Kelly Telly

This post will be more like, self-reflection to myself. A few weeks ago, I learned something valuable in academic writing; hedging, Hedging is using cautious language in providing ideas. It lowers the strength of your claims, thus it indicates intellectual honesty, where you are avoiding personal accountability of for statements. You want readers to know that writers do not claim to have the final word on vagueness. This is one of the ways of being more precise in reporting something. You as a writer cannot appear to be arrogant & all-knowing. An additional bonus, hedging also build rapport between writers and readers. There are a few types of hedges. I’ll just briefly list a few of them with examples; modal verbs (can, may, might), verbs (seem, appear, suggest, estimate, tend, indicate, speculate, assume), and probability adjectives (possible, probable, un/likely). Learning this makes me reflect on all of my writings. It’s like God is subtly reminding me. There are quite ...

Kita semua tahu pasal body-shaming kan? (setakat ni tak ada lagi perkataan Bahasa Melayu yang aku jumpa untuk body-shaming, jadi aku akan kekalkan perkataan tu) Body-shaming ialah perbuatan yang menunjukkan ejekan atau perlian terhadap badan seseorang. Aku baru tersedar, terutamanya sebagai seorang pelajar, bahawa ada juga satu perkara yang sedang berlaku dalam dunia pembelajaran; learn-shaming . (ya, aku tak tahu nak terjemah ke Bahasa Melayu macam mana, jadi aku kekalkan perkataan ni) Yakni, perbuatan yang menunjukkan ejekan atau perlian terhadap pembelajaran seseorang, terutamanya cara mereka belajar. Ini ada 2 contoh. Contoh 1: Aku ingat, masa nak SPM dulu, aku dengan beberapa orang pelajar lain ada pergi bengkel menjawab soalan SPM di sebuah sekolah. Bengkel tu lebih daripada 1 hari, jadi memang kami bermalam di situlah. Pada 1 malam, tengah-tengah aktiviti, tiba-tiba bekalan elektrik terputus. Dan memang aktiviti tu agak terhentilah. Semua yang terlibat cuba mengelu...

Nowdays, we have both the pressure to get married & to not get married, at the same time. When we say we want to get married, “Don’t do that, explore the world, do whatever you want, don’t rush, marriage is just a burden.” When we say we don’t want to get married, “Why won’t you? You can’t just do whatever you want forever? Marriage is a sacred thing in life.” And about the marriage life itself, that is another story to be told. How do we have both of this at the same time? I don’t know either, don’t ask me. But, whatever, we have them both, that’s the fact. “So… what should we do now?” Relax. Let’s see first, how marriage comes in the first place. How marriage becomes both a need, and then a desire. At the old times, even since the Medieval if you want, it’s literally ‘marry or die.’ No, not just for women, even for men. We need a partner in order to gain more resources, to join into society, to take care of those said resources, and others. Of course, it’s a ne...