UFS 211 10th Task

THAILAND FOLKLORE SHORT STORY: DOI NANG NON - ‘MOUNTAIN OF THE SLEEPING LADY’

'Mountain of The Sleeping Lady' or well known as Doi Nang Non was once a very famous folklore story in Thai. The main legend of this Thai folklore says that there was once a very beautiful young princess who lived happily in her kingdom. One day while she was playing around with her maidens near a river, her handkerchief, a gift from her father fell down the river. She was very upset. Coincidently, there's a huntsman who stopped by the river and take his rest after a long hunt suddenly saw the handkerchief and returned it back to the princess. Both of them falling in love for the first sight and they started to date. After dating for a long period, the huntsman then proposed the princess to marry him and the princess has agreed. Two weeks after the wedding, the queen gets pregnant and the king was so happy to hear the news. He then quickly asked the maidens to spread the news so that his kingdom could celebrate it. One evening while the queen was knitting and accompanied by her dearest husband, she had expressed to the king that she was craving for Aruana fish. The king thought that it was impossible to find Aruana fish in the kingdom but in order to fulfill his beloved wife's wish, he then agreed to hunt for Aruana fish. Before the king left, he had gave a beautiful ring to the queen as a promise that he will be returning back with the Aruana fish. During the hunting, the king has accidently fell down the river and died tragically. At the same time, the queen got injured while doing her sewing and she had bad feelings about it. After several days, the queen still waited patiently for her husband to come back. She become anxious. Suddenly the queen thought that her husband might be lost and went out of the castle to search for him. She wandered anxiously for days through fields and forests all across the region, but couldn't find him. However, the queen didn't give up and walked and walked until she could walk no more. Then she realized that her husband had abandoned her. She was very upset. She took off her ring and threw it far away, so that it landed at Nong Waen. At that point the queen was so exhausted. She fell down on her back with her head towards Doi Tung and her feet pointing at Doi Mae Salong. Looking at the sky she cried bitterly, finally dying of despair and a broken heart. After her death the queen's ghost grew to a huge size and was covered by the surrounding earth, taking the shape of a sleeping lady (Nang Non; นางนอน) with her face looking skywards. Her belly with her unborn baby inside became separated from her body and was turned into the mountain of Doi Tung.

UFS 211 9th Task

Summary Writing

The various ways in which this device can be used including for the pre-employment interviews. It helps to prevents a manager from setting his own pace to investigate possibly suspicious behavior. With the permission of the unsuspecting claimant, his response can, apparently, be analysed to show if he is, likely to eventually accept, But, this device was the most serious problem in its primary application where people may not object in the situations such as pre-employment. This device also not foolproof but depends on the skills of the investigator.

UFS 211 8th Task

This week task was to retell the movie that we have watched. So, 'Cast Away' was a great movie starred by Tom Hanks (Chuck Noland). He was a FedEx systems engineer. During his plane trip to Malaysia to delivery the FedEx packages, the plane then caught in a horrendous storm and crashes into the Pacific. Chuck was the only survivor from the plane crash and he finds out himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. Initially, frustration gets to him and realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. But after 4 years being alone in an isolated island away from his beloved girlfriend, Kelly, he then realize he had learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a self-made calendar. When Chuck finally sees his chance he rafts out on the ocean and fortunately is spotted. After a bittersweet welcome-back reception, Chuck finds Kelly has married another man and has children. But he is missing more than her. For all his life his objective was work. For four years, it was survival. Now Chuck is compelled to live. If you asked me if I were the main character and experiencing the same situation like him, most of the time I will cry because I was afraid to be alone. I think I may not be as tough as him to survive in an isolated island. Or maybe will die alone in that island. I do respect his character in that movie. The courage that he own has lead him back to where he belongs. The movie has also taught us nothing is impossible in this life as long as you work hard on it.

UFS 211 7th Task

Topic

• My Unforgettable Childhood Memory

Topic Sentence

• Everyone has their own unforgettable childhood memory.

Supporting Details

• I've been blown by 1 set of color pencils in my entire childhood life.
• I've been keeping it for about 15 years.
• It may look old but for me, it was the most precious gift that I'd ever had in my entire childhood life.

Conclusion

• I was truly happy because my dad had taught me a lot of things and it really made me what I am today.

Linkers/ Sequence Connectors used

• Since, Once Again

Everyone has their own unforgettable childhood memory. So do I. You might think it was a little bit lame but to be honest, my entire childhood memory have been blown by this 1 set of color pencils. Yes, I've been keeping it for about 15 years. It may look a little bit old but for me, it was the most precious gift that I'd ever had in my entire childhood life. I really wanted to have these type of color pencils since I was a little girl but I didn't have the chance to have one until one day, I've been selected to participate a coloring contest. Most of my opponents they own these kind of color pencils and as for me, my dad can only afford me the small size Luna color pencils which only has 12 colors inside. Seriously, how am I going to compete with only those 12 colors inside? Once again, my confident level decrease because I didn't manage to complete my coloring but I did some coloring skills that my dad had taught me before the competition. With my parents blessing, I won the 1st place in junior category and these 1 set of color pencils was one of the prize. I felt really happy at the moment and when I reached home, I cried when I saw my dad walked out from the kitchen. I was truly happy because my dad had taught me a lot of things and it really made me what I am today.

UFS 211 6th Task

The common mistakes that I found out I always did in writing mostly more to English grammatical stuff. Sometimes, I find out that the used of English grammar in a sentence is very confusing while writing an essay. Initially, I did think that writing in English was a very difficult task for me since I'm haven't mastered the English language but then after doing more practice in writing English essay and read more people's writing skills, it is not a big problem for me to write an English essay anymore. I used to face problems like the lack of using vocabularies, unable to generate ideas because of the lack of general knowledge or finds out that too much ideas that came across and don't know what to write first while writing essay. So, how do I overcome these problem? Well, I started to read more English source such as reading the English online news and English newspapers in order to increase my general knowledge. Moreover, I also started a new habit which is reading more English books such as novels and story books to improve the used of vocabularies. If you have generate too much ideas while writing essay and didn't know where to start, try to organize them by listing down all the ideas. It really works!