VOCABULARY UPDATE!

Let's learn new words today!

1) Prodigy (noun) - extremely talented person, especially a child
"My sister is a tennis prodigy rivaling her friends"

2) Realm (noun) - a subject or area in which an individual has curiosity, experience, or knowledge
"Because Donald is not familiar with the realm of politics, he should not run for national office"

3) Juggernaut (noun) - a large item that is seen as unstoppable and can destroy anything in its way
"The fact George is undefeated in political elections makes him a juggernaut"

4) Browbeat (verb) - to bully in an intimidating way
"Daniel browbeats his girlfriend, threatening to call the police."

5) Ajar (adjective) - slightly open
"She left her bedroom door ajar, so I figured it was safe to enter"

That's all. Thankyou :)

xoxo,
iffah

MADPP INTER-CLASS DEBATE COMPETITION 2016 :)

Hello and a very good evening I bid to all readers!

Last week, Miss Jo had organized a debate tournament for all of us (madpp students). We competed among each others in our own classes before being selected to enter the semi finals and final which had been held at theatrette 2. It was such a great experience for me as I once again teamed up with Amirul Afiq together with Sharifah. At first, I was quite ashamed as I felt I was the 'dumbest' among the three of us. However, as time flew, we got to catch up as a team and eventually made it to the FINAL! 

I still remember our very first motion that we got - TBHT Optimus Prime should rule the world - was actually our suggested motion for the debate. To be honest, we didn't have any intentions of winning at all as Amirul Afiq had once said, "we need to lose this one. we need to give this opportunity to Adib". Competing with Adib's team as the beginning for our debate session was not a really promising start. We thought losing might be the best option. But we forgot that we got Amirul Afiq at the first place, so winning was becoming easy for us haha. "It's okay, we still have chance to lose", said Amirul Afiq. So our losing mission didn't end there. Despite our will to lose the next debate, we still struggled to find the points related to our position as the Opposition under the motion THW negotiate with terrorists. We wanted to lose with dignity too :p However, the luck didn't seem to be on our side once again as we also won the second round of debate!!! It was really surprising as we had been qualified to the semi finals - which was far far from what we had expected.

Being qualified into the semi finals had made us being more serious in researching points for the debate as our opponent asked for a motion which is quite "sensitive" I suppose : THW abolish Malay Supremacy Rights. I was shocked at first as I had prepared for the other motion which was much easier than that. But, it's okay, I just followed the flow as I already had quite few knowledge on our Federal Constitution after Biro Tatanegara Camp. As the Opposition, we were absolutely standing against the motion as we didn't think abolishing Malay Supremacy Rights would be a good idea as it might as well affects the content it the Art.153 in our Federal Constitution (politician mood: turn on :p). To our surprise, again, the motion had been announced to fall!!! So we WON once againnnn... The thought of getting into final round sent chill into my nerves as our team would debate with Helena's team (they were superb), under the motion, "There is an anti-emotion pill. THW make it compulsory for everyone to take it." Standing as the Prime Minister of the Government was not as easy as I thought because I had to define our motion very precisely and present our mechanism very explicitly. I might say that our team had done our best but we were not destined to win that motion. Losing for the first time at the final was the most satisfying defeat I ever experienced in my life. I didn't have any regret in losing as I had been this far despite our main aim which was to lose from the very beginning. And, what surprised me the most is, our second motion for the debate had been questioned in our final exam today! What a luck!

There's a lot of thing that I have learnt from this debate competition, thanks to Miss Jo and the others, and not to forget, my teammates, for being so supportive and I really enjoyed the debate in spite of our packed schedule with pre-test maths last week. Even though this was not my first time joining a debate tournament, but this one was the most memorable one for me. We won a hamper! Plus, now I know that there are differences between the prompt of the motion - This House Would (THW) and This House Believe That (THBT). It was a great experience ever!!!

See the happy faces there after receiving an unexpected-to-win hamper! XD

That's all from me :) Hope you have some fun reading my messy entry this time. Thank you :)

xoxo,

iffah

MOVIE REVIEW : JUNO

Hello and good evening everyone!

Today I'm gonna post an entry on a movie that I had watched for about few months ago. Its title is Juno. I don't wanna blabber more on the synopsis 'cause I've been quite busy recently due to upcoming final exams.

Juno is a sixteen-year-old girl who is pregnant with Paulie's child. This movie shows how a girl is dealing with her unexpected pregnancy at a very young age. At first, Juno considers abortion, however, she decides to keep the baby after visiting the abortion centre. With the help of her friend, she finds out a couple who really wants the baby, so she decides to give it to them after her labor. But, there are conflicts happened in the middle of her pregnancy period as the husband of the couple suddenly refuses to accept the baby as he says that he doesn't even ready yet for such things. It is amazing of how Juno gets to deal with those adults' problems as she is only 16 on that time. I won't spoil anymore, if you wanna know, go and watch it by yourself :p

IF I WERE IN THE MAIN CHARACTER'S POSITION, I WOULD...

I can't even imagine how I would react if I know I'm pregnant. I probably would just think the easiest way to solve the problem, which is to just abort it. Juno did a good job in cancelling her abortion as she thought it would be the best choice after all. She could give the baby to someone who really needs it instead of just "killing" the innocent baby. I would perhaps do the same as what Juno did - only after tons of considerations hehe - because I think by aborting it, things will not change as what I expect it to be. It would not ultimately solve the problems, yet the feeling of guilyt might as well haunt me for the rest my life. I should also consider the aftermath of the abortion - whether it may harm in any ways possible. Furthermore, in this life, there will always be unfortunate people who really want to have a baby after years of marriage but perhaps because of certain inevitable circumstances, they could not have it. Hence, giving the baby to these kind of people would be more considerable. The baby has its right to stay alive, to breathe the same air as we do :)

That's all for Juno! Hehehe thanks again for reading. I rate Juno with 4.3 out of 5 stars!

Do watch it sometimes, it's worth it!

xoxo,

iffah

VOCABULARY UPDATE, again!

Annyeonghaseyo!

Here's more words to learn........

1) Suffrage (noun) - a legal right to vote
"There has been a great deal said in Malaysia in regard to giving the right of suffrage to those who age 21 and above"

2) Confound (verb) - to mix up or confuse
"The purpose of the article is not to confound the readers but to inform them"

3) Dote (verb) - shower with love ; show excessive affection for
"He doted on her, just dearly love her"

4) Doleful (adjective) - filled with sadness and grief
"My mother’s eyes were doleful after my father moved out of the house"

5) Lavish (adjective) - luxurious or elegant 
"Even though Iffah had a good job, she still could not afford to take lavish trips like her wealthy girlfriends"

That's all :')

xoxo,
iffah

MOVIE REVIEW : The Help

Hellooooooo!

So basically I have not been posting any entries for about two days already. My time schedule was quite packed with all the maths pre-tests and and also the debates last week hewhew.

So today I will post a review on a movie that I had watched with all of my friends together with miss jo at the theatrette. Its title is 'The Help'. At first, I thought it was a kind of action or perhaps horror movie ahahhahaha (idk why i was thinking like that) as I didn't know what 'The Help' means. So noob right? XD But it's okay, now I already know that the Help actually means the housekeeper, thanks to that movie tho :)

EMMA STONE's there! And what's your first impression after seeing the poster?

The Help is a story featuring a young girl named Skeeter who has a dream to become a writer after finishing her college years. She tries to start by choosing to interviews the black women who have devoted their time by taking care of prominent white families' children - The Help. She wants to know how they feel all this time when they work for those white families. However, her efforts to interview are not being supported much by her friends and also the helps themselves as they are too scared if their families' safety would be jeopardized if they are willing to do the interview as the Anti-Civil Rights movement is vigorously active at that time. Only Aibileen - one of her best friend's housekeeper - who is willing to do it at last. She takes risk when both of them meet secretly for quite long time before more women decide to come forward and join too. This movie shows how black people have been discriminated from the white society in United States at that time.

WHICH CHARACTER I LIKE THE MOST?

Aibileen Clark, for sure! If I could choose two, I would pick her best friend, Minny Jackson who is also a maid at another house. Unfortunately, due to the extreme hatred towards her, she has been fired after using the same toilet as the family. On that movie, one of the discrimination that we could see is when all the black maids are compulsory to have their own toilet in every household that hire black maids as they believe that these black people bring disease to them. The reason why I like Aibileen is because she is brave enough to face the risks that might come along after she agrees to do the interview with Skeeter. So does her friend, Minny. Even though she quite disagrees with Aibileen's decision on doing the interview at first, but she finally changes her mind after she has been fired by her employer. They tell Skeeter all of their stories from the beginning up until the end without mentioning their employers' names. As time flies, more maids willingly want to help with the interview. Minny's hatred towards white families is fading after she gets a job at Celia's house. Celia treats her with respect and she does not discriminate her at all. At that time, Minny knows that not every white people is bad and she finally accepts Celia and their relationship deepens after that.

This is a great movie!!! Even though it takes 2 hour and a half to finish, but it's worth it. Serious talk. So, I do rate this movie 4.5 out of 5! Go and watch it peeps!

xoxo,
iffah 

VOCABULARY UPDATE!

So, here's another vocabulary entry. Have fun learning new words!

1. Binge (noun) : a short period of excessive consumption

"I lock my pantry to help me overcome binge eating."

2. Fortitude (noun) : strength of mind that enables a person to face challenges with courage

"The small boy’s fortitude allowed him to stand up to the school bully."

3. Inure (verb) : to become immune to unpleasant events or situations

"After a while, the guards were able to inure themselves to the voices of the prisoners begging for freedom."

4. Malinger (verb) : to pretend to be sick or injured in order to avoid doing work

"The lazy student tried to malinger when it was time to work on his essay."

5. Rancor (noun) : a feeling of hate or anger

"Although my boyfriend betrayed me, I have no rancor towards him"

Only 5 words for today hehe :))))  See ya tomorrow :p

xoxo, 

iffah

MOVIE REVIEW : Fallen

This is a movie that I watched a day ago when I went out for an outing at Ipoh. Because most of my friends were going to watch Doctor Strange - which I already watched last weekend - so I decided to just watch Fallen. The reason why I chose to watch Fallen was because its poster. Hahaha. The heroes look undeniably charming, and the girl too, looks absolutely pretty XD It's cliche for us to judge a movie based on its poster, right? And it's true tho, the poster is quite similar to Twillight's poster. LOL. Even though I know this movie is adapted from a novel by Lauren Kate, I still didn't know the plot of the story before I watched it. But, I was definitely sure it is a fantasy movie.

The first 30 minutes of watching the movie, I was still confused with the story line. However, as the story went on, I slowly got the plot. I knew what's actually happening in there haha (so noob me). The story is about a girl named Luce who is sent to Sword and Cross Academy after being judged as a psychopath by the outsiders. Luce has a problem where she has always been disturbed by the shadows that have eventually killed the people she loved. When she goes to S&C Academy, the first guy that she meets is Cam - an eerie yet handsome guy - who is said to be the most troublesome student at that place. She has been advised to keep her distance from him from the first day she steps in. After a few days of staying there, she meets a girl named Molly who seems to be really furious with her presence in the academy. Finally, she meets Daniel. She has the guts that saying she already knows him, for a long long time. But, when she asks Daniel about it, he keeps avoiding her and saying that she is wrong.

 Long story short, the story turns out to be quite surprising when I knew that Daniel is actually one of 'the fallen' - the angels that have been exiled from the heaven because they failed to chose between God and Love - and Luce is her lifetime lover since hundred years ago. Unfortunately, after a kiss between, the girl dies, because of the curse from God to the angel. Then, she would be reincarnate again, and they fall in love again, and the same thing happens - she dies after the first kiss. Daniel tries to avoid her because he doesn't want her to die anymore. Cam tries to get but Daniel ultimately told Cam  that he couldn't do it as he is also an angel and he is worse than him as he cooperates with Lucifer. Knowing the fact that Luce hasn't yet baptized sent chills to his bones. She would not be to reincarnate again after this. 

Okay, enough with the spoilers :p

DID THE ENDING MATCH MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE MOVIE?

Hmmm... I'm not sure if I am satisfied with the ending. It leaves me hanging. Even though it was a happy ending, where Daniel successfully saved Luce from being dead after their first kiss, but it just ends there. Luce was brought by Daniel to a safer place (by flying of course because he's an angel :p) and that's it.  I am expecting more and more. Perhaps, there would be a sequel but I can't confirm it yet, but I really hope so. If you asks me whether I like the story or not, I would say YES, I like the story, perhaps because I'm a fantasy-based story lover. I like the angels' wings to be exact. They were damn cool you know. Even though I know such angels are never exist, but it still triggers my sense of 'wanting' to have that kind of boyfriend - who has wings, can fly HAHAHA such a nonsense wish I have lol. Btw, I would rate this movie 3.9 out of 5. Perhaps if the ending is more acceptable for me, I could give a 4 for this movie hahaha. For those who love to read fantasy, go and watch this :)

Au revoir. 

xoxo, 

iffah

MOVIE REVIEW : Marvel's Doctor Strange

Hello! For today, I'm gonna post an entry on movie review. To be honest, I had watched this movie since last weekend but I didn't have the time to do a review on it yet. So now, here I am, working on it. Hope you guys enjoy reading it :p

Doctor Strange is an American superhero film adapted from the Marvel's Comics. It is a story about a surgeon named Stephen Strange, who is badly injured after an accident that has eventually affected his career as a surgeon. His hands could not work as they were before and he could not be able to operate on his patients anymore. Dr. Strange feels so disappointed and he eventually determined to heal his hands by deciding to go to Nepal and learns magic from the Ancient One at a place named Kamar Taj.

At first, he finds it quite hard for him to learn all of those magic things but she - the Ancient One, and yeah she's a woman haha - has detected something powerful about Dr. Strange and decides to keep on teaching him. In the end, he is able to become one of the most 'skillful' student that she has. He is a very hard-working student (lol) as he always learns something new from books that he borrowed from the library. He learns how to bend time with the help of the Eye of Agamotto. He uses all his skills to defeat Kaecilius, who is cooperating with Dormammu of the Dark Dimension as he believes that they should live forever in a place where time does not exist.

Okay. That's all for the synopsis of the story. I don't want to be a goddamn spoiler to all who haven't yet watch the movie XD

WHY I LIKE THIS MOVIE???

First things first, I really love the effects of the movie. It looks really real and I found it totally mind-boggling and WOW... I definitely can't forget the scene where all the city suddenly become separated into different layers and everything seems really confusing but it's cool. I also like the way the producer put the humorous sense in the movie. It is really unexpected when suddenly Mordo said that the word on a piece paper that he gave to Strange was actually a WiFi password. HAHA I laughed so hard on that scene. Same goes to the scene where he suddenly mentioned about Beyonce to Wong but Wong seemed to be confused about who Beyonce could be, but eventually he was also the one who listened to Beyonce's song during his reading in the library.  The cloak that he wore during his fight with Kaecilius was a lit. It could do anything including to soothing Strange's feeling - the secene where the cloak suddenly wiped Strange's tears really made me burst to laugh so hard haha XD

There's still much more that I like about this movie despite its too-fast-progressing plot, but these are the only one that I remembered. I can't wait to see the sequel of Doctor Strange as I was quite surprised that Mordo suddenly changed and became a bad guy during the post-credit scene.  So for now, that's it. Overall, I could rate this movie 4.3 out of 5 :)

Have fun reading and if you haven't watch yet, have fun watching!!!

xoxo,
iffah

VOCABULARY UPDATE!

Today I'm gonna post an entry on vocabulary.

 Antidote (noun) : something that relieves or counteracts

"Bonn found that listening to French music was an antidote for his homesickness."

Absolve (verb) : to free from guilt

"Emily felt greatly relieved after her mother absolved her for breaking the vase."

Accentuate (verb) : to emphasize

"Jo used red ribbons to accentuate the coppery tones in her hair."

Clairvoyance (noun) : ability to see things beyond ordinary perception

"Fiqa used her clairvoyance to help Hadri find his lost pet"

Demean (verb) : to lower status

"The embarrassing photograph demeaned the candidate in the eyes of the voters."

Demeanor (noun) : behavior towards others

"Iffah was well-known because of her charming demeanor."

Euphoria (noun) : feeling of great happiness

"John was full with euphoria when she met his long-lost twin, Lola."

Lurid (adjective) : causing horror, shocking

"The lurid photos of the crime scene scared me to death."

Scamper (verb) : to run quickly

"The frightened kitten scampered away from the man."

DONE! Okay, that's all for today :)))) 

See ya tomorrow :p

xoxo, 

iffah

MOVIE REVIEW : The Fall

Hello peeps!!!

Today I'm gonna post an entry about a movie that I had watched for about few weeks ago. Its title - THE FALL. By just hearing the title, I guessed the movie would possibly has its setting around battlefield or war, however my guess sank away after I watched it. Frankly speaking, it was a great movie to watch!

The story features a Romanian girl named Alexandria who is hospitalized for her broken arms and has met Roy, a stuntman who is also hospitalized at the same hospital as he gets injured while filming one of his film and has the possibility to be paralyzed. Roy tells Alexandria a story behind her name and he promised to tell an epic tale when she comes back the day after.

After that day, Alexandria always goes to Roy and he tells her a story of five different person - a black bandit, Charles Darwin, an Indian warrior, an Italian explosives expert, an ex-slave - who have the same intention of seeking their revenge on Governor Odious. A mystic later joins them and helps them throughout their journey to the Odious' place.

Those five heroes in the epic tale

There is another reason behind the story-telling between Roy and Alexandria. Roy wants to use her in getting the Morphine in order to attempt suicide because he has been dumped by his love. The story evolves as the black bandit turns out to be Roy and Alexandria suddenly features in the tale too. In the end, Roy kills one by one of the characters and made Alexandria so upset of the story. She wants the story to have a happy ending but Roy insists as he says "it's my story". To be short, Roy finally decides to let the black bandit and the girl survives in the end. The story ends when both Roy and Alexandria have returned to his work and her home.

THE REASON I LIKE THE MOVIE....

Its cinematography is absolutely astonishing. I love it when the movie sets its setting in many beautiful places around the world. What amazed me the most was when my lecturer said that the casts of the movie really went to those places to get the real image of the scene instead of editing them on the computers. WOW. I also like the characters in the Roy's tale as each of them have their own uniqueness and their own stories behind the reason they wanna seek revenge on Governor Odious. The movie also features different cultures and I like it. Not  to forget, Alexandria is also one of my favorite character because she is so cute. Her stammer makes her character more cuter as I could see how hard she tries to communicate with Roy at first. She also shows great affection towards Roy as she wills to do anything to help Roy including to risk herself to get the Morphine in the pharmacy. Even though Roy treats her a bit cruel in the end by killing all the characters one by one but he still makes up his mind at last - it is the best thing to do for Alexandria.

One of the great cinematography featured in the movie

I could say that would definitely love it or hate it in the end. So, go & watch it!
I rate this movie 3.9 out 5 :)))

Hasta La Vista...

xoxo,
iffah