Generating New Ideas For The Final Draft...

I am stucked at the point of suggesting ways to implement the novel which I have selected for my research paper into the curriculum of secondary classroom. For me, I adored this novel due to the reason that the author managed to present the idea of heaven in a spectacular way and the way he promoted the idea of inter-relatedness among human being. But, how am I going to explain all these feelings and how can I relate these to the needs of teenagers in secondary schools?

The novel itself is a very powerful tools to promote love among human being and this element is very needed in this ever-materialistic society. However, what kind of approach should I utilize or recommend in this paper so that student's interest will be taken into consideration yet the essence of the novel will not be diluted?

Dr. Nooreen has made some suggestions for my paper and I think I'll have to contemplate before making any adjustment.

Receiving my first draft from supervisor...

Finally, I have gotten back my first draft from my supervisor. To be honest, I am quite worry about my research paper as I believe I am far behind the actual schedule. Luckily for me, Dr. Nooreen has little comments on my assignment and all I have to do is to polish my research paper and make some modification here and there before submit it as the final product.

People always say that time flies and i couldn't agree more when it comes to the end of each semester. For every semester, things always start and move in slow pace, taking their time to stroll but towards the end of each semester, dozens of tasks will be stacking up on the study table, not to mention the oncoming final examination. You might be amused to see that how things have turned out to be totally different from the way you have planned. That's life, you need to plan constantly and yet able to accept the fact that things might turn wrong no matter how well you have planned them. Still, life goes on no matter how you regret or how little time you have left.

Therefore, stop whining and get working!

A Surge of Relief...

A surge of relief filled my heart when I finally submitted my first draft today. Although my first draft is only a rough draft consisted of 1000 words, I felt elated for I have figured out the main outline for my research paper. It's always hard to take the first step and I experienced this hardship for more than a week. Different kinds of emotion have been taking turn to torture me during the past few weeks. For the time being, I am so sure that continuing master right after graduating from my degree will instantly cost my life!

Although I still have lots of ideas to write in my research paper, I think I'll save it for the next draft. The most important thing I need to do now is to jot them down somewhere before my deteriorating brain lost them somewhere in the space. Ideas may just squirm their ways into brain when you don't have time for them but when you finally can make some room for them, they will just suddenly disappear into thin air, permanently unretrieveable. That's life, you'll learn to treasure something or someone only after they are gone. We know the lesson but never learn from it.

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Love is all around...

Love is all around, insisted to linger around despite people pretended to foresee its existence, for it’s something abstract, indescribable and the most importantly…it couldn’t make money. Society nowadays have one common perception towards this issue, thus a matter-of-fact question like this was formed; “Will love alone satisfy your hunger?” A good rhetorical question I should say which with no absolute answer. My version of reply will always be “Love will feed your soul for you to satisfy your corporeal needs”

Without love, we are just a bunch of living corpses feasting on popular mores, practicing insignificant routines in life as if we are born to be enslaved to it. Love is what makes us human, more humane and distinguishes us from animals, albeit reluctantly saying, some of us has gradually become more beastly than animal itself.

Of course, do not get me wrong. I am definitely not a love saint. The word love in my thesaurus comprises the passion between man and woman, the affection between parents and child, the bond between siblings and relatives, the closeness of friendship and the warmness for bare strangers, even to the extent where you can spare some alms of kindness to your enemy. The word “love” I know is a rare gem saturated with kindness, sympathy, passion, empathy, affection, forgiveness, compassion and quality.

If only we allow ourselves a little room to give and accept this miracle little thing, if only we are not too blinded by wordly possessions thus forsake our compassion, if only we are willing to strip off our masks and look around us...one will eventually realize that love is all around, as it always does.

At this very moment, I wish to post another rhetorical question for you to ponder, “Does money buy you all these?”

Cruising around my research paper...

For the pass few weeks, i have gathered some information about Mitch Albom's books entitled "5 People You Meet in Heaven" and "For One More Day" and I finally set up my mind to work on these two books based on the thematical issues.

Maybe because of "Tuesdays with Morrie", an extraordinary soul and mind touching book written by Mitch, I realized that this talented author has his unique way to attract my interest, especially when he successfully make my heart wrenched, sore and buoyed alongside the storyline.

Despite the facts that some reviewers commented on his repeated thematic issues in the two books mentioned above, I am still unaffected by the comments as personally I felt that each of the books albeit discuss on the main themes still powerfully stir my emotions without fail. For me, the three books have their own aura in different perspective and the same themes were scrutinized under different techniques, methods and dimensions. I guess that is the main reason I choose to work on Mitch's works.

For better or worse, I'll have to check out my latest points with Dr. Noreen next week and hopefully she approve as soon as possible.

Searching For Story With Mahabrata's Theme

As usual, i will search for anything regarding to assignments through Google as I think it is a better search engine compared to Yahoo. Therefore, i started to skim through pages and pages of websites which provide stories with similar theme like the one in Mahabarata. Usually, not all of the websites provide the material that you are looking for, especially when some of it tend to lead you away from the main track. Hence, many hours of precious moment for sleeping are wasted in such websites. But, I am extremely lucky today as i know exactly where I should look for the story.

Usually, for themes such as filial piety and loyalty towards family and country, one can always browse through tales from China as Chinese in olden days are well-establish for their loyalty to both family and country. Therefore, you can easily find dozens and dozens of such tales without wasting your time browsing through irrelevant websites.

Finally, I found one story entitled "The Magic Brocade" by Aaron Shepard which talked about a filial young man who endured much difficulties for the sake of retrieving his mother's lost brocade.