Chuyện muôn thưở: Có phải sử dụng TỪ VỰNG CAO CẤP thì ĐIỂM WRITING CÀNG TỐT?
- Điểm số IELTS Writing của thí sinh sẽ cao hơn nếu biết sử dụng từ chính xác và đúng ngữ cảnh, thay vì lạm dụng vốn từ vựng.
Từ vựng là một trong bốn yếu tố quyết định mức điểm bạn đạt được trong bài thi IELTS Writing. Thầy Đức Đặng - Cố vấn học thuật của IELTS Fighter gợi ý cách nâng cao điểm số nhờ đáp ứng tiêu chí về từ vựng.
🔺 1. Tiêu chí Lexical resource (Nguồn từ vựng)
Bài thi IELTS Writing được đánh giá theo bốn tiêu chí: Task Achievement (Đáp ứng yêu cầu đề bài), Coherence and Cohesion (Sự mạch lạc và tính liên kết), Lexical Resource (Nguồn từ vựng) và Grammatical Range and Accuracy (Sự đa dạng và tính chính xác của ngữ pháp). Trong đó, Lexical Resource được coi là yếu tố dễ gây nhầm lẫn khi nhiều người cho rằng sử dụng khối lượng từ vựng lớn sẽ giúp dễ đạt điểm tốt.
British Council (Hội đồng Anh), một trong hai tổ chức được ủy quyền thực hiện kỳ thi IELTS tại Việt Nam cũng cho rằng yếu tố Lexical resource tập trung vào cách thí sinh sử dụng từ vựng, điểm số sẽ cao hơn nếu người thi sử dụng từ vựng chính xác và phù hợp.
Cụ thể, các tiêu chí cần đạt được để nâng điểm Lexical Resource bao gồm: khả năng truyền đạt bài nói linh hoạt; khả năng bàn luận về Unfamiliar topics (những chủ đề không thông dụng); khả năng Paraphrasing (diễn đạt lại thông tin); khả năng sử dụng Less common words (những từ ít thông dụng); số lượng Idiomatic expressions (các cụm từ mang tính thành ngữ).
📍 Tiêu chí Lexical resource theo band điểm:
Dựa vào những tiêu chí cụ thể, mỗi band điểm sẽ yêu cầu thí sinh đáp ứng năng lực khác nhau.
Band 6 - 6.0 Writing (Khả năng sử dụng tiếng Anh khá)
- Sử dụng lượng từ vựng đủ cho bài viết.
- Cố gắng sử dụng những từ vựng ít phổ biến với vài điểm không chính xác.
- Mắc lỗi chính tả hoặc về dạng từ, nhưng bài viết không khó hiểu.
Band 7 - 7.0 Writing (Khả năng sử dụng tiếng Anh tốt)
- Sử dụng từ vựng phù hợp và tương đối chính xác.
- Sử dụng những từ ít phổ biến.
- Có phong cách và khả năng kết hợp trong sử dụng từ ngữ.
- Đôi chỗ có lỗi chính tả hoặc lựa chọn từ chưa chính xác.
Band 8 - 8.0 Writing (Khả năng sử dụng tiếng Anh rất tốt)
- Vốn từ đa dạng và chính xác.
- Sử dụng từ ngữ học thuật thành thạo.
- Rất ít lỗi sai chính tả và sai hình thái từ.
Bởi vậy, để đạt mức điểm Writing cao từ 7.0 trở lên, người thi chứng chỉ IELTS cần chú ý sử dụng từ vựng chính xác, phù hợp và linh hoạt.
🔺 2. Cách nâng cấp từ vựng trong bài thi
📍 Cách 1: Nâng cấp những từ vựng cơ bản bằng từ đồng nghĩa. Tuy nhiên người học cần chú ý đến các nét nghĩa của từ, nhằm thay thế từ gốc bằng từ mang nghĩa gần nhất.
Câu gốc: Working in teams improves children’s critical thinking.
Câu thay thế: Working in teams enhances children’s critical thinking.
📍 Cách 2: Học từ vựng theo những chủ đề hay gặp nhất trong IELTS như Education,Technology, Society... thông qua phim ảnh hay video. Bạn có thể dễ dàng tìm các nguồn học này trên Youtube với từ khóa Documentaries + Topic (chủ đề) để tìm những bộ phim tài liệu mang chủ đề như mong muốn.
📍 Cách 3: Sử dụng từ vựng đúng ngữ cảnh
Ví dụ: Working in teams is conducive to the enhancement of children’s critical thinking.
Cụm "conducive to" trong ví dụ trên được sử dụng mang nghĩa tương tự với "lead to" (dẫn đến), tuy nhiên "conducive to" mang nghĩa cụ thể hơn và sử dụng khi muốn thể hiện việc dẫn đến những kết quả tích cực. Bởi vậy, khi sử dụng từ vựng, người học cần lưu ý đến ngữ cảnh sử dụng của từ để đảm bảo truyền tải đúng nội dung qua bài viết.
Do đó, quan trọng không phải sử dụng Từ vựng cao cấp hay không mà là đúng, hợp lý và thể hiện nội dung bài viết tốt nhất thì sẽ giúp nâng band điểm Writing cao hơn.
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🎹鋼琴的大千世界/名家名言:「為何稱我為大師?主人在這裡(指著鋼琴),我只是他的奴才。」
— 李斯特著名的弟子,德國鋼琴家、作曲家、教育家 萊森奧爾(Alfred Reisenauer)
Why, there is the master (pointing to the piano), I am only the slave.”
— Alfred Reisenauer (1 November 1863 – 3 October 1907) German pianist, composer, and music educator.
📹 跟隨在李斯特學習長達十二年至李斯特過世(1874-1886)的萊森奧爾,演奏李斯特的第十號匈牙利狂想曲:
https://youtu.be/e12YwuHiQtY
📰 延伸閱讀 - 【李斯特學派 / the school of Liszt】♩.♪
https://www.facebook.com/notes/fan-chiang-yi-%E8%8C%83%E5%A7%9C%E6%AF%85/%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9%E5%AD%B8%E6%B4%BE-the-school-of-liszt/289155141104454/
———————————————————————1905-1906 鋼琴名家萊森奧爾(Alfred Reisenauer)在美國進行數月的巡迴演出,並接受美國著名音樂雜誌”Etude”的專訪。文章於1906年七月出版,隔年他在德國巡迴演出期間於下榻的飯店房間內過世。
📰 藝術家的養成 - 萊森奧爾的見解
The Making of an Artist - The Views of Alfred Reisenauer.
▪️With Liszt
“When I had reached a certain grade of advancement it was my great fortune to become associated with the immortal Franz Liszt. I consider Liszt the greatest man I have ever met. By this I mean that I have never met, in any other walk of life, a man with the mental grasp, splendid disposition and glorious genius. This may seem a somewhat extravagant statement. I have met many, many great men, rulers, jurists, authors, scientists, teachers, merchants and warriors, but never have I met a man in any position whom I have not thought would have proved the inferior of Franz Liszt, had Liszt chosen to follow the career of the man in question. Liszt’s personality can only be expressed by one word, ‘colossal.’ He had the most generous nature of any man I have ever met. He had aspirations to become a great composer, greater than his own measure of his work as a composer had revealed to him. The dire position of Wagner presented itself. He abandoned his own ambitions— ambitions higher than those he ever held toward piano virtuosity—abandoned them completely to champion the difficult cause of the great Wagner. What Liszt suffered to make this sacrifice, the world does not know. But no finer example of moral heroism can be imagined. His conversations with me upon the subject were so intimate that I do not care to reveal one word.
▪️Liszt’s Pedagogical Methods
“His generosity and personal force in his work with the young artists he assisted, are hard to describe. You ask me whether he had a certain method. I reply, he abhorred methods in the modern sense of the term. His work was eclectic in the highest sense. In one way he could not be considered a teacher at all. He charged no fees and had irregular and somewhat unsystematic classes. In another sense he was the greatest of teachers. Sit at the piano and I will indicate the general plan pursued by Liszt at a lesson.”
Reisenauer is a remarkable and witty mimic of people he desires to describe. The present writer sat at the piano and played at some length through several short compositions, eventually coming to the inevitable “Chopin Valse, Op. 69, No. 1, in A flat major.” In the meanwhile, Reisenauer had gone to another room and, after listening patiently, returned, imitating the walk, facial expression and the peculiar guttural snort characteristic of Liszt in his later years. Then followed a long “kindly sermon” upon the emotional possibilities of the composition. This was interrupted with snorts and went with kaleidoscopic rapidity from French to German and back again many, many times. Imitating Liszt he said, “First of all we must arrive at the very essence of the thing; the germ that Chopin chose to have grow and blossom in his soul. It is, roughly considered, this:(見譜例圖四)
Chopin’s next thought was, no doubt:(見譜例圖五)
But with his unerring good taste and sense of symmetry he writes it so:(見譜例圖六)
Now consider the thing in studying it and while playing it from the composer’s attitude. By this I mean that during the mental process of conception before the actual transference of the thought to paper, the thought itself is in a nebulous condition. The composer sees it in a thousand lights before he actually determines upon the exact form he desires to perpetuate. For instance, this theme might have gone through Chopin’s mind much after this fashion:(見譜例圖七)
The main idea being to reach the embryo of Chopin’s thought and by artistic insight divine the connotation of that thought, as nearly as possible in the light of the treatment Chopin has given it.
“It is not so much the performer’s duty to play mere notes and dynamic marks, as it is for him to make an artistic estimate of the composer’s intention and to feel that during the period of reproduction, he simulates the natural psychological conditions which affected the composer during the actual process of composition. In this way the composition becomes a living entity—a tangible resurrection of the soul of the great Chopin. Without such penetrative genius a pianist is no more than a mere machine and with it he may develop into an artist of the highest type.”
▪️A Unique Attitude.
Reisenauer’s attitude toward the piano is unique and interesting. Musicians are generally understood to have an affectionate regard for their instruments, almost paternal. Not so with Reisenauer. He even goes so far as to make this statement: “I have always been drawn to the piano by a peculiar charm I have never been able to explain to myself. I feel that I must play, play, play, play, play. It has become a second nature to me. I have played so much and so long that the piano has become a part of me. Yet I am never free from the feeling that it is a constant battle with the instrument, and even with my technical resources I am not able to express all the beauties I hear in the music. While music is my very life, I nevertheless hate the piano. I play because I can’t help playing and because there is no other instrument which can come as near imitating the melodies and the harmonies of the music I feel. People say wherever I go, ‘Ah, he is a master.’ What absurdity! I the master? Why, there is the master (pointing to the piano), I am only the slave.”
▪️The Future of Pianoforte Music.
An interesting question that frequently arises in musical circles relates to the future possibilities of the art of composition in its connection with the pianoforte. Not a few have some considerable apprehension regarding the possible dearth of new melodic material and the technical and artistic treatment of such material. “I do not think that there need be any fear of a lack of original melodic material or original methods of treating such material. The possibilities of the art of musical composition have by no means been exhausted. While I feel that in a certain sense, very difficult to illustrate with words, one great ‘school’ of composition for the pianoforte ended with Liszt and the other in Brahms, nevertheless I can but prophesy the arising of many new and wonderful schools in the future. I base my prophecy upon the premises of frequent similiar (sic) conditions during the history of musical art.” These are Reisenauer’s views upon this matter.
Continuing, he said: “It is my ambition to give a lengthy series of recitals, with programs arranged to give a chronological aspect of all the great masterpieces in music. I hope to be enabled to do this before I retire. It is part of a plan to circle the world in a manner that has not yet been done.” When asked whether these programs were to resemble Rubinstein’s famous historical recitals in London, years ago, he replied: “They will be more extensive than the Rubinstein recitals. The times make such a series posssible (sic) now, which Rubinstein would have hesitated to give.”
As to American composers, Reisenauer is so thoroughly and enthusiastically won over by MacDowell that he has not given the other composers sufficient attention to warrant a critical opinion. I found upon questioning, that he had made a genuinely sincere effort to find new material in America, but he said that outside of MacDowell, he found nothing but indifferently good salon-music. With the works of several American composers he was, however, unfamiliar. He has done little or nothing himself as a composer and declared that it was not his forte.
▪️American Musical Taste.
Reisenauer says: “American musical taste is in many ways astonishing. Many musicians who came to America prior to the time of Thomas and Damrosch returned to Europe with what were, no doubt, true stories of the musical conditions in America at that time. These stories were given wide circulation in Europe, and it is difficult for Europeans to understand the cultured condition of the American people at the present time. America can never thank Dr. Leopold Damrosch and Theodore Thomas enough for their unceasing labors. Thanks to the impetus that they gave the movement, it is now possible to play programs in almost any American city that are in no sense different from those one is expected to give in great European capitals. The status of musical education in the leading American cities is surprisingly high. Of course the commercial element necessarily affects it to a certain extent; but in many cases this is not as injurious as might be imagined. The future of music in America seems very roseate to me and I can look back to my American concert tours with great pleasure.
▪️Concert Conditions in America.
“One of the great difficulties, however, in concert touring in America is the matter of enormous distances. I often think that American audiences rarely hear great pianists at their best. Considering the large amounts of money involved in a successful American tour and the business enterprise which must be extremely forceful to make such a tour possible, it is not to be wondered that enormous journeys must be made in ridiculously short time. No one can imagine what this means to even a man of my build.” (Reisenauer is a wonderfully strong and powerful man.) “I have been obliged to play in one Western city one night and in an Eastern city the following night. Hundreds of miles lay between them. In the latter city I was obliged to go directly from the railroad depot to the stage of the concert hall, hungry, tired, travel worn and without practice opportunities. How can a man be at his best under such conditions—yet certain conditions make these things unavoidable in America, and the pianist must suffer occasional criticism for not playing uniformly well. In Europe such conditions do not exist owing to the closely populated districts. I am glad to have the opportunity to make this statement, as no doubt a very great many Americans fail to realize under what distressing conditions an artist is often obliged to play in America.”
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My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:
(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).
This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.
Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.
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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking
A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.
Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.
If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.
OUR 3% MIRACLE
All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:
Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent
...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".
He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...
3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.
Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.
We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...
So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.
Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.
And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"
Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.
I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.
At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.
(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)
I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...
It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.
It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."
After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).
And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...
This time however I was not disappointed.
With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.
It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,
"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."
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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY
On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.
The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.
In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.
Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.
With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...
That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.
It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).
I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...
I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...
Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...
In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.
I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.
Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'
My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".
The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.
I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"
SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.
Lara watched the scene, transfixed.
I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."
In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.
Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:
She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.
So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".
As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).
To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.
By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.
I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.
I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.
The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.
By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!
The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "
So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...
I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...
I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...
So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).
My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.
The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:
(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...
In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.
I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.
From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.
I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .
Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?
Overall? Yes.
Don't get me wrong.
I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).
I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...
The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.
When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...
I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.
Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.
For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).
I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.
I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".
Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.
To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.
Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...
And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️
Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)
unfamiliar words 在 Joseph Prince Youtube 的最佳解答
This clip is from: Joseph Prince—The Key To The Double Portion (13 Sep 2020) @josephprince
Prayer is so powerful because it is asking and trusting God to work on your behalf and to accomplish what you cannot do. Even more powerful than that is praying in the Spirit because it is not just your own words, but a heavenly language that wields the power of the Holy Spirit. Not only does the Holy Spirit help you pray the most effective prayers (see Rom. 8:26), each word that you speak forth in the Spirit has the power to impart life (see Prov. 4:20–22), break bondages, and bring healing (see Luke 4:18).
If praying in tongues is something unfamiliar to you, know that it is an act of cooperation between you and the Lord where He leads you in praying mighty prayers! You can be assured that while the Holy Spirit gives you the words to say, you are in control all the time.
If you haven't received the gift of speaking in tongues yet, look out for the prayer by Pastor Prince at the end of this video and receive this powerful gift from the Lord that will change your life!
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unfamiliar words 在 CH Music Channel Youtube 的精選貼文
《Midnight Sun》
VOICE / 夢喚
作詞 / Lyricist: aimerrhythm
作曲 / Composer:飛内将大
編曲 / Arranger:玉井健二、飛内将大
歌 / Singer: Aimer
翻譯:夏德爾
English Translation: Nakari Amane (Dreamsland lyrics)
背景 / Background - 与众不同 - 白の狐 :
https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/75690947
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中文翻譯 / Chinese Translation :
https://home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=2642775
英文翻譯 / English Translation :
https://dreamslandlyrics.blogspot.com/2014/06/aimer-voice-lyrics.html
日文歌詞 / Japanese Lyrics :
一人では長すぎる夜 ねえ 今夜夢は見られるの?
叶わない願いを胸に 漏れるため息が虚しい
できるなら こんな感情(おもい)は 失くしたってかまわない
どうして 涙を流してるんだろう?
どうして 悲しい顔なの?
どうして 忘れてしまわないんだろう?
どうして 声にならないんだろう?
わからない ただそばにいたかっただけだよ?
誰のものでもない不安が 光る街並を 滲ませる
あふれだす記憶を置いて 行き交う人波は 知らん顔
届かない こんな声なら 失くしたってかまわない
どうして 涙が止まらないんだろう?
どうして 触れてほしいんだろう?
どうして 綺麗になりたいんだろう?
どうして 声が聞きたいんだろう?
わからない ただそばにいたかっただけだよ?
どうして 涙を流してるんだろう?
悲しく言葉は宙を舞う
どうして 忘れてしまわないんだろう?
どうして こんなに苦しい?
わからない ただそばにいたかっただけ
どうして 涙が止まらないんだろう?
どうして 心が痛むの?
どうして こんなに声が聞きたいんだろう?
どうして 声にできないんだろう?
わからない
ただそばにいただけなんだと
中文歌詞 / Chinese Lyrics :
對一個人太過漫長的夜,今晚,到底能不能有個美夢?
將無法實現的願望深埋胸口,只有漏出的嘆息,撫慰著這樣的空虛
若是可以,我寧願不要這樣的夢
到底是為什麼,我流著眼淚?
為什麼,板著一臉的悲傷?
是為什麼,無法忘卻這些記憶?
又是因為什麼,無法喊出這份思念?
為什麼會如此痛苦,我明明,就只是想要在你的身旁而已啊?
那份,不屬於其他人的不安,模糊了街道的燈火通明
將無法埋藏的記憶留在來往的人群,卻也沒有任何人在乎
如果是無法觸及你的聲音什麼的,失去,也就都無所謂了
那麼到底為什麼,我無法停止哭泣?
是為什麼,會希望你能觸碰我呢?
究竟是為什麼,想要變得更漂亮?
又是為什麼,想要聽你的聲音?
為何如此難熬,我明明,就只是想要在你的身旁而已啊?
流下的眼淚,是為了什麼?
只有話語的哀傷在空中泅泳
無法忘卻,又是因為什麼?
如此難耐,到底是為什麼?
為什麼呢?我僅是希望你能在我的身邊而已——
為什麼無法壓抑淚水?
為什麼會如此的心痛?
如此渴望你的聲音,又是為什麼?
呼喚不出聲音,又到底是為什麼?
為什麼呢?
只因為,你現在,就在我的身旁
英文歌詞 / English Lyrics :
Night too long for me all alone
Hey, are you seeing dream tonight?
Hold these unfulfilled wishes in my heart
made my lament lost in vain
If I can,
I don’t mind of losing
these kind of feelings
I wonder why,
I’m shedding tears?
I wonder why
I’m looking so sad?
I wonder why,
I couldn’t forget you completely?
I wonder why,
I couldn’t put it into a voice?
I don’t understand
I just wanna be by your side?
These unknown anxieties,
blurred out the glowing streets
and left behind those overflowing memories
Just unfamiliar faces,
come and go within this crowd
If this voice
couldn’t reach you,
I don’t mind of losing it
I wonder why ,
these tears unstoppable?
I wonder why,
I want your touch?
I wonder why,
I wanna be beautiful?
I wonder why,
I want to hear your voice?
I don’t understand
I just wanna be by your side?
I wonder why,
I’m shedding tears?
Those sad words
dance in the air
I wonder why,
I couldn’t forget you completely?
I wonder why,
It’s so painful?
I don’t understand
I just wanna be by your side
I wonder why,
these tears unstoppable?
I wonder why,
My heart felt so painful?
I wonder why,
I’m so longing for your voice?
I wonder why,
I couldn’t put it into a voice?
I don’t understand
I just want to be by your side
unfamiliar words 在 渡辺レベッカ ☆ Rebecca Butler Watanabe Youtube 的最佳貼文
久々の英訳カバーです♪
春になったということで、スピッツの「春の歌」を英語で歌ってみました!
Enjoy!
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曲情報 / SONG INFO
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スピッツ/春の歌
Spitz / Haru no Uta (Song of Spring)
Released 2005
Music/Lyrics: Masamune Kusano
English Lyrics: Rebecca Butler Watanabe
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リンク / LINKS
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■HP⇒ http://BlueEyedUtaUtai.jimdo.com
■Facebook⇒ http://facebook.com/blueeyedutautai
■Twitter⇒ @BlueEyedUtaUtai
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歌詞/LYRICS
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With heavy feet, I walked a muddy road that led wherever
Somehow I pushed my way through thorny groves and stormy weather
I’d eaten everything in sight I thought looked edible
And when at last I came out of the end of that long tunnel
I was surrounded by a sea of unfamiliar colors
And realized my journey here had only just begun
My heart was poisoned with the words
“I don’t care, nothing matters anymore”
Now my heart once tainted roams free
A song of springtime
Echoes on high bringing promises of hope and love
Oh, can you hear it
From where you are reflected in the sky far above?
I pushed myself too far, pretending everything was alright
Wanted to scream, but smiled and held it in with all of my might
But that façade is now unshrouded in the morning light
I’d started to forget your name
One thing I never wanted to erase
Now once again my fingers trace it
A song of springtime
Echoes around me as hope and love grow from its seeds
Don’t let the road end
Let me continue to follow wherever it leads
I will just keep walking on
Just as the ape I am, on my own
There is no illusion now
As I go down this road, oh
春の歌 愛と希望より前に響く
haru no uta ai to kibou yori mae ni hibiku
聞こえるか?遠い空に映る君にも
kikoeru ka? tooi sora ni utsuru kimi ni mo
春の歌 愛も希望もつくりはじめる
haru no uta ai mo kibou mo tsukuri-hajimeru
遮るな 何処までも続くこの道を
saegiru na doko made mo tsuzuku kono michi wo
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