" What did you say to my boyfriend you slut!" shouted Felicia at Charice. Charice kept quiet. She is not entirely in the wrong, but she did not want to create more trouble with felicia and her friends, whom claims to be some gangster. Felicia is the new girl friend of Frok, Charice's ex boyfriend and Frok just stood there, watching the 2 women fight, though its basically 1 sided.
Luckily, Charice brought her best friend along, Jane. Whom appears to be stronger.
" Watch your tongue or i will make you eat your words! Though it does not concerns me directly but if anything happens to charice i make sure you get it back." Everyone that knows Jane will know that she is someone that means what she says. She might be fierce, but she is indeed a very good friend. Basically if you are nice to her, she will be doubly nice to you. If you creates trouble for her, you will get it back two times. Felicia, not from the school and not knowing Jane, sense fear.
" I heard you say you wanted to slap her. I call it threaten. Is it true?" Jane questioned. Not waiting for an answer, she glares into felicia and said :" If you fail to keep your boyfriend, dont put the blame to others."
Felicia puts up a front:" This is none of your business. This friend of you is a slut that seduces my boyfriend and chats pornography things with him? yeah i said i am going to slap her and i will do it. She deserves it."
Jane looks at charice calmly, noting to her that everything is under control. She knows that its not right for charice to do such thing since she is not in a relationship anymore, but it is her best friend afterall. " As long as i am here, try doing something and you bear the consequences." Jane is obviously not afraid of felicia or her gangs. She knows the rules and plays it well. Why would a 3rd grade karate black belt be afraid of her?
Charice feels safe even if it is just the two of them against a group of 6 girls. Despite how strong jane is, she knows she cant be with charice 24/7. If anything happens to charice if she is not around, she will be very upset. Frok is a useless man but charice is defendless without her and felicia knows it very well.
" If you want to fight, bring it on. I may not be the match for all 6 of you. But i will grab the first one that comes at me and i make sure she suffers." saying that, none of felicia and her friends dares to move, at least nobody wants to be the first.
"Jane, you know the rules, dont make things harder." Felicia meant that she just want to punish charice and let the matter rest.
None of them is coming into an agreement, jane feels like making the first move but if she starts fighting, she wouldnt be sure if she can protect charice that is right behind her. If charice gets hurts it defeats the purpose.
" Its okay Jane, i want to settle this now.. i cant take it anymore." Charice speak up as if she is ready for her judgement.
This sentence makes jane really speechless, she seemed unable to protect someone that doesnt wants to protect herself.
"That should be the way." Felicia thought she gotten control over the situation, just then Jane walks towards her and whisper ," if you really want to do this,i'll do it. This matter comes to a rest but i will settle the score with you afterwards." Charice look at Jane as she walks towards herself, knowing what is comng next. Jane gives charice a slap. Everyone got a shock.
"Now, its my turn to settle the score." Jane step forward towards felicia, felicia moves backwards but its too late, janes gave her 2 tight slaps. And she gets to felicia's cheerleading team at the same time. Felicia got really angry and really shocked but she sees it for herself that she is no match, and wants to leave now. Jane refuses, but charice came forward and told her to forget it.
" You got your mercy because charice spoke for you. Now, what should you say?" Jane stares into the strickened Felicia.
Jane and friends walks off unwillingly.
Jane approach the timid Frok after the girls left. " Dont let me see you again."

Dreams

Ken jumps out of bed, shivering and in sweat. This is not the first time he woke up from his nightmare. To be exact, it is not a nightmare because it seems so real. Too real that everytime this happens, the dream comes to live the next day. Premonition or vision some may say.
This time...what is going to happen?
Its 7am already, he knocks on his mother's door.
"Remember to take care of your brother while we are gone. We will be back in 4 days."
"Mum, can u cancel the trip??" Ken very much wanted to tell his mum what he sees in his dreams, but he didnt want his mum to send him to a pyschologist.
Mrs Lim continues to pack her clothes," Haha, why dear? We will be back shortly. Honestly we really hope that you can come along but you have camp. Next time, we will go together."
" I am feeling really really sick." trying every excuse to stop them from going.
Mrs Lim is getting a little annoyed. Ken wants to tell her, but he is sure she wouldnt believe.
"Now, prepare to school i know you are not sick." His mum sets off her journey to KL with his 2 elder sister.
Ken follows in a taxi after their car. Just as they reach the turning point, a big truck ram right into their family car! Just like what he saw in his dream. "God darn!!" He gets out of the taxi and shout at his sister. " Dont get out of the car!!! Dont get out!!!"
The car is turned over, and she tries hard to get out despite what his brother shouts.
" NO!!" just as he shouted, a motorcycle ran pass his sister that escaped from the car.
Fate, cannot be changed, is it a blessing, or a curse, to have extraordinary powers?

Mrt Scene Seen

Squeezing in the mrt always wasnt my first option. Though i would rather take a bus to school, which will allow me sit comfortably instead of sweating like a rat now and smelling body odor from the people around me, it is still faster on train since im going to be late for term test if i did not catch up this train. Oh god, early in the morning, dressed up nicely with my new top and make up, Mrt is really a bad idea.
Though he said he will get a car soon after he gotten his license, i have been holding on to the hope for past 4 months. The journey from aljunied to dover is not short, taking about 30 mins ride. Sliding the ear pieces into my ear i stood next to the door. Sometimes i was just so jealous about those people who have gotten themselves a sit.
Just then a typical old uncle dressed that dressed up with typically with Tshirt shorts and flip flops entered. He caught pretty much attention as he limp onto the train. He walked past me and stared into a young office lady sitting on the reserved sit busy with her ipad 2 did not seemed to have notice his presence and aura.
'Oi, Stand up.' The Uncle shouted at her.
Its not difficult to tell she got a shocked from her tensed facial expression. Not only her, i think most of the people in the train including me got a scare. Although i have seen people asking for sits but this is still my first time i see someone being shouted out of their sits! Still in her trauma, the office lady gave up her sit and trying to hide her embarrassment, pretend nothing happened and continues with her ipad.
Well, maybe i should just be satisfied with standing right from the beginning.

Exercise 1

Stickleback( Character Analysis)

Stickleback is a Korean novel that won the hearts of many and has been translated into various languages and drama series all over the world. The main plot of the story is about a family of three, with the father as a superb newspaper reporter that won several awards. However, there is always a price to pay. His obsession at work causes her wife unbearable and she tries to leave with the son in secret, after making a morning breakfast as usual. However, the son did not choose to be with his mother as he know that his father would be lonely, while the mother could still live alone with no problems. Right after his mother left the house, the son is found to be down with cancer, where all the responsibility was left to the father.
The character I want to talk about is the father in the story. To others, he may seem like a workaholic and someone that doesn’t cares about the family, even if his wife says that nothing is more important to him than his work. Just like when his son was just born, he ran to the hospital in rain and took a look at his new born son. Everyone saw a drenched father coming into the hospital and walked off soon after, but only his few hours year old son saw his tears of joy. This is one of the reasons he seemed so strong and loner, no matter if he is at work or at home. At work, he is a leader that many feared and respect, his orders were absolute and he always speaks to the point and that almost made his subordinates commit suicide. At home, he barely talked to his wife and his son, he would work and work and work on his laptop. When his wife wanted a divorce with him, they got into an argument and both seem to be morally right. She thinks that she couldn’t stand a husband that doesn’t care or know much about his son and family. While he sticks to his stand where a father should work hard for his family, which is why he is working so hard for.
Things started to change after their separation. His son was down with chronic leukemia and he has to take care of a child that he has never taken care of before in his life, and handle work at the same time. This is when his inner presence starts to show. At difficult times, he will sob by himself, and it seemed that the only person whom knows him best is his son, would hug him from behind even while suffering and in pain fighting from his sickness. In the story, he slowly gave up assignment from his work that needs him to work from day to night, and make sure he is next to his son every night. The next morning he would go back to work again, and repeat his routine. Despite that, his son’s condition got worse, he completely quit his job, just to stay next to his son, take care of him 24/7 in the hospital. Going through all the needles, medicines, blood transmission, headaches, vomits and pains with him. His inner self is further written in the book when he goes through many troubles to discharge his son out after he realizes his son misses the outside world. He even gave him 5 wish cards that allow him to write anything on it and will be fulfilled by him. Having a sensible 8 year old son, they had a great time together, for the first time outside of hospital. He and his wife soon worked hard together to find a bone marrow transplant for the son in and out of the country. With many efforts, they finally made it at the last minute and all suffering is supposed to end because the son got better. After the discharge, his son went back to school but he didn’t go back to work as usual. This chronic leukemia sickness changed him or made him come to his sense that nothing could be more important to him other than his son in life.
Well, good days didn’t last long because right after death god gave up on his son, it is now his turn to go. It was a rare illness and hardly noticeable until last stages of the cancer that no medicine works. He put on a tough front and hides the illness from everyone and his son especially. He even scolded his son and deceived everyone that he went back to work and makes it seems that he doesn’t care about the family anymore once again. However, this secret was revealed and even though no miracle happened in the end, he spent his last hours with his precious family.
It was an awesome story and I choose this book because I think that the character’s inner and outer presence is special and charismatic and would be something to learn from when creating a character.

Newspaper article review

[If foreigners thinks that singaporeans are not vigilant, they might be correct.

Recently, a gang of 4 vietnamese shoplifted more then 70 items worth over $9000SGD!

Consisting of three women and a men, the group of four arrive in singapore on 27 july and almost immediately, begins their big plan......]
As the television continues to rattle about the news over the crimes, Jason and his accomplices are planning on how to move the stolen goods out of Singapore, as well as their next destination to strike.

" Hey Jason , no doubt you are from a design school! Our plans have been successful till now. All thanks to your specially designed handbags. With this, we are going to be rich! " exclaimed Jenny, one of the two women that slip display items into their specially prepared handbags.
"Things are not going any easier now. Almost all the shops at district areas have added security."
"Dont worry Hannah, Singaporeans aren't that alert. Look at those security we've seen so far, most of them are so fat! Can they even chase us?? Alright, anyway, get ourselves prepared for the big act tomorrow.
The following day came, and they gathered themselves at ngee ann city shopping mall.
Jason giving the cue, as they all get to their respective positions.
Just as jenny is slipping the items into her bag, a strong grip grasp her so tightly that she dropped her items and her bag on the floor. She look up to see who was that and to her astonishment, the man showed her a tag and he is from the anti-crime police investigation group. Jenny knows that her crimes are undeniable now nor she can escape for this, got herself handcuffed. Even though she was hopping that the others would be able to get away with it, but soon came all her accomplices.. one by one.

"We have been watching you for a long time since you guys last attacked zara boutique. We are just waiting for a chance to catch you red-handed." said the man in blue.
Soon, their hotel was ransacked with more than 40 pieces of clothes from zara, worth more than $5400SDG.

They will be charge and will be punishable by law.

Article from:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1148447/1/.html

The Story Behind Every Song

A bright monday morning, i am not so ready for work.

I turned on windows reluctantly and stare into space as usual.

Nothing came into my mind and things are getting worse because tomorrows' the deadline.

Working as a lyricist was never my first option and it is basically impossible to get 'used to it'.

Inhaling mega amount oxygen into the lungs, i double clicked on the file and tries once more to let the melody flow over me.

For some reason, it was her image whom came into my mind again.

I didn't want to include her in any of my compositions, thinking that it just does not feels right to be so 'truthful' towards my fans. As the song plays, i recall some awesome experience we had together.

She was my first and probably my last. Sometimes i would think to myself that if fate had not brought us together, i would not have known that i could love someone that much. She was like an angel and every thing that surrounds her turned out so beautiful, it seems that my world would be colorless without her. However,despite how much i adore her, she just want to be friends. At least that's how i have been trying to convince myself. Love is such a complicated and powerful word. It can be described in many many ways but i think it means the same. 'Always love someone for who they are, no matter what kind of package they come in.'

If it were not for you--- Lin Zhi Xuan

My Memorable Childhood

It was mundane, or at least that's everything i could remember.Been 2 weeks since my grandfather passed away.At his death bed, he asked for no one except for me, and stated his last will. I didn't know why, but just paid attention to him as i was told.
'Huan ah...' as usual, calling my last name, ' Remember when you were in primary 1...'

It was said that memories will never go away. They only hide themselves.That's why i am here today, at the psychologist's. My divorced dad and mum desperately wanted to know where their million worth inheritance is, dragged me to get hypnotized.I've grown strong enough not to cry, or maybe i've just gotten used to all these, all those fight between my parents that has been haunting me for years, broadcast live right in front of me again.

Soon, i was asleep just as planed.It brought me back to when i was 7. The scene was general hospital. I was puzzled, i've never known that a my grandfather's will was kept in general hospital.That year was considerably bad because my dad has been diagnosed with 3rd stage cancer. I saw myself, standing next to my mother and grandparents. As their only child, i am their means of support, especially at times like this. The treatment was harsh... he vomited many times, loses his hair and suffered much beyond words could explain. The only indifference that i saw, was his smile. Which was something i have not seen in many years... She seemed fatigue too, but nevertheless, happy. At that moment, i realized what my grandfather wants.

Life may seem boring because we didn't value the details in life. It may seem insignificant many times, but ever so heart warming. Two days later, mother found the will hidden next to the stove while preparing a sumptuous dinner for dad and me. Ever since their divorce, mum stopped cooking since there were only the 2 of us. None of us knew when did grandpa sneaked in to place his will. We smiled. Grandpa was a great man.