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New Links!


Attention to everyone in this Tutorial Group 10. For the ease of everyone here and for easy access, I have put up links that link to the short stories that is required for our semester. Keys and Locks and Open Doors was deleted from the original website, but I found another website only in a different language, but the text is basically English. Have fun using the new feature!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Reply a Love Letter

Dear Ros,

I received your letter two days ago. My heart was beating up faster and faster as I went through each word in the letter. I do not expect to hear anything from you after a long time and I never expect to get to know that you still have a feeling to me since you have married to your mother's choice. I know that you had to obey your parents and chose to sacrifice our genuine love for that man. I can't blame you for everything happen for a reason.

Dear Ros,

We had truly a wonderful time when we were teenagers. I always thought about you when I studied oversea. Your view always came into my mind when I wanted to sleep. You are special to me. By the way, I want you to know that I did not take your diary on purpose. I found it on the floor when I was searching for my pen. The only thing that I read from the diary was your name. I never read your writings. I tried to explain to you but you did not believe it. Instead, you mumbled me with thunderous words. I knew that I had blew tour temper. That's why I gave you those cookies just to cheer you up. I really hope that you will understand this although it is too late.

Dear Ros,

I felt very desperate when I got to know that you had married. I saw my world went into pieces. After a long time, the news I got from you was the bitter one. I was very sad but I knew you must had your own reason. I tried to vanish you from my mind. I married with my friend whom I met when I studied in UK. By the time, I managed to completely forget you. I had a great life with my wife and children. But we cannot predict the future, my wife had gone due to her illness. I faced this patiently although my tears welled up each time I remembered her.

Dear Ros,

I am sorry to say that I cannot accept you in my life now. I still missed my wife. She was the woman who came into my life when I am in trouble. I cannot even think to replace her with any woman including you. I knew your feeling but I really had to say sorry. Our love was past and now my love is to my children, the most precious pearl that my wife left me with. But I do not know what will be in the future. For now, I want to concentrate to my children.

Sorry.

                                                                                                                                   Your friend,
                                                                                                                                        R

Friday, July 22, 2011

Hello Homosapiens

On the 12th April 1993, the daughter of A. Majid bin Ngah and Zaihana Abd. Hamid was born in Kuala Lumpur. That's me! Maizan Amani is the name given. I'm the eldest in my siblings. I live at Bandar Country Homes, Rawang, Selangor. I studied at Sek. Men. Sains Hulu Selangor (SEMASHUR) with Nurul Aida and Aida Khaleeda. They are my english tutorial group members too. What a coincidence! I went to study at SEMASHUR for 5 years and managed to obtain flying colors in my SPM result. On the 6th May 2011, I was shortlisted to attend UTP May Intake Interview. I was so nervous on that day like having butterflies in my stomach. I really wanted to enroll to UTP because UTP is my first choice of university. Thank God, I'm here now!

That's is about my mission to enroll to UTP. I had forgotten to write about my family background. Hehe. I came from a middle income family. I wasn't born with a silverspoon in my mouth. My father works as a manager at his own company. While I was waiting for my SPM result to come out, I worked with him as his accountant. But I only managed to earn RM 400.00 for my salary. I guessed I'm not an experience accountant. Huhu. My mother works with Sarawak Shell Bhd company.

I don't know what to write more. This is the first essay since I never wrote an essay for a long three months. Maybe I'm not in the mood to write an essay. Especially an essay to introduce myself. I don't like to talk about myself. Especially to strangers. I hope I can achieve my dream to become a succesful chemical engineer in the future. I guess that's all about myself.

Love Letter

Dear XXXX,


It' s good to hear from you. It has been a long time since we contacted each other. Yes, it's true I just come back from Rusia. That is the most interesting experience in my whole life. Anyway how are you? How's life going on? Miss you very much.


Yes, I still remember that stall and the delicious fruitpunch, I can't forget it.I missed the old day very much. When we used to hangout together, watch movie, shopping and the walk at the park at night. Hope to meet you soon. Can you give me your phone number? It will be much easier to contact you.


We can meet up at the old stall and have fruitpunch. I got a mountain of stories to share with you. I never thought of meeting up with you again when I went to Rusia. It blows me away when I received your letter. I can't remember the last time I am happy like this. Hope that our relation will be more serious after this.



Yours lovingly,

Mike

Thursday, July 21, 2011

One Man Band


In the short film, One Man Band , one of the theme is greed. Which is shown by the two street performers. Both of them try to get the attention from the little girl to obtain the one and only gold coin she has. Both of them give their best and when the musical rivalry got wild the girl got scared and the gold coin drops of her hand and fall into the drain. As always greed get nothing.



The second theme is revenge, which is shown by the little girl. After her gold coin fell into the drain , she insists to get one of the street performers violin. Amazingly she played like a maestro and get a bag of gold coins from a passing pedestrian. She hugs the bag and went to the fountain, but then she pick two coins from the bag and tempts the street performer. Before they could reach it she flipped it to the top of the fountain.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Moment I Finally Found It

I was a numb person. I felt like losing something deep inside of me. I couldn't remember my childhood days with my birth mother. My inborn impulse kept saying that my life didn't seem so happy if I had raised by my birth mother. But there were thousand question that still playing around my head. Why didn't she raises me up? Why she was so willing to give me to my adoptive parents? And the main question is; Does she loves me?

Sometimes I realized that I had a happy childhood days with my adoptive parents but could I get a happy and meaningful childhood days if I lived with my birth mother. Could she bakes me a cake for my birthday every year? Could she sews my halloween costume? Could we have a joyful moment in the kitchen baking cupcakes and cookies like I used to have with my adoptive mother. But I didn't think so. If I managed to have those precious moment, then why she didn't want to raise me, take care of me. Somestimes I felt like being rejected by my own mother. I am very curious to get to know her. I have to know my real family history. My real name. My real mother. My real hometown. If not, so who am I?

I love my adoptive parents so much. They are the apple of my eyes. I'm very grateful to have people that willing to take care of me as their own child. They managed to color my life. I couldn't imagine my life without the presence of my adoptive parents. My life might be dull without people who could build your life and love you until you had become a succesfull person. They also had manured virtue inside of me. Bethany Moore is my name. But I knew this was not my real name. This was the name that had given by my adoptive parents once ther adopted me. My adoptive parents didn't talk much about my birth mother. So, I decided to do on a research for my mother at the family-finder.com. I found her name - Elizabeth Hopkins. But I couldn't find the place she lives now. I contacted Maisie, the person in-charge and waited for a favorable reply.

I live in Arizona and it is really far from my adoptive parents in New Hampshire because of my career. I work as a lawyer at Brook & Ben Company. I love my job, protecting the innocent people. But sometimes I had to defence for bad people and fight with the innocent ones. I had the ability to stand for justice. I won several lawsuits along my career. The courtroom isn't an 'alien' to me. I'm very good to stand for facts and fight against the doubts. I was thinking if I had inherited these skills from my birth mother. I do hope so. So that I had something in common with her. But I realized that this is not who I am. Why could I stand for others but not for my own rights?

One evening, after a long day in the courtroom, I got a phone call from Maisie. She told me that my birth mother lives in East Garden that only took one and a half hour from Brook & Ben Company office. Even I was tired but I couldn't lose this oppurtunity to meet her. I drove my car to East Garden. I finally reached the destination that I had been waiting for. Dreams can take you to places you haven't been before. I parked my car at the sidewalk. I walked slowly to her house gate. She lives in a small country style house. I saw a lady sitting on a beach the garden. That should me her! The garden was a sight to behold with a kaleidoscope of colourful flowers. I felt like the flowers were welcoming me to meet her. I walked towards the lady with full of anticipation while finding the right words to greet her. I felt like there were something stucked in my guts when it came to introduce myself.

She looked younger than I thouht. I greeted her and asked, "Good evening. I'm Bethany Moore. Are you Elizabeth Hopkins?" She answered, "Yes. I'm Elizabeth Hopkins." She's my birth mother that I had being dreamt of! This was the moment that I had been looking for. I finally found it.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

This is me..

             Hi, people. Whoever you are, I’m here to introduce myself. Do you guys know me?? No, I guess…. Anyway, I’m Yong Hong Yaw, people do call me Yong or Hong yaw. I’m always talkative, bouncy and as well as naughty, I should say. But, I must say that I am kind and good in heart. I love my family, I love my friends, I love animals, I want the world to be perfect, but it can’t… I wonder why??
      Alright I shall start with my personal stuff. I’m a dude, aged 17 and was born on the 20th of September 1993. I was born in a lovely, caring and wonderful family. There are 4 family members in my family which are my dad, my mum, my sister as well as me!! We are a small but happy family. Although my family is moderate and I can’t always get anything that I like, do anything as I wish, I’m still very happy and satisfied to be a part in this family. I always believe that the happiness is always based on ourselves. We choose to be happy or not. I chose to be happy!!
       For your information, I’m from Johor Bahru, the southernmost district of the Peninsular Malaysia. I love JB, I love my home. It is always a fun place and the best place to be in this world. You guys might felt that I’m biased, but it’s true!! I’m an ex- student of SMK Dato Jaafar. I love my school as well, there is plenty of  fun people as well as the surrounding was very nice. Just like UTP where I’m currently studying. I finished my SPM at this school on the year of 2010 and got straight ‘A’ for it. I’m very happy with it as I did my best!! I’m always hoping to further my studies abroad especially the European countries, but I don’t have a chance to do so…
        Now, I’m here at Universiti Teknologi Petronas doing my foundation in Mechanical Engineering. Although it’s not as awesome as studying abroad, I must still say it’s still a consolation price for me! At first, I didn’t want to come here to attend the interview, but upon reaching here I was amazed by the buildings here especially the Chancellor Complex and the sports facilities. That’s why now I’m proud to say that I’m part of UTP!!
        I’m more like the type of sporting guy, I love to go for sports activities especially football, futsal, badminton, jogging as well as basketball. I used to tell those people who do not go for sports and always stay at home to get some life in a sarcastic way. It is because life is just about enjoying. What’s the point of keep on walking or studying without having a fun life? Will you be happy? Will you be healthy? Hell no!!!
       For my future, I hope to be a professional, help the mankind, serve the world and hopefully get an awesome family!! For the time being, I’m going to strive hard to get a great result for my degree and hopefully able to enter an international company and travels around the world!! That’s all from me!! Cheers!! =]           
Hi, I am Arjund A/L Prakasan. My hometown is Batu Pahat, Johore. I am the second of four siblings. When I was two years old my father was transfered to Indonesia by his company. So the whole family moved there. I went to a private school , a catholic school. My youngest sister was born in Indonesia. We come back to Malaysia after 10 years living there. It was quite difficult at the beginning. New place, new home, new school and friends. When I came back here I directly went to form 1 and after a week there was an exam. I failed half of my subject but I am surprised to get number 1 in class. My father was strugling to find a job but then he got a job at Senai, Johor Bahru in an ink cartridge company, Celestica. My mother is a housewife but she teaches tuition at home for primary students. I got a flying colour for my SPM examination and now I am in UTP. My eldest sister is in Masterskill College at Cheras. My younger brother is studying form 5 at Batu Pahat and my youngest sister is currently doing form 1. I applied for a few things beside UTP which are JPA scholarship and marine engineering at ALAM ( Akademi Laut Malaysia). I was very happy to get UTP eventhough I didn't get the JPA scholarship. After a few days at UTP I received a call saying that I was offered a scholarship by MISC to study diploma in marine engineering at ALAM. I was surprised to get it but after a discussion with my family I turned down the offer and I am going to continue at UTP. I hope that I did the right thing and I will never regret it . I am interested in sports mainly football and running. To keep my body fit I also went to gym. I prefer outdoor activities to pass my time

Monday, July 11, 2011

The Moment

One of the moments I experienced in life is when I changed the tires of a car for the first time.
Of all days and places for it to happen, it happened somewhere around 7pm, which was starting to get darker by the minute and in the middle of a not-so busy road, if it was busy, i'd be dead. The car suddenly felt lopsided and i was sitting on that side. Which was weird, because I was lighter than my mom by around 1 or 2kg.

We kept on driving for a few more kilometers and the journey was really bumpy since one tyre went psssssshhhhhhhhtttttt...... When we actually stopped by the roadside, i checked the tyre and it was completely deflated. So, my mom called my dad and my dad called my brother and my mom called my brother as well to ask him to pick us up and send us to the shoe store, so that my mom could buy her shoes and send us back to the car. In the mean time, we stopped at a petrol station to wait for my brother to pick us up.

For the first time ever, I changed the tire of my car, which was really heavy even with help. It got really messy because of the grease and oil. The crank felt really tight due to the heat from the tires which caused the bolt to expand and harder to release. I feel so proud of myself. The inner part of the tyre was completely cracked through the whole circumference due to exhaustion over the years. This shows to prove that car owners should send in their cars for check-ups and fix-ups every few months or so to avoid such incidents.

All in all, it was a valuable experience and there are moral values to be learnt from this but I just do not know what they are.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

the unforgetable moment.

Everyone had been through a lot of moments. There is happy moment, sad moment, surprised moment and even thrilling moment. This same goes to me. I am a teenager aged 18 now, I had been through ups and downs, a lot of memorable moments, happy moments and even sad moments. There is one moment which just happerned recently that I will never, ever forget.

         Since young, driving was my biggest dream ever. I love to look at my parents driving. No matter where are they driving to, I insisted to follow. I felt that driving is a skill that is cool and in order to be good in it, one must really know the car well, the route well and have good skills. This is also why I’m taking up mechanical engineering now. I hope to major in automotive in the future and hopefully managed to be a part as the Lotus F1 team, represent the country, make the country proud!

           When I am 17, the first thing I did after my birthday is sign up for the driving license tutorial class and wanted to get my driving as soon as possible. The first driving tutorial class isn’t an easy thing for me. I bet others felt that as well. I were taught over and over again by my tutor how to drive, control and handle a car. As a driving enthusiast, I didn’t gave up easily. In the end I managed to get my driving license just after 1 driving exam. That makes me felt proud of myself.

          Ever since I get my driving license, my parents borrowed me their car and allowed me to drive around in the town on my own as I promised them that I will drive safely and does not speed! That was the time of my life. It’s kind of like part of my dream came true. I started going everywhere; find my friends out for a drink or hangout. I don’t mind fetching them anywhere as I can improve my driving skills as the time goes by.

           I can still remember vividly. Last 5 months, I drove 3 of my friends on my dad’s car planned to go and watch a movie at the cinema in the town. We booked the tickets before hand and we were kind of late at that time. As we were in hurry, I decided to step on the accelerator harder. Thinking that we won’t miss the movie. That was the first time I’m driving the car at such a high speed. I’m quite confidence at that time, I thought that I can control the car. Who knows, at a blink of eye, a cat dashed out across the road while I ‘m driving very heading towards it.

         I don’t want to kill the cat! The first thing appeared in my mind is “STOP!!!” I slammed the brake as hard as I could, try to stop the car, but the car skidded. Thank god that everyone of us and the cat were save without any injury. That moment, I’m totally blanked, don’t know what to do. I felt sad because I did a stupid decision to speed where I had promised my parents that I’m not going to do so.

         Ever since that incident, I will never ever forget the moment. I knew why my parents want me to drive slowly on the road, I knew why they don’t want me to speed on the road… It’s all because they loved me. They don’t want to lose me. That moment thought me to drive safely on the road. No matter how good is your skills, accidents can happern at anytime and anywhere.. That moment was carved on my heart forever, it reminds me to drive save on road because there is always someone waiting for us to come back.
         

Friday, July 1, 2011

An Introduction to Everything :)

Aida Khaleeda Mohd Pauzi was given by two of my favourite people in the world, of couse, my parebts. I was born on 22nd November 1993, which I consider a very lucky month to me. I was born in Kuala Lumpur which I came from and both sides of my family. Suprisingly, both of my parents come from Kuala Lumpur. It sometimes makes me envy to see many of my friends get to go back to their old vintage village when it comes to holidays such as Hari raya or Raya Haji. The experience, the joy and the fun which I shall never gain. But looking on the brighter side, I can visit my village every Saturday night which is onlly 20 minutes from my house and watch movies together. It is kind of our tradition and routine in my family. I would like to talk about my family now. I just love talking about them as I love and be proud each and everyone of them. I have my handsome dad, awesome mom and my siblings consist of 5 beautiful ladies and 1 handsome baby boy. My dad is a mechanical engineer and work in Exxonmobil and my mom is an add math teacher in high school. My sister worked as Petroleum Geoscience in Petronas, my second is studying in Middesbrough doing in Business Information System, my third sister is studying in Mansoura doing her Medic, the fourth is me, stuck in this horrible eviroment, Tronoh but proudly in University Technology of Petronas, my fifth sister is in boarding school and our one and only baby boy in the house, is sitting for his UPSR. I guess enough talking about my background. Boring enough? Oh yeah I can speak 3 languages which are Bahasa Melayu, English and Thai. Suprise? Err not so. Haha :P I used to live in Thailand for 3 years back when I was in Primary school. I'm not sure what else to write , its kind of awkward for me to write after 5 months not holding any pens. Em I am not in some kind of serious relationship and not looking foward to. But frankly speaking, I have feelings to BOYS. I am straight and normal by the way. Well, i guess this is it. Enough talking about me. I am looking for a better things in here, UTP new friends, new stuff, new enviroment. Its a whole new thing for me. And can't wait what is waiting ahead for me. Till then, Toodles! :)