Act 1 scene i
BEATRICE and BENEDICK
I love them so much. I liked the scenes when they quarreled with each other, I thought it was fun~ When I first read the book/play, I kind of guessed that Beatrice and Benedick are gonna get together some point in the story/in the end of the story (´>ω<`) It's sort of typical, (I don't care though, I think they're so cute together), boy and girl fight with each other at first, but came to love each other in the end.
Anyways, I'm not sure what's gonna really happen to Hero and Claudio. When I read the part where Don Pedro was gonna disguise as Claudio to confess to Hero, dee guessed that Hero was going to fall for Don Pedro instead of Claudio. I agreed to this statement (at first). When I watched the movie, I started to change my mind, because they looked so perfect for each otheeerrr. So I don't know.
Bye guys~
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
The Arrival of the Royal (unnamed) Baby
Kate Middleton, the
Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to an 8 pounds, 6 ounces baby boy. The birth
of the currently unnamed royal son of William and his wife, gave Britain a
chance to celebrate as a royal occasion. All information known is that the baby
was born on Monday morning at St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. Many citizens
of England, even tourists, had gathered at Buckingham Palace, waiting for the
news to be delivered.
Monday, 22 July 2013
presentation????
Okay. So today, Jon asked us to make a presentation about the 3 books me and my classmates read in summer. One part was about the plot overview (Jon specifically said to put in what i understood, and not the ones from sparknotes or wikipedia. Well I'm too lazy to even read wikipedia or sparknotes and I understood nothing so haha I'm screwed.) The second part was "How could the novel be understood differently if it was read in a different culture/different time?" <<<< what is this question anyway.
The 3 books I've read were Looking For Alaska by John Green, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, and 1984 by George Orwell. I'm really lost right now. (And I am so scared for IGCSE EFL because I can't even answer a question that Jon gave to us ;_;)
People would have different point of views and thoughts of what they would have read, so I'll spill out what I thought. Looking For Alaska. In this story, the characters loved to prank, and most of the time the prank that they thought of was like "what." I thought that it would be a bit inappropriate for readers that live in a kind of environment where the people around them are "behaved"? is that the right word? Like honestly, I've never experienced being in a kind of environment where people around me are known to prank. No one around me was brave enough to prank the Dean of the school, let alone a teacher. So I was surprised at the characters' actions.
Another would be the whole "smoking and alcohol" scenario. From what I know, people in Indonesia at least, were not allowed to drink alcohol in college (i think.) I mean, Indonesia is kind of a religious country, so we wouldn't be doing that, especially when we're in college. Our culture's different than the western culture.
I've got nothing else so far, so let's move on to the next book, The Lovely Bones. To me, I liked that book. I also liked the fact that it was told from a 14 year old girl (from heaven)'s point of view. She talked about her own kind of heaven, and how she still felt pain and suffering watching her loved ones below on Earth mourn for her. People always told me that heaven is a happy place, and there was now way that you could feel pain and suffering. I'm not a religious person, so I didn't care. But maybe for some other people, the book might be considered as negative and bad. Some might think that the author is questioning aspects of religion, and some might think that it could talk people into reconsidering their beliefs.
This book also had scenes (a scene actually) of rape and murder. Even if the description wasn't that detailed, some might think that it's inappropriate (I don't know any other word to describe this), especially to have this scene in the very first chapter of the book.
Last book I read was 1984. Now this novel, I couldn't quite understand, probably because I wasn't really used to his writing style. It was quite heavy for me (I suck okay.) But I could capture this; the whole setting of the book was in England in 1984. I heard that the author didn't like the British government on how citizens there couldn't keep their privacy, so he wrote this book. When I read this book, I felt like "ohmygod, i can't believe that the characters had to go through this. No privacy? C'mon." I could imagine it, but I couldn't imagine myself actually being in that kind of situation. I just didn't get it. To me, this was absurd. But maybe to some other people, like... I don't know, the people in Singapore maybe (they have cctvs everywhere are you kidding me) would agree to this. They would think that it was the right thing to do. If they did that, then there was no room for anyone to commit even the smallest crime. The world would be at peace (or something like that.)
So yeah, basically that's what I thought of right now. Just my opinion.
Bye guys~
The 3 books I've read were Looking For Alaska by John Green, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, and 1984 by George Orwell. I'm really lost right now. (And I am so scared for IGCSE EFL because I can't even answer a question that Jon gave to us ;_;)
People would have different point of views and thoughts of what they would have read, so I'll spill out what I thought. Looking For Alaska. In this story, the characters loved to prank, and most of the time the prank that they thought of was like "what." I thought that it would be a bit inappropriate for readers that live in a kind of environment where the people around them are "behaved"? is that the right word? Like honestly, I've never experienced being in a kind of environment where people around me are known to prank. No one around me was brave enough to prank the Dean of the school, let alone a teacher. So I was surprised at the characters' actions.
Another would be the whole "smoking and alcohol" scenario. From what I know, people in Indonesia at least, were not allowed to drink alcohol in college (i think.) I mean, Indonesia is kind of a religious country, so we wouldn't be doing that, especially when we're in college. Our culture's different than the western culture.
I've got nothing else so far, so let's move on to the next book, The Lovely Bones. To me, I liked that book. I also liked the fact that it was told from a 14 year old girl (from heaven)'s point of view. She talked about her own kind of heaven, and how she still felt pain and suffering watching her loved ones below on Earth mourn for her. People always told me that heaven is a happy place, and there was now way that you could feel pain and suffering. I'm not a religious person, so I didn't care. But maybe for some other people, the book might be considered as negative and bad. Some might think that the author is questioning aspects of religion, and some might think that it could talk people into reconsidering their beliefs.
This book also had scenes (a scene actually) of rape and murder. Even if the description wasn't that detailed, some might think that it's inappropriate (I don't know any other word to describe this), especially to have this scene in the very first chapter of the book.
Last book I read was 1984. Now this novel, I couldn't quite understand, probably because I wasn't really used to his writing style. It was quite heavy for me (I suck okay.) But I could capture this; the whole setting of the book was in England in 1984. I heard that the author didn't like the British government on how citizens there couldn't keep their privacy, so he wrote this book. When I read this book, I felt like "ohmygod, i can't believe that the characters had to go through this. No privacy? C'mon." I could imagine it, but I couldn't imagine myself actually being in that kind of situation. I just didn't get it. To me, this was absurd. But maybe to some other people, like... I don't know, the people in Singapore maybe (they have cctvs everywhere are you kidding me) would agree to this. They would think that it was the right thing to do. If they did that, then there was no room for anyone to commit even the smallest crime. The world would be at peace (or something like that.)
So yeah, basically that's what I thought of right now. Just my opinion.
Bye guys~
Saturday, 20 July 2013
First English Class
After weeks of holiday, the first week of school finally came.
Yesterday I just had my first English class, and I can say I was pretty nervous. I knew that by the time I got to class, my teacher, Jon, would be explaining about the English IGCSE exams. Turns out before that, Jon had given us random activity to do, which was arranging ourselves into a line based on our names and height (he thought the activity would help us on getting to know each other, but it was nowhere close to that.)
After all of those nonsense (no offense Jon) he showed us a presentation of EFL IGCSE exams. It made me realize that we really needed to focus and cover A LOT this year, and no more fun and games. The first lesson we had was summary writing. He also prepared a presentation for this, and he showed us on how to pick out important key points from a certain article. We had this lesson for years, and I still haven't quite figured out yet on how to summarise properly. Let's just hope by a year of class, I could do better on summarising and do well in the IGCSE exam.
And here is my first homework I have in high school: making a blog. This is my first time, so please go easy on me. Good day to you all~
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