Reflection: 'Electrifying play day'

Assalamualaikum & hello everyone,

 

Language play day (Feb 18, 2006) was the most pleasant moment I have ever had under TESL activities so far. It was a day filled with joy and happiness (I?m sure all of you felt the same way too).

 

I would like to reflect the day by highlighting it in three areas. The first area would be the management. I am satisfied with the arrangement even though we have to change place from Dewan Kencana in College 13 to Dewan Sri Alam in KTF (not a big deal). We still got a spacious and comfortable place to have fun with all the games. We should thank ARBAIAH for being the leader. The food was okay, made us survive until about 5 p.m. The allocation of time for each game was satisfactory and all the games played as planned.

 

Second area is concerning the content of the day. I am sure we have learned of at least ten fun and stimulating language games on that day. I agree that we have to improvise our game here and there but the best part was to get the idea of the game that might never cross our mind before. I would here grant thousand of gratitude to my team partner NURDAYANA IZYAN (Oshin) for the hard effort and all the resistance we have been through. You have been a good partner anyway. I believe everyone enjoy GUESS IT as mush as we did. So by now, there shouldn?t be any problem to convince people out there and proved them that English is for everyone. So, get ready, English is about to approach anyone, anywhere at anytime.

 

Third area is the relationship among TESLian. We never had a chance to get closer enough to each other since most of the time we met, it was in class. We did joke around and had conversation, but on that day we are UNITED. We change ideas, tolerate and cooperate each other and even being so sincere in friendship (a bouquet of compliment to MURNI SALINA for the helping hand during the ?car crash? incident).

 

CONGRATULATIONS everyone! TESLian rules..woohoo..

 

 N.U.R.D.A.L.I.A.T.Y (DALEA)

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Reflection of Playday

Well...I found that 'playday'...did gave a lot of fun and from here...i had learned a lot of things. For instance, through this activity, we manage to find out the weaknesses of our own game....which part that we need to do some correction in term of the time management, the procedure, the process and so on. Besides, it did improve the relationship among the teslian. (ask yourself).

 

Futhermore, it is actually a good activity to expose the games to all of us (who will be going to be the 'fasilitator'.....)to actually ...guide the participant later on during the language game. As it will be more easier for us to guide the participants since we know how to play the game ...we know the procedure, the process, the weakness as well as the most important thing is that we ourselves engage to it. we did gained some experiences  that might be helpful during the language camp.

 

At last, i would like to grab this opportunity to thanx ..all of you .....for your co-operation during our game 'Drawing Blind' and i hope all of you enjoy the game. thanx to my partner Vimmy as she did put a lot of efforts.

 

GaNBaTTe.... 

 

^_^ Diana Lee^_^

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PlayDay "Fun Day"

Helo folks...

 

Sat  18  FEB - It was a one hot sunny morning, i woke around 6.45 a.m (after i got my regular morning call from ehem..ehem......), took my morning bath, put on my fav black tees and jeans...get ready to go to Kolej Tun Fatimah, because i need to send 4 boxes of mineral waters (those heavy boxes...aaarrgghh...i even got a back pain.."nuff said!!!) I greeted my friends, Bae, Baizura, Diana, Yana...and i need to go back to Kolej 13 to fetch Nik, iri and Jue again...Everything goes well, then suddenly..."BANG!!!"...ooopppsss.... i accidently hit a gold-yellowish Honda Civic right in front of me...and you can imagined the damaged i got into......i nearly got a punch on my face from Uncle Osman..but, luckily, his wife stopped him...it was such a drama...

 

Minutes after that, Dr. Aminah came...and my lovely frens Salina, Sue, Fahmy, Zuwairi and Co. came to the rescue...and also those "key poh" UTM guards as well (they are annoying, believe me...) minutes after that, we reached some agreement, and i decided to let the insurance company to deal with it..after lodged a police report (Sal accompanied me, thanks darling...), and sent both my cars and uncle Osman's car to the recommended workshop, later,uncle Osman and his wife are kind enough to give me and Sal a lift back to UTM....

 

unfortunately, we both missed the first half of the "show"  but, the best part is, we were both greeted by our lovely classmates...(you guys are the best, i ever had!!!!) and even some hugs along with it.....i was so touched...

 

well,the show must go on....despite of what happened that morning, i can still laughed (like i used too....) i can still played and  i even joked about the accidents with my friends...hehehehehe...how ironic??!!!

 

Actually, uncle Osman is very...very kind to me....even after what happened, he actually called me and smsed me, asking about my car and even took time go to the workshop and checked my car for me, just to make sure the mechanics did they job properly......( i don't have any transport now...how sad....) i was soooooooo touched, i mean, it was my mistekes but then, he still have that sense of "humanity" in him and was kind enough to help, even without me asking for it....

 

back to the game, i think i did a pretty "okay" job in handling the game, despite of what happened that morning,d'oh.....since i'm doing it solo, so, i have the complete authority on how i wanted it to be and how i wanted it to be done, in 100 percent "my way"...so, it wasn't that bad as other people think it was....i presented the game "ala" Dick Clark's version of "The Pyramid Game Show" famous in the late 90s on tv...then,to my surprise,i was picked as "The  Facilitator of the Day"...wow....it was like winning a grammy award or something like that, but, nevertheless, thank you Mr.G for the compliments  and to you guys, for participating in my game...... i promise to work even harder for the upcoming "English Language Camp"...i just can"t wait for it, folks!!!

 

and thanks also for those who given me some critiques and suggestions on how i should improve the game...or make it slightly easier and less complex....two or more brains are definitely better than one!!!!!!!!hehehehehehe......

 

we had lots of fun and at the same time we learned so much from it, especially in time management, so, i would like to say "Bravo" to Bae and co...it was nicely done...congrats!!!!!

 

see you guys in S.E.G.A.M.A.T!!!!

 

leny ^ - ^ muffy_len@yahoo.com ^  - ^

 

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Reflection of PlayDay

PlayDay turns out to be just fine after i've missed the first half of the day. Lenny... are you okay? well, at least you got your father-angkat instead.

 

Well, at last I've managed to participate in only 5 games I think. For me, there are a lot of improvements that can be made for everybody's game. In term of rules and regulations of the game, the ability to adjust to the participants level of proficiency is crucial. Anyway, I hope my own game (Command & Conquer) is flexible but depends on you guys. Thanx to Nik who has always been understanding in preparation of the game.

 

Overall, PlayDay turns out to be one of the day that I won't forget about you guys and stepping stone for knowing the hidden characters for some of my classmates.

 

Congratulations for those who work hard for the day and good luck in presenting our games on the Language Camp later. Gonna miss you guys...

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Reflection of playday

Well, I felt quite happy because the playday managed to be a successful event for all the 3^rd year teslians. Congratulations to Bae & Co. for making a good job and especially to nurDALEAty, for being a great team partner, your willingness to share your brilliant ideas with me and make our Guess it! game done well.

 

I personally think that playday could be a best platform for the teslians to share lots of ideas, comments and feedbacks with each other according to the games we have been exposed to. We managed to learn our game?s strengths and weaknesses and improved our skills on how to handle the game in way that is more appropriate during the language camp later.

 

In addition, to all the teslians, I want to allocate my gratitude for your co-operation and support in creating our Guess it! game lively.

Finally yet importantly, to Mr.g, I?m sorry to say this, but you need to try to remember all the teslians? name and never make we feel like we are out of the community. So, better check it out before the camp begin..

 

                                                            - oshin @ nurdayanaizyan -

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TENTATIVE PROGRAM

Tentative Program

Friday 3rd March 2006 (KTF)
8.30 – 9.00 Registration Briefing
9.00 – 11.00 Slot A : Ice breaking Group cheer

Saturday 4th March 2006
7.00 Depart to Camp Ground (From K9/KTF)
11.30 – 1.00 Slot B
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch / Prayer
2.00 – 4.30 Slot C
4.30 – 5.00 Tea break
5.00 – 6.30 Slot D: Amazing Race
6.30 – 8.00 Dinner
8.00 – 11.00 Slot E: Talentime
11.00 Supper

Sunday 5th March 2006
7.00 – 8.00 T.P.R
8.00 – 8.30 Breakfast
8.30 – 10.00 Slot F: Drama rehearsal
10.00 – 12.30 Drama presentation
12.30 – 1.00 Closing ceremony
1.00 Lunch /

PLAYDAY 18 Feb. 2006

Playday started 30 minutes late. Mainly due to the commotion involving Lenny's car accident. Murphy's law says, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Luckily, no major injury.

We managed to catch up with the schedule. I pointed out some enhancements that can be done to the games presented. Among others,
1. Good games should be simple but cheat-proof.
2. In debriefing, you want the participants to state your intended objectives.
3. Good facilitators should be lively. Congrats to Lenny for being the best facilitator despite the early morning jink.

Bae & Co. handled the event beautifully. Nevertheless, $10 for Nasi Ayam + Mee Hoon is a little bit expensive. Don't you think so?