The Village by the Sea

Hi everyone, 

Today, I'm going to talk about a new book.

Drumroll Please

Yes it is the book that we all love The Village By the Sea

Has anyone ever thought about I possible ending(happy or sad)? Well I actually did during my LA class. Well here it is hope you guys out there like it.

Epilogue--- 1 years later

"Bela! Wait for me!" Kamal shouted as she tried to catch up with her hyper-active sister.

The reason for such excitement? It was simple, Hari had finally earned enough money to send his sister to school and it had been so long since the two little girls had gone to school. 

"Mum, we are home!" shouted Bela as approached her home.

 

"How was school dear?" replied a lady who came out of the house. She was Bela's mother. Last year, Bela's mum was so sick that she could not even stand up, but now, thanks to the de SIlvas,  her mum was as fit as a fiddle and was able to help out with the household chores.

"School was great mum. It feels so good to be finally be able to go back to school, aren't I right Kamal?" replied Bela.

"I LOVE school. It was SO fun. I can't wait to go back tomorrow. By the way, where's dad, Hari and Lila." asked Kamal.

"Oh dad and Lila are at the poultry farm. As for Hari is still at his watch repair shop. Recently, with more engineers and workers coming in Thul, both businesses have been doing very well. I don't think they will come back early today." replied Bela's mother.

"Mum, do you like the change that is going to happen to Thul?" asked the ever curious Bela.

"Well... even if I don't like the change that is going to happen, I cannot just sit down here and sulk as it will not bring any good. Instead we should accept the change and adapt to the new surrounding. That is how we can survive. The wheel never stands still and stop; it rolls, rolls and rolls." replied Bela's mum.

  

Nothing but the Truth

Hi everyone,

Below is a video about Nothing but the Truth.

Hope you liked it.

Anyway, today I am going to talk about a possible ending to the book Nothing but the Truth.

Dairy of Phillp Malloy

Life is NOT a bed of roses. Ever since that incident that happen months, my life has been changed a 180 degrees around. Just because I was singing (or humming. Does that make any difference?), my life has been drastically changed. Now I am in a weird private school filled with nerds and geeks and to make things worse, THERE IS NO TRACK TEAM!!! If i had continued to stay in my previous school, I would be blamed by others because I had caused my English teacher, Miss Margaret Narwin to resign. But is it my fault? If she had just not poke her nose into my affairs, none of this would have happened. Furthermore, people like Jake Barlow just kept on talking about this issue causing people to be provoked which resulted my into getting so much trouble. And if you think this is bad, wait till you hear the rest of my story. When I had arrived in my new school, I was asked to lead the class in singing the national anthem. At that very moment of time, I had no choice but to admit that I did not know the lyrics to the national anthem. Ever since then, I have been coldly treated by the student in my new school. 

Well there is no use complaining now. :(

NEVER give up

Hi "long time" no see,

Today our topic is about resilience and about NEVER EVER giving up.

For most of you guys in 1A3, when you were in P1, you were always getting very high marks, aren't I right?

However for my case, life was not a bed of roses. I was always getting a Band 2-3 and a rare Band 1. At the end of the year, I was around "top" 200 in my cohort. 

When I was in P2-P3, the Band 3's were gone and I would usually get a Band 2 and sometimes for EL and Math a Band 1. I was ranked 100+ during that time.

Then my forth year in primary school came, the year of my greatest improvement. That year, I topped my level for English that meant I had actually beaten the top boy in the top class. That year, my ranking became from 100+ to somewhere around 30-40 (I can't really remember). I personally believe that the main reason why I had such a big improvement was that I had worked very hard (especially during the holidays).

Then when I was in p5 and p6,  my results were starting to get better. I had some high band 2's ( above 80) and quite a lot of band 1's and A*'s. At the end of the year, I was top 14 in my school.

If I had given up because of the fact that my results were poor when I was in P3, I would not be able to enter HCI such a wonderful school and be in 1A3 and have such nice and friendly classmates.

Being Hard Working

Famous inventor, Thomas Alva Edison said "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration"

What does this mean?

Personally, I think what Thomas Edison is trying to say is that in order to succeed, one has to work hard and his or her efforts will pay off.

I actually know of someone who came from China in 2002 and was primary 4. When she came to Singapore, she did not even know her ABC's, but when she took her English test, she got a Band 1. Some of you may say that she was lucky or something like that, but the truth of the matter is that her success was the fruits of the hours spent learning and being taught by her mother. Now, she is in RJC year 1. In addition, she is in the best class and is actually one of the best in English in her entire school. From this we can see that actually what Thomas Edison said was 100% correct. However, the thing is that not everyone puts in a 100% effort  (including myself sometimes). People make use of the proverb" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and say that they should totally not do any work and slack. They always think that they can do things at the eleventh hour (like how I am rushing to do 5 blog posts). They think that do the work is a waste of time and playing games is a more meaningful job to spend his time.

If you disagree with what I say, feel free to share your comments.

Bye(off to do my next blog post...)

Best sci-fi book I have read yet

The SuperNaturalist

" Reads like the Matrix crossed with Oliver Twist" - The Times

"A headlong techno fantasy... Colfer's story rattles along at a tremendous pace"-Guardian

"Colfer's best book yet"-Mail on Sunday

The story is set in a futuristic place on Earth called Satellite City, a place where happily ever after does not exist.

Basically this story is from the point of view of Cosmo Hill. Cosmo Hill is an orphan living in Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Being an orphan there was like being a lab rat trapped in a lab forever with no way out. The orphan there are forced totest out products of all kind even if the eating the product meant death.

In the end Cosmo does escape the orphanage. However, Cosmo realizes that life in Satellite City was just as bad. Sadly, Satellite City is filled high-tech street gangs, SWAT like team of paralegals and worst of all it is infested with four-fingered parasites that are invisible to everyone except Cosmo and three other misfits that call themselves the SuperNaturalist. These parasites suck the life out of you. Is it Cosmo's destiny to destroy the parasite?

What I like about this story is that the twists in the plot are everywhere.

Rating 9/10

An Essay

SHOULD MOTHERS STAY AT HOME AND LOOK AFTER CHILDREN

Should mothers remain at home to take care of children? Personally I agree and diagree to a certain extent with this question as there are both positive and negative effects of the mother staying at home to look after children.

Firstly, I agree that mothers should remain at home to take care of children. My reason for this opinion is that if the women were to go out and work, the family would most likely employ a maid to look after the children. The maid may be caring and love the child but the difference between maternal love and love from a third party is very significant. The child might even grow up feeling neglected and not loved. In addition, the child might grow up and astray as there is nobody at home to monitor him or her. For example, there have been many cases where the child was left alone at home and the child ended up mixing with the wrong company and started smoking or taking drugs. Also, the parents did not know or suspect anything the whole time. Therefore, it is of upmost importance that a parent should stay at home to monitor the child and that parent should be the mother as traditionally, women stay at home while the husband goes out to work.

On the other hand, I also partly disagree that mothers should stay at home to take care of their children. If the women has high qualifications which allow her to get a good, stable, high paying job and if the husband's salary is not as much, it would seem much more practical for the wife to go out and work while the husband stays at home to look after their children. If the mother were to stay at home to look after their children, they might grow up with the mentality that their mother would always be there to help them. The child would then not be able to be independent as he or she would tend to rely on their parents.

In conclusion, I agree and disagree to a certain extent that mothers should not go out and work, but should remain at home to look after their children. Perhaps in the future, bosses can be more flexible on the employes working time, or even let them work from home.

Responsiblity

What is RESPONSIBILITY???

If I were to look up the dictionary for this word, I will get this:

–noun, plural -ties.
1.
the state or fact of being responsible.
2.
an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours!
3.
a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
4.
a person or thing for which one is responsible: A child is a responsibility to its parents.
5.
reliability or dependability, esp. in meeting debts or payments.—Idiom
6.
on one's own responsibility, on one's own initiative or authority: He changed the order on his own responsibility.

Before I talk about responsibilty, let tell you what I saw a few days ago.

At a overhead bridge, I saw two little kids. One was a 5 year old boy, while the other was like a 3-4 years old girl. They were struggling to get down the stairs mainly because they were young and too short to reach the handles of the stairs.My intial thought was that they were so excited to get home that they were way ahead of their parents. However, this was not the the case. "Mummy, mummy wait for me" I heard the little girl said. Only then did I realise that her mother was actually infront of them. She was metres away. She seemed to have heard her child's pleads, but she just ignored it as if she had something more impotant was on her mind. (What could be more important than the safety of her own children.) Not only did the little girl's cry for help not even affect her mother but also, it made her mother walk even quicker...

TO BE CONTINUED