SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGNTHE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: Karen Kong Chai Ni

STUDENT ID NO: 0315480

TOOL SELECTED: Colander

WORD COUNT: 611 words

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: NARRATIVE ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 15 TH NOVEMBER 2013

The World of Colander

Colander is a kitchen utensil with holes in it. Colander can be found in every family. It is cheap and durable. We can see that there is a lot of supermarket sell colander even a small store. Colander used for draining food. The perforated nature of the colander allows the liquid to drain through while retaining the solid insides. It also can be called a pasta strainer or kitchen sieve. Are you interested more detail about colander? I would like to observe the colander and have more understanding about it and welcome to my ‘‘Colander’s World’’!

First time when I saw the colander, I felt weird about the design of the colander. There were many holes with it. It cannot fill with water because the water will flow down from the hole. I was confused about the uses of the holes. I thought that it was decoration that we can put some stone or shell inside it. Besides that, I thought the gardener will like to use it a vase. I thought that it was a good vase for gardener because the circulation of the water will be very good that the water could flow through the holes. It could be also used as a hat. It will be very funny and special that there was a thing like basket put on the head. Anyway, colander has attracted me so much to have a better and more understanding on it.

Next, I found that colander has many shape. Mostly, it is a bowl-shaped but some colanders have the shape of rectangular, square, cup that was beautiful. The colander also got different colours such as green, red, white, grey that had attracted my eyeball so much. Besides that, I also found that colander has divided into three sizes that was small size, medium size and large size. Although the colander has many differences but there was some similarities there was the colander must have holes with it and the uses of all colander was to drain the food.

Besides that, I also found that the colander was very light even though it was a metal. It was because the colander was made of light metal such as aluminium or thinly aluminium rolled stainless steel. So,

it was convenient that old people and kids could hold it easily. It also will not cause any injuries to the people easily. Some colanders also made of plastic, silicone, ceramic and enamelware that the colanders will not rust easily.

Now, I am going to explore my senses about the metal colander. When I touched the metal colander, the surface was very smooth and the surface for the plastic colander was rough. For me, it was uncomfortable when I touched the plastic colander. Both metal and plastic colander dont have any odor. When I knocked the surface of the metal colander, it have the sound like ‘ding’ sound. The plastic colander just have the small sound like ‘dou’ sound.

This is my all understanding about the colander. I think that the colander is a very good thing for every family. Before I started to observe the colander, I have write down my reaction and thinking about the colander. After that, I have observed the shape and size of the colander and the next stage was observed the material that have made the colander. My last observation was I have felt the surface of the colander and the sound that produced by the colander. When I finished these few stages, I felt that I was like a scientist to observe it more deeper and deeper. It was amazing and I could not remove my attention from the colander.