The end of the year...

2009 has come to an end now, and I would just like to share some thoughts from my friend to you. She was my ex-classmate in my previous secondary school. She is a true, special and nice friend of mine. Today, I got her message, a long and deep one. It was touchful and fulled with love, so I wanna share it out because it is meaningful for me... Would you mind?

It starts like this...

Remember there is a board in our previous school where we used to look at when we were queueing under the hot sun? It is written there...

A lot of people walk in and out of our life, but only true friend will leave a footprint in our heart.

I have always kept a place for yours! In this coming new year, I hope that everything goes smoothly in your life. If you should come across any obstacle in your life, you will jump over each and everyone of it because I said so! And you will jump higher than that, not just being able to strike down the challenges, you achieves more. Fear not! Conquer it and you will find that if you enter this world knowing that you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, than everything that happens in between can be dealt with! I know I am not yet qualified to say that, but I didn't write what I wrote, I lifted it from Michael Jackson's words, a man who had had enough challenges in his life. How about that?

It was a wonderful gift I have ever received this year! It was so special and meaningful! Thank God for giving me such a true friend in my life...

I wanna tell you, I fell so thankful of having you as my friend. Thanks for your words, and I appreciate it so much...to say it again, don't forget to point back the words to you, because you deserve it more than me! I love you, my friend...

I asked her what is the meaning of last sentence in her words, and she give me this...

Because it was said by Michael, whose life is filled with ups and downs. It makes the words more inspiring, if not to everyone, to me at least! If he could hold on until his last breath, so can we. On top of that, look what he had to endure, it is far beyond anyone can bear. He took the pain and went through his life, with love, strength and passion. Why? People accused him of child molestation, twice; rumour has it that he bleached his skin to be white; tabloids said he bought the elephant bones, slept in hyperbaric chamber, underwent hormone treatment to maintain his falsetto, and had his face completely changed. None of it was true, but people who do not know him got him wrong in every single way, the press didn't want to give him any credit, not until his death that FBI revealed that they found no evidence against him, that people realised that they were wrong about him. How he went through all, LOVE. He knew that he had to go on for the ones that love him. His family and fans.

Great! I start to admire michael of his strength and passion...hope that it is not too late; I knew too little things about michael! But my friend is not the same, she is her big fans, or perhaps his believer. I knew that she was so sad when michael gone; Michael should be happy to have such a believer, in my eyes at least! My friend, what you said is right, we should never give up, hold on until the last minute, for the ones we love, and for the ones who love us! LOVE is too powerful, it can change a person not only outwardly, but also mentally. It change my friend mind, her way of thinking. Recently she is taking meditation; it is a piece of deep thought on a subject, expressed in speech or writing. She thinks a lot about life, right, my friend?

Hope that you are not angry with me to share it out on the blog. I know you won't. Thanks, my friend! haha...

Hope you readers understand it, let us look around for our love, don't miss the things surround you, hope you will get it^^ I hope I wouldn't miss it too, haha^^

*happy new year*

Look at me!

Not feel like leaving, so I want to upload some photos to share with you...hehe...

She is my roommate, Mayuree. I have not seen her for two months. But don't worry, three more days later I am going back to meet her...haha^^

This is me...haha...when I was small...cute right? haha...

Lets look on some photos of me...hehe

ha...this is me la! still cute right? haha...welcome for comment again^^

Welcome for 2010 !!!

Thinking back the moment I have spent through this year, I realize that it was actually a start of my life. I started to doing things in my own in 2009. I started to change from a very introvert, shy, dependent and quiet girl to a more cheerful, happy and not so dependent girl. Everything started from having my first driving licence. It was the first new things I learnt in this year. I learnt how to drive a car, at the same time, I learnt to overcome my fear against new things. I was always given too little courage to step out of myself, to do somethings I have never try before. Even until now, I left the car behind, too araid of driving it again...haiz....can somebody help me?

Besides, together with friends, we took a bus to Mid Valley to join an education fair. Not to say join, but to have a look instead. We have no experience of going to KL without family members, just with some friends. That time was actually before our SPM results were released. We were blurred about our future. We were still finding at that time, what were our interests? Which path should we take, so that there would be no regret in the future? Being on the edge of hesitation, we decided to discover our lives! It was quite funny that we might know how to go there, but we totally have no idea on how to travel back home. Luckily, among us there was a guy, who had helped us a lot in this first try. Thanks for him! ^^

Next, after SPM result was released, I started to apply for scholarships when my dad put an urge on me. I have no idea on how to apply for those scholarships at first. The problem was, there was no internet available at home, so how could I apply those scholarships online? It relly got me headache!!! And I didn't know what kind of scholarship I should apply. There were too many of them. Of course my result was quite well, so I got the qualification. My dad was more kan cheong ( nervous) than me. So, he went to ask his friend, who was a very helpful uncle. He really helped me a lot! Besides, I went to school again to ask my previous secondary school's caunsellor about all the information on how to apply for those scholarship available. Not only them, I should thank all the people that have helped me during that time. Without them, maybe I won't be lucky today to get JPA scholarship.

During that period of busy working and rushing, I got my first step out to asking for help from so many people. These were totally out of me to do that in the past. I felt happy to have that kind of improvement. Although I am still depending on others until now, but I will try my best to step out more...

Talking about first time, actually I got many things to share. This included my first interview in Putrajaya. Getting all ready, I followed my dad in taxi to Putrajaya. I was very nervous that day, especially when I saw so many of people like me, going there to interview with some JPA stafts. Everyone looked smart and proffesional and professional in their formal clothes. They talked in English. This made me afraid to talk with them because my English standard was too low...haiz...( I am study hard to get my English language better now)...and I was too shy to speak out too. Everything went well that day, I made some friends. During the interviewing session, I was being asked questions about computer, technology, internet and so on...That was my weaknesses. I was too lack of knowledge about these kind of things...not knowing what to do, I answered all the questions honestly and the best I can. I am always blessed with love, that's why I was so lucky to get the scholarship!

I was offered to study at INTI University College, Nilai for one and a half year. I was happy with it because the college is just a short distance from my home. New friends, new clothes, new roommate, new living, new food, new laptop, new study....a lot of new things happened on me...there would still be a lot of new experience waiting for me! haha^^

This is my 2009, it was belong to a girl named NG FEI WEN! Yeah! It was special and meaningful...holiday is going to end soon, and I will be going back college three more days later...in this coming year, I wanna wish you all have a happy new year. Also hope that 2010 would be my special and meaningful year again!

Sharing makes me alive!

hehe...what do u think about my photo? opening the album, I accidentally found this photo.
It is me in this photo!
I took it around two weeks ago...not so sure...haha^^
taking my own photos seem to be my hobby now...
haha...I got lots of photos, so I just wanna share with u all...
well, please leave your comment here if you like to do that...thanks~

Merry Christmas^^

Christmas is going to end soon...taking this opportunities, I wanna wish everyone that I love...



MERRY CHRISTMAS



and a HAPPY NEW YEAR^^



be MERRY
be HAPPY
be HOLY



HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS^^ HOHOHO~



hOPE you guys are happy n HAVE FUN !!! ^o^

Happy Birthday My Friend ^^

Today is her birthday. I have not seen her during the holiday. We used to see each other almost everyday in the past minus Saturdays and Sundays. Now, when I cast my mind back, this year, we have not seen each other like most of the time, it's the opposite of what we did! We can probably count using our fingers, how many times we have met each other this entire year! It has almost come to an end now. Not only her, but for our gang of friends last time... When can we have a complete reunion back? I wonder...


I am still blessing with love. Although it was not joining by all of them, we still suceeded to have one or two meetings with some friends in holiday. This reminds me of the Morib trip not very long time ago...


We took a taxi to Morib beach that day. That was the first time we called taxi by ourselves to go somewhere to play. There was a total of five of us. Luckily the taxi driver allowed us to squeeze inside the car. haha^^ The taxi driver was an Indian uncle, and he was a very talkative, friendly and funny person. His story made us laugh the whole time in the taxi...


Reaching there, we got some problems at first. There was no locker for us to keep our bags and belongings. So lousy right? Without choice, we just left our belongings not too far away from beach. Luckily all the things were not stolen...haha

Playing on the beach is fun!

We started a "water-fight" there. Nobody could keep their clothes dry that day! haha...

Of course we would never missed this chance to take some photos as memories...

We have a happy time =)

Shadows on the beach marked our friendship!

I like this photo the most...it reminds me of the funny moment that we have~

We should gather more often, just like the past that we did! Enjoy happy time while we are young! =)

Happy Birthday to you, my beloved friend! ^^

What about today?

Today is not a happy day...this is what I thought at first...I couldnt sleep well the whole night. Actually I was too happy and excited at yesterday night. There were lots of good things happened to me =) Because of that, I lied on my bed for hours and hours, thinking back some sweet memories, until I got myself frustrated...*sigh*...although I managed to sleep at last but it only last for a short period. I was again and again awakened up by some stupid noisy sound. I hate it, hate it! >.<

Waking up so early in the morning, I have nothing to do except online. Checking mails, chating with friend...and I receive MMS. It is a christmas wish from my friend...there are my photos inside! It is cute and I like it...thank you for cheering me up...I am now happy ^^


My happiness continues when I received call from my aunt...I am going to her saloon later...haha...I have been waiting for so long~huhu ^o^

I receive it today...MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! Taking this opportunity, I wish happiness will follow all of us wherever we go~

My Saturday

12 a.m. sharp, I sent birthday wish to my friend. "Happy Birthday to you again! =)" I have not seen her for a long time, probably she is busy with her work. I felt quite disappointed last time because she refused to join us out. She said she was busy. She is now in holiday, so what does she doing in this holiday? Working part-time? Or something to do with her family? I don't know...haha...There is a friend gathering on next coming Saturday. I hope she is coming, not only her, but all my friends...some of them are hesitating on joining this Form-5 Friend Reunion. *sigh* some of them asked me who organised the gathering, but I dont know...it must be one of our ex-classmates lo...haha





Nothing special about today...it is just a rainning day, and I sleep until 12.++ p.m. no dream although I wish I have. Why? because yesterday I made a weird but funny dream. I was awakened by mom before I could watch the ending. In my dream, I was a helper in my mom's restaurant. A robery happened in the restaurant, and the robbers were the workers in the restaurant. haha...in the story, the robbery was caused by me! I accidentally found out that the cashier stole some money, so I told my mom. She was very angry and definitely she scolded the cashier (an Indian guy). The cashier was then rushed out of the restaurant, but he came back with a gang of guys. They took away all the money...(I dont know how they rob without any weapons)...haha...I called police afterwards...it seemed like I couldnt communicate well with the policewoman. It took me a long time to explain to her about the restaurant address...the funny thing was, she kept on asking me a lot of things not related to the robbery. Out of the topic at all! And I still answered the question one by one...nothing logic in this dream at all right? haha...





Alright, I got to leave now. My mom is asking me to take care of the baby...so see you later ^^

Blood Donation

30th September 2009- I was studying at INTI University College at Nilai, having my first year of college life. I have experienced a lot of new things there including donating my blood. Before that, I did not even know my blood group.

I was initiated to donate my blood because of bonus mark offered by lecturer. My Malaysian Studies' lecturer, Mr.Raymond Lee promised to give us extra mark for our course work if we could show him the red book ( a small book to record blood donation of someone). At that time, there was a blood donation programme being held in my current college. It was a three-days programme being held by LEO Clubs if I am not mistaken. So, not only me, but the whole class who was attracted by the bonus mark, decided to donate blood.

It was not only for getting the mark, it was about my curiosity to find out how a programme like blood donation looked like. For information, the blood donated will be sent to National Blood Center, and all donaters will be given certificate for their good deeds. Of course there were some conditions to be fulfilled before anyone could donate their bloods. I was happy to be the lucky one to pass the blood test. But unfortunately, some of my friends failed to do so. For women, we must have weight of 45 kg or above to be qualified to donate blood. Of course, your blood must be healthy and is sufficient for you to donate it out. Some of them cannot donate their bloods bacause of low blood pressure. From what I knew, maybe they were lack of sleep the day before. So actually there were some of them said that it was unfair to them because they lose the bonus mark. haha...

It was a painful but worthy experience for me. After having lunch in cafeteria, I followed my friends to donate blood. There were three of us in total. We filled in the form, then we waited for the blood test and so on. Among three of us, I was the second one to do the test. As I told before, I must achieved at least 45 kg to be qualified. I should have no problem with this because I was weighted 50++ kg last time. However, I was still asked to weight my body. The first thought that came in my mind at that moment was "Wow, I have lost my weight!" haha....the needle pointed at 48 kg. And I was qualified too for the next few tests including blood test, blood presure test and BMI test.

Seats provided were fulled in the room. We have to wait for our turns. While I was waiting, one of my friends failed the blood test, so she went back. Five to the minutes later, I was lying on the seat, chating with my classmate who was also donating her blood at that moment. I felt a little pain when the needle stuck in my hand. I was asked by nurse to move my fingers with something in my hand to grap. I asked my friend, they said it was to let the blood flow more quickly into the bag. I donated a pack of 350 ml blood of group O.

I stood up after lying on the seat for a while. I felt everything just alright at first. Then, I walked to my friend who was still donating blood. After a little chat, I felt some headache. I thought it should be ok after some time, so I got some food and drinks, and I walked to the corridor outside the room to let myself sit down and got some rest. But things grew worse. =.= I felt terribly sick. My sight was getting blurred....one lady came forward to me, and she took a cup of milo to me. However, things did not improved.

Luckily, my classmate came. They asked me what had happen to me. But I did not know. I felt numbness in both my hands and legs. I couuld not heard clearly the voice of my friends. I felt weak. My sight getting blurrer....the thing that most scared me was my hand was like shrinking. Oh my goodness! I dont know what had happen to me. I felt hot...no...it was not hot...I felt cool in my hand but I found myself sweating. What happened to me? A group of friends were surrounded me. Some of them asked help from the person responsible. I was then took inside the room again. I remember that I could not walk well, so the guy took me in. haha...I was asked to lay again on the seat, and I was given a drink. Magic...after I lied down, all the sick feelings start to reduce and finally disappeared. I was back to normal again. I was very happy! Thank God! Luckily nothing happened to me...

My classmate were having their class. I knew I was late...haha...but nevermine...I did not see my bag outside, so I guess my friends have took for me. After I took my certificate and a small red book, I rushed to class...my friends took my bag. I show them my certificate. At class, I received by test and quiz paper. I got high marks for both papers. I was happy again. Everything runs smoothly....haha....

It was a great experience. I would like to donate my blood again. ^.^

Time to write my blog!

Actually I have isolated my blog for a very long time. I did not even know there were some comments on my blogs, and i have just reply some of the comments rite now...sorry la... I felt sorry with that to everyone, especially to Miss Dilani, my English lecturer. It was not my wish to do that as i was relly getting myself very busy with all kind of works in my just very first semester in INTI. ....haizzzz........So, it is now my turn back to write my blog!

I had a very nice sleep just now after coming back from PIZZAHUT. So, maybe tonight or tomorrow i am going to start my revision in spe maths...it sound boring rite...but i still need to do so..haha...nevermine...only three more days to go, next morning i can go back home already, and see my little baby girl, EVELYNN at home...dont misunderstand the meaning...haha...she is being baby-sitted by my mom now....she is cute...let me show u her photo!

Well, is she cute? sure cute one...haha...miss her very much,,,,hope that this weekend will pass very fast...

oklah...that all for today....bye~~~

3 more days to holiday!

I have just finist my account test. Phew~ well, i still got one more exam to go, and it is the mossssssssst difficult subject for me to score marks! i will have it on next Monday in the morning...' papa'....haha...dont hnow why, but i cannot get the marks i want in every single test or quiz..and that is SPECIALIST MATHEMATICS! I am going to put my very great effort in this weekend! I got to believe in myself! I can do it, YEAH!

Oops, i need to leave now! Later on i am going to pizzahut to enjoy my meal. I have to let myself relax first before work on my enjine....so, bye~

Mooncake Festival

I am in the hostel again. The two days weekend that I have spent at home seemed to pass very fast. On Saturday night, there was a gathering at my home. All my relatives were there. We played together, and we enjoyed it very much. We hung the tanglung around my house, and we lit up some candle on the floor. We have a lot of mooncakes and snackfoods to enjoy. Some of my relatives even brought some wines to my house. But I couldn't drink bacause as I was told by my mother, I am sensitive to alcohol. There will be red spots all around my body if I drink it. In fact, not only alcohol I am sensitive to, my skin is sensitive to many things. However, it is not very serious, so it is not a big problem to me. I still can eat a lot of foods, like mooncakes....haha

Hmmm...delicious....

This is my mother and my younger sister. How enjoy they are!

Well, my brothers like mooncake festival very much bacause it is time for them to play!

We light up the candles on the floor!

We carry out some fireworks too!

Besides eating and playing, we also chat to the relatives. It was a good opportunity for us to get our relationships closer and to relax our bodies as well as enhance our moods. As I always believe,

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE.

Test!!!

Hi guys! We meet again. Actually I was in great mood yesterday because I have kept my promise to finish my MPW take home quiz 2 (it can be considered finish)! I was happy with that, of course....I have already finished it before evening, so I was just relaxing myself at night by listening to musics from radio. There were so many nice musics transferred to my ears, and I was really enjoying that. But then, I found myself to be too tired as I did my schoolwork nonstop in afternoon. Therefore, I closed the radio and tried to have a sweet dream as I always had. However, I couldn't fell asleep although I have tried very very hard to do so. I hate this!!! Why? I was already out of power, still I couldn't sleep! So, I lied on the bed for a very long time, and without realizing, I fell asleep...zzzzz.... And do you know what happened next?

No doubt, the next morning I woke up (this morning), I was still sleepy. I do not get enough rest! And the worst thing is, I will have an English test tomorrow! That mean I needed to study today, but I am very tired....So, how?! Nevermine, I can push myself to finish it. That is what I thought. And the good news is, I have finished study my notes and exercises now! hahaha... That's why I can have my time to update my blog! Hope that I can really do my best tomorrow....

I can do it! Gambateh!!!!!!

Good Morning !

Hi guys! I have just wake up from my sweeeeet dream. Ha ha...Emm...Sunday...oh ya! This is my very first time not go back to my hometown-Banting. "Actually it takes only 30 minutes plus to reach my happy home from INTI", that is what I always used to say with my friends. Don't blame me ....! But on Thursday, I told my mom that I refused to go back this week. Why? Hmm...the reason is very simple. As all of you know, so many tests and quizzes plus presentation are waiting for us. Oh my god! It is pretty lots for me! So, I have to stay here to work hard. As people always, "Work hard makes you smarter". I totally agree with this statement. Without practising a lot, a person will definitely left behind. But there was some special case-genius! I saw them not even studies at all, but they were still amnaged to do well in tests! Unfair right! I hope that I can have a genius brain, but then I don't have! Too sad! Anyway, just keep on pushing, tomorrow will be better! YEAH!!!!!!

Remember what I have told you all about my roommate? Finally I dint go back to Banting at the weekend, and when I told her about this new, she seemed to be happy for sometime cox...Guess what she told me? She don't need to sleep alone tonight...hahaha...if I am the only one in a small room, definitely I will keep on thinking about all the "weird" things! According to the Chinese calender, it is the seventh month now, meaning to say that it is now the month of GHOST! Wow....Even yesterday I was washing my clothes manually in the bathroom at night, and I was alone inside, and I felt that "something" was looking at me. I became so frightened, but I tried to make myself calmed down, so I speeded up my work and rushed to my room after it is done. Huh...a scary experience! I will never wash my clothes alone again at night! Then, I told my "bad experience" to my roommate, and she just laugh at me, saying that I was coward! What lah!? It is normal right for a girl to have scary feeling when stay alone ina a place! But, ya! I know I am always scare of ghost and insects, even in my home. I think I really can faint down if I meet with ghost! So, you guys don't try to frighten me by using ghost or making ghostly sound!

Ok, I don't want to continue anymore on that kind of crazy story. Let me talk about what I did yesterday. Together with my classmates, we went to jogging! Although it was quite difficult for me to continuosly run down the whole track, but I managed to do that for two times. I think I have lots oof "sport cells" in my body! Ha ha.... I have not jogging for a very long time before yesterday, probably more than a year! Ha, this reminds me of something! Take note! I was an athlete before in primary and secondary school! I took part in high jump, and I was able to keep myself to the first place for almost every competition(but sometimes I miss one or two)! And then, if you guys visit my home, I can show you my trophies...How proud I am! Hahaha....But now there is no chance anymore for me to high jump....I start to miss high jumping although last time when I was trained by coach, I was quite under tension! Hmm...I think I should visit my coach next time I go back to my hometown....

It seemed like I enjoyed saturday, but in the fact I did enjoy, but at the sametime I finished my schoolwork, and I am so happy today! But then I still need to complete my other schoolwork...and I have not take my breakfast yet....so, bye bye......Wish you guys have nice weekend!

Character Review (Australia) : Lady Sarah Ashley

Lady Sarah Ashley is an English aristocrat who inherits a cattle station, Faraway Downs in Australia. In 1939, Lady Sarah travels from Great Britain to Australia to meet her husband, Maitland Ashley in northern Australia, initially to force her husband to sell the cattle station. Her husband's drover comes to the city of Darwin to bring Sarah to their farm; however, when they reach Faraway Downs Farm, they are shocked to find out that Maitland was murdered. Therefore, Sarah decides to take control of Faraway Downs. Sarah befriends Nullah, who tells her that the administrator Neil Fletcher is stealing her cattle; has killed her husband; and is working for the cattle baron King Carney. Sarah fires Fletcher and his men. In order to save Faraway Downs from bankruptcy, she decides to continue her husband’s plan before he passes away which is to deliver 2000 cattle to Darwin. She persuades Drover to help her to take the cattle to Darwin. Sarah, Drover, Nullah and a group of loyal employees, they ride together to drive the cattle to Darwin.

Physically, Lady Sarah Ashley is a pretty and charming woman. She has blond curly hairs and blue eyes. Before and when she reaches Australia at the beginning of the movie, she looked arrogant. As an aristocrat, she used to live in luxuries; therefore she is not very being used to the environment in Australia when she first arrives at Australia. For instance, Lady Sarah overdressed herself when she travels with the drover to Faraway Downs.

Inwardly, Lady Sarah is a determined woman. Even though her husband has passed away, she is still determined to protect her property, Faraway Downs from greedy English cattle barons. In other words, she is tough and strong. She never gives up easily when she faces difficulties. For example, when King Carney’s men poison the water source along the cattle-drive route, she continues the journey although it is going to be an uphill task. With the help from Nullah and King George, she finally completes the task. She shows remarkable courage and determination, and that makes her acknowledged by all people including the barman. He serves Lady Sarah a cup of drink even though women are not allowed in his bar. Besides that, Lady Sarah is strongly opposed to the discrimination of aborigines. She disagrees with the action of the white people to take the half-aboriginal kids away from their mothers. She is very concern about a half-aboriginal kid, Nullah. She loves and takes care of him very much. She even wishes to adopt Nullah after his mother drowned in the water tank, but she faces a lot of difficulties as the society does not accept half-aborigines. Therefore, she tries to make the upper-class whites realize that half-aboriginal children belong to their mothers, not the government. However, the organizers of the mission insist that aboriginal women will forget their “offspring” and they will send the children to Mission Island. When Nullah is taken away to the island, Lady Sarah plans to sacrifice Faraway Downs in order to save him. This shows that she is a loving and caring “mother” as she treats Nullah as her son. Her love towards the kid inspires Fletcher’s wife to have sympathetic feeling towards her, and thus helps her to save Nullah from Mission Island.

Despite of this, Lady Sarah is a rather stubborn person. She always makes decisions for others. At first, she makes decision for her husband to sell the Faraway Downs. Then, when it is time for Nullah to walkabout, she forbids him from walkabout. She does not want to let him go even though walkabout is one of his cultures. Lastly, she rejects an army droving job for Drover without asking his opinion.

Furthermore, Lady Sarah is an emotional woman. For instance, she gets very excited when she sees kangaroos the first time she arrives Australia. Besides, when Fletcher slaps and tries to stop Nullah from telling Lady Sarah about the backroom dealing between him and King Carney, she gets very angry, and emotionally fires Fletcher without considering the negative effects as she may lose the only helping hand to take care of the cattle.

At the end of the movie, Lady Sarah changes from an arrogant, stubborn and emotional person to a loving, caring, tolerant, brave and determined woman after goes through all the hardships. She learns to respect others opinions and accept others points of view. She lets Nullah goes walkabout with King George because she understand that it is their culture.

“Just because it is, doesn’t mean it should be.”

Coach Carter

Summary

It is a true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball. Ken Carter was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, after establishing himself in publishing and marketing, in 1999, he returns to the school and to the team as the new basketball coach. Carter quickly sees that his work is cut out for him -- the team is having an awful season, and their fights off the court are more decisive than their play on the court. While Carter wants to make the team into a winning team, he also wants a lot more -- to teach the boys to respect themselves and one another, and that they must excel in the classroom as well as in the gymnasium. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. Under Carter's guidance, the team turns their losing season around, with the state title a genuine possibility.

However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that a number of his players have let their grade point averages slip below 2.3, as mandated in a contract he entered into with the students, he decides to lock the team out of the gym and send them into study hall until their marks improve. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures. Carter's plan quickly becomes a subject of controversy among parents and team boosters, and their objections are soon picked up by the local news media, many of whom are not sympathetic to Carter's belief that his players must have goals beyond college ball or the NBA. However, Carter eventually finds he has affected his players more profoundly then he ever expected.


Characters

1. Coach Carter

General background:

· He was once a star on the Richmond High School basketball team.
· In 1999, he accepted the duty as a coach for basketball team in Richmond High School.
· He had a son, named Damien, who was also a part of the team.

Personalities:

· Strict – As a coach, he imposed a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate.

· Responsible – He carried out his responsibility as a coach very well. In order to make the team undefeated, he introduced them a lot of practices, especially the “suicide” and “push up”.

· Brave – Without the permissions of the school’s authority and community, he took the decision to cancel all team activities and locked the court until the team show acceptable academic improvement.

· Determine – Carter fought to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they needed to rely on more than sports for their futures.

· Sympathetic – Carter sympathized on the incident happened to the family member of one of his team players, Junior, where his brother had passed away. Junior’s mother came to talk with Carter and asked him to give one more chance to her son to play in the team, Carter agreed after Junior apologized for what he had done.

2. The basketball team players

General background:

· The main characters consisted of Kenyon, Lyle, Damien, Worm, Junior and Timo Cruz.
· Lyle’s father was in prison.
· Junior’s brother had passed away.
· Cruz was involved in drugs.
· Kenyon had a girl friend, called Kyra. They were having a conflict on whether to give birth to the baby or not.
· Damien’s father was Carter. Damien transferred from St. Francis School to Richmond High school after he agreed to accept his father’s condition where he had to maintain a 3.7 average-grade point.

Personalities:

· Rude – In general, the boys were rude in behaviour. They used the words such as “nigger”, “dogs”, and “shit” when they talked to each other or even to the elder person. They did not respect to other peoples. However, under Coach Carter guidance, they learned to respect to others.

· Helpful – After an early run-in with the coach, for instance, Cruz begged to be reinstated on the team, and Carter assigned him a near-impossible calisthenics load. In a classic Spartacus turn, the others pitched in to help, taking some extra push-ups for the team. This crystal-clear gesture was unnecessarily girded with a lengthy explanatory speech about the power of teamwork.

· Overconfident – Under Carter’s guidance, they won a lot of competitions, and therefore looked on themselves as an undefeated team. But after Carter’s advice and “punishment”, they changed their point of view.

· Willing to learn – In order to get an average-grade point of 2.3 or above, they worked hard on their academic performances, and finally they succeeded to achieve the grade required.


Comments

It was an interesting movie that I have ever seen before. Ken Carter was such a great person. Carter, as a high school basketball coach, could bench his undefeated team until some of its members got their grades up. He changed them, from a group of boys who were hot-tempered and liked to fight, unrespectful and rude to a high moral attitudes’ group of men. He successfully corrected their mind although the task was a difficult one!

This movie reflected a few social issues that contributed no benefits but harmed the society. First of all, I could notice the impolite and rude attitudes among the teenagers. They behaved in bad ways, for instance, they could fight with others just because of a few words by the others that sounded uncomfortable to them. Besides, there were cases of pregnancy among the teenagers, in such young ages. In my point of view, they were still not mature enough to take care of baby in such young ages. And the guy, who was the father of the baby, still had not enough money to feed the baby. This probably led to the abortion of the baby. How cruel they were! In this case, we could see another social issue involved that was the poverty in America rankles.

Furthermore, there were teenagers that involved in drugs and gangsterism. They used the drugs in a wrong manner and it resulted in bad health in the end. Not only that, drug addiction could lead to many cases of crimes. Gangsterism was considered as illegal and dangerous. But still lots of young peoples got themselves involved in it and did something that against the law, such as murdering peoples. They could hold gun in their hands! From this incident, we could see that the law enforced was not strict enough to get rid of all these crimes.

In addition, I noticed that the education system in which I could find in Coach Carter was bad. The school’s authority seemed to be unaware of the bad results got by the basketball team players. Even if they did not attend the classes without any reason, no one was going to concern about that. The value of discipline seemed to be worthless. Because of the poor academic performances, their chances to attend colleges after the high school were very, very small. The society did not care about their academic performances at school at all; their lives were just about basketball, nothing else. How sad they were!

These were what I could get from this movie. Thanks for reading.

H1N1-INFLUENZA A!!!

I was told thatI one of the librarians in my college affected by H1N1 ! It was a confirmed case. On that day itself, I made a phone call to my parents and told them the story. They were so worried about my safety and kept on advised me to take care of my health. They asked me to drink more water...And today my parents bring me a bottle of 'leong cha'!

And on that day also, my roommate had a fever. But she had recovered the next morning....Luckily it was not H1Ni ! hahaha.....

"BE HAPPY, DONT WORRY."

I MISS MY MOM

The food at cafeteria was just the same everyday and I was so so bored with it!

Last Saturday, I was back to home. My mom served me with her best dishes. The dinner was a great one for me. It was so delicious! I missed it so much....

MY FIRST TIME IN INTI-UC

Last Wednesday, I played basketball together with my classmates, Joanne, Siew Lin, Mei Qi, KC and Mayuree. I have not been playing basketball for a long time. It was my first experience to play basketball in a college! I enjoyed that....we had a good time together....

Then, we went to take dinner at DELI CAFE. I ordered Si Chuan Pan Mee, same as Yury. I just wanted to try but i did not know that it was too spicy for me. Oh my goodness, my lips and face turned red.....huh! Spicy! Luckily I had 100 plus ices with me to reduce thhe feeling of hot and spicy on my tongue and throat....

But I was shocked to hear from my roommate that the food was not really spicy for her. Wow, how amazing she was! And then I realised, she was a siammish, That was why she liked and could ate spicy food.

I should practice more to eat spicy food, then I fight with her lo...hahaha...

Last Friday, I supposed to finish my class at 12.00p.m. but it took 30 minutes more to finish my mathematical studies' class.

Actually, me, together with my roommate (also a group member) had already agreed with other MPW assiggnment's group members to meet at common room at 12 p.m. to discuss about the assignment and also to divide our works. So, after the class, we immediately 'sms' them and rushed to the common room.

"WE HAVE NOT TAKE OUR LUNCH YET AND WE WERE SO HUNGRY!"

But, we still continued with discussion with them until the works were 'equally' divided. It took about an hour!

And yet, we were informed that our text books had arrived and we were asked to take our books at the library together with resit. Actually we were already prepared to take lunch at cafeteria, but just because of my stupidness, to afraid that if we did not rushed to the library to get the books at the first time, then all the books would have finished taken by others!

HOW STUPID I WAS!

When we arrived at the library, luckily there was no long queue, just some of our classmates. And one of them was willing to wait for us to have lunch together. Emmm...He is a gentleman....

After we went back to our room, I took a nap. I purposely set the alarm to be at 4.30 p.m. , but I was awaked by the ringing sound of my handphone at 4.15 p.m. Aaaahhh.....it broke my sweet dream. My dad called me. He said he was going to fetch me home. He asked me to packed up all my things and waited for him! Wow, I was so happy because I could go back earlier! Usually, my dad can only fetch me home after he finished his work, at about 7 p.m..

It was another happy day! YEAH!!!

Last weekend, my dad came to fetch me back to home. I am so happy that I can go back every week. I miss my mom, sister, and my bed very very much. I had a lot of fun with my sister last week. We played badminton together and I shared my story at INTI-UC with her, she shared her story in her school with me also. She kept on complained to me that her teachers gave her a lot of homeworks. My sister was 12 years old and she is going to take UPSR. That was why she found no time to relax. She was stressed up! So, I listened to her words and advised her not to put too much tention on herself. It was bad to have so much tention at such a small age. But still we had some time to play. Next week I am going to play badminton again with her. Haha...I was very lucky to have the chance to go back home every week. However, my roommate, Mayuree can't go back every week because her home town is at Kedah-Jitra. It is a very long distance from here. I felt so sorry for her because I have to let her alone every week. This was what I thought at first. But luckily, she had her relatives stayed at Nilai(not so sure), so she went to her relative's house and stayed there for two days on the second week. But, last week she didn't go there and once more time I have to let her alone in the room. Sorry! So, I asked Yury this morning whether she is going back or not to her relative's house this week, and she said YES!!! I was happy to hear that...haha...

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