Saturday, August 14, 2010
Hello everyone ! It has been a very long time since I last updated my blog. In actual fact, the last post I made on this blog was on the 24th of May. And today is already the 15th of August. How time flies, it has been around two months since I last updated this blog. Anyway, today I will be posting my photo montage on this blog. This photo montage is an assignment given by our Language Arts teacher. This project is done by me, Javier Loo ( 9 ) and also Daryl Ware ( 6 ). Although this project was long completed and presented, due to my lazy and obstinate nature, I took very long time to settle down and complete my tasks. So at last, I decided to do it today.
So first off, let me introduce this photo to you. The theme of our photo montage is ' Pride '. Basically, I have categorized them into three different groups, and they are 'Co-curricular activities', 'School / Singapore' and lastly 'Happiness over someone's misery'. Under 'Co-curricular activities', both Daryl and I have added pictures of our CCAs. Softball being Daryl's CCA and NCC being my CCA. We indubitably feel proud of our CCAs, and we definitely love it alot.
Next, moving on to 'School/ Singapore', we have pictures of my NCC uniform ( again ), the school's clock tower, along with the Tan Kah Kee Statue, and lastly a HCI school uniform. As described by the group name, these pictures are mainly about school and also Singapore.
Lastly, it is 'Happiness over someone's misery'. The person in the picture is actually is my brother, and he is attempting to do a push-up, but to no avail. The purpose of this picture is to show that I am feeling very proud to be able to do push-ups with ease and seeing my brother SUFFER in misery.
For now, I have nothing more to add. So, bye. :D
Monday, May 24, 2010
Fair Fox, full of griefsailed away from the Boston shoreshe wept,oh my!For hours and hours, oh my!Weeping!Oh her grief,It is a leaking faucetIt is like a pouring shower, and her ship begins to sink down.She is sinking!But, the wind carries her tears away,The breeze is cool and relaxingThe Fair Fox is happyThe boat is now afloat,and her grief gown goneOh my!Figurative language is used in most of the lines of the poem. There are five techniques of figurative language.
1) Metaphor: A metaphor is a comparison made between things which are essentially not alike. It is similar to a simile, but does not use like or as. One example of a metaphor would be to say, "it is a leaking faucet"
2) Simile: A simile is a comparison that often uses the words like or as. One example of a simile would be to say, "It is like a pouring shower"
3) Personification: When something that is not human is given human-like qualities, this is known as personification. An example of personification would be to say,"wind carries" The wind gained human traits by being able to "carry" the fox's tears.
4) Hyperbole: Exaggerating, often in a humorous way, to make a particular point is known as hyperbole. One of example of hyperbole would be to say, "Weeping!Oh her grief". The writer used this to create an overly grievous emphasis on the fox's grief
5) Symbolism: Symbolism occurs when a noun which has meaning in itself is used to represent something entirely different. One example of symbolism would be to use an image of the American flag to represent patriotism and a love for one’s country.
I like this poem as it displays many types of figurative language, which could allow me to learn and understand this poem better. The composer expresses this poem with much exaggeration, for example, he ended the poem with 'Oh my' and also added 'Oh her grief'. In conclusion, I would like to say that this poem is very nice and I indubitably love it.
A day at school
Bells ring,
Students wish
Teachers are absent,
Then their lives would be loosen.
Students talk,
Unable to stop,
Monitor nods,
Everyone stops,
Teacher steps in,
Students act disciplined,
Monitor starts to complain,
Trouble is deep.
Bells ring once again,
Their zest regains,
And walked out of the school,
Looking so cool
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Hello people. Once again, I am going to make another post for ACE. Today, I will talk more on the 'Animal Farm' play which I attended on the 23rd of April. From what I know, this play is a 10th year production by 'W!LD RICE'. Firstly, I shall now start off with a brief introduction regarding this play. 'Animal Farm' is a novella written by George Orwell. This book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II, which also emphasizes on totalitarianism. It was formally known as 'Animal Farm: A Fairy Story', however, it was changed to solely 'Animal Farm' for the sake of publishing.
Now, I shall now elaborate more on what happened in the play. At the start of the play, there was a baffling introduction. Truthfully speaking, there was an unanimous thought among my friends that we may have entered the wrong drama room. However, as the pandemonium had died down gradually, we were able to comprehend what the casts of the 'Animal Farm' play were trying to portray. As the casts first stepped onto the stage, they were apparently wearing normal clothes. This depicts that the animals in Animal Farm were the parallel of people from all walks of life, for example, workers, businessmen,students and also the royalties. As the start of the story approaches, the casts, dressed in normal clothes, took of the clothes instantaneously and have apparently became animals.
Throughout the play, there were scenes which were adjacent with the reality, for example, the use of power to tyrannise over lower subjects. However, there were also hilarious and funny scenes which could evoked the laughter of the crowd easily.
It is time to end this post. Goodbye.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Hello everyone! It has been a very, very long time since I have last posted on this blog. Astonishing, I just realized that I have not made a post for the entire month of March. I suppose that this is because I have recently been procrastinating (a word I learnt from Jiong Wei) very oftenly. Periodically, whenever I feel like making a post on my blogs, I just relinquish the thought of doing so as I just do not want to waste time doing any homework, but instead, I would rather start playing computer games. Even though I know this is a wrong way to do things, it just can’t be helped. I feel hopeless whenever I rushed homework at the eleventh hour, having the thought ‘that I have to finish it by hook or crook by tonight.’ But today, I shall make an effort to make a post on this blog for the sake of my studies and my Language Arts results.
Anyway, I shall now talk about most of the significant events that happened in the month of March. One of them was my birthday that falls on the 12th of March. It was a dreadfully boring and tiresome Friday. It happened to be the last day of camp in St. John’s Island. The camp was very intriguing and was full of activities. The first night on St, John’s Island was fine and comfy, except the creepy environment in St. John’s Island at night. Our class slept in the dorms. However, for the second night, we had to sleep in the tents. As far as I could remember, sleeping in tents was terrible. The air in the tent was sultry and was literally baking us. We had our ‘lights off’ at around 11pm. However, we dragged on and in the end, we all settled down at about 11.45pm. Several of my friends had decided to wish me a happy birthday at exactly 12am, which is approximately 15 minutes to go. Unknowingly, I fell asleep before 12am. That night was atrocious. As soon as I have slept, the humid air pulled me back to reality. I was unable to fall asleep after that. Together with a classmate, we stayed up for the whole night till morning. That sensation, whereby you are entirely enervated and you are unable to sleep, was terrible. But after all, we made it through the night. To describe this camp adventure with one word, it would be ‘fabulous’.
It is time for me to end this post. Goodbye.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Hello people, good morning. Today is Home-Learning for our school, thus giving us the ‘privilege’ to stay at home to complete our respective subjects’ assignments. Most of you, I mean my friends from other schools, are evidently in school now. Something cropped up this morning, which obviated us from starting our pre-planned appointment for our IH assignment. I seriously hope that a similar scenario would not occur again. What I meant is that a supposedly small mistake would impede the progress of our project and in the end, the results would be thwarted.
Anyway, this post is for my Language Arts Home-Learning assignment. Firstly, I would be talking about my learning style. I have taken the Multiple Intelligences test some time ago and I am very sure of what results I have attained for it. My learning style is ‘Interpersonal’. Basically, based on the definition from the dictionary, it just means occurring among or involving several people. I guess that is definitely my style of learning. I indubitably feel that this style fits me, as I really enjoy working and participating in groups for projects and group work in all aspects of learning and gaining of knowledge. From my own perspective, being in groups is apparently way better than accomplishing a project individually. This is because when you are in a group, you would be able to list a diverse area of suggestions, and so could your teammates. After these procedures, your teammates could find out what mistakes and problems your suggestion would have and vice-versa. Then, the whole group will make an effort to pick out the most suitable idea which is eligible for the project. When you are working individually, ideas that you think of may have flaws which you do not even realise. This is because from your own point of view, you may think that it is perfect and unblemished. However, there is also a disadvantage when working in groups. That is the argument aroused between members of the group when they strongly oppose each other regarding certain matters. This may cause friction between the members and in later dates, working together cooperatively would be an unenviable task. There are also many other types of learning styles. They are Naturalistic, Kinaesthetic, Linguistic, Logical, Intrapersonal, Musical and Visual/Spatial.
Now, for the second activity, I would be writing a response to the hypothetical question from Miss Kinnian, an ‘important’ character from the story Flowers for Algernon.
Miss Kinnian, being the woman who Charlie Gordon loves and had learnt a lot from, should try to help Charlie Gordon, despite his unswayed and importunate mindset that he was going to remain shut off from the world and all the people he knows, including Miss Kinnian. If I were Miss Kinnian, I would remain undaunted by the cruel fact, and continue linger outside Charlie’s room. Being a man, after seeing this, Charlie Gordon would most likely give way and come out of his room personally to talk to Miss Kinnian without any other options. I would then try to pursue for the reason for Charlie’s stubbornness regarding his actions. Even if he does not give me the applicable answer, I am sure to confront Dr. Strauss about what happened to him. Otherwise, I would visit him more often, despite knowing his refusal of facing me. From the passage, Miss Kinnian, as well as the people Charlie knew, was kept in the dark all the time, not having a single clue that Charlie was sick. I would also scour shopping malls or outdoor parks with Charlie, to expose him to the world, before any unfortunate happens.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Hello guys, once again. These days have been quite intriguing and gratifying. Recently, I have received back my Chinese and Mathematics Test scripts, and of course, along with the marks. I felt very rhapsodic upon receiving them, as I have gotten marks which are of great satisfactory to me. I have scored A1 for both my Chinese and Mathematics test. The astonishing news is that when I received the Mathematics Test script, I was taken aback by what I saw. From what I have said earlier in my previous post, you can guess that my Mathematics Test results were ‘bad’. However, that was not the case. This is how it came to…
At the start of the lesson, our Maths Teacher began the lesson spontaneously after the similar procedure of greeting him. Then, as a result of a classmate who did not participate in the test that day, giving out the scripts to the pupils on that day would be inapplicable and discouraged. Thus, he proposed to reveal the marks, which we have gotten, first. Based on register numbers, he revealed the marks one by one. When it was my turn, I heard ‘37’ from the teacher. The test is upon 40 by the way. I could not believe it initially, thus, I asked my classmate beside me how many marks did I get. He said ‘27’. My heart sank instantaneously. My mood became low for the rest of the day.
Anyway, our school cohort ran the cross-country today. It was pretty enjoyable and fun, as we could try to win our friends in the run. But I felt a little dizzy after I have completed the run around the school premises. It was still satisfying. On the other hand, the school had generously ‘hired’ a Milo van for us to enjoy Milo after our run. The Milo is very sweet and fulfilling to our thirst. I had about 5 cups of Milo throughout the period when the Secondary two, three and four started their run. After the prize ceremony, I went to change into a fresh set of school uniform and went to the auditorium for our Research Studies. On that day, we were able to go home pretty early.
The sad thing is there is an IH test and a LSS test tomorrow. I feel so anxious. I am on tenterhooks all the time just at the thought of it, not kidding. But, I have revised for it, so that eases a little of my anxiety. I just hope that my revision might come to a handy tomorrow. Goodbye and goodnight…
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Hello again. This is such a dreary Saturday. But, it is still accompanied by many activities. This is so confusing. I do not know what to post already. As we can see, my previous posts were about my ‘life’ and all the events and happenings. Since it is maybe the last post that I will do for this term, I might as well buck up and finish this post by hook or by crook. Let me start with something new…
We all know that today is a Saturday and it is a weekend, which is suppose to let us take a break after five consecutive days of school, but what do we usually do on these days? What is the thing that takes up most of our supposedly ‘relaxing’ time? The answer is homework. Who would really love doing homework that much until he or she would gradually recognise it as a hobby. Yes, I know that some of us Singaporeans are like that. But obviously, most of us are the opposite. We don’t love homework that much. When teachers, parents give us tons of assignments or homework at a time, groaning in disgruntlement is common in classes or at home. Pupils in classes would try to ‘bargain’ with their teachers to give them less homework for them to enjoy their weekends. I personally witnessed this point before as this apparently applied to my primary school classes. So all in all, I conclude that homework should not be given for us to complete over the weekends. We protest! Ok, I was just kidding. Homework should always be given over the weekends. We can’t afford to slacken down, and if slacking becomes consistent, our studies would indubitably drop drastically.
Now, I shall once again talk about what happened today. Initially, I went to my friend’s apartment with another classmate to complete our project. Obviously, we completed it in a very short duration. This shows the efficiency of our group. Later, we began to play online games to kill time. My classmate then ordered pizza for lunch with us. That was so generous of his parents and him. We went home shortly. It was a long journey from his house to mine. In addition, the train was jam-packed and was full of people. The journey has debilitated me literally. It is time to end this post here. Bye.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Today is a pretty exhausting day… It seems that everyday is. This is funny. I don’t get so tired everyday when I was in primary school. Our lives have changed. We have to keep up with our lives. To list an example, making friends is one. We have been separated from our primary school friends for a period of time already, some of us are already reminiscing the past felicitous or even disheartening events or memories that happened in the primary school life. However, at this point of time, we have also made new friends. This is the good news.
I shall get back to the point. Firstly, we had Language Arts lesson today. At the start of the lesson, our teacher revised something with us again, regarding the ‘tactic’ to analyse comprehension text and questions. She named the tactic ‘PEE Burger’. Yes I understand, you might be thinking. “How could there be a burger made out of pee or with pee? This is hilarious!” I also had this thought when I was first introduced to it. I supposed that all my other classmates were likewise based on their ‘strong’ reaction to this ‘PEE Burger’. Basically, ‘PEE Burger’ means point, evidence and explanation/elaboration. This is the tactic to solving most comprehension questions. It is also very effective.
Secondly, since our CCA allocation results were released yesterday, we were expected to report to our respective CCAs today. I was lost, not literally, at the venue where the newly recruits were supposed to assemble. I did not know where to go. I only saw the seniors in their smart uniforms, no familiar faces. So, I just randomly asked someone about it. Introductions were carried out soon.
Our group of newly recruits was then brought to the street soccer court to play soccer against the seniors. Since I don’t really like playing soccer, I did not really enjoy the process. As a result, I feel ‘extra’. However, I still took part in a few matches.
I reached home at about 7 pm, practically enervated completely. But after all, this is still a fulfilling day.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Today was an uninteresting and detestable day. Firstly, our class’s CCA allocation results were finally out. The teacher came in to the classroom at about 9.45am when most of the class pupils were already out in the canteen for their recess break. It was unexpected. The few of pupils in the class, including me, were apparently minding our own businesses when she came in. I was changing! But fortunately, I was fast. Ok, I shall stop saying such redundant things. As a matter of fact, we were all anxious to find out what CCA we were allocated to after so many days of ‘impatient’ waiting. This was when the unpredictable came. When I was trying to squeeze through my classmates to the list that was pinned at the notice board at the back of the classroom, I could see the obvious and jubilant look on their faces. They must have gotten a CCA which they favoured. By then, I expected that the same thing will happen to me. However, things turn out the opposite way. When I peered at the piece of paper for my name and CCA, I was utterly shocked. It wrote there ‘NCC’! I can’t believe my eyes. ‘NCC’ is my last choice. How could it be? At that point of time, I felt that it was just so ridiculous. I felt like screaming out loud, but obviously I can’t. I just have to accept what I have gotten.
Secondly, my Maths teacher, Mr Chua, revealed our tests marks today. I shall not reveal how much I have gotten. It is pretty embarrassing to do that. By the way, I did not do exceptionally well, only about my class’s average. I should have done better. However, what’s done is done. I shall just work harder for my next test to come and score better.
It is time to go to bed and sleep. Bye…
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
It has been many days, in fact weeks, since I have last posted. This blog is not going on smoothly. This is bad. Why is that so? I suppose that it is because of the days’ events and activities that caused me to be idle and to have the thought of lazing around instead of making an effort to make a post on this blog. However, I will make an ‘exception’ today since it is the last day of our Chinese New Year holiday.
These few days have been pretty interesting. I have received about fourteen red packets from my relatives, and one from my parents. Everyday is a rejuvenating one. I love the feeling of receiving red packets from my relatives. I do not know why, but it just is. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, my family went to my aunt’s house. By the time we reached our destination, most of our relatives have already reached there long before us. I was overwhelmed. It was such a crowded sight. At that point of time, I have this thought, “Wow, I am sure to get a lot of red packets!”
I had a pretty fun time there. I enjoyed the snacks available at the place and I even played poker cards with my relatives. What an enjoyable day! However, this festive season has caused me to slacken in my studies, yet again. There is a Language Arts test tomorrow. I am very worried, with the uneasy thought that I might not score well. This is because I have just received the short story’s draft a few days ago. I have scored 23/30. This is considered lower compared to most of my other classmates. I feel mortified. Finally, I would like to conclude that I would have to work harder. But action speaks louder than words. I am not really sure whether I would be able to accomplish it. It’s time to end this post. Bye...
Friday, January 15, 2010
Hello. I am Javier Loo. I have just came back from the National Library Board (NLB) at Bukit Merah. I went there to complete my homework with my friend. At first, I was overwhelmed by the amount of work that I have to complete. The most troubling thing about the assignment is that I do not really understand what I am suppose to do. However, despite the oncoming events coming from Hwa Chong Institution, I would try my very best to get used and adapt to the Hwa Chong life and be a part of the Hwa Chong Family.
I am actually an active boy and I like playing sports game. After playing a sport, it would usually give me a joyous sensation. However, I would prefer to remain silent in class, as I am afraid of giving the wrong answer to the questions asked by the teacher. I would be mortified then. Moreover, I would try my best to be out-spoken and reply spontaneously to questions, so as to improve my OP grades.
I undeniably feel that lessons in Hwa Chong to me now, are pretty complex and troubling. I suppose that it is because I am new to the Secondary 1 life and have not adapted fully to it. Thus, I have to be more conscientious and to pay a definite awareness and attention to the instructions and assignments given by teachers. Besides doing so, I also feel that I have to read up on more reference books as I have realised that I am lagging behind my classmates.
