Seronoknya nak transcribe!

Ok, paper seterusnya adalah Phonology dan semestinya la kena berlatih transcribe perkataan - perkataan Inggeris kan. Hari ni saya nak kongsi, bagaimana saya enjoy dengan latihan IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) transcription saya. Serius seronok.

1. Mula – mula sekali, pakaikan earphone di telinga dan pasang lah lagu Inggeris apa – apa pun yang buat anda seronok.
2. Dengar lirik lagu tu dengan teliti.
3. Tulis beberapa perkataan dari lirik lagu itu. (tipu giler kalau tak hafal lirik lagu yang korang suka)
4. Dengar lagu banyak - banyak dan sampai habis, supaya anda dapat senarai perkataan yang banyak.
5. Lepas dah puas dengan senarai yang anda ada, berhenti dengar lagu.
6. Cari kamus, letak kat tepi, dan mulalah transcribe setiap perkataan yang sudah anda senaraikan tadi.
7. Lepas tu, semak semua perkataan dalam kamus. Kalau ada kamus elektronik Besta, boleh semak guna Besta tu jugak, lagi cepat. Jika ada kesalahan, sila betulkan.

Contoh dari saya, lirik lagu One Direction – What makes you beautiful:

Mesti boleh jawab punya dalam exam nanti. How I know? I did this before =) Enjoy your transcription!

A short story to think over

“Why nobody wants to be friend with me?” Maya thought to herself. She glide from her bed to the window and sighs, “I got everything I want but not friends”.

One thing she never realise is that she thinks people are being arrogant to her. Her family is well-connected people and her father is someone important that works with the government. She is too, has the kind of looks that catches the eyes of the boys which made her more ignorant. She is nothing like Safirah.

Safirah is a sweet girl. She is very moderate, very pure and very traditional. She lives her life in accordance to the Islamic Shari’ah. She is the one that change Ija so much. Ija has a poor family background. Ija’s parents are divorced and she was wild before she met Safirah. Ija is easy to get carried away. Safirah is the reason why she keep in the safe track until today.

“Maya, have you taken your dinner?” Safirah asked. Maya was delighted with her concern. She replied to her without looking but in a soft voice, “No, I’m about to get dressed to dine outside”. “Where? With who?” Safirah has started to show more interest to know. “My parents will fetch me in minutes. We’ll dine at Shangri La”, she smiled to Safirah and walked out the door.

Ija heard their conversation. She began to mumble, “Humph, that’s just showing off”. Ija is sometimes, think negatively about others. Jealousy had driven her mad before. Now, she develops it back inside her mind.

Next morning, Ija was awake with the loud noise coming from Maya’s conversation with her mother on the phone. Maya keep yelling “Mum, I want more dresses”. Ija feel annoyed and interrupted, “Slow down your voice! You awake me!”.

“It’s my voice, it got nothing to do with you! I can do what I want!” Maya burst her angry out and hung up the phone. Ija jumped out of the bed and rushed to confront her. “What do you say? How rude! You aren’t alone in this room! Respect others will you??”

“Yea yea yea, what did I do?” she’s being ignorant, “I was just talking to my mum. What’s your problem?” Steams coming out from Ija’s nose, “Can’t you talk to her nicely? Do you really have to shout and wake me up? She’s your mother, have some respect.”

“We’re always like that. I used to do that a lot, she wouldn’t mind!” Maya is defending herself. Ija said with sigh, “Look at you. We’re girls, we’re Muslims, and we should be well-mannered, right?” Islam teaches us to respect each other.” Ija has starting to gain her cool back again.

“Wait potato. You don’t have to advice me. Look at you. We’re girls. Aren’t we supposed to get up earlier than usually? Why are you still sleeping at 10 in the morning?” Maya raised up her voice. Ija couldn’t say anything more about it. She knows Maya is right somehow.

Maya cleared her throat and continued, “You’re no different from me, it just that you’re poor and I’m rich. Mirror yourself first before you tell other people what’s right to do” Maya glance to Ija. That makes Ija feel bad and she asked “Ah, just because you’re rich, you can do anything you want, you can point out others flaw, you can give orders to whoever you like?”.

Maya feel even angrier, “Yes!” she claimed. “I have my status, my father is a Dato’ Seri and my mum is a businesswoman, all my relatives are the important people in the government. We are all well educated, and not just that, we’re all good-looking, unlike you!”

Ija was surprised with her arrogance, “You think, you can be like that forever?”, Ija had lost her patience and she yelled, “Those are your temporary wealth! Allah can take it all back whenever He wants! Do you realize that? Ever think of it?”

Maya’s eyes were wide, bigger as ever and almost popping out. “Look, I got no time for this. Don’t talk about religion now! You’re not qualified enough to talk about it. I know your past, and I believe it’s not something you should be proud of”.

“At least I’ve change!” Ija said in hesitation voice. She is trying to hold back her tears. “I was once ignorant as you. But I found a trustworthy friend who changed me. You are going nowhere Maya. Change now before you lose everything”.

“Have you lost your mind? What will I lose? Are you trying to scare with all your superstitious thing?” asked Maya.

“Don’t be so proud with what you have now. Go back to your Creator. Give your gratitude to Allah, the One who gave you all these. You should be grateful not prideful” Ija said firmly.

Maya shook her head with her eyes blinking for many times and purposely showed a boring face to Ija. She said, “Why are you telling me these? I don’t care what you think. I know what you know. You don’t have to tell me twice. Allah will not be cruel toward His servant right? Why would He give us the wealth in the first place? And now you say He is going to take it all back anytime He wants. Guess what Ija? I feel sorry for you. You’re trying to be smart. But you don’t know your god. You misjudge Him”

“You never thought that wealth can be your musibah. Allah is testing you with wealth. Wealth is not always good. That’s what you missed.” Ija stared sharply into Maya’s eyes.

“Said who? Your mother?” Maya raised her eyebrows pretending she was amazed. Maya spread her shoulder and said “Wealth gives you everything. People will look up on you, they’ll serve you first”.

“So you’re telling me that you’re happy to live like that?” Ija is being sarcastic. “You’re happy when people treat you first rather than others? You think they are loyal to you? They just want your money, don’t you think so??! Now, I wonder, how you access yourself in this university… Did your father pay them?”

Maya open her mouth wide before she could speak. She’s now began to point her finger to Ija’s face, “Don’t underestimate me butthead! I have my qualification! My father doesn’t have to pay anybody to get me here!” she shouted right to Ija’s face.

“Why so angry?” Is it true?” Ija asked while laughing like a hyena.

Maya loss her good mood and she wants to put this to an end. “Alright that’s enough. Say what you need to say. I.. I’m done with you” And she walked away leaving Ija untouched.

- to be continued

Taip tanpa melihat, tanpa mendengar

Pernah terbayang tak kalau kita hidup tanpa boleh melihat, mendengar atau berjalan? Macam mana nak tahu lagu Korea ni best ke tak, macam mana nak tengok pelakon Korea ni comel ke tak, macam mana nak pakai selendang, macam mana nak tengok Bruno Mars nyanyi LIVE, macam mana nak dengar mp3, atau nak memiliki iPad, nak belajar memanah menembak ke? Hmmm. Sebelum ni tak bayangkan pun. Sekarang baru ada akai.

Semester ni ada kelas subjek Special Education Needs. Kelas ni agak bosan bagi saya. Kelas ni ajar tentang types of impairments, cabaran – cabaran orang yang berkelainan upaya, dan apa yang Malaysia buat untuk dia orang. Jadi bosan lah sebab kelas ni cerita banyak tentang fakta dan statistik saja. Susah juga bagi Atirah. Saya ni dah la malas baca surat khabar. Jadi niat hari ini, nak cerita apa yang saya dapat daripada kelas ni.

Walaupun bosan, saya masih lagi boleh proses input yang saya dapat dari kelas ni. Dulu, saya tak pernah fikir pun tentang cabaran bagi orang - orang istimewa ni. Saya tak tahu pun tentang disabled friendly bagi dia orang macam mana. Jujur saya cakap, yu ai eh ni tak disabled friendly sangat. Elevator saja tak cukup lah! Tangga dua tiga steps banyak tapi tak ada ramps. Ada yang ada ramp tapi bukan kat semua bangunan. Benda ni jadi masalah pada orang yang naik kerusi roda. Sekarang baru saya kisah tentang ni, sebelum ni ignorant gila. Tak ambil tahu pun.

Lagi satu, saya tak pernah pun fikir yang masa depan nanti saya akan jumpa orang – orang istimewa ni. Mana tahu nanti, esok – esok dah kerja, kita jumpa orang – orang istimewa ni kat tempat kita kerja ke? Dari sini saya dah terdedah tentang cabaran- cabaran kehidupan bagi orang2 yang istimewa. Saya dah jumpa dia orang kat rumah perlindungan Cheshire. Dia orang tu umur lagi tua dari saya tapi macam budak – budak. Makan pun comot – comot.

Kenapa sesetengah dari kita tak ambil kisah tentang ni? Ya, kerana kita tak ada kenalan atau keluarga atau rakan rapat yang istimewa macam ni. Sebab tu kita tak pernah fikir tentang kehidupan dia orang macam mana. Atirah sendiri macam ni jugak dulu. Saya ni insya Allah akan jadi pendidik. Jadi tak mustahil jika saya terjumpa pelajar istimewa dalam kelas saya nanti.

Bakal – bakal pengantin pun kena ada ilmu ni. Berguna kot. Maksud saya, nanti apa – apa jadi kat anak – anak, boleh lah cari speacialist awal - awal. Benda ni berlaku juga masa baru dilahirkan. Ada orang ada masalah ni sejak dilahirkan dan ada juga yang jadi macam ni selepas mengalami kemalangan. Bagus jugak yu ai eh offer subjek ni. Kat tempat lain mana ada. Ada ke? Kalau ada bagitahu okey. Bye, with love~

Kerana tidak ada manusia yang tiada kawan

Mahu kongsi dua situasi di sini.

Situasi pertama
Dua orang sahabat sama – sama berlari – lari menuju kepada Allah untuk dihisab. Nasib sahabat A baik, dia akan memasuki syurga. Tetapi nasib sahabat B tidak baik. Dia akan memasuki neraka. Maka, sahabat A memohon kepada Allah SWT, “Ya Allah, kau ambil lah separuh daripada timbangan ku ini dan beri lah kepada sahabat ku”. Allah pun menimbang semula amal- amal sahabat B tadi. Dan bernasib baiklah sahabat B tadi, mereka berdua berpimpinan tangan menuju ke syurga bersama – sama.

Situasi kedua
Seorang manusia ini berjalan dengan tenang menuju Allah untuk dihisab. Maka dia adalah sangat bernasib baik. Amalan dia banyak dan berat. Dia sangat gembira, dan berjalan lah dengan hati yang tenang menuju ke pintu syurga. Di sambilan itu, manusia selepas dia tidak bernasib baik, dan bakal memasuki neraka. Lalu berkatanya kepada Allah, “Ya Allah, dia adalah sahabat ku. Tapi dia tidak pernah mengajak aku untuk berbuat baik. Dia beramal kepadaMu tanpa mengajak aku.” Dengan kata – kata itu, maka kedua – dua mereka dihumbankan ke neraka. Nauzubillah min zalik.

Renungkan perkara ini:

Kerana kawan, kita boleh masuk syurga. Kerana kawan juga kita boleh masuk neraka. Tuju pada diri, tuju pada semua. Jadi, pilihlah dan dampingilah orang – orang yang baik. Kita memang berhak untuk memilih dalam berkawan. Kalau kita rasa kita jahat, kawanlah dengan orang baik dan ikut lah perangai dia yang baik. Kalau ada kawan kita yang berbuat mungkar, kita kena saling mengingati. Memang nak saling mengingati ni susah, tapi tak mustahil. Saya sendiri pun rasa benda ni susah. Esok bangun Subuh awal, jangan lupa kejut kawan – kawan tau =)

I just need to be unwind in my time-machine

Final exam's coming - Wish me luck =p

Assalamualaikum. Yes... I’ve been busy these days. I’m so tired and got so little time to sleep. Dark circles appearing under my eyes and people are noticing it! They keep asking ‘why looking so pale, are you sick?’. I’m fine, I just don’t have enough time to sleep. Chill, I’ve been doing this like so many times okay =)

We’re so near to the end of the semester now. I got one month left to struggle and catch up and catch up and catching up things. I feel like there’s nothing in my head. I don’t know what I’ve been learning for all this time. Atirah ni memang teruk.We're you sleeping in your class???

I got many assignments to be submitted this week and next week. I’ve done everything in time but I don’t have printer in my room, I feel like everything is so expensive. I even practice to do last minute printing now. I’m not a good example. I know it's not good. But, yeah. It just happened. It makes me feel like there’s a clash/conflict in myself…you know, man versus self conflict?

By the way, if these weren't for the last minute/submission/evaluation/carry marks, nothing would get done. Alright, you know what's good for youself. I'll write more soon, thanks for dropping by.