Phew...that's the end of it!

I sat for my very final paper (insha Allah) today. It was tough no doubt. Like they say, save the best for last :P . Alhamdulillah, I've finally completed my degree though it's not yet official.

The last paper was on Linguistic Approaches to Literature, tough as the course title suggests! There were three questions, we had to answer all. The first one was quite OK, the second and third were hard, and we had to answer in not more than ONE page. Other literary courses require you to answer at least in five pages for one question (never did that though), but this one, you have to go straight to the main point and tackle the question in a very direct way.

The second question was on foregrounding. There's a poem, can't remember by whom, but it's about frog. I can't really remember the poem, but this is more or less of how it was structurized:

What a wonderful bird a frog are!
When he stand, he sit almost
When he hop, he fly almost
He ain't have any sense hardly
He almost ain't have a tail hardly
When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost.

I wrote: The idea that is foregrounded in this poem is what a frog is not. Then, I explained the effects of the foregrounding - and I even wrote a poem in return for my lecturer to ponder upon (I didn't know how to answer the question, had to do something to kill the time kan) :

I'm not a bird,
Thus, I'm not hurt,
I'm not a frog,
And this I ignore,
I'm just a human,
And I couldn't be bothered!


The question was tough, and the poem sounded stupid, so it was kinda tricky to explain the effect of the idea foregrounded. I just couldn't resist to reply with something that sounds even stupider hehehehe. Of course I didn't write it on my answer script, but I wrote it on my question paper, hoping that she'd see it ^__^

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Now, I'm free - relatively free lah. Anybody would like to hire a good taekwon-do instructor? Or perhaps an English tutor? Price negotiable, like the car :D . Or probably, would like to hire a Social Sciences graduate?