Author Archives: Adlina
- April 13, 2009
- Road Trip Day II: Cape Reinga to Omapere
Before checking out, Atie made breakfast (fried egg sandwich) and I cooked lunch/dinner (spaghetti and spicy sauce with basil), with Mira taking care of the dishes. We save money this way, and we don’t have to think about stopping somewhere for food. After that, we stopped by the i-Site for a moment, taking pictures of [...]
- April 13, 2009
- Mid-sem Road Trip Day I: Paihia, Bay of Islands
The Beginning: We were supposed to start our journey at 9.30am, but due to me cooking and us trying to fit everything into the small Toyota Starlet we rented. From luggage for three people to picnic mat and picnic basket and cool bag and whatnot, just imagine it. It’s safe to say that Mira’s next [...]
- April 6, 2009
- Easter + Mid-Sem Holiday Plan
It’s currently mid-semester + Easter holiday for two weeks. To make up for the lack of ‘holidaying out of Auckland’ last year, I’ll be going around the North Island with Mira and Atie. Basically, here’s the deal:
Day One
Going north to Paihia. Will be staying for a night there. Beautiful beaches~
Day Two
Going to the furthest north [...]
- March 26, 2009
- Housewarming, Birthday and Gossips
The party: We held a housewarming + birthday party today, with lots of people invited and lots of food too. I can say that I had a lot of fun even though cooking and baking and cleaning up everything is a little bit of a pain in the butt. Okay, I take it back. It’s [...]
- March 17, 2009
- Grammar and the Study of Literary Language
Prof. Rod Ellis talks about language exploits writers do in order to achieve itery effects in their manuscripts.
Code Effects – normal lang. used and manipulated in order to achieve literary effects -> 1) Marked and Unmarked, 2) Structural Ambiguity, 3) Grammatical Elision
Grammatical Patterning -exploitation of the units of grammar (e.g, subject, verb, objects, direct objects, [...]
