Comment on Khairil Azhar Blog (www.khazar723.blogspot.com)

hello there...Well, maybe the movie is about love but honestly khairil, I don't really understand what the movie was all about. But after reading your blog i finally had a clearer picture in my mind of the movie. Perhaps later you could update me with the info's about the movie. Hope that you still remember it though!

Comment on Marlisa Blog (www.marlisa-edu3217.blogspot.com)

Hi there...Yup I agreed with what you said about evaluating others without hurting them. Some people they are sensitive with our remarks and comments. Perhaps because they view us as friend. Friends should not say bad comments to other friends. But the truth is, we just want to best for our friends. I myself also enjoys evaluating my colleagues in their simulated teaching as I enjoy they evaluate mine. Personally, I think I would learn better as I also received a personal thought from my friends about the way of my teaching. Thanks a lot dear friends for your comments.

April 2, 2008 6:54 PM

Comment on Eunice Blog (www.isnice2046.blogspot.com)

hello dear...hey that's interesting.You actaully did help out with TESL 6 performance!Well, believe me when I said that you didn't miss anything when you didn't go to watch Passion. It was boring and all of us suffered there!Perhaps later in the future you will get a better chance to watch a better play than Passion. Sorry Joe Hafsham, but your play was boring!

April 2, 2008 6:17 PM

Comment on Agnes Blog (www.joinesz.blogspot.com)

I agree with what Agnes said about the play. Passion was not as passionate as the title suggest! I had to admit that the dancers and their dance steps were good but apart from that, I don't fell like suggesting others to watch the play. Perhaps it was me who could not appreciate plays but this is not my first time watching plays!I have been exposed to watch plays since I was in secondary school. Passion is some sort of a musical play without any dialogues, just dance moves that conveys the meaning.

Review on Passion

I was really looking forward when I get to know that the whole class is going for a play at KLPac. I have never been there before. Yes I enjoyed plays very much but I usually go to Actor’s Studio, Istana Budaya and the one at Dewan Bahasa. KLPac was a new experience and I was really looking forward into it. I was told that we are going to watch a play by Joe Hafsham called Passion. Then things started to change. A friend of mine told me that the play was some sort of musical play and it was boring. Well, I took my chance and go ahead to watch it. Guess what? I regretted watching it! The play was basically about a guy who loves to say “Life is so strange” because he fall for a lesbian and a bisexual girl. The events that happened in his life change his perceptions of life itself. Perhaps the plot of the play is interesting but it was not well performed. Dance moves without any dialogues make it hard for me to understand the play. No doubt that the moves were great and the props and lighting were good but still I couldn’t understand the play well. Anyway, thanks to my colleagues who tried to hard to explain the whole play to me.

A Steetcar Named Desire

Watching the movie A Streetcar Named Desire is just as almost reading the text itself. There were not much different from the play and the movie. The movie is much similar to the play. It evolves around the character of Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalsi and Mitch Mitchell. I didn’t have a hard time understanding the movie. In fact, the movie helps my understanding of the text better. Yes I have read the text before I watched the movie and after watching the movie; I felt that I really like the play. The story is something that is common in our society but somehow people rather not to talk about it. Maybe they feel that it is not important or perhaps it is just something small that we didn’t need to pay much attention to it. The portrayal of the characters especially Blanche Dubois makes me think that what she experience is something that we should not ignore.

Review on "As You Like It"

First of all, I thought the last movie that we are going to watch for the semester is “The Streetcar Named Desire”. But somehow when Yuen Thien told the class that there is another movie that needs to be watch, I was quite surprised. Honestly, I think the movies were quite dull. After all, it’s literature! The movies that we have watched were not acted out by Brad Pitt! “As You Like It” was the last movie that I watched. This Shakespeare adaptation was a blur to me. I felt asleep halfway and I need lots of catching up to do to understand the movie. But to my surprised, most of my classmates didn’t understand the movie also. That was not a big surprised. I was busy discussing with Agnes what the movie was all about and who the hero was. First we thought the hero was the Negro man, but the real hero was the man with the long beard. Well, we are not sure if that is the real hero up until today. Personally, I think the language that was used in the movie makes all of us did not understand the whole movie well. Yes, I was a modern movie but yet the dialogue was the Shakespearean dialogue with lots of thou and art. Perhaps we would understand better if we pay full attention to the movie when it was screen rather than guessing and discussing what the movie was all about!