Wear your mask people......hahaha ( FATIN NABILA 5TH POST )

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

Nice line from Macbeth....... I like the line because the line actually portrays the real characteristic of human being... Even though it is not a positive traits that any human can have but it does shows that human being can be very cruel on certain extend..... Being fake is cruel and it is a lie because it denied the right of a person to know the truth.... Fake people are everywhere.... They can pretend to like you, however   you will never know what is behind the masks.. The mask here can actually refer to the false face that Macbeth has mentioned. The mask is used to conceal the false heart that exists in someone....... I can relate this to myself because in order to please people, we need to learn how to fake something... Yes, “fakeness” is not a great thing to do, however it is essential in today’s life..... I am a very stubborn, bossy and bad-tempered person... Does that mean that I can simply shove it and wear my crazy attitude in front of other people....some people say that you just need to please yourself and not anybody else...? Does it 100 % true? Does it really work? I believe not... In order to function well in our collective society...we need to be able to conceal something that is not good about ourselves but try to make ourselves more presentable.....  Some people just like to say out like that they can function alone without depending on anybody... For me..it is just rubbish....at some point in our life, we need people...at the very least we need people to bury us when we are dead.... (I know it is harsh, but I just type what my friend’s mum used to tell me in Terengganu dialect)= (“ Dok soh beng kate la, kite ni dok perlu orang laen...kekgi2 biler mati nok suh org gop gali kubur kite, jadi jangan sombong2”)......funny.......hahaha

Determination ( FATIN NABILA 4TH POST)

I love Lady Macbeth........I can relate her to myself in some ways..... For me; she is a woman with high determination like myself....it can be seen in my favourite dialogue:

What beast was ’t, then,

That made you break this enterprise to me?

When you durst do it, then you were a man;

And to be more than what you were, you would

Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now

Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know

How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums

And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

Before I was a karate do athlete, my right to learn this sport had been denied by my family......the only reason is....I am a girl and girl does not play rough sport...... However, I never gave up passion... after 7 years persuading my family to let me join karate-do... Finally, I was allowed to join... Even though I was 17 years old when I was first join the sport... My determination made me learned very fast....... My sensei (coach) was surprised with my fast progressed.... I’ve learned the movement really fast until my sensei asked me to join my first tournament after only one week training..... I’ve won silver medal for that tournament...... Because of that, my sensei asked me to join State’s Karate-do team which I end up representing Terengganu for SUKMA Melaka, 2010.......... In class, Ms. Dzeelfa once asked the class on whether anyone ever experience physical pain..... My answer to that question is.... Yes, I did...... The training there was very challenging..... Not everyone can stand it..... we need to jog for 2.5 km almost every morning and after that we trained for 5 hours a day....The training session was brutal....We need to be very strong physically and mentally in order to “survive” the training..... During the training, all of us need to be each other punching bag....We need to allow our friend to kick our face and punch our stomach.....The rational of that practice, “ just to make you use to the pain”....sound funny right?...However, it was really working.... After sometimes, every one of us, can’t feel the pain that much....we can literally laugh when someone kick or punch us.....There were only three girls in the dojo (the training place for Terengganu Karate-do athletes)......three crazy girls, I can say...... even though we are girls...we still need to fight boys in our dojo during sparring sessions...........although we lose almost of the time to the boys...we never gave up, we fought hard.....For us injuries such as blisters and tore ligament just normal....we just endure the pain out of determination and passion towards the sport.

1st Video vs 2nd Video

Gan Shiau Yin - 154568  (6th post)

 Hmmmm.....understanding the video......I would guess that both times I have different understanding of the video....For the first video, it was a bit longer so definitely I was able to understand some part of the story...I know that there are three witches that is describe as ugly that Banquo was not able to recognize them as women.....I know that the witches' master is Hecat and that the witches fear her...I know that Macbeth is very demanding when asking for his own prophecy...For the second video, the scene was very short, so I was not able to understand as much as the first video...But I was able to realize that it was in a way a premonition about the whole story of Macbeth....and I also learn that Graymalkin and Paddot were actually the familiar animals of the witches....So all in all, I did learn something different about the video process.

Persona Poem

Gan Shiau Yin (154568) - 5th post

This dedicate this poem to Lady Macbeth. She is one the character that I like (at the beginning of the story). The other characters that I like is the Three weird witches. My final decision to go with Lady Macbeth for this poem is because of Queen Ravenna in the movie "Snow White and the Huntsman". She was so evil that I was reminded again of Lady Macbeth when she was in her evil glory. So here goes:

Lady Macbeth,

Strong, Beautiful, Manipulative and Brilliant

A inspiration to all feminist female,

Who loves power, the feeling of achievement and  being acknowledge for the strength

Who hates Macbeth's kindness, weak will and  strange behavior,

Who wants her husband to achieve greatness, achieve her own acknowledgement and the greatness of Scotland

Resident in Shakespeare's Tragedy Play, "Macbeth"

Lady Macbeth.

Persona poem (11)

Nik musaini nik mustapha

My persona poem is about my favorite character in this play. I choose Lady Macbeth because she is a very wonderful human being. p/s: I’ll just ignore the part where she becomes terrible and kill herself. Well, it is human’s nature to feel the guilt after making some mistakes right? And it shows that she is a normal human being who feels the regret after did some bad deeds

 

Lady Macbeth

Cunning, ambitious, brave, spirited

A wife of Macbeth

Who loves her husband, to be in control and power

Who hates a coward, a rival and failure

Who wants to see her husband become a king, success work and happiness of herself.

Resident of Macbeth’s heart

Lady Macbeth

the difference making the first and the second video (10)

Nik musaini nik mustapha

In the making of the first video, it is very difficult for me to pronounce the dialogue because i didn't familiar with old English language.  The second hardest thing is to say the dialogue with the right intonation because i have no clue on what i am talking about. After a few class and a few video-making session, then i know what Macbeth is all about and i started to feel a little comfortable to do it. the five weird sisters always discuss together on what,when,where and how to do each scene that we choose. this give us a clearer picture about our video.  We do have to face some difficulties, but we manage to overcome it and i like this new video-making experience.

For the second video, when i know that we need to do it in our state language, i thought that this will be way easier than to first one. But what it is totally wrong. i think it'll be easier if we sit and translate our dialogue together instead of divide our role and translate the dialogue by our self because it will be more link to each dialogue. I think i spoil the video because my voice is not loud and clear enough..huhu

but i like both of our videos because both gives me new experience in making a video.   

The five weird sisters (9)

Nik musaini nik Mustapha

The five weird sisters that is really weird. We are zara, leng lui(shiauyin), fatin, nadiya and me(nik). I think this group name really suits us because our brain did function in a weird way. When we are discussing about the tasks, all of us must think about the same idea (more or less), same activities and same interpretation, but of course we express it in a different way. It’s not that our brian are so much alike.. J

We are feminist, we believe in fate, we like Lady Macbeth character, and we can work till early morning and go to morning class without any problem (I think).  We also don’t really like Macbeth attitude and most of all really we are weird in our own way. I like to be in this group because they really know he to back me up. They really know how to make me feel a little confident and make me overcome (a little bit) my nervous when it’s my turn to present our tasks. They are like my Lady Macbeth to a Macbeth (which I am the weak Macbeth, figuratively).

I’ve learned a lot this time, through this group, through the video-making process, through the class, through Macbeth play and most of all through you, miss Dzeelfa.  It really do change my perspective of how to look at something, how to look at life. And I’m glad to learned all this experiences. Hopefully I still can find u if I need to ask about something (that has to do with literature, of course. Don’t worry, insyaAllah I won’t make you feel miserable..hehe) =)