Ellie chronicles

I

KB – KL – KK – KL – AOR – Sintok – Langkawi - Sintok - Sungai Petani – Penang – KL - KB

Pretty hectic huh…yeah when it comes to traveling but nay…it took me more than a month to complete the route…..so that would be an excuse of not updating the blog..hehehe…

II

Last month was awesome….the fact that I have to stay in a haunted hotel in Sintok (am sound chessy…I know) for a month to attend scholarly lectures from scholars made me miniscule and throughout that session I doubted my decision to spend 3 years in vicinity of academia, endless reading, proposals, literature review etc….A course made me burnt midnight oil till the wee hours to complete….endless presentation tasks as a yardstick to measure my ability to gauge knowledge and comprehension and that grow apprehension in me..even to the highest scale…am not referring to Likert Scales though….hehehe….and there are going to be a topsy-turvy life come this September and onwards….huk huk…am I ready??

III

Amidst of all the madness of being away from home, tv programmes and footy matches…hehe and being tortured mentally not physically yaa…(sumptuous meal 5 times per day…weight scale never lied…huhuhu) I have found a wonderful soul…awesome mortal who despite differences in thoughts, disciplines and status….confluence to become good buddies within a month. We did have a fair share of laugh and banter with each other; even we have nicknames and pledge to be back within 3 years. Thanks for the memories gang and really hope that everybody will be conferred with that title and finish that journey of milestone…(even me is quite dreadful when I write this sentence)

IV

United…yes that United in Red….was crowned as champion for 19 times, breaking the record, personally, record is made to be broken so I don’t care much…, what more significant is for the team to be competitive and keep on producing a stellar performance especially in European competition. Yes…United lost again to a better team last night and I won’t feel remorse and no qualm about the performance. Barca deserved to be no 1 in Europe.


V

French Open 2011….I love clay court and I love to witness ferocious battle on that red clay, hit the baseline, stroke, aces….and this time I wont predict who will be the champion. Djoker has a wonderful season starting from OZ open, FeDex is still struggling, Nadal has a whimsical season and women category again bore me…hehe…


VI

Sometimes certain thing is better left to be unsaid and at no. VI I opt to be silent…


It is nearly June…5 months gone and this year is really tough and I mentally lethargic...

I wont rambling much about this...I only have less than 10 minute to write...before going off from office and do other errands...huhu...

What I like about this conference was the sheer presence of Prof Dr. Rod Ellis, considered as the father of SLA (Second Language Acquisition). His speech and particularly his workshop on implicit/explicit grammar divulged me to a new perspective of teaching grammar...one of the trickiest aspect in English language. (hey...am an English teacher...hehe)

What else about the conference?? attending conference like this made me feel minuscule in academia world...huhu....

opss 10 minute gone...ciao...

I have the chance to attend the conference in one of the public university in Malaya..am just a participant as for now and who knows one day I might be in one of the presenter. Of course the experience matters the most and as a yardstick to put me in what position deem fit to me.

4 days in here if course (am still in that sub-area area) I have the chance to revisited a place which is not so strange for me as I have been here and shared a lot of memories.. saccharine, a bitter one (really hurt too huhu), laugh, tears, new friends etc...

Opss am suppose to talk about conference rite...hehehe...may be next entry...

ciao...

The road not taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

By Robert Frost (1874 - 1963 / San Francisco / USA)

I pray to you Allah to give your benediction in this solemn endeavor and to make me ultra stronger to face whatever trials, tribulations, convolution, worries which engulf me now and your blessing in whatever, wherever road that I take....(Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back)

YES!!! Attention or Achtung to all couch potatoes!!! The best on telly are back this January, which means a lot to be celebrated for....


Australian Open




Thanks to time differences..Australia is 2 hours ahead of Malaya so I could watch night match which is usually the high-rank-popular and to be lazing around in front of telly from 6 (after work) till 10 pm should be wicked!! hehehe....I wont predict who would be crowned as champion but probably Djokovic, FeDEx, Nadal, Murray, the Williams, couple of players from Russia..would be in final...


American Idol




One of the most celebrated thing on telly is back with new judges...no longer Simon wicked Cowell, Kara and Ellen (really hope that the Idol will not have 4 judges on the show)...am not an ardent fan so am not that looking forward to be amused with whatever comments or mesmerised with JLo sheer presence on the screen...For me AI has slowly losing its spark and the only idol for me are Clarkson, Underwood and Archuleta...

Glee




Glee will always be my favourite!! As an avid fan, am really anticipate the 2nd season..though in other part of the world the show has finished huhuh..(I have the chance to watch one episode in Sydney last November)..Why Gleek? simply due to my obsession in singing and dancing..and yes in my wildest dream being an entertainer would be a top in the list hahahahahhaha....dream on...dream on...


CSI, CSI New York, CSI Miami








My nights should be more awesome with CSI..at least I wont just singing/dancing/gossiping...hehehe...CSI is still a must see albeit without Grissom...huhu

Surely I've got many shows in the list...Desperate Housewives, Ghost Whisperers, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, TLC channel...cooking..AFC...ahak..ahak...

So apa lagik...JOM laa layannnn telly.......let us fill the nights of not doin nothing as for now..

BONNE ANNEE A TOUS !! Deseados un FELIZ 2011!!!

I have no special resolution this year...nothing grandeur...Pray that everything goes well..have a good health and strength in the solemn endeavour in achieving one of the the zenith and pinnacle of human achievement..so to speak...I need His benediction particularly to delineate my apprehension whenever I have one in that lone and bumpy journey, to face convolution moment which might torment me into pieces, ardours in inscription, reading...the list is endless...fuhh..

Whatever trial, tribulation, agony, saccharine moment, luscious memories in 2010, those have paved ways for me to be tough mentally and physically...alas how knackered and topsy turvy I was...I've learnt precious life lessons which never written anywhere and Allah knows I am still trying ferociously to comprehend each plans in the status quo and whatever forthcoming.

I realise that I've not posted anything since October..I feel sorry for my hiatus..to myself not to the readers as I know I have not one...unless the usual suspect...hehehe

I didnt pen my thought simply not want to..sometimes something is better off to be unsaid!!! In this 2 silent months, myriad of things happen which some could be considered as good thingy, put smile on my facade, also could be convolution which again I consider them as message from Almighty to make me stronger, try to be judgmental of life package deem suitable and apparently some issues become vividly for me. Things might behave against my choice albeit it is a choice that happen within the most appropriate reason, His reason. His mysterious reason which I always gaze how and why it endows on others not on me. Of course there will always be a wisdom to make me stronger, wiser, more patient, be a critical thinker and positive.

Till next time....