White Fang and The Call of the Wild

This book "The White Fang and the Call of the Wild" was written by a naturalist writer called Jack London. Much of his novel is written about the animals like how they view their world, and how they view our world. In this novel, there are two stories-"White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild" ."White Fang" is a story about a wild wolf-dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon during the Klondike goldrush.

The story begins with two men and their sled dog team. They were Bill and Henry with a team of six dogs pulling a sled. They were hunted down by a pack of starving wolves for a few days. During it, all his dogs were eaten by the wolves. After that, Bill and Henry has been killed too. At the end of part 1, they were searched by a search party. The story then follows the pack of wolves which killed Bill and Henry. The famine is over and the wolves begins to split up. And the story continued with the she-wolf and her mate, One Eye. The she-wolf later then gives birth to five cubs but all die from hunger except one. In the later of the story, a tragedy happened. One Eye is killed by a lynx when he was trying to search some food for his cub and mate and was discovered by the she-wolf. And so, of course the she-wolf felt depressed but no choice she and her cub had to survive themselves alone.

One day,the cub met five Native Americans and under the she wolf protection it was safe after all. But among the men, there was one called Grey Beaver, recognizes the she-wolf as Kiche, which was his brother's wolfdog, who left during a famine. So after the recognization, he takes Kiche and her cub home. The cub later was given a name by the man called White Fang. At the man's home, White Fang is treated harshly by the others pack of puppy at home. He was seldom bullied by them and was marginalised. He is not accepted at there. White Fang then grows to become a deadly and fierceful fighter. In order to face any more obstacles and danger during his life, he started to develop predatory and defensive skills. He became quicker, more enduring, more fierce and smarter. White Fang told himself that he had to become like that or else he would not guarantee his survival under the environment he was facing.

When White Fang is five years old, he is taken to Fort Yukon to trade with the gold-hunters. At there, he is sold to a dog-fighter, Beauty Smith. With the dog-fighter, White Fang defeats all his opponents, until he met a bulldog. The bulldog manages to beat down and defeat White Fang until White Fang is nearly to death. Just then, a young rich gold-hunter, Weedon Scott came and stopped the fight and also bought White Fang away from Beauty Smith.

Under Scott's cares, White Fang was tamed by him. After a long period of patience and guidance, Scott succeeded tamed White Fang. When Scott wanted to return to California ,White Fang pursues him, and so Scott decides to take White Fang with him back home. At the end of the story, a murderous criminal, Jim Hall, tries to kill Judge Scott, who had sentenced Hall to prison. But not knowing that Hall was "railroaded". White Fang kills Hall and is nearly killed himself, but survives. Because White Fang's bravery , the women of Scott's estate name him "The Blessed Wolf", and the story ends with White Fang relaxing in the sun with the puppies he had fathered with the sheep-dog Collie.

I chose to write about "White Fang" and not the "Call of the Wild" because I personally feels that White Fang this story is touching because the starting of the story, the cub, White Fang when he was just born, he had to live in harsh conditions. But he did not give up and strive to survive under different circumstances. This story actually teaches me to be courage and tough towards different obstacles in life like White Fang. I really apreciate this book and hope that others could read this book as well. As it really teaches us to think things in a different perspective of views of life and death. It also awaken humans that we are not the one who are facing difficulties in life. Animals too who had the same experience as we are. Last but not least, this book quoted a phrase in my mind--"We must toughen ourself and face the different path of life till wee see the light of success."

20,000 leagues under the sea

This book is called 20,000 leagues under the sea. It was a classic novel written by Jules Verne in 1870, before submarines were a reality and invented. The story begins with everyone in Europe and America spreading rumors about a giant mysterious creature sinking ships on the sea and destroying surface vessels. Due to this mystery that haunts every sailors and people that involved, the United States government decide to send out Abraham Lincoln to search and capture the creature. On board the ship are a marine biologist and a protagonist, Professor Pierre Aronnax along with his servant, Conseil. And in addition, Ned Land , the king of the harpooners. They had join a task force to rid the seas of a monster terrorizing shipping lanes which also known as the "monster".

And so, the journey starts at the Alantic Ocean. Traveling across the sea for a long period of time, the team still has not find the sea monster, but little they know, they find out the creature in the Pacific Ocean and they chase it along to where it goes. But unfortuntely, the monster is far beyond faster than the Abraham Lincoln to catch its prey. During the long chase, the Abraham Lincoln is damaged badly and sinks to the bottom of the sea the three characters have fall overboard into the ocean. To their surprise, they eventually become conscious and find that they are on top of the mysterious creature that they are hunting for. And on top of it, they realize that the creature is not alive at all, its actually an underwater vessel controlled by the commander of this vessel, Captain Nemo. Under Captain Nemo's acknowledgement, the vessel is called Nautilus. It is powered by electricity and is a highly technoligical submarine. Captain Nemo is also a scientific genius, he created the vessel. In order to "escape" the real world and seek for adventure. He recruited his crews and live his life alone under the sea.

Later, Aronnax, Conseil and Land were captured and were told to stay in the vessel and enjoy the freedom . And also they were permitted to leave the ship and were treated as prisonners. In the vessel, Captain Nemo treats the men very wel, especially Aronnax. They are clothed and fed and could wander around the vessel for their pleasure. However, Ned Land remains firm and promised that he will try to escape the vessel. In the vessel, they almost spend all their time in the vessel observing the mysterious sea life . Arronax who are guided by Captain Nemo was fascinated by the wonders of the sea, as well as Conseil. Meanwhile, Aronnax also studies and writes about every sea creature that he sees and observes. Despite the amazing sea life surrounding the Nautilus, that was difficult to be found by man in a hundred of years and the captain's continous generosity and servings. Ned still want to escape the vessel and was losing impatience day by day. Sighting Ned's impressions, Arronax gave his words to Ned that if there are chances to leave, they will leave. But because of the greatness of the captain's genourisity, he does not want to least anger the captain and was still hesitating about his promises to Ned and Captain Nemo.

Years in the submarine, they experience exciting adventures like travelling to barbarian lands, the lost city of Atlantis,trapping underneath a gigantic iceberg and even the fight of an enormous squid monster. On the voyage to the South Pole, the Nautililus was stuck in an iceberg. At that moment, everyone was told to take turns to break the ice so that the vessel could work again. Because of the incident, The vessel almost runs out of oxygen and the men in the ship eventually grew tired. However, they manage to escape under the hardworks of the men. After about one year on the Nautilus, the submarine was in the North Atlantic, the vessel met an incident again, it was attacked by a giant squid. The three main characters and the men in the vessel were forced to fight the squid with axes and spears because they cannot kill the squid with bullets. Along the great fight, a crewmember is killed by the squid and Nemo was depressed and in tears. Finally, the men drived off the squid. After the attack of the squid, the three main charcter decide to take the chance to escape from the vessel. But on their way, they got trapped in a whirlpool that no ships had ever survived through it. But amazingly, the small boat they boarded manage to overcome the whirlpool and emerge safely.

At the end of the story, Aronnax is awaiting his return to France and rewriting his memories of his journey under the sea. After reading this classic novel, I feel that this book is incredibly amazing and interesting to read as it had lots of science-fiction and a space of imaginations. I also feels that this book inspired me alot to think more creative and in depth when writing a story. And more importantly, the pleasure of imaginating unbelievable stuff.

Around the world in 80 days - Book Review

This is a adventure based and science-fiction story written by an author called Jules Verne about a guy called Phileas Fogg traveling around the world in 80 days. He was one of the most prominent members of the London Reform Club. On the very day he hire a new servant Passepartout, Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can travel around the globe in eighty days with the members in the club. Immediately, the pairs set off on a race against time that will see them either win fame and fortune or face obscurity and ruin.

Before they start their absurd journey, there was a bank robbing happened not long before the departure of Phileas Fogg who was then quite popular in his names in the newspaper indicating his impossible journey. So, here comes a detective, named Fix. He then suspected Phileas Fogg for the man who robbed the bank. Unfortunately, such coincidence that Phileas Fogg start his journey right after the case of robbing. And so, Fix the detective claimed that Fogg was undertaking the tour around the world on the pretext of a wager. Thus, Fix requested a warrant of arrest without delay to Bombay.

To assure Phileas Fogg to be arrested, Fix kept on track with him and consequently search opportunities to delay Phileas Fogg and his servant, Passepartout to get the warrant in Bombay to arrest them. Fix tried to approach Passepartout and be friend with him to gain his convidence and also seeking details about his master from him.

In India, Phileas Fogg saved a woman that would be force to sacrifice for her husband who died. The woman was to be burned alive for the ceremony. But the man of heart-Phileas Fogg decided to save her as he had twelve extra hours to spare during his journey. The woman was successfully saved by Fogg and she decided to follow Fogg to a safer place where she could land. The woman was Mrs. Aouda.

On the way, suddenly the detective Fix who continuously set obstacles on Fogg’s journey turned his objectives. He decided to sort of assist Fogg and make him reached London without delay so that he could arrest him in English ground. Passepartout who then knew that Fix was a detective and tracking them along the way bet with him that Phileas Fogg was an honest man and not a robber. The journey then continued with different exciting obstacles and a rush against time.

My favourite character in this story is the guy called Passepartout. I loved him because he was quite humorous and foolish (in the sense of funny).One time, He left a burning gas in his room and the expense of wasted gas will be docked from his salary. Every day along the journey, he was always worrying about the gas expenses. He was also very brave when rescuing Aouda. Besides, he was quite friendly towards the people around him such as Mr. Fix, the Frenchman and Aouda. He also expose to lot of strange things like get trapped or left behind which makes him a interesting role to find out. The greatest admiration of me in him was his loyalty. Along the journey, he plays a critical role, saving and companioned Fogg during the tough journey. Thus, without a loyal servant like Passepartout, Fogg would not have make it through the journey.

Kidnapped - Book Review

Kidnapped is a novel about a young man known as David Balfour. His parents have recently died and he was to stay alone .He received a letter from Mr. Campbell and was told to deliver it to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, lives. During his journey, David seek help from people to find the location of the House of Shaws and he was been told that it was a place that filled with fear.

When David arrives at the house, he was confronted with his uncle. He was allowed to stay after he handed the letter to his uncle. Once, his uncle asked him to get a chest from the top of a tower in the house, but he refuses to provide David a lamp or candle. In the tower, he realizes that it was unfinished in some places and the steps was dangerous as well. David later found out that his uncle intended to make him dead to prevent him giving over his inheritance.

On the next day, a cabin boy, Ransome, arrives at the house of Shaw, and told Ebenezer that Captain Hoseason wanted to meet him. Ebenezer then took David with him to meet Hoseason. Leaving his uncle alone, he went to visit the docks with Ransome. Suddenly, David was struck by something on the dock and went unconscious. When he woke up, he found out he was kidnapped! On the dock, he was weak and sick due to lack of food. He also met some guy called, Mr. Riach, Mr.Shuan, Hoseason and of course Ransomes.

One day, they strike a small boat and all of the crew on boat was killed except one man, Alan Breck . Alan tried to be reasonable to the captain, Hoseason and he offered the captain money to take him to somewhere but until he acknowledged by David that Hoseason planned to kill him. He then with David armed with guns and swords prepared to defense themselves. At the end, they defeated five crews on dock and the others refused to continue fighting.

Hoseason has no choice but to give Alan and David passage back to the mainland. Soon, David and Alan are separated with David being washed ashore on the isle of Erraid near Mull, while Alan and the others row to the same island. David had a few days exploring alone in the island . Eventually, David found that Alan and other crews had survived.

Alan and David then began their flight avoid been seen from English soldiers day by day. As David and Alan continue their flight, David becomes more ill. On their way, they met a lawyer of David.s uncle who agrees to help David to gain back his inheritance and after which the story of David is revealed .It was said that his father and uncle had once quarrelled over a woman, and the older Balfour had married her; informally giving the estate to his brother while living as an impoverished school teacher with his wife. And so David was provided two-thirds of the estate's income for as long as his uncle survived and the novel ended with Alan going to France and David went to the back to settle his fortune.

My favourite character in this novel is Alan because he was courageous and was considered a hero to David as he always intended to help David to across different obstacles with all his might. And also he was very kind and friendly too, on the first day David met Alan. The two of them was very cooperative fighting against the crews of captain Hoseason and they got along very easily too.

Schooldays (A Poem by Me)

Sorry teacher for posting this poem for so late. I did those analysis and poem but I forgot to post it in here. Sorry again. This poem was about me during schooldays and the beautiful memories.

Waiting for a bus

to get to school

I make a fuss

And look like a fool

Late for the lessons

I crept into the classroom like a thief

But caught like a rat

Hoping forgiveness

Lessons were boring

I were sleeping

Heard friends laughing

Knew what was happening

Recess came

The students ran

Rushing for the line

To get a meal

Some did not eat

But play in the classroom

Chasing everywhere

And have a "Bang"

Crying sound was heard

And crowd was there

Search for the "Bads"

But could not find anywhere

Couples were everywhere

Holding hands

Friends laughed and teased

But the same goes to him

The bravest student was him

But when exam comes

The most afraid was him

Especially getting results

There's a curse on me

I never get one

But always get two

In exam

School ends

buses and cars waiting

Friends says goodbye

Hands wave in the air

The last day of school for me had arrived

Friends hug and cry

They have to leave

But memories stay forever

Looking back the annul yearbook

Memories flashing by with laughters and cries

I closed my eyes

And smile......

Analyzing Poem

This is the analysis of a poem entitled "The Son is in Secondary School" by Affian Sa'at which my LA teacher told us to do so in the Term 2 Online Home Learning. The poem was about the author’s feelings and thoughts about his schooldays and he gave us an imaginary and some views about his schooldays through this poem. There are no rhyming appear in the poem, it was in free verse. The analysis is as below:

My badge has a Latin motto
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something

In this stanza, he was talking about his badge what it symbolize and what it represents. “Or something” he wrote was just to tell us that he doesn’t really care what it means or its purposes back in the old days in school.

At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem

This stanza described what occurs when he was singing the National Anthem where crows flying by above the sky and somehow distract him. This stanza also gave us a clear view about the place they have their flag raising which was outdoor and under the sky where crows passed by.

It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays

In this stanza, he was saying that his shoes was indeed not maintained as clean as it had to be all time on that single day. And there must be something happened as always that was unnecessary behind that specific day that drove his him mad and of course his shoes, Thrashed!

I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts

He was talking about the scouts in his days.

The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb
Telling jokes to one another

He describes about the chauffeurs waiting for his classmates while chatting to each other. This probably also stated that his classmates was fortunate to have chauffeur fetched them home everyday unlike him.

Seven to the power of five is unreasonable

In this sixth stanza, he was telling us about his Mathematics and how difficult he think it was during his schooldays as he said the question was “unreasonable”.

On Chinese New Year
Mrs Lee dressed up
In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo

He was telling probably a joke to that his teacher wore sarong kebaya and sang Bangawan Solo which was the Malay culture during Chinese New Year. Or indeed this was a mistake done by his teacher (not feasible).

The capital of Singapore is Singapore

This eighth stanza was telling us that the capital of Singapore is Singapore.

My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A’s
For his Chinese Language
Multiple-choice paper

His best friend was courageous enough to have the guts to shade the same answers in the Chinese Language Multiple-choice paper. This also shows that the friends he mixed with was quite mischievous in their behaving. And this probably reflects himself in his schooldays.

In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me

Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment

When my eyes were actually closed

In this three stanzas as well as the last three stanzas was telling us about his unfortunate experience in his schooldays and it was recorded in his school’s annual yearbook. And he was quite happy of that unlucky to him again, his eyes were closed when the picture was caught!

Interpersonal

Interpersonal
Mok Jun Neng (26)1O2


Object: Conduct an interview with a friend(not from HCI) or family member. Find out his/her opinions about crime and punishment or the necessity to communicate in a relationship. Record the interview or write out the interview transcript.

I did an interview with my friend-Shwe Wen.She is my friend from primary school and she would like to cooperate with me.Hundred thanks to her for willing to help me.Here's the interview transcript.


Mok: Good morning my friend!
Shwe Wen: Good morning.
Mok: Did you know what's my purpose to be here?
Shwe Wen: Yes, It's about my opinions to crime and punishment right ?
Mok: Yes absolutely right.
Mok: So here goes.What do you think about crimes and punishments?
Shwe Wen: For my opinions, crime is something that we not surpose to do. Example:stealing, killing ,robbing and others. In Singapore, littering or smoking in a non-smoking area are considered as crimes too.But some people said these sort of crimes is something that cannot said as crimes.But for me, disobey the rules and did the opposite way is always considered as a crime and a crime that must be taken actions.But some crimes did by people is necessity.For example:people snatch goods because maybe their families are starving to death and they needed some money to buy some food.This is something necessity.Sometimes,for me as a people that hate crimes also felt pity for them.When they steal and found out by the police they may be put in to jail.And how about their families that are starving and suffer with no shelter?So, i also felt very sorry for them. Some people said that this was their fault because some of them didn't work hard for themself but choose to steal.Some even worst,they gamble until all their fortune was gone.And this causes them to rob or steal or even did something even worst.So,thats all for my opinions about crimes.
Mok: How about punishments?Did someone like you said deserve the punishments all they should be and we supposed to help them?
Shwe Wen: Actually what I know about punishments is if we done something wrong we will get some punishments.And the level of punishments are according to the heaviness of the crimes.For example:killing. It is a crime that is heavy and must take some serious actions to it and give a suitable punishments to the person who killed.But what about cases like the story Lamb To The Slaughter.Mary killed her husband and it is a fact.But how about the punishments she should have as she had an unborn baby.Should the court sentence her to death or wait till her baby was born only they make decisions.And what punishments should Mary had.If she was sentenced to death how about her baby?Surely we couldn't bear looking at the child with no parents.So,this is something that I couldn't figure out.Like the people I said that steals. What kind of punishments should they had?Death? Jail?Or what? This was also something that is difficult to make decisions.If we choose either death or jailing how about their families?I also don't bear to think about it it is way too awful !But I still think that people that commit whatever crimes they should get some punishments.Thats all I want to say about today.Do you still have any questions?
Mok: No,thats all thanks for letting me to interview you.
Shwe Wen: No problem!
Mok: Bye! Have a nice day!
Shwe Wen: Bye!

The multiple intelligence test

I think that the multiple intelligence test is a good survey as I can know myself better.The multiple intelligence said that I am interpersonal smart the most.But I don't really think so because I don't communicate with people that well and sometimes argue with people about wrongs and rights.So,I

don't think it is an accurate test.But i was satisfied 1 thing was it said that I'm nature smart as the second.It had that fact straight as I am a mature lover.I hate humans that destroyed their habitats.But the purpose of the multiple intelligence test is for us to know our learning styles as we can do our online lessons according to the test. I was chose to do interpersonal.It is about an interview and I manage to interview with my friend-Shwe Wen on MSN.

Way up to heaven and Lamb to the slaughter

One day, Ms.Anu told us to compare these two story and analyse their similarities and differences. The way up to heaven is about a wife called Mrs.Foster and her husband.Mrs.Foster is a wife that is good to her husband and always care about him but one thing is she always obsessed about time.She hate to be late. Everytime the two went out Mrs.Foster would always be ready before 1 hour while her husband take his time to tidy himself comb his hair, find his car key,anything!Anything that could delayed Mrs.Foster.So everytime she was tortured by him with her obsession with time. But without reasons, Mr.Foster would love to torment her,made her as angry as possible.So,one day.Mrs.Foster booked a airplane ticket to see her daughter who was in another country living. When leaving to the airport.Suddenly Mr.Foster said he had something to give his daughter while he was not going to her house and stayed in a bar.But he couldn't search the present, so he decided to get off the car and went to his house to search. Mrs.Foster was in rush that she only had left less than an hour to arrive the airport.But in that moment something caught her eye it was the present.At that time she knew that her husband was trying to torture her again.So she try to go to the airport without her husband presence but her driver insist to wait for his master.So she went down and look for him.When she reach the door she heard a sound which sound like the evelator had broke down.She stunned there a moment hearing the sound carefully.In the depth of her heart she knew that if she try to save his husband and repair the evelator she would be late for the plane.So she didn't care about it and drove straight to the airport.After six weeks of visiting her daughter.She went back to her house.She smelled a strong odor which smelled like a rotten body.And she called the men to repair the evelator while sitting back on the chair waiting them to arrive.

So,the similarities between these two story is Mary Maloney and Mrs.Foster are the same who was a caring wife to each of their husband.But although they are as good as that,but their husband did not notice their care and ignore them and torment them at the last making them shocked which was Patrick Maloney told Mary that he was going to leave her because he had found another mate.While Mr.Foster tried to make his wife as late as possible to the airport.And at the ending two wives in each story killed their husband and tried to protect themself from commiting a crime.

But the differences are that Mr.Foster is not the only relative of Mrs.Foster but Patrick was the only relative and the one Mary loved the most in the whole world.Mary was a silent and caring wife that served her husband with all her might while Mrs.Foster keep nagging about time and to his husband for being late.And Mrs.Foster was aware that her husband was intentionally try to torture her.But Mary dont know anything about her husband that he had any affair with other woman outside and didn't know that her husband not loving her as much as the time she was married.The type of killing also one of the differences that the both wife did.First Mrs.Foster didn't kill her husband by purpose but intentionally did not bother her husband who was stuck in the evelator and left him there suffer from hunger and lack of oxygen to death which was a cruel type of killing.But Mary Maloney just hit her husband with a blow and lead him to death in seconds which he didn't feel as much suffer as Mr.Foster that suffer a long time before dying.

My bad day....

A week after coming to Singapore and stay at the boarding school,was the first day of orientation. At that day,I follow my friends to Hwa Chong .We gather at a hall while waiting the appearence of the school's senior.Besides that,the teachers took our temperature to determine whether we had any symptons of fever or not. Finally the seniors had arrived.They gave us a speech.In their speech,they said orientation is the "HAPPIEST" day in the Hwa Chong school's life.After the speech,they taught us some cheer songs.It started like one people shout "Hwa Chong!",then the others would shout "OI",again "Hwa Chong!" "OI"."Hwa Chong!" "ehbah".At first they demonstrate it, then we will follow. As we were new in the school so nobody dare to utter a sound.But after encouraged by the seniors,then only we dared to shout all those cheers.

After that,we were lead to the classrooms and had games with the seniors.We introduced ourself to each other so that later we could play a game called "Bang Bang".But still,this was not the main purpose.After briefly knowing each other the game began.This game would be my most "memorable" game in my whole life.The game rules were simple.First a people must call somebody's name but not the name of the people at his sides.Then,the person who called must squad down before the person at their sides "Bang" him.If the person did not squad down before it happened, the person will lose.But if he make it before it happened,he would "survive".

But it was not just that at all,the two person who "Bang" must say "Bang" as quick as they could because the first person who said "Bang" will win.And the other person will be eliminated from the game.But if they said together then they must snatch a stick in the floor first to win.After explaining everything,the game began.I managed to "survive"until there were left like around 7 people.Then,the moment the next name called was my doomed moment.The next name that called was the person beside me.He squad down fast as I "Bang".Unfortunately,we "Bang" at the same time.So,I ran as fast like a lightning to grab the stick.But, a tragedy happened.When I was grabbing the stick, a pupil charged behind me as to snatch the stick.But he lost control and fell on my left arm! I felt an instant pain and I could hardly feel my arm could barely move.

When I turned my vision to my arm,I swear I saw my wrist was bending.

When the seniors saw what was taken place,they called the teachers to come.The teachers immediately brought me to the hospital for further treatments.When I reach the hospital, the doctor in charge immediately checked my arm and he said that my arm need to be x-rayed.He straighten back my arm then he brought me to room 7 to examine my arm more clearly.Then, I was brought to the x-ray room. A few minutes later,the reports came out. The doctor found that my arm was fractured and it was quite hurt badly.The doctor said luckily it was not the worst scenario and it only needed to be bandaged with a cast.If it was the worst scenario, my arm had to be operated.

After my arm was put in cast, I was sent back to the boarding school.After this incident,I suffered for a month could'nt bath, wear clothes, eat and others things easily.Haiz.......what can I say,its just my luck!

First time in the plane

Chinese New Year was coming.At Friday ,after attending the New Year party that I mention at the previous blog post,I packed my belongings and ready to go to the airport. Few months ago, my father booked a plane ticket for me to go home and celebrate Chinese New Year.So, after finish attending the party at 10 a.m ,I do whatever homework I have so that I would not have any homework during New Year.

This was my very first time rode airplane go somewhere. Question marks were rising in my head.Hows the feeling in the plane?Is it interesting?What kind of scenery that I can see in the plane?I just couldn't bare not thinking of it. I was just too exciting.My heart was blazing in fire.Sweat were popping out from my palm as I rubbed it.I was just too getting over excited what would take place later.The scene of signing in ,the clock ticking by as I wait at the airport ,the boarding procedure.All sorts of scene popping out in my imagining brain.Time was passing by and at last the moment had came,I follow my senior,could be said as my friend to board a taxi that called by his sister.I put my packs at the back of the taxi then ready to go.

At 3 p.m, I reached the airport.At there were filled with different country people.As my plane was at 5p.m I waited at the seats for the time came .At there was so boring that I almost felt asleep. Fortunately,I brought my laptop by so I could surf the Internet.Until 5p.m., we went to the custom to let the workers to check our belongings,they also checked the weight of our bags. Suddenly,the workers let out a sentence"Aha! I found a scissor, may I know whose scissor is that?"he uttered as he watching the screen.

My blood frozed, chill was running down my spine."Er...er...sir.Its my scissor ."An eerie silence continued for a few second.Then,"OK is this the first time you board an airplane?"
"Yes,sir"I choked.
"I will let you go this time.Remember dont bring it again yea."
"Yes,absolutely."
Phew,that was so closed,at that moment I was so scared that anything would happen to me.Then,I boarded the plane.In the plane was filled with people.The stewardess lead us to our place and smiled. At that moment,I could'nt believe that I actually sitting in theplane.Everything was like a sweet dream. The footsteps that I took ,the air that I inhaled, the softness of the seats that I sitting on it.Everything was so unbelievable.

A few minutes later, the airplane started to move and accelerating slowly.And a moment later I could feel my body rising,the pressure was getting higher.The plane was slanting.Hurray!! I was finally flying in the plane.Joy was surrounding me.When I looked out from the window,I could see the city was getting smaller and smaller until It vanish as I was up abovethe clouds.The clouds was "so" 3-D that It was like cottons floating in the mid-air.The sun was brighter that I seen on the land.I was like a God floating on the clouds,looking at those humans activities.It was so feeling extremely good.

Less an hour later,the plane were starting to land at Kuala Lumpur airport.Although I felt a bit dissapointed because of that I could'nt enjoy the moment longer,I felt an unimaginable joy in my heart.I wish I could have this oppurturnity again in the not too distant future.

CNY celebration in Hwa Chong

At the 12th of February,Hwa Chong held a CNY party.On that day,we had to arrive there at the assembly place. Everyone at there were in red or bright colours shirt. When everyone reach there,they greet each other "gong xi fa cai" and shake hands. It was such a memorable sight watching people smiling, greeting .And the most important was it had the New Year atmosphere around. When time reach 7.20 everyone including teachers, raise their feet and sing the national anthem. After that, the principal-Dr. Hon greeted us too and gave a New Year speech to everyone.

After awhile,we went to the Kah Kee Hall and settled down in our respective places. We had many performance like: lion dance, new year songs, hilarious speech and others performances.Firstly, we invited our beloved teachers to come in the hall.We cheered and shouted in our top voice as we invited them.After they sat down. The lion dance began. Starting, a few drum sounds echoing in the air and later more drums sound came in. The sound was so loud that it almost burst my eardrums.Worst was I sat next to the drum!!! I could my feel my heart and body were vibrating. At last the "lion" shifted their body and they wave their head and tail, it was so fascinating .

After that interesting performance was the peeling orange competition. It was held at the stage,the most orange the contestants peel the chances of winning was the most. There were 8 contestant took part in it. 4 students from respective consortiums and 4 teachers. Me, as one of the Ortus family kept cheering at my consortium's contestant. My group was leading, but for a few minutes others had chased after us and leads.But my consortium did not gave up.But still, my consortium lost.

After the competition everyone sang the New Year songs such as, "da di hui chun","he xin nian", and others nice songs.We sang and clapped our hands.It was so fun that every second was precious.At 10 a.m the concert was over. Actually the purpose of letting us off so early was the principal encourage us to visit our primary school teachers and gift them oranges.It was one ofthe traditions in Hwa Chong.

I wish I could attend this party very soon again in the future.

My dog, Rex

Do you have pets? What is your pet? Usually people will answer yes it is a dog. Dog is humans best friend .A dog is one of the most loyalpet in the world. They obey us and treat us as their master. And why is that they treat us this way? Is because if we humans treat them in care and love ,give them food play with them, give them a shelter, they will definetely repay us like looking after the house. They are also an intelligent species, some of the police used dog to track down bad guys or to capture drug seller with their amazing nose.

For me, I had a dog too its name is Rex. I love Rex very much and I wish I could look after it and see it growing. But unfortunately my wish could not granted as I have chosen to study in Hwa Chong in Singapore for 6 years and I bet when I came back it will be old and perhaps dont even know who I am.

One day ,I when to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to had lunch. Suddenly, my eyes spotted a pet shop. Me, as a pet lover surely would go and check it out. The shop fill with animals.Got cat, tortoise, fish, rabbit and last but not least is DOG. I wandered around in the shop stared excitingly at the animals. Since i was a small kid ,I would love to had a pet in my house especially dog. I kept staring at the dog cages. Looking it sorrowfully. "Haiz.....it is just a wastage of time only,why am I looking at them ?Mom wouldn't allow me to bought one also.Haiz......",I breathed in grief. As I was walking to my parents, suddenly "woof!! WOOF!!WoOf!!" a lovely bark striked my ear it broken down the sadness in me like a bolt from the blue sky. I was attracted by the echo, the barking sound and I just wanted to take it home. When I turned my head around, an adorable cute labrador retriever was staring at me. its milky eye blended with the shiny lights, its eyebrow that was bending down like it was very pity and its little black nose just captured my heart .I just wanted to took it home immediately at that very moment.

But in the depth of my heart I knew that my drem wouldnt come true.But in that particular moment I heard mom said"Oww, what an adorable dog look at its face its so cute!!!" At this moment I sense a rare chance was coming. And I was going to take this oppurtunity to asked my mother to buy it.At first ,my mom still hesitating. But because of my million begging she accepted it. On that day, I was so happy that I almost jumped to the tip of the sky.But 1 condition that my mom uttered was I must take good care of it and the most important was CLEANED ITS POO EVERYDAY!!!!!I accepted the condition and in a blink of an eye. The dog was in my house and i named it REX.

Rex was 6 month old when i bought it.It was borned in January 23.It had a gold colour coating fur.It was obedient and liked to licked my feet. Everyday when I came back home from school Rex would jumped right on me and kept stucking out its toungue.It would kept running around my feet and licked my toes.My family would laughy in joy if it did that.In the evening I will play with it in the park.In he park, I remembered once when it was bullied by a big stray dog ,It didnt ran away like a "chicken" in fact it barked fiercely at the stray dog and growls at it.Amazingly the dog ran away making sounds liked it was scared.I was admired by its courage and it actually taught me a lesson.

During night time, Rex sleep under my bed,sometimes it get up my bed and licked my face and I got fed up with it everytime when it did that. Once, when I woke up ,I saw Rex sleeping soundly on my body and I yelled loudly"REXXXXX!!!!!!" at him. Rex was a greedy dog,when I was eating something and it spotted me, It wouldnt jumped on me and grabbed my food, but instead it kept sitting and showed its pity face at me.At first when I saw it, i gave him some.But when days passed, and it kept using that trick, I didnt care him anymore.And what it did later was turned back and rolled it eyes like it was telling me that"Dont give Dont GIVE La!!! Selfish master..."

Years and years had past until I had to leave Rex.I would not forget the day I left Rex. That day when I was ready to leave,Rex was staring at me with a sad face ,it kept licked my hand softly.Behind it eyes i sure I could see watery in his eyes.I touched it head wearing my shoe,ready to board.When I walked to the car door it barked at me.I wouldnt forget how it bark at me the sound was different from its normal bark. In father's car mirror I could see Rex wanted to chase my father's car but my mother stopped it.

Although I could hardly see it ,but its image will never vanish in my mind.

Projects Day competition

As a part of Hwa Chong all students are required to take part in Projects Day competition, and it is compulsory to all sec 1's and sec 2's. I'm quite proud of taking part of this competition because it is fun and interesting. It can help me to build up teamwork and socialisation too! This competition is quite special because it actually counts mark in Independance Study subject. Others school may not have this kind of program but Hwa Chong actually have it!

In this competition, it was divided into about 10 catagories and we sec1's were recomended to choose this 4 catagories-invention, experimental researh, language arts(Eng and Chinese).Because we are new to this program so during the sec 1 assembly ,we are introduced by our beloved teachers that willing to spend their precious time just to guide us and give us more explanation in details for us. Not just that only, during the research studies, all teachers of each catagory came by that day to introduced more deeply on the respective catogaries. Firstly the teacher who in charge in experimental research gave her speech. During her speech, I knew that some experiment were not recommended to do research and conduct experiment like:causes of tsunami, the effect of brains after drinking a cup of coffee.............This kind of experiment were to hard to conduct experiment. As the teacher had said if the experiment we make is a failure we should redo.Besides that,the teacher also mention some sucessful works to us that was made by the se1's last year.

Secondly,is the invention catagory this catagory is quite difficukt to do because we have to do a prototype and have to do alot of research and take opinions from the others and see if the inventions is a suceed.So, sudents from last year that chose this catagory had met alot of failure because sometimes the prototype breakdown, and sometimes during presentation ,the prototype was not working, all sorts of problem. Next, is language arts .The objective of these speeches were to let us know more about the catagories of the competition.And as for me im taking part in inventions.