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SBC Week 7 (Holidays!)

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Hello there my wonderful writers! Today I’ll be sharing with you a “holiday” I celebrate, Ramadan, in order to fit this week’s SBC requirements( I say holiday in quotations because Ramadan is more about reflection and peace rather than partying and festivities). I wrote the post in a freestyle poem format, so I hope you guys enjoy it! (P.S Ramadan is an Islamic festivity)

Ramadan

 

Have you seen the beautiful moon

with its lunar glow?

Have you heard the Imam say the long awaited words,

“It is Ramadan”?

 

You may have heard,

but you chose not to listen.

May I ask, 

is it because you believe Ramadan to be a chore?

I will tell you now

your thoughts are in fact invaild, 

for Ramadan is no chore, 

nor is it just about helping the poor. 

Ramadan is a month of solace,

a month to reflect and contemplate.

To purify one’s soul is the goal of this month.

Not to mention

 a reconnection with the religion you chose.

 

Ramadan is the month of the Quran 

for that is when it was revealed,

so read thy solemn book 

as a way to reconnect. 

 

Thou should also remember 

that fasting does not happen at the consumer level.

To fast from sunrise to sunset 

includes fasting from that which is prohibited and vile. 

 

Thou should try to improve thy character

in this holy month.

To show kindness and patience 

Is what you should do. 

 

Ramadan is all these ideas wrapped up into one,

and that is not such an awful thing, right?

 

And even if you are not a muslim,

I ask that you might contemplate and reflect

in a month of your own

as a way to purify and cleanse

thy soul of immoral directions,

for we could all use a month like

Ramadan.

         

Let know what type of holidays, celebrations, festivities, or traditions you guys participate in! I loved reading your comments on my week five post, so I can’t wait to see what you guys do this week!

        

   Thanks for reading and as always, remember to wear your pencils! 

Avatar: The One that Resembles Me

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 This character represents my sense of fashion, passion, and humor. His laugh represents my love of comedy and of chuckling hard. At this point in my life I also partake in comedy, usually stand up or improv, I also love hearing witty jokes/puns. His creamish, light brown skin comes from my family’s roots in India and, after 1947, Pakistan. The glasses that lay upon his face are nearly identical to the large, dark-blue-rimmed glasses that I wear. His tiny mustache compliments his face just like how mine does. I gave him a sophisticated-long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants given the fact that that’s my ideal attire. His fedora and lightsaber represent my love of film and storytelling. I´ve always been entranced by gangster movies, though I’ve never seen them, and fedoras look tough and cool in my opinion. I love Star Wars for its characters and storytelling, which is why I´ll make a blog post about what we can learn about storytelling in Star Wars in another post, so stay tuned for that. This avatar may not have a mouth, but if it looked at me, he would probably say, ¨I must be looking in a handsome mirror.¨ This avatar almost perfectly represents me, both in personality and in appearance. 

 

And as always, remeber to wear your pencils!

All About Ayyoob Saeed

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  2. I was born February 25, 2006, in the same hospital that the moive¨Patch Adams ̈ opened with. The hospital in located in Fairfax county, and is called Fairfax Hospital. I was born with a heart murmur( don ́t worry, it stopped when I was 10 years old).

 

  1. I ́ve always loved reading, even if I wasn’t always good at it, so when I started to write, I wanted to make my own stories. By the time I was five, I wrote my first bestseller, with the help of an adult, of course. Currently I am writing a book using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, and continue to write short stories every week. (By the way I was joking about the bestseller bit, you probably already know that, but for those people who don’t have a sense of sarcasm, this is for you.)

 

  1. When I was four years old, my parents got divorced. While this was quite a devastating moment in my life, it made me learn that you should never let one event in your life drag you down. You should keep on living, keep on discovering, and keep on writing. I love both my parents to death, and they love me and my sister to infinity and beyond.

 

  1. My first introduction to the best toy on the planet, Legos, was when I was five years old on July 15th, 2011. My dad had given me most of his Legos from when he was a kid, and even an adult, in this huge wooden box on that day, and from then on I was heavily infatuated with the company Lego and its products. To this day I still play with Legos, read about Legos( though now I primarily read up on Lego news), and collect Legos.

 

  1. When I was a small lad, around the age of 5 or 6 years old, I had difficulty with learning new material, and with that I also gave up on learning. It got worse in Kindergarten when kids would tease me about it. I think the bullying is what really pushed me over the edge, because after all the bullying I decided to prove everyone wrong. I wanted to prove to the world, and most importantly myself, that I was smart, I was able to overcome obstacles, and I was amazing. Now I love to learn, and teach other new information as well.

 

  1.  To me, movies are one of the best mediums of the past three generations, and I love them. Movies are able to give some of the most memorable experiences in a person’s life. I also love critiquing films and expressing my thoughts on the different aspects of a film( cinematography, directing, script, etc.). 

  

  1. From an early age I´ve always loved to hear people laugh, especially if it was because of me. In recent years I have stuck to improve and stand up as my comedic medicine, but I also love puns and will use any chance I get to use one. I have written three comedic plays in the past year and a half, and have even hosted my school’s talent show.

 

  1. My grandfather( Talat Sultan) and uncle( Sohaib Sultan) were always a big influence on me, and whenever they would give speeches to the masses( conventions and community events) you better best believe I wanted to give speeches too. Over the years I practiced my presentation skills and my punctuation skills. To this day I try to continue improving on my presentation skills. 

 

  1. As I ́ve already mentioned I love reading, but my favorite genre, drum roll( that nobody reading this will actually do) please, is fantasy( and the crowd goes wild, ̈Woo-Ho ̈)! I love the way fantasy is able to bring the most absurd ideas, and make them become genius plot points in storytelling. My favorite fantasy series is the ¨Lord Of The Rings,̈ because it was able to make fantasy a respectable genre. I also love the way the ¨Lord Of The Rings ̈ shows a sense of fellowship, pun very much intended, with the characters, something that I try to do whenever I write a story with multiple protagonists.  

 

  1. My biggest fear is letting down others, whether it be my friends, my family, my teachers, or God( I believe there is a God). I know sometimes this can be annoying to certain people, which is why I’m trying to get over this obstacle everyday inorder to better myself. Everyday I try to think, ¨Is this really my fault, is this really my responsibility?̈ ̈ If it is really, truly my fault, then I can try to figure out what to do after the assignment is done.

 

Any who, that’s all folks. I ́ll try to keep blogging every week, otherwise if you want to contact me my email is: booyya2006@gmail.com or 1002145@lcps.org 

 

And remember to wear your pencils!

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