Archive for the ‘sign language’ tag
After a [few] afternoon classes and morning masses, I feel like I’m able to sign a whole lot of things [already]. [Enough] to [communicate] at least. So to test myself, and to improve my [vocabulary], as I write the words on this [entry], I’ll [mark] the words I don’t know how to sign with [brackets] and maybe ask a Deaf kid how to sign them later. Everything else I [should] be able to sign, [although] signing things word-for-word is not very [advisable]. You have to sign the meaning of the sentences to be better understood, removing the unneeded words and including only the [main] ones.
Haha, this is fun, it’s like I have a [wide] [vocabulary] of signs, when [really], this is very simple English. It’s like [simple.wikipedia.org], where sentences are so short and simple that [even] a gradeschooler [would] understand.
This month our class will be having our evaluations. Because I’ll be going to Cebu for my brother and sister’s graduations, I won’t be here for the evaluation, so I’ll have to [take] the test early, which is a little [scary]. I’ll also have to sign an [entire] song for Ma’am Beth, our evaluator. I chose [Gary V's] “Gaya ng Dati”, but [might] change it later on if I [find] a better song. (Thanks to [tutor] Anne for teaching the signs to the words!)
Classes on Saturdays and exposures on Sundays are fun. I learn a lot of things that I don’t [really] need to learn (I [took] up Sign Language on a [whim], after all), but I have a lot of fun learning them. Also, last Sunday I signed “Holy, Holy” in church for the Deaf people, and they told me after that I was very red up in [front]. ^_^; I haven’t [turned] red [since] high school, I think. That was [embarrassing]. >.< And they [might] [even] make me do it again! >.
Being [around] Deaf people, you [realize] how [deprived] they are [growing] up, not understanding their parents, not knowing their [own] names, not being a part of the world going on [around] them. But the one thing I can’t help but think about every day, the one thing that I [find] very sad, is that they live in a world without music. All the other things I [mentioned] are hard to [relate] to, hard to [imagine] one’s self in those [situations]. But music is a large part of my life, so when I [imagine] a world without [violins] and [pianos] and [flutes] and [kokia], I feel the world [shrinking], getting smaller and smaller until it’s [unbearable]. A world without music is [scary].
[Ah], I have a lot of words to learn.
- girl, woman, lady, able, other, another, any, with, daily/always, tomorrow, address, ahead, audiology/gist, follow, far, ache, continue, pass, each, every, self, act, behind, remember, remind, forget, near, next, for, letter, fine, reader, example, try, part, hand shapes, review, absent, yes, no, maybe, lesson, still, week, true, false, lie, excuse, please, start, wait
- and a prayer: glory, be, to, the, father, son, holy, spirit, as, it, was, in, beginning, now, and, ever, shall, world, without, end, amen.
- i have crazy classmates who are apparently camera-crazy.
Sign Language
- Mass at St. Joseph’s Church near Anonas LRT Station starts at 9 AM. It’s usually in Tagalog but today was in English.
- a portion of the Church is allocated to the Deaf where a volunteer signs the Mass for them.
- after Mass, they gather in a nearby room where Sign Language trainees can interact with them for the mandatory exposure. (we need 19 hours total exposure for Basic class)
- children who helped us with our exposure event: SM by the eye, ME by the eye, R with the curly long hair, IA by the eye (stopped schooling after highschool), J across the cheek D by the eye (fourth year high school), R wiping the cheek (third year college, business), I with the prominent nose, JM on the temple and R on the eyebrow.
- very nice, very helpful kids
- although I with the prominent nose is actually 40 years old.
- learned a bunch of new sign words today, c/o the kids: Catholic, Priest, Church, God, attend, Mass, art, draw, punish, steal, copy, okay, or, sorry, same, name, who, where, when, who, whom, that, this, mean, more, very, some, thing, something, good, bad,parent, child, children, than (forgot this already), different, training, share, line, there (not sure anymore), chair, Sign Language, forget, don’t know, elementary, high school, why (forgot also), help, little, we, us, hearing, deaf, adult deaf, from
- managed to communicate with I With The Prominent Nose somewhat. =) Learned that he was from Cebu, his parents moved to manila when he was a child. He understands just a little Cebuano, some Tagalog, but mostly just English. His father’s a seaman, and I think there’s some rumors or whatnot about his lineage involving a Spanish grandfather, something about German-American parents, and something about the war. Obviously my signing is not very good yet. =)
Saturday, January 31
Sign Language
- our trainor’s name is E With A Cut On His Forehead
- classmates are: R With A Mole On Her Cheek, L With The Big Smile, L With The Two Dimples, M With The Chubby Cheeks, C With The Braces, S With The Mole On Her Cheek, and G With Something About Her Cheeks I Forgot. Apparently I am F With The Chinese Eyes.
- at least two of my classmates speak or understand bisaya.
- Vocabulary learned today: hi, hello, good morning/afternoon/evening/night/day, goodbye, merry christmas, happy birthday/new year/anniversary/valentines/easter, congratulations, okay, go ahead, good luck, take care, what’s going on (not sure about this), stand, slow, fast, easy, hard, right, wrong, lesson, fingerspell(ing), numbers, words, but, never, mind, every, next, before, again, sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, test, now, thank you, welcome
- apparently, to complete the course, I’m gonna need to go to church every sunday with deaf people. This is bound to be interesting.
RAM
- you can’t just buy any sort of RAM for your PC. You have to check for compatibility with your motherboard
- DDR2 RAM modules are not backward compatible with DDR RAM sockets
- DDR is old. I think there’s a DDR4 out now. This is probably why DDR RAM modules are more expensive. They’re basically antiques.
Ooh, today is Keylord’s birthday I think. Must remember to greet the retard.
