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Assignment 6: reflective writing
Posted by: astrodominie on: October 7, 2008
It is 7.30 in the morning when my father shakes me awake. Not in my mother’s rough style, but coaxingly: a manner that was half-likely to lull me back to sleep. “We have to leave now,” he says.
Twenty minutes later finds me blearily stumbling down the bustling lanes of Pondy Bazaar, clutching a large brass [...]
Assignment 5: descriptive writing
Posted by: astrodominie on: October 7, 2008
Not one of my favourites at all, since it’s completely melodramatic and possibly even a bit filmy. A not-so-original take on a much-done theme.
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Descriptive Writing
Blood spilt on the hard gravel road is not what one expects to see when one is on the way to college.
My auto screeched to a halt and I was jerked [...]
Assignment 4: write a feature on a paper clip
Posted by: astrodominie on: September 30, 2008
Yes, so I totally wasn’t going to post this but boredom has driven me to. Was for Feature Writing class, the point being that you have to make a story about something incredibly mundane interesting. Let’s see if I succeed.
To Kill A Paperclip
It started off as a thin twisted piece of wire in 1867, designed [...]
Assignment 3:on the way home from college/city culture
Posted by: astrodominie on: September 25, 2008
I climb into the auto after a half-hearted attempt at bargaining. The auto driver senses my apathy and lets me off after charging me ten rupees extra. Journalism is my dream but the side-effects of late hours and assignments is starting to take its toll. I slip on my iPod as the auto putters towards [...]
Assignment 2: autobiography
Posted by: astrodominie on: September 24, 2008
I was eleven when my parents told me that we were moving home. Having lived in Indonesia my whole life, moving would be a huge change: new school, new friends, a different lifestyle. However as I recall, my chief concern was that they didn’t sell Taro potato chips in India.
After two tumultuous weeks of packing [...]
Assignment 1: writing on a ritual
Posted by: astrodominie on: September 24, 2008
At any other point in the month, I have little or no time to think of them. I am reminded of their existence only through an occasional text, a missed call, or a comment on Facebook. However, on the third Saturday of every month – we never quite figured out why it was the third [...]
Big Brother is Watching
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