Yesterday morning, I was in an English Studies class (Literature) trying very hard to explain some of the fundamentals of the history of Shakespeare when suddenly I mispronounced a word. It was in fact a simple two-syllable utterance – “PERSON” which anybody of a basic reading ability could pronounce effortlessly. I remember pronouncing it as [...]
In this post, I am going to tell you about my hobby. I had always admired keeping chicken especially the fighting bred (ayam sabung) so, I had a rooster given by a friend who informed me that he imported the breed from Korea (I don’t really know the truth of this, Korea?). I obtained a [...]
My post for today is a simple three-strip cartoon. Please browse through and enjoy.
It is C O L D ! (Hmm..the drawing is supposed to be me sleeping on a very cold nite)
At The Wedding By Gunsirit
At the wedding I greeted the bride and groom gave them my angpow was led to a lunch reception At the wedding an elderly man offered me a biris He said, “Ika biris kio?” I said, “OK nopo” [...]
I don’t really know what to blog today – I am really drained out, I just want to go and lie on my smelly bed. So here is a simple poem for you to ponder.
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW By Gunsirit
outside my window the sunrise is up spraying colours of crimson, [...]
Fun With Words
I was in four different classes last week struggling to explain the English Rhetorical Devices, one of the many topics in my Academic Reading subject. I found out that two classes were engaged more receptively to my explanation and instructions and the two being less accommodating. I guess some of the reasons [...]
Phrase structure is the division of sentence into parts, or constituents, and the division of these constituents into subparts. For instance, the sentence “The boy went to the forest”, as represented in the table below, is made of two main constituents, “The boy” and “went to the forest”. The second [...]
Dusun Subject and Verb Agreement – Featuring PPISMP TESL SEM II
I have the sweetest smile in the whole wide world
My second day at work and I am already feeling very exhausted. I was in PPISMP TESL class this morning, a grueling 2-hour lecture and [...]
This was my first day at work after the long semester break. I arrived at the office quite early, met with some familiar faces, some cheerful, others were motionless. I bumped into a few of those chameleons who recklessly crawled through the alleyway, changing colours each time I took a [...]
The Dusun Comparative Adjectives I had breakfast with my colleague this morning and one of the topic that caught my ever inquisitive mind was – if the adjective comparative and superlative morphemes (-er) and (-est) is present in the Dusun Language. I requested more information about this from my colleague, Mr. Joseph Yabai, [...]
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