Random rants from a random rambling soul

We are into week three of our storytelling lessons.I decided to write my entry quite early because i am not sure my memory will suffice till next week. As usual the lesson was engaging and i didnt stone or sleep. Usually i would have probably have slept in that freezing room as my brain shuts down to preserve itself.

We learnt quite a number of things today.

Ryan made some of us read out one of our stories and then the others had to comment on it in the following format:

Author:

Title:

What it’s about:

What’s great:

What’s not so great:

I happened to one of those lucky few. In fact i was the first to go. I thought this was really a good idea as sometimes you would not be able to realise your own mistakes or highlights or you story. Having someone else pointing it out to you helps you to improve yourself.

For myself, i chose the story titled ” Danger: Pole alert!” as the story to share as i had trouble writing that. Humour isn’t exactly my forte but i wanted to do away from sad and morbid stories and try something new. Moreover, the fact that it was inspired by a real life event made me want it to pen it down and turn it into a story.

After listening to the comments i realised that there was some redundancy in the story like the word “handphone”.It was obvious that one would sms on their handphone.However i think that it could also be a pda or something.Besides if i was to edit that i would be lacking in words and have to try and add extra words here and there just to fulfil the criteria.At the moment i cant think of any two words that might be able to change the story so i decided to stick with it.

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After this we did our presentation on the old man Aristotle.For those who have no idea who he was (I didn’t until i came to this class), he was actually a greek philosopher who came up with somewhat like a set of rules for storytelling .More information about him will be placed under the lecture notes that will follow below.

Lastly,we ended off the lesson with another new assignment called “People Watch” . Boy does the assignments get more and more interesting. And Yes! Its exactly like what the title states we have to go around and watch people. To summarise it ,it would be stalking people. I am very intrigued by this assignment as i have never in my life stalked anyone and i feel kind of sorry for the two people who i might have to go and stalk.Haha!

Luckily (?) Ryan had specify it as people of i would have probably gone after some cat in my neighbourhood.

Anyway when Ryan said this and i quote “YOU DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET YOUR ASSIGNMENT DONE” he sounded like he was out of the godfather movie.Ok random i am distracting you from my main point and Aristole would not have appreciated that.

Yes onward…oh i have come to the end of my reflections… well now its notes time… especially useful for those of us who did not pay attention during lessons or those who might probably forgot what was done today the minute the day is over….

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Oh hold it…its not the end yet.i thought i shall just let you know how my stalking assignment went since i managed to finish it.

I have to say trying to find the right people is very hard.Everyone here hardly seem to display any sort of weirdness that i could use. It was all really mundane that i almost gave up.Just when i was i was about to give up there i found Mr Popular.I realised sometimes you find what you’re looking for when you’re not looking for it.Thus there should be no deadlines,no rush.Let inspiration come naturally. Sadly though this excuse/proverb doesn’t seem to work with the lectures or the school boards.