We always criticized other people on what their accents are..some people tend to immediately withdrawn others because they felt that they dont belong to their group. for an instance, tagalog people always had this prejudism against visayan people when speaking in english..so when i was reading some stuffs on the net today i found
some ways to change your accents which i got from: http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.html
Anyway, if you do decide you have good reasons for changing your accent, and you want to put in some effort these are some things to do.
* Identify the accent you want to speak.
* Expose yourself to the accent you want as much as possible.
* Try to get some friends who speak with the accent you want.
* Try to make sure you are not mixing with people who will criticise you for changing your accent.
Here is what is recommended as a method by one of our panelists, Suzette Hayden Elgin. If you do this, it is best to choose recordings of someone of your own gender.:
I suggest the following procedure, which has worked very well for many people:
1. Get a cassette tape of someone who speaks English with the accent that you would like to have, at least twenty minutes long.
2. Listen to the entire tape all the way through once or twice, just to become familiar with its content. Don't write it down or try to memorize it.
3. Listen to a brief sequence -- just a sentence or two. Rewind the tape to the beginning of that sentence.
4. Say the sentence aloud _with_ the tape. Don't repeat it after the tape as is done in traditional foreign language courses -- speak with the speaker. Don't worry about making mistakes, just do your best to speak simultaneously with the speaker.
5. Rewind to the beginning of the sentence and do this again, several times. (Ten times is not too many.)
6. Move to the next sentence and do the same thing.
7. Continue until you've worked your way through the whole tape speaking with your chosen model speaker.
*dhomzkie*
the great amodeus
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Sembreak
the classcard was released and i'm not that so happy to find out that i ranked no.2...not bad at all but i got some bad comments from the professors...they kept on telling me that I didn't study very well ...almost all of them told me that..i didn't take it as a treat but a challenge...the profs just maybe reminding me that i have something more to give..and i think it was a good sign..i promised that i study more next semester
every night, i tried to read my neuroanatomy photocopies...hehehe..i didnt have a book on this because i didnt have enough money to buy those three books..i'm starting reading to refresh some forgotten details..and i must say that i appreaciated reading it now than the first time i read it..i never understood that book before....since it's sembreak's time, i had one thing to do ...i need to work better...i'm planning to buy a new uniforms, bag and shoes...i'm preparing those things for my internship so i dont have to worry to buy them by the end of the next semester..you know, i'm really excited to be an intern...i will be able to meet new friends from other schools and i want to experience the intern's syndrome...i think that will be exciting...having a love affair to someone from other school for a month..it depends on both of you if you still try to go on a relationship...am i ready for that? maybe next year i can answer it ..hehehe
next semester is said to be the hardest subjects that the pt stude will be taken...this includes prosthetics/orthothics, therpeutic exercises for neurological cases, seminars on orthopedic cases, and review of all modalities and exercises tackled...i think i can manage to survive the next year's subjects because i will really do my best this time...one thing for sure..i need to be one of the contestants of the school for the next PT Quiz Bee...i will really want to be in the group..i'm excited for the next sem but also sad for my classmates who failed in the last semester's subject..i will miss them..but that's life anyway..i told them to study well..but you know i can't blamed the professors they tried their best for them but the school's protected excellent in the failed of pt should be maintained...they were give second chances but still thier efforts were not good to satisfy the profs and to meet the school's standard
every night, i tried to read my neuroanatomy photocopies...hehehe..i didnt have a book on this because i didnt have enough money to buy those three books..i'm starting reading to refresh some forgotten details..and i must say that i appreaciated reading it now than the first time i read it..i never understood that book before....since it's sembreak's time, i had one thing to do ...i need to work better...i'm planning to buy a new uniforms, bag and shoes...i'm preparing those things for my internship so i dont have to worry to buy them by the end of the next semester..you know, i'm really excited to be an intern...i will be able to meet new friends from other schools and i want to experience the intern's syndrome...i think that will be exciting...having a love affair to someone from other school for a month..it depends on both of you if you still try to go on a relationship...am i ready for that? maybe next year i can answer it ..hehehe
next semester is said to be the hardest subjects that the pt stude will be taken...this includes prosthetics/orthothics, therpeutic exercises for neurological cases, seminars on orthopedic cases, and review of all modalities and exercises tackled...i think i can manage to survive the next year's subjects because i will really do my best this time...one thing for sure..i need to be one of the contestants of the school for the next PT Quiz Bee...i will really want to be in the group..i'm excited for the next sem but also sad for my classmates who failed in the last semester's subject..i will miss them..but that's life anyway..i told them to study well..but you know i can't blamed the professors they tried their best for them but the school's protected excellent in the failed of pt should be maintained...they were give second chances but still thier efforts were not good to satisfy the profs and to meet the school's standard
Hardship
It's been awhile since i posted my last entry.. .because of my busy schedules, I couldn't log-in here to do things I usually did..anyway, i'm on big trouble last week because of the prelim test..the first test on monday was therapeutic exarcises...the test was not good as I expected...i prefered it to be easy and i thought i could manage to answer the questions..but when i recieved the test questions, i felt like i was a ship sunking that there's no any means to float again..the test was really hard... I hadn't any idea that it will look like we're assessing a patient and giving a proper therapeutic exercises and it should be written in english as well as the instructions...i didnt have any trouble writing it on english but the fact that it was a case analysis, all the thngs that i reviewed last night were useless..not just only me but almost all of us were'nt expected to be like it..i think, this thing will be more easy if it was a practical test..because i didnt have any choice but to answer it, i did it as much as i know..
tuesday, test were about Organization and Administraton and Medical Foundation and Techniques 1...well, not that bad except for the last test in ORAD which because of my overconfidence, i had trouble answering it..the doctor told us one again: "this is the easiest test i ever did here"..well, he always thought that we're not able to answer it well..i didnt have any problem about his test anyway..wednesday test was medical foundation and techniques 3..wtf..this was the test that i will surely fail not because i hadnt reviewed but because i didnt follow the proper instructions,,,but you know, i think the doctor should consider what i did on my test paper..she just announced what were going to do on the test..because of my increase adrenaline to answer the test, i forgot that the answer on the true or false shouldn't be a or b but instead T or F..haaay, its just that im still an optimistic person that i hadn't hard time to accept that this prelim, i failed on this subject because of my carelessness..she even told me : "you still have your midterm"thursday test was electrotherapy, it was an 80 item test by two professors..the first one was about russian current..i'm not that well read about it but i did my best on the test..the test was checked after we answered it, i got 27 out of 40 on the first test..only one had passed the test which is 30..but it's ok..i'm second to the highest...
we hadnt recieved the last test because there's an emergency in the second prof..he needed to address it first..that's why till now..we still have 2 tests..one for therepeutic exercises 2 covering the upper extrmities and electrotherapy covering the interferential current..friday, the test was on seminar..one of the hardest test i ever answered...while answering it, i keep asking myself where in hell they got this test..i even didnt read this in the 3 heaviest book in the world..i read the 3 books as much as i could but the questions which i thought the questions will be taken form the 3 books..i hadnt read some terms used in the test that i could find in the books..haaay, why some doctors do it?..you know, i can answer the test if all of them was disccused in the class..that's one thing that the student like us should learn according to them...not all the thing we discussed in front of the class, was all written in the books..you still need to read your books..saturday test was pharmacology...the first test was i think the easiest test i had answered for this prelim tests as long you read the books cover by cover..the most important was that you read a lot..and that's one thing that i usually do because sometimes the prefessors were too intimidating that they thought we hadn't good as the succeeding batches...the second test was a hell,,,he didnt even discussed the test but he was able to make an exam where in hell he got it...we didnt even know some of medical terminilogies used..for the second time they answered: read your books and dont be dependent on what your professors teaching you..dont just be satisfied on it..you must explore..you must discover because only 5 % of the knowledge of what we teach will be acquired by you but in self reading you can acquired 95% knowledge..
tuesday, test were about Organization and Administraton and Medical Foundation and Techniques 1...well, not that bad except for the last test in ORAD which because of my overconfidence, i had trouble answering it..the doctor told us one again: "this is the easiest test i ever did here"..well, he always thought that we're not able to answer it well..i didnt have any problem about his test anyway..wednesday test was medical foundation and techniques 3..wtf..this was the test that i will surely fail not because i hadnt reviewed but because i didnt follow the proper instructions,,,but you know, i think the doctor should consider what i did on my test paper..she just announced what were going to do on the test..because of my increase adrenaline to answer the test, i forgot that the answer on the true or false shouldn't be a or b but instead T or F..haaay, its just that im still an optimistic person that i hadn't hard time to accept that this prelim, i failed on this subject because of my carelessness..she even told me : "you still have your midterm"thursday test was electrotherapy, it was an 80 item test by two professors..the first one was about russian current..i'm not that well read about it but i did my best on the test..the test was checked after we answered it, i got 27 out of 40 on the first test..only one had passed the test which is 30..but it's ok..i'm second to the highest...
we hadnt recieved the last test because there's an emergency in the second prof..he needed to address it first..that's why till now..we still have 2 tests..one for therepeutic exercises 2 covering the upper extrmities and electrotherapy covering the interferential current..friday, the test was on seminar..one of the hardest test i ever answered...while answering it, i keep asking myself where in hell they got this test..i even didnt read this in the 3 heaviest book in the world..i read the 3 books as much as i could but the questions which i thought the questions will be taken form the 3 books..i hadnt read some terms used in the test that i could find in the books..haaay, why some doctors do it?..you know, i can answer the test if all of them was disccused in the class..that's one thing that the student like us should learn according to them...not all the thing we discussed in front of the class, was all written in the books..you still need to read your books..saturday test was pharmacology...the first test was i think the easiest test i had answered for this prelim tests as long you read the books cover by cover..the most important was that you read a lot..and that's one thing that i usually do because sometimes the prefessors were too intimidating that they thought we hadn't good as the succeeding batches...the second test was a hell,,,he didnt even discussed the test but he was able to make an exam where in hell he got it...we didnt even know some of medical terminilogies used..for the second time they answered: read your books and dont be dependent on what your professors teaching you..dont just be satisfied on it..you must explore..you must discover because only 5 % of the knowledge of what we teach will be acquired by you but in self reading you can acquired 95% knowledge..
WTF Quiz Bee
i want you to tell a story about what happened last time in PLM's 41'st foundation day...since it was our foundation day, we had'nt class and as usual as part of the CPT we had to attend the opening ceremony because the College had to check our attendance..so we're there..supporting the college in all games we joined..
the day before the foundation day, my classmate, the CPT student council president asked me to join the quiz bee board game or what they wanted to call it as a college representative to the game..actually, i really didnt want to join because it's been 4 years since the last time i joined a quiz bee and that's way back my fourth year in high school..because they couldnt chose anyone to be a representative they pleased me to join and finally i agreed for the reason that i had to rehearse my memory again in competing a quiz bee like this..since she told me that the questions that will be asked we're in general knowledge..before i agreed, i told her that i didnt want to review for that and i let just my mind answer the quiestions that will be asked..and she said "ok"
the quiz bee should start around 11 but in wtf they started it at 2pm..my classmates didnt want to go home because they wanted to support me in the game...there were 11 colleges in plm who participated in the game...i was assigned to be the contestant number 2..the college of nursing was the contestant number 1..wtf, you know they had'nt a good mechanics in the game..they didnt even do the human board game as visible for the participants..actually, i supposed to win the game...i got the highest score because i almost answered most of the questions ...in every questions they will gave you freebies and i had 12 freebies in all..the college of nursing just got 5 but he won the game..how did he win it?the game was like a snake and ladder and you're going to throw a man made dice and answer the questions asked..for me, its actually a nice game but the over all facilitation of it was a mess..the rules hadnt followed and at the last minute of the game, they almost asked all the questions that they hadnt any questions to ask anymore..so the game wasnt became a mind game but a luck game...its more of luck..i got the final lead but at the last phase of the game, i hadnt notice that there's a ladder in that number and wasnt able to go up in that ladder to win the game..but the college of nursing,saw the ladder on that number and was able to jump up...that sucks right..because no one looked to every numbers the participants were standing on..since i hadnt notice it, i hadnt won the game but i almost had all the freebies and gave those to my classmates for giving their support...i actually wanted to quit the game but my classmates wouldnt let me..because it made me feel boring and i just sat down to numbers ..i hadnt feel any momentum on that quiz bee..it was really a mess
the day before the foundation day, my classmate, the CPT student council president asked me to join the quiz bee board game or what they wanted to call it as a college representative to the game..actually, i really didnt want to join because it's been 4 years since the last time i joined a quiz bee and that's way back my fourth year in high school..because they couldnt chose anyone to be a representative they pleased me to join and finally i agreed for the reason that i had to rehearse my memory again in competing a quiz bee like this..since she told me that the questions that will be asked we're in general knowledge..before i agreed, i told her that i didnt want to review for that and i let just my mind answer the quiestions that will be asked..and she said "ok"
the quiz bee should start around 11 but in wtf they started it at 2pm..my classmates didnt want to go home because they wanted to support me in the game...there were 11 colleges in plm who participated in the game...i was assigned to be the contestant number 2..the college of nursing was the contestant number 1..wtf, you know they had'nt a good mechanics in the game..they didnt even do the human board game as visible for the participants..actually, i supposed to win the game...i got the highest score because i almost answered most of the questions ...in every questions they will gave you freebies and i had 12 freebies in all..the college of nursing just got 5 but he won the game..how did he win it?the game was like a snake and ladder and you're going to throw a man made dice and answer the questions asked..for me, its actually a nice game but the over all facilitation of it was a mess..the rules hadnt followed and at the last minute of the game, they almost asked all the questions that they hadnt any questions to ask anymore..so the game wasnt became a mind game but a luck game...its more of luck..i got the final lead but at the last phase of the game, i hadnt notice that there's a ladder in that number and wasnt able to go up in that ladder to win the game..but the college of nursing,saw the ladder on that number and was able to jump up...that sucks right..because no one looked to every numbers the participants were standing on..since i hadnt notice it, i hadnt won the game but i almost had all the freebies and gave those to my classmates for giving their support...i actually wanted to quit the game but my classmates wouldnt let me..because it made me feel boring and i just sat down to numbers ..i hadnt feel any momentum on that quiz bee..it was really a mess
Randown
its been awhile since the last day i logged in..i've been busy to lot of things...research papers,school works and other stuffs which are all of them are school related. i cant sleep well at night..i 'm thinking too many things every night like what i'm going to do tomorrow? will i pass the quiz again? do i have to read rather than thinking something which making me awake? do i need to prove something to my professors? do i want to be in the board placer?...its' really hard..i'm thinking that i'm really serious about my studies too much that what is inside my mind right now are adductor magnus,tensor fascia latae,sural nerve,brachial plexus,cerebral palsy,multiples sclerosis...man!! am i being paranoid?
i usually woke 5 am, went to school at 6:30..i'll be in school around 8 and went home around 6-8 pm..this is my daily routine since the last christmas break..i went home tired..i took a bath, ate my dinner and read my books to prepare for the quizzes tomorrow..i slept around 12-1 am..i'm tired of my routine but i love what i'm doing...i'm always on a rush that even when chelle wanted to see me last time, i couldn't even give myself a break...well, as long as i want what im doing it's ok...
~~~
when i entered school on the first day of this year, my professor told me that they chose me to represent the school for the quiz bee. i was assigned to be the team captain of the quiz bee...wtf..i told them that i cant do it because i am thinking that the 5th year will be with us in the quiz bee...and atlast they assigned the 5th years to be the team captains..i'm not ready to be in that position right now...
we had only 2 weeks to review and because each years had different schedules, we had troubled meeting each other and the professors also had troubled to look for us during the review session..we hadnt reviewed too much anyway ...we had 1-2 hours review every other day in the first week and 2 hours review in the last week before the competition..the PLM team composed of 2 groups..i'm from the Team 1 which i had with me the 2 5th year students,,ate grace and teod and a third year representative ervin..teod who is one of the smartest PT student in the whole Philippines..he hadn't time for the review because he was on his duty in MORO(a sports clinic in ADMU).. He hadnt reviewed anything at all..
the compitetion was held yesterday in University of Santo Tomas..the judges were from PRC-Physical Therapy Board Members..they were really brilliant..the other universites were from De Lasalle-Dasma, UP, Fatima, UE, St. Jude,UST,PRI and some known PTschools in Metro Manila..well and my beloved school was also there..the quiz bee was on its 4th year and PLM had been reigning the Championship for 2 consecutive years..
I knew, UST studes were good and i think they were just lucky these year to get the championship...actually, it was all my fault that we hadnt got it..somehow,it was my fault..cause during the final round we're on the lead against DLSU and UST... the only problem was that i knew the question too much and that was the time that we're on the double jeopardy round that if we couldnt get it we lost half of our score and i failed to do it...technicality speaking my answer was correct but the drawing made it incorrect..i was down yesterday but you know my buddies were very supportive as well as my professors...but they told me that it was ok atleast we still managed to be in the 2nd place against UST..DLSU wasnt able to get the last place..but the DLSU studes were really good and friendly..i liked them than UST...anyway, some of our professors were also teaching in DLSU-dasma that's why somehow they were nice...
i still have 2 quizzes tomorrow and hadnt read my books...we had another practical exam
i usually woke 5 am, went to school at 6:30..i'll be in school around 8 and went home around 6-8 pm..this is my daily routine since the last christmas break..i went home tired..i took a bath, ate my dinner and read my books to prepare for the quizzes tomorrow..i slept around 12-1 am..i'm tired of my routine but i love what i'm doing...i'm always on a rush that even when chelle wanted to see me last time, i couldn't even give myself a break...well, as long as i want what im doing it's ok...
~~~
when i entered school on the first day of this year, my professor told me that they chose me to represent the school for the quiz bee. i was assigned to be the team captain of the quiz bee...wtf..i told them that i cant do it because i am thinking that the 5th year will be with us in the quiz bee...and atlast they assigned the 5th years to be the team captains..i'm not ready to be in that position right now...
we had only 2 weeks to review and because each years had different schedules, we had troubled meeting each other and the professors also had troubled to look for us during the review session..we hadnt reviewed too much anyway ...we had 1-2 hours review every other day in the first week and 2 hours review in the last week before the competition..the PLM team composed of 2 groups..i'm from the Team 1 which i had with me the 2 5th year students,,ate grace and teod and a third year representative ervin..teod who is one of the smartest PT student in the whole Philippines..he hadn't time for the review because he was on his duty in MORO(a sports clinic in ADMU).. He hadnt reviewed anything at all..
the compitetion was held yesterday in University of Santo Tomas..the judges were from PRC-Physical Therapy Board Members..they were really brilliant..the other universites were from De Lasalle-Dasma, UP, Fatima, UE, St. Jude,UST,PRI and some known PTschools in Metro Manila..well and my beloved school was also there..the quiz bee was on its 4th year and PLM had been reigning the Championship for 2 consecutive years..
I knew, UST studes were good and i think they were just lucky these year to get the championship...actually, it was all my fault that we hadnt got it..somehow,it was my fault..cause during the final round we're on the lead against DLSU and UST... the only problem was that i knew the question too much and that was the time that we're on the double jeopardy round that if we couldnt get it we lost half of our score and i failed to do it...technicality speaking my answer was correct but the drawing made it incorrect..i was down yesterday but you know my buddies were very supportive as well as my professors...but they told me that it was ok atleast we still managed to be in the 2nd place against UST..DLSU wasnt able to get the last place..but the DLSU studes were really good and friendly..i liked them than UST...anyway, some of our professors were also teaching in DLSU-dasma that's why somehow they were nice...
i still have 2 quizzes tomorrow and hadnt read my books...we had another practical exam
Friday, December 29, 2006
DarkSide
Once I knew the DARK,
Thinking the room unlight,
Falling in one SIDE,
Giving all my life.
Once the wind blows,
I opened my heart windows,
But it stops beating,
My heart suddenly glaring.
Once my eyes see the light,
The SIDE lightened up by fireflies,
My mind opens a new life,
Sometimes I have to forget the bright.
Once I have to forget,
But I knew I’ll never regret,
That DarkSide once my life,
One of my treasure till I die.
Thinking the room unlight,
Falling in one SIDE,
Giving all my life.
Once the wind blows,
I opened my heart windows,
But it stops beating,
My heart suddenly glaring.
Once my eyes see the light,
The SIDE lightened up by fireflies,
My mind opens a new life,
Sometimes I have to forget the bright.
Once I have to forget,
But I knew I’ll never regret,
That DarkSide once my life,
One of my treasure till I die.
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