German level 2 is kinda hard... May be I'm not too used too it... hahaha!!! Always doing silly and careless mistakes when comes to online quiz. By right should be 'sie trifft' and I chose 'sie triffst'... =.= sweat!!!
Modal verbs were kinda problematic... zzz.. problem child!!! hahaha!!! There are 7 modal verbs in German language, which consist of koennen(to be able to), moegen(to like), moechten(would like), sollen(should), wollen(want), dueften(to be allowed to), and muessen(to have to). Each of the modal verbs will change accordingly to the tenses that we are using. Past tense and present tense have different changes.
Past perfect tense was kinda fun, but it CAN'T BE USED in English. E.g Was machen Sie gestern? (What did you do yesterday?) Gestern, habe ich Fussball gespielt. (Yesterday, I have played football). For usual english, normally we will say, Yesterday I played football. German has past tense, but they rarely used it. What they used is the past perfect tense.
Subconjunction is just like 'if', 'because' ,' whether'.... In german, there are two words for because, denn and weil. If you were to use denn, then the sentence structure will go accordingly to the law (1st or 3rd place will be the subject and the 2nd place will be the verb). But if you were to use weil, then the sentence structure will go haywire. E.g Ich kann leider nicht kommen, weil ich keine Zeit habe. In english, it would be, I can not come, because I no time have). Note that the 'habe' is at the end of the sentence, compare to the normal sentence, Ich kann leider nicht kommen, denn ich habe keine Zeit.
Changes of the adjectives, another problem child. The word schoen means beautiful, but when the sentence has either the definite or indefinite article behind of schoen, at least, you must add an 'e' to the schoen, schoene. E.g. Ich habe eine schoene Tasche. (Tasche is a feminine word, means bag) Another example would be, Ich habe einen alten Tisch. (Tisch is a masculine word, means table) The word alt is in the accusative position, and it has an indefinite article, and it has a masculine noun, so have to add 'en' to the alt. zzzzz......
Ok, that's the only beginning of german language, more to come....
......... I do not know how to start my sentence. How should I put it??? Should I say, a sad chinese new year?? or a happy chinese new year?? Uhh... anyway, mixed feelings again here.
Happily waited till Thursday and went to Changi airport... 4:45 pm... Happily board onto the airplane. AK 5807, gate 37, I still remembered it vividly. Being sitted in the airplane and tick tock tick tock.... 600... Woo hoo... Reached penang airport... Saw my parents... Ok ok ok... I will stop elaborating. (You should know what happens next) :)
Friday
Chanting session!!! Yeah!!! Love chanting so much!!! :) And...... Ok, the story will continue after Saturday.
Saturday
It's the last month of the year(for chinese)... So, we were supposed to go for reunion dinner with our grandparents, but... this year, it would be different, cause we had our own reunion dinner(vegetarian steamboat) first before going to our grandparents' house. Nice!! Won't elaborate more...
Sunday
Solemn mood. Today was the first day of the new year. And around 7 something in the morning, I somehow heard that my father was saying that our friend had passed away. That was such a shock to us!!! ........... {Silence}.......... So the mixed feelings were... Feel sad because we would miss his presence, but on the other hand we felt happy because his soul is finally being liberated!!! May you be well and happy!!! May you be free from sufferings!!! May you be free from anger!!! May you be free from jealousy!!! May you be free from hatred!!! May you be free from any grudges!!! May you be free from coldness!!! May you be warm!!! May you find your way to Amitabha's pureland!!! Omi Tuo fo!!!
Monday and Tuesday
Nothing much to elaborate on these 2 days...
Hope that everyone will have your sweet and nice CNY!!!
P/S: To Uncle Tim, please remember to continue cultivating!!! Don't be stuck in the wheel of rebirth!!! Leave this samsara world and be reborn in Amitabha's pure land!!! Omi Tuo Fo!!! Namo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa!!!
Sorry guys, I did not have time to update my blog. Yeah!!! It's the end of January, and this means that it's the beginning of February!!! hahahahaha!!! TIME FLIES!!!
A few updates on what I was doing for the past 2 weeks....
.......... Actually I had forgotten what I did for the past 2 weeks... wahahaha... Forgiveness plsss... =)
BS108 (Molecular biology) was fun!!! Learning about nucleus was kinda fun... how to compact DNA into the nucleus... :) And now I knew that mitochondrial DNA is inherited from our mother... :P
107 (principles of genetics).... One word... SUCKS!!!
106 (Biochem) was fun too... 109 (basic cell bio) so so... :)
German??? erm... learning some new sentence structure and again... A complete total difference from english... hahaha...
Human language puzzle.... Ok.. A comment from me... You can sleep in the lecture theater when they are showing you a movie( the movie will take at least an hour or so)... zzzzzzz... After you had waken up, then they will start explaining... Is this a communication?? See how the animals communicate with each other.... etc.
9 days left to receive the word of honour: Happy Chinese New year!!! O_O??? Oopssss... not yet... To count that the actual date is 12 days more... But why 9 days?? Cause on the 11th of February....... I will be back to my hometown once again!!!
