Wednesday, April 23, 2008
|Nov 1998 EL TYS Paper 1 Q3. Some people like being alone; other are happiest when they are with a crowd of people. Which do you prefer?|
With the different character of people, they have different style of living and working in their daily life. For people who prefer loneliness to parties, they would tend to keep things to themselves and usually get singled out by a group of people. A person who likes to be with a crowd usually gets wild in terms of attitude and they are also those who have more opinion in the things they see. Happiness does not need to be with a crowd of people but looking at how you complete things such as working and playing. Hence, I would prefer to go for a lonesome life to be in a party of people.
Firstly, being lonely can calm me down and this would prevent me from getting irritated easily. With a quiet and peaceful environment, I will be able to concentrate more than in a noisy environment. Upon working alone, there will be no disputes involved.
Secondly, loneliness could means that having more freedom in working compared to working in a group. Doing work alone will prevent time wasted by talking to friends will lead to talking of non-related things to the work and caused work to be not done.
Thirdly, being alone could be a good thing. For an instance, in business of partnership, the profit earned is shared among partners. If one is able to earn all the profit by himself, he can get all of them without sharing. By doing so, no argument will be present and he will be rewarded for what he worked.
There are also some factors that are unable to be done with a group of peers. Being in a certain group of people might be a bad thing as the friends around you might push responsibilities when a problem goes wrong and cause you to bear the consequences. If there are too much people in a group, usually there will be some disagreement and this lead to argument between people instead of happiness.
Some may feel happy in a crowd of people as they are people that are able to minimize stress by getting along with a certain group of people. Although too much of being alone is not the way, most of the time a person can get out of many trouble by just staying alone and not get involved.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
|My Favourite Food|
Food is considered into different categories such as meals, desserts and snacks. Different food is prepared for different occasions and they are also can be eaten anytime. With that, food is usually to fill our hunger and I shall introduce my favourite food.
My favourite food is satay, a food from our local specialties. Satay is a food that is from the Malay culture. It is a food that looks much like chicken kebab but it comes only with meat. It is prepared by barbequing the small amount of meat on the stick and you will not miss this food out when you are in a barbeque party. It comes in different types of meat such as mutton, beef and chicken. Children will like to eat them as they are easy to chew. When you order from the stalls, they will usually served satay together with ketupat [rice that is inside a set of weaved pandan leaves] and a sauce that is mixed together with grinded peanuts. When having a meal, it might be good to serve satay as a side dish as satay is quite small in its serving.
Many order them their celebration and they can be found in both Chinese and Malay stalls in markets and restaurants. People can also call up companies to order them in bulk so that they can share it with their family and friends. I would recommend you to try the food if you have not and probably you would want more after trying one.
