the journey of writing
soul log is the writing playground of thirteen year old Brandon Wang, a student and self-crowned web designer, living in the Houston, Texas area. He has been writing soul log for over four years. This is his journey.Other blogs:
16.3 design | Chinese
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Moldy Treats and Shoes
I treasure a lot of my things. Once, my mother bought me a tasty treat that I liked so much, I decided to save one to eat later. Every day I would look at it, wanting to eat it, but also wanting to save it. As time went by, I forgot about it. A month [...]
Posted in True Life 2 Comments
A Use for an Unused Notebook
On my birthday, I asked for and received a goldmine of goodies, and some that I didn’t ask for, like a graph-lined book. I had never really understood the point of graph-lined notebooks and books. If you wanted to write something, you could hardly squeeze a letter into a tiny box. What was the use? [...]
Posted in True Life Leave a comment
Batman: The Dark Knight
Lines are usually a predictable affair. One can expect for a line to form in front of a checkout line, in front of a ticketing booth, or in a long line for an amusement ride. But when lines form in unexpected places, people get confused. For example, if I had come back from school and [...]
Posted in True Life Leave a comment
Virtual Roller Coaster
One of my favorite things to do with babies is freak them out. But only if they want to. It scares the baby’s parents so much, but they do get to find out whether the baby will want to go on roller coasters when they grow up. It’s simple, really. Find a little cart. Get [...]
Posted in True Life 2 Comments
Fish in Swarms (Poem)
The fish swam in swarms, Hugging like mama’s arms, Enveloping me, in a sphere of moving life. All around me, fish swim. Delighted, happy, and simply divine. All hunkering for some of the guide’s fish food. The bottle is open, The fish food is spread The fish all crowd, for a bite of food.
Posted in True Life Leave a comment
A Little Cheating
My cousin was taking the SAT tests. It was not an easy affair, but years of studying and learning had done good. She had finished the test. Entirely wore out, she left the testing area to find her mom so they could go and perhaps buy some kind of treat at McDonalds. As she passed, [...]
Posted in True Life Leave a comment
Cancun 2008: There is a Way… You Just Have to Know What It’s Called!
There is always a way if you look for it, the old saying says (I think). But my mom might have just proved it wrong. She found it all right, she just didn’t know what it was called. Our resort was in Playa Del Carmen, a bit over an hour from Cancun, where she had [...]
Cancun 2008: Everything Was Gone
My dad, my mom, and I were going snorkeling. How fun would that be? I didn’t know, but I found myself looking over the pictures hung up in the snorkeling office. In thirty minutes, we had been hoarded aboard a huge boat. We had been instructed to pile all our bags right in front of [...]
Cancun 2008: Forty Feet Down?
I really don’t like anything that could possibly hurt me, even remotely, even if a loved one (like an annoyed Dad) is urging me to do it. I was extremely scared when I was told to swing a rope that looked as if it was going to crash straight into the wall, just for fun. [...]
Cancun 2008: Diving in the Carribean
I fell backwards into the water. I hoped my oxygen tank wouldn’t bang on the boat, but more importantly, I hoped that no part of my body would bang on the boat. We were seemingly in the middle of nowhere. There was only a gorgeous dark blue ocean, it’s hue a blissful turquoise. The sky [...]
Kickboard Stacker