hello everyone......

hi!!! how are all of you during this exam week? just wanna wish all of you the very best of luck in the final... did you guys heard about the registration gor practical? someone told me that it started already... we have to register online.... i don't know whether it's right.... i'll check.... i've bought myself a new spectacle already... it is not blue this time as somebody told me that blue brings bad luck to me... it cost me my practical elaun... =( i'll try to be extra careful with this new glasses... ok, see ya...

another 5 papers to go..

ok guys i know most of us are now quite relieve after we have finished our discourse paper..now..we still have another 5 papers to go, correct me if i'm wrong about the no. of papers remain..

hey. nozi, still talking about the past? i thought most of have finished discussing about it..well, never mind..to be good it does not mean that u have to expose urself among others..but need to shine and glow gracefully among others..then people will know how good u are..keep up the spirit alive...

actually now i accompany farrah..and she's now terribly worry about something..u guys wanna to know what is it? just check it out urself-ask her..ha..ha..ha..

ok guys..all the best for the next papers :)

by the way mr.g, when should we meet our PSM examiners? just asking..

oo gosh! that is a payback!

who is that not-so-kind person, huh? tell me, tell me, hahaha......protecting angel la konon. the person do not really get to know you la NoZi. cubalah that person try to get closer and understand. sometimes, people give comment based on their "sudut pandang sendiri" , sebab tulah they blindly judged you that most of the time displease you. if they tried to look things from your eyes than they will get it. same like me lo! never mind. we can still take over the world. let them wait. hehehehe brain-brain-brain-brainiac. (some evil plan is under way)

Cheer up Norzie!!

wow..I felt very sorry for Norzie..She was caught up in the "war". I think it is somehow true but then again we must be wise and flexible to our environment(whatever it means). We have to learn how to adapt and never let others pull us down while at the same time we must not threaten others. Anyway, too bad you were not in the second camp.It is definately havoc and fun!ala-ala some of us mandi laut gitu!Did some back flips ..he..he...it was fun..all the jellyfish swam away from us because we are too loud!! I guess..
p/s: Bend it like Beckham. pssttt....you know what I mean.

HOT!!HAVE TO READ THIS!!

Wow! I guess this is my second time I write something in this column. Not like you guys, especially Kenneth, Damien, Syahrul and the others that always write something in this weblog. Usually I am the reader and today I would like to show that I am a talented person especially in writing and commenting; hehehe. So, what I’m going to talk about is on our language camp that lasted several weeks ago. I guess it’s not too late to say something or else I’ll not get any marks for weblog entries!! So, let go straight to my point. I’m very happy to hear from one of my friends that she enjoyed during the 2nd language camp. But, what I would like to stress on is that their management was fair to everybody especially for introvert people LIKE ME. Opps, wait a minute…I’m not TOO introvert, but if somebody give me a task, then I will finish it because I know that it is my responsible that I have to carry on. Simply said, my weakness is I don’t know how to compete with the others in order to show off myself in front of the participants. So, if somebody feels not satisfied with my participation during the camp, actually I was even more than him. To tell you the truth, I really really want to go to the 2nd language camp just to improve myself and to show to somebody that I’m not a passive or UNMOTIVATED facilitator. Unfortunately, I have tones of works to catch up plus my PSM. Furthermore, I heard that they (2nd language camp) divided the task so that everybody will have a chance to come out in front of the
audience. Actually, somebody reminded me during the camp by saying that I have to go in front and say something. DUHHH, please la my friend…
I don’t want to be emotional so let just stop here. CHEER UP BABES!! All of you were very motivated and a good friend to me. THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR cooperation with me..eventhough I’m not from your batch.

FINAL EXAM

SHE4932
8.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.
7 October 2003 (Tuesday)
Good Luck!

Bad reception

Hi ya people?busy reading your books?well, I hope you are.anyway,enjoy this joke.

A blonde went to eletronic store and she asked, "How is much is this TV?"
The salesman said, "Sorry, we don''t sell to blondes."

The next day she came back as a brunette. She asked the salesman how much the TV was. He said, "Sorry, we don''t sell to blondes."

The next day she came back as a red head and asked the salesman how much the TV was. He said, "Sorry we don''t sell to blondes."

She replied, " I came in here as a brunette and a red head. How do you know I am a blonde?"
"Because that is not a TV, it''s a microwave."

So the moral of the story is..make sure you know what you do and answer the right answer at the right paper.

Good job to everyone!

I would like to thank to Mr. Ghazali for all the knowledge that he shares with us, being a 'guru', the infinitive support, the lecture, and other more that comes from him, Cik Fatimah, Dr. Norazman, En. Faruk, who helped us a lot in giving motivation to us, PNP nHEP people for providing us the materials and also the wonderful help, we appreciate it so much, my lovely friends, they are the helpers, supporters, lovers, cutest, handsomest, some cannot be described as words, on God knows, everyone, i'll keep this in my memory till forever!!!

Video clips!!(featuring ROY!!!)

he..he..I was so happy to see the final cut of the camp's video!Nice job Mr. G.I think veryone likes it..well, I hope..despite the rather explicit exposure part which involves Roy and Kamal posture..other than that..it's a bless!!!But, I was quite sad because we did not recorded the scene where a few of us take a dip in the water..wicked!Anyway, I can't wait to get a copy of that CD!As for the class,erm;Like Diyah and may be a few od us(who someohow didn't write in here)..felt sad and hope that this is not really an end to the class..but hey!It is the end of the class..But, I hope everyone will be happy enough to write whever they are free....Expressso anyone?!!he..he..well, to Mr. G.I want to say my deepest thanks to you because you give me an inspiration to be a playful person again..after all these years..I guess I missed the "play" part.But your class has brought back all the kid in me!I guess everyone felt the same.We all know that next semester you will have a new bunch of crowd in your language games class..And you will go through it again.I hope our existence or the class may somehow chipped something valuable in you. We may not be the best group or the craziest but we hope you will never forget us..he.he..especially the swim part...he..he...yeah..dipping is great!So, since most of us are still around for the next semester and a semester after that;let say you might want to invite us for your camp..please do so?We are sooooo available..he..he..anyway, I hope everyone will do their best in the final....bye..

i dont wanna wave good bye

good bye the second hardest word to say after the words sorry. it is beyond our control that everything will become a thing of a past. like it or not, we are moving on. just wanna wish all u guys the best of luck for the finals. signing out! :P

LG GAMES- our final class...

maybe after this there will be leser people to write in this blog...yeah..maybe some of us have te thought why should i write? i have finish fulfill the coursework requirement and i have nothing to do with this page anymore...

frankly speaking..towards the end of the class.i feel sad..(deep..deep down..down..deep down in my heart-song) recall back our meories during all the camp..the moments that all of us share together...it is really te best moment in my life as a utm student..

i'm eager to wait for the cd so that i can watch again again the cd..especially the ed, roy and kamal part..he..he..he..


ok guys..i hope all of us will actively write in this page..
bye

Good Luck for Your Finals!!

Hiya people!I hope you guys still visit this page.ermm, I just wanted to wish all the best in the coming exam.God Bless!

put some happiness in your life

gosh! dunno whether i should go back for this holiday or not! some guys planning to go to KL. that would add up to my memorable memorable memory. hahahaha dunno what to say anymore. anyway u must be
me in my own guest book hahahahhaa. goin a little bit crazy

Love to all!!

Hi ya people!Still wandering in this page and not even want to drop by at my page..bad....!Anyway, I was so busy last week and are going to be double busy as this week I have to sudmit my CSI TESL, action researh (2 assignments) and polishing up the computer assignment.Not to mentioned D.A !!It is so unreal!The suffering never ends.Sometimes I wished I could dissapeared for a while and put my double to replace me and do all the unfinished assignments.This semester has been very demanding for me.What do you guys think?Do you agree with me?Anyway, as final exam is just around the corner.I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone all the best of luck and remember to study smart for it!tata..I'll be back soon!

It's a wrap!!!!

Wow there was a posting boom on Gameplan! So many postings to read so little time...first of all to those who dream of winning the "crowns" you can dream on (you know who you are and there are only TWO!) Hah! Where is Adam and Kamal???? Nevermind, to Syaharil...dear...why are you torturing yourself! You have but one weakness and that is forever comparing yourself with others and always feel that you have never done enough of anything when in reality what you have done is far beyond what words can say,know that you are made special in your own way and that GOD had made all of us equal...each with our weaknesses and strenght! ok! Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not certain so live the present to its fullest! Enjoy every moment ok Syaharil! Keep up your positive attidute and of all the friends i have known here in UTM you are THAT one that i know i will forever remember in my life and that i know deep down in my heart our life will cross again!

End of posting

Haiyya Miss Jija, can't get the song out of your heart meh?

Three little ducks...three little ducks
Mr. G give me marks... give me marks :)

I would like to thanks all my friends especially the first Sekakap team. Thanks for your help and encouragement. Thanks to the lecturers too.
I had such memorable and unforgettable ELCs. The more we involved, the more we get. Both camps are different and both are the best and I believe the last camp is the best too. I really enjoyed both camps. One with plants, one with water. One with calm, one with 'shock'.
I am so lucky with two energetic groups in Kaizen and Sekakap and they were winner for drama competition too. There were also best actors from both of my groups. Go PEELOO and PEEZ. Go STARS and EXCELLENT!
I'm having a problem to keep in touch with the participants. It's my problem, where I have faced it since I went to other programme of foster parents too. I can't forget them, but I am so hard in visiting them. I hope this time around I have the chance to keep in touch with the participants since they are UTM students too.

End of my words...
Thumbs up to the organizer. Well done to the directors. Good job for the facis. No facis, no ELC. Go FARRAH and DANIEL. I am lucky to get the opportunity to work with you guys. YOU did help me much.

Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you!
The end.

what a great idea!

i'm totally agree with gina, as my housemates and i also had discussed about the same idea right after we finished our camp A. it will be better if we can make it true. as for my housemates and i, we would like to make it like a business. let say, when all of us the TESL students have graduated, we will be posted all around malaysia right? so, we, just come out with some idea like a summer camp during semester break. all of us will create the modules and then we will bring all of the modules and compile them together. then, we can use the modules for the camp. different schools will have different modules right? correct me if i'm wrong. so, from there we will have a TESL organisation which will conduct the summer camp for school students and perhaps for the university students. he he he...just a suggestion. interested, give me a call ;p who knows, may be one day this summer camp will be famous. what a dream i have!

wassup bebeh!

yo ma friends! wassup! okay, since i,ve finished directed my camp, i did not post any of my comment about the camp in the gameplan. now, i have a little time to spend and i would like to accomplish my mission. let's the story begin....well, i'm absolutely totally extraordinarily happy with our camp A. i love you all for such a great cooperation and i give all of you the biggest and enormous applause you guys ever have before. you guys totally outstanding and all of us have been changing as the time goes by and the result is you guys have become better and better in facilitating the others. what a great job guys. i love and appreciate the team work that all of you have shown in the camp. thank you for your support and with that i managed to carry and perform my job as the director. you guys have lighten my burden for being such a great big team. i hope that we can work together again. adam, nice work! you've prooved to me that you can do the material work. you've organised it succesfully. and for the rest you guys totally awesome. NICE WORK TEAM A. LOVE Y'ALL.

My people skill is hanged on a thread! but, i will work it out because you are worth it! (fifth language camp entry)

This would be the fifth and the last posting to fulfill the course requirement. surely, i would end with a very nice and sweet message that every one will endear to.

So far, i have been to four language camps (nat a show off! cos some people will got more). going through all ups and downs in the camp, i think there has been a lot of changes in my personality. do you still remember that silent guy who used to hide himself in his own little world. not much than a green green grass easily blown by the wind! That was 2 years ago (start becoming livelier at third year) but know, i managed to grow out of the timid world of my own and appear to be a bit "big mouth" but that somehow rather depends on situation (don't believe me, try me, i am beautiful and bad :P) and i still consider myself as fragile cos my self-confidence is so unstable and fluctuate. I can go overboard sometimes, the other time, you may safely call me hopeless, because i admit it. Language camp becomes a paramount learning-centre for me.

I would say, i prefer more to Language camp in kaizen. where Kak jija and I were so succesful in giving a deep impact to our "children" :P. I think, a partner could be a crucial factor that affect my performance. I had a good time during the "ice breaking session" that happily telling you my progress during the first post mortem. I was so shocked that everybody expressed their unsatisfy feelings that time. well, it was so awesome ya'll. but i never know that a doom (this may be exaggerating) was waiting for me in the next camp. i was not in a good condition. Plus, a chronic cough was killing me. My self-esteem is at stake.

Being with you guys in the language camp is like a wonderful dream that i never wish to wake up (do i win the crown? this is a miss universe speech). All the memories we built are so much memorable and precious than a happily ever after fairy tale story. Want to ask you this? was that the language camp itself that made you so shining? or was it because the language camp and the one and only excellence organizer (this is a must) plus the beautiful people of our great fellow coursemates were there? what i believe in, the former sounds more to the answer. putting all of our brains together could cause a tornado of change. we are so good in this. we are complementing each other (can it be the other way round? like a silent destructor or something? :P). some of us are on their peak of their performance. people like me, there are a lot of things that i have to learn. the crucial one, my people skill. I know there will be twists and turns on the road ahead. but, believing in what i can do and what i can improve. it would be not much of a problem. with that, i will end by saying that all of you are a great people. Let us treasure all the memories in the language camp forever in our heart. i can't have enough for the language camp, actually, can we have another one?

p/s Mr. G. I am indebted with you a zillion thanx cos, you make me think a lot on what i am lacking in. Giving me lights to show me the way to the path of becoming a greater person. I give you a BiG-BiG smile.

The best to all!!

Hi.The tide is high but I'm holding..I'm gonna be your #1..get the idea?It's actually a song by Atomic Kitten.It's catchy but I love the words in it.It is simple and so real to me...I would like to thank Mr. G for being very supportive and fun as well throughout the camp and class. It was one of the interesting classes for this TESL program. I was having fun during the camp and enjoyed myself very much during your class.I hope we can still work together and have fun in the future.I hope you will invite me for the up soming camps..if you are having one..don't forget me!Because I'll be around for one more year.I believe everyone in your class is having fun just like me.I just wished that we have Language Games II..he..he..I know it's impossible!From the way we blogging and discussing in the blogger..it is very nice and interesting.I hope everyone will still write to each other and keep in our minds that this thing somehow make us closer to each other..And especially yo Pinah..I am very sorry for not mentioning your name during the last postings..ok,here it goes.I would like to tahnk Pinah for being kind,loud(you get the idea) and supportive during the camp.It is nice to know you and working with you.Same goes to everyone...
p/s:MR. G.you are most welcome to drop more messages in my blogspot..he..he..I'll belanja you roti canai at mamak if you do so..he..he..

Does these song ring a bell to your heart?

Three Little Ducks
Three little ducks that I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones, two by two
But the one little duck, with the feather on his back
He ruled the others with his Quack 3x

Down by the river they would go
Wibble wabble wibble wabble to and fro
But the one little duck with the feather on his back
He ruled the others with his Quack3x

BINGO
There was a farm which has a dog
Ang BINGO was its name O
B.I.N.G.O 3x
And BINGO was its name O

You Are My Sunshine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are great
You never know dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

ELC ~ Remains In My Heart

Assalamualaikum wbt

A few days ago, some of the participants who joined our ELC (sekakap and kaizen) sent me SMS, telling me how they missed the facis and the surroundings of English. It is quite hard for them to actually practice English in their life because most of their friends are still looks English in a negative perspective. Some of the participants are also looking forward to join such camp in the future. I think all the credits should be given to the facis, the lecturers (Mr G, Miss Fatimah n En Farouk) and the directors (Syarul, Nater n Adilla). Two thumbs up for you guys... Hmmm, that's all for now...

Ok, good luck for you PSM n assignments n see u when I see u ;-)

Funny but True!!!

As I go through my blogspot and read some of the messages!I was quite shock when most of the comments sent to me discussing mainly about myslef and how I treated others.And I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone for being very sweet and encouraging to me for the past four years.I was a loner back then in school, no one really wanted to know or get closer to me because I was so ugly*get the hint people?Well, now I am a swan prince!!!..err...not really!It's just that I have change on the way I mix and brought myself to strangers.And the last camp was one of the platform for me to fray my innate abilities and scrubbed all the superficial thoughts about me. I maybe lous sometime and may seem a bit bitchy and such an as****e but it is not really me.I am very considerate and helpful but I would never betray my friends just for the sake of success..I beileve we must be good in order to fulfill our goal as a human being.And the language camp had taught me to get closer to people through games and fun ways of learning..Ah..It is do rewarding..oppss..I sounded like a beauty queen.....
p/s:To Mr. G...My smile not only contagious but it is truly sincere..he..he..

Hi ya people!

Phew!here I am again, and this time I will talk more what have I found in the language camp. I'd love to share it with everyone here!During the camp, I have discovered some nice things about myself..that would be the main point here.he.he..I cannot believe that I somehow manage to handle and control a bunch of "big" adults for three days and they are actually listening to what I said.Phew!Second thing, I cannot believe that the way I brought myself in front of these strabgers had gave some inspirations and admirations from my peers(coursemate).I guess it's because they had never see me exposing myself like I'm this Oprah Winfrey...he..he..and the third thing is..I just cannot believe it myself..someone told me that I'm cute..he..he...it's so unreal!!!Well, I think it's true!don't you think so guys?he..he..well, those are the three best things I learned about myself during the last camp.

thanks to all participants

hi there people
well, i guess that i just want to thank everyone, i mean everyone who went for the language camp. you people have given me enough support throughout the camp. speaking about support, it seemed very true that without support, we would never go anywhere. for example, in a balcony , it needs support of 4 poles. without the 4 poles. ot would not be called a balcony. i guess it will be called a collappsed building. so, for all the support that had been showered upon was really fantastic and i am very thankful for that. we really helped each other a lot though the game or programme or activity was not ours to handle on the stage. basically, what has language camp done to me was to teach me a whole lot of a bunch things that i would not get even if i am going to read lot of books. it was seriously a very good experience for all of us. thanks.

rain rain go away

hi there!!
well, as we all know it rained really heavily at the last moment of the camp. that was seriously really bugging at that time. we could not transport our luggages properly and basically, most og us got wet. the best part was that most of us was wet and the air cond in the bus really made us feel like we were in the artic. cool! cold! haha. but it was fun tough. passing the axe brand oil around. some of the participants felt like throwing up. sharings were done in the bus.well, basically, the rain did not really disturd the whole lot of a fun. but then, too bad, we could not have a dip in the beautiful and always welcoming sea. in fact luckily some did manage to have a taste of the sea after the amazing race. wasn't that fun? anyway, the major point was that ,most of us did enjoy there and we also managed to learn some useful stuffs.

They need someone...

Below are some insights that I have got from the language camp;

On the journey of language learning,

Learners need someone to be their role model in learning English.
They need someone to guide them when they do not know where to start in learning English.
They need someone to encourage them when they find it hard to express themselves in English.
They need someone to reassure them when they make numerous grammatical mistakes.
They need someone who to patiently listen to them speaking in English.
They need someone to refer to when they are lost in the using English.
They need someone to motivate them when they are about to give up learning.
They need someone to support them while they are performing on the stage.
They need someone to genuinely praise them for their effort in trying to speak in English.
They need someone to sing with them while they start to feel the pleasure in learning English.
They need someone to work with them in accomplishing the language tasks assigned.

Thank you for being the “someone” who has made their journey of learning English meaningful and unforgettable.

They need someone...

Below are some insights that I have got from the language camp;

On the journey of language learning, learners need someone to be their role model in learning English.
They need someone to guide them when they do not know where to start in learning English.
They need someone to encourage them when they find it hard to express themselves in English.
They need someone to reassure them when they make numerous grammatical mistakes.
They need someone who to patiently listen to them speaking in English.
They need someone to refer to when they are lost in the using English.
They need someone to motivate them when they are about to give up learning.
They need someone to support them while they are performing on the stage.
They need someone to genuinely praise them for their effort in trying to speak in English.
They need someone to sing with them while they start to feel the pleasure in learning English.
They need someone to work with them in accomplishing the language tasks assigned.

Thank you for being the “someone” who has made their journey of learning English meaningful and unforgettable.

its about unity too

hey there people,
now, what is the main password here? i guess it all about the unity we have in here. still reemember the united colours of teslians? hihihi that was the theme for the tesl nite. well, basically, i believe without strong unity witin us, for sure the language would be under a situation of hay wire. truely because we respect each others views and ideas. we believe that if we could give and take, we will achieve the best as the outcome. well, we made it. i love lanuage camp because, i know that my friends are always there for me - while laughing or when i need their help. there i guess, i really appreciate the friendship within the teslians and i also believe that as long as the unity remains in us, we can always succeed in any language camp in future if anyone is organizing.

I'M BACK AGAIN

hi..everyone...
emmm...i agree with what shaharil and keneth said about being assertive. i never thought after the talent night i'm being mark as 'assertive'.hi,hi. sometime we can be assertive but sometime not.
this was my first time went to camp and became a faci. actually i quite worry if i can't conduct or help the participants to improve their english or make them feel fun and enjoy during the camp. but i was so glad that my group members enjoyed themselves during the camp and also two of my group members gave their's contact numbers to me. so i hope we can continue using english through sms with after the camp. i never thought that they are so eager to improve their english.
but the camp was really exciting with the environment, games, the participants, lecturers and facis. i ws glad that we were not having a postmortem in every night of the camp. i was a good thing to have a postmortem in the class and no people were pointing finger to each others.
ok guys...all of us had done a good job from the start (class,meeting,workshop and camp) and with the helped of the lecturer.waaa...i don't know what to type more about the camp. this night i'm quite blur maybe because of the effect of medecine that i just took.
ok everyone...bye,bye

Experienced in Sekakap

Most of you tell about your group in Sekakap. Actually do you know that the "thai" thinging 'sekakap' originated from our group (reallllyyy). The idea comes from abng Shah. He is the one who start it. But my group is the one who popularized the thing. RIOT (relationship in our group) that is my group name. To tell you the truth, i am really amazed with the group. All of them participate very well including boys and girls. They can work very well with each other and some of the facis agreed that they are the coolest group in that language camp. I really enjoyed my time with them and do you know that one the group member (her name is ELLE) is very good in english. That is why she managed to get the best actress for the drama. We as a facis should realize that most of them have the potential but the surronding limit their use of Language. I believe that if UTM change the culture, it is not a big problem for the students to master the language. We asked the participant to speak in english for 3 days only and we can see the effect.Back to my group, most of them really enjoyed the camp and looking foward to join in another language camp. They said that our language camp is the best camp they ever attend. Until now, i am still connecting with them and i hoped all of you do the same thing. Hoorey for us for making Language Camp as enjoyable and meaningful for most of the participant. "Sekakap" thai intonation. Hehehehe.

Experienced in Sekakap

Most of you tell about your group in Sekakap. Actually do you know that the "thai" thinging 'sekakap' originated from our group (reallllyyy). The idea comes from abng Shah. He is the one who start it. But my group is the one who popularized the thing. RIOT (relationship in our group) that is my group name. To tell you the truth, i am really amazed with the group. All of them participate very well including boys and girls. They can work very well with each other and some of the facis agreed that they are the coolest group in that language camp. I really enjoyed my time with them and do you know that one the group member (her name is ELLE) is very good in english. That is why she managed to get the best actress for the drama. We as a facis should realize that most of them have the potential but the surronding limit their use of Language. I believe that if UTM can the culture, it is not a big problem for the students to master the langauge. We asked the participant to speak in english for 3 days only and we can see the effect.Back to my group, most of them really enjoyed the camp and looking foward to join in another language camp. They said that our language camp is the best camp they ever attend. Until now, i am still connecting with them and i hoped all of you do the same thing. Hoorey for us for making Language Camp as enjoyable and meaningful for most of the participant. "Sekakap" thai intonation. Hehehehe.

Experienced in Sekakap

Most of you tell about your group in Sekakap. Actually do you know that the "thai" thinging 'sekakap' originated from our group (reallllyyy). The idea comes from abng Shah. He is the one who start it. But my group is the one who popularized the thing. RIOT (relationship in our group) that is my group name. To tell you the truth, i am really amazed with the group. All of them participate very well including boys and girls. They can work very well with each other and some of the facis agreed that they are the coolest group in that language camp. I really enjoyed my time with them and do you know that one the group member (her name is ELLE) is very good in english. That is why she managed to get the best actress for the drama. We as a facis should realize that most of them have the potential but the surronding limit their use of Language. I believe that if UTM can the culture, it is not a big problem for the students to master the langauge. We asked the participant to speak in english for 3 days only and we can see the effect.Back to my group, most of them really enjoyed the camp and looking foward to join in another language camp. They said that our language camp is the camp they ever attend. Until now, i am still connecting with them and i hoped all of you do the same thing. Hoorey for us for making Language Camp as enjoyable and meaningful for most of the participant. "Sekakap" thai intonation. Hehehehe.

Language Camp in Sekakap

Hai guys. So most of you enjoyed the language camp. A good idea by Gina. I agree with her. Strategy is very important. Actually the language cam flows very well. However i feel a bit dissapointed about religious thing. We as a facilitator should show a good example to the participant. We gave them order to follow certain thing like to be punctual all the time and pray together at the surau. We gave them order but however we ourselves can not follow the order. We should however be as perfect as possible. Never to show our weaknesess. Yes, i agry that our language camp is almost perfect, but one major thing that is forgoten by the facilatator that is about religious thing. Not all facis is like that. Only a few of them can not follow the instruction given. But this few person will reveal our weakness as a facis. Sometime i feel ashamed that when the participant asked "where is the rest of the facis, are they joining us for the prayer" then what should i say to them? If you are in my situation, what will you do? Yes, i admit that we are very tired, but so to the participant. If they can do it, so must we. I thinkl that is the only weaknesess that i can see through out the language camp. The rest flows very well. Congrate to all the facis especially my team (team b) for all the efford and good work until we managed to handle the camp very weel

Language Camp in Sekakap

Hai guys. So most of you enjoyed the language camp. A good idea by Gina. I agree with her. Strategy is very important. Actually the language cam flows very well. However i feel a bit dissapointed about religious thing. We as a facilitator should show a good example to the participant. We gave them order to follow certain thing like to be punctual all the time and pray together at the surau. We gave them order but however we ourselves can not follow the order. We should however be as perfect as possible. Never to show our weaknesess. Yes, i agry that our language camp is almost perfect, but one major thing that is forgoten by the facilatator that is about religious thing. Not all facis is like that. Only a few of them can not follow the instruction given. But this few person will reveal our weakness as a facis. Sometime i feel ashamed that when the participant asked "where is the rest of the facis, are they joining us for the prayer" then what should i say to them? If you are in my situation, what will you do? Yes, i admit that we are very tired, but so to the participant. If they can do it, so must we. I thinkl that is the only weaknesess that i can see through out the language camp. The rest flows very well. Congrate to all the facis especially my tem (team b) for all the efford and good work until we managed to handle the camp very weel

Language Camp in Sekakap

Hai guys. So most of you enjoyed the language camp. A good idea by Gina. I agree with her. Strategy is very important. Actually the language cam flows very well. However i feel a bit dissapointed about religious thing. We as a facilitator should show a good example to the participant. We gave them order to follow certain thing like to be punctual all the time and pray together at the surau. We gave them order but however we ourselves can not follow the order. We should however be as perfect as possible. Never to show our weaknesess. Yes, i agry that our language camp is almost perfect, but one major thing that is forgoten by the facilatator that is about religious thing. Not all facis is like that. Only a few of them can not follow the instruction given. But this few person will reveal our weakness as a facis. Sometime i feel ashamed that when the participant asked "where is the rest of the facis, are they joining us for the prayer" then what should i say to them? If you are in my situation, what will you do. Yes, i admit that we are very tired, but so to the participant. If they can do it, so must we. I thinkl that is the only weaknesess that i can see through out the language camp. The rest flows very well. Congrate to all the facis especially my tem (team b) for all the efford and good work until we managed to handle the camp very weel

Entry 5: Future games

Hello there, it’s me again. So how’s life? I bet you guys are enjoying your sweet but sour holidays…hehe…sweet as in getting a few days off the class and sour as I (or maybe you too!) have to push those grey cells and academic muscles to work extra harder to meet the dateline, or should I call it the deadline? Urrgh…enough about that, lets talk about something else okay? Yeah…future games of language games. Personally I hope that in the coming future better games will be featured by our junior, or by others who are interested to enhance the mastery of English language through games. Then, I hope that future games will be as enjoyable as the ones that we had during the camp. I bet the participants will enjoy the game more if they can improve their English and at the same time the game motivates them to continue learning English even after the camp. What’s next ah? mmm…I also wish that for future games, the person who creates the game actually put effort to make his or her game useful and know the beneficial effect the game has by heart.

Final Entry: Language Camp – My Personal View

Dear readers,

Hello again everyone! I hope you’re all doing fine. Well, since this would be my final formal writing in Gameplan, I would like to share my personal opinion about language camps which I have been involved in for the past three months. Frankly speaking, I’ve been through a lot of things related to language camps since then. It has also kindda affect the way I view life on the whole….at least to certain extent, yes! To summarize all things, I went to three language camps in three months. That’s quite a lot, isn’t it? Anyway, let me tell you guys something about each camp.

I begin this whole story with the first language camp that I’ve ever been to as a facilitator. It was the English Survival Camp or also known as ESURCA among the participants. It was organized by KTC and I was invited to join a group of 5 facilitators at the last minute. Of course I knew about the existence of language camp before, but I’ve never been tempted enough to join one. Anyway, to make the story short, I guess it was the need to get first-hand experience of going to language camp before I have to go to the real one for Language Games that made me went to the camp in Kluang. It was not really a camp though…I mean the situation and all. It was actually done in Aborigines Training Centre. Of course the name of the place sounded scary enough to me but when we went there it was a really nice and comfortable place. That was also my first time working with our seniors because at the time Shahrizam and Aishah also joined the program and Mr. Faruk also stayed with us there for the whole two days. With 49 participants and 6 facilitators, we had decided to assign one facilitator in one group. Although being the first timer and I had to manage one group all by myself sounded a little crazy to me, everything went absolutely right. After doing some reflection, I think I didn’t really realize that I was managing a group on my own at the time because all facilitators were being very nice, helpful and cooperative to me. They would help me with anything that I need them to. Thanks to them and Mr. Faruk, my first camp was not a nightmare.

Talking about the second camp in Kaizen, it was totally a new thing to me. The environment, participants and the people I worked with were different. However, I learned a lot in that camp and I’ve come to realize that … that might be the real language camp. Anyway, talking about participants, I still think that they are the best in terms of the positive effects that a language camp can have on the participants. That was my second camp.

My third camp was the one in Sekakap and I was in the second group to go. In my opinion, everything was going very smoothly except for the bus with broken air conditioner that we had to get on, on our way back. I think, it’s because we all have learned a lot from the camp in Kaizen and we were being very cautious in doing things so that we wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes.

Talking about the effects that language camps had on me, I’m going to start with it has actually increased my confidence to speak English and it has also some kind of pushed me to speak English more often. It’s because before we went to the camp we have to practise using the language more often so that we would be able to function well as a facilitator during the camp. That’s when I realized that I’ve speaking English more nowadays. Secondly, it made me know the people around me better and some how make me feel closer to them. If before the camps, I didn’t really think that I need to know the seniors, after the camps I’ve saying hi and even making small talks more often with at least some of them (those who went to the camps of course). So, it has somehow improved my interpersonal skill a little bit…at least to certain extent…yes, absolutely! And I’ve also feel the same way about several of my course mates. That’s very positive, right? Well, another thing, the camps also made me know more people in UTM now. I mean, it has been very easy to be stopped by and said hello by the participants who know me nowadays. I seem to be seeing many familiar faces these days especially when I’m in the public places such as library, SUB, banks or other places like that. So…I guess more language camps means more friends.

Before I sign out, I would like to say that Language Games is definitely one of the subjects that seem very realistic to me. I mean we use what we learn from the classes in very real situations and while doing that, it actually helps us to be a better teacher, insyaallah…Lastly, again, thanks a lot to MR. G and all my beloved course mates for making that all happened. If there’s any participant reading this, I hope you guys will keep learning English and have fun while doing it. Till then, this is Madihah signing outta here.

The following is a translation of the text of the National Day Address

The following is a translated excerpt the National Day speech delivered by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday night Aug 30, 2003. Maybe you may use it in your PSM later.

We can still increase wages without in-creasing costs if our output and productivity can be increased via enhanced efforts and skills, or via better manufacturing methods like automation and the use of IT. Workers must be willing to be retrained so that they are more skilled and can use more sophisticated equipment that can facilitate increased output.

In this regard, the mastery of the English language is very important. This does not mean we want to push our own language, the national language, aside. Our language cannot be promoted if we remain an undeveloped race. Only races which are developed can promote and spread their language.

In early times, the Arabs were a strong, developed race knowledgeable in mathematics, astronomy, science, sailing and others besides religion. Those who want to have the knowledge pioneered by the Arabs must learn Arabic. But today, the language of knowledge is English. If we do not want to be an undeveloped race, we have to learn and be adept in the English language.

Similarly, if we want to enhance our output so that wages will increase, every worker must master the English language, if not fully, then enough to understand the methods of work and instructions in the language. To learn other languages we must also first master English because there are no books and courses on other languages in our own language.

The strategy and approach taken to develop our country and improve the standard of living of Malaysians is carried out with integrity and by formulating our own approach after studying in detail the ways and means of others."

Taken from:
http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/20030901083517/Article/

Language Camp

Hai everyone. As everyone know that our language camp have been a very suceesful camp. I want to thank to all my coursemate especially my team (kenneth, ila, diyah, farrah, dihah, mien, sham, elle, affa, abg shah, kak linda,penah, izati, dihah, megat, caroline, gina) for such a good co-operation. To ila, you have done a great job as a director.
I had learned a lot of thing in the camp. The important thing is team work and good plan. Actually, i had been to language camp before. But, this time it is different. Before this i have to handle children but this time young adults. It' really different. For me, i think i enjoy the camp in Sekakap cause i think there are more matured and easy to control them. I also want to express my special appreaciation to Abg Shah. He has help me alot in hanlding my group (RIOT stand for relationship in our team). Besides, i want to thank all my lectures especially En Ghazali for giving me such opportunities to join in the camp.
However, there is a bit problem during the preparation before going to the camp.Some of us did not participate very well in preparing the things before going to the camp. However, i want to congrate Ila and Megat in handling this situation. Megat has done a great job as a secreatary. Hopefully, he will keep up the good work. Basically, i really enjoyed my time as a facilatator for the language camp.

(lang camp entry) build the tower, a comment.

gosh! that's a gros spelling error! well, i should call it "camp commander" from now on. Thanx kenneth for the correction.

this is ugly! i am in this CC with a deafining PC game being played all around me. a little bit gloomy and seriously, the chair is too large for my size. do i look like a nerd, with this file and KFC's table mats on my lap? to make matter worst, some of the buttons on the keyboard have faded, gosh, i have to double-force on hitting the space bar. people! people! as soon as i step out from the door, that's it! i'll secure an absolute freedom from this far from peace CC.

straight to the point, i'd like to say something on build-the-tower game. undeniably, after some modification, the game has become our creme-de-la-creme ( i like to experiment with words) game for all camps. it was good, really, thanx to Megat the founder, credits to MR. G who had given his creative touch to the game and not forgotten Daniel and -who in charge for camp B? - who made the game so succesful. However, i sense a defect in the game that, because of we have several people for the Crippled-one (the average and quiet participants), not all of them benefited to speak out to give the instruction. this is what i saw in my group, there were 4 crippled people. 2 out of 4 turned to be so active in giving the instruction and the other 2 were alienated on the side and just looking at their friends. They did received the information from the muted but they didnt know how to transmit it to the builder. perhaps, they didnt know how to start. within that confusion, apparently, the other two had blinded them with their flash-progress instruction. what we should do is, we identify parts of the tower properly and assign it to each of the contractor. whether they like or not, they have to practice the language. bekos wai? they need to have the tower, dude.....it's a race against time !!!!!!

i did remind the cast aways to say something to the builders. what they gave on my face? a chronic grinning on the forehead and a running around with a constant-smiling give away. oh dear, that was somewhat funny but i was deeply touched in my heart too. plus, DR. Annie was there. a bit of not-spontaneous act, i did. that's harmless. don't worry. i still, firmly hold my respnsibility to my participants. that's all. i will come back for a final posting!!!!! see ya.

Comment to gina's entry in her blogspot....

Well i agree wif u in the sense is that yes at times i do think university students lack that thing called wisdom... they have all d knowledge in their heads but failed to apply it to their daily lives... u must remember is that m'sia 's education is based on exams and paperwork and not on daily or omplementation of that knoledge. well it takes lots of experiences and wisdom to reach a stage of that life.. where u can think rationally and optimistically. i thank God that i had a very pracmatic parents that saw that my talents are at my hand as my head too. i thank that both of them taught me to use my head and hands 2 do the work... and not just wasting my slava talking. talking does not do the job but get yourself inolve in the matter at hand is the essential part of it. i mean u must get the hands on experience in order to do things. besides that one must also use their knowledge and apply it in their lives. hey i didn't get to know all d technical part of the computer until my dad had me hands on the pc n start fixing it.. i didn't just get all d knowledge of fixing things from kitchen appliences to plumming and carpentry just for nothing and returned it to my techers... well use it to fix the things at home or where u stay.... same goes to cooking... experienment wit things u can get your hands on... watch cooking show... i don;t use the cook book to learn how to cook... i see things n change it to suit d environment... hey all this i learn it from watching people and listening to what they say....

Hey i'm not trying to brag here but it is the truth on how i learn things..... it is a good thing to watch and listen... that i guess is why God made us with ears, eyes, nose, mouth and hands to do all the things so that we can survive in this world.. knowledge comes with wisdom to use it! u can see all this in proverbs! i guess university students must Grow up and start learning to love wisdom. with all the knowledge stored up in your head and u don't use it is a waste of that God given brain of yours. this i hope would be a help to those future leaders of the camps or any camps. well the selection of a camp leaders not nessecary means all the dressing or certificates but on the quality of that person's leadership. can that person do the things that say... hey promising things does not ensure the follower's future... no one will follow a leader that only blows the wind but doen't deliver... heck i know all things coz this all has happened in history... i hope we would be able to futher improve ourselves to be able to be people who delivers and not just give empty promises.
Godspeed n God bless! have a great independence day! : )

5 Post (5. Future Camps)

Maybe in the future we can make a 2 way camp. For example conducting an english camp at pulau tioman. Most of the children over there, their parents has a resort and they send their children at a nearby school. So we conduct a camp and at the same time we can have a vacation. I think most of us would love that. But we need to negotiate with them and another one would a language camp at the japanese school in pasir gudang. The scenario would be more difficult and more challenging. We get to exchange the culture knowledge and have fun at the same time. What do you think? This would be my idea for the future camps and there are more in my head. Actually we can make a business out of this camp. I suggested this idea to Mr. Ghazali. Lets say in the future someone has posted to sabah for example, u tell the teacher at the school that you want to make a language camp. You contact your classmates and for those who are free can go as a volunteering basis or make a formal negotiation. At first it is hard but when you get the pace, you'll be laughing like a millionaire.

Here we go! Ale ale ale!

hmm great comments for far...i always knew Gina had the nic for giving great ideas! I feel that our lecturers could actually "keep" a few of those with talents here in UTM even after graduation..."disguised" as Masters Students and by day...these candidates will coordinate the language camps for the whole semester like up to eight every sem...what they could do is to also open up say 30% of facilitators consisting of students from other courses but with an excellent command of the laguage! those selected few could train them with the needed skills and the rules of the games! this could greatly minimize the workload of the lecturers but there is one down side to this plan...the facis might not work as well together! hmm any suggestions as how we could improve on our plans...syaharil...it was sweet of you to say that..thank you...and its Camp Commander...bye and take care!

The most favourite game

Of all the games that the participants played in the camp, which was their most favourite game? For my group (A-ion group), my members liked the Alphabet game and the Snap the most. For the Alphabet game, they said they can learn what words fall under what categories (whether the words are in the categories of country, adjectives, fruits and vegetables) . Besides, they were also challenged to seach their memories for words that start with a particular alphabet. The Snap game was interesting as it got everyone excited and be ready to shout 'snap' at the right time. I wonder whether or not in the evaluation form, participants were asked to rank the games form the most favourite to the least favourite. In this way, we can have ideas of which game should we keep and which should be replaced by other game.

The best actor

I wonder how many of you know Vince. He was one of the members in my group and he was the winner of the best actor award in the camp. I remembered the first day during the introduction of facis and members slot, he was puzzled why he was asked to come to the camp. He felt that his English was not that bad to have to come for such a 'remedial' camp. In other words, he saw no reason he should be there except that he was forced to. However, on the last day of the camp, his thought of the whole camp changed. He claimed he had benefited a lot from the camp and that he enjoyed the activities in the camp. I think this is the biggest satisfaction that all the facis have for their hard work to make the camp a successful one. We have somehow changed the perspective of participants towards the camp and also towards English. This feeling of satisfaction will remain in my memory forever.

I am in your side! (lang camp entry, of course)

Gina, i am actually, sort of, perhaps agree with you with that strategy difference and i know where is this marketing strategy derived from. Is Daniel decided yet? hehe !
yup, that is a very good idea. But even though the participants thought they were being forced to go, guess what? they were voluntarily changed their mind as soon as we went on stage and spurring out our "unique attitude". they were so overwhelmed that they have to go with "le flow" of total enjoyment that imbued with vast educational values, we proposed. At this stage, I think the issuance of the letter wil not be an issue. Anyway, your marketing startegy will two-fold the number of the participants, in this respect, i should honour your brilliant idea.

well, that was only my respond for gina's posting. For this posting, i would like to talk bout two major things, firstly something on camp commandant (how 2 spell?) and secondly, how to get closer to the participants. This is not a very fancy topic to talk about, but i'd like to say it's better to have a camp commandant, somebody from our circle. if he/she totally a new figure then i afraid to say, there wil be a big chances for a miscommunication to occur. everybody has a different values, views, and priorities. A minute carelessness will lead to a serious miscommunication. i've been there! so, i am just giving my humble opinion based on what i have experienced.

secondly, how is it to make every facy recognized by all the participants rather than just restricted within their own small, secluded group only? Yeah, just try to avoid a misconception that after this, nobody would dare to say that somebody is being so obsessed with their participants in the particular group o-n-l-y (ouch!). furthermore, dont you think it is a bit of a comedown when you only have a fond memory of 11 people in your group only. what happen to the "shout" slot actually? it was a bit chaos for the team-building session last time (sekakap A). we kept on changing the group members. after trying to be a bit systhematic for the group forming, in the end, we resorted to the conventional of counting 1-2-3. well, at least we made our life easier, didnt we?
ok. that's all. until next time.

mon: 1630: ;leadership matters...

hi there people! happy Merdeka Day! yahoo... so, regarding the language camp, wasn't that a 'merdeka' too for all of us? we enjoyed what ever we did there: the activities, beach and the food, jellyfish and blah blah blah. we had the whole lot of a time to relax and stay away from the assignments. that was good. however, speaking about the leader out there, i mean the language camp leaders, they did a great job actually. they were very attentive all day though they did not have enough sleep. bravo and congrats for the good job. you earned your respect well and did your job greatly. thank to ila who know what to do and when to do. i hope that i was a good leader in the group too. i was with ken directing the 'ale ale' group. it was great actually. anyway, i bet we all had a good time and learnt more about what leadership is all about.