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 * TASK 3 (30%) **

1. Prepare a portfolio of creative writings online via wikispace. 2. The portfolio should comprise of students’ own works and cover at least these genres: a. Poetry b. Short story – fiction & non-fiction 3. Due date: 6th June 2011 (Monday)

Group members :

=**Nisha D/O Ravindran 4091002211**= =**Thanuszah D/O Chandran 4091006521**= =**Yinson Yogeswaran S/O Maruthamuthu 4091006991**= =**Nik Mazni Hanim Bt Mohd Fakri 4091003711**= =

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**Thanuszah D/O Chandran 4091006521**



 * Yinson Yogeswaran S/O Maruthamuthu 4091006991 **

This poem is about a story told by Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) about a person resurrected at Judgement Day. This man committed lots of sins and disobeyed Allah throughout his life. During his elderly age,he realizes he will face death someday and will meet Allah who had created him. He asks people to burn his body after he died, although he knows it is forbidden to do that in his religion. He wanted his ashes to scattered partially to different far places. On the resurrection day he was called by Allah the Almighty to justify why he did that. He explained that he is afraid to meet Allah the Lord of him because of what he did before. Because of that ear, Allah the Most Merciful let him enters the heaven.

Nik Mazni Hanim Bt Mohd Fakri 4091003711

=Nisha D/O Ravindran 4091002211=



**Thanuszah D/O Chandran 4091006521**



 * Yinson Yogeswaran S/O Maruthamuthu 4091006991 **



She was the prettiest girl in the village. Growing up in a very poor family did not give a big advantage for her. Her late father was only a worker of the fruits farm while her late mother was a housewife that was a very loyal wife to her father. Besides her father and her mother, Margaret had one elder brother, Albert who was blind and suffered from cerebella spinal cord damage where this disease made his brain unable to function well. However, Margaret still loved his brother very much. Even though their family lived in full of poverty, but they all lived with full of loves and happiness .At the age of 18, Margaret’s beauty mesmerized a lot of men in the village. A lot of them wanted to take her as a wife. Time passed by, her parents started to worry about their daughter and son. Madam Marmalade, Margaret’s mother kept thinking what will happen to her children if she and her husband were no more in this world. One day, she talked to her husband, Mr Alexander. “My dear, we are getting older. Later on, we’ll leave this world. What will happen to Margaret and Albert? Mr Alexander said “My dear wife, you don’t have to worry. I’ll die first before you. You’ll take care of our children when I’m gone. Margaret will help you to save this family and look after Albert”. After listening to what her husband said, Madam Marmalade cried. She just could not imagine what will happen to her if her living was without her husband. Moreover, she had one handicapped son that who could not do anything. Oneday, there was an old man from the nearby village came to Margaret’s village.The man, Mr Abraham Spencer was the owner of the farm where Margaret’s father worked in. That old man looked very rich but bald and fat. From the way he dressed up, he obviously was a very rich person. Margaret thought of marrying that old man. Yes, it sounds quite weird for a young beautiful young lady to marry a very old man. But, actually Margaret wanted to be his wife because she knew that the man was rich so that if she became his wife, the man can help Margaret’s family. Moreover, she knew that old man had lost his wife long time ago from what her father told her. So, this was a very great opportunity for Margaret because in Margaret’s life, there was nothing more important other than her family. She would do anything to help her family even she could sacrifice her soul to help her family. Since that day, every time Margaret’s father went to see Mr Abraham, Margaret will follow her father until her father could sense something wrong with his daughter. So, one day her father asked Margaret. “Margaret, I noticed that you like to follow me when I’m going out with Mr Abraham. Are you trying to hide something from me? ”. Margaret was a girl who did not know how to hide something from her parents. So she confessed everything to her father. After her father listened to what his daughter said, Mr Alexander was totally shocked. “My dear beautiful daughter, you’re only 18 and Mr Abraham is already 60 years old. You’re not supposed to get married withthat such old man!” Mr Alexander was very angry with her daughter. But Margaret answered “Father, please listen to what I’m going to say. I know our family’s great misery. You have a large amount of debt and we don’t have any money to pay them. They will kill you if you can’t pay them on time. I don’t want to lose you. We need money, father...If I marry Mr Abraham, he can help our family, father. Moreover, I know that he is interested in me since I was small. Father, please let me help our family, I beg you, father...... I don’t want other people to humiliate our family any more. Please, father.” She cried. “My dear father, I know what I’m doing. For God’s sake, please let me marry Mr Abraham...” Margaret persuaded herfather. Mr Alexander then discussed with his wife about their daughter. Madam Marmalade then said “My dear husband,Margaret is our only daughter and she is a very wise and good daughter. I believe that she won’t make a wrong decision. Let us respect her decision.” When he listened to what his wife said, Mr Alexander then agreed with herdaughter’s wish. When Mr Abraham knew about this, he was extremely excited because he was going to have a beautiful girl as a wife. To make it short, Margaret and Mr Abraham then get married. All of their neighbours were shocked to know this news. Some of the women envied Margaret who got a very rich husband and some of the guys envied Mr Abraham who managed to take Margaret as a wife. Time passed by, and Margaret spend her life with that old rich man. Her clothes were no longer dirty, cheap and tore like before. Now, she wore a high class costume because her husband managed to buy new clothes every day for her .Even though Margaret was rich now, but she never betrayed her family. She gave her parents a lot of money and bought new house for them. Her father was no longer work at the farm and all the debts were settled. Now, Margaret felt released as she managed to help her family. But, one day when Margaret’s husband was not at home, Margaret went out to have a walk at her husband’s fruits farm. Suddenly, a very handsome young man came out of nowhere. Margaret’s was mesmerized with that man good looking until she forgot that she was someone’s wife at that time. That young man was also mesmerized with Margaret’s beauty. Since that day, they often met at that farm secretly. That guy, Robinson was really in love with Margaret even though he knew that Margaret was Mr Abraham Spencer’s wife. Day by day went by, Margaret started to fall in love with Robinson. She was really in love with him. At the same time, her husband was getting older and often sick. Mr Abraham could justlie down on his bed and he was no longer able to go for work. Margaret felt disturbed of her husband because she needed to look after her sick husband. This made her quite difficult to see Robinson. Margaret was not the same Margaret as before. She had totally changed. She became arrogant and heartless person. One night, she asked Robinson to come into her house when her husband was sleeping. They then discussed about their future. Robinson said to Margaret. “My beautiful Margaret, you’re so beautiful. That old bald man doesn’t deserve you at all. You deserve to marry a prince. Your face like the sunshine that gives light to my world .That old man should die then we can get married and live happily ever after.” Then Margaret replied. “Yes, my dear Robinson. If that idiot old man has died, we can live happily together. No one can disturb us anymore. I don’t care what my family said as long as I have you in my life. Come on Robinson, what should we do now to fulfil our wish?”. Robinson then smiled with full of meaning. His smile was so sarcastic like full of evil thought. Then, he said to Margaret. “My sunshine, would you do anything to me?”. Margaret then said “Of course I’ll do anything for you”. Robinson asked her again “Do you really love me, Margaret?” “Yes, I really do, Robin”. Margaret answered. It was silence for few seconds before Robinson then said to Margaret “Kill Mr Abraham, then we can live together happily. Trust me, sweetheart, we have to kill him as soon as possible. I just can’t wait to marry you, my beautiful princess.” Margaret smiled at him ands aid “I’ll kill him tonight. It is just an easy job. Just leave it to me” said Margaret. Robinson and Margaret were so happy thinking of their evil plan. That night, as usual Margaret will go to give her husband some medicine. She pretended like usual and like nothing was going to happen. That pity Mr Abraham touched his wife’s hand and said. “Margaret, I think my disease had become worse and I’ll die in this short period of time. Please take a good care of yourself and your family. You can take all my money. You’ll inherit all my wealth. Then...” Before Mr Abraham could finished his sentence, Margaret then said “Yes, goodbye old filthy animal! See you inhell”. Margaret then strangled her husband’s neck until that old man was no longer breathing. Then, she laughed and Robinson came beside her and kissed her lips and said “Well done, my dear. You did a very perfect job. Now, this will be our house and we will live happily with a lot of money”. Started from that day, Margaret lived with Robinson in that house until one day her parents who did not know about Mr Abraham’s death came to visit Margaret. They also bring along Margaret’s handicapped brother, Albert. Her parents were so shock to see Margaret was happily having lunch with a young man that they did not know. Her father, Mr Alexander asked his daughter. “Where’s Mr Abraham? What you’re doing with this guy? Who is he?”. Then Margaret’s mother asked Margaret. “Margaret, why you didn’t answer your father’s question?. Then, Margaret answered her parents' questions as if nothing had happened. “Father, mother...this is Robinson, my new husband. We had married for one month.” Her parents were so shocked to listen to what Margaret had said. Her father then asked her. “Where’s Mr Abraham?” Margaret then said “He’s in hell”. She then laughed together with Robinson. After listened to what Margaret had said, her father slapped Margaret’s face and said “You’re such a person who didn’t know how to appreciate people’s kindness. You forget your root from where you came! Margaret, why you had changed? You are not my little Margaret anymore. From this moment, you’re no longer my daughter!” Mr Alexander said angrily. His wife cried and begged to her daughter, Margaret, “Margaret, please come back to our family’’. However, Robinson pulled Margaret’s hand and said to Margaret’s parents. “This is my wife! I won’t let her to be with all of you. Go away!” He chased the three of them. Margaret just smiling to her husband without defending her parents and brother. “My daughter, what had happened to you? You can’t be with this guy. Heis not a good guy!” Madam Marmalade shouted at Margaret. After that Margaret’s parents and her brother went away, leaving Margaret and Robinson in that big castle. That night, Robinson said to his wife. “Margaret, I think that we have to leave this village. I don’t want your family to ruin our happiness. Let’s move to the town. We’ll begin new life there without anyone can disturb us.” On the next day, both of them left that village and moved to the town. They began new life there. Time passed by and after ten years living together, Robinson started to change. He was rarely at home and started to torture Margaret physically. He would come back late every night and asked for money. Not just that, he often brought back different women every night. Margaret was suffering and at the time of her misery, she received the news from her old village that her father had passed away but she could not do anything because her bad tempered husband did not allow her to go back to that village. Margaret always regretted her fate and started to blame her past mistakes. Not even a week after her father passed away, she then received another bad news that her mother also had passed away. But there was no news about her handicapped brother. Margaret begged to her husband that she wanted to go back to her village. Robinson slapped Margaret’s face and shouted, “Don’t you dare to leave this house or I’llkill you, Margaret!” Margaret could not stand that anymore untilone night when Robinson was drunk while coming back home, Margaret waited behind the door and when Robinson walked into the house, she stabbed Robinson’s chest with knife continuously until she satisfied. Robinson’s blood splashing to all over her body and while laughing, she said, “The filthy devil, now you’re dead! Margaret left that house of hell and took a train to go back to her late village. While she kept remembering her memories, suddenly a voice of someone woke her up from her long weeping, “Are you Margaret Isabelle, the daughter of the late Alexander?” Yes, I am...who are you?” I’m your brother’s wife. Before yourmother had passed away, she asked me to look after Albert and asked me to marry him. I felt so pity of your mother and agreed to marry your brother even thoughwas he was a handicapped person. Then, after your mother passed away, I was theone who look after Albert”. The woman answered. Then, Margaret asked that woman while crying. “Where’s my brother, let me see him. I have alot of sins to him and my parents. Please let me see my brother....” Then, that woman said. “He is no longer in this world. He passed away two years ago.” Margaret could not stop her tears and then she walked away with full of regrets. If only she could turn back the time............ -THE END-

Nisha D/O Ravindran 4091002211



See you with the sun---Nisha Ravindran I hated my funeral. Everyone was all sad and quiet. Dad was like a statue. Mom was the opposite. She wouldn’t stop moving and there were tissues everywhere. She had on a dress with no sleeves so she couldn’t stick Kleenex up her sleeves like she usually does. And it was hot. I’m dead and even I was sweaty. Sarah didn’t look up the whole time. But that was normal for her. It was either that or her giant brown eyes staring at me all evil-like. That’s the only way she looked at me when I was alive. I kind of deserved it though. I liked to pick on her a lot. One time I threw all her stuffed animals out the window. She walked in after I threw the last one down. “What are you doing in my room?” She had just gotten a haircut and had huge bangs on her forehead. She looked stupid. “You look stupid.” She smoothed her hair down over and over. “You’re stupid.” Then she noticed what was missing. “Where are my stuffed animals?” I stuck my hands in my pockets. “I dunno.” She ran to the window and looked down and screamed. I laughed so hard, but then she hit me right in the face and made me cry. Mom ran into the room then and yelled at Sarah, which made me feel better. But then she found out what I did. “Daniel, you’re getting too old for these games. This isn’t how seven year olds act, is it?” “Yeah huh.” She made me go down and pick up all the animals. I was so mad I hid one of them in the bushes. I didn’t hide her favorite one though. The stupid pink rabbit. She would have hit me really hard if I did. She hasn’t even found the hidden one yet. I wonder if she even notices it’s gone. I wonder if she even notices I’m gone. Benny said it’s the law to pick on your big sister. He’s my best friend. Or I guess he was. He’ll probably get a new one now. Benny has two big sisters. That’s two times worse than having just one. All of them were at my funeral. One of them is really pretty though. Maria. Even her name is pretty in my mouth: Maria Morgan. She had black stuff running down her face at my funeral. I felt bad for making her cry. Benny said boys are never ever supposed to cry. But I saw him break that rule a couple days ago. He doesn’t know though. He’ll never know. I was being James Bond. That’s what I call my spying since I’m dead and can’t ever be caught. It was the night after we went swimming. He was eating dinner with his family but none of them really touched their food at all. Maria wasn’t at dinner cause I would’ve spied on her instead. I don’t know where she was. Probably with the boy Benny and I caught her all tangled up with one time. She’d screamed like someone cut her. Benny’s parents were talking to him real slowly. But I couldn’t hear what they were saying cause there weren’t any windows open. I pressed my ear so hard against the glass it hurt. I wanted to punch it like they do in the movies. But then the next thing I knew I was in the Morgan’s kitchen. That was the night I found out I didn’t have to use doors anymore. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are real funny. Mr. Morgan acts like a clown all the time. He told me he was one in College. I think that’s the next town over. Mrs. Morgan is always real smiley and jumps around a lot. Mom said she is a walking fiesta, but not in a nice way. That night they weren’t acting funny and smiley though. They were telling Benny how lucky he was to be sitting there right then. I wouldn’t say that though cause their chairs are so hard and straight. They told him that it could have been him instead of me. But he went swimming too so I guess they meant dying. I wish Benny were here. He would love spying all the time. I left after that. I got sad cause spying without a partner in crime is not real fun at all. James Bond must have been real lonely. Benny didn’t cry at my funeral too much. I thought I saw some tears fall but he wiped them real quick. His other sister Claudia kept taking her glasses off and blowing her nose. I don’t even know why she was so sad. I never talked to her cause one time she tried to kiss me on the mouth and I ran away so fast. I wished Benny had timed me cause it would have broken my record but he didn’t even know. I never told him or anybody. I don’t really like to talk about it. Except now sometimes I wish I’d let her cause I died without ever being kissed by a girl. I came really close one time with Heather Waters. We got locked in the coat closet at school. Heather has the longest hair I ever saw and it’s the color of squirrels. “You can touch it if you want.” She pulled it around so it fell over her arm like the curtains at our Thanksgiving play. I ran my hand over it. It was so soft. “I got this new shampoo that makes it soft as silk.” “Why don’t you cut it and make it a blanket or something?” She pulled her hair back so hard. “I will never ever cut my hair, Daniel Thompson, and don’t you ever ask me that again.” I liked how she had said that. It was like her very own Superman cape. Then I just plain asked her if I could kiss her. “Can I kiss you?” She didn’t answer for a real long time. But then she nodded, and as soon as I took a step toward her Ms. Aarons unlocked the door. I’m going to miss Ms. Aarons. She looked like happiness. She had bright yellow hair and bright white teeth. I liked her so much it almost hurt to be near her. I was the only one in the first grade who hated leaving when school ended. She didn’t look happy at my funeral though. Her hair looked like Ms. Frizzle’s from the Magic School Bus. And she was with some guy who kept his arm around her. I didn’t like the looks of him, so I stayed away. There were some people I didn’t even know there. Some were dad’s friends from work that I met like one time in my whole life. They must have really liked me, I guess. One time I asked mom if dad liked me. She was making me waffles, which is my favorite food ever, and got all sad and concerned. She crouched down next to me like she was putting a band-aid on my knee or something. “Why would you ask something like that, Daniel?” “I dunno. When someone likes you they talk to you and play with you. He doesn’t do that. Are my waffles ready?” “Daniel, your father loves you. He’s just has a different way of showing it. Sarah loves you, and she shows you by letting you use the bathroom first in the morning right?” “I guess so. But you show me the most so you must love me the most right?” She hugged me real big then. “Your daddy and I love you the exact same. Always remember that, okay?” “Okay. But my waffles are burning.” She had to make me another batch. Dad acted different after that. He used to always be real quiet. Everything around him was quiet too. It was like something would break if you made a noise. But then he started asking me to play catch all the time and threw me like a torpedo in our pool. It was the best week ever. But then I died. Benny and I just wanted to go swimming. We have a pool in our backyard and we swum in it all the time during the day. But we had never swum in it at night before and we wanted to know what it was like, that’s all. I knew it would make mom mad cause she hates it when I scare her. I used to do it all the time when I was real little. I would run inside screaming, “There’s a wolf in the backyard, there’s a wolf in the backyard!” Cause Benny had just told me the story about the boy who cried wolf. But I knew I wouldn’t get eaten like the boy cause there aren’t any wolves in South Carolina. The first time I yelled it, they fell for it. Dad jumped out of his chair so fast it flew behind him like he farted. Mom screamed. I laughed so hard but then mom put soap in my mouth. I shut up after that. Soap is gross. It’s like giving your mouth a bath. When Benny and I went swimming, I just thought that if mom found out she’d put soap in my mouth again. I could live through another mouth washing. I definitely didn’t think it would be my last swim ever. Benny and I tried so hard not to laugh when we were taking off our pajamas. I remember I got goose bumps real bad when the wind blew. I should have known right then not to go swimming. It was a bad omen. Like dad says when the sky’s red in the morning or when I walked under a ladder that one time. I never really got that though cause it sounds like what we say at church after a prayer, and prayers are good things. I was usually a real good swimmer. But my leg started hurting and got all tight when I was in the deep end. I remember looking up at the moon through my goggles. It was so big that night. It looked like a giant white pancake. All I kept thinking when I started swallowing water was that I really wanted some waffles. Mom probably won’t miss making them for me though. I would ask for them every morning. Dad and Sarah never ate them. Dad just drank coffee. Now that I’m gone that’s the only thing I’ve seen go into his belly. Another weird thing that’s happened since I’ve gone is that he sleeps on the couch now. Dad always said couches were for sitting not for sleeping. He should get soap in his mouth for breaking a rule. Mom is the weirdest though. She barely even talks. I almost forget what her voice sounds like. And her laugh. I loved making her laugh. It always reminded me of Christmas morning. At least she says good night to me still even though she sounds different. Her voice is all heavy. But every night wherever I am I can hear her whisper: “Good night, Daniel. See you with the sun.” She’s said that to me every night since I can remember. It was the only way I’d stay in bed when I was real little. She would tell me that I couldn’t get up without the sun. I used to stare at the moon so hard with my death ray vision but it never moved or exploded. That would have been real cool. But mom said it only moved when I had my eyes closed. She was right too cause the next time I opened my eyes the moon would always be gone. After I died, the first thing I did was run up to my parent’s room. Mom opened her eyes as soon as I walked in. I thought for a second she could see me. She got out of bed real slow. Her blankets hardly moved and the dent in her pillow didn’t even rise. Everything was so still and quiet. I felt like we were in a snow globe that had never been shook before. Then she heard Benny yelling my name. Mom sprinted downstairs. I could barely keep up with her. Her feet slapped against the floors so loud, it sounded like someone was clapping. She threw open the back door and was at the pool in three giant leaps and kept running right into the water. She pulled my old body out onto the edge of the pool and started pushing real hard on my chest. Then she listened to it. I put my hand on my new chest. Nothing. Mom kept pushing on my chest. I felt bad cause she was soaking wet in her pajamas. And also cause Benny was making noises and rocking with his face in his knees on the other side of the pool. I opened my mouth to tell them both to stop, but then mom made the worst noise I ever heard in my life. It sounded like a wolf was eating her. The wolf I used to tease her about. That sound was worse than dying.

** It’s a month after my funeral now. Mom’s still in bed when there is a knock on the door. Dad pops his head in. ** ** Mom’s eyes are closed and she doesn’t move. Dad comes in and kisses her forehead real soft like a whisper. Then he goes in the bathroom for a shower. ** ** I lie down next to mom and prop myself up on my elbow. I look at her face a long time. Sunlight starts coming in through the windows. She opens her eyes. ** ** I whisper, “Good morning, mom. I’m here with the sun.” ** ** She goes downstairs and makes waffles. **



**Thanuszah D/O Chandran 4091006521**






Yinson Yogeswaran S/O Maruthamuthu 409100699

NATION The Star**,Wednesday 25 May 2011** Gritty girl not giving up on life despite trauma of attack By Winnie Yeoh winnie@thestar.com.my George Town:** Shesurvived an acid attack 19 months ago, spent three months in hospital, lost her sight in one eye and can barely see with the other. Yet, Tan Hui Linn came back to score 9AS and 1B in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia. Now, the 19-year old is looking forward to a fresh start come July when she enters college. The teenager, who maintains a positive outlook despite going through the traumatic experience, said she was determined to complete her three-year ACCA accounting course. Hui Linn is blind in her right eye and has limited vision in the other following the acid attack on October 24,2009. “This is my journey and I have to walk it alone. No one can do it for me. Everyone has high hope for me and must not let them down,” she said. “I believe in //xian ku hou tian// (rewardsafter hardship.) “After the incident, my worst fear was being blind. I was scared and I cried constantly. “A counsellor at the Sungai Buloh Hospital helped me and gave me some insights into lifer. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, he told me to do my best,” she told //The Star// at her home in Bandar Baru Air Itam here. For the first time, she also allowed her pictures to be taken without the mask she has been hiding behind. Hui Linn said she might look strong to outsiders but there were times when shebroke down when recollecting what she had gone through. Her philosophy now is to take thing one step at a time and let things take a natural course. “For now, I want to set my mind on completing the course and be independent. I also hope that one day I can have a place of my own and not have to depend on others to look after me,” said Hui Linn, who is currently staying with her uncle’s family. “I’m fortunate that studying comes easily for me. When I set my mind on something, I’ll do my best to complete the course. “Some of my friends say I’m //kiasu// (have offear of losing),” she joked. She added that one day, she hoped to counsel and motivate other people who are going through hard times. Part of Hui Linn’s face, body and limbs were scarred after her father Teik Swee, 54, splashed acid on her mother and her while they were asleep at their home in Jalan Tan Sri Teh Ewe Lim. Her mother, Chong Swee Lin, 50, died. Hui Linn, who last saw her father in court on April 6, said she hoped her father,who //sayang// (loved) her the most inthe family, would not fell guilty any more. “The incident has passed and I have to move on. I hope he can do the same,” she said. Teik Swee is being detained at the pleasure of the Penang Yang di-Pertua Negri after High Court Judge Zamani Abdul Rahim ruled that he was of unsound mind at thetime of the incident.



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=****Nisha D/O Ravindran 4091002211****=