(Back on track, I hope so.)

Yes, watching movies is one of my interests and sometimes, passion (and even addiction!). Whether you realize it or not, there are a lot of things especially lessons that we can understand and consume while watching movies. Of course there are both positive and negative effects from movies but my point is there is always an interesting elements that you could realize while watching movies.

I would like to share with all of you – what I always do after watching movies.

The first thing to do is (absolutely) watching the movie. I personally recommend you to ignore any ‘spoiler’ from your friends or relatives about the movie that you gonna watch or you lose one of the interesting elements while watching movie. The only thing that I suggest is watching the trailer of the movie (you can look for them at Youtube) so you can choose which movie that you feel interested to watch.

[watching movie] – again, no ‘spoiler’ while watching!

After watching any movie, the first thing that I always do is.. checking for information, trivia and goofs about the movie! Yeah, I love this part very much because it always reveal the ‘hidden part’ of the movie such as the real building used in the film, interesting information about the involved actors/actresses and any mistake done during the filming of the movie. At this point, you will realize that there are more things to know about the movie and start to check it back and then watch the revealed ‘hidden part’ in the movie.

Gosh. You can call me insane but I love this!

You can check the trivia, goofs and other information about any movie at The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). You can read them yourself there =)

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Some friends keep asking me – how I learn to write and blogging and in English. Well, I have no specific answer about it. And I’m not the one who is talented in English. I’m blogging in English to improve my language skill and then I found it useful for me. First, I feel the improvement of myself. Now I’m not hesitate to write and speak in English, especially with my foreign buddies. Second, I got a lot of friends all over the world. And thru English, I can communicate, discuss, and sharing thoughts with them. It’s awesome! :thumbsup:

I love my mothertongue language anyway

Btw, I want to share with you one of the ways how I learn to understand English and apply it, maybe it can give you a clue

Well, check it out

For those who is familiar with the picture above, maybe you have the clue of what I want to say. Ok. The pic above is a screenshot from Silent Hill 4 : The Room. An interesting game and I currently playing it. Almost 55% done.

So what?

Yeah. I love playing games since I was a kid. My first console was Sega (or Atari? I don’t remember :question: ) and now I just playing games with my PC. 512MB ATI Radeon graphic card is enough for me

And from playing games, I learn to understand and apply English :thumbsup:

Don’t believe me? Ok.. let’s see

Silent Hill is an interesting game series but I don’t play Silent Hill 2 and 3 yet. It’s because I seldom visiting PC shops nowadays. Thanks to WarezBB.org and Rapidshare!

I choose Silent Hill 4 because I currently playing this game and the language used in this game is formal. However, some scenes are gore and not suitable for kids. Yeah, it’s a survival horror game

Back to the point, how I learn English through playing games?

Let’s see the screenshots from the game :

One of the special feature in the game (in any game) you can get response from some objects or elements in the game. In the pic above, I try to open the door and then but then from the response I know it’s shut tight and won’t open at all. Of course, I have to understand the response given.

There are some cutscenes which is happens at some points or level in the game. These cutscenes are so important because it’ll lead you what to do or where to go next. Some cutscenes tell you the secret, history or plot in the game. I prefer the subtitle in the game because it is exactly right and prepared by the game creators. It’s true you can get benefit from subtitles in the movie but sometimes it’s not precise in term of timing and meaning and sometimes totally wrong! :down:

One feature that needs you to read is the ‘reading material’ in the game. This feature also exists in Resident Evil, Dino Crisis and other survival horror series. The reading materials might be novel, diary, notes, magazine, etc. The contents usually tell you what had happened, what to do next or the clue to settle the puzzle in the game. Puzzle? I’ll tell you after this

Puzzle in Survival Horror Game

Most survival horror games includes puzzle which needs you to settle it to go to the next level or point in the game. For example, you need to find the key to open a locked door. You found the key in a room, but the key is attached to a wired cord with electricity? So how you want to take the key?? Simple, go to the basement floor and turn off the generator Now you can take the key and unlock the door

Well, you can’t finish the game without understanding the direction, notes or whatever clue that is provided in the game. Absolutely.

How I Understand & Apply English?

This is how I understand and apply English. Well, it’s ok if you want to consider it as tips

1 – Play the game with the dictionary with you. Not the one that translate into your language. Use the Thesaurus (English-English). I suggest MacMillan Dictionary. In case you don’t know a word, refer to the dictionary. If you’re playing with your PC, just minimize the game and search it thru Google or Wikipedia

2 – Avoid subtitle while watching the movies. Sometimes it’ll mislead you. But in case it’s exactly right, it’s good for you Try to understand it and make sure you recognize the difference between American and British style.

3 – If you want to write in English, I suggest you create a new blog just for English posts in case you don’t have one. Don’t mix with other language. It’s ok if you want to quote some points in other language but put the translation there.

4 – Connect yourself to the global community all around the world especially bloggers. I found this step is very helpful to me. For sure, you have to interact in English. I suggest you use BlogCatalog for this step. and make sure to make adding new friends and visiting others’ blogs as your hobby

Well, I’d share how I try to understand and apply English, especially thru playing games. Now I’m not hesitate anymore to write and interact in English. I hope some of the points give a shot to your mind

I admit I still have to learn more and more and improve myself. There’s a lot of new things and knowledge out there so you have to search for it and don’t feel shy to ask if you don’t know something.

The ability to understand and apply English is an essential step for them who serious in making money online. Believe me :thumbsup:

See ya!

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Life is full of questions. Everyday we seeking for answers in our life :question:

“Who am I?”
“Why I’m here?”
“Why I’m doing this?”
“How to do this?”

..and etc2.

Human never feel satisfied, especially in searching for answers in this temporarily life. Again and again, we’re looking for the answers in life.

The Phenomenon in Daily Life

We always asking questions in our daily life. Most of time we’ll ask ourselves questions. This is what we called as monologue. The popular question is – “What’s the time now?”

Sometimes we’ll asking ourselves – “What I’m gonna do now?” and sometimes we’re asking ourselves a lot of questions when we feel regret – “What I’d done?” , “What’ll happened to me??”

If you start to realize it, there’s more than thousand questions you have in your daily life.

And in daily life, we human asking questions among us – sometimes we’re asking and sometimes we have to answer the questions. Some questions are personal, academic, technical, irritating, inspirational and some questions are in compliment, for example – “Do you know that I always love you?” ..well, it’s gonna be longer if I try to describe the all the questions here.

You can read more here.

The Hunger For Answers

Human never feel satisfy, especially in seeking the truth. It was estimated that there are 130,000 new books published every year in the United Kingdom. In the United States of America, the number is a staggering 190,000! And until now, it’s a normal thing to know there are new discoveries everyday.

Scientists looking for answers, planners looking for solutions, and laymen keep waiting the ansers from the politicians. well, sometimes they got the wrong answers

However, the ultimate question for human is about ourselves – from where we come, what are we doing here on Earth, what happened to them, what’s happening in our life and etc. And that’s why some people are believing in the theory of evolution as an easy way to get the answers.

Human become eager when there’s something they really need to know – history, academic, entertainment, sports or even the tips, tricks and techniques (gosh. i received many questions on how to boost traffic to your site)

Slumdog Millionare : Where Life Gives The Answers

I watched Slumdog Millionare for the first time last night. I think most of you had watched it. You can watch the trailer here.

Just to make it short, Slumdog Millionare is about a guy that used to live in slums, and then becomes a chaiwalla (people who serving tea) becomes a millionare thru the program “Who Wants To Be A Millionare?”. And his epxerience in life gives him the answers, except for the final question, where he gambled to guess the answers and fortunately, he got it right! :halo:

When asked by the police (Jamal had been in custody, accused for doing fraud) how he managed to answer the questions, one of his answers is – “You don’t have to be a genius”.

I think by watching the film, you’ll got my points.

I’m not studying philosophy, but there are a lot of interesting things that we don’t realize happened in our life everyday. I admit I always thinking in an absract way but by realizing these things, there’s a way for us to be a better person :thumbsup: (sometimes it’s not, even it can make someone becomes worst :down: )

There are answers four your questions in life. You just have to search for it

Life’s going on. See ya

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I found this cat smelling the shrubs at my college. *sniff* *sniff*

yeah. i’m kinda busy (not so busy, actually) doing some works.

there’s a lot things happened and i miss some updates from my frens so i decide to update too :kiss:

yeah. what’s up?

Preparing Layout Plan

well, i’m currently preparing the layout plan with Autocad. i’m using Autocad 2008 because the 2009 is quite.. hm.. i mean.. too modern sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not – based on the layout that a person designs. i agree with my lecturer – the layout could be finished in 1-2 days, and we (the students) are too relax in doing serious things. yeah. i admit it. i also believe that i can finish the layout in 2-3 days but.. hm.. sometimes it’s quite difficult to concentrate, especially when it’s weekend in addition, i just found i had done a major mistake. and i had to redo. ugh. please God, give me patience. the submission date is 16th March but i prefer to make it early so wish me luck :thumbsup:

wanna see my layout for the previous semester? click here

The Abolish PPSMI Movement (GMP)

I went to KLSentral last Saturday and on my way back, there’s a lot of white-shirt people on the streets.

i snapped these pics from the LRT.. near the Masjid Jamek station, if i’m not mistaken.

some of you might want to know what is PPSMI. it’s Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Subjek Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (if i’m not mistaken) – Teaching & Learning Science & Mathematics in English. it’s the program under Ministry of Education of Malaysia to enhance students’ knowledge and skills in the Science and Mathematics subjects thru English.

some people agree and some people not. well, it’s happened in every government decisions

a guy said to me in the LRT : “Japan is more advance than us. Why there’s no something like PPSMI in Japan? It’s funny” (laughing) :question: ..well, he didn’t make a joke, i believe.

from my opinion, there’s pro and contra. some students can cope with this programme but i think most students’ don’t unless they’re trained well to learn Science and Mathematics in English. i’m in the last batch that use Malay, so I dunno what they feel, until I myself have to struggle study all the subjects thru English here in the campus. and tht’s why I writing posts in English – to improve my languange skills.

there’s maybe an agenda of some people – media said that, click here to read (it’s in Malay), but i think the goverment has to settle this issue as quickly as possible.

the more you let it burn, the more water you need to put it down.

A Rapidshare Account

oh yeah. i’d bought rapidshare account from a friend here. he’s generous and it’s nice to know him :thumbsup:

i’d watched Heroes Season 3 and currently watching Family Guy Season 7. and yeah.. of course, the anime series and the movies. i heard Heroes Season 4 is airing now. not patient enough to download and watch it until the end!

it’s life – yeah. i feel it!

p/s : some people feel that studying urban planning has no life. hm.. well.. sometimes..

see ya!

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