Greetings,

Apologies for the late answer. As many procrastinator had suffered, many of my assignments was halted before it even started. This problem has persist to many of my graphic subject as well. I really should do something about this behavior of mine. Although I kept reflecting on it (at least I think I did). It didn't seems to work very long. Well, enough excuses I suppose. Here is my answer to the PRL test.


1. In that short story, if I becomes Shasha, I would definitely be very confused . I would imagine being a 12 years old, I wouldn't know much about such affair between man and woman. I may know a thing or two from watching the social media. But I doubted such a thing would ever happen in front of me. Although, I would definitely feels upset and confused from having to lie to my own mother. I would still obey him however simply because I was afraid of making him angry. In a nutshell I think I would be filled uncertainty and anger from the behavior of my own father.

2. To be genuinely honest, I am not a fan of this type of genre. When picking up a novel I would usually avoid the drama tag. But I will do my best to give my unbiased opinion. In my opinion, despite it not being one of my targeted genre, I think the short story is fairly decent. As it is only a small part of a novel, I couldn't make a proper judgement as how good the novel actually is as a whole. But based on that short story alone, the author managed to successfully pique my interest (I still wouldn't bother to pick up the novel though). This is an indication of how good the author is at attracting their audience. So, why did it manage to pique my interest? you might ask. The reason is the author is pretty good at leaving the reader in suspense and stimulating their curiosity. When Shasha was being picked up by her dad and she found her dad was with an unknown women, the author was implicating that her dad "might" be having an affair. At this point the reader could draw their own conclusion whether her dad is actually having an affair or it's still just a mere possibility. Hence, provoking the curiosity of the reader to know whether they are right or wrong. The fact that her father told her to keep it a secret and he act as if nothing had happen in front of her mother only served to further raised the reader's interest. Furthermore, the short story never actually gave the revelation whether the father actually had an affair or not. Thus leaving the short story open-ended. Although, in my opinion the reason why the short story is interesting is because, it was narrated by the perspective of the daughter. I thought it was fairly new and fresh (maybe because I read very little of Malaysian drama novel...). In conclusion, I think the short story is somewhat decent, it's able to give me a few things to ponder about, I still wouldn't read the novel though.

3. I am not gonna lie, my knowledge about Malaysian actors is close to a nil. If you give me some popular actors name, I would say that I know more about the prime numbers than I know him or her, and the only prime numbers I know is 2,3 and 5! If I had to say though, for Papa I would say the actor have to be a charismatic middle aged man. He needs to be able to act flamboyant, as shown in the short story he seems to be a rather socially active person. Similarly, the main character's mother, Mama share the same trait as her father being a socially active person. The difference however, it seems the mother has a strong maternal instinct. This can be seen from how much care Mama give to Shasha in the story. As for Shasha, I think the actor should be able to play as an honest and trusting child. She also seems like a very bright and intelligent. From the story we can see that, although she comply with her father's order, she did not approve of her father's action. The scene would take place at Shasha's home, her school and a family restaurant. The film would be at the capital city of Malaysia as the main place to make the film more dramatic with various places of interest.



This seems longer than I had imagine it would be... for that I apologize if you have to read the whole thing. The first question is fairly short because I couldn't get into writing anything. The second question and further is where I finally get into the writing mood. Might be too into it... as I was planning to end it much earlier. If you managed to read everything then, kudos to you, thank you for putting as much effort into reading as I did into writing.