writing.. problems anyone??

What thought came to your mind when you are asked to write something for your course, or just for fun? “Hah?? Write?? What should I write? And how should I write it?”
More often than not, these thoughts came to your mind, right? There are so many problems that you and I faced while we are trying to write, and believe me, we are not alone.

The problems start in the early process of writing. This happens when I, the writer, are not clear of what I’m suppose to write. When we received the instruction, “Write the problems that you faced while writing.” Sometimes, I’m not sure of what I’m suppose to write because maybe I’m not well informed of the topic or I do not have any prior knowledge of the topic. But based on the question that is give, my main problem is I do not have any sufficient ideas on what to write. One of the important aspects that we should strive to achieve in writing is attracting the reader’s attention and sparks their interest to read any piece of writing. So, with this huge burden in my head, I would spend long hours thinking and cracking my brain to create the best first line of my writing to attract the reader. Where as, those time that I’ve wasted could be filled with doing things much more meaningful, like feeding my turtles perhaps.

Another problem that I always faced in writing is finding the flow of writing. This happens when I have too little ideas or too many to cramped in a piece of writing. What always happened was I strayed from the main points and starts blabbing about this or points unrelated to the main idea. As an example, if I was originally writing about the implications of smoking to your health, with too little points, in the next few lines, I would probably starts talking about the benefits of eating spinach for your health. The main scope of ideas is still present, that revolves around health but the main focus of the writing is gone.

the new semester..

This time around, my new semester started earlier that most people. This is because I’m one of the facilitators in charged of handling the orientation week for the INTEC July 2008 new students intake. The orientation week was smooth sailing but it was really tiring. Even so, the experience is worth every drop of sweat, tears and blood. I seriously mean blood because I hurt myself once during the whole fiasco. And I also risk losing the ability to hear properly on my left ear. I bet no one have ever thought orientation week is this risky… ^_^

After the orientation week ends, we, the facilitators were treated to a weekend gateway to Cameron Highlands, all expanses paid!! We had soo much fun with the sight seeing, performances and the barbeque... Thx to all the PMs, Cikgu Hassan and the lecturers for organizing this trip for the exhausted PMs.

The following Monday, officially the class starts.

Another headache comes around because for this semester, we have to fulfil a 19 hour credit and a new additional co. MY GOD!!! LIFE COULDN’T GET ANY BETTER, RIGHT???

But I will stay true to one saying,

The going gets tough, and the tough gets going!!!