A Problem I Encountered And How I Managed It

  Today was quite a fustrating day. I woke up in the morning and realised I was alittle late. To be exact, 30 minutes late. I woke up fifteen minutes late! That meant that I had to skip my breakfast and go straight to school, which I did. Thankfully, I made it in time for school at my record late time, 7.22am. I dashed to the paradde square at the speed of light and got myself ready for morning assembly. After that, we got back to the classroom where the boring lessons started. We first had Science then Mother Tongue and then reccess. After reccess, we had a period of PE Theory and after that was when my trouble started.

  It was the Home Economics and I had to search my entire bag to find my lunch box for putting the food we made. It was nowhere to be seen. I had no choice but to be deducted of marks during the cooking process. We were told that we were going to make some buttered bread thing. I felt excited but also already sad because of the lunch box I forgot to bring. After the teacher had given the instuctions and taught us how to make the dish, we started. I took the sugar and lemon and mixed it together while my partner, Egmont beated the eggs and cut the bread. I spread the butter all over the bread and preheated the oven. we soaked the bread in the mixture for about 10 minutes. After that, we put in the dish.

  Then, after the 20 minutes or so of the baking process, things took turned out bad. the bread was cooking too fast and it was all nearly burnt. I took out the dish and asked the teacher what to do to the disastrous bread. She told us  to redo it. I did as I was told and did it. Coincedentally enough, Egmont had a bad tummyache and had to go to the toilet. I had to do the dish alone. I followed the procedures carefully and made the dish turn out even better than before. I checked the temperature of the oven and found that it was at an astounding 225 degrees! I lowered the temperature to 15 degrees and waited for the temperature to lower. I then popped it into the oven. This time, it turnded out much better. Egmont got back when the bread was baking and when our dish was done, we were given full marks but I was deducted of half a mark for the lunch box! If only if I had brought it!

  Although I did not get full marks, I was very pleased with the results and Egmont even thanked me for helping him get the marks he wanted. I learnt that I should have more perserverance and determination.

A Moment spent alone doing something I Enjoyed

  I had a boring day today. In the morning I had school which ended at 2.15pm. I a plate of vegetarian food which tasted horrendous. I forgot that the hot dog they served was also vegetarian. It was appealing on the outside which was why I ordered it. After that, I did my homework in school with some of my classmates and got home about 5.15pm. Upon reaching home, I changed and went out for dinner with my family. We ate a simple meal and looked around for groceries in the supermarket. After all that, we went home.

  The moment I went home, I rushed to the computer and pressed the "on" button. I sat in front of the computer and waited while it was loading. It was so unfortunate. The computer crashed while loading. My excitement was all for nothing. I decided to practice playing my erhu, which is the instrument I play in the VS Chinese Orchestra. I started of with pratising the grade 4 songs as I had just finished my grade 3 examinations the year before. The song was not too tough but my teacher wanted me to memorise it. I had to do push-ups if I made one mistake while playing the song. I put all my heart into practice that even when my mum told me to pack my bag, I could not hear her. When I was done with the song, I practice the SYF songs and the Chinese New Yeaar songs as I was going to perform all those songs.

  Actually, when I think of it, I remember the time when I started of as a newbie. I had totally no interest in playing the erhu and was too lazy too practice. Often, I would get scolded badly for not practising. I also did not do very well for the grade 3 examinations as compared to my other friends. That is why I started to practice harder this year. Also, my interests toward playing the erhu and music has gorwn a lot since last year. I hope I can do well for this year's grade 5 examintions.

A Special Moment I Enjoyed With My Family

  This blog is about a special moment I enjoyed with my family. Today was the same as any other Saturday would be. I woke up, brushed my teeth, had a bath and ate my breakfast. I had Chinese Orchestra again. Today's practice was about the same as any other... boring. After practice, I headed home and had my lunch with my family. I ate a packet of nasi lemak. Actually, I was already quite full because I had eaten a plate of chicken rice during the break given when I had practice. I knew I shouldn't have eaten!

  After having my lunch, I sat down in my room to do my homework. I felt like lazing around but my conscience told me to carry on. I did exactly that. At about 6 in the evening, my dad came home from work. He told us that we were going to have fried prawn noodles for dinner. We got out and headed for the famous fried prawn noodle shop in Geylang. They were my older sister's favourite. The coffee shop there was not too clean but the food served was awesome. We ordered 3 plates of fried prawn noodles, a huge number of satay, and a plate of oyster omelet.

  The food came in about 5 to 10 minutes as we were early. After eating the prawn noodles, I already felt very full and after eating the omelet and satay, I could not fit in anymore food into my stomach. As we ate, my two sisters, mother and father chatted. After gobbling up all the scrumptous food, we decided to hvae ice-cream at a petrol kiosk. After that, we went home. I enjoyed the day as it was not so boring and I could just go out with my family. Having a family to get along with is very warm and I like when we can eat together with all the food on the same table.

Something Unusual That Happened Today

  Today was a tough day. I woke up with a sore throat. After breakfast, I had to gurgle with salt water as it is said to be able to cure sore throats. I went out at about 6.15am and took the same old bus 155 which leads to Victoria School. I reached school at about 7.05am. 

  It was when I reached school that I saw my seat being taken by the hated Sean Ho. He was acting like he owned the school. I trudged to my seat and told him to return to his seat. He refused to budge. Just then, my classmate, Justin stepped into the classroom looking enraged. He  stormed towards his seat and put his bag down. Everyone in the class were staring at Justin. Justin told Sean to get back to his seat. This time, Sean reluctantly got back to his seat because my other classmates were shouting at him. When he got back, Justin punched Sean in the stomach. That was the first time I've seen Justin so angry. He began cursing Sean saying that he abandoned him yesterday.

  I felt pretty happy that Sean was punched as he is very irritating. I started to laugh at Sean together with a couple of my classmates. All of a sudden, Mr Chia walked into the classroom and shouted," BOYS"! We all stood rooted to the ground. After that, Mr chia reprimanded the whole class and even punished Justin. I felt guilty and thought I was dead. Fortunately, Mr chia gave the whole class a chance but made Justin to stay back for detention. After that, we all realised that it was all a misunderstanding. Today I learnt that we should not start a fight before finding out the truth.

Something That Took Place In School

  Today was pretty much the same as any other day, the only exception was the fact that there was Chinese Orchestra which is my only CCA. There's normally only practice on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays  but today we had an extra practice to prepare the upcoming Chinese New Year performance.

  The first six hours of school was not too boring but even after those mentally exhausting hours of study we still had another hour or so of Chinese remedial. I only got to eat my lunch at about two but that's when I already get really hungry as I don't eat during recess. At least I got to skip about half and hour of practice because of the extra Chinese classes.

  When I got to the practice room, the other members were already practicing on their designated seats. I hastened towards the side of the room to put my erhu which is the instrument I play and my bag down at the side of the room. I tuned the strings of my erhu and then got to my seat. I then realised that there was actually not many people as many of them who could not make it on Wednesdays. I took out my score sheet and put it on the music stand. We were practising the New Year songs and Joshen, the Section Leader of  my group was the conductor.

  I felt that our performance today was one of the worst as we had too little people to cover for the mistakes we made and to add to the volume. We also worked on our stage presentation.For example, we practised to stand when the conductor entered the stage, which in our case, was just enter the room. At about 3.20pm,we were given a break and I made use of  it by playing other instruments. After the short break, we continued practising but that time we played SYF songs. We stopped shortly after.

  Today's practice was also one of the shortest I've experienced as it probably started early. After practice, we were de-briefed and I felt relieved. I played quite well during the practice but we still didn't do as well as other times because of the lack of manpower. I realised today that that more people means more power and thus better results. Hope we can put up a good show during the performance!