It's not easy to be a language teacher though...

(not my student's work)

The vagabond cries...

It was said to this vagabond
Time will heal
By the princess of his dream

Time passes by
Leaving this vagabond untreated
Surrounded by fake happiness
In the forest of his choice
Screaming to loneliness
Crying to deaf company

This vagabond is still waiting
For a sip of the dew of happiness
From the princess of his dream...

Farish 2009,
@Subang Jaya

The new preference...

The temporarily abandoned blog...

It has been quite a long period for this blog has not been updated. If this blog is a pet, I might found it turned to be a skeleton. My lack of time was due to my time spent for updating my new 'pet'. I was really occupied with the existence of a social network online application, the Facebook.

However, I still love my blog and have no intention to terminate it. I involved in blogging when I was doing my undergraduate study. I did a study on the use of blog to motivate ESL students for writing activities. I found that students were interested and gave full participation in the blog-based writing activities.

What about Facebook...?

It has come into my mind recently whether should I start to use Facebook as an instructional medium for my ESL class? There are many things I should take into consideration before I can use it in classroom. The security issue is the main thing. I am not sure about the teacher's security control offered by the Facebook. Students may be exposed to unsuitable contents of other Facebook users, addicted to games as well as being exploited by 'cyber criminals'.