Thursday, August 27, 2009

Mrs Boss...


Lady Sarah Ashley is an English aristocrat. In the story, she leaves England in 1938 and travels to Australia to follow her husband, Maitland who is in Australia with the intention of selling his cattle station, Faraway Downs. However, she discovers that her husband was murdered when she arrives at the cattle. In addition, a half-aboriginal little boy, Nullah tells her that the Faraway downs’ manager, Neil Fletcher try to drive the cattle onto Carney’s land. Then, she fires Flecther and decides to run the cattle station herself.

Lady Sarah Ashley is a very brave and courageous woman. In the story, she travels from England to Australia alone. Her husband sends an independent cattle drover, called “Drover” to transport her to Faraway Downs. When arrives at Faraway Downs, Drover finds something that is abnormal and goes out from the truck to investigate. Drover asks Sarah Ashley to stay in the truck. But she refuses to follow the instructions. She straight away goes into the house of the Faraway Downs and finds that her husband was dead. Besides that, Nullah tries to prove that Fletcher is a liar by showing Sarah that Fletcher breaks the windmill. As a result, Fletcher mistreats him and threatens his mother violently. Sarah stops Fletcher by hit his face with her stick.

She is also responsible to her husband. When her husband was dead and she finds that Fletcher is trying to gain control of faraway Downs, she decides to run the Faraway Downs herself in order to save Faraway Downs from bankruptcy. She continues her husband’s plan which her husband failed to do it before passed away. She tries to sell 1500 head of cattle to Darwin. She persuades Drover to help her to take the cattle to Darwin. Finally, Drover promises her to drive the cattle to the Darwin after gathers 7 good riders.

Lady Sarah Ashley does not give up easily. In the beginning of the story, she doesn’t know how to ride a horse. But she has to ride horse in order to deliver the cattle to the Darwin. She tries to learn and practice riding the horse with her determination and finally she can ride horse herself. Moreover, Sarah gathers with Drover, Nullah and 5 riders to set out their journey to sell the cattle to the military. In the process, they face a lot of troubles that inhibit them to deliver the cattle to Darwin. For example, Carney’s men set fires to make the cattle stampede. Sarah doesn’t give up quickly. She with the other riders try to stop the cattle from charging over a cliff. Furthermore, Carney’s men also poison the water sources along the cattle-drive route, so they do not have water to drink and for the cattle. Drover wants to give up because travels to next pond needs 5 days while the Kuraman where they can get the water is a Never Never land. But Sarah asks him to try. In the end, they drive the cattle through the Never Never land with the help of King George and deliver the cattle to Darwin successfully.

Lastly, Lady Sarah Ashley is a very nice person. She nurtures and protects Nullah even though she is not naturally maternal. She learns to love Nullah as her own child. She goes beyond loving an individual boy and challenges the whole social system that hypocritically and ostracises the half-caste. When Nullah is captured by the authorities and sent to live on Mission Island with the rest of the half-Aboriginal children, Sarah vows to save him. She begins working as a radio operator in Darwin during the escalation of World War 2 to secure his return. She also prepares to sell Faraway Downs to Fletcher, believing that it will aid her in gaining Nullah back.

In the end of the story, Drover saves Nullah and the children from the Mission Island. When reaches Darwin, Nullah plays his harmonica with the tune of “Over the Rainbow” and attracts Lady Sarah Ashley who prepares to evacuate. Fletcher is killed by King George when he tries to shoot Nullah. Lady Sarah, Drover and Nullah return to Faraway Downs. On the way, Lady Sarah embraces Nullah and lets him go walkabout with his grandfather.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Rich what? -Richmond...

Movie Review:
This movie portrays a coach who tries to teach his players to play basketball as well as their altitude and academic performance. Ken Carter is a basketball ex-player holding a number of his old team’s records in Richmond High school. Years later, he returns to the school and takes over the job as the team’s coach. He wants to make the Richmond team into a winning team and teaches the boys to respect themselves and excel in the classroom. In the first day, he makes a contract and asks all the players to sign. The contract states that the players have to achieve a GPA of 2.3 scores, attend all the classes and sit in the front row of the classes. The players refuse to sign the contract at first, but forced to sign it because this is only the chance for them to play basketball. Under Carter’s guidance, the team turns their losing season around and allowed to take part in Annual Bayhill Tournament. However, Carter found that they did not upheld the contract, he decides to lock the gym. He cancels all the practices and game even the Fremont Game which is the biggest game of the year. This receives a lot of complaints and oppositions from the parents and a board is set up to overcome this problem. In the board, the 5 voting members and the principal with a vote of 4 to 2 end the lockout of the gym and Carter resign his position. But when he reaches the gym, he sees all the players are doing their course works there. They ask Carter not to leave them and promise that they will meet all the term of the contract. Finally, they achieve the requirements and start playing basketball again. They are in to the State Tournament and opponent is St. Francis which is one of the best high school team in the nation. They are loss in the competition with the scores of 68 to 70. At the end, most of them go on to college and some with the college scholarship.
Comments:
In my view, this movie expresses many issues to us. First, I learn that team cooperation must be achieved in order to success. In the story, Mr. Cruz verbally abuses Ken Carter on the first day and be asked to leave the gym. When he wants to join the team again, Carter does not accept him. Carter asks him to do 2500 pushups and 1000 suicides before Friday. It is an impossible mission. But at the end, all the players share responsibility for him and he is allowed to join the team again.
Besides that, I learn that situation of teenagers in the society become worse nowadays. According to Coach Carter, Richmond High School only graduates 50% of its students and 6% of the graduates go to college. There is a great question: where are they going? And the answer is probably to prison. This is a very serious problem in the society now. We have to pay more attention to this issue. One of the most effective ways is education. So, in the story Coach Carter takes over the job as a coach is try to change the players’ altitude and discipline as well as make a good way for them in the future. Finally, he is successful as most of the players are going on to college.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

RM100- Very hard to earn

First i received a call from my friend that told me there got a part-time job as a promoter on 8/8/09 Sat and the salary is RM 100, i was very happy.I promised him directly. Wa... RM100 le. It is just a easy job because i done it before that is Astro Hua Hee Karaoke in my village last two weeks. The differents were this time i am not a free salary worker and the program was held in Kajang. So we had to drive to there ourselveand i was the driver. Yesterday, i woke up at 6.30am, and started the journey to Kajang at 7.00am. We arrived there at 8.45am, then we started our job. I was surprising to see just a few people were there while our program will be start at 9.00am. I thought Kajang is a large city but how come there is just a few people. All the programs there were same with that in Titi last two weeks. The only extra program was the Disney Story Telling. The most interested section was the dancing competition. This program was opened to couples but no body wanted to take part. So we tried to change it to individuals section. This attracted 5 aunties and uncles to take part. We just played a song then they started to dance whatever styles they want. This program was won by a uncle who danced hip-hop and his trousers was decorated with many small bulbs. The whole function was ended at 6.30pm. And we helped to clean the place. We started our journey to home at 7.00pm and arrived home at 9.00pm. I was very tired ............ Haiz...This RM100 was very hard to earn. It used up my 14 hours of my weekend. Tired....

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Assignment...

Before i entered college, i often heard that someone busy with their assignment. Why the life in college and university fulfiled with assignment? What the use of assignment? We waste a lot of time by doing assignment. It is really useless... i thought it before. But after i done my MPW assignment today, i only know assignment is very useful. I learnt many things in the process of doing MPW assignment. My MPW assignment title is "National Day versus Malaysia Day". After i done it, i only know that 31 August 1963 was decided as the Malaysia Day but it was postponed to 16 September 1963 because the opposition of Indonesia and Philippines. Why we didn't celebrate Malaysia Day every year? I think that no many people know that. That's what i learnt in doing my assignment. However, I'm still don't like to do assignment, because it really need a lot of time but it is helpful. Hope our lecturers give us less assignments... HAHA...

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

3 By 3 Basketball Competition

Last Saturday, Titi Youth Association once again organised a function successfully that is 3 By 3 Basketball Competition. This competition was started at 8.30am and ended at 1.00am. There were 10 groups of male participates and 3 groups of female participates. The most interested session is the female competition. They seen like fighting each others and not playing basketball. I would like to thank to all the committees who took out their time to prepare and organised this function successfully. Even some of them are in the perparation for their SPM trial . Haha... i'm was also one of the committees. Thank you for your contribution. Thanks God also for giving us a fine weather. Thank you.