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Once you have created an edublogs account, email Miss Diana or MIss Kwok your username.

When we have added you as a contributor at e-Lit, you can create a post and post directly to e-Lit.

Useful tools include inserting picture and hyperlinks.

Click “Submit for Review” when you are done with your post.

Easy!

Hi Pioneers,

We would like to pose a challenge for you. Inspiration comes in different shapes and sizes.

Since most of you have your fancy camera handphones, I want you to take a photo of something that catches your attention. Then, feel free to pen down a 4-line poem about the subject of your photo.

You can either submit your entry by posting directly to e-Lit or sending the entry through Pioneer Place E-Message. Entitle your post/entry as “2008 Poetry Challenge.”

This challenge is open till the EIGHTH week of Term 4 (Friday). The winner will be determined by Miss Wynnie Kwok and Miss Diana. The prize of this challenge will be a voucher of $20 from a bookstore of your choice – Kinokuniya, Borders, Times or Popular. Game on!

Hands

by Nurdiana Rosidi

As the saying goes, “You will never walk alone”

A truth that I hold so dear

I find my love I could call my own

No longer do I need to live in fear

Just a shell by Nurdiana Binte Rosidi

Such a vast blue sea

Kissing the sky

A perfect harmony

Yet

At the bottom of the sea

Lies a small abandoned shell

Swept by the ocean current

Years of shuffling and tumbling

Near and far

Cracked

Envious of the perfect horizon.

“Perfection. O such perfection”

All alone

With the silent sand.

It was never like this before.

A friendly companion came.

A thought to the shell

“Just for me”

I could ever bask in the pure sunlight.

It was impossible without him.

Suddenly, I could hear echoes.

“Strange!”

…

All alone

With the silent sand

In the cold dark sea

Never to see the light of day

again…

If you have not done so, go create a goodreads.com account and add some books and book reviews on your virtual shelf. When you share a book with us from goodreads.com in e-Lit, use this subject format: BOOK RECOMMENDATION – <insert name of book>.

Be sure to copy and paste the code generated from goodreads.com to the HTML view when writing your post.

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

rating: 5 of 5 stars
I first read this book when I was in secondary school. I loved it. I read it again 8 years later. I loved it even more.

The story unfolds from the point of view of Charlie in the form of a journal. Charlie is a mentally slow adult. An experiment was conducted to make him smart, which he did.

However, he and others realised that being smart and famous did not turn out to be what they bargained for.

The unique aspect of this book is that as Charlie’s mental capability increases (and later regresses) the language he uses also follows accordingly in the journal. This strategy makes the book even more convincing and life like.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone. An excerpt of a few journal entries is available online in the form of Charlie’s blog. However, you need to find the original post and read from the earliest post to the more recent one. Still, there is nothing like flipping pages of a hard back book.

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At the inception of e-Lit, I uploaded a simple picture of a book as the initial banner while awaiting for one of you to propose something more edgy.

Thanks to Mattathias Lee of 2V6, that finally came to pass. Mattathias aptly chose the work with the flyer that MOE distributed to all school and extracted the acronym that spelled L I T E R A T U R E.

Using Picasa, (an easy to use photo organising and editing freeware i.e. download it!), I added a glow and sharpened the contrast of Mattathias’ extract and did an overlay with the multi-exposure collage function to produce the prefect look for the banner.

What do you think?