What did you do during Chinese New Year? Well, for me, I went for my nephew's birthday. What can be a more joyous occasion than the first birthday of my baby nephew Edward? It was also an occasion of great rejoicing for my auntie and uncle as it marks their first year of being parents.
By seven o’clock, most of the guests had already arrived. Edward was so excited that he wanted to leave his handprints on the cake. I was assigned to look after Edward and to make sure that he did not spoil the beautifully decorated birthday cake.
At eight o’clock, it was time to cut the cake. Edward stood in front of the cake with a knife placed in his little hand. The candle was blown and he decided to take charge and dropped the knife. As his parents bent down to pick up the knife, he brought his two little hands down onto the cake and “splash”, the cake was spoilt. Then, everybody stared at me me because I was supposed to make sure Edward did not do anything similar to that. However, everybody burst into a hysterical laughter very soon.
Later, everyone began eating the delicious food that my auntie had prepared. My brother made sure that I took special care of Edward. He also asked me to make sure that Edward did not mess up any of the food. That was rather to difficult at first, but I had to fed him a piece of cake, he became very well-behaved.
The last guest left at about 10 o’clock. We were all very happy and contented because everything went rather smoothly.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
A Wild Adventure
Today is the day that I returned to Malaysia to celebrate Chinese New Year with my family. After school, my mother rang me up to tell me what important things I needed to bring home. She also told me to leave the hostel at 3:00pm sharp so that I would not have to rush for the bus that would bring me back to Malaysia. Why should I leave so early when it only takes 1 hour 20 minutes to arrive at the bus that leaves at 5:00pm? With that, I hung up the phone and when to sleep, setting my alarm clock at 3:30pm. I woke up at 3:30pm as desired. After getting changed, I walked to the nearest bus-stop and took a bus to Bedok MRT Station. Unfortunately, as it was a public holiday, the road was very jammed, therefore it took me a long time to arrive at the MRT station. When I eventually did, it was already 4:00pm. I hurried to catch a train, but unfortunately, I was just in time to watch the train doors shutting. Feeling a little angry, I just sat on a bench and waited for the next train to arrive. The next train arrived only 5 minutes later. I took walked quickly into the train and waited again for the train to arrive at my destination – City Hall MRT Station. The train stopped at every station, and I checked my watch whenever it did.
To me, the trip seemed to have lasted for hours, although it had only lasted no more than 30 minutes. From where I was, I still had to take a short taxi trip to the bus that I was taking back to Malaysia. Umfortunately, the queue at the taxi stand was very long. Feeling panic, I quickly ran to the front of the queue and asked if I could go first. However, my request was rejected by 5 people. At last, seeing how panicked I was, a kind old lady allowed me to go first. I thanked her and jumped up the taxi.
As if things weren't already bad enough, the taxi driver was a trainee and did not know how to get to my destination. Feeling extremely furious, I stomped out of the taxi. However, when the taxi had left, I realised that I had accidentally left my laptop inside it! Just at that time, my mother called to check on me. I told her hestitantly about how I had lost my laptop. Expecting her to yell at me, I was shocked when she asked me to forget about the laptop. Instead, she pleaded me to hurry so that I could still catch the bus to return home. I hung up the phone, and hurriedly took another taxi to my destination.
When I eventually arrived there, I was already 20 minutes late. Fortunately, the bus had waited for me...
xx signed off at 6:43 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2009
My School's CNY Celebration
Yesterday, my school had a celebration for the Chinese New Year. But before the celebration, there were still classes until 9:30am, which meant that my class still had to go for DnT (Design and Technology) lesson. Well, let's just skip that part as nothing really interesting happened then.
After the lesson, we were given a 30 minutes break. I had my usual meal, which is the chicken chop with potato wedges. Why do I always eat that? Well, maybe it's just because I'm just too close-minded. After the break, all students were asked to gather in the hall, and that's when the celebration started.
The celebration began with the prize presentation for those who had good progress in their studies. Then, prizes were given out to those who had excelled in their CCAs (Co-Curriculum Activities). After that, three students from class 2A presented to us a show based-on science. However, due to some technical error, the microphone was not working. So, the three poor boys had to shout for us to hear them.
Then, I group of Chinese boys presented to us a skit in Mandarin. The show seemed very interesting. However, due to my inability to understand Mandarin, I could not understand a thing the boys were saying. After that, some old folks that the school had invited came on stage to sing. Despite of their old age, I was very impressed by their beautiful voices.
At the end of the celebration, all the performers and the other students who had helped out came on stage to sing along with the old folks. And that's how the celebration ended.
Even though the celebration only lasted for 2 hours, I felt that it was one of the best celebrations I had ever been to.
xx signed off at 12:49 AM
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
An Unlucky Day
Today is one of the unluckiest day of my entire life...
Well, to kick-off the day, I woke up late as my alarm clock had run out of battery. I felt very panic as I quickly changed into my uniform and rushed to school. Not wanting to wait for the lift, I decided to run down the stairs instead. When I finally reached the ground floor, I was already drenched with sweat. That was when realised that I had forgotten to bring my bag! Panic struck me as I ran back to my room and grabbed my bag.
When I finally arrived in school, I was already late for morning assembly. The discipline master, Mr Chia scolded me for being late for school and also for untidy clothing. He warned me never to be late again or else I'd get detention. I apologised quickly and rushed to class.
During Maths lesson, our teacher asked us to take out our Maths textbook. I searched high and low for it but still could not find it. At last, I remembered that I had forgotten to pack my bag for today! As expected, I was given a long 'lecture' about why it's important to bring the textbook to school.
After school, I ran straight back to the hostel to prevent any other unlucky incidents from happening. However, when I reached my room, I realised that I had left my key in the room! I was locked out of my room for an hour or so before my roommate finally came back and unlocked it.
Feeling extremely glad to finally be back in my room, I jumped onto my bed and fell into a deep sleep...
xx signed off at 4:23 AM
Monday, January 19, 2009
Hostel Life
How’s hostel life? That’s a question often asked to me by my friends and relatives. Most people think that hostel life is boring and lonely. Well, after spending an entire year here, I actually find it rather fun-filled.
If you don’t mix with people well, then definitely, hostel life is not suitable for you. You’ll feel that no one is there to help you out when you have problems. Thus, you’ll feel lonely and left out. But to me, that’s definitely not the case. Okay, maybe at first, I felt a little like that. But after awhile, I got to know many new friends. Since then, I had never dreamt of leaving the hostel.
Every weekend, my friends and I go out for meals and sometimes even to the cinema. We also play computer games with each other for fun. Whenever one of us feels down, the others will definitely try their best to help him out.
Of course, we don’t forget our main priority – study. Every night, we study together in the canteen for at least 2 hours. Whenever I face problems in my homework, I can always count on my seniors to teach me how to solve it.
However, sometimes when I have problems, I’ll have to solve it myself as my parents aren’t there to solve it for me. Because of this, I feel that I’m now much more independent than before. Of course, if I really can’t solve it myself, my friends are always there for me.