Monday, 12 June 2017

English Project

English Poetry Project

We had to compose a minimum of 8 original poems and submit at least 5 of them to poetry contest or anthology. Here is the prove that I've submitted my poems:



I had submitted "Summer's Rain" to the Imagine's Creative Minds Poetry contest and...








 a collection of 5 original poems to The New Yorker.




My Poems:



Summer’s Rain

Oh summer’s rain
Flood the great dome with your gray
And shield me from the sun’s condemning gaze

Pelt down, summer’s rain
let your warm ichor soak through my vein
And wash away the winter’s vain

Come, come!. Barrage of drenching pallets
Flood the pavement to a river roaring
And overwhelm the glacial streams flowing

Let it cut through the bending fields
Take away the cones from the mud
And bring life to the iris bud

Let the symphony of the shivering leaves
Drown out the frosty breeze
And oppress the harrowing screech

Let your vigorous power enlighten me:
The blinding lighting that replaces the sun
And booming thunder that shakes the heaven

Let your holy water wake me from my slumber
And give me the life that you gave
To the buzzing plains of green




Childhood

In this white field my childhood lays,
So empty, full of wasted dream.
It calls to me: please stay!
While dazed, I row upstream.

“I’m not the same again, my friend.
I will be blown away, goodbye,
the time we spent will end”
I row, toward the sky.

I'm fading, dragged, the flow pushed on.
He thought I'll beat the vile, corrupting fates.
“He surely won't be gone.”
Alone, my childhood waits




Poem Writing
There Once was a boy writing poems and sighing
Brain hurting, he sat slowly dying
He searched for easy poems
He found limerick poems
And now limerick form he is writing


Warning to Those Who Lie

Those lend their pride to nothing, behold my friends,
You show, your viper’s tongue, that speaks of false,
your lores, so full of lies with word that bends,
That throw away your face in one wrong valse.

Your mouth will speak of nothing withdeceivee
Your heart, blaze black, will never shine again
Your soul will weep, it knows the pain you will receive
From truth, you stray, from virtue you abstain

Let not your words guide you, but actions proof
Speak not false lies but speak the words of truth
Don't let your phrase be full of silly goof
That twist, distort then bend and fold your youth

Deceiving Wild dreams and ego will never yield
The lasting truth will always be revealed




Perfection

Is it perfection?
If something is symmetrical on all sides?
Or

If there’s no boulder’s that we have to climb over
No storms, just a clear sky above the sail
And a cool breeze that carries our dreams
Or

If we are accomplished
Good grades, high IQ
And a successful career
that can be boasted by many rewards
Or

If we are loved,
by dedicated parents and caring siblings.
By friends that are always there.
There are people who value our existence
and one who’ll give us his or her soul
Or

Is it just happiness we seek?
If it is…

Why is the pass of seeking it full of thorns and greed
Full of hatred, destruction, remorse, suffering…
Massacres born from evil dreams
And plenty of failed dictatorships...

Why is the road of seeking it crisscrossed with wounded bodies...
Some dead jumping down from their egos
Others shriveled, weeping from their pain
As their soul turn more grey and grey...

Is perfection really what we seek?




My Dad

My dad is a giant
Who’s shadow drag across the continent.
Drowning my existence in its dark, vast sea

My dad is a mountain
One that i can not scale
and looms forever above my sight.

My dad is a dictatorship
Which rules supreme
with martial laws that keeps me in.

My dad is a statue
Full of fame and glory
and remembered throughout history.

My dad is a saint
Who guide me through the passage
and cleanse me of my deepest sins.

My dad is revolution
Unyielding with it dedication
and always supporting me

My dad is only human
Sometimes cold and rigid,
but unwavering with his affection




Sunset

As the red dips down across the horizon
as gentle as baptizing a baby,
flood in the colors

A tone so rich,
than Van Gogh’s palette
it is greater by far.

As if a white swan cut across a green lake,
tainting it with traces of mud and gray.
As if the deepest seas,
is blemished by a stream of blood

Lower the red dot lays.
Making the mountain join with the sky
now turning dark.

adieu, our light
Rest well in the night
and let you opening scene
be as great as your finale.




Shining Light

In our timid flight
We’ll always find this shining light
That lead our soul through




Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Overwatch: The Competitive Experience.



  It had been about 3 month since the first season of Overwatch was released. Ranked Overwatch seems to be a wake-up call to its player by showing that Overwatch itself is yet another First Person Shooter.

  Every shooter should have some sort of ranked plays to make the players feel a little bit motivated. For Overwatch, however, players become hard-press gamer gunning for a ranked win to a point where toxicity swarms the community. Many players who came to this game hoping for a more friendly and laid-back shooter experience soon find their hope dashed.

  It is sad to see stressful players deteriorate into infuriated masses throwing insults to one-another but it seems almost understandable since the competitive experience has been devastating for them, especially for those who solo-queue.

  After the end of season 1 competitive Overwatch, many players hoped that blizzard will make ranked Overwatch more enjoyable, but once season 2 Overwatch was released, they found that  nothing major has been changed.

  Just why does ranked Overwatch receive many negative reviews? Toxicity is definitely one of the key issues concerning ranked plays, but it is not the root of the problem.

  Ever had the feeling of "I did not deserve that" or "the team has let me down"? That is what you will experience in EVERY single ranked Overwatch game.

  First of all, there are problems with team compositions. In season one, there are many occasions of  2 players (sometimes even 3) choosing the same character and refuse to switch to another character for a better team composition. Not only does this mostly cost an automatic lose, it also jeopardize other player's game experience by forcing them to play roles they may not be familiar with even if those players might be better at the character the other 2 or 3 players are "hogging". Season 2 emplaced a basic fix to this issue by not allowing duo-characters in a ranked game, but the fundamental issue is left unsolved since players just simply go 4 or 5 offense character and leave the rest of the team unsatisfied with the role they are forced to choose.

  Second of all, ranked Overwatch does not reward a player for their own gaming ability. A well-dedicated team can loose just because of one goof-ball teammate fooling around. Skilled players can go on a losing streak just because of their team. There is no salvation from this issue since it is very unlikely for one or even several skilled gamers to carry one team, unlike CSGO or another popular game, League of Legend.

  Ultimately, the team-valued game that Overwatch boast to be seems to be its downfall.

  What I do like to compliment Blizzard on is that for a game that seems to have so many opportunity for creating unbalanced characters, Blizzard is able to keep Overwatch characters in check. Also, Blizzard is smart enough to get rid of the sudden-death mode on ranked where losing and winning is basically decided on a coin-toss.

  In the end, has ranked Overwatch changed since season 1? The answer is not really. So, it is not recommended to play competitive season 2 Overwatch if you can not stand the first season. But if you just play to have a little bit of fun, season 2 Overwatch can be just a little bit bearable for you.