I am very happy that some of my Malaysian friends have got into the top ten in the whole of Sec 1. There were also some of my Singaporean friends such as Yi Heng and Sebastian have also got into the top 10.
I congratulate all of my fellow classmates who have done our class proud. Our class got second in the Sec 1 level.
Although I was not in the top 100, I am still satisfied that throughout the run, my pace was quite constant.
I really enjoyed the run and after the run, we sat at the terraces cheering our seniors on. We also listened to the songs to be played which were voted by all the students in the SMB. I also had a great time with all my friends.
I am going to really treasure this run as next year, due to the construction on the MRT project, there will be no Cross-Country.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Cross-country run Tomorrow
Tomorrow is my cross-country run. It is held annually but was not held last year because of H1N1. We are very fortunate to host it again this year.
The whole school will run on the same route but each level will run at about a 10 minute interval. Some of the older students may run a slightly longer route. There will be a milo van coming to our school to provide us with Milo and NEWater is also available.
Before the race, we are each given a electronic tag that ensures that we go through every check point of the route. I am looking forward to the race. I wish everyone taking part in the run GOOD LUCK!!!
The whole school will run on the same route but each level will run at about a 10 minute interval. Some of the older students may run a slightly longer route. There will be a milo van coming to our school to provide us with Milo and NEWater is also available.
Before the race, we are each given a electronic tag that ensures that we go through every check point of the route. I am looking forward to the race. I wish everyone taking part in the run GOOD LUCK!!!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Similarities and Differences of LTTS and Way up to heaven(10 Short stories)
Today I am not talking about pollution. I am going to tell you about the similarities and differences of Lamb to the slaughter and Way up to heaven from Roald Dahl 10 Short stories.
The similarities of the two stories is that both have the same theme which is lying and deception. Both is about the wife killing their husband whether directly or indirectly. I will start with a brief summary of Lamb to the slaughter.
Mary Maloney is the wife of Patrick Maloney. Patrick Maloney is caring and takes his wife out every Thursday. He is probably treating Mary well as Mary loves him very much. His wife , Mary is totally in love with her husband and he awaits him every evening for him to come home from work.
She prepares whisky for her husband to drink when he came home. When he returned, Mary enjoyed his company and the presence of him feel almost like a sunbather feels the Sun. When Patrick told Mary that he wanted to leave her, she could not believe it and she was spurned by her husband's decision to use a leg of lamb to kill him.
She used the same amount of care and planing to carry out the murder as she used to take care of the house. She did not even feel regretful or guilty at all. She was emotionless after that.
The brief summary of Way up to heaven is about two people, Mr and Mrs Foster. The live in a old gloomy house in New York and had few visitors. Mrs Foster is a person who dreads being late and gets nervous at the thought of being late.Mr Foster likes to irritate Mrs Foster by trying to delay her from going to somewhere as much as possible and and by keeping her waiting, he seems to enjoy it.
One January morning, Mrs Foster was going to France to visit her daughter and grand children. Mr Foster took his time to come out of the house and tried all sorts of methods to delay Mrs Foster. When they were in the car, Mr Foster suddenly said that he could not find a present for his daughter and went into the house again to find it. Mrs Foster then notices the present was tucked down the side of the car seat.
She then decided to go into the house to inform Mr Foster but when she went in, she heard the noise of the lift not working and was now stuck in the middle of the floors. Upon hearing that , she stops and closed the door. She managed to catch the plane and went to France.
Six months later, she returned to her house and smelled a strange smell. She walked swiftly around the house appearing to be investigating something and the confirmed it. Obviously her husband had died in the lift as he was being trapped in the lift six months ago and the strange smell came from his dead body.
The difference about the story is that Mary Maloney was only tortured by her husband for a few minutes before she killed him with a leg of lamb while Mrs Foster suffered her husband's torture for her whole life with her husband.
In my opinion, I think that Mrs Foster's case of murdering her husband was more cruel in a sense that her husband died a little by little while in Mary Maloney's case, she kill him in less than a few seconds. This means that Mr Foster was left trapped in the lift for at least a few days in the lift without food and water and eventually died.
The similarity on the theme, lying and deception means that Mr Foster lied about the fact that he did not bring the present for his daughter and in LTTS, the part on deception is that the character of Patrick Maloney, Mary Maloney and Mrs Foster changed from the beginning to the ending.
The similarities of the two stories is that both have the same theme which is lying and deception. Both is about the wife killing their husband whether directly or indirectly. I will start with a brief summary of Lamb to the slaughter.
Mary Maloney is the wife of Patrick Maloney. Patrick Maloney is caring and takes his wife out every Thursday. He is probably treating Mary well as Mary loves him very much. His wife , Mary is totally in love with her husband and he awaits him every evening for him to come home from work.
She prepares whisky for her husband to drink when he came home. When he returned, Mary enjoyed his company and the presence of him feel almost like a sunbather feels the Sun. When Patrick told Mary that he wanted to leave her, she could not believe it and she was spurned by her husband's decision to use a leg of lamb to kill him.
She used the same amount of care and planing to carry out the murder as she used to take care of the house. She did not even feel regretful or guilty at all. She was emotionless after that.
The brief summary of Way up to heaven is about two people, Mr and Mrs Foster. The live in a old gloomy house in New York and had few visitors. Mrs Foster is a person who dreads being late and gets nervous at the thought of being late.Mr Foster likes to irritate Mrs Foster by trying to delay her from going to somewhere as much as possible and and by keeping her waiting, he seems to enjoy it.
One January morning, Mrs Foster was going to France to visit her daughter and grand children. Mr Foster took his time to come out of the house and tried all sorts of methods to delay Mrs Foster. When they were in the car, Mr Foster suddenly said that he could not find a present for his daughter and went into the house again to find it. Mrs Foster then notices the present was tucked down the side of the car seat.
She then decided to go into the house to inform Mr Foster but when she went in, she heard the noise of the lift not working and was now stuck in the middle of the floors. Upon hearing that , she stops and closed the door. She managed to catch the plane and went to France.
Six months later, she returned to her house and smelled a strange smell. She walked swiftly around the house appearing to be investigating something and the confirmed it. Obviously her husband had died in the lift as he was being trapped in the lift six months ago and the strange smell came from his dead body.
The difference about the story is that Mary Maloney was only tortured by her husband for a few minutes before she killed him with a leg of lamb while Mrs Foster suffered her husband's torture for her whole life with her husband.
In my opinion, I think that Mrs Foster's case of murdering her husband was more cruel in a sense that her husband died a little by little while in Mary Maloney's case, she kill him in less than a few seconds. This means that Mr Foster was left trapped in the lift for at least a few days in the lift without food and water and eventually died.
The similarity on the theme, lying and deception means that Mr Foster lied about the fact that he did not bring the present for his daughter and in LTTS, the part on deception is that the character of Patrick Maloney, Mary Maloney and Mrs Foster changed from the beginning to the ending.
Monday, February 15, 2010
TDD Reflection
Me and my classmates went to the Singapore Discovery Centre to learn more about Total Defence Day. We learned that Total Defence has five aspects - Military Defence, Civil Defence, Economic Defence, Social Defence and Psychological Defence. The Total Defence Exhibition at the SDC feature galleries and exhibits put up by some of Singapore's agencies such as the Singapore Armed Forces, the Home Team, the National Security Coordination Council and Nexus. The exhibition displays equipments such as the SCDF Red Rhino allow us see and understand what it takes to keep Singapore safe.
There were also exciting games and telematches.
I think that it is important to keep Singapore safe and everyone has to do their part in Total Defence. I really had a fun time at SDC.
There were also exciting games and telematches.
I think that it is important to keep Singapore safe and everyone has to do their part in Total Defence. I really had a fun time at SDC.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
News on pollution nowadays
The rich seaweed beds stretching 8,000 hectares and brimming with fish in the western coast of the bay off Shizuoka Prefecture have been transformed into a barren wasteland. Pollution, climate change, and other factors are suspects, but the exact causes are unknown. It is really a very unpredictable that a beautiful place has turned in to a barren wasteland. I think it is too much, pollution has caused this to happen. We should try to stop pollution as much as we can before more beautiful places will not end up like this.
Some interesting stories are :
Researchers from the Earth Observation Science (EOS) group based in the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester have released satellite images of the UK during a week(7 Feb) in which most areas were blanketed by snow.According to Philip Eden, Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society, it has been the most prolonged spell of freezing conditions across the UK since the mid 80s.In reality, the recent extreme weather is likely to be a result of a combination of factors, and is certainly not evidence that 'climate change' has ceased -- such year-to-year, regional anomalies are intrinsic; it is the long-term, global trend that is important when assessing climate change. This recent extreme weather does, however, serve as a clear reminder that a warming planet does not mean the end of cold weather events!Here's a picture of UK in which most areas were blanketed in snow.
To know more, visit:
Source:http://www.sciencedaily.com
Some interesting stories are :
Researchers from the Earth Observation Science (EOS) group based in the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester have released satellite images of the UK during a week(7 Feb) in which most areas were blanketed by snow.According to Philip Eden, Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society, it has been the most prolonged spell of freezing conditions across the UK since the mid 80s.In reality, the recent extreme weather is likely to be a result of a combination of factors, and is certainly not evidence that 'climate change' has ceased -- such year-to-year, regional anomalies are intrinsic; it is the long-term, global trend that is important when assessing climate change. This recent extreme weather does, however, serve as a clear reminder that a warming planet does not mean the end of cold weather events!Here's a picture of UK in which most areas were blanketed in snow.
To know more, visit:
Source:http://www.sciencedaily.com
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Updates on my blog
I have added a slideshow
at the left sidebar and I have also added a garfield comic strip corner at the
bottom of the blog page. I hope you enjoy them!!!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Effects of harmful pollutants
Nowadays, even remote places like the Arctic are badly polluted by nasty chemicals made by people. The polar bears and seals there have 
poisonous chemicals made by people in their bodies and so do the Inuit people who live with them. These nasty things kill many animals and make others sick -- including penguins in the Antarctic. They also kill people and make them ill too. There's nowhere on the planet left with no pollution; not even the bottom of the sea or high up in the air.
I am really shocked after reading this article on the website below. The Earth is so polluted nowadays that litterally the whole Earth is polluted. I hope that the 3 R's will help mother Earth. I think that human technology that causes pollution and even cause harm to animals. This will cause animals to be extinct and the ecosystem on Earth will 
be unbalanced and that would be a big problem.
There are some pictures at the side that you might like to view.
poisonous chemicals made by people in their bodies and so do the Inuit people who live with them. These nasty things kill many animals and make others sick -- including penguins in the Antarctic. They also kill people and make them ill too. There's nowhere on the planet left with no pollution; not even the bottom of the sea or high up in the air.
I am really shocked after reading this article on the website below. The Earth is so polluted nowadays that litterally the whole Earth is polluted. I hope that the 3 R's will help mother Earth. I think that human technology that causes pollution and even cause harm to animals. This will cause animals to be extinct and the ecosystem on Earth will 
be unbalanced and that would be a big problem.There are some pictures at the side that you might like to view.
Source: tiki.world.html
Monday, February 1, 2010
Lamb to the slaughter ( Reflection )
Today I am not going to tell you about pollution. I am going to discuss about 3 stories: Lamb to the slaughter, male child and love.
Among the stories I like the story, Lamb to the slaughter the best. This is because the author Roald Dalh is very articulate in what he was writing. It also leaves me in suspense as I was reading it which keeps me reading it to the very end. I have read some books before that I did not want to read it after I had read a few pages, but for this story it is different. There is a twist in the main character from the beginning to the ending.
What do you think?
Among the stories I like the story, Lamb to the slaughter the best. This is because the author Roald Dalh is very articulate in what he was writing. It also leaves me in suspense as I was reading it which keeps me reading it to the very end. I have read some books before that I did not want to read it after I had read a few pages, but for this story it is different. There is a twist in the main character from the beginning to the ending.
What do you think?
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