Academic writing : Parenting, Gender & Stereotypes

When I was 10 years old, I learned a lesson about being kind to animals from my favourite activity, catching tadpoles and ladybirds. We caught tadpoles in the mud in the playground and we caught ladybirds on the hibiscus tree near the playground. We used jars, nets and spoon to catch them. My friends and I caught the tadpoles and ladybirds together. I was the one who had many jars, so I could kept all the tadpoles and ladybirds that we had caught. It was fun but after a month, unexpecting things happened. I kept the tadpoles and ladybirds as usual, then, my friends made a new deal that who caught the most tadpoles and ladybirds would kept them. When the competition held, we caught as much as we could without any mercy to the animals. Finally, I was the winner because I used my mother’s sieve, so I could caught many tadpoles and ladybirds. After that, I proudly went home with 8 jars in my bag. That night, I had a nightmare that there were many big tadpoles and ladybirds chased me and tried to eat me. I had the nightmare repeatedly in about 3 nights until I had a bad fever. The fourth day, I realized that I did not take the jars out of my bag. When I took the jars out, I saw there were no waters in the tadpoles’ jar and there were also no holes on the ladybirds’ jars. They were all dead.
Then, my father advised me that I could not torture animals like what I just did. After a while, my father and sister accompanied me to the playground. I buried all the animals near the see-saw. From the experience, I learned that if we did bad things to anything or anybody we would get the reciprocation back. So, we must be kind to animals, they are innocent.

The Sweet Memories of Being Taught About Something.

When I was 4 years old, I lived with my mom in Mentakab, Pahang while my father worked in Kuala Lumpur. He went home just about twice a month. However, if he was at home he taught me and my sister a lot of things. The most unforgettable moment was when he taught us how to cook fried rice. That was the first time I was that man can actually cooked. My father taught us how to chop onions, chilies and so on. I was excited because that was the first time I saw my father chopped the onions so fast! I tried to do it too but it became a mess. Then he lighted the fire on the stove and began to cook. He lighted another fire on the stove to cook eggs. He put the oil into both pans and let the oil heated. After that, he put all the chopped onions and chilies into the pan, and he put three eggs into another pan. I was impressed that he could cook two recipes in a time. Then, while waiting the fried rice to cook, my father taught us to wipe the table, make drinks and arrange the dishes. After finished that, we took the fried rice out from the pan into a big bowl. Then, we called our mom to eat breakfast together. That was the very unforgettable moment because we seldom ate together because my father was not at home. The next day, I woke up at 7:00 am because it was the school day. I went to my parent’s bedroom then I realized my father was not there. I began to cry, I knew my father was on his way to Kuala Lumpur to continue his worked.

However, now I don’t have to be sad anymore because we had moved to Kuala Lumpur. My mom was also transferred here. We continue our happy life together, but I miss all my cousin in Mentakab so much!
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Academic Writing : Modern Advertising

The television commercial for SN Brussels Airlines is efficient and smart. At the beginning, you see a stewardess is rushing to the information counter. She ask the woman at the information counter about Mr. Smith. Then the woman says that Mr. Smith has just boarded. After a while, she calls the stewards and stewardesses to tell about Mr. Smith news. Next, the other stewards tell the news to the other staffs and they quickly rush to the airbase. Suddenly, the pilot sees all the stewards and stewardesses assemble on the airbase. The pilot makes an announcement to Mr. Smith that there is a message for him outside the window. Then Mr. Smith looks through the window and sees the stewards and the stewardesses are making a form of his name. After a while, they change the form to “It’s a boy”. Finally, Mr. Smith gets the message and he is happy that he gets a son.

Advertisement in the Movies (Product Placement)

What is product placement? Actually I never know that product placement is one of the inexpensive strategies to promote products. It appears in movies, games, TV shows, and music videos.

The first product placement that I realize is in the Malaysian movie, Laila Isabella starring the lovely Nasha Aziz and the handsome Rosyam Noor. In the movie, Nasha Aziz was acting as a tomboy with cute short hair. However, that is not the main point. This movie is the first movie which makes me want to watch it again and again. This is because in this movie, Nasha Aziz wore my favourite brand, Converse. OMG! From cap to shoe all Converse, from the beginning of the movie until the end! Imagine how many fancy shoes, funky clothes, colourful socks and caps that she simply wears. I worked hard to earn money to get a pair of Converse sneaker but she just easily wears many type of Converse’s designs in a movie. Lucky her.

Next, in the movie “Sumolah” starring Afdlin Shauki, Awie, Gurmit Singh and Radhi Khalid shows Ogawa’s product in most scene in the funny movie. Afdlin and his friends were the participants for the Sumo competition. After they finished their hard training they would quickly sat on the Ogawa machine for treatment. In the movie also shows that when the old “tauke” of the Boleh Sushi Restaurant was sad he slowly putted his feet on the Ogawa machine for treatment too.

The latest movie I had watched was Zohan. In the movie, Zohan was an Israelian and he was one of the cruel soldiers. He did not like his job; he wanted to be a famous hairdresser. So he moved to America. When he safely arrived in America, he saw a huge hair saloon belongs to Paul Mitchell, the famous American hairdresser. I think that is not only product can be promote in movies, TV shows, music videos and games, but also boutiques, saloons and designers too. In this matter, the appearance will quickly increase their business and get more popularity.

So, to all product makers, producers, company managers or anybody who want to promote their product out there, product placement is the best way to make people quickly notice about your product. Besides that, it is an inexpensive way too.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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