Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Poem on someone annoying...

Wimp, annoying and childish
Who loves to cry
Who is like an ostrich
Who loves to rant

He invades my space and ruins my day
He is whom everyone hates
He is a buzzing bee in our lives
He is like a thousand parrots chattering

Though he is thirteen, he seems like a toddler
Laughing at everything just to gain attention
Right now I wish that he would be gone
For peace in class forever!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Racial Harmony Day

Hi all! On Wednesday it was my first Racial Harmony Day in Hwa Chong but it was also my worst experience. I had to perform in front of the whole school! Me and a group of friends was kind of SABOTAGED by someone....We had to perform an Indian dance on the song "Munneru Valiba". We were rehearsed by Mr Tan B.B and we were supposed to collaborate with a school(I can't remember) but they had something on(I think it was YOG). Other consortiums had other schools to perform with them and furthermore we are sec 1s. Isn't that more difficult for our performance to be perfect? The dance was also quite "lame". We had to perform 4 TIMES for each level respectively! There was also a cultural bazzare but I had no chance to visit it. After the performance, my friends told me that our dance was very stupid and was "retarded". Even our form teacher said that our performance was quite boring as it had not much movements. Well this was the most embarrassing day of my love. I had never been on stage to perform before and this was quite an experience for a first time performance.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

NBA FIT Clinic

A few days ago a few NBA players came to Singapore to train 80 average teenagers. They are Al Horford, Corey Brewer, Francisco Garcia and Taj Gibson. They were as one with the teenagers very quickly. The teenagers are split up into different groups to do different excersises. This event is organised by YMCA with the Metropolitian YMCA. Even though the NBA players are very tall and stong, they do not look down on people or "show off". The teenagers even exchanged contact information with the NBA players and asked for their signature. The teenagers felt that the NBA players are very kind and help them whenever they have difficulties. The NBA payers felt that this was a memorable experience.

Lebron James to Miami Heat

This news is quite long ago though. He is leaving Cleveland Cavaliers to join Miami Heat alongside Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh which gives the Heat one of the most dynamic power trios in league history.Miami Heat might be the champion in the next season replacing Lakers. Actually Wade, Bosh and James turned professional in the same year but James went to Cavaliers, Wade to Heat and Bosh too Raptors. They also worked very well in the 2008 Bejing Olympic Games. James said that he wanted more challenge and joined Heat with Wade and Bosh. In my point of view, without James, Cavaliers stand very low chance to be the champion.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Book Review on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

This book is like the second episode of Tom Sawyer except it is about Huck this time. Like what i wrote in the previous post, Mark Twain writes mainly about children. I shall not repeat what is written in the previous post. I like Tom Sawyer the best as he is very smart and has quick-thinking. He is able to think of a plan very quickly like him pretending to be Tom's brother while Huck pretends to be him.

Book Review on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

The summary was written in the previous post and now my review. Mark Twain writes mainly about children and their mischief . He writes children as adults in his books. Like Tom Sawyer being "engaged" to a girl and committing crimes that only adults does like robbing. I like Huck the best as he is very kind and considerate although he is sought of illiterate and can smoke a pipe. He cares about people a lot and is very loyal to his friends and never betray his friend. This is what I feel that is good for us to learn but when your friend has really done wrong, we should correct and report to the authorities if needed and not help them keep the secret. I have read before his other book called "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". It is kind of inspired from this boook but it is about Huck this time.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Book Review on Call of the Wild
Jack London

It is a book about a domestic dog called Buck. As there was a gold rush in Alaska, there was a need for strong dogs so a poor servant of Buck's Master-Manuel sold buck at the black market. Two man, Francois and Perrault brought him to Alaska to pull sleds with many other dogs. There was dog called spitz and hekept bullying all the dogs especially Buck. He was the the leader of the team and everybody had to listen to him. Buck wants to have his revenge. One day when they were pulling sleds. Buck had a fight with Spitz and Buck eventually killed him. He was hoping to be the new leader of the team but Sol-lecks was the leader instead. After a while Francois and Perrault had to sell all the dogs in order to get fresher ones. Buck was sold to a group of people but he was ill-treated. John Thorton saw it and keep him as his own. Buck is now more independent. John Thorton was in the end killed by an American tribe.

What I feel is special about Jack London is that most of his books are about animals and he is delivering the message of ill-treating animals very clearly to the readers. He is tellng us to treat animals with love and care and not abandon or ill-treat them. He is also trying create the awareness that poachers are still at large and many animals are still being killed and sold.I like to read books about dogs so I particularly like this book. My favourite character in the book is Buck. He is a very determined and resilient dog. He has a very strong fighting spirit and does not back off even though he is always bullied by Spitz. He is very ambitious too, kept hoping to be the leader of the team. There are themes like Power of Instinct and Survival of the Fittest in this book. I have also read The White Fang written by Jack London.