Showing posts with label just english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label just english. Show all posts

Friday, October 15, 2010

How to master in English

di tulis oleh norashikin rahmat pada Friday, October 15, 2010 2 komen best
I am not a master in English, nor a mistress. hahaha. :D

Just, I want to share a bit on how to be able to at least write a letter and speak. I first start my interest to speak English after reading an English novel.


  1. Start reading simple English story book, its okay if its just a kid's story book. Enjoy the story, and you absolutely will want to know how the English word describing the story. In the same time, it will enhance your vocabulary.
  2. Befriend with dictionary. Dictionary is big and heavy, right? So, try pocket thesaurus. Or, just buy BESTA electronic dictionary costs at RM500, small and mobile. Easy handling, so no need to bring big dict anymore.
  3. Try to translate your favourite English song.
  4. Speak English with your friends. 
  5. Sing English
  6. Write blog in English
etc.. I will be having a writing test this Tuesday. And, last Tuesday, I get an easy topic for my impromptu speech: "My favourite novel". Alhamdulillah, I can present well (not really very well, just at average). good luck, girl!

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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Remembering one's name

di tulis oleh norashikin rahmat pada Wednesday, October 06, 2010 0 komen best
I am a truly forgetful girl. I remember once when I was in matriculation, my English Lecturer, Sir Liew always labelled me 'an old auntie'. This is because I am a BIG careless, lousy, and forgetful. I used to have a short term memory.

I ever read an article about short term and long term memory. Usually the information that is not really useful we keep 'em in our short term memory, and the things we classified as IMPORTANT will be stored in the long term memory.

What happen in my life thru these 2-3 consecutive years is, I hardly remember someone's name, even I met her/him almost every day. Maybe I see her/him every day, but he/she does not bring anything important or meaningful to me. For example, I meet my senior in toilet every morning/night every day-maybe to queu for bath, or washing cloth together-and I asked her name in numbers of time, but still cant remember her. I am that BAD, right?

The intention of writing this post is, actually I just read a book, entitled "How to touch one's heart" by Abbas As Sissi. One of the way (The FIRST way) to catch someone's heart is by remembering his/her name. Not only nicknames, but also the family's name. This is a way to tighten the relationship, and a way to make friendships lasts forever.

Until now, I am struggling to remember all of my friend's name. In 4-5 years back, I used to remember all my classmates name with the 'bin' and 'binti', and even through the whole batch. And, the first time I try to practise this, it does happen like this:

ikin: Assalamualaikum
new friend: Wa'alaikumsalam
ikin: what's your name?
new friend: imah
ikin: imah binti...?
new friend: oh, you want to remember my father's name? (weird)
ikin: hehe..ya.. because I have a lot of friend named Imah.

People will feel weird at first, but Abbas As Sissi also teach us in the book how to start a conversation; which is by introducing your name first, and then later ask for the new person's name. Try to find the similarities that you can both share, and the conversation may continue smoothly.

p/s: I will be sitting for an important english test in two weeks, and this is a way of practising my writing (by writing blogs in English). My English is'nt really good, so, please criticize me. Thank you :)
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

English Quotes and Jokes

di tulis oleh norashikin rahmat pada Saturday, March 13, 2010 3 komen best
By the time i am writing this, my head full of..oh.. okei, nak share english quotes dan jokes.

1. "It's your truth that shows who you truly are far more than your abilities."
2. "Be yourself, who else is better qualified."-Frank J. Giblin
3. "Show me don't tell me."
4. -"Never give up."
5. -"Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean."
6. -"Don't be the one you see but be the one you want to be."
7. -"Live life and live it good."
8. -"Why shoot for the moon when you know you can reach the stars?"
9.
There once was an old man of Esser,
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser,
It at last grew so small
He knew nothing at all
And now he's a college professor.
10. "The time is always right to do what is right."- Martin Luther King Jr.
11. "Beauty captures attention but personality captures the heart."
12. "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars."
13. "You were born an original, don't die a copy."- John Mason
14. "If you can't say something nice, say nothing."- Thumper in Bambi
15. "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people."- Eleanor Roosevelt
16. "There was never a good war or a bad peace."- Benjamin Franklin
17. "If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything."- Marva Collins
18. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."- Mother Teresa
19. "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."- Winston Churchil
20. "You never lose until you quit trying."- Mike Ditka
21. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."- Abraham Lincoln
22. "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."- Mary Kay Ash
23. "You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great."- Zig Ziglar
24. "Time and tide waits for no one."
25. "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."- Prophet Mohammad
26. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step."- Confucius
27. "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."- Robert F. Kennedy
28. "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."- Jean Nidetch
29. "If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
30. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."- Goethe
31. "You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."- Dale Carnegie
32. "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."- Grandma Moses
33. "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."- Theodore Roosevelt
34. "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."- Napolean Hill
35. "To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."- Anatole France
36. "As long as you're going to think anyway, think big."- Donald Trump



Jokes

1. What word begins with "e", ends with "e", and has one letter?
Envelope!
2. I have 12 legs, 12 arms and 8 heads. What am I?
A liar!
3. What did the traffic lights say to the car?
Don't look now. I'm changing!
4. Which month has 28 days?
All of them!
5. A man asked for a meal in a restaurant. The waiter brought the food and put it on the table. After a moment, the man called the waiter and said:
"Waiter! Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!"
"Please don't speak so loudly, sir," said the waiter, "or everyone will want one."
6. Why do witches have brooms?
Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy!
7. Which bus crossed the ocean?
Columbus! (Christoper Columbus is an Italian explorer who sailed to America in 1492)
8. What's worse than finding a maggot in an apple?
Finding half a maggot!
9. If you took 3 apples from a basket that held 12 apples, how many apples would you have?
3 !!!
10. Why shouldn't you put the letter "M" into the refrigerator?
Because it turns ice into mice!
11. A customer ordered some coffee in a café. The waiter arrived with the coffee. and placed it on the table. After a few moments, the customer called for the waiter.
'Waiter,' he said. 'There's dirt in my coffee!'
'That's not surprising, Sir,' replied the waiter. 'It was ground only half-an-hour ago.'
12. What starts with "P", ends with "E", and has millions of letters?
The "Post Office"!
13. What is the longest word in the English language?
"Smiles". Because there is a mile between its first and last letters!
14. This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

*esok saya jadi fasiltator untuk program English Camp Maktab Mahmud..jadi tugas saya provide jokes n english quotes untuk mereka..semoga bermanfaat*

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

just some words from a tired girl

di tulis oleh norashikin rahmat pada Wednesday, January 13, 2010 0 komen best
sometimes...you feel like your life is full with something others envy of,
but the real thing is people see you do nothing.

at the moment you feel like your life has nothing to do with,
people see you as the most people they envy of.

sometimes you feel like you dont like something
but that something you dont like is really something.

when curiousity grows, they hit your bloodline,
but when laziness grow, it kills your whole life.

if you think you fat, yes you are,
but if you kill a cat,its your soul gone dead.

a beautiful girl with a boring mind is boring,
but a boring girl with a beautiful laptop is thoughtful...hahaha.

small mice with small eyes has cheese,
but big guy with big empty head had nothing.

a cup without tea is meaningless,
a heart without feeling is useless.

small bird fly in the sky,
but they do not know how t dance with the twinkling stars

as long as stars twinkle in the sky,
as long as angels are there up high,
til ocean runs dry
til the day i die
let us tied with ukhuwwah
shower this life with love from Allah
and stay istiqamah in da'wah.
May Allah bless and guide us throghout this path
 

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