Creative Writing Challenge: 2AM Photo (or Text)

Writing Challenge: It’s 2AM and your phone has just buzzed you awake, filling the room in white-blue LED light. You have a message. It’s a photo. No words, no explanation. Just a photo. Tell us all about it. And what happens next.

You see, I want to do this challenge so I’m going to tweak it a little bit.  First of all, I still am a proud owner of a dumb phone, meaning getting pictures on my phone is virtually impossible.  However, this whole waking up at 2AM because of the phone buzzing has happened before, and on multiple occassions and there are times its for different at different times in life.

I’m not a very sound sleeping, most of the time.  I have my days when stress and everything hits, and it just depends.  I’m in a fantastic dream about a wonderful place and things start getting weird.  It always does.  I should take up movie directing, after all, Tim Burton made a hell of a living putting what he dreams up into movie concepts. All joking aside, I have full respect for the man.

Thats the best I could do with imitation of LED light with my Ikea night light

So back to the point, I’m sleeping and in my dream something starts buzzing and the dream cuts off as my mind enters back into reality.   I reach my hand over clumsily to the night table without opening my eyes to feel where my phone is.  As I pick it up and roll over to look at the screen. I see a blurry screen.  Wait, where are my glasses? Putting those on, I turn on the dimmed screen again.

In this scenario, there could be just a few situations that could or have happened to me…

a) my best friend texting me in studying panic (more in university days)

b) friends texting me to chat about something on their mind (also thats rare as well)

c) emergency (hasn’t happened yet…and I hope to never have to.  I’d like everyone in good health and accident free)

d) drunk texting (I assume)! Horrible experiences of this has occurred to me where some random friend that I haven’t talked to in ages decides to text me some inappropriate message, which I later deleted and erased the contact in general.  It happened a few times afterwards.  Thank goodness that my phone can’t see photos, I don’t even want to think what this crazy person would have sent.

What would you expect if your phone lit up at 2am? This is supposed to be a photo and if it was, what would you expect to see? How about if it was a text, what’s the most probable scenario?

Cinderella (1950)

For Valentine’s Day, I had shared a piano cover of Cinderella (see it HERE) and said that in a few days I’d review Cinderella.

Who doesn’t know Cinderella? One of the most common love stories that has been adapted a crazy number of times.  In my collection, I have two mega guilty pleasure ones.  They are absolute crap but I admired the effort.  However, we are not reviewing those.  The original is Disney’s 1950 animation.

The story is simple.  At a young age, Cinderella lost her mother and only lives with her father who later feels that she needs a mother so remarries with a woman with two daughters.  When he passes away, her stepmother shows her true nature and spends all her father’s money and then makes Cinderella into the servant of the house.  However, when the prince returns to the palace, the king decides to through a ball and invite every single eligible maiden in his kingdom so that the prince will find his love of his love and get married.  This means that Cinderella can go also, but of course, her stepmother and her two obnoxious daughters prevent her from going in every way possible.It is then that in her most hopeless moment, magic happens and her fairy godmother shows up and helps her, however all the magic will vanish at the stroke of midnight.  Cinderella goes to the ball and meets her Prince Charming and loses track of time so as she escapes the ball, she loses her glass slipper and the prince loses his fair maiden without even knowing her name.  However, he is determined to find her so the king issues an order that any girl who fits the glass slipper will be married to the prince.

I’m not much for the Disney princesses when I was a little girl. I was much more of a tomboy than the normal girl.  Maybe because a lot of my good friends were boys in elementary school. As well as the fact that my only cousin around my age was  a guy and we had the habit of pulling of Barbie’s head.  So not my thing.  But still, I loved Disney a lot as I grew up and the charm in Cinderella was not just the love story of a rich prince falling for a poor girl. What Cinderella had was magic.

 

For a girl in her situation, with an unhappy life with her stepmother and her annoying stepsisters who wanted nothing more than to think she was invisible, she found joy in her friends and in her dreams.  What are hanging out at my little blog if not for dreams, right? I love dreams and I dream all the time and they are a wonderful escape.  This animation is lined with happy, positive little tunes that just grabs your attention.  Just think about my doing the piano cover and then wanting to watch this.  “So This is Love” is sweet and cute but my favorite has to be the magical part when her fairy godmother appears and transforms her with her little tune, “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo”.  A few random words strung together and they make for a fun and enchanting tune, changing a bad situation to a beautiful one.

Another highlight was the addition of the animals. We had the birds that woke her up and chatted with her.  The dog Bruno who had dreams of eating Lucifer, the devil cat of her stepmother.  The cat was just a big fat bully (cue the child pouty voice). My favorite was definitely the mice.  They were the best helpers and Jaq and Gus was so cute and funny at the same time. Especially the part up there when they start singing, “Cinderelly, Cinderelly, Nightingale cinderelly…” Oh what am I doing? Here’s the snippet:

Now I have the song stuck in my head again.  But that’s okay I have to go do some chores anyways…

Back to the review, Cinderella is just a beautiful, enchanting and fun animation. You don’t have to buy into the love story bit but it is so sweet to watch.  How much of it was a love story anyways? We saw the prince for 5 mins in the middle and 2 minutes at the end. Its all about Cinderella. The mice and the fairy godmother really is a wonderful addition.  Cinderella is a must-see classic.

Who is your favorite Disney princess? How about your favorite Disney classic?