Chat: Boy

When your student responded unexpectedly

Me: Bro, tulislah bro

Boy: Okay, sis

Me: *cringing*

They laughed.  I too laughed.

Movie: Ginger and Ros

PG-13,89 min.
Drama
Directed By:    Sally Potter
In Theaters:    Mar 15, 2013  Limited
On DVD:    Jul 23, 2013
A24 Films

I've downloaded this today and I finished this tonight.  I accidentally found this movie while searching for Elle Fanning's list of movies right after I saw her role in 3 Generations which I believed was once called 'About Ray' or something on her playing trans male character and in which she looks so good as a boy and ya she acts so well, I always love her acting.

This movie caught me first, by the name, 'Ginger and Rosa' which is cute and you know it right away it is about friends and stuff and when I read the synopsis, wow, with the theme of friendship (which I love) and 'when one seduces the other's father'.  Interesting, was my first impression and then woa this is sick but I have to watch this!  This is a new conflict to me, like you two are bestfriends since the day you were born and I think they might be born on the same day since their mothers are seen in their hospital beds, in labour side by side and holding each other' hands.  Even their mothers are best of friends.  And then we learn that the girls were friends since then, seen on swings holding each other hands.

Then we see them growing up to be beautiful young girls and have this adorable bond, they do things together and really are best friends.  However Rosa is always the bad influence, she is seen to smoke around and teaches Ginger to smoke too, she goes around with any guys whenever she feels like, Ginger never said nothing but we know she dislikes the things Rosa does.

One common thing they shared was their feelings towards their mothers, both despises their mothers, and Ginger seems to feel like her mother is always unhappy just because of her very existence, and also they have a wrecking marriages.  Rosa's dad left her when she was a little girl (if not mistaken, haha I guess I didn't pay enough attention to her)

they wear the same outfit too

also every scene where Elle is in, that frame is always good enough for a model photo shoot, she's flawless every second, hahha.

Elle Fanning dyed her hair red for this role and claimed that this was her first time doing so, "I always been just a blonde," she added.  This story set in the year of 60s where Ginger constantly fear that the world is going to end since the nuclear was making it's thingy, uhh I'm not good explaining historical facts :( and so she became an activist at such young age, she made Rosa to go to meetings with her but we can see that Rosa was quite uninterested.

There was one night after their wild scenes; kissing boys, smoking and stuff and when they reached home it was already really late in the morning, so Roland sent Rosa with his car, we can see that Rosa was looking at the reflection (was it directly?) on Roland and they shared a smile.

I guess it all started there or might be a little longer before the movie begins.  Rosa is the one who decides to write him a letter one day when she feels that Roland is very similar to her and Rosa even told Ginger that she writes to him.

Whatever Rosa does, and Ginger knows it all, she somehow does not flipped out, she remains silent or keeps herself busy when she hears some intimate noises made by Roland and Rosa in the boat that one night, Ginger trembles and she continues to read poem (can't remember which) and then she covers her face with her pillows instead going for a turmoil towards the couple.

Quotes:

Ginger:
I loved you Rosa.
Don't you see?
But we are different,
you dream of everlasting love.
Not me.
Because what really matters is to live.
And if we do,
there will be nothing to forgive.
But I'll forgive you anyway.

Trip: Cambodia PART 1

(should I be writing in malay?)

Alright. I think it would be better if I blog things on the spot back when we were on the trip because I have no idea where to start but at least this will do it. *sigh* and seeing none of my friends written anything on this issue so I figure I have to start first.  It's even urgent because I didn't make any written notes while I was there! TT (I'm like TT uhh~)

Alright, this post is specially made for Muslim Malaysian (but if you're not it's totally fine, but seriously if you are not a muslim there's plenty food you can eat there, don't get me started on the street food, heaven for the food lovers) because I am one and so are my friends.  And I've heard that Malaysians are rarely to be found making trips to Cambodia especially to these few places I'm going to mention.

This trip was my:

• First trip to Cambodia
• First oversea trip with friends

It was a last minute plan for me and I was just barely involved with the planning and budgeting, thanks to my friends, they helped me a lot while I was overwhelming with work stuff (yea Ive started working).  After I was done with work stuff, I had two days to pack my stuffs, days before that I asked my family to buy me some food to be brought there.  They bought one pack of wheat cracker with mini packaging inside, two packages of instant noodles, 1 pack of drink stuff the 3 in 1 drink.  If I'd known, I'd bring a lot moreeeeee!

Okay.

Cambodia Trip

Time: 28th November - 4th December 2016

Places: KUL-Phnom Penh-Siem Reap-Battambong-Phnom Penh-KUL

Hotels: Prat-

Transports: Buses, tuk tuk, minipost van

DAY 1

KLIA-Phnom Penh

Date: 28th November 2016

Departure: 4:40pm (Malaysia time)

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

Hotel: Pra-tna Guesthouse and Coffee (RM86 overnight)
Meal: MK Halal Restaurant (RM      )

1. We gathered at KLIA but I was in KLIA 2 because of some misunderstanding (I'm such a noob).

Boarding

1. We departed and about 1hr 40 min later we arrived at International Airport of Cambodia (I assume this is the name) in Phnom Penh.  Kecik je airport dia.  Masa ni mcm okeh da smpi...now what?
2. There were plenty of people waiting and it looked as if we were the only Malaysians la.
3. I searched for the toilet first, as expected it's not muslim friendly, so berinstinjak pkai tisu la, my friend had with her a bottle.  



Reading a map



4. Then we proceeded to buy a simcard.  We bought only one and we bought the Cellcard because it reminded us of Umobile.  Yup we bought it because it looks like the one we have here in Msia. LOL and put it in our extra phone.  My phone in this case, Blue Lucky. 
5. Tuk Tuk drivers were all over us, all over the other tourists but we wanted to ride a bus.  So we walked through the traffic.  The night was setting in.
6. We asked for the bus stop and so we waited there while ada org laki botak crite pasal sistem bus kt situ, tgh condemning kerajaan depa la bagai.  English dia baik *thumbs up*.

Waiting for a bus

In the bus

8. It wasn't long before we found ourselves sitting comfortably in a bus.  We paid in Cambodian Riel.  The ride was nice, air conditioned and there weren't lot of people. 

9. We said the word 'Night Market' and the bus assistant understood.

10. The last stop was the night market and we walked 5 mins before reaching Pra-tna Guesthouse and Coffee.  There were two single beds (if not mistaken lol) really low ceiling, one wall fan, an air-cond, a tv, a mall night stand with mirror and a bathroom.  Overall, it is satisfying.  Only lacking electric kettle.

Our room

Steep staircase

        11. After that, we had our dinner at Halal restaurant called MK Halal which we met by accident.  It's nearby to our hotel.

Pouring tea

                                                    

                                             
                                                     

Got to love the salt and pepper

12. We ordered three different dishes each and only 1 drink.  They also served a tea with 3 glasses of ice, so we could save a lot.

13. After that, we walked to the night market where we took some photos of us and the night environment.

Theater in the middle of the night market

*Expenses will be updated shortly*
and so is Part 2 of this trip entry

Movie: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

Idk where to start, wut I wrote bfore got deleted n im pissed. 

All I knw, I clapped my hands at the ending credit, I love this movie & I fell in love with this character Newt Scamander.    

Characters 

His character is something I never imagined, all I knew about him was that he is the author one of the ‘textbooks' in Hogwarts entitled fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and this  movie is nothing like the book (of course!)  The book is a reference book for the magic people & stuff.  So, when I think about author of textbooks especially, I think of a mad hair old kind of a guy but I was wrong, Newt was young and already written the book which at the end of the movie he's waiting for it to be printed and published.  

Newt Scamander is adorable, I bet he was the nerdy back in Hogwarts & where people think he's a freak & he's to be left alone all by himself in his own world.  This character is adorable (Ive said it but I say it again XD), he reminds me of HTTYD where he is the person who wants to educate his people about the creatures and that they're not harmful and they as much love too.  He's caring, shy, reserved, sweet & a crybaby (really).  The way he says "Mommy's here" to the beasts, the way he understand the very nature of the creatures, he is like their best friend, I like how he said to Jacob "because I like you, and you are my friend and that is why I keep you" (not actual line ya).  But we can tell that Newt is the person who has very little friends and makes you want to hug him) he even said to Jacob "you are so likeable, well I always annoy people" sad huh.  

I notice that from JK's main heroes they would be the broken or weak or soft kinda guy (ofcourse but I meant theyre always the freak..hmm or this thing is a norm in making books eh??? Ignore me)..   

Jacob Walowski is a character who accidentally got involved with Newt somewhere in the bank.  He is a muggle and was pursuing his dream as a baker to own his own bakery.  His character is a kind guy, funny (the way he shrieks everytime he feels uneasy LOL).  He is an interesting character and one that keeps the hall filled with laughter.  

There are characters that I didn’t knw they are even in.  I usually see them in other movies and I was excited that theyre involved in another great movie from HP series.  Which is amazing.  (do more of these)  

The other characters are the Goldstein sisters, a brunette & a blonde; Tina & Queenie.  They're fine.  

Plot 

To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to watching this, I remember not being that excited the 1^st time I saw the trailer.  Maybe it is because of it is another HP thingy but with no Harry and the gang.  But I was wrong and  I love this every seconds of it (well except when Tina got messed up). 

I wasn’t sure what this movie is about after watching the trailer but I somehow managed to come up with a closer idea of it; I told my mom that this movie is about a guy who wrote a book which hundred of years later (When actually this was set in the year of 1926, so it's like only 40ish years later) is in the library of Hogwarts and that in this movie where (somehow) he keeps his beasts and the rising action is when some of them escape and this story is basically about him trying to recollect his beasts back.  (close huh?) But it is more than this.   

In all, this movie flows smoothly, it is something new especially the beasts.  JK introduces more creatures that arent in the series of HP movies (I might forget some)  The beasts are amazing and I always wondering how things work inside JK's head (and many2 credits to the team who turn that into life (animation) oh yea the presentation is A+).  Just like Jacob's lines in the movie; "I am not dreaming, right? Cause this cant b from my brain" (I forgot the actual lines are but you get the point and this is to the scene where he sees the beasts & basically all the magic stuff ofcourse)  

The story goes well, and I love that the hero isn't the one who also portrayed as the main romance subplot (idk how to word that bluergh) but Jacob is!  Queenie and Jacob going to make a cute pair.  I ship them.   

The ending is alright, where there's many being resolved at the ending.  How cute Newt is (he he he) but I wish there's more (of Newt) in the future movies (maybe) I would like to knw more about Credence and his nature, the adorable beasts.  How Newt & Tina would develop their relationship.  I wish it was a different ending for Jacob but this is fine too. 

It exceeds my expectations, it is something that I'd like to watch again and own a copy (so that I can replay Newt/Eddie's funny blinking eyes (which I find really2 attractive and cute) and Newt's mating dancing HAHA.  To see and study the beasts. This movie makes me want to be there so so badly, to be petiing the beasts or ride and fly with them and to own a wand.  This excites the long-slept pottermore in me. 

There are more to write but I can't spend all my time here TT_TT 

I personally like Newt, and the portrayal of his character by Eddie Redmayne (but I dunno how Newt is in words) is just so nice.  If Newt is meant to be a shy, sweet and quiet guy then Eddie did it, especially his funny-

but-adorable-and-deep-blinking he has, he looks so shy with that look, shy eyes, and deep blinking OMG (i wish I can describe better) and then I decided to watch another movie with him in it, and he,Eddie is indeed has that eyes I meant it's not made up just to suit Newt's character.  Eddie is like that himself.

The Fantastic Beasts interview series Eddie Redmayne 

Teaching: Start Anew

Just links of awesome sites I found when blog walking or better,Pinterest-ing~

Storyworks

SMS Generator

EnglishForEveryone 

Paragraph Correction - here

Word Search - here

random: lazy to organize these

Reflection preschool #3 Iqra: Only me & Cah monitored the kids and we lacked time.
ENG (beta): it was horrible (-_-), the kids were out of hand and I was pissed.  I’m sorry kids.  Maybe it was me but… They need a lot of attention, most of them are way behind, maybe three of them are able to read well.
They had hard time to understand instruction and I think they might not understand the angry tone.
The rest of the work time was used for me to print out the kids’ names.  I need to paste them on new writing books, vocab books.
thu.28/4/16



Reflection preschool #2
Iqra: We had a colleague’s daughter to help out so I had to monitor fewer kids.  A few leveled up to volume 6.  Some remain on the same page of their current volume.  One student (I believe this applies to a few others too) can’t even recognize the letters *gasp*.  They’ll bloom.  I’ll wait.  But most of them are kinda lost (I cant figure precise word) :(
During breakfast, Deena got her huge watch kept by my colleague (two teachers handle a class, remember?)  She quietly wept (^_^”)
and also a girl complained that there’s boy staring at her (idk why the need to tell me idk what to respond lol)  and Deena wanted to say “Sebab dia (the boy) cin- “ what… haha. 
I hate that boy tho.
ENG (alfa): 1 hr class, I got them to complete any blank pages and made them watch few vid clips I downloaded last night.  It was hard finding the videos, the good ones *sigh*  Deena was not in the mood tho so I gave her watch back.
First, it was the ABC clip, there were two to three videos on Body Parts (which I am so glad, it syncs with today’s topic of discussion.  -Revision-
They responded very well to dance songs lesson like ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes” “Walking, walking”
They responded well to naming things; “Phonic Songs”
They responded badly to lyric songs (they need pictures whatsoever!? even tho the songs are hit!)I played the “I am a Muslim by Yusuf Islam & friends”.
i forgot the rest now that I skipped a day erh
Wed.28/4/16

Reflection: preschool

Iqra: I see some of them progressing, I actually witnessing their improvement and some, well still in confusion, lots of confusion.  But they’ll bloom.  They always bloom, right?
I like the sight of them pausing and asking for clarification or giving me the what-is-this-look, they want to learn.  Right now, this phase they are highly capable of absorbing things vividly I mean if I say ‘Jane’ as ‘Jaa-een’ & not ‘jen’ they got it right on the 1st try.  (my students theyre ESL students).
I tease some kids especially Deena hahaha she is like the cutest thing ever, her physical resembles a 3yo kid.  Her voice is even cuter!  Whenever she salam my hand, I would grip her hand tighter and she would kiss my hand again! hahahah so cute.
Today, her sister greeted me & I know instantly that was Deena’s sis, she asked how her baby sis was doing haha cute siblings!
ENG (alfa): They finished workbook 1. yay. but there are still some flaws and also some of them did not.
ENG (omega): They listened better than alfa & they r left with one more page before we can proceed to vid revision.
ENG (beta): most of the time was consumed on waking them up (^_^’)
Sleep time: I was alone and it was horrible, a few of them got out of hand & I had to yell my lungs out erghhh..it still hurts.
LIB: They were free to get any books and read at their own pace, but good part was some of them came up to me to get my guidance to read both BM & ENG; Ryan, Alli, NK & few others.  Before that I spotted an attractive cover.  From afar it looks like a girl with black hair and so I picked it up and when I flipped the 1st page, I saw three lines on a page (the other page is filled with illustration) and it caught me instantly! Then I counted the syllables, they’re fit.  theyre HAIKU!
ps: these kids call me by full name hhaaha
I changed their names to be understood only by me.
tue.26/4/16

N her talk is nice laa..
Like it..feel like keeping the journal her team published..
New ilmu..information..
The summary of the talk is if we cut on alcohol,smoking,obesity, n consume honey constantly, cancer can b prevented,
Prevention is always better than curing
N then adela tnjuk experiment2 on rats n all
How she suggests we shuld keep bees farming secara meluas..
N ade chairman reminded us on the surah An-Nahl in the Quran…how Allah already mentioned about the bees n honey.
Now i feel like making a bee farm..cuz when i see it myself..ternakan bees r hard to be kept..they easily affected by the vhanges of the place n ran..n theyrr small easily died, lifespan yg sket..n kesedaran rakyat on beekeeping is still agak kurg…so i risau hahah again i risau smthing too big for me..
N also theres a stall jusl madu including frm Gua Niah.
Hmm thats probably it..my summary of the talk