Ongkor went to see his doctor
Ongkor with two red ears went to his doctor, Dr. Gumpirit. The doctor asked him, “Kanapa kau ni Ongkor, mirah-mirah telinga?” (“What happened?”)
Ongkor answered, “Sia sedang seterika baju ba, tiba-tiba ada call, tapi saya tersalah angkat, saya taru itu seterika di telinga saya pula.”
(“I was ironing a [...]
One day, Ongkor went into a karaoke lounge and saw the most beautiful woman he ever met in his life sitting all alone at the lounge. Ongkor was a shy person and never had an opportunity to speak to a beautiful woman before. After an hour of gathering up his courage and sweating profusely, he [...]
Motivational Sunday
I almost forgotten about my three post a week challengeand I suppose to post only three entries this week but I think I overshot that target. Well, I believe that I will post whenever I think I had the time to do it, even if it means that I have to post daily. (Now [...]
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 [...]
We finally reached our destination after a hectic 4-hour journey, 3 hours on land cruisers and an hour on a boat. We were at this small school in Pensiangan to carry out a special project organized by our institute. It was a grueling 5-day occasion of talks, lectures and workshops to students, teachers and parents. [...]
Being Short I had a casual conversation with my colleague over a cup of coffee this morning. One of the interesting topics that we discussed was if there are ever advantages of being a short person or perhaps the lack of it. This triggered a memory of an occasion long time ago [...]
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 [...]
Test Your I.Q
I am going to perform a simple Intelligence Test to you today. All you have to do is to follow the instructions carefully. Instructions are in stages. At the end of the post you will be informed of your test result. [...]
Dusun Derivational Morphemes
Let’s start with the most basics of the Dusun Language word structure – the morphemes. We will first attempt to look into the English Derivational morphemes and later try to compare that to the equivalent Dusun structure.
English Derivational Morphemes
Derivational morphemes [...]
I decided to write a blog entry about family day today, not that I love to talk about it but I have loads of pictures taken during our 3-year round Damai Family Day celebration which are yet to be published. Our family day [...]
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