Wednesday 25 June 2014

 Book Review

1) The title of the book is called Horrid Henry Tricks The Tooth Fairy by Francesca Simon.

   Horrid Henry have a younger brother, Perfect Peter, whom is a sensible and well mannered boy but Horrid Henry is an opposite of him. He will always bully Perfect Peter. There was once when Horrid Henry was playing with Perfect Peter, Perfect Peter's tooth dropped. He was so enthusiastic and believed that if he placed his tooth under his pillow, the tooth fairy will give him some money. Horrid Henry was so jealous about it as his friends and brother dropped their teeth but he did not. He then tried ways to lose his tooth. He ate jars of sweets and expected them to drop but failed.
   At night, when his brother was asleep, he sneaked into his room and snatched the tooth away and put it under his pillow instead. He woke up the next morning but to find out the tooth was missing and heard Perfect Peter saying that the tooth fairy left him a whole pound. He tried to trick the tooth fairy later at night when he got ideas from his friends. He put his toy dinosaur's tooth below his pillow and wrote a polite Thank You note to the tooth fairy so that she would leave more money. He even colored a paper black to fit his tooth so that it looked as if he had drop the tooth. Soon, the next day arrived when he found a pound under his pillow but realized it was a rubber coin. He checked the letter he wrote and found it written as : Nice try, Henry.
   His mother then shouted for Henry and asked about the jars of sweets. He tried to blame it on his cat, Fluffy, but his mother did not believe and banned him from eating sweets for a month. His mother then reprimanded him to eat an apple and when he took his first bite, his tooth loosened. He was joyful and took another bite but little did he know, the tooth dropped and he swallowed it.

3) I like the book because it is chuckle some. I like the way how it is expressed by the author.

4) I like the part whereby although Horrid Henry snatched the tooth and made it like it's his but Perfect Peter still got his money from the tooth fairy. I did not expect that the tooth fairy would actually do this but it is fair to Perfect Peter so it is quite interesting.

5) I would not want to change anything in the story because I think that everything in there is just perfect.

6) I would recommend this to people who loves to read book that are humorous.

Friday 18 April 2014

International Friendship Day

  International Friendship Day falls on the 3rd August. It is a day that people celebrates friendship. There are advantages of cultivating good international friendship with other countries because if there are any natural disasters or wars occurring in our country, we would need money to rebuild our houses and many other places so we can ask them to donate funds for us. 

  We can also have better tradings from different countries like food, fuel and daily necessities. People from other countries who wants to migrate from there to Singapore because of education or work will do so unless the countries are enemies to us.They would avoid coming to Singapore and our population will eventually decrease. Good friendships with other countries will benefit us a lot. 
Name: Ng Wendy 
Class: 1E1
Draft 3: Tenses / Writing Techniques 

The Story Of The Escalator

  "Flick!" I was switched on by Mr Lin, a security guard in Sunshine Mall. He had been switching me "on" and "off" for the past ten years. Do you know I am? I have been in the top news stories every year! I am the one and only who knows how to create trouble for others. I am the escalator! Now you know , I am very well-known. I created a huge disaster last year. That was the biggest I had ever made. This is how mischievous I am. Do you still remember how the disaster happened? If not, follow me into this story.

  "Another boring day," I sighed. "People have been stepping me the whole day. Can't I do something on my to-do list?" To-do list! Everyone should be afraid when I have plans on the to-do list. One example is to stop when people are stepping off me. Wow! How creative I am! "Ouch!' I yelled in agony. A boy just hopped onto me and kept jumping. "Ow, ow, ow!" That hurts young man!" I reprimanded him. 

  Just then, I heard a lady whom I assume is his mother say, "Honey, don't jump on the escalator, you might trip and fall! " The word "trip" pierced through my mind. My evil thoughts kept repeating  this word. Why am I hearing this continuously? Suddenly, my expression changed. I smirked. I became the naughtiest escalator of all. I noticed his shoelaces were untied and were hanging near my gaps. What if I trip him? Muahaha..

  Closer... Closer... Closer! Gotcha! I managed to get the shoelaces stuck in. Jump! I persuaded him. Jump! Just when he was about to jump, "Honey, your shoelaces!" reminded his mother. However, it was too late, he jumped. I felt something dripping on me . What is that? Just when I was about to take a look, I feared for the boy's safety. When I looked down, I was totally speechless. He had fallen onto the ground and blood oozed out from him. Everything was cover with his blood. My handrails, the floor, everything. His mother then rushed to him and shouted for help. Just then, Mr Lin was also patrolling the area. He saw the incident and immediately dialed 995.

  I was switched off by Mr Lin and my thoughts were back to normal. "What on earth had I done? I just made a little boy fall, I reflected. Someone was running down my steps great hurry. I guessed that it was the little boy's father. " Hold it there sir, hold it! Something spilled on me just now. " I tried to shout out loud but failed. "Whoa!" A scream was being let out. I dare not to look any further. I closed my eyes and tried to shut all the cries of worry.

Sunday 30 March 2014

Name: Ng Wendy
Class: 1E1
Draft 2 : Contractions/Grammar 

Block 123
Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3
#09-64
Singapore 560123

1st June 2014

Dear Loretta 

  How are you? I have not heard from you for a long time . Hope that you are doing fine. Is your overseas trip fun? I am so envious as I've never gone overseas before, not even once. You wanted to know my plans for the school holidays in June, right?

  I came across a brochure which has at least three activities for the June holidays. I have decided to sign up for the " Relax with Kids' Yoga" and " Ang Mo Kio Soccer Club Holiday Programme ". The reason why I pick " Relax with Kids' Yoga"  is because it helps me to relax and rejuvenate my mind, body and spirit. It includes storytelling and music that are led by the instructors. It is conducted either on the 9-11 June or 16-18 June at 9.00am to 12.00pm. It cost $120 per participant. It is a bit costly but I am willing to participate as I have been too stressed out over work. 

  Another reason why I want to sign up for the soccer club is all because I love sports! It would be fun to learn how it is going to be played. I may have to be careful as soccer is a rough game. It would be on Wednesday evenings, 4th, 11th , 18th and 25th of June.  For girls it would be conducted from 4.30pm to 5.30pm and for the boys it would be at 5.30pm to 6.30pm . It is located at Ang Mo Kio Soccer Stadium ( 1 , Ang Mo Kio Road ) and it is free! There is an age limit required  which  is only from 13 to 16. I am looking forward to them. 

  I would also want to be engaged in an activity that is not mentioned in the brochure. It is the bicycle training. I do not know how to cycle on it. No matter how hard it is going to be, I would still give it a try! It is just like a Mathematics question. If I do not know how to solve it, I would try and try until I find the solution. 

  In my opinion, the three activities I mentioned are meaningful and enjoyable activities as I could learn while having fun! It's just like school, we learn different subjects while having fun. I am so elated to see this brochure.

  What do you think about my plans? Reply me back as soon as possible. I wish you the best! 

Cheers
Wendy

Monday 24 March 2014

Reflection 

  English lessons are considered the most important lessons for us because we would need to use it for our daily lives. Mdm Tan and Ms Foo would always share interesting news article like " Teenagers are smoking nowadays" , " Student yelling at teacher" and many more! This is a good way to teach us as we can improve more on speaking proper English, our vocabulary and grammar by reading and understanding them.

  For my common , I did not fare so well in English. I did not expect myself to get this marks as my homework are usually graded in my expectation. Most probably I did not revise well enough that is why I fare badly, but this does not mean I could not score better marks for the next test. I will put in good effort into both homework and test. I will read more newspapers, practice more on friendly letter and composition, read notes that are prepared by Mdm Tan and Ms Foo and last but not least to listen and pay the fullest attention in class. 

  In my opinion, teachers plays an important role for teaching us. They can try to spot common errors, let us have more reading periods, more fun activities held , more helpful notes and lesser homework as we have to attend tuition , cca and enrichment classes. I feel stressful as I do not have the time to complete the homework unless I burn the midnight oil . This would lead me to insufficient sleep. 

Monday 10 February 2014

Email

To: Wilson@gmail.com
Cc: Wendy@gmail.com
Subject: Little India Riot

  Dear Wilson,
                          How have you been studying in Los Angles? Is it awesome? Do you know that a riot happened in Singapore at Little India recently? It was horrific! I never expected something to happen like this in Singapore. It all took place after a driver whom was driving a private bus which knocked onto an Indian national Sakthivel Kumaravelu, 33, at the junction of Race Course Road and Tekka Land.

                         I wonder why would the riot start? I don't think this is necessary ! They are here to work not to create a chaos. Tourist would have a bad impression and will be afraid to visit Singapore after they had heard this news. They would think that Singapore is an unsafe place. Some of the crowd even dare to flip the police cars when they arrived! I really pity those policemen in the car. The crowd were absolutely unreasonable. Argh! I am very annoyed by this incident. 

                           Ok, I can't carry on further as I have a tuition to attend to. Hopefully this riot would not happen again to Singapore. Do write me an email when you see this. Feel free to ask me for the link if you want to see the news of the riot. 

Love,
Wendy
Friendly letter 
Address:
Block 123
Ang Mo Kio Avenue 2
#11-211
Singapore 560123 

8 February 2014

  Dear Wilson,
                          How have you been studying in Los Angles? Is it awesome? Do you know that a riot happened in Singapore at Little India recently? It was horrific! I never expected something to happen like this in Singapore. It all took place after a driver whom was driving a private bus which knocked onto an Indian national Sakthivel Kumaravelu, 33, at the junction of Race Course Road and Tekka Land.

                         I wonder why would the riot start? I don't think this is necessary ! They are here to work not to create a chaos. Tourist would have a bad impression and will be afraid to visit Singapore after they had heard this news. They would think that Singapore is an unsafe place. Some of the crowd even dare to flip the police cars when they arrived! I really pity those policemen in the car. The crowd were absolutely unreasonable. Argh! I am very annoyed by this incident. 

                           Ok, I can't carry on further as I have a tuition to attend to. Hopefully this riot would not happen again to Singapore. Do write me an email when you see this. Feel free to ask me for the link if you want to see the news of the riot. 

Love,
Wendy