55 Influence

55 Influence
By Yihan

"Next Week: We'll be doing – Micro Fiction".
A story 55 Words long.
"And how on earth’s that possible?"

But turned out to be possible.
Sounds difficult.
Yet so easy to write.

The week’s passed.
With me: 3 fictions done; 1 more to come.
Even this entry’s just that short,
and done in 20 minutes straight.

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55 Words
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The Peacock

The Peacock
By Yihan

"This million-dollar deal is CRITICAL.'
Silence. Clients? Unconvinced.
Waving his hands furiously, he repeated, "This's CRITICAL'.
Still Silence.

"Goodness! It's CRITICAL!'
Finally someone spoke. "How's this convincing?"
Deliberate Impatience. The CEO slammed the table and firmly announced, "I'll SHOW you."

He turned to fumble his documents.

Shuffles.
The CEO looked up.

Swivelling chairs.
Closing door.

55 Words

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1st Draft
"This million-dollar deal is CRITICAL.'
Silence. Clients? Unconvinced.
Waving his hands furiously, he repeated, "This's CRITICAL'.
Still Silence.
"Goodness! It's CRITICAL!'

Finally someone spoke. "How's this convincing?"
Deliberate Impatience. The CEO slammed the table and firmly announced,
"I'll SHOW you."
He turned to fumble his documents.

Shuffles.

He looked up.

Swivelling chairs.
Closing door.

53 Words
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SAM Visits - Art Appreciation

I have no idea how this is related to Language Arts, but maybe it is because LA has the word 'Arts' in it, I guess this post shall do. It was, in rudimentary terms, a workshop that was held over a span of two Wednesdays, each with a session of 1h30min, fully sponsored by the school. The two Wednesdays are 22nd and 29th April, both of which brought me much knowledge towards Art Appreciation.

We went through intensive studies of artworks currently stored in the many great galleries within the museum walls. It turned out that the curators had the tedious job of having to replace the exhibitions with new artworks purchased globally every 3-4 months, and hence the exhibitions are for temporal display, afterwhich it would go into the museum storehouse - which stores around 7000 works.

Each exhibition will have a theme (the previous one was named: "Daimler Art Collection") - this time round, it was: Earth and Water. The galleries feature all kinds of works of different media from artists all over Southeast Asia; some of which are 3D Art Works taking up full fractions of gallery display space. One of the curators was put in charge of bringing us through museum tours and thereby explaining the history and connotations the artworks represent. It turns out that the artists paint out of need - out of the urge of necessity - for none of the artworks seem artificial. They depict vivid scenes of various milestones in SE Asian History in mainly the 20th Century.

We even had to do our own presentations on some artworks which we studied carefully. Through this intensive course, I could better understand and appreciate
artworks presented in various forms of media. And how fruitful it has been.

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