Plato's momentous CAVE.....

Let us enter the CAVE in which Plato resides....

let us begin the journey......

Plato's analogy depicts a group of people being imprisoned in a cave and being tricked into thinking shadows cast on a cave wall are all reality has to offer (they lived their entire lives this way, they've never been outside). But if you can somehow escape, you'll get out of the cave. For the first time, you will see sunlight and 3 dimensions and such, and your mind will be blown; you'll be blinded and confused. Then, you'll want to free others. But the majority of prisoners will not leave with you no matter what you say, convinced that the shadows are the real world.

            The cave is an analogy that is trying to make a point about the real world. Consider a philosopher in a world of ordinary city people. Ordinary people don't realize how blind they are in their daily lives. If one such person suddenly started seeing truth, they would at first be blinded and confused. But then they would try to show others. But others won't really listen. If he pushes too hard, they will label him crazy and shun him, preferring to keep their lives comfortable.

The task that was assigned to us was:

1.      Choose a setting/reality that is similar to this story.

Well, I would change the setting to the smaller scope which is friendship

      2.      In your opinion what do these objects symbolizes:

                                  I   The prisoners- The people who are searching for friends

                                 II.   The chains-the longing for friendship

                                 III. The fire-feeling of true friendship which is ever changing

                                  IV. The shadows and the images-blurry images one have of a true friend

                                   V.  The puppet players-the person who pretends to be friends with you

                                   VI. The old man- Society
                                  

3.      Based on the setting/reality which you have selected, why do you think the prisoner hurt his eyes when he first liberated?

The person cannot accept that he or she does not have a real friend or those whom he considered to be his friends are indeed liars and two faced.

4.      In the context which you have selected, why do you think that the prisoner still insist that the images which he has seen before are much real that the statues?

The person is used to the shadows and the image of the person whom he thinks as his real friends so he can’t believe any other things even if they are truly real.

THAT IS WHAT THE SCOPE OF FRIENDSHIP CAN BE SEEN BY USING PLATO’S MYTH OF THE CAVE. ^_^

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how to SIMILE and METAPHOR?

Let us SIMILE and METAPHOR my dear viewers......

A simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than".

 A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas, the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word.  Metaphors compare things without using "like" or "as."

Here are a list of similes and metaphors:

SIMILE:

As bold as brass
As brave as a lion
As bright as a button
As bright as a new pin
As bright as day
As bright as the sun
As busy as a beaver
As busy as a bee
As busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
As calm as a millpond
As clear as a bell
As clean as a hound's tooth
As clean as a whistle
As clear as crystal
As clear as mud
As cold as ice
As common as dirt
As cool as a cucumber
As crazy as a loon
As cunning as a fox
As cute as a baby
As cute as a button
As cute as a cup cake
As damp as the salty blue ocean
As dead as a doornail
As dead as the dodo
As deaf as a post
As delicate as a flower
As dense as a brick
As different as chalk from cheese
As drunk as a lord
As dry as a bone
As dry as dust
As dull as dishwater
As easy as A.B.C.

UNDERSTOOD???....well lets us move on to METAPHOR shall we....?

Here is a list of METAPHOR:

•          A laugh in the sea of sadness
•          The noise is music to his ears
•          He swam in the sea of diamonds
•          His belt was a snake curling around his waist
•          Love is a growing garland
•          Your friendship is the picture to my frame
•          Authority is a chair, it needs legs to stand up
•          Once your heart's been broken it grows back bigger
•          His hair is a white snowflake and his hair is a messy haystack
•          He is all heartbroken
•          The pigeons fountained into the air
•          Her hair was bone white
•          He tried to help but his legs were wax
•          It's raining men
•          Words are false Idols
•          Ideas are wings
•          Kicked the bucket
•          The sea is a hungry lion
•          She is a dog when she is hungry
•          A heart of gold
•          A light in a sea of darkness
•          Strength and dignity is what she is made of
•          Heart of a lion
•          He is the sun of my sky
•          Light of their life
•          Pull your socks up
•          Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day
•          Drowning in the sea
•          Jumping for joy
•          Rolling in dough
•          Apple of the eye
•          It rained cats and dogs
•          Information travels faster in this modern age as our days start crawling away
•           Reality is an enemy
•         Truth is food for him
•          Fear is a beast that Feeds on attention
•          Spiritual seeking is treasure hunting
•          Life's journey is a bicycle ride down the hill
•          Ideas are water
•          Thoughts are a storm, unexpected

          These are the list of simile and metaphor for your understanding and have fun.  ^_^

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Let her R.I.P.......

RIPPING APART Jack The Ripper

First of all, Jack the Ripper is a well-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story. Other nicknames used for the killer at the time were "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron".

The criminal profiling my group consist of Ilhani Mazlan and Atiqah Shallahuddin come up with is that Jack the Ripper has these following characteristics:

Criminal Profiling

1.   .  Surgeon doctor
2.      Mental illness
3.      Wealthy (upper class citizen)
4.      A man who is strong enough to lift women
5.      Strong hatred towards women (misogynistic)
6.      Local English man

     

                               The canonical five or the five victims of Jack the Ripper:

The Canonicals Five

1. Mary Ann Nichols
2. Annie Chapman
3. Elizabeth Stride
4. Catherine Eddowes
5. Mary Jane Kelly

 

In my point of view Thomas Neill Cream is the most likely to be Jack the Ripper because the features that he have suite the criminal profiling the most. The first thing is he is a doctor secretly specializing in abortion. Means that he had the skill of handling the knife and he knows human anatomy. The second one is he had a record of murdering his mistress’s husband then arrested and sentence to death on 15 November 1892. The killing of the canonical was around late August 1888 and end at early November 1888. So Thomas Neill Cream has insufficient time to kill those five victims. Sir Edward Marshall Hall suspected that his prison term may have been served by a look alike in his place. While, Donald Bell suggested that he could have bribed officials and left the prison before his official release. Furthermore, according to some sources, his last words were reported as being “I am Jack the....”,interpreted to mean Jack the Ripper. At that particular Jack was synonym with Jack the Ripper.

These are our accusations that we think is strong enough to put Thomas Neil Cream behind bars if he is still alive.

P/S: The least likely to be a murderer is Montague John Druitt...in case you want to know

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Flop or Drop??

Plan 9 from outer space....A film flop or a film disaster?

Seriously, the title...

When I first heard of the title...this are my expectations actually:

·       It might be good coz’ it’ll be the first black and white movie I watch...ever...

·       It sound spacey and futuristic

·       It sounds like I Am Legend cross Thor with a dash of Star Wars saga

·       CAN’T WAIT

After that, it all went downhill after watching the trailer Sir Mark showed us:

·       WHAT THE HELL?!

·       ............

·       I...err...I....(speechless)

Maybe there is still hope for this movie I think to myself (All movies deserve second chances if its trailers are bad):

·       FORGET IT...

·       This cinematography is bad

·       The sounds sound like a cat having its uterus pulled up

·       The script is like eating your own vomit that have been left out in the rain for 2 years

·       The actors and actress are WEIRD!!!

·       The story board is plain weird and I felt like jumping out of the BK building that night.... (Seriously) ...

·       IT JUST PLAIN BAD...it is so good at being so terrible.

I GAVE THE MOVIE A 1 STAR OUT OF 10....I cannot bring myself to tell you the story..you just have to watch the movie yourself to know the storyline...

But Plan 9 did not work and they kinda failed to conquer the world and the movie scene..

P/S: after watching the biopic of Edward Davis Wood, Jr., I kinda felt his hardship and challenges he faced in making movies.GOOD JOB MR.DIRECTOR..but that is a whole other post!!!

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Superlative Superstition....

Superlative Superstition...

Our team consisted of:

Muhammad Faiz Abdullah

Mohamad Shazzuan Razali

Muhammad Farez Amir Mustapar

Firstly, LEFT BRAIN is the region where you tend to think using facts and logic.

Whereas, RIGHT BRAIN is the region of your brain where you think creatively and imaginatively.

Definition....

Firstly, SUPERSTITION....

¡  Usually involves luck, prophecy and super natural beings.

¡  Derived from Cicero - "superstitiosi" ("survivors"): parents indulging in excessive prayer and sacrifice hoping that their children would survive them to perform their necessary funeral rituals.

¡  Classical Latin: superstitio, literally "a standing over [in amazement]"

Step On A Crack, You’ll Break Your Mother’s Back….

¡  Left Brain

¡  It is impossible    because crack is not related to the body system.

¡  Why must mother, not fathers, sisters, etceteras.

¡  Right Brain

¡  A way to know whether you love your mother or not.

¡  A means for an individual to be more aware of his/her surroundings.

Breaking a mirror will result in 7 years of bad luck

¡  Left Brain

¡  Mirrors do not have superpowers.

¡  Luck is not dependent on mirrors but instead on our own efforts.

¡  Right Brain

¡   A person’s face brings luck so, when we break the mirror we actually breaks our own luck.

¡  We can save money by not breaking mirrors.

When You Kill A Frog, it Will Be Raining Soon.

¡  Left Brain

¡  Rain is made by God not Frogs.

¡  Weather is not dependent on animals but instead its natural course.

¡  Right Brain

¡  Ancient people thought that nature is god (animism).

¡  It teaches us not to harm animals and leave them alone.

P/S: That is what our team did for our task on superstition.......have you understand that you need to look at things with both side if you truly want to understand something??

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Mnemonic Panic~~~!!!!

Mnemonic Panic

Topic

Content

Source

Audience

Rhetorical Function

Purpose

Perspective

Positioning

Impact

Visual Literacy

T ime

C  ontrols

S omeone’s

A bility

R endering

P  eople

P   owerless

P   lus

I  mpossibly

V iral 

This is my mnemonic...

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My Beautiful Eureka~~

My Beautiful Eureka

Hello guys....well sorry it takes me about the entire sem 4 to complete my first entry.....(sir forgive me)....

Well my most memorable and eureka moment for me is this.....

W.A.F.I.M.

WAN

ADLIN

FAIZ

ILI

MAISYARAH.................

Semester 1...

These are my eureka moment...let me begin with a chance meeting in semester 1 in the library for ORATOR CLUB in 2009.....................it is the moment where ili’s and my path crossed........since then we have been friends...we have been doing assignments together, speaking test together and hang out together...just the two of us....

Then out of the blue..come a little spontaneous CAT called ADLIN......we can never remember how we met and became friends...but lo and behold...becoming friends we sure did...it was near the end of semester 1 that the three (3) of us bonded well as we share the common goal of completing our PNP final project......ili was the DIRECTOR...adlin was the CREATIVE DIRECTOR...and i was the WRITTER....and we out of the 6 was the only one who compiled, cut, edited and sent our final assignments and along came the final semester break....

Semester 2...

This was the most horrible, despicable, horrendous, sadistic and most hated semester for AFI...adlin, faiz and ili...............

Started the sem with a rough starting because we did not work together...i was running away from them...i found new friends and abandoned them...no more group projects together, no more hanging out, no more laughing together...and no more AFI....i was hanging out with another clique...they were fun at first...but somehow, over time, we had a scuffle...it was GENERAL ENGLISH 1 assignment...broadcast..it was the thing that tear us together...AFI had one last assignment together...biscom if i’m not mistaken..ili and adlin was being professional and being professional they did...we did the work...we hang out for a while and a laughter happened...we had patched things up...we hang out together again...how i missed hanging out with them and thank god...they forgave me...

P/S: we hang out with Maisyarah before the final semester break..she “unofficially” became a member of AFI...

Semester 3....

Registration was rough....no more previous classmates..they were fun but we want to get away from the past..its kinda a form of escapism...adlin,ili,mai and myself was flip flopping through which class to choose from...it was either 3B or 3C....and 3B was our class after much thought.....new semester...new classmates...new lecturers...and new everything..!!!..

The boys were new..i’ve never met or even say hi to them...the girls were new as well...i’ve known some of them...said hi but that just it...nothing more...nothing less..this was gonna be a worst semester in my head...

But it was a complete 360 degrees from where my expectations were.....they were awesome...we had fun...we created WE CARE CLUB...we had laughter...we went to Malacca for Madam Syida’s wedding...we had sooooooo much fun...<3.....

Then the first assignment we met Shazzuan was Madam Pah’s group work...create a product...we created a drink...it taste like cow manure freshly obtained from a healthy cow...imagine that!!!!

But this has set the stage for WAFIM....Wan was my best friend....first glance...we might not have anything in common..but deep in my heart....i told myself...he might have a look that can kill me in a heartbeat...but that is a small MIGHT....i kept “pursuing” him and keep contact...we became friends...he had helped me...i had helped him....mai, ili and adlin also think of him as a good guy...we hang out together...we went to karaoke...movies...hang out at cafeteria...and sooooo much more....he has inevitably left mark in our hearts that can never be erased...thank dude...appreciate it..(Sarcastically)

WAFIM was formed....it took a whole lotta trouble, heartaches and much more to accomplish it...but the best is yet to come...

Semester 4....

It has been a roller coaster ride for me this semester...but i think i’ll keep that to myself for another post....hahaha...

I have been a jerk...

I have been a child...

I have been a gloomy person...

I need some sense knocked into me...

And thank god i got them to do it for me...

Never have i love a group or individuals soooo much like them...

Just between you and me...

TO ME...

WAFIM IS MY FAMILY...

ILI IS THE STERN BUT LOVING ELDEST SISTER...

ADLIN IS THE SPONTANEOUS AND HAPPY ELDER SISTER...

WAN IS THE MOST CARING AND LOVING OLDER BROTHER...

FAIZ IS THE ________________.(fill in the blank....I cannot judge myself)

MAI IS THE CUTE BUT MATURE AND AWESOME LITTLE SISTER.....

W.A.F.I.M is my eureka moment...never have i love them so much and i am even willing to donate a kidney or even sacrifice my life for them!!!!!!!...

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