Writing for 11/2

Date : 11/2

Time starting : 6.20 p.m

Idea I am pursuing : The change in us as we grow up

Time ending :  6.35 p.m

We all have that one moment where we will look back at our past and sometimes wished there is something we should do or we should not have done. In fact, most of us actually found how we act, how we talk, how we present ourselves in the past can actually be a funny experience where we often will shake our head in shame and embarrassment.  Perhaps the transition between our past young age all the way toward our current adult form had changed us in a way even we could not quite put our fingers on. Sometimes, we just be like "hey, since when I actually stopped doing that?. I had always liked doing it since I was a kid." or "I used to do that a lot in the past, when I was a kid, you know?. Now, not so much. In fact, I can't even remember the last thing I did it,".

Maybe this is what it meant to be an adult, to grow out in this world. As a kid that is oblivious to the world around us, we had lived our earliest lives with no care for the world. We spent time without any worry nor responsibilities. We are simply being ourselves back then. However, as time passes, the shackles of adulthood soon slowly enchained us. We stopped being so carefree when we realized the responsibilities we will bear. We stopped acting like how we always wanted to in order to present ourselves in a more formal, mature manner. We stopped being a kid because we want to be acknowledged as a full-fledged adult. We forsake the parts of ourselves that we deemed unnecessary in a mature individual in order to climb the stairs of adulthood.

Even I, myself is not an exception to this unspoken "rule of time". I remembered how I was so obsessed back then about becoming the best in everything I do. I always wanted to be the first student in the dean's list of achievement back in my primary school. I considered myself to be someone that was gifted in academics and took it upon myself to make sure everyone knew that by achieving the best academic results. Well, as I grow up, I realized that it is nothing more than a childish dream. There will always be someone that is far more gifted than myself out there. In fact, I felt normal, that there is nothing special to me as I grow accustomed to the world. Now, I simply is trying my best in anything I do without striving to be the best in whatever thing I am taking part in.

Writing for 11/1

Date : 11/1

Time starting : 9.34 p.m

Idea I am pursuing : Why video games can actually help the player in question

Time ending :  9.49 p.m

Video games are a form of entertainment which revolve around the individual role-playing as the main character in a virtual world on a device or console Most popular video games use English as their main form of language. At the same time, it is safe to say that mastering English proficiency is a matter of importance especially toward non-native English speaker for English is a widely used language all over the world. 

This is true especially in the case of games that involve a ton of reading in order to proceed further into the story-line. For example, the “Civilization” game series revolve around building an empire from the beginning of the stone age all the way toward the futuristic era. Trying to progress through those kind of game will involve plenty of reading as well as English knowledge since some of the words used are quite sophisticated and rarely used in daily conversations.

There are multiple types of video games such as first-person shooter, open-world, massive multiplayer (MMO) , mobile games on smart-phone or strategy-based games. Strategy-based games are video games that are related with making tons of choices that will affect how the story-line of the players progress. These sort of games will always involve reading more and more texts of English words before a point where the players have to make a choice which might lead to different endings. 

One of the type of video games that are heavily classified as decision-making games are “Light Novels”. Light novels, as their name imply, is basically a novel but with animation, pictures as well as voices of the characters. Usually, a player will assume the role of the protagonist of the story in the novel and make decisions in the story-line that will affect the fate of himself as well as the side characters involved in the decisions made. These concept of game will help people to learn English if they found that reading novels through books being tedious or tiresome. It is like killing two birds with one stone as the player is technically playing games but are still reading English vocabularies at the same time.