I Might Be Weird But...

... reading the course description for one of the modules that I got has put me in a state of exticipation!

"This course introduces creative writing through the practices of writing, reading and collaborative critical response. We will work with poetry, fiction and multimedia texts (which include performance writing, graphic novels, artist books and electronic word art). Each unit is designed to foster skills in language and creativity that can be applied beyond the given genre and beyond the classroom. In particular, we will work towards greater understanding and control of language's material presence, its referential power, and the relationships between content, form and reception. Students will be introduced to a range of composition processes intended to stimulate frequent and adventurous writing, and will be encouraged to make disciplined and inventive use of the revision process. They will also develop their abilities to create and participate in a fertile writing community."

School starts tomorrow!

140 Days of Summer

or "How I Spent My Summer" or "You Know What I Did Last Summer?"

The past summer holiday has really been an eventful one. There are so many things that have happened; so many events and so many memorable moments. I thought that I would want to write about it all but I'm suddenly struck with a lack of inspiration (lack of determination, actually). I'll probably get around to it within the next few weeks...

To be perfectly honest, I just thought it would be fun to think of an interesting title to a post marking the end of my first ever summer break from university. I purposely aimed to make indirect allusions to movies and television with those titles. (I wonder if anyone would be able to point them all out...)

Thanks to the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held at my school for extending our summer holidays, at the expense of a shorter Christmas break.

I'm not complaining since I have decided to create my own "holiday" by aiming for a 4-day weekend for the next semester. So far I only have lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so even though the holidays are shortened, the free days should balance that off.

Anyway, that's all for now. This should be a good enough warm up to make up for the months of inactivity. Time to squeeze these mind-grapes and get the creative juices flowing again.

Here's a nice song from the movie "Letters to God". (Embedding disabled by request...) >_<

http://youtu.be/HU9zg9rVfR0

140 Days of Summer

or "How I Spent My Summer" or "You Know What I Did Last Summer?"