subject exam paper search

I've opened the subject exam of my past study which is business law. The exam is business law practice for semester one. The exam style is quite similar to kind of exam I've done in my study in my country which we should analyse some case with some statute or law reference to support our argument. The different is the statute and law reference to solve the cases. It must refer to British Law which has different legal system with Indonesia where the legal system is common law and for British is civil law. But for the business law there are many aspects that have the international legal system which the same for every country. So it is important to study both of legal systems and the international legal system for economic purpose.

Visit London

One of places that I've went in London is Spitalfield Market. There we can found quite cheap clothes, vintage jewellry, and other unique and vintage things. There are some particular days that we can found more art things, which is usually on Friday. We can also find some rare things there. One that I had attracted most when I got there is a 60's classic turntable with good conditions.

Language abilities and needs 2

There are some improvements of my language abilities. The significant changes are in my pronunciation, vocabulary and academic skills. The others also have improved although there aren't so much changes. Watching films and reading books has helped me to find range of vocabularies. The last film I had watched is Velvet Goldmine which is about England in glam rock era in late 70's where androgynie were about explode to become trends and way of life. The book, which I haven't finish read yet, is about biography of Beck, a talented musician with blues and folk as his roots, but can be reformed to wide and complex tunes.

So this is my language abilities for now.

Speaking - good
writing - good
reading - very good
listening - very good
pronunciation - good
grammar - above average
vocabulary - good
academic skills - good

TV listening

BORN SURVIVOR - Bear Grylls


I often watch the born survivor tv series in channel 4 which a man named Bear Grylls having adventure in wild places in different places and different countries. It is very interesting and entertaining than any drama tv series or teen reality shows because it is more real and adventurous. Bear Gryll himself seems like don't have any fear to anything and always want to dare any wild things and getting adventure to any dangerous place he have never got. He can go to Himalayas with -60 degree celcius temperature or stay in amazon with no food left and survive by just eat something from trees or plant and survive from many wild animals there. He is the great adventurer in my opinion.

speaking practise

When I was waiting for night bus after attended The Jesus and Mary Chain concerts in The Forum club I met one british person who was waitng the bus as well and have a quite long conversations. It is an interesting conversations becaus we have some interest in music. We was talking about noise and pyschedelic music and I could understand what is he talking about while he speaking with british accents. It is a good improval for me because when first I came here it is very difficult to listen british accents. We had a long argument about music scenes in my country and in England and he interested to came to my country for specialy for art punk and noise scenes that now growing in Jakarta underground scene. It was some good self study of speaking practise for me and I'm glad he can easily understand what all I'm talking about as well.

Here are just some of underground scene and art music in Indonesia.

language abilities and needs

speaking - average
writing - quite good
reading - good
listening - good
pronunciatian - less then average
grammar - average
vocabulary - weak
academic skills - average

Analysis for my abilities
My better abilities for my language skills are reading and listening. I can easily follow when I read some books or any sentences in English but I still have more difficulties when I have to speak to someone in English fluently. I still have to think the words that I have to say about, it is because my vocabularies are so weak. I have to learn and study more for vocabulary. What I can do to solve this problem is finding the new words when I read some books that I'm interested about and looking those in dictionary then remind it, after that I should practise those new words when I speak to someone. What I can do else is maybe listening to some music, looking and understanding the lyrics and surely I will found many new and interesting poetic words there so I can improve my speaking and vocabulary very well, hopefully. The other else is watching some British films, and specially the documentary one about someone biography or history of music, because there are different accents when people talk and make comments about it.

Here are one of movies that I think have interesting accents.

Brick Lane

Last week I spent my weekend at Brick Lane. Just having a good time with some friends with a few bottles of cheap drink, sat in the corner of the street until morning. Had some talks with different people there and shared drinks and cigarettes. It has 'we are young' atmosphere with interesting people there.