09 November 2009

My Dishwater Days

Rating: ★★★★★
Title: My Dishwater Days
Edited by: Hilary Tham
Genre: Poem 

During this holidays, I went to Kinokuniya bookstore in Takashimaya with my tutor. She suggested me to read some poems, not only reading books because i wanted to learn new writing style and languages . She recommended this poem called "My Dishwater Days". It is about the poet own past life.

NEW VOCABULARY: 1) ore - rock, earth, etc from which metal can be obtained    
2) Lustre - the shining quality of a suface 
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­What kind of writing style and laguage does the writer use? Quote examples to support what you say.
When I read this poem, I could notice that her writing style is unique. As you can see the title of poem 'Dishwater days", she represented her memories of the past which are dull and insignificant, fit to be thrown away. There was one sentence that I had to think for a long time. 'the ore I sometimes find' - I couldn't really understand this sentence first so I had to research on the internet. It meant the memories that are worth keeping. I am pretty sure it was not easy to make use this elaborate comparison in poetry. But, I want to try this language styles for my own writings.
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­Describe the main character. How is she/he like or unlike you? How interesting is she/he to read about?
I was soaked into this poem and when I understand all the means what the poet tried to tell, I read this once more. The main character in it is the poet, herself. She says that valuable metal make you remember the whole thing. It it inside your storage. I could compeletely understood this sentence because whenever I go to overseas for vacation, I usually think in that ways.
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Relavant Findings:http://washingtonart.com/beltway/tham.html
this is a site of the poet biography

Blog Shop booming

Rating: ★★★★
­Title: Blog Shop Booming
­Edited by: Jessica Lim & Tessa Wong
­Genre: Newspaper Article

I was bored reading only novel book, so i decied to read article and write down a journal about it. There was an attractive article in entertainment section which is called 'Blog Shop Booming in Countdown' It was pretty interesting to me and it was the new information.  

NEW VOCABULARY: 1) superb - excellent, of very good quality    
­ 2) economical - providing good service or value in relation to the amount of time or money spent 

Even this article was intersting, some parts were pretty boring. For example, there were so much information which is like three blog shops. We can understane what blog shope is with one example. I felt boring and wasting time while i was reading that part. Ont the other hand, descriptions of items were great.
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Relavant Findings:http://www.today.com/
­this is a site of the newspaper.