Random rants from a random rambling soul

Yes yes another reflection.Its a weekly thing and i cant help it. You can blame Ryan for them if you want its his idea. I do have fun writing these , but i am not entirely sure why i am doing this though.Hmm.. anyway i shall resume this ranting of mine.

We did something interesting today. We had to write a story from the two characters that we got from people watch.Boy was i not prepared for that.First my two characters seem to be total opposites like one of them is a Hawker Uncle and the other a night dweller.However somehow i manged to pull it off.If you’re remotely intrested you can check out the story titled Gothic Hero Of Singapore.I really had to rack my brain to try and write this story but i just let my pen to let the words flow. I remember something from secondary school where my teacher told us not to really think but just to W.O.W= Write only Write.Yes that was a nostalgic moment…but it had worked for me in this case:D Even if there was no flow in the story various ideas would come pouring in what you get into the what i call zen-like writer’s mode.

After which 2 people were chosen to read their stories out loud and i happen to be one of the two lucky people.Oh joy! Not that i have a problem with sharing my story its just that i hate to talk/ read out loud to a group of people.I tend to stutter and stammer and cough a lot god knows why… stage fright perhaps…oh well.. moving on ….

Next we watched 2 short movies.Well one of them was just 15 minutes of the movie. The first one which we watched partly was titled Taxi Driver and the other called Les Mistons.From there we did character analysis where we learnt how to make the character more real more 3 dimensional.

To end it off we were given a rather personal and interesting assignment where we have to write a letter to someone.By writing what you know and so its ike pouring out your emotions onto the page and revealing about yourself. I remember ryan said that as a writer how much information are you willing to reveal about yourself and in a way by doing so you are putting yourself in a position where people could and most probably would judge you. That got me thinking…How much is too much? Where and when do we draw the line?

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Let me drift off from class now… oh yes i went to take photographs today and it happened to be a rather eventful day for me at the Botanical Gardens. Firstly i went to take pictures of the swans at the swan lake but they refused to come anywhere near the distance where my camera could capture their image -_- All my bird calls deemed to be useless there. On the way back only did i find out that all it took was to clap your hands have a piece of bread/ kangkong with you and they fly towards you. Well now we know oh so thats a tip for all those who wish to take pictures of those 2 darn swans. However i think the swans are not mentally right as one of them think its a dog it keeps wagging its tail whenever its happy. Despite being disturbed by that i was also rather amused.

Oh and there happened to be a duck there too. Sadly only one duck and i think it felt lonely like the ugly ducking not knowing where it belonged. It was sulking away at the corner as it watched the swans greedily eat them up. It was funny to look at the duck as it sulked away at the corner. I thought it was rather dumb of it to refuse so much food and sulk there. It could sulk later when nobody is aorund to give it food but nooo it had to sulk then. Poor duck i hope it comes to it senses soon and learn that there is a place and time for everything and that it doesnt starve to death by its stupidity.

Next i went to the lotus pond where i saw a beautiful blue bird i think it was the same family as the king fisher but slighty bigger. Boy did it test my patience as i had to sit there literally waitng for it to finish its meditation. It was in a zen like state as no amount of noise nor could the twigs and stone that were thrown near its direction disturb it from its intense gaze at the pond. It made me wonder what could that bird possibly think of? Usually if something was thrown near them birds tend to fly away but not this little fella it just stood on its branch oblivion to the word as it mediated there.I wasted 15 minutes as i waited for it to fly but that did not happen and i had to give up due to time constrain and walked away.

Lastly i saw a bunch of squirrels who were happily nibbling away at some fruits in the trees and i tried to capture that moment.whether i was sucessful in doing that is another story. However as i was about to walk off i heard a lot of noise coming from them and when i turned to look i saw that the largest of the squirrel had an indigant look on its face.Why? i had no clue though. I decided to ignore it and just walk off as the exit was near as i was doing so a nut like thing landed on my head. I was pretty sure it was that squirrel atttacking me as it seemed to have a rather smirk look on its face after that. It happened to me twice so yes i must warn all future visiotrs there to beware of those squirrels i think they have been watching too many cartoons like madagascar and over the hedge where they learn to defend themselves by attacking us , humans.

Pictures aka The Evidence…

THE EVIL SQUIRREL

Meditating bird

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