ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ　君と僕の歌を歌う

Am i allowed to post this? Anyway, i gave the IELTS class an in-class assignment today. Gave them 5 single words with which they must pick 1 and writ a paragraph based on/about that word. The 5 words I gave were: Extraordinary, inevitable, goodbye, dream, imagine (i should have given play and believe but maybe next time). Anyway, they were given about 15 minutes to write the paragraph, and I must say, there were some really brilliant ones. Here's an excerpt of some.


To dream is to live, to me everybody can dream, even animals. Dreaming holds alot of potential, it can be motivation, hope, comfort, happiness, a thing that is lost, a thing that will be found and most importantly, dreaming might hold one's future. To me dreaming is not just sights, sounds and pictures that one's mind conjures up when we're sleeping, they are much more than that. To dream is to have hope and to hope is to have faith and having faith can open doors to many unbelievable miracles. To many people in the 21st Century, micracles is something unstable and unpredictable, therefore most people chose not to believe in miracles. This goes to show how little people dream, and everything in the world starts with a dream. The Wright Borthers dreamt of flying and only then did they open doors to new possibilites. Therefore, I hope everyone would dare to dream big, wild and not be held back by today's cultures, peers, religions and education because a dream holds endless possibilities.


Brilliant la i tell u, brilliant.


It is through dreams we are driven. It is through dreams that the impossible becomes possible.

Taken as a whole, Alvin's essay was really nice, very convincing.


Each of us have dreams which serve to spur us on to greater heights or towards an achievement which we hope to attain. Our dreams help us to determine our actions and chart our future and destiny, be it in life or in eternity. A great dream is a spark which lights a flame fueled on by plans, ambitions and action which can set on fire not just a single individual but communities, nations and ultimately the world. The impact of a dream like Mother Theresa's can touch millions of lives worldwide but yet an ill natured ambition like Hitler's could cause destruction, heartache and death to an entire race for generations. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream..." speech overturned social prejudices etched in the minds of countless millions and elevated the social standings of many, so much so that he died defending it.


Yeah ok, the best ones were all about dreams. But I must say, there are some who could write quite brilliantly. And I was very amazed because really, this was like a 15-minute on the spot thing!

Anyway, reading their paragraphs though, especially after I read Joseph's (his was the last one i marked and a brilliant one), I felt though.... Although I really loved the essays... but u know... i felt old and jaded...

Like I.. I loved the essays. They were brilliant because of the language and how the writer was able to use that language to inspire. Yet, as much as i loved it because of these inspiring strings of cliches strung brilliantly together, I couldn't help but feel like... you know, life is otherwise.

Life doesn't always work out the way you want it to. That you may have dreams and the dreams may spur you and even fuel you to greater heights, but in the end, dreams aside, life and reality really has other plans... That you know, in the end, dreams are just that, dreams. Perhaps a pacifier to our complains giving us a false illusion to face the challenges today, thinking that somehow, just somehow, if we tried hard enough, imagined enough, we could get there, things could be different-- But sometimes you know, it won't... and you can't.