Peter's India Blog

I found myself fascinated with India. So I decided to do Wikipedia trail about India. 1. India : India  is a country in  South Asia . It is the  seventh-largest  country by area, the  second-most populous  country (with over  1.2 billion people ), and the most populous  democracy  in the world. Bounded by the  Indian Ocean  on the south, the  Arabian Sea  on the southwest, and the  Bay of Bengal  on the southeast, it shares land borders with  Pakistan  to the west; [f]   China ,  Nepal , and  Bhutan  to the northeast; and  Bangladesh  and  Myanmar  to the east. 2. China : China  is a country in  East Asia  and the  world's most populous country , with a population of around  1.404 billion . [13]  Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, [k] [19]  depending on the source consulted. Governed by the  Communist Party of China , the state exercises jurisdiction over 22  provinces . 3.  Commun

I've searched through and read several articles in  Writers Write   website. One article that really caught my attention was " All About Parts Of Speech " This article caught my attention because I am not so good at constructing beautiful and complete sentences. It's an amazing article that teaches how to make good sentences, and thus a better story. I'm not a big fan of grammar, but I know it's critically important to become a good writer. Unless I speak and write with a correct, proper grammar, people including my readers won't take my stories seriously. I believe my grammar and syntax became really bad partly due to social media and texting. I'm on Facebook almost all the time and texts other friends whenever I find myself have time. Speed is incredibly important in this kind of 'light-hearted' endeavor, so I haven't got used to writing properly. I love this article that talks about the importance of writing properly. It talks about

I'm always been fond of reading Jataka tales. In fact, these collections of Jataka tales have been my favorite kind of reading for this semester because their plots are very interesting with lots of suspense and rich visual details. I've read a lot of Jataka tales about monkeys and other animals. A story written about an ungrateful prince and beasts, I thought, would be amazing to read. So I read the amazing story of ungrateful prince and grateful beasts. It was unlike any other Jataka tales, in that it was longer and more complicated than the ones I've read before. But with richer plots and characters, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this amazing story. The story began with the King's son, who was cruel, disagreeable, and hurtful: "this son was so cruel and disagreeable, that he took a delight in hurting people, and never spoke to anybody without an oath or a blow." It sounded like a truly intense character with lots of bad personality elements. I also like

I'm always been fond of reading Jataka tales. In fact, these collections of Jataka tales have been my favorite kind of reading for this semester because their plots are very interesting with lots of suspense and rich visual details. I've read a lot of Jataka tales about monkeys, which seem like the favorite Hindu animal, but I haven't come across a reading with a crab. A story written about a giant crab, I thought, would be an absolutely amazing read. So I read the amazing story of giant crab and other great tales. But the story of giant crab particularly stood out in my mind. There used to live a massive crab in the mountains. I really liked how the author began to say about the crab: "I daresay you have often seen crabs boiled, and put on a dish for you to eat; and perhaps at the seaside you have watched them sidling away at the bottom of a pool. Sometimes a boy or girl bathing in the sea gets a nip from a crab, and then there is squeaking and squealing." It s

I really liked reading   Just the Language  article. I think it's a truly fascinating and yet concise article, full of writing tips and wisdom. Like it was mentioned in the article, writers really don't know where the writings are going to take them when they start writing: "they find it peculiar that for my novels I need to know, and I need to know not just the ending, but every significant event in the main characters’ lives." It is so true, but it is difficult to know all that farther ahead as a writer. Certainly, I've had difficulty in recognizing and being aware of every significant event in the main characters' lives because I'm usually busy constructing the overall plots and characters' personalities. Wow.. This truly is a conscientious way of writing a story from the beginning: "When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it." I think this kind of

I'm always been fond of reading Jataka tales. In fact, these collections of Jataka tales have been my favorite kind of reading for this semester because their plots are very interesting with lots of suspense and rich visual details. Monkeys look the most alike with humans, and they are usually the symbol of wisdom in many Indian epic stories. I liked all the readings in Reading A of Inayat's twenty Jataka tales, but one story that particularly stood out in my mind was the story of Monkey-Bridge. Monkey, including the wise god Hanuman, often has taken the role of clever, wise, and smart animal in Indian and Hindu epics. The story begins with a giant-like monkey who ruled eighty-thousand monkeys in Himalayan mountains. Wow.. Eighty-thousand monkeys are a lot and I can't even conceive how many monkeys that the giant monkey ruled in the cold, steep Himalayan mountains. I really like this very detailed, vivid, and full of image description of the monkeys' habitat: &q