1. Vegetables
English 2 (ENGL 0205)
Observing vegetables/ Assignment 1
YIP CHIN SENG (0311956)
Lecture:Mr.Nathniel Woon Wai Cheong
FNBE 2012 July intake semester 2

2. 5 senses
sight
green in colour
cylindrical-
shaped body
have white
flesh
touch
feel cooling
watery
fresh
hear
sounded dense
sound after
threwing it
away
taste
watery
fresh
cooling
crunchy
bitter
smell
fresh
smell like grass
conclusion
cucumber is
fresh
makes me feel
cooling

3. During my last week English 2 lesson, my lecture who named Mr.
Woon Wai Cheong, have gave us a class work which he wanted us to choose
a type of vegetable for ourselves and observed the vegetable we had chosen.
Besides that, we had to take a photo of ourselves with the vegetable we had
chosen and wrote an essay which needed about 800 words for our
observation of the vegetable we had chosen. I had chosen a type of vegetable
which is cucumber for my own observation. After we all have chosen our own
vegetable, Mr. Woon wanted us to observe our vegetable with 5 senses which
is the sense of touch, sight, taste, hear, and smell. I just stunned for a while
because in my mind I was thinking “how do I suppose to hear and smell my
cucumber?” But anyway, I had no choices, what can I do was just try my best
to finish the assignment with my 5 senses to observe my cucumber.
After our English lesson finish, my friend and I decided to go to the
market which is inside the Sunway Pyramid Mall to purchase our own
vegetable. Then, we went there by my friend’s car and we all had bought our
chosen vegetable in the market which named AEON, and I had bought a
cucumber which cost me RM2.95 for my observation. After that, we leaved
the mall and went back to our home to start our observation.
First, I observed my cucumber with the sense of sight, what I saw was
the skin color of the cucumber was like it had a range of skin color from yellow
to dark green. Besides that, the cucumber looked like a green pickle without
the bumps and it had cylindrical-shaped body. After I had observed outside
view of the cucumber, I had cut the bottom part of the cucumber to observe
the inside of cucumber. I saw rows of small seeds covered by the watery flesh,
and the watery part is covered by the white flesh which is inside of cucumber.

4. To get more details about cucumber, I get the seeds from the cucumber, the
seeds is light brown in color, and the shape looked like a small bean, but not
as round as a bean. Then, I cut one of the seed into half, I saw inside of the
seed is white color, and the seed is covered by a hard shell.
After I finished observed my cucumber by the sense of sight, I used
sense of touch to observe it, when I touch the cucumber, my hand feel cooling
by touching the cucumber. Then, I changed the position which I hold the
cucumber, I feel cooling as like I touching the cucumber, it was like I holding a
cup of cold water. It was not enough to me to just feel the outside part, so I
touched the part that I had cut. I touched the white flesh, my finger feel
cooling as usual. Then, I touch the inner part which is the rows of seeds part, I
feel the part which covered the seeds, I feel the flesh is so watery, it was like I
touching the jelly. Next, I took out the seed that covered by the “jelly”, the
seed is not cooling as the other part of cucumber, and the shell is semi hard
shell, which mean the shell is also a bit soft.
Then, I was turning my attention to other sense now, I held the
cucumber next to my ear and I was trying to “hear” the cucumber, I heard
nothing from the cucumber at first, so I tapped the skin of the cucumber and
listen again, I heard the sound that came out from the cucumber, it sounds
like I tapped a bottle of water, the sound was dense like a solid object would
have sounded. After I observed the sound by tapping it, I try to used other
way to observed the sound, I threw the cucumber toward the wall, I heard a
sound “crack”, the cucumber break into half and dropped on the floor. I guess
the observation of hearing is finish, so I turned my attention to other sense
now.

5. After observing the cucumber by seeing, touching and hearing, I used
to taste the cucumber. I washed the cucumber and cut one slice of cucumber
with skin and ate it. I feel strange because it was hard for me to define the
taste of cucumber, but when I focus to taste the cucumber, it was mainly very
watery and juicy and the seeds give it a hint of freshness, but I feels they have
a bitter taste and slightly watery taste. After I taste the cucumber with skin, I
cut another slice of cucumber without skin and I ate it. During the time I ate it,
the cucumber is so crunchy and it makes me feel so great. Also, it feels
watery and fresh and it makes my mouth feel so cooling. Then I noticed that
the slice of cucumber without skin do not have the bitter taste, I guess the
bitter taste is some kind of chemical founded in cucumber.
Lastly, I used the last sense to observe the cucumber which is the
sense of smell. In this last experiment, I was so confused because I do not
knew how to smell a cucumber, when I smell the cucumber, I feel stupid and I
smell nothing on it, it make me headache because I don’t know how to make
a conclusion for the sense of smell on the cucumber so I try to use other way
to get the conclusion. I used to smashed the cucumber and try to focus on the
smell of the cucumber, during the time I smashing the cucumber, I smell some
kind of fresh smell, it was like the smell of the grassland and feel so green, so
I had conclusion for the sense of smell, that the cucumber is actually smell
fresh.
Finally, I had my conclusion for my observation of 5 senses on the
cucumber. In this experiment I finally knew that cucumber is very fresh and it
can make me feel cool after having it. Besides, this experiment makes me feel
interested in cucumber and I was enjoyed during the observation.