God, this project is difficult.
I just figured out something very terrible. I can't let people write on my blog. That would be bad for me. I would have to give up my ID and password.
So, I thought of another way to get this project going. Instead of a blogsite, I suggest that we have a blog community. Youths from ASEAN nations could set up their own blogsites and link it with each other. You know what that means? Everybody can write!
Now, before anyone comes up here and say in a condescending tone, 'Really, Sherlock?', I would like to point out the positives of this idea. I write my stories, you write your stories, I write what I understand of ASEAN, vice versa...
What that means is that I don't need to play editor and pick-and-choose which stories to post. Everyone involved in this project could write what they want on their own blogs and no one will condemn them. Of course, it needs to be reiterated that we write fiction regarding ASEAN. So, if anyone thinks of writing any 18SX material, make sure that it's set in ASEAN countries.
Again, please ignore the Freudian slip at the end of the sentence.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Hello, me again. I promised a story to get things started, right? Now, it took me all night trying to figure out what story is best to kick off this project. And since we're on the subject of creating something, I guess the best way to do so is to write a story regarding The Creation according to Malaysian mythology:
In the beginning there was Tuan Allah, who first created Light. Then Allah created a pearl, and seventy thousand years later, when He glanced at the pearl, it became too hot and melted, and thus Water was created. After seventy thousand years, Allah created a new element, such as Fire, the mainland emerged from beneath the waves, mountains as nails to hold down the floating earth. Then He, in all His wisdom, created the structure of the universe. The Earth He placed on top of one of the four thousand horns of the bull, Bakar, which was placed on top of four elephants that stood on a ruby, which was supported by a ruby angel, who stood on the back of Nun, the great fish, that floated on the primeval waters (by now you should realise the link between all the ASEAN members-their ancestors told long-winded stories. Where was I?) and beneath this primeval waters is a vacuum tht would take Jibril the Archangel seventy thousand years to descend before he reached the bottom: a mighty serpent called Falak, in whose jaws contain the seven levels of Hell, and if not for the fear of Allah, it would have swallowed all of creation.
OK, that wasn't too hard to read, was it now? Now, this is just one example of how you should write a story. Like I said yesterday, it doesn't matter what story you write: myth, legend, mystery, horror, detective fiction, or romance (like tell a story on how you started developing certain feelings towards a friend).
Please ignore the Freudian slip at the end of the sentence.
In the beginning there was Tuan Allah, who first created Light. Then Allah created a pearl, and seventy thousand years later, when He glanced at the pearl, it became too hot and melted, and thus Water was created. After seventy thousand years, Allah created a new element, such as Fire, the mainland emerged from beneath the waves, mountains as nails to hold down the floating earth. Then He, in all His wisdom, created the structure of the universe. The Earth He placed on top of one of the four thousand horns of the bull, Bakar, which was placed on top of four elephants that stood on a ruby, which was supported by a ruby angel, who stood on the back of Nun, the great fish, that floated on the primeval waters (by now you should realise the link between all the ASEAN members-their ancestors told long-winded stories. Where was I?) and beneath this primeval waters is a vacuum tht would take Jibril the Archangel seventy thousand years to descend before he reached the bottom: a mighty serpent called Falak, in whose jaws contain the seven levels of Hell, and if not for the fear of Allah, it would have swallowed all of creation.
OK, that wasn't too hard to read, was it now? Now, this is just one example of how you should write a story. Like I said yesterday, it doesn't matter what story you write: myth, legend, mystery, horror, detective fiction, or romance (like tell a story on how you started developing certain feelings towards a friend).
Please ignore the Freudian slip at the end of the sentence.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Prologue
Now, where do I start? Obviously, I have to start somewhere. Probably an introduction would do. Hi, I'm Fikri. you know enough already.
Just kidding.
No, really. I'm not setting up this blog for the sake of blogging. Rather, I'm doing an experiment, and I need help in making this experiment a success. From the 20th to the 27th of May, 2007, the 10th AUN Educational Forum and Young Speaker's Contest will be held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei to celebrate the 41st anniversary of ASEAN. The theme of this year is "How ASEAN can move forward towards a single ASEAN Community."
I'm suppose to present my paper on how I, a man (oklah, kid!) on the street could actually contribute to making this theme workable. I racked my brains trying to figure something out, and i think i got it after three gruelling hours.
An ASEAN story blogspot.
Amazing, isn't it? Now, before this blog receives a Nobel Prize for being a certifiable work of genius or something (dream on!), the aim of this blog is to attract people to write in, whether it be poem or prose, in the realm of myth or contemporary life in the cities and kampungs. The catch: it has to be about ASEAN, hence the setting up of this project.
Insha Allah, I'll try to post in one story tomorrow about Malaysian mythology, and we'll see how it goes from there.
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Now, can anyone tell me how to let other people post their stories on my blog?
Just kidding.
No, really. I'm not setting up this blog for the sake of blogging. Rather, I'm doing an experiment, and I need help in making this experiment a success. From the 20th to the 27th of May, 2007, the 10th AUN Educational Forum and Young Speaker's Contest will be held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei to celebrate the 41st anniversary of ASEAN. The theme of this year is "How ASEAN can move forward towards a single ASEAN Community."
I'm suppose to present my paper on how I, a man (oklah, kid!) on the street could actually contribute to making this theme workable. I racked my brains trying to figure something out, and i think i got it after three gruelling hours.
An ASEAN story blogspot.
Amazing, isn't it? Now, before this blog receives a Nobel Prize for being a certifiable work of genius or something (dream on!), the aim of this blog is to attract people to write in, whether it be poem or prose, in the realm of myth or contemporary life in the cities and kampungs. The catch: it has to be about ASEAN, hence the setting up of this project.
Insha Allah, I'll try to post in one story tomorrow about Malaysian mythology, and we'll see how it goes from there.
...
Now, can anyone tell me how to let other people post their stories on my blog?
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