Tuhh-booo~

Knowing the fact that we would be playing a game instead of having media appreciation tutorials in class for that particular Thursday, I was without a doubt thrilled and excited about Hardip's class on that day. With a sense of curiousity rising in me, I quickened my pace to the lecture theathre and found a seat. And finally after a few moments of waiting, the game Taboo was finally revealed and introduced by our lecturer. 

Taboo is basically a word guessing game which consists of an hour glass, a buzzer, a pencil and a paper to keep scores, and a few hundred cards with one main keyword and four other tabooed words on each card. The objective of this game is for the player to hint the keyword to his or her teammates to guess without using the restricted words given on the card. The player will be given only a limited time of one minute to indicate the given word to his/her teammates for them to figure out as many keywords as possible without any penalties for wrong guesses.

examples of cards in Taboo.

While the whole class was playing the game, I was completely engrossed in it and was trying my best each time to guess the correct words which was hinted by the players. Time flies in a flash without me realizing that class was finishing soon for I was totally immersed in that game and wasn't willing to let it end just like that. It was a pity that we had only two-hours of fun time with Taboo due to the fact that I genuinely loved the game and craved for even more of it.

I was truly glad that I had the chance of playing Taboo . Throughout the whole progress of the game,  I came to a sudden realization that I was undoubtedly having troubles describing the tabooed word on the card. The words were  stuck in my head and I was having serious difficulties trying to process the exact words in my brain. Before I knew it, the sand in the hourglass was fully turned and my time was up. There were several times which I unintentionally mentioned the tabooed words got buzzed. Playing this game, I realized my vocabularies for English were actually inadequate and was actually struggling hard in attempt to prompt my course mates to guess the correct keyword on the card. This game actually motivated me to gain and widen my knowledge on the English vocab which I'm unfamiliar of in order to not encounter the same difficulties again in time to come.