Limericks

The old lady
There was an old lady,
Who was really silly.
She went to buy cake,
Which she forgot to take,
And she went home to eat chilli.

Two boys fighting
There were two boys fighting,
While they were eating.
One threw his bread,
The other saw red.
And they were inprison for littering.

Reflection on Language Arts

This are the things I learnt in Language Arts:

Term One:

I learnt that blogger is a good way of expressing our views but that doesn't mean we should abuse it by defaming someone...
Narractive writing.
I learnt how to write a story through creativity, imagination and correct conponents.

Term Two:

Comprehension.
I learnt to always read the question carefully, use the wording of the question to take me to the part of the text where the answer is and not to copy whole blocks of text, hoping that some part of the answer is correct and use only relevent part of the passage.
Descriptive Writing.
I learnt how to write a descriptive writing by describing the thing either by colour, shape, type, and materials. If it is a living thing, we could describe its appearance, its behaviour and its habits, etcs...

Term Three:

Personification,Simile, metaphor, illiteration, limericks, etc in Poems:
I learnt to break out the sentences in poems and try to understand how to use Personification,Simile, metaphor, illiteration, limericks, etc to understand how to read poems and learn to appreciate them...

Overall Reflection Of Language Arts

I learnt that what i learnt in primary school, English and what i am learning in secondary school, Language Arts, are almost of two different things...

English was about grammar, about vocabulary, about how you use words to make and sentence and use the sentence to make a whole paragraph... Maybe a story in composition, maybe a letter in situational writing, but when it comes to Language Arts...

The feeling about learning new words and other things are totally different.
English have now became a piece of art, either presented in a song, or a poem.. Etc.
English is not just for language, not just for communication, but it is a form of art. Communication through English is ONE THING, the rest are history...

In English, there are storybooks. These stories involves your imagination, it requires thought about how the story is going to be in the end. It might affect your emotions, making you feel different about the stories process... At one moment you might be glad that the author or the main character is still fine, the next moment you might feel anxious of what might happen to the main character and other dangers he might face... It is like putting you in the author's or the main character's shoes in the first person's point of view...

In English, there are songs. There are lovely, sad, exciting, romantic, joyful and other types of songs. Songs maybe classified in rock, pop, classical or other types too. There might be other languages of song, but I enjoy English songs the most. They can really change your emotions... Making you feel different, the lyrics are there to convey a message, to say something about life, or to make you feel that you have the same opinion as the author of the song.

In English, there are poems. Poems are of different length and types. Some talks about rivalry, love, friendship. Some talks about economic, finance, families. And they all come down to the same conclusion: Life. True poems talk about life, all the examples i stated talks about life, how rivalry can become revenge, how love can become hatred and how friendship should be cherished with all the love you could give to a friend...

In conclusion, English in secondary school is no longer about words, grammer, vocabulary, stories, more words and more words, on and on non-stop. But instead, it is about art, it is a new thing overall to me, new experience, and thinking that English is art makes me feel more interested in English and makes me want to learn more about art, in English...

Poem: Snapshotland

1. Forget what the poem may or may not mean, or what it may be about.

2. Look at just the title and WRITE DOWN about half a dozen things that it suggests to you. Give literal meanings as well as other associations.

-It suggest to me that this poem is about happy things that had been captured on the camera.
-It suggest to me that this poem is about the different photographs taken.
-It suggest to me that this poem is about love and joy.
-It suggest to me that this poem is about different things happening in life.
-It suggest to me that this poem is about the different perspective of different people.
-It suggest to me that this poem is about the meaning of life.

3. Read the poem once quickly, and then several times more slowly. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head. DO NOT recite the poem aloud in class; if you must hear it aloud, read it quietly to yourself.

4. WRITE DOWN a list of all those things in the poem that force their attention on you or which catch your interest for any particular reason. This includes unusual/odd/striking words, rhymes, or repetitions/patterns/contrasts, etc.

-Everyone is happy all the time (Line 1)
-Sandboys and sandgirls who never stop smiling from the time they appear. (Line 5)
-Lovers stay in love forever.(line 8)
-Nobody in snapshotland grows old unless they want to.(Line 13)

5. WRITE DOWN any features of figurative language in the poem: metaphors, similes, personification, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, symbolism, etc.

-Personification: Pleasure-boat
Old-fashioned gardens with lavender and grandchildren
-Alliteration: Time and they
: Sea and Shore
-Assonace: Right and Sight
: Lavender and ever


6. WRITE DOWN groups of words that may be thematically similar (for example, that all similes make reference to animals/death/plants, etc., or all the first words of lines are conjunction words, etc.).
*Don't worry about whether your groups of words seem silly or improbable; look at what you have observed and ask yourself: what is its significance?

-Dolphins and the buckets: They were put in to make the atmosphere better because the tourist on the boats could see the dolpin jumping from the water, making the scene look happier.
-Lavender and grandchildren: They were put in to fulfil the atmosphere of the garden.

7. Look at your lists, notes, and groups. Do you see any pattern taking shape? If so, WRITE DOWN this pattern.

-The "shape" of the poem is getting into becoming to be more obvious.
The pattern is that the poem is getting to be built up bit by bit.

8. Read the poem again and WRITE DOWN your intelligent guesses of what the poem may mean.

-It may mean that the poem is about photos taken, especially happy moment and joyful things.

9. Answer the following questions:
a) Who is "speaking" in the poem? Is it the POET or a PERSONA?
b) Who is the poem "spoken" to? In other words, who is the audience for this poem? Is it to a particular person, to the poet himself (reflective) or to the public in general?
c) What is the speaker's attitude to this audience? Is it angry, sincere, joking, teasing, etc.?
d) What is the POET's attitude to this audience? (This may be different from the speaker.)
e) Why is the poem organized in the way that it is?
f) What is the EFFECT of all the things you have written down in Steps 2-8?

-a) The poet
-b) For people who will appreciate art and those who are positvie.
-c) Joyful.
-d) Joyful.
-e) It is to list all the happy things together and summarizing it in the end.
-f) It is a show joy in the poem and life.


10. WRITE DOWN your guess at the poet's intent: what do you think the poet hoped to accomplish in writing this poem?

-He hopes to get attention from the people and hope that they can appreciate poems and learn the appreciate happy poems too!

Sound poems!

I heard the owls hooting in the dark.
I heard the sheep bleating beyond the hill.
I heard the wolves howl at night.
I heard the dogs barking at strangers.
I heard the horses whinnying when it is being ridden on.
I heard the bulls bellowing while grazing on grass.
I heard the bees buzzing while finding nectar.
I heard the frogs croaking while jumping around.
I heard the mice squeaking as it ran across the room.
I heard the roosters crowing in the morning.
I heard the turkeys clucking while finding for worms.
I heard the pigeons cooing on the tree.
I heard the ducks quaking in the pond.
I heard the pigs grunting in the dirty mud.
I heard the cats purring in its warm comfortable bed.

Life Poem~

Life is like a blast of fire,
with energy and heat will you begin.
With might and power, will you strike.
With opportunities like no other, would you fight.
But flames will always die,
With energy that would dry,
Cherish life now or you'll be sorry,
Because flames and you have the same stories.

The poem is written to describe that life is like fire... because in the second sentence, it meant that after you are born and was sent to school, you would begin your life in the society. In the third sentence, it meant that you have the support of friends and parents and other people around you and you have what it takes too strike and win. In the fourth sentence, you are now in adult stage and had to work to earn money. So looking for a job would meant money if you were given the opportunity to have a great job. In the fifth sentence, it meant that you are getting older and that after whatever the flame is feeding on would always be used up. In the sixth sentence it meant that the energy is gone and that in the seventh sentence, life would end. So in the last sentence it meant that the life of yours is like the life of flames and that you must cherish life and live yours to the end!

Poem On Primary School days~

Start on a Monday,
Ends with another day,
Everyday I shall say,
Never give up, that is the way,

Fun might make you shout hurray!
Shines with the brightest ray,
Without achievement without thought,
That might be a thing to sort,

Homework in files,
Sort them in piles,
Do them with love,
Pass with flying colours,

Miss your old school?
I do too and so do you,
Visit them soon,
And god blesses you.

Term 2 Home Learning

Poem: A Birthday Poem by Ted Kooser
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
in a black stanchion of trees,
waiting for someone to come
with his bucket
for the foamy white light,
and then a long day in the pasture.
I too spend my days grazing,
feasting on every green moment
till darkness calls,
and with the others
I walk away into the night,
swinging the little tin bell
of my name.


1. How is figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language.

The words " stands, stanchion and light" are hyperboly because the sun can't really stand and the trees are not really stanchion because they are not used as something to support another and the light stands for the milk!

The author used figurative language in this poet so as to make the object more lively... By adding that the sun stands, it might mean that the sun is stand high up in the sky. By saying stanchion of trees, he is saying that the trees are straight and strong, all standing in a role. And the light, which is suppose to be bright is the milk. Because of thw sun's reflection, the milk seems to be as bright as light.

2. I like this poet because it expresses in a different way of saying that it is the author's birthday and it was a day in which she was not milked and wasd grazing on the grass the whole day, waiting for the farmer to come but to no avail, she can't see him and was wondering why and when sun sets, she walked of with the others to their barn to rest, swinging the bell with her name on it... It is very well done in which it expressed how the cow felt on its birthday.

Village by Sea : Conclusion.

Okay, I feel that people in other country are not as lucky as we are now in Singapore and i feel that some children need to play the role as an adult as a child! So of there parents are so irresponsible and don't play the role in which they are suppose to and their children are suppose to take over place. I also feel that children in Singpore are very fortunate as they have food to eat and technology is very advanced. We must learn to cherish things and understand how lucky we are because the world around are not as simple as what we think they are. Some of the children in other country needs to go and find work when they are still a teenager and i feel that we need to be more independant instead of being relying to our maids and stuffs~

I "love" human nature!

I love human nature. They are actually very good and useful in our life.

Have you ever noticed when you are in a lift in two other people and when they pressed the floor where they live. They will try to spot your floor and other people's floor and what they will do is to try to order themself in whereby the 2nd floor people stand at the front and the 12th floor people stay at the back. It actually works!! When the lift is on the second floor, the person on the second floor would already be at the entrance of the lift... Wow?! Then it is like a systematic system whereby you go out, I come in, I go back, you go in front and then you go out and I go out. Simple and fast...

On a tropical day in a crowded bus... Sigh.... But wait! An empty seat! Oh my god! You don't see an empty seat in a crowded bus everyday do you? But why isin't anyone seating in that seat? But someone is seating on the outer seat. ( I am not refering to anyone, so please do not think I am refering to someone or something in particular) But why can't another person request to go in the inner seat and sit on it? Why have a "hole" in the middle of the bus? And I feel it is a shame for bus captian or SBS/SMRT bosses to paste the "PLEASE MOVE TO THE REAR" sign. It is really very weird. People have brain and human nature and instinct, they will move behind... But wait... Did they? No? Aww.... It look weird when we have to be told to move behind... Haha!!

If you have any comments/objection. Please write it in the comment section below... :)

I "love" human nature!

Village by the sea: Bodily

When she offered flowers to the sacred rock in the sea, she bowed to the gods and offered a pink flower to them to show her gratitude to god.





When the medicine man came to help her mother, she felt surprised and happy at the same time because she knew that her mother had hope of surviving.




When Pinto died, she was feeling sad and sorrow because Pintowas her best pet and he died too inocently.

Village by the sea: Naturalist

Chapathi: Chapathis are made from a firm but pliable dough made from flour grain and water. Small portions of the dough are rolled out into discs much like a Mexican tortilla, using a rolling pin. The rolled-out dough is thrown on the preheated dry skillet and cooked on both sides. Some people also add salt and/or oil to the dough.


Jalebi: It is made by deep-frying batter in a kind of pretzel shape then soaked in syrup. It is served warm or cold. It has a somewhat chewy texture with a crystallized sugary exterior coating. The sugars get partly fermented which adds flavor to the dish.


Difference between the chapathi and Indian roti prata:
Chapathi is a kind of bread eaten by Indians while roti prata is a kind of dough/bread eaten mostly by Singaporean.The toppings for the roti prata is garlic, banana, chocolate, durian, cheese, sugar and curry while the toppings for the Chapathi is mostly sugar and curry.

Difference between the jalebi and the you tiao:
The jalebi is a kind of sweet while the you tiao is a dough stick. The jalebi is fermented while the you tiao is fried. The jalebi is eaten alone while the you tiao is usually accompanied by the rice congee or soy milk.

Village by the sea: Linguistic (A)

Urbanisation Arrives in Thul

The government of India decided to add urbanisation in the village, Thul. The villagers are not very happy with the decision. They feel that they are doing fine as a small fishing village and do not need urbanisation.They feel that the city life is too complicated and fast-paced to them. They feel that fishing for a living is okay and they still prefer to the life of a fishermen. Although the villagers protested not to undergo the urbanisation plan, the gorvernment insisted in taking action in developing the village in a modern city. But if alls well end well, the villagers will adapt to the new city life.

VIllage by the sea: Intrapersonal

Dairy entry of Lila

I feel sad for Hari when he needed to go to Bombay to work. We do not have income from our parents because my mother is sick and my father is nowhere to be found. I can't go to work because i need to take care of my family. If Hari goes to Bombay to work, anything might happen to him and I do not want that to happen to him. It is very dangerous because he is still quite young and there is no adults to supervise him. If anything happened to him, we might not be able to know because none of our family member is there. At first, all of us did not want him to go to Bombay because it is dangerous for him. But now since we do not have enough money for food and stuff and he is our only income, we had no choice but to let him go. I am feeling so sad and worried, God. What should I do? Should I make a decision to let him go or not? I need an answer...

Little Ironies~ Stories of Singapore : Lottery

This story is about a woman, who earns enough for herself and her mother. BUT she spends money on gambling and spending her money on gambling. The author tried to plead her to stop gambling but she won't listen to him. Then, she tried various weird methods to bring her "luck". But all the methods failed and she plead her late husband to give her luck and told her mother that she is going to earn a lot of money. But instead the "luck" brought was death and her mother was killed in a car accident which she thought would bring her luck...

Ending for the Lady or The tiger.

When the door opened, the tigers sprang onto him with tremedous force. They growled at him and bit him on the neck. The princess looked away feeling remorseful but did not regret anyone of her action. The princess's lover cried in pain as the tigers slowly tore him apart... In the princess's mind, she was thinking to herself:" Why did she thought of killing him? Why did she not let him go by marrying another woman?" Then she thought again:" If she let him marry another woman and she would see them together. This it would her heart break... So, she would rather sacrifice the man she love than be mocked by the woman she hated. The princess's lover was then thinking:" Why did she want to kill me? Why did she choose the "death" door instead of letting me live? If I married another woman, I would leave her and be together with you! But why did you kill me? Was they meant to be with each other? Or was it a coincidence that they were together? What do you think? Comment on my blog please... Thanks.

The lady or the Tiger?

The tigers. I think the princess would choose the person she loved to be killed by the tigers than to see him marry the person she hated most. The jealousy and heart-breaking scenes she would get is more painful than seeing the person she love be killed. If he was killled, everything has ended and she would soon forget about him. If he was alive and married with the person she hated, she might see them somedays and she would remember about the day where she lost her loved ones and be sad again and so I think she would rather kill her loved one instead of letting him marry another woman.

“Journal Entry According to Mary Maloney”

Mary: I felt guilty and sad. But he was really outrageous, did I do any bad? Did I ill-treat him? I treated him so well. I cared about him in almost every single way. You see, I knew something was going wrong when he took out the wine he don’t usually drink and I knew he was tired so I decided to cook supper instead of going out to eat. I was very confused at that time. When he mentioned he wanted a divorce, I was… shocked. It happened all so quickly and swiftly. I was having his child and yet he said such an irresponsible thing! So, when he said, “Try to stop me!” I got all furious and took the lamb’s leg and wacked him in the head. I was pretty sure he could withstand the blow but little did I know he collapsed with a thud. I was astonished. I didn’t know what to do… I practiced my speech and my tone, trying to get it right so I could act normal. Seeing him on the ground makes me shiver. And so I decided to go outside to buy something so that the scene looked like I was not the murderer. I was, certainly as I was scared they would suspect that the whole thing was acted out. Lucky for me, the police were thinking that another person was the criminal and missed me. And they even ate the murder weapon without knowing that!

Lamb To The Slaughter!

If i was Mrs. Maloney...

I WOULD HAVE "CLUBBED" HIM TO DEATH!!!

Just joking, well, i guess that all things have the "right" to be talked over nicely ( with a cup of coffee..) You see, if you used violence on someone, anyone, you are taking a risk of being sent to jail for a few days, months, years but as long as you had committed a crime, you are counted BAD! Bad as in you are bad in a way you do things that break the law, not bad as in : You are not sharing the sweet, you are bad. Then you go to jail and stuffs like that... No!! Well, violence can solve problems, you see, if you are facing a bully and you say : Hey, like me go and i'll give you the money. That is dumb and if you did this : Pow! You punched him in the face. You are wrong again, because if he asked you to give him the money and you don't and he punches you, you have the "right" to punch him back ( For self defense of course) So i guess Mrs Maloney should have talked things over rather than "club" her husband to death and then regret her actions!

My Learning Style

Kin-aesthetic : 17 (Body Smart)

Linguistic : 15 ( Word Smart)

Logical : 17 ( Number Smart)

Interpersonal : 17 ( People Smart)

Intra-personal : 14 ( Myself Smart)

Musical : 13 ( Music Smart)

Visual/Spatial : 13 ( Picture Smart)

Naturalistic : 10 ( Nature Smart)

Well, I think I had the same result in most of the subjects!!!

Let me say about body smart, number smart and people smart first : I SCORED THE SAME MARKS!!! As for Musical and Visual : SAME TOO!!! Wow, I don't really know if it is a glitch or something but i guess i scored the same in quite a few subjects. This kind of tests are quite accurate, seriously! I am not joking. Because i really am number, people and body smart. I am not like boasting or something but it is true because... I don't know why but i am! Haha! But i guess i am not really nature smart because i don't recycle, use lots of plastic ( because i bought alot of bottled drinks ) and well, tried a little for helping to save the environment! :( I am not really good at music... Not really good at art too! So i guess they fall in the average section! Yay! And as for myself smart, i don't know myself well. You might be wondering : Hey! It isn't possible for you to not know yourself well if you are yourself!! But truth to be told, It is TRUE!! And as for word smart, i don't know what to say because i, myself, isn't really a kind of linguist... Well, I am mathematically smart who cares about my surrounding friends and environment using my action! ( Well, if you have noticed, the information above is made up of word with the meanings of Number , Body and People Smart!) :)