Journal Entry 2

Friday, 23^rd October 2009

It’s been a long day today. I feel so worn out now. Two pieces of work were due for submission today: Assignment 1A and Journal Exercise 1. I’ve handed them up on time. I hope that I did well for them.

For some reason, a phrase from the list poem, ‘A Market At Ueno’, that Paul printed and handed out to the class, has been bugging me since I laid eyes on them. The phrase is ‘hour-glass pears’. The adjective ‘hour-glass’ describes the shape of pears perfectly, however, most people would not think of using this particular adjective to describe pears. It made me think of something that Mr. Mark Low, my secondary school ‘Design and Technology’ teacher, used to say about inventions that I felt was very true. He said that most good inventions are inventions that make people say, “Hey! I could have thought of that! Why didn’t I think of that? It’s like… common sense!” However, the fact is that they did not think of it, if not, they would have become the inventor of whatever they were referring to.

I felt that what he said could also be applied in how we write our compositions, journals, etc. We can use adjectives that most people would not think of but which would describe the object we are referring to perfectly, so as to stand out from the crowd. An example would be the adjective ‘hour-glass’ which was used to describe pears! Suddenly, I can feel enthusiasm for English flowing within me!

However, I feel a bit worried about my Creative Writing assignments. I don’t know what to do for assignment 3! I wanted to do my assignment 3 on Alan Moore and ‘Watchmen’ but apparently, Stanley, my classmate, was going to do his assignment 3 on them too. Hence, I am stuck here thinking of who and what to base my assignment 3 on. Maybe I should just try to relax and take a breather from work for a while. I feel so panicky. I sure hope that I would be calmer tomorrow and be able to think of a subject for assignment 3!