Once upon a time, in Dragonville there was a beautiful lady by the name of Saber stayed near to Lake Dragon. She was as pretty as a snow princess, as sweet as the honey and not to forget as generous as a king. Saber came from the descendant of the white witch ancestors,who keep peace to the world. In deep of the lake, there laid Black Dragon who was put into a deep sleeping spell by Saber's anscestor.




Lake Dragon was surrounded by the most harmonious mountain which was created and nurtured by GOD of TATA who is also called GOD of Protection. Besides, protecting the mountain and the land where Saber stayed, he also kept an eye to the spell casted on the Black Dragon from being broken whereby disaster will be fallen to the land. Saber, has taken over from her ancestor as a Guardian of the Black Dragon. Each evening without failed, she have to sing a song to the Black Dragon inorder to comfort it and continued sleeping. According to the village legend, if she happen to fail, then bad disaster will falls to their village.




On top of the Forbidden Mountain, there lived Sodor who is a very wicked witch and also the nemesis to GOD Tata and Saber, who wanted the Black Dragon to wake-up from it deep sleep to create a havoc to the village. So, in every given opportunity she will try to stop Saber from coming and sing her song. At one time, she made a thunderstorm so bad that Saber can hardly see the way to the lakeside.




But Saber was very smart, she follows the sound of the waterfall and then the stream which will lead her to the direction of the lake.




Sodor the wicked witch, tried her migthy power to stop Saber from following the sound of the waterfall and the stream. She then created a delusion of another waterfall inorder to distract Saber, and instead of going towards the lakeside, she sent her to the direction of the mountain, her lair.

(Seeing what has happened, GOD Tata quickly send his helper, the Unicorn who appeared mysteriously in the middle of Saber pathway and stopped her from going further. The Unicorn then carried Saber on it's back and flew her out of danger and back to the lakeside. When Saber reached there she saw the water of the lake was unrest, and without wasting anytime she quickly sing her song.)




Saber felt relieved that she was in time, and able to save the day, by continuing spreading her love and care to the Black Dragon, who after hearing Saber melodious voice decided not to emerge from the lake and instead went back to sleep again.

Day by day, Saber continued her duty assigned to her by singing to the Black Dragon and this give peace to the world. She also send out her dove not only to spread her love to the people, but also to be her watchful eyes, to warn her before hand if the Sodor the wicked witch decides to attack again. The End.

The moral of the story:
When comes the moment of desperation and lost, one always must have faith and hope for solution (Unicorn) to bring her/him to the correct direction.

My reflection on myself, on card no. 4. the Witch
The fear in me that I do not have enough confident on whatever I am doing now, I am in a way, scared what if I did not do enough to help the helpless? Instead of helping them, I created a havoc that can make them worst?

THE RUNAWAY STARLIT

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THE RUNAWAY STARLIT

My Character - Papa Spike, Mama Emma, Self-Starlit, sister Snowangel, Hamster Chico.

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In the forest of Wonder-wonder, there lives a bear family; there is Papa Spike, Mama Emma and little Starlit. Starlit was loved and pampered by both her parents; they treated her like a princess. Starlit has everything, like pretty dresses, many wonderful toys, beautiful bedroom painted with lovely rainbow colours, and even Papa Spike made for her a big soft bed by himself. Under the guidance ship and the shower love by the parents, she is very loveable, kind, considerate and humble, but it all changes after the addition member in the bear family.

After the birth of her little sister bear Snowangel, she is forced to share everything that she had with her. Her parents spend less time with her because of the demanding up bring of the Snowangel. Even now Starlit needs to do house chores and also to help to take care of her little sister when her parent is not free. When she refused to share thing especially the toys with Snowangel, Papa Spike and Mama Emma will scolded her and asked her not to be so selfish, and this made her feels sad and neglected and also that her parents no longer loved her. She also becomes bad temper and uncaring towards her sister due to her jealousy.

One day, while she was playing with her favourite doll Coco which her mother had made for her when she is still very small, her sister Snowangel came by and said to her, "Starlit I want Coco, I want to play with the Coco", and Starlit replied "No, Coco is my favourite doll, you are not to have it, go away and play with your own doll". After hearing that, Snowangel go running to mama bear, "Mama, mama, see Starlit do not let me play with her doll, she chased me away and scolded me she is so mean" and she wept. Mama Emma heard that and then called out for Starlit, and scolded her, “Starlit, how can you be so selfish and rude, I have said to you many times that all the toy in this house are to be shared by both of you, and that Snowangel is still small and you need to give in to her and not to scold her, do you understand”.

After being scolded by her mother, Starlit went into her room and cried, "Sob-sob, why should I need to share with my sister, don’t she has her own toys to play with, why must she take mine too. Nobody in this house listened to me and love me anymore, and I feels that I do not belong here anymore, why should I still stay here then, I might as well go from this house". She then planned to run away from home, tonight after everybody went to sleep and will go to Hamster Chico her new friend’s house. Chico and her family had just moved into the neighbourhood and become closed friend with Starlit.

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Chico lived with his parents and his six siblings at the bottom of an old big tree. She had told Chico everything that had happened and asked her whether is it ok if she stays in her house. Chico replied, “It is okay, you are always welcome to stay as long as you like.” When Starlit took the first step into Chico’s house, she was shocked, “Is this your house? It looked very different from my imagination but very interesting. By the way, where is the bedroom?” “ohhs….thanks Starlit come in, we will sleep together tonight.” Said Chico and pointing to a corner of the house. Chico’s family are not a well to do family, therefore they only a room tree house, which means that the room was used as the living room, dining as well as the bedroom.


In the room, 2 of Chico’s brothers are running around playing cowboy, 2 of the sisters are doing homework at the dining table, and 2 of the little ones are sleeping on the mat on the floor. “Where is your parents Chico?” Chico replied, “They are out finding foods, and I need to take care of my brothers and sisters, now you know why I can’t come and play with you when you invited me to your house, sorry ”. Suddenly, one of the sisters woke up and cried for milk, immediately, Chico run to the stove to prepare a bottle for her. Then one of the brothers who are playing cowboy fell down and crying aloud, and Chico quickly run to him and hugged him. Starlit can see the love that Chico have for her brothers and sister and felt ashamed of herself for not giving much love to Snowangel instead always find fault with her.

Chico’s parents are back during dinner time, and Chico helped her mother prepare the dinner with the food that they brought back from the forest. Dinner was served with simple food like fruits and vegetable, and this make Starlit long for her mother fresh bake muffin and honey too. After the dinner, Chico’s father said to Starlit, “You know you made your parents very worried about you without telling them where you are. Just now, I have send message to your parents that you are staying with us tonight. Tomorrow morning I will send you back, okay” Starlit nodded, infact she had already missed her family.

They slept on the floor that night which covers by only dry grasses and the floor which was hard and dirty, “Ouch, the dried grasses poke me, it was so uncomfortable and the floor is hard too, how I wish I am in my own room and in my soft bed”.
The next day, after thanking Chico and her family, Starlit started for home together with Chico’s father. When she saw her parents and Snowangel waiting anxiously on the porch. She then run towards them and hugged them, “Papa, Mama I am sorry” Her mother hugged her tightly, and cried, “Make sure you do not runaway anymore, you frighten me”.

Moral of the story, sometimes we do not treasure things that we have, until we have lost it.

Comments are needed here, to better myself. Big Thank You.

Drake the Proud and Lonely Prince - Puppet show

This puppet show, is my 2nd tried, the 1st time I asked my daughter to record the video from her handphone, it is not good because of the angle. But later on, she had suggested using her laptop webcam and it does work this time, the angle is good and the video is not shaky. But must warned you all, it is not that good, I am not very satisfied with my puppet's emotion. Well, I am learning, so cannot give myself too much pressure. Heheheh...

I made a theatre screen (with the help from my daughter) for my Twinkleforrest, the castle, the river, the forrest, the Forbidden Mountain, the rainbow stone shinning on top of the mountain and not to forget all my characters. Hope you enjoy it.

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PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Obl685DWmQ


PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0hVzRXDuU


Thank you for viewing, please help to post comments for my further improvements.

Drake the proud and lonely prince audion 2nd edition

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This audio is my second attempt and more refine version. Please give me some comments. I will be using this for my puppet show.

At last, I have able to embed my audio into my blog, but I was unabled to use the Internet Archive and instead I am using Divshare.com, it is another shared website for audio, video, and etc. It was so frustrating 3 days, for I tried and tried to do it with Internet Archive and even X10 helped me but unsuccessful.

The audio Stories Telling, is just 1st attempt, I will be re-doing it to another refine version, your comments are very much appreciated.


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1st Task - Drake the proud and lonely prince

I was sort of on leave from Stories Telling for 1 week, and after hearing the discussion among the members at our Bold play therapy training, I myself felt more panicked, and during that time I still haven't listened to Alex's sent audio of the online group tutorial - very stressed.

Yesterday, I listened to the audio until 12.45am and today I looked at the 3 Skeleton stories and can't decides to chose The Magic Stone or The Lonely Prince. In the end I chosen The Lonely Prince, but turn it into a setting in a fairyland. I have chosen the names of my character from the and Faries World website, and little do I know they have girl and boy fairies names, my prince name Drake in the faries world it mean Dragon, Alvin is an elf, noble friend, Elvy is an elf warrior, Kalen is an elf warrior and last Foster the wiseman is a forrest guardian.

I have not yet tape into audio, but would like very much if you can help me to edit it.

Here my story begins:-

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Drake the proud and lonely prince

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful fairyland named Twinkleforrest and it is ruled by royal fairies, and the other fairies lived peacefully and happily there.
Drake was the prince of Twinkleforrest, he was bright, handsome, confident and also like cleanliness. He loved singing, reading and flying freely in the forest. But, Drake only wants to play with the children who have the same quality as him. This leaves Drake very lonely, because there is hardly anyone who is as perfect as him.

The King and Queen realised this problem, they have tried many ways but it is no help at all, Prince Drake still does not wants to be friends with the imperfect.

The King sent his men to find Foster the Forest Guardian. When he arrived the king said to him “Foster, how can Drake rule my kingdom in future, when he has no friends? Please help me to solve this problem.”

After many sleepiness nights, Foster came up with an idea and presented it to the king. The next day, the king sends for Prince Drake and gives him a task. “Drake, you are going to be the King one day, so in order to test your ability you are to bring back the ‘Rainbow’ stone which is in the Forbidden Island with the help of these 3 fairies which I have chosen to help you”.

When Drake saw the fairies, he exclaimed “But father (pointed to the 1st fairy) this one is so dirty and with so many dirt on him, this one has feet like fins and wet and it is so ugly and the last one had such an enormous pair of wings, how can they help me to get the stone, I am sure to fail. “ But the king, brushes it off, and sends the prince on his journey.

Little do the prince knows, that the three fairies are Alvin the earth fairy (he lived on the ground and sometimes underground that is why his body is always cover with dirt), Elvy the water fairy (he lived under the Slivermist the enchanted river) and the last one Kalen who can carry the heaviest and fly the highest.

Half way through the journey across the forest of the Forbidden Island, Drake was lost and got separated himself from the other fairies. The prince said to himself, “Well, I will be better off without them, they do not have special power and will not be any help to me anyway, I am bright and strong and I will get to Rainbow stone myself.” As he went deeper into the forest, it was very dark, cold and he can hears a lot of strange sound, seems like the trees are wailing, the birds are screaming and many more. At that moment he felt very tried, cold and very lost; he slumped at the bottom of a tree and wept. Suddenly he saw a giant earthworm coming towards him, and this make him panicked and afraid, then he heard a voice said, “Thank you very much Earthly, you found Prince Drake” and the voice belongs to Alvin the earth fairy and he turned to the prince and said, “Your highest, do you know it is very dangerous to walk alone in the forest? There are many unfriendly creatures that may harm you.” Then the prince was so happy to see him and said, “I am sorry for worrying you all, and thank you for finding me and it would not happen again, let us continue our journey together”.

The continued journey across the Forbidden Island is much easier with the strength of Alvin who had the power to control the land. Elvy, the water fairy helped them to cross over the dark river of the Forbidden Island and Kalen who are able to carry them all when they were tried to fly.

Finally, they reached their destination and found the Rainbow stone which was placed by Foster at the mountain top to test the prince. When the prince returns to Twinkleforrest, he realised that it was wrong to have discrimination towards the imperfect fairies. He felt ashamed on his previous behaviours and he now knows that everyone has their own strength and capabilities. He apologised to his three fairies friend and from that day onwards, he sang, played and explored the forest with them.

The King and Queen were very happy with the prince and thank Foster for turning the prince into a new leaf. The End.

Is it too heavy and long, please give comment.

Story Telling is meant not only the children but also the Adults

While surfing the net trying to find a answer to Ding's question posted in Elgg, i found a site :- Marine Wildlife Foundation, managed by Mark S. Konecky, Ph.D, a licensed Psychologist. Mr Mark, used "Therapeutics Story Telling Intervention, as an enrichment program for children and adult.

The JoJo Dolphin Enrichment Project:
Therapeutic Story Telling Intervention Proposal

Goals:

To provide an enrichment-oriented educational experience that enables children and adults to gain a sense of self-agency or empowerment by identifying with the portrayal of reciprocal helping behavior and attachment in a loving relationship between a dolphin and a human being.

To help children and adults understand that injuries (physical, spiritual, and emotional) can heal with proper care, instilling a sense of hopefulness for the future.

To present children and adults with
1) a basic outline of important environmental concepts such as the basic biology and physiology of dolphins and humans;
2) the idea of a “web” of life in which all animals and people are interdependent and connected;
3) the concepts of conservation and preservation while maintaining focus on humans and their culture; and
4) the notion of consciousness and emotion in animals and humans.

Facilitators will use lecture and a therapeutic story telling intervention to accomplish these goals. Participants will be presented with an oral story depicting the relationship between Dean Bernal and his dolphin friend JoJo as well as view the story of Dean and JoJo’s relationship as portrayed in a DVD produced by The JoJo Dolphin Project.

Their mission:
Their mission is to preserve, protect, and understand Marine Mammals and their habitats by enhancing our knowledge through exploration, research & education, and documentary filmmaking. And this desire to preserve and protect such wildlife, and indeed all marine wildlife, has fueled our mission to forge a connection between these creatures and the human species who hold the future in their hands.

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I found the site to be very informative and rather glad to know that somewhere out there, they are actually people go out of the way, to help to preserve and heal the environment and the vulnerable creatures.

The Link: http://www.marinewildlife.org/jojoProject.php