Thursday, January 13, 2011

Reflective explanation on a poem

Soft and gentle without a cause,
running towards a light that moves
Where to go after a pain like this and what to do
It’s hard to say the right thing at the right time
when all you want to do is express who you are.
Pain, sorrow and anger is all words create sometimes.
How do you know when to say a word or keep your mouth shut?

Kind words are less spoken in these times and
more and more people are hurt by it than actions
It dries a heart that was ones filled with love for others
and now where does it lead -
To dust and dust alone;

Caring has been put aside and
anger and deceit has risen instead
why does this occur in such a violent way
It opens doors that should have been kept shut
and closes doors that should be open;

One brick at a time they say
In the end the wall around you will be finished
and you’ll be safe from the world outside
Now the choice is, who to let in and who to keep out
So many people so little trust;

Open eyes closed mouth.
All you see is a fading life,
from colour to grey and grey to black
Slowly but surely life will seize to exist and
home is where I’m headed and
no one can stop it;

What is words if there is no meaning.
Words from the heart is better said
than words without a heart;

Reflection:
I find this poem very meaningful as it brings out what is the gist of life. Life is not always smooth sailing and along the way, you will definitely meet a lot of difficulties and obstacles down the road which make me feel to give up on what is on this world. Sometimes, I look at my parents working so hard, from day to night, trying to give us a nice and comfortable living at home but I have never known that how much must they suffer as a subordinate when they work. What I know how to do is to sit at home and think that money is very easy to earn, but I am wrong, totally wrong! I cannot imagine how much harsh words they will have to take to just earn that $3000. This poem made me think and reflect on my parents and life itself and try to understand the hardship my parents faced. What I can do now, is to lighten my parents' burden to not give them many problems.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Questions on Shel Silverstein

The Little Boy and the Old Man
1. Adults are neglecting the young and the old.
2. Conversation

Messy Room
1. Yes, all that stuff that he was scolding is directed back to himself.
2. We are always good at pinpointing at other's mistake but not thinking whether we ourselves do that same mistake.

Cloony The Clown

1. The purpose of Cloony telling his story was to get pity from the audience but it lead to them laughing crazily.
2. Yes, it has revealed 2 harsh realities.
3. Assonance, repetition and rhythm

Questions on BIG FISH of Tim Burton film

1. A person that is very important in a certain location.
2. It is difficult to find true love.
3. Edward is very interested and want to know more about the tale when he was a boy. But as he grow up, he finds it more and more irritating and boring.
4. It is important to know that a true love is very difficult to find and to keep it in mind that to treasure your true love when it appears.
5. Edward loves his son as he kept on reminding him about this important lesson in life but William just does not appreciate it.
6. My father just told him his lessons learn when he past through his life and all it contained was valuable lessons that I can and must learn as I grow up.
7.Yes, it does. No, a tall tale shows us how the whole process goes and makes us be stepping into the person's shoes and try to feel what the person at that time will feel, it makes us understand more about the facts but if you just tell the person the fact, he may find it uninteresting and boring, therefore, will not be able to bear this lesson in mind.

Thoughts on Cloony the clown by Shel Silverstein

Well, this poem is very meaningful for me as this poem conveyed some harsh realities that we, human, would need to face after all. For the first half of the poem, it is talking about Cloony doing all sort of actions that could not make the audience laugh therefore, he cannot earn a single cent! But relate this situation back to reality and indeed, not everything we do could succeed even if a lot of effort is put into what you have done just like Cloony the clown. This is a harsh fact to accept when you seriously put in so much heart and soul in this work and many people will become very disappointed and depressed from this situation. But this failure is what you need to face and we will definitely need to stand up again and continue our life. As for the 2nd part of the poem, after Cloony told his own story to the audience, they laugh instead of cry. This tells me that not everyone in the world would pity what you have gone through and they would just laugh and hurt you even more! At that point of time, you will feel very down, sometimes even thinking that living on this world is of no purpose but what I want to tell you, never have such a mentality! You can be down for a while but the most important is to stand up again and show them that you CAN make it! Prove it to those who laugh and mock at you!

Monday, January 10, 2011

First day of LA lesson in 2011

Well, it is a brand new year to start with LA again! Excited? A little, perhaps, as I get to go through the wonderful adventures in Literature. The only thing I do not like is the assessments on LA. It is going to BURNED out all my BRAIN CELLS and drained away all my marks as it actually happened to me last year. But I will never let history repeat itself again, this year, I am aiming and work hard to get exempted from LA, which is near impossible, but it is worth a try. This mean that I have to get an average of 75 marks for all 3 terms and this 1st term is on Comprehension. It is not actually the killing part of LA for me, therefore, I shall try and make this term a nice A1 as I never know what is down the road throughout the whole year. This is my 1st target, will I be able to make it? Hmm..... probably I'm able to make it and I hope that I make it! If not, there goes my exemption for LA!!! Even if I do score an A1 this term, I must continue the spirit and hard work so that it would be a difficult but worthy year that I shall go through.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Sound Poem

I heard the owls hooting in the dark
I heard the sheep bleating beyond the hill
I heard the wolves howling in the dark
I heard the dogs barking in its kennel
I heard the horses neighing in the stable
I heard the bulls bellowing on the field
I heard the bees buzzing around their beehives
I heard the frogs croaking on the lily
I heard the mice squeaking in a mouse-hole
I heard the roosters crowing during dawn
I heard the turkeys clucking while gobbling seeds
I heard the pigeons squawking when pecking bread
I heard the ducks quacking when swimming
I heard the pigs oinking in the mud
I heard the cats meowing in the basket

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Reflection of things I have learnt throughout the year

Well, for these 3 exciting terms with this new subject, LA, I feel that this subject is much relaxing than my primary school's English as I do not really focus on a lot of components in LA compared to English. For the 3 terms, we focus mainly on Comprehension, Literature and Situational Writing.

For comprehension, Mr Lundberg, my LA teacher, mainly focus on our comparative questions and summary as we are the weakest on these 2 components due to we are new to these 2 components in comprehension. He taught me various tips to score well for summary such as giving more points than the requirements, how to rephrase my sentences properly etc. After mastering these tips, I tried out in my comprehension test this term, and I have not get the results back yet but I think I will do better in the test than the previous assignment.

As for Literature, I do not have much worries for the past 2 Literature test and I did surprising well with both of the test scoring an A1! As long as anyone knows the sequence on how to write and read through the book or article before, and knows the characters inside plus their feelings, actions, attitude, anyone could score high for that. But for this term, it is a poetry, an unseen one still, I do not have the confidence that I could score as high as before but what I could say is that I will do my very best to get a good result!

For Situational writing, Mr Lundberg taught us various types of situational writing and how to write for which kind of situational writing, as I have done before situational writing in primary school frequently before, plus tips given by my LA teacher, I did well for my situational writing test in term 2. ^^