We write in school
Back in school my teacher taught me to write an essay you must be able to elaborate the points you have in mind. Despite all that encouraging words, I was unable to write a particular story well, sometimes I have to count the words used in my composition. Remember in the SPM or SRP (or something equivalent lah) essays part where you have to write more than 350 words. May be it is due to my lack of imagination at that time or I am just lack in writing skills.
Take for example, you are given the following points to write something: -
King and Queen – little princess was born – Queen died – King remarries – New Queen a witch – has a magic mirror – always ask mirror – mirror’s answer not what New Queen wants to hear – found out princess is fairer and prettier – sent for a hunter to kill princess – hunter let princess go – princess found small cottage – sleep at the cottage – New Queen found out that princess still alive – try to kill princess again – princess ate poison apple – princess was placed in glass casket – prince came and kiss princess – prince and princess got married and live happily ever after.
May be some years back I have to think hard and try to figure out what the heck I am supposed to write. But believe it or not I have improved a little throughout the years. It has been nearly 12 years since I left secondary school and my story would go something like this….
In a foreign land far away from here, there is a kingdom. The land was green and the people are very friendly. It is a very peaceful and beautiful kingdom. If you are there, you will hear birds chirping at the earliest light. You will smell the blooming flower in the meadows and the people are so nice you don’t have to do anything once you enter the kingdom’s gate.
A very nice handsome and generous king rules the kingdom. He lived in a castle just outside the city limit. The castle was built on a very beautiful land. Right next to the castle, there is a lake and the background is a cascade of mountains. The garden is luscious green, and roses bloom in every corner of the garden. Not only that, you can also find bushes of tulips, daisies and some “chicken shit flower” (bunga taik ayam) too. In short, that is the most beautiful garden in the whole kingdom.
Once you enter the castle, you will be mesmerized by the beautiful architecture. The floor is so shiny once you are walking on the floor; it is like walking on water. The stair handle was carved from ivory. The doors were made from the best wood and the dining table can seat 100 guests. The castle has all the luxury a human being can ask for.
Living together in the castle with the king is the queen. She is the most beautiful person a man could ever imagine. She is fairer than snowflakes and her lips are redder than blooming roses. Her eyes can light up rooms and her smile shelter the people in the kingdom from all sickness.
Despite the peaceful kingdom, the beautiful castle and the prettiest queen, the king feels that his life is not complete. The King and Queen have no offspring of their own (of course a king will not be happy to surrender his throne to somebody else especially his brothers). The King and Queen have taken all measures and the best gynecologists have been summoned to the castle but to no avail. The king and queen also tried all method possible but there are still no positive results. Still they keep trying. One day the king said the queen,
“If we are able to get offspring, I will feed all the homeless in this kingdom and the neighboring kingdom”.
One day, while in the royal bathroom, the queen fell, as she was not feeling well. All the best doctors in the kingdom were summoned to the castle and the doctors came to a conclusion that the queen is expecting. The king announces to the kingdom that he is getting a child. Finally, after nine full moons pass the queen gave birth to a beautiful princess. Like the queen, the princess’s skin is as fair as snowflakes; her cheek is as red as the Japanese macaque (you know the one that likes to have a long dip in the hot spring), nah I was just joking. The princess’s cheek is as red as roses in the garden same as the queen’s cheek.
[to be continued. This can go on and on and on and my blog will end up being a place for me to tell fairy tales]
See what I mean. 12 years ago I was not able to think how to spice up a story but now I am able to do that and the story above can end up being a short novel. I know it is the same as the fairy tale we are used to, the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. But if I was not here today, I don’t think the story will be like that. Just a short writing about a little princess and how the stepmother tries to kill her. And then the end.
Like life, it all falls into place once you are over 40. Everything’ there already and you see most of the things already.
Take for example, you are given the following points to write something: -
King and Queen – little princess was born – Queen died – King remarries – New Queen a witch – has a magic mirror – always ask mirror – mirror’s answer not what New Queen wants to hear – found out princess is fairer and prettier – sent for a hunter to kill princess – hunter let princess go – princess found small cottage – sleep at the cottage – New Queen found out that princess still alive – try to kill princess again – princess ate poison apple – princess was placed in glass casket – prince came and kiss princess – prince and princess got married and live happily ever after.
May be some years back I have to think hard and try to figure out what the heck I am supposed to write. But believe it or not I have improved a little throughout the years. It has been nearly 12 years since I left secondary school and my story would go something like this….
In a foreign land far away from here, there is a kingdom. The land was green and the people are very friendly. It is a very peaceful and beautiful kingdom. If you are there, you will hear birds chirping at the earliest light. You will smell the blooming flower in the meadows and the people are so nice you don’t have to do anything once you enter the kingdom’s gate.
A very nice handsome and generous king rules the kingdom. He lived in a castle just outside the city limit. The castle was built on a very beautiful land. Right next to the castle, there is a lake and the background is a cascade of mountains. The garden is luscious green, and roses bloom in every corner of the garden. Not only that, you can also find bushes of tulips, daisies and some “chicken shit flower” (bunga taik ayam) too. In short, that is the most beautiful garden in the whole kingdom.
Once you enter the castle, you will be mesmerized by the beautiful architecture. The floor is so shiny once you are walking on the floor; it is like walking on water. The stair handle was carved from ivory. The doors were made from the best wood and the dining table can seat 100 guests. The castle has all the luxury a human being can ask for.
Living together in the castle with the king is the queen. She is the most beautiful person a man could ever imagine. She is fairer than snowflakes and her lips are redder than blooming roses. Her eyes can light up rooms and her smile shelter the people in the kingdom from all sickness.
Despite the peaceful kingdom, the beautiful castle and the prettiest queen, the king feels that his life is not complete. The King and Queen have no offspring of their own (of course a king will not be happy to surrender his throne to somebody else especially his brothers). The King and Queen have taken all measures and the best gynecologists have been summoned to the castle but to no avail. The king and queen also tried all method possible but there are still no positive results. Still they keep trying. One day the king said the queen,
“If we are able to get offspring, I will feed all the homeless in this kingdom and the neighboring kingdom”.
One day, while in the royal bathroom, the queen fell, as she was not feeling well. All the best doctors in the kingdom were summoned to the castle and the doctors came to a conclusion that the queen is expecting. The king announces to the kingdom that he is getting a child. Finally, after nine full moons pass the queen gave birth to a beautiful princess. Like the queen, the princess’s skin is as fair as snowflakes; her cheek is as red as the Japanese macaque (you know the one that likes to have a long dip in the hot spring), nah I was just joking. The princess’s cheek is as red as roses in the garden same as the queen’s cheek.
[to be continued. This can go on and on and on and my blog will end up being a place for me to tell fairy tales]
See what I mean. 12 years ago I was not able to think how to spice up a story but now I am able to do that and the story above can end up being a short novel. I know it is the same as the fairy tale we are used to, the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. But if I was not here today, I don’t think the story will be like that. Just a short writing about a little princess and how the stepmother tries to kill her. And then the end.
Like life, it all falls into place once you are over 40. Everything’ there already and you see most of the things already.
posted by Kampong_Boy at
4:32 pm
4 Comments:
thanks to the cikgu - Tata
woii..nak challenge Fairy tales aku ka?
Nampak gayanya, i have a competitor now.
'on guard! ..you stinking knight in faded armour...'
po,
mana ada armour... eh...talking about armour kan... do you think those knights wear underwear under that heavy metal thingy???
belle,
since tynn has spoken, i rest my case.. he he
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