Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Lesson 3: The Son is in Secondary School by Affran Sa’at
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something
At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem
It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays
I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts
The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb Telling jokes to one another
Seven to the power of five is unreasonable
On Chinese New Year Mrs Lee dressed up In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo
The capital of Singapore is Singapore
My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A’s
For his Chinese Language Multiple-choice paper In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me
Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment
When my eyes were actually closed
1.He was talking about his primary school days and relieving memories of his youth.
He was probably missing primary school life and was probably feeling sad that he could no longer go back to his youth.
2.
My primary school days
Seemed so long ago
Life was simple
I was carefree
Gone out with friends
Played together after exams
Never could forget PSLE
But I did well in it
Lesson 2:Favourite Poet
THIS IS MY ROCK
"This is my rock,
And here I run
To steal the secret of the sun;
"This is my rock,
And here come I
Before the night has swept the sky;
"This is my rock,
This is the place
I meet the evening face to face."
EVERY TIME I CLIMB A TREE
"Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants
All over me
"And every time I climb a tree
Where have you been?
They say to me
But don't they know that I am free
Every time I climb a tree?
I like it best
To spot a nest
That has an egg
Or maybe three
"And then I skin
The other knee
But every time I climb a tree
I see a lot of things to see
Swallows, rooftops and TV
And all the fields and farms there be
Every time I climb a tree
Thought climbing may be good for ants
It isn't awfully good for pants
But still it's pretty good for me
Every time I climb a tree"
Summer Shower
Window window window pane:
Let it let it let it rain
Drop by drop by drop by drop.
Run your rivers from the top
Zigzaggy down, like slow wet forks
Of lightning, so the slippery corks
Of bubbles float and overtake
Each other till three bubbles make
A kind of boat too fat to fit
The river. That's the end of it.
Straight
down
it
slides
and
with
a
splash
Is lost against the window sash.
Window window window pane:
Let it let it let it rain.
sources:http://www.embracingthechild.org/bookspecialmccord.html
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html
http://www.k12.hi.us/~shasincl/poems_prop_cycle_weather.html
Sunday, June 28, 2009
IT emergency lessons 1
3.Knowing things would never be the same
4.With your empty heart and mine full of pain
5.So explain to me, how it came to this
6.Take it back to the night we kissed
7.It was Dublin city on a Friday night
8.You were vodkas and coke, I was Guinness all night
9.We were sitting with our backs against the world
10.Saying things that we thought but never heard
11.Who would have thought it would end up like this?
12.Where everything we talked about is gone
13.And the only chance we have of moving on
14.Is try to take it back
15.Before it all went wrong
16.Before the worst, before we mend
17.Before our hearts decide
18.It's time to love again
19.Before too late, before too long
20.Lets try to take it back
21.Before it all went wrong
22.There was a time, that we'd stay up all night
23.Best friends talking till the daylight
24.Took the joys alongside the pain
25.With not much to loose, but so much to gain
26.Are hearing me? Cause I don't wanna miss,
27.Set you a drift on memory bliss
28.It was Grafton Street on a rainy night
29.I was down on one knee and you where mine for life
30.We we're thinking we would never be apart
31.With your name tattooed across my heart
32.Who would have thought it would end up like this?
33.Where everything we talked about is gone
34.And the only chance we have of moving on
35.Is try to take it back
36.Before it all went wrong
37.Before the worst, before we mend
38.Before our hearts decide
39.It's time to love again
40.Before too late, before too long
41.Lets try to take it back
42.Before it all went wrong
43.If the clouds don't clear
44.Then we'll rise above it, we'll rise above it
45.Heavens gate is so near
46.Come walk with me through
47.Just like we use to, just like we use to
48.Lets take it back
49.Before it all went wrong
50.Before the worst, before we mend
51.Before our hearts decide
52.It's time to love again
53.Before too late, before too long
54.Lets try to take it back
55.Before it all went wrong
Then we'll rise above it, we'll rise above it