Sec 1 LA E-Learning (Interpersonal) Interview

Topic of the Interview : The necessity to communicate in a relationship.

Intro : Communication is a process of transfering information from one entity to another. Communication does not mean that it must be verbal, there can also be non-verbal communication, for example communication using body language, like hand signs, eye contact, touch, etc. Today I will conduct an interview on Mr Wang Ri Zhao on the topic, the necessity to communicate in a relationship.

Thank you Mr Wang for attending this interview.

Ques

The first question I am going to ask you is also the most important quetion in this whole interview. Do you think communication is important for a couple to maintain their lovely relationship?

Ans

I personally think, and in fact I think all couple agrees with the point that communication is important for their relationship.. If we do not communicate well with each other, how could we know each other's character, personality, their strangths and their weaknesses. By not being to understand each other, how could a couple has a lonlasting love. There would be quarrels, fights and all kinds of negative things happening that might affect the relationship of the couple.

Ques

Mr Wang, so do you mean that the divorce rates would drop if couples can communicate with each other better?

Ans

Definitely, by communicating better, you would be able to understand your partner better. With greater understanding to your partner, you would be able to adapt to his/her likings or the things he/she dislikes. There would be lesser trivial quarrels happening. Most of the time it is not big or serious quarrels that caused a coulple to fall out, however they are those tiny-weeny trivial ones. By having lesser trivial quarrels happening, the couple's relationship would improve.

Ques

You know, Mr Wang, in this modern and fast-paced big city Singapore, people often have to work over-time, so what if they have no tome to communicate, wouldn't their relationship be affected.

Ans

Actually, I do not quite agree with the phrase "no time". Athough you may be busy, I am sure time can still be squeezed out for you to communicate with your partner. For example , spending just five minutes of your time before sleep chatting with your partner about the things that happened today can be also a form of comunication. Or if you are really so busy, try spending more time with your partner on the weekends, like going for stroll together in the park or having dinner at the restaurant. What I would like to say is that, just ry spending every spare time you have communicating with your partner.

Ques

Mr Wang, I have friends that also communicate with their wives, however they still had a bad marriage, how do you explain about this.

Ans

Yes, communication is important, however you must also know how to communicate well with your partner or else communication would become mis-communication.

Ques

Can you give us examples of mis-communication.

Ans

Some of the common mis-communication are, being negative about things and start complaining your partner, not trusting your parner and start jumping into conclusions, not showing respect to your partner.

Ques

To prevent a bad marriage, do you think that we should take note of how your partner communicates with you when you decide on whether to marry him/her or not?

Ans

Yes, of course, if you cannot communicate well with your partner before marriage, you should not marry him/her as after marriage, the communication between you and your partner would be even worse, thus leading to a bad marriage.

After so many questioon-and-answers, I believe that our conclusion would be, "communication between couples is necessary for relationship.

Once again, a big thank you to Mr Wang.

BYE-BYE

I am Interpersonal.

Last week, my form teacher told us to take a learning styles test for our E-Learning, and the learning styles we are will be the assignments we will get for our E-Learning. After taking the test, the results showed that I am Interpersonal. Interpersonal means that someone who has very good relationship with others, so I was given the assigment to interview someone and this assignment really interest me a lot. I feel the learning styles method of learning is a very good way of learning as it lets us know where our interest are, so assignments given will be to our interest, and it makes learning better and at the same time, more enjoyable.

Special Lang Arts post

The similarities and the differences between Lamb To The Slaughter and The Way Up To Heaven.

Similarities

What is common in both stories are that the female lead, which was the wives were very pleasing towards their husbands, however their husbands seemed to be taking their wives for granted and did not seem to really care about them. In the case of Lamb To The Slaughter, the callous Patrick Maloney was heartless enough to leave her wife, Mary, who was already pregnant with his child, and was only concerned about her not making her fuss as it might affect his work. While in Way Up To Heaven, the husband clearly knew that his wife disliked being late, and was "afraid" of being late, however he somehow tries to irritate her purposely by being slow and fussy, while on their way to catch the plane to Paris to visit their grandchildren. The wife finally found out what his husband was up to and when he knew that his husband was stuck in the lift, she just ignored the fact, and left her husband in the lift. Both stories clearly shows that both women were shrewd and intelligent and the fact that how both of them got away with the murder.

Differences

The major differences in the story was that one of them murdered her husband directly while the other murdered his husband indirectly and Mary Maloney was overcomed by her vengefulness which caused the murder while in Way Up To Heaven, the wife only to the thought of "murdering" her husband when she found out that her husband was stuck in the lift.



Both stories are simillar in the way that they are deception stories and these are the differences and similarities for it.

Jiaozi, a chinese traditional food...

Jiaozi

Jiaozi? What is Jiaozi, is it an English word ? Okay, Jiaozi is actually Chinese Dumpling if we translate it into English.

Its Shape

See that, this is Jiaozi. Jiaozi is actually meat wrapped in a thin piece of dough. The two sides of the dough is then pressed to gether making it into a shape like a Yuanbao (a chinese ancient silver Chinese currency).

Its Fillings

So what is hidden inside the Jiaozi.

MMM...

Can't guess, the filling can be anything, and the most common ones are pork, mutton, beef, chicken, fish and shrimps, usually with vegetables. The popular vegetables are cabbage, chives, spring onions, leek and celery.
Actually, the fillings also range from the different regions of China.
The north and the west usually uses beef, mutton pork and chicken, while the south's are usually seafood, eg. fish, shrimps. Some of the daring chef even start creating new fillings for Jiaozi,like curry chicken, satay, terriyaki chicken.

types of Jiaozi

Jiaozi also have different types.

Fried ones 锅贴

Steamed ones 蒸饺

Boiled ones 水饺


Jiaozi are one of the major food eaten in Chinese New Year in the Northern Provinces. It looks like the Ancient Chinese Silver Money, so by eating it, it signifies WEALTH and PROSPERITY in the New Year. When someone is leaving home to go out to work, the last meal with the family should also be dumplings. When he or she had eaten the dumpling, he or she will prosper and earn tons and tons of money from work. Not only special occasions, dumplings can also be eaten on normal days. Many Northern Families eat dumplings everyday, for lunch, dinner and even breakfast!!!


JIAOZI, you are really so delicious, oishi!!!

Special Langauge Arts Post of the month

Story review on Road Dahl's short story "Lamb to the slaughter".



Mr Maloney



Mr Maloney, husband of Mary Maloney is a detective, and at first he is quite a good and caring husband as he would take his wife out for dinner every Thursday after his work and it is their time together.



However as the story develops, Mr Maloney's love for starts declining. At the climax of the story, he lost all his feelings for his wife, and even starts turning a cold shoulder to her wife, no matter how had she tried to please her. This shows the other side of Mr Maloney, someone who is callous, uncaring. He is also a very selfish person. He wanted to leave her wife at the very time when she was pregnant, this shows that he was just a irresponsible father and a heartless man who just want to her pregnant wife to fend for herself. Of course he said that he will provide money and a good life for his wife. However, in my opinion, I am sure that for his pregnant wife who treats him as the center of his world, what she most needed was the love and the care of his husband. What made me really irritated about this character was that not only he was heartless he was also very selfish. He told his wife not to create a fuss as it would be bad for his work. At this point of time he was still just caring about his work and not the future life of his wife.

Patrick Maloney , the callous, selfish and heartless man.



Mary Maloney



She was firstly presented in the story as a loving wife, peaceful and beautiful woman, and a perfect housekeeper who was living in her own world of so-called "blissful' and "peaceful" world. It was just because everything she done was for her husband and she look up to her husband as the center of the world, not knowing that her husband did not love her anymore that resulted her in murdering her husband when she took the blow that her husband was going to leave her.

As the story reaches the climax, Mary Maloney's had a split personality. One as a loving woman. The other as someone one who is shrewd, calculating every step she makes, and is also a perfect actress. I am sure that if she was really an actor she will confirm be the best Hollywood actress. She shows no remorse with the murder and faces her husband's death with a lack of emotion. She is someone completely different. With her superb acting skills and intelligence, she managed to fool everyone. She had definitely got away from the murder as we can all tell from her giggles at the ending of the story.


Mary Maloney, the shrewd one or the loving one.
Who knows?

Food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First stop Singapore

FOOD




Food is essential in our life. We human-beings need food to survive, in fact all living things need food to survive. Different countries and different cultures also have different kinds of food. So follow me to different countries to enjoy food!


First stop! The Lion City : Singapore





wheeeeww! The aeroplane landed safely on Changi International Airport, one of the best airports of the world. Singapore, as you have heard may be a little red dot on the map. There are mainly four races on the island : Indians, Malays, Chinese and finally Eurasians. Each have different cultures and different types of food, so Singapore is surely a FOOD PARADISE! Lets start with the signature dish : CHILLI CRAB!



The Chilli Crab is was created in 1950 by Singapore Chef Cher Yam Tian with her husband Lim Choon Ngee. Mud crabs are stir-fried in semi-thick, sweet and savoury tomato and chilli based sauce.Those who are scared spicy food, do not be scared, the Chilli Crab is not really spicy. Not only the crab is nice and delicious, the sauce is too. There are some ways of eating the sauce. The most traditional way is dipping Fried Mantou (or chinese buns) into the sauce, or you can also use the French Bread. Plain white rice can also be eaten with Chilli Crabs. BUUURRRP! Ah what shall we eat next, what about some desserts. Ice Kacang!



Ice Kacang (also known as Ais Kacang ) is the signature dessert of Singapore. It is a sweet tasting and also icy dessert. It is primarily crushed ice with red beans and jellys (sweet corn, palm seed, grass jelly, agar agar,which is also a type of jelly and cendol) hidden under the ice with colourful syrups poured on top of the ice. There are also different types of flavours of Ice Kacang now (eg. durian, mango, guava, chocolate), some of them even have a scoop of ice-cream on it. Of all the flavours, the traditional one is still the best, only by eating the traditional one you can experience the real Singaporean way of life. Colourful and yummy, mmm(lick,lick)!


AH! Time flies its time to eat again. Quick, my stomach is already rumbling. Okay, next dish "Satay"! Satay is someting like the Shish Kebab from Turkey. It is usually made using chicken meat, while there are also beef and mutton ones. The marninated meat is put onto the charcoal fire to be grilled. The Satay is served together with Ketupats (Malay Rice Dumplings), cucumbers, onions and a sweet-based, but also a little spicy peanut sauce. MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! All the satays that were on the table are now all in my stomach.


Whats for dinner? Ah! The Hainanese Chicken rice. The chicken and the rice is of course the most important part of the dish. The chicken is boiled is chicken bone and pork stock. The rice however do not use the stock as there is a specially made to be used for the "oily " rice. The "oily rice " is really nice as it has a unique flavour. The chicken is also especially juicy. DELICIOUS!


After a day of eating I am already tired ( yawn), I am going to sleep.......(snore, snore)


Ring! The alarm bell rang, another eating day.


8AM-Breakfast
Guess what will it be? Not Macdonald, not Burger King. Haha can't guess it right, it is Roti Prata.
Roti Prata is the Singaporean Indian style of the Indian paratha, a type of Indian Pancake made using fats, egg and dough. Roti Prata actually means flat bread. The traditional way of eating Prata is with curry, mutton curry, fish curry, chicken curry. However, now some very innovative restaurant owners had come up with super innovative pratas, eg. cheese prata, durian prata, pineapple prata, ice-cream prata, chocolate prata,pizza prata. What a good breakfast Prata makes. I am feeling thirsty, is there anything to drink? Of course there is.


Teh Tarik! Teh Tarik is made using black tea and condensed milk. It is a little sweet and it makes a perfect combination with the Prata. The other name for Teh Tarik is pulling tea.The mixture is poured back and forth from two vessels over a certain height.


The food in my stomach has already been digested. I am hungry! I want to have some spicy food.
How about Laksa? Laksa is a penarakan food, which is a food with Chinese and Malay merger. What we are eating now is the Curry Laksa which is more popular in Singapore, while there is also a type of Laksa called Asam Laksa, which is the sour type and is commonly served in Penang, Malaysia. (Sniff, Sniff) I can't wait to eat it.

Is there anything that could be eaten with the laksa? Otak! Otak is actually spicy fish cake wrapped inside banana leaf and grilled over charcoal fire. It is very popular and is most of the time eaten as a snack.

Black Pepper Crab! Okay, everyone ,this would be the last dish that we will be eating in Singapore. The Black Pepper Crab was first created at Long Beach Seafood Restaurant. It is made using hard-shell crabs, cooked is a thick peeper gravy. The thick and juicy crab-meat together with the spicy black pepper gravy , it is really delicious . What to do with the sauce, you can do the same like the sauce Chilli Crab. WHEW

We have come to the end of our two day eating trip in Singapore, stay tuned to the FOOOOOOD Blog and I will bring you to our next destination for the next two-day eating trip.

BYE-BYE