Stormy Weather

I see light flashing and flashing in the sky
I hear grumbling and mumbling up high
I see drops of water hanging themselves by the window
I hear voices of wind harmonising in the pipes hollow

Spray, splash
Crane, crash
Thud. BANG!
Dumb, CLANK!

Equal sound the mumbles
Timpani and cymbals
Water hits the roof
Like rocks and pebbles

A build-up, a crescendo
Then, a bright light from tomorrow
All of a sudden and poof
The ground screams out of sorrow

So dark and so bright
So windy and so white
A spark and a light
Then a sword forges to fight

Like paparazzi on the red carpet
Each passing flash scared kids to bed

Ah! But yes, the sound of nature
The great symphony, the overture
A controlled chaos
A therapy for us
A sound of remedy
A perfect melody

Comes the sun wipes all away
But the sun has come down anyway
As the curtain has fallen down
And the sky begins to frown

A coloured ceiling, dots of lights
A spectacular visual for those who are right
As Earth's shadow is cast upon us
Night comes, darkness, a veil or a curse?

But for how long could this be?
I imagine hours, it might be
While the ground shakes and the sky breaks
I'll see how long my sleep would take

5.53 pm, 31 March

Readers' Theatre Final Performances - 020P2D Asasi TESL 2014/2015

Hello everyone! It's already the end of the semester! Kyaaaa~~~!

I am so glad that I finally finished my classes and lectures for this whole wickedly tiring and challenging semester, thus the end of my foundation program. Well, there's another week for final exam (in which I should get ready to study and all, but instead I'm writing this post) and I can't wait to attend this one glamorous event at the very last day I'll be in UiTM.

Coming back to the main subject here...

So, last Wednesday [25/3/2015], we had our Readers' Theatre final performance in Angsana Hall, Faculty of Education UiTM Seksyen 17 Shah Alam. For those of you who do not know what is Readers' Theatre, here's a definition given by Wikipedia:

1. Readers Theatre or Reader's Theater is a style of theater in which the actors do or do not memorize their lines. Actors use only vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, intricate blocking, and movement.

Readers' Theatre is part of our compulsory evaluation for the subject Language and Drama this semester. It's the second part of our activity; the first one would be individual performance. I wrote about it in the previous post. Link is here.

While the individual performances solely rely on each student's stories and characters, Readers' Theatre is more to a group work. You are being placed in groups among your classmates and either given a script by your lecturer, or have to search or make your own. In our cases, we were the former.

We had three in-class rehearsals and multiple practices outside the class. We had our practice almost everywhere: in colleges, in other people's faculty (Faculty of Engineering, thank you so much for lending us your complex), in our own faculty compound, under the trees, inside classrooms.... Phewww it was so tedious, frustrating and tiring too. But at the same time, we had so much fun, exploring different kinds of perspectives towards the story as well as developing characters suitable to convey the story.

Well, here are some pictures of our final performances in Angsana Hall:

My group and I as a bunch of old people telling a story

Happy moments with my classmates after the show

A group photo with one and only remarkable lecturer, Sir Adlan. Thank you sir for every comments, suggestions and ideas you gave and inspired us!

Well..... I didn't expect those faces. Hahahahahaha

For your information, there are 5 groups in our class and 5 different scripts and plays. Originally, we were to act out the original script, but seeing the endless and limitless possibilities to alter reality, we were granted the privilege to 'screw up' a bit the original script, and came out with lots of gimmicks, witty puns, naughty ideas and hilarious ad-libs and jokes.

Those 5 plays are:

I was super happy and satisfied with each other's performance. Everyone was the bomb! I hope the audience were happy watching us. The other classes were great, too. Their stories, their actions, their costumes, their characters - totally awesome!

And that's all for today folks! We've come to the end of this Asasi TESL program. Just another week to strive for our final exam and off we go, 5 months of nothingness until September comes and we come again for our degree program of our choice, hopefully. 

Here are the trailer and the full video of our performance:

News for Asasi TESL Intake 2015/2016

Update (15/5/2015):

Hello there! I have a new update regarding the placement of Asasi TESL 2015/2016 students. As you may know, it is written on your letter that you are given the names of a transit / temporary campus, and a permanent campus.

I have seen this matter before during my time, but it occurred to the Art & Design students (in which their permanent campus is the Puncak Alam campus). But up until now, they have spent 2 semesters in Shah Alam, probably due to the delayed completion of Art & Design campus there.

Some of my friends have brought this matter to the attention of our head of programme (Ms Melissa Malik) and she gave us a short but definitive response regarding this:

Assalamualaikum dear readers.

Hear ye, hear ye... I bear some news for you humans.

How's it going? Great? Good? Well, keep it up folks. Right now, I'm at the final week of my second semester. Almost there. I could barely see the finish line at the end of the road. By early April, I would be finishing my Asasi TESL program. Phew....

[From here on, the programme I'm referring is the Asasi TESL UiTM]

Recently, I've been repeatedly asked and inquired by questions concerning this program. And I must say, I'm proud of myself to be able to write something that people can refer to. During my time, there were like not much references or blog posts that I can use as reference.

I can say that lots of people are interested to be in this program. I can see why would they make that choice: it's a fast lane, another way out from the mainstream science and all those mumbo-jumbo subjects and just pure interest. Well, there's more to that, kids. And as you can see by the title, I have some news (not sure if it's good or bad) for the freshmen.

First Month - Asasi TESL Sem 1 (June 2014 - December 2014)

The Chancellery Main Building of UiTM Shah Alam

June 1st, 2014 marks the first day I stepped into the campus life and earned myself the right to become a pre-degree student. I am taking TESL course for 2 semesters in UiTM Shah Alam. That day, I went to Kolej Perindu to register and met my fellow roommates at room 2402. The first week was spent as orientation week also known as ‘Minggu Destini Siswa’. 

During the orientation week