February 4th Journal

                                 



                  This week was an exceptionally interesting week. As we all know that this week is known as co-curricular week where many activities had been held throughout the long week. Among these activities, I found that drama competition is the best activities. I believed that this competition is the most anticipated event among all the Form 5s. This year drama competition's theme was environment. Our main storyline was about a evil mad scientist, Vladmir Labokof who want to conquer the world with his inventions. However he needs energy from plants to fire up his machines. Even though I'm just an audience, but there is still a part where audience have to shout "Vladmir, Vladmir, Vladmir!". This was the part that I think the most creative and surprising. As I stood up to shout, I could people turning their head towards us and the judges seem surprised that the is sound coming from their back. Overall, I think that 5 Belian's drama is the most creative. Unfortunately, the decision is from judges and not me. So, I hoped that 5 Belian will have the first place this year!

February 3rd week

                    First term examination is just around the corner. There is about two more week left for me to prepare, yet I don't really felt the exam stress that used to happen on me every time exam is near. Normally, three weeks before an examination. I will start to see people holding their reference book during recess and after school while waiting for their parents to pick them up. However, this year I still don't see anyone holding a book during recess and after school. I wonder is it because this year's first term exam's result doesn't go into the report card or everyone is too busy with their stuff. Or maybe people already start studying like no tomorrow in their house secretly. Sigh... Sometimes I don't know when should I start doing my revision because I might forget if I start too early and I wouldn't have enough time if I started it too early.
                   In this 3rd week of February, I also search up some origami guide for Mod. Math and Add. Math project. Finally, I completed my project and I am going to hand in to Pn. Koh on Monday.

February 2nd Week

               Another week of February had passed. It was a erudite week because I learned many things and tried many things in this short 7 days. Well, on Monday, I played pool for the first time in One Utama. I did a few angle shoots and won the game And, on Saturday, Mr.Garrard Louis gave us a wonderful speech and motivated me to study even more hard to get good results in SPM. He mentioned the five keys which we have to hold in us to success in our life. These five keys are : Think differently, motivate yourself, never give up, set goals, ( last one forgotten ). He also gave us some examples of successful people such as : Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man climbed the Mount. Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who climbed the Mount. Everest and other mountains which is taller than Mount. Kinabalu. Hence, this is the best week of 2012 so far.

Night Without End

                                                                    Incident at Ice Glacier
                                                                     By: Adam Leong

                As approaches across the glacier, my sight was drawn to a group of people who were crossing the gangplank not far from us in what seemed to be a pirate ship. They were carrying weapons while rushing towards somewhere. I wondered where were they running to and as I swept my glance towards the direction that the criminals were running,

                I saw a person who looks like a priest pointing his gun on three hostages, and his finger ready to pull the trigger at any moment. Among three hostages, the girl trembled in fear, the man beside the girl seemed to be hopeful for something and the man in front was shouting something at the priest, although I can’t hear a single word from him.

                Suddenly, the priest turned. His face crinkled and foul words spat out from his mouth. He lost control. He shoved the girl into a tractor and roared on the engines. The brave man tried to stop him, but to no avail. The priest gave him a cold blooded shot in his arm and jammed on the accelerator of the huge vehicle that looks like a tractor. They sped off into the vast landscape of ice on that tractor, and it spun and turned so unpredictably that it could crash at any time.

                As I watched the tractor with my mouth gaping wide open, it crashed into a pile of big boulders without warning. Parts and pieces flew out of the tractor and they tractor was utterly destroyed. Yet, the captor was still alive, and thankfully too, the hostage. There was some resistance from the hostage, and as the captor attempted to hold her captive at point-blank range again, they both wrestled each other and fell into a crevasse, and it was closing fast.

                At this point of time, the air force was already raining down fire upon the crude ship and the terrorists that came out of it. The ship couldn’t hold for long and it was already sinking by the time the men rushed towards the crevasse. The brave man threw down a rope into the crevasse and before I knew it, he fell into the crevasse! Could the villain have pulled him down together too? I don’t know, but I pray to God that that wasn’t the case. The man who was still standing outside the crevasse looked grim, and I bit my lips as I hope that they would make it out fast.

                Then, miraculously, their captain and his crew came to their rescue. He hauled the girl up, but he was still tense, very tense at the sight of what was happening down there. I waited as the men threw down two ropes consecutively into the crevasse. It was the longest wait that I’ve had in my life. Finally, the miracle happened! The brave man and what seemed like to be his radio were both pulled out of the crevasse, which was then only wide enough for the man to squeeze out of it. As the crew looked down into the crevasse for one last time, a man threw down an entire coil of rope with contempt and hatred in his eyes down the crevasse, the crevasse closing after it a while after. An immediate thought came to my mind and our minds—the villain was dead.

February 1st Journal

                When I was in Chinese New Year of 2011, which was Form 4, lion dances remind me of my PMR and it is finally over. When I am in Chinese New Year of 2012, which is Form 5, lion dances remind me of SPM and it is coming to me in 9 more months. I believed not only me, all my friends is also getting nervous because of SPM. During this Chinese New Year, I received many AngPau from teachers and elders. The amount of AngPau I received is the same as last year, but the pressure I felt is not the same anymore. The more Angpau I received, it means the better the result I have to get in SPM. Before Chinese New Year, I wanted myself to study during the Chinese New Year holidays, however during the Chinese New Year holidays, I did not study anything, not a single bit, and my homework were not done as well. I am regretful. From now on, I will be studying from day to night so that I could do some revision which I had missed during the Chinese New Year holiday. I hope I don't get a terrible result that would disappoint both my parents and my teacher who taught me so hard. Even though, I did not do any study during the Chinese New Year holiday, but I managed to meet my distant uncle and relative which I have not seen them in many years. Hence, I think that both relationship with relatives and studying for SPM is important as both affect my entire life and I shouldn't overlook any of them. 

                                               恭喜发财

January Journal

            Happy New Year to all my friend and teachers! In this dragon year of 2012, I tried a different approach to Japanese pop song. In my opinion, J-pop also has the potential to be as popular as K-pop. But why K-pop became so popular while J-pop don't? I don't really know either. Anyway, I am going to talk about a Japanese 11 member group called Supercell. The reason is chose to talk about Supercell as my January journal entry is because I spent most of my time searching for their history and listening to their song including the time when I did my homework. Supercell started out by making use of the Hatsune Miku, a singing synthesizer to produce vocals for songs submitted to video sharing website. The popularity of the songs led the group to release their first album. Later, they released their first single, 君の知らない物語, or you can pronounce it as Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari. This song is my favourite song from Supercell because the song is unique as I never heard the type from any K-pop nor English song. Besides that, the lyrics of the   song is also meaningful and it also uses various stars in the lyrics. For example : The Summer Triangle.
To Pn. Monica : Pn Monica, you might thought that I am out of topic as I supposed to write a                                             
                            journal not a review for a song but I spent most of my January searching for
                            their history and songs. Hence, the paragraph above is the result of what I did       
                            in January. 
To further your understanding, I insert the song below so that you could enjoy the song.