:30pm).
UCSI,Tmn connaught,......dun hav electric.
haha,dun nid go to school liao~

Please contact TNB's tel:15454 for more details...

http://mykampung.sinchew.com.my/node/80319?tid=6

國能進行維修‧22日蕉賴多區停電
雪隆 2009-10-18 12:30
（雪蘭莪‧八打靈再也）國能將於蕉賴進行維修工作，因此蕉賴多個地區將於10月22日，早上8時至晚上7時30分或將面臨停電。
對於停電引起的不便，國能向公眾致歉，欲知更多詳情，可聯絡國能熱線15454。
預料停電的地區如下：
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sushi sushi sushi...

i had a great sushi time! thanks to my 5 students :)

i was a bit sad because christine couldn't make it :'(

i hope next time we can all go out together and have fun...

take pictures and get crazy together... *LOL*

other students, please feel free to organize outing. let's make EF fun!

blog authors...

kepada semua pelajar yang disayangi....

if you can see the "contributors" section on the right side of this blog, and your name is listed there, that means you are officially the author of this blog.
i've sent invitations to everyone but only one or two responded..
i suppose the invitation has been sent to your "junk mail" or "spam"..
please check and approve the invitation because i still have a lot of pending invitations here.

sekian terima kasih

continuation of clauses...

Practically, there are 2 main types of clauses: dependent clause & independent clause.

Independent clause can stand as a sentence because it doesn't need to rely on another part of sentence. For e.g. I love Justin Timberlake.

Dependent clause need to rely on certain words because of the existence of words like if, because, since, although....

There are 3 types of dependent clauses: Noun clause, Adjective Clause, Adverb Clause.

Noun clause & adjective clause look similar because they consist of words like what, that, which, whatever, whichever, whoever...

One main difference about these two is:

a) noun clause is used "subject" or "object" of the sentence.

For example,

Whatever I did is none of your business. (as subject)

I don't care whatever you want to do. (as object)

b) adjective clause is used to describe the "things" mentioned in the sentence.

For example,

The girl, who was my ex-girlfriend, is going out with Benny now. (ex-girlfriend describing the girl)

The dress, which Jiayie is wearing, is beautiful. (what Jiayie is wearing describing the dress)

Here comes Chan Tong, who is the winner of Malaysia Idol. (winner of Malaysian Idol describing Chan Tong).

Adjective Clause is even easier because it has "funny funny" words like as, since, although, because ....

so...if you come across these funny words, the first thing that comes to your mind should be adverb clause!!!

okay...that's about it. Hope you guys can understand this short explanation :)

phrases & clauses: confused?

Dear all,

This week we've talked about Phrases & Clauses.

Well, I was a bit scared because of all the confusing faces in class when I talked about them.

It was as if everyone's jaws were almost dropping.

Hmmm....

Actually, they aren't something very hard. It's a bit confusing at first. But once you get the concept right, everything will fall into place. Trust me.

And by the way, I won't be going in depth for these topics because you aren't exactly gonna use it unless you are really interested in it or you wanna become a teacher in future.

So, this is just something extra to be added in your knowledge.

Therefore, be relaxed.

The past semester's students were extremely experts in these 2 topics.

I think it'll be good to go through the exercise and from there, you can actually see how the pattern goes.

So before, signing off, I shall make a quick revision for these 2 topics, at least to get them stuck in your head for this weekend :)

PHRASES:

- group of words without subject / without predicate / without both

- 3 types :

• appositive phrase: to give extra information / description about an object

e.g: Jenny, my English Foundation teacher, is a kind-hearted person. (:P)

• prepositional phrase: a phrase which contains a preposition in its beginning

e.g: I saw Jenny walking along the beach.

• verbal phrases: gerund phrase, participial phrase, infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase: a phrase which contains a gerund in its beginning

e.g: Travelling around the world has always been Jenny's dream.

(note that travelling around the world is used as the subject of the sentence)

• participial phrase: a phrase which contains a participle in its beginning

e.g: Travelling around the world, the dream which Jenny always fascinates about.

(note that travelling around the world refers directly to 'the dream'. there's always an

object right in front or after the participle)

• infinitive phrase: a phrase which contains infinitive in its beginning (to + verb)

e.g: To travel around the world has always been Jenny's dream.

• verb phrase: usually contain words like "may be", "have been", "shall be", "must be" ....

Dear babies, my head also going burst with this, I hope this short revision will help to have a clearer idea of what phrases are. I'll continue the clauses tomorrow in another entry.

Take care :)

Have a good night :)

-jen-

The life full of assignment..OMG ^^

Assignment!assignment assignment!
Before i start my college life,i heard that all my friends which already started their college all complain bout many assignment,when they tell me i juz say college sure like this, just do your best! Gambateh^^haha..because i dunoe how they feel,stress?happy?or busy everyday~i have no idea XD

As the time passing,so fast, has been one month i started my college,and finally i knew that what my friends's feeling.Just finish some test,now is the great time for me to start my assignment.

Ok let me introduce my 3 aasignment to you guys.

Subject : English Foundation
Title : Slimming (Choose and agree by all the group member)
Submit date :1st week of Nov

Im not so worry bout this assignment because everyweek we nid to pass up our draft to our Miss Jenny, and after she give it back to us,we can start out writing.Honestly i super like the way she teach,got her own style,and i thnk we wun be so last minute for this assignment because of her that nid us pass her the draft every friday.

Subject : Chemistry
Title : Related to chemistry and beauty,but our group hvn knows wat title shud we pick
Submit date : 15th Oct

Subject : Computing Essential
Title :??
Submit date : 29th November


I quiet worry bout this 2 assignment,because lecture nvr tell anythng for this 2 assignment. For chemistry we nid to create a poster wif the title .......(hvn discuss wat title shud we take),wat we know is the title shud related to chemistry and beauty..anyone hav some best idea?? Anywhere,hope that wun so last minutes,atleast can finish few days before the submit date..^^

A Quick Update for October :)

Dear fantastic students,

October is here! How fast time flies.

Well, we are done with test and also some other little stuff, so it's time for the real & dry work..

LOL..

Starting from this week, we are gonna do a lot of technical stuff like phrases & clauses, sentences, paragraphs & essay..

So, all of you must be able to produce good pieces of essay! Yup, it's compulsory.

After that, we shall continue with more relaxed stuff like movie review, presentation and text analysis.

So, I suppose looking at visual or listening to songs in classroom is definitely better than me "singing" in the classroom. LOL

The previous posted blog is the deadline for the submission of work. I'll be giving you a piece of checklist as well to keep track of your progress. So, that makes life easier for you and I.

Lastly, before I sign off, just want to remind that Friday is the submission of lyrics analysis.

Alright, see you peeps in class.

*nitenite*

DEADlines.....

Description	Dates
Test	30th September / 1st October 2009
Mid Term	19th / 20th October 2009
Term Paper Writing Outline Draft 1 Draft 2 Draft 3 Final Submission	2nd October 2009 9th October 2009 16th October 2009 23rd October 2009 9th / 10th November 2009
Oral Presentation	16th / 17th November 2009
Blog Participation	30th November 2009
Lyrics Analysis	9th October 2009
Movie Review	30th October 2009
Text Analysis	27th November 2009
Revision Final Examination	30th November / 1st December 2009 3rd December 2009

Quiz Bee Canceled....

Dear wonderful students,

I'm sad to announce that the Quiz Bee that is to be held this Friday 11am is canceled.

Apparently, there's some time classes with the English Language Society schedule.

So, I won't be choosing any participants this time round.

However, I hope that next time we can all join such activities :)

Take care :)

Alonso to replace Raikkonen at Ferrari in 2010

Ferrari finally confirmed on Wednesday that Fernando Alonso will race for the team next season, replacing Kimi Raikkonen as Felipe Massa’s team mate. Giancarlo Fischella will continue in the role of reserve driver.

Alonso, who has spent the bulk of his Formula One career with Renault, has signed a three-year agreement with Ferrari, starting in 2010.

Alonso made his Formula One debut in 2001 with Minardi, before becoming Renault’s official test driver the following season. In 2003 he was promoted to a race seat and became F1 racing’s youngest Grand Prix winner with victory. By the end of 2005 he was also its youngest champion.

He successfully defended his title in 2006, fending off a resurgent Michael Schumacher in the latter half of the season, before taking his number one with him to McLaren for 2007, where he endured a tempestuous year alongside Lewis Hamilton.

Alonso returned to Renault for 2008, scoring two race wins, despite a less than competitive car. This season the team have been off the pace once more, with the Spaniard taking just one podium to date, at the last round in Singapore.

Raikkonen has yet to confirm his plans for 2010.

copied from:http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/9/10015.html

wohoo
Finally see he drive Ferrari !!!
Next year,i wan go to sepang watch F1.Who wants to go with me?

English Week: Quiz Bee

Dear wonderful students,

English week will be held from 7th to 9th October 2009 (which is next week).

There will be a Quiz Bee ("cousin of spelling bee"....LOL).

I will choose students to participate in this event.

Before I start pointing at anyone, please let me know if you are interested.

I'll announce about the time and place when I get the instructions from the Head of Dept.

Please participate.

p/s: former students, you are encouraged to join as well. come n' have fun too :)

test is here!

Dear students,

We'll have our first test (10%) this coming Wednesday & Thursday (30th Sept & 1st Oct 2009).

Focus on Verbs & Tenses and those things that we revised in class.

Good Luck to everyone :)

KAMBATE!!!!

Checking out my dear students....

Dear beloved students,

How has everyone been doing? Regarding my 5 assignments, I only managed to do 1 and that 1 also not 100% complete. LOL...

Anyway, this blog looks kinda quiet. Newbies don't be shy. This is supposedly a place for everyone to share thoughts.

How was the Hari Raya holiday for everyone? School has started after merely 2 days of holiday but for short semester's students, at least you've November & December to rest (if you're not doing the Co-Op).

Any progress for the term paper writing? I don't expect you to start writing but at least have an idea of which topic to do so for the coming weeks, things will fall into places easily.

After this holiday, the next resting time for me will be November when my finals are over. Then I'll be busy with YOUR final exams on December. Muahahahahaha......

By the way, all of you can post entry to this blog. Please don't let me do the talking all the time. If you do come across good articles or informative resourse, please feel free to blog it here so that everyone can give their feedback about it.

And, the comments that you people posted is very very very very funny. How come everyone must write 1, 2, 3 for each question that I asked? You don't need to answer in number form. You can answer like an essay or short paragraph. Don't be too rigid or feel scare about it. My purpose is to let my students have the freedom of speech. If you are too inflexible, it defeats my purpose of this blog.

Well, before I end this blog, I shall have a little interrogation.

1. What have you done during this Hari Raya holiday?

2. Any interesting things that you encountered or saw during the holiday?

3. Any particular things would you like to do in EF class when the lesson starts next week?

Alright, I shall sign off now. Will try to keep this blog updated but connection in JB is quite bad :)

See you :)

INSOMNIACS!!!!

Dear students,

Today was an exciting day because holiday is here!

But my holiday will be accompanied by 5 assignments!!

I hope I can finish them within a week's time then I can concentrate on my final exams which will start on 2nd November 2009.

Bet all of you didn't expect that your teacher's life here is also full of assignments! LOL

Now you know why I chose the article about insomnia to discuss.

But apparently, no one in the class has problems with sleeping. Only me, it seems.

Oooohh.....nightmare about assignments!!!!! >.<

Well, this week has been a pretty easy week. Not too much of drillings and not too much of theory.

We've come to an end of Parts of Speech and also Verbs & Tenses.

We've also covered a bit of Term Paper writing.

However, term paper is a longer term project. So basically, we'll do it in parts.

Please don't be worried about what and how to write because that's the purpose of having drafts.

For every draft you submit, I'll tell you whether you are on the right track or not. :)

I suppose many of you haven't think of a specific topic to do for your term paper.

You have a week to think before finalizing with me the week after holiday.

No abortion, no pollution, no child abuse, No AIDS.

Other than these topics, you are free to choose any social issues.

I'm pretty excited about this assignment, because some groups had really interesting ideas.

I'm looking forward for the presentation and I'm positive that everyone will do good.

EF seniors, maybe you can post some ideas and share with the current students.

Before we end this week, let's refresh on some things we've done in class.

1. Verbs & Tenses, are they clear? Work on the exercises and we'll discuss it when we're back on action.

2. Insomnia, anything that you wanna share about this topic? I think the article is pretty informative. Not too lengthy, a very good start for reading. :)

3. Term paper writing, just another writing assignment? maybe and maybe not. Think about how you can expand your creativity and thinking skills through this assignment. It'll help you to look at things from another perspectives.

Alrite, I shall end here.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! but do drop by when you are online. I might drop one or two entries here. Just to make sure you're constantly participating...teeeheee....

*TAKE CARE*

Bloggers needed URGENTLY!

To all my wonderful students,

I am currently working on a project which relates to blogging.

I would like to invite you to be part of my project.

All you need to do is to give me your blog address and I'll do the rest :)

If you are a blogger, who blogs frequently in English, listen here... I WANT YOU!

*LOL*

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks :)

Verbs & Tenses

Hi everyone,

I'm kinda excited because the Hari Raya holiday is coming soon.

That means I don't need to go to the office.

However, during this festive season, I need to work out 5 assignments for myself.

That's kinda horrible, isn't it?

But....I'll try my best and work hard to finish it.

I hope everyone will do the same and get a good result for EF.

For today, I've covered on the topic Verbs & Tenses and basically, they are really easy stuff.

Like what I've repeated and emphasized in the class, these are not hard at all. And I'm not really afraid of the students not understanding it but somehow, when students write essays, they tend to mix up the tenses. Despite that, I am sure everyone will do good for it.

For last discussion, not many people posted their thoughts but it'll be really good if everyone tries to give some feedback to it, as a way to refresh your mind about what was being taught in class and also some kind of fast revision you do it through online.

Before we go into the next topic, please let me know your thoughts about these questions.

1. What are verbs & tenses to you?

2. Why do you think they are important in writing?

3. By now, can you differentiate all types of tenses?

Thanks for the "correction".

This entry is specially in respond to the comment that was posted by one of the EF students but I'm not sure who was that.

In my previous entry, first paragraph line 5, I wrote

"You must thanking God that you don't need to see Ms. Monster...haha..."

and that was supposedly a typo error.

What I really meant was...

"You must BE thanking God that you don't need to see Ms. Monster...haha..."

Thanks to this very intelligent student, he / she managed to spot the error and posted a very valuable feedback as follows.

mammad said...

OMG!
You must thanking God or must thank!
can u speak English?!

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 10:01 PM

I must say that this student is a very attentive mistake detector. I'm sure if the exams are on grammar (specifically tenses) he / she must be able to score 100%.

Applause to him! *claps*

end of Week 2 :)

Woohoo...

Weekends are coming so I'm pretty excited :)

I suppose everyone is excited as well...but next week will be even more exciting since we are gonna have more holidays...and plus my class cancellation, so everyone has a week off for EF.

You must BE thanking God that you don't need to see Ms. Monster...haha...

This week the EF classes managed to finish the Parts of Speech and continued moving on the Verbs & Tenses. In the next week, we'll discuss in detail about Tenses (past, present & future) but those are all easy stuff. So, there's nothing to worry about :)

Today, Soroush (an EF3 student) shared about Backgammon (a game) and I really had fun watching my students playing the game. The rules were a bit complicated but 2 students managed to try their hands on this game. I think it's pretty cool because this game requires a lot of thinking skills and I think it really helps our brain to work-out..

Anyway, before ending this week, I would like to recap on things that we've done for this week as well as the previous week. Please ponder on some questions below and let me know your thoughts :)

1. What are parts of speech to you?

2. What do you understand about parts of speech?

3. In your opinion, are they important? Why?

4. How about verbs & tenses? Passive, active, singular, plural - are they driving you crazy as well?

Feel free to also post about your thoughts about this week's class. How was the lecture and also the activity? What other things or improvements would you like to see in the class?

p/s: my beloved babies are also welcomed to join in this discussion. since you learnt all these, i suppose you haven't "return" all the knowledge to me...LOL

*have a good weekend :)*

A Welcome Note for Sept-Dec 2009 EF Students

Dear newcomers,

Welcome to creativethinkers@work!

This blog is specially created for all the students who are attending English Foundation (EF) with me.

The reason I set up this blog is to encourage to "speak out". In my teaching years, I've encountered many students who are quiet in class. Maybe they are shy. Through this blog, I hope that all students are able to share ideas, express their thoughts as well as to get to know their peers in the EF classes. You might not share the same group, but through here, everyone is a part of the big EF family.

The first main purpose of this blog is to get everyone together and have fun! Not forgetting the serious stuff, we'll also be having more discussions, doing revision for test, mid term & assignment. From time to time, I'll post classroom announcements here for in-class and out-of-classroom activities.

You'll also find your "seniors" (former students of EF) here. I hope by having to know more friends in college, your college life will be more wonderful and of course, each of you can help to "look out" for each other. (For e.g, you have problems with some subjects which some of the other students have taken, they may be able to offer help to you.) Doesn't that just sound nice?

I love interacting with people and I hope by the end of semester (or at least through this blog), you are able to know each other well, whether or not you are from the same or different group, same or different semester.

Making new friends and sharing new experience are part of college life. Therefore, make your college life interesting and don't follow to the traditional "in-the-classroom" teaching and learning styles.

For this semester, participation in this blog will be part of your classroom assessment. Your participation will help you to earn 5% of the total marks in EF.

For your information, I'll be making all the EF students to be the author of this blog. I hope I won't be the only one who posts the entries. Please post some discussions here, and the others will join in the talk by giving feedbacks.

To newcomers: HAVE FUN BlOGGING!

To former students: Babies, stay put in this blog! Don't you dare to abandon this site!! Continue to show support by posting discussions, organizing outings and crazy-ing together!!!