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The Beauty and The Beast

Saturday, May 8, 2010 10:44 AM by mysense literature

The ageless children's story Beauty and the Beast is one of the finest parables we have about the transforming qualities of love -- and about one of life's most important lessons: things are not always what they seem.

If I’m not mistaken, I watched this animation movie in 1991. I was carried away by the story. I was so impressed with the film even though it was only an animation movie. The camera work, the plot and all the characters were so amazing. The scenery pictures were like real pictures. They looked alive.

What I want to discuss today is about the moral value behind the film. Who’s the real beast in this movie? Is the beast the real monster? Are monsters another kind of God’s creation that forms the variety of beings in the universe? However in Beauty and The Beast , Beast ( the doomed prince) and Gastone ( the villagers’ favorite guy) are non other than human being. Thus, what contributes to the distinction between human beings and monster? There is the difference between the villagers’ perception of a monster and that of Belle (the pretty and innocent girl). The villagers take the Beast’s unpleasant look as the ticket to his monstrosity while Belle sees Gastone’s inhumanity that makes him a monster.

In real life, people are always confused by the appearances. The question of appearance, hence , relates to the idea of beauty. Perhaps, the title of the story itself – The Beauty and The Beast – and not “ Belle and the Beast” – is made to highlight the distinction between one appearance to another.

How many girls out there are as wise as Belle? How they judge people, how they see beauty, how they move beyond appearance and how they choose love? What has become a monster to some people could be a beauty to some other. Indeed, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and so as monstrosity.

Things are not always what they seem. In fact, things are almost always different from how they appear to the eyes and how they sound to the ears.

I Need a Break

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 10:11 PM by mysense literature

There comes a point in everybody's life when a thought of a getaway from the lives we live crosses our mind. For some it's just an image that pops up and quickly disappears with its unrealistic theme and others can't get it out of their mind, dwelling about it their whole life. Although, most people do think of an escape, they don't particularly know what they want. In his poem "The Lake Isle", William Butler Yeast puts down on paper the simple things he longs for in life, revealing us the picture of the lake he wants to escape to.
I am just another person who define the place I could find peace within. I wish I could just get away from the life routine for a while, escape from doing lesson plans and teaching aids for my teaching practical, escape from my never ending work at my office, escape from other people that are trying to blame others instead of their mistakes . Escape from everything that is real which is sometimes so suffocating to me and just pretend that life is ok. All the chaos, confusion, pressures, threats, I need everything to just disappear for a while, leaving me at peace to collect my thoughts, strength and maybe even find some courage to go on. I just need a break. Somehow, I have to keep going and hope that in the end I can win all the battles, if I don't then this life will indeed break me.


"Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history."....
-Ben Sobel

My Favorite Teacher

Friday, April 23, 2010 6:30 AM by mysense literature

Reading “The Pencil “ By Ali Majod really remind me to be really careful when making any judgments to our students. We might be the one who have the impact on their life.

There have been many people who have influenced me and those who have set great examples in my life. Many of those people were teachers that I have had from primary to the university time. If I had to choose one who has had the greatest influence, it would have to be Mr. Dollah Bakar at my Primary school. He put much effort and time in teaching English, Math and Science subjects when I was in standard 4 and standard 5. There are many reasons why he was my favorite teacher of all times, but there is not enough space to share all of these here, so the main reason is he gave his all into teaching us.

Mr Dollah Bakar was an excellent and fabulous teacher. He has made an impact on my life, and by his doing so, I hope that I can pass the same qualities on to children I am teaching.

Thank you Mr Dollah Bakar, for the impact you have had on my life.

Beauty is only skin deep

Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:01 PM by mysense literature

One of my favorite novel is " The Phantom of the Opera' by Gaston Leroux. It is nature that we always disguised by beauty. One of the theme in this novel is society perception on appearance and beauty. In this novel a man is rejected by the society because of his ugliness. The moral value that we learn we should accept people as they are, and not to be judgmental. There are a lot of people around us whom we eventually do not know them very well. We shouldn't judge them by their appearance.

Nature Under Attack

2:06 PM by mysense literature

Last week I was caught in a heavy traffic jammed due to a flash flood on the way back home. It took me more than 3 hours to reach home instead which usually took me only 20 minutes.
The weather nowadays is really unpredictable. Why does it happen? I remembered the poem of "The Dead Crow" by Samad Ismail. This is the reason the poet wrote the poem. How many of us really aware of the environmental pollution. Listen to the song by Michael Jackson titled "Earth Song". It is really touchy.

Some people become accustomed to frequent news of danger to the environment, perhaps even thinking, 'That is not of great concern as long as it does not affect me.' However, whether we realize it or not, the wholesale destruction of the earth's environment affects the vast majority of people. Since contamination of our planet is now so pervasive, it likely already affects more than one aspect of our lives. Thus, all should be concerned about the health and preservation of our home. After all, where else would we live?

"Happy Earth Day"

A Worn Path

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:13 PM by mysense literature

Do we have such strength, determination, and strong will as Phoenix Jackson, an old colored woman in the story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. This story really touches my heart and inspires myself to gather all my strength I have, to do my first degree after last 14 years I obtained my diploma. There are a lot of changes and new experiences in my life.

With this undying passion for continual improvement and enrichment, I chose to do PJJ TESL, UPM Program. As a wife to a husband, a mother to four children and an employee to an organization, the thought of studying in this program really blends me with excites and worries which I couldn’t express in words.

Now I realize that what we need is to love life without getting tired. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other that will help to forget your pains. There's a wish in every heart. Do what we love to do but make sure we are focused on what is really important to us.



I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Gina Gershon


My unconditional love...

4:41 AM by mysense literature

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling



As a child…

When parents love their child, do they write down everything they bought for the child and say, "It cost this much." When parents love child, they want to give him or her more than a prince or princess of the world has, and they are sorry that they cannot give enough. Parents are always thinking, "I want to give more, better things to my child."

When was the last time we called our parents? Hugging them? Make sure we remember never to take the people we love the most for granted. One day we may wake up and the opportunity to show our appreciation won't be there. Don't live in regret, and show our parents that we love them every day!

As parents....
God has chosen us to be the parents of our children. He could have placed them in anyone else’s care, but He chose us. Parents' unconditional love is the most necessary to them. Whether a child is good or bad, well or ill, smart or has special needs the love parents is always there. Children seem to need it the most when things are not good for them. It seems that a child may test our love. Some days they are the worst children they have ever been but parents love is still there, and children need to know that. Those of you who have children would know. You want to feel happiness from their happiness through the children you have raised with such sincerity
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"Take a child by the hand and you take a parent by the heart."