Sunday, June 29, 2008

انا اميرة. it says i'm amirah.

Judging from this picture, I can tell that the four women, looking on towards the man lying on the bed, were concerned for his well being. Looking at the expressions on their faces, i can tell that they were listening intently to the man. Their visage seems as if they were absorbed by his story and their attention seems stolen.
I can see that the man has growth growing all over his face and he seems as if he has got no fingers at all. His fingers appeared as if they had transformed into an ugly and hideous looking thing thats almost unrecognisable. I think that his transformation is due to a disease that he's suffering from. There's a very high chance that he's suffering from a very rare disease because its not common to see a man walking around the city with growths on his face and huge wood-like thing attached to his wrists.
The place where this scene was going on appears to be in a hospital room. The reason for this conclusion is because of the plain looking background and the white bed where the man can be seen resting on. Plus, the man can also be seen wearing a plain sea blue shirt and pants. The attire he's wearing is most like provided by the hospital as hospitals usually provide plain clothes looking like the ones he's wearing. I think that its preety sad to be this man because he has to endure with this disease maybe throughout his whole life and existence. Still, looking at the brighter side of the situation, this man may have the popularity that will last him throughout his life, and perhaps his name is marked in the book of records.
I reckon the women dressed in white from head to toe are the nurse working in the hospital, in charge of taking good care of the sick man. They appear to be there to explain the situation of the man to the other two women who can be seen formally dressed. The other two women appears to be an important guests to the hospital.
In conclusion, this photo is well taken and the message that it tries to send can be read clearly. This photo had taught me that with every bad thing, hids a good thing. This guy in the photo may have a unique disease but this disease has given him a worldwide attention.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Duno wats tis actually ...

From the picture, i can see a family of three having an outing. from the background of a van, i can therefore guess that they might have travel a long way to reach here and that the van will most probably be their transport to here.

Also, from their expressions in their face i can tell that thay are having a great time and that they are enjoying themselves very much.Also, from the picture above, the lady at the right seems to be pregnant as i can see from the picture that her tummy is rather big and round. The man at the left seems to be her husband from the way he smiled and the girl in the middle seems to be their daughters as she put her shoulder around both the guy and the lady depicting a happy family scene.

So on the overall , i think that they are a happy family and that they are enjoying themselves.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

the legacy is bigger than u think



The picture depicts a scene about people engaging in some sort of game. As there is a girl trying to throw an arrow like thing into the direction of a vase like standee, i therefore deduce that the objective of the game is to try and throw the arrow like thing into the vase like standee. The game should be quite hard as all of the vase like standee has no arrow like thing in it and that there are arrows all over the floor near the standee. This game had attracted mostly children and only a few adults thus this game is designed mainly for children. Morever, the adults are mostly standing further away from the foreground while children are standing nearer to the foreground. Also, given the look of the standee, i think that the equipment is not new but quite old as there seem to have some discolouration.
As we do not usually see this game being played in Singapore and that most people would deem this game as 'lame', thus i deduce that this game is not intended for children now but for those on the olden days where simplicity was the best. Children nowadays are too spoilt and pampered and that such mere toys would fail to entertain them.
This brings me to another topic which would be the generation gap between the young and old. The younger generation complains that the elderly are too old to keep up with the young while the elderly says that the youngsters nowadays are getting out of hands. However, i feel that the young and the old can co-exist together by letting half a step to each other. The youngsters instead of complaining about the old being slow and useless can teach them how to use the computer so as to allow them to keep up with society. The elders on the other hand can share life lessons with the youngsters as they had gone through sweet and bitter throughout their years down the road.
This picture thus give me the impression that the young and the old can live harmoniously and I'm sure this can happen in real live.
;D

Monday, June 16, 2008

picture disscusion



I believe that this picture is taken in a park or garden where a family is having a pinic. It can be seen by the trees around the people that are sitting on a mat that is laid on the grass. I can easily see that a family is having a pinic as they are basket around them and there are empty bottles and some food that are left over. They are probably one family with one of them married with a child as there is a little girl sat in the middle. They may have not met up for quite a long period of time so they decided to have some time for a little pinic gathering.

In the picture, there is a little girl who is wearing a cute little red dress with her hair tied up in two ponytail in the middle and she is putting her hand into her mouth. I think that she is eating some kind of food and is enjoying herself as she may still not be full thus eating when everyone is posing for the picture. She is looking at somewhere else and i think there may be some birds or small animals that has caught her attention in the park thus, not looking at the camera.

I think that the lady and man beside the girl may be her parents as the little girl is lying on the lady and children tends to be very close to their parents. The other two ladies and the man on the left hand side of the picture may be the uncles or aunt of the little girl. They are all having a smiling face and this show that they are enjoying the accompany of each other and glad that they can come together to have a pinic.

I think that after the picture, the family may be going home as there are not much food left around the mat except for some empty bottles and plates that are left behind after all the food have been eaten. And the bag that is lying on the tree seem to be quite full so i think that the people are already packing up waiting to go off. Otherwise, they may also go shopping as from the sunlight, it seem that it is still quite early and they may want to spend some time at certain shopping centre first before going home.

The picture shows that it is nice to have a family gathering once in a while so the we will know what is happening in the life of our family that do not live so close to us or seldom keep in contact. It can be a memorable day as its not everyday you can get to meet up with all your relative or family members as everyone is busy with their life working or studying. And it is also important to maintain a good relationship with your family members as we do not know what will happens next and regretting

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Picture dicussion ! SAMURAI festival



This picture depicts a scene in Japan. As in the foreground, we can see people dressing in samurai costume and as samurai originated from Japan, this picture must be taken in Japan. Also we can see from the picture that this event is happening in the middle of one of the streets in Japan. There are many people surrounding the groups of Samurais , admiring them and at the same time also taking photos.
There must be some kind of Festival going on as nowadays we no longer see people wearing the samurai costume . Also , i thinks that the group of Samurai is putting on a performance. As from the picture , we can see that the samurais are doing different actions. Like the two samurais that are down on the floor and the General Samurai , the one with the Grey outfit , on a battle stance , waving his sword. I can assume that these samurais are very professional as as they are performing , there seems to be no mistake . We can see this from the crowd expression , as most of them are enjoying and focusing on the performance .

Also , from the group of samurais in the foreground , i see no female taking part in the perfromance out of the 5 samurais. Therefore , as samurais is a culture that happens very long ago in Japan , we can see that there is a already sex discrimination during then .
Next is that , from the picture of the crowd, i can see many people wearing a cap . This must be due to the hot weather during that time of the day. However , the Samurais are all fully dressed in their costume , and i think that will be very tiring for them to be performing under such intense weather.
Finally, i think that is good to hold events like this as it can refresh the people's impression of samurais and keep the unique culture remembered . Also , i wished that our country can have our own unique culture , as up to now i do not even know the culture that will represent Singapore and this has prove to be a very sad thing .
THE END

Children-seeds of hope and joy


This is a picture depicting a group of children expressing their transcendent joy by raising their small thumbs up in the air and laughing with jubilation. From their darker skin tone and complexion, they are propable african children. Judging from their common clothes and yellow ties, we can infer that they are wearing their school uniforms. The fact that some of the children have bags slinged over their shoulders even affirms the fact that they are school children more. Their schools hours has probably ended and they are on their way back home. The children seemed very playful, evident by the way they are teasing one another with friendly nudgings.

In Africa,without doubt, the country which is infested with the AIDS epidermic, rapings, kids abduction, poverty and malnutrition. As a result of the AIDS epidermic, many children are orphaned and abandoned, leaving them to fend for themselves. Relatives of these children are often stricken with poverty themselves and this prevent them from adopting children of their deceased relatives into their extended families. Hope becomes very desolate for the orphaned children in Africa. Furthermore, poverty is everywhere and children often suffered from acute malnutrition. Even when developed countries come into aid of those who are suffering fro poverty and the epidermic, money is actually devoured by huge money eating bodies which is ironically the government. As a result, most children in Africa live dark anf fearful lives, their faces void of smile.

However, in this photo, one can hardly notices the suffering and hardships they have went through as they are smiling with eyes full of merriment. Moreover, with such glee, the children looked as if they are posing for the camera in a very natural and peaceful way, expressing their gratitude for being able to attend school and attain the gift of life-education. Education is the driving tool in life to be able to think practically and succeed in life. I am certain that education is like a new lease of life for the children and after attaining the sweet fruits of knowledge, i hope they will be able to use it to improve the lives of their fellow countrymen and give them a new lease of life as well. Moreover , the children do have a thirst for knowledge, prominant by the fact that in the background, it is a forested area and they probably have to hike throught it day after day in order to go to school.

In deeper detail, we are able to notice that some children like the boy raising his thumb high up in the air at the central focus of the photo is wearing a sandy colour shirt instead of his school uniform, probably as a result of his parents being unable to afford his school uniform and also in the midst of the children's happiness, it depicts traces of poverty.
With their thin frames standing under the scorching sun, we are able to notice that their stomachs lack nourishment which is contrasting to the fact that many people around the world are obese. Thus, by this, we can conclude that the statement made by some people that there is not enough food in the world is totally questionable.

In conclusion, this picture is very well-taken as the innocence and transcendent joy of these ill-fated children are beautifully captured under the lens of the camera.



.

Picture Discussion


This picture delineates a scene in the foreground whereby a group of four people, specifically two middle-aged women and two younger ones, are posing for the camera. They are at a theme park and I postulate that it is a Walt Disney theme park, or what most of us address as Disneyland. I have made that inference because I have noticed the magnificent and grandiose 'castles ', which is a feature of Disney theme parks. Furthermore, there is a myriad of other buildings which seem to be part of the park itself. For example, the statues of various Walt Disney characters have been erected, as seen by the blue, white and brown figures in the background of the photograph. My stand is also supported by the fact that I have been to one of these theme parks with my family before. As such, as most Disney fun parks are easily recognisable by their superior and circean architectural designs, and the ones featured in this photograph are largely similar, I can deduce that.

Next, based on the four ladies' dress code, I can surmise that they are at the theme park for a fest, probably a Disney Fest. This is because all of them are not wearing elaborate and ostentatious outfits but have donned on simple and casual clothes, which are more comfortable and will not trap much heat either, allowing for greater enjoyment throughout their time spent there. One of the older ladies is also holding on to a large straw hat so that it can help block out the intense rays of the sun. She also has a waistpouch on her and I assume thast she uses it to store valuables or some other personal items.

From the photograph, I can guess that they are seated on a specially designed pew, due to the presence of pulchritudinous flowers, which closely resemble peonies, enclosed within a circular patch of mother earth, in which the unique comb of seats surround. At the centre of the photograph, there is an architectural sculpturesque of a smartly clad man holding the hands of the Walt Disney company's icon, Mickey Mouse, which is a comic animal cartoon character. The sculpturesque is also standing exactly at the centre of the bed of flowers. In my opinion, the man in the sculpturesque is Walt Disney. Therefore, I guess that the four ladies had this photograph taken at one of the entrances of the theme park, so that the public are aware of the founder of this famous media and entertainment corporation.

Next, the four ladies appear to be family members, or at the very least, close friends. This can be greatly extrapolated from the fact that they are seated so close to each other. In addition, the youngest of the quadruplet can also be seen seated on the laps of one of the middle-aged women, presumably the girl's mother. As such, these points further reinforce my illation that they are bound by family ties. Also, if we were to examine the picture in greater detail, we would realise that all four of them do possess a resemblance to each other.

By observing the little girl, I do notice that she has a baggage strapped to her waist and it seems to me that she has just purchased it from the emporium within the premises. This is because it appears rather new and its colours do not seem washed out. Also, I do not think that it was given as a gift by the managememt to every kid who attends the show or something. Otherwise, costs would be high and there will also be lesser profit earned. Next, she is also wearing a pair of cool and sleek sunglasses, or rather, a pair of shades. Again, I think that this was bought at one of the outlet there. From the girl's blithe expression, I can gather that she is feeling utmost fortunate, felicitous or even euphoric. From the way her hands are placed, I can presume that she has let her hair down and is really enjoying herself. School life can be really exhausting at times, so I suppose that she is really cherishing the opportunity that she has now to make merry, and relish all the fun she can get with gusto,which is simply a joie de vivre for her.

In my opinion, this could be one of the most pleasurable and sybaritic days of her life because she was given a chance to carpe diem. Furthermore, it is not every day that we get to spend quality time with our family members as and when we like. As such, from the appearance of the little girl, I can say that she could be feeling appreciative of the fortuity to share family time with her closest of kin. In certain undeveloped countries, some babies are even sold to other wealthier families who do not have children so that money could be raised to support their current family, and with that, the child is risked being sold as sex slaves, labourers and so on in the future. Others, some as soon as they are born, are being abandoned by their mothers and left to fend for themselves in the cold and lonely world, all due to reasons such as poverty. Therefore, I suppose the little girl in the picture is gladsome because she knows that she is blessed with a caring family which many people all over the world live without.

Perhaps after the picture is taken, the group of ladies would continue touring the theme park because from the photograph, it still seems quite a long way to night. As such, this gives them the time to bond and enhance their relationships to an even greater extent.

Basically, I think that this is indeed a blue-ribbon photograph which portrays important family ties. The family has always been the most important element in maintaining a society. The family is the cradle of our growth and without the membership of a family, we cannot grow in wisdom and maturity. A growing child needs the support of the family. The family is the place where we get security, true acceptance and understanding. We cannot deny the importance of love in the family. The family provides the linguistic and cultural environment for children-a function that cannot be adequately performed by outside agencies. The family has firm foundations. It is not a household created to serve certain purposes. It is a social organism and it is held together not only by bloodline and traditions but also by love and responsibility. It is a dynamic social institution that is necessary for the survival of our economic and political systems. As such, the family may undergo changes, but it will remain as the core unit of society.