A problem i encountered and how i solved it

Ring, ring, ring! The bell rang as lessons had ended. I yawned and stretched my arms up high. “Ok! Class dismissed! ” the teacher told my class. After we greeted each other, I pack my bag and went home excitedly as it was a Friday. I took a public bus home and the journey was about 40minutes long, I slept on the bus and eventually “over slept” I missed the stop I should alight. I woke up, astonished and shocked. I rubbed my eyes and took a good look outside the window. Immediately, I pressed the bell to alight. I taped my Ez-link card and walked out of the bus. I was unfamiliar to that place and look all around for any buildings that I may recognise, but to my disappointment, I know none of them. I deep my hand into my pocket and fished out my hand phone. The most unwanted thing happened, my phone’s battery was flat, and I now I could not get help. I was fuming and stomped on the ground, people at the bus stop was stunt and stared at me. I looked away and try to calm down. I took out my wallet and counted the amount of money I had. I was relieved to see that I had $20 in my wallet and that should be enough for a taxi ride home. I flagged for a taxi and went back home. It cost about $11 for the ride and I felt that I had a hole in my pocket. After learning this lesson, I would never sleep on a public bus anymore.

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[Play Song No.1]

A moment spent alone doing something you enjoyed

It was a nice and sunny Saturday afternoon and yet I was reading a book, all of my friends were swimming as the weather was perfect for swimming. The reason of being so was because I was banned from going out with my friend for a month! In my room, I was so frustrated, I stomped out of my room, slammed my door and almost tore the book into pieces and, but I calmed myself down and put my book away. I switched on my computer and start playing online games that I enjoyed. Being so addicted, I have forgotten about the time. After a many hours, “Yes! Level Two!” I shouted with joy. At this moment, my mother came home and I was caught red handed for gaming for long hours. I wanted to make up something that was not true to save myself from the ordeal by saying I was doing an online homework, but honesty is the best policy and I decided to tell the truth. She told me about all the cons of looking at the computer screen for long period of time and nagged for two hours or so. I was so annoyed that I pleaded for mercy and promised that I would not do it again. My mother let me off this time and warned me if I do it again I would be banned for the computer for 1month. Well I would still spend some time playing computer next time after I have finish all my homework to relieve some “stress”.  Playing computer games are fine but we should not “over play” and should always give our eyes 5mintutes break after 1 hour of gaming.

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[Play Song No.2]

Something unusual that happened that day



This afternoon, I was so engrossed in chatting with my friends on facebook that I did not even notice the changes in my surroundings. Birds were chirping outside but I paid no attention to them. Just then, I heard a loud noise. It came from the window. I turned my head around and saw a dreadful sight. A bird had plummeted into my house through the window panes and was lying half-dead! Aghast, I hastily jumped out of my seat and sprinted to the kitchen right away. I armed myself with a broom and tip-toed slowly into my room. Hiding behind the door like a ninja, I peered through the glass door of my room and saw some feathers lying on the floor. I trudged in and surveyed my room for the bird. The bird was still there. At that point of time, I deduced that the bird was either dead or immobile. Wielding a broom, I poked it to see whether it was dead. It did not move at all. I further examined it, I fished out my pen from my pocket and started to toss it at the bird. To my horror, it flapped its wings and I was startled. I did not know what to do with it as I could not get help since I am all alone at home. Out of instinct, I immediately used my bare hands and place it into an empty box.  After that, I went back to using facebook and left the box on my bed, waiting for my mum to be back so she could do something about the bird. Two hours later, my mum was finally home and I excitedly showed her the bird that flew in my room. But to my disappointment, the bird was dead and started to emit the smell of rot. As I did not want to give up on the bird, I tried to resuscitate it to prove to myself that it was not dead but it was to no avail. And I disposed of it by burying it in on of the nearest field from my house. I hope that the bird would "rest in peace".

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[Play Song No.3]

Something that took place in school

Whenever I heard the words ‘mixed feelings’, I always thought of the unforgettable incident that etched deeply into my brain…

I was extremely melancholic and down that day. After my strenuous badminton practice, Coach did not select me to be part of the school team even though I trained extremely hard last year. I was obviously superior to some of the selected candidates thus, I could not understand the reason why Coach chose them over me. Just thinking about how much effort I had put into training, makes my blood boil. After that unjust incident, some of my seniors tried to console me and said that Coach’s decision was inequitable to me.

Feeling so disappointed, a thought rose up to my mind. If I told my mother about this incident, I would still have a slight chance of getting in to the team.
After I reached home, I immediately informed my mother about this misfortune that has befallen me. My mum said that it was just plain bad omen but still, she called the teacher-in-charge of badminton on the following day and requested an explanation from them on why I was not selected for the team.

On the next training, Coach conducted a trial just for me. I was instructed to play with one of the secondary one student who was in the team. The match was soon over and I had beaten him with a one-sided victory. Elated, I was on cloud nine as I eventually got a place in the team. But unfortunately for him, he could not stay in the team anymore as I had replaced him.

Knowing that, tears rolled down his cheeks. Seeing that, my conscience felt like it had been pricked by a porcupine, stung a bee and shot by a machine gun. That gave me a whole lot of mixed feelings. To think I made one of my juniors cry, what kind of senior and what kind of role model am I? After that incident, my heart was filled with regret and I doubt it would ever go away. I wish the both of us would get in to the team next year.

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A New Year 2011





It’s a strange and worth celebrating New Year. Time really does fly. At the start of this New Year and school term, I still could not believe i had advanced to secondary 2 in a blink of an eye! This year, a new batch of students has joined us! The realisation of that, kind of made me feel matured since I was one of the newest batch of students last year. Looking at them, reminds me of my secondary 1 days. Everyone has seemed to grow taller over the holidays. It’s strange to see some of my seniors wearing long pants for the first time and it would be our turn next year…... It sure feels weird, having to go to school 5 days a week just after a long holiday and waking up at 5:45am. I was glad to see all my classmates and teacher on the first day of school. But the second year in VS for me would not be as relaxing as compared to last year since we had to choose our subject combination for following year, so I had to work extra hard for this year. On Monday, the 10^th of January, it was the release of the O level results I was there as I my CCA was about to start soon, I saw many that jumped for joy and hugged each other to celebrate their achievement and some that lowered their head with disappointment upon receiving their result slip. The top Malay student of Singapore was actually a Victorian who took Chinese as his mother tongue. I freaked out after knowing he was from a pure Malay family and could score A1 for Chinese, this proved to me that as long as you believe in yourself and work hard, it is possible to achieve what you want. =)

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