Biography CA1

Biography Of My Father

My father was born in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia in 1962. He is the younger of two children.

When my father was young, he loved to read books by Enid Blyton such as The Famous Five, The Five Find-Outers and The Secret Seven. My father used to climb cherry trees to pick cherries for his cherry gun. This gun was made from a long ruler with rubber bands and a clothes peg and it shoots cherries. His favourite toys were his cherry gun, a battery operated passenger aeroplane, a toy Volkswagen and his plastic cowboys, Indians and soldiers.

Some of his favourite television programmes include Land Of The Giants, Star Trek, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and Ultraman.

My father studied in St. John’s Institution in Kuala Lumpur. He started Primary 1 in 1969. He was good in his studies and used to win prizes in Primary School. As a child, he wanted to be a doctor.

When he was in Secondary School, he joined the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade as an Extra-Curricular Activity. My father and his teammates won the National First Aid Competition in 1979.

My father came to Singapore in 1980 and studied in National Junior College. He completed his A-Levels in 1981 and went to study Building and Estate Management in the National University of Singapore. He graduated in 1986 in the middle of the recession.

After eight months of trying to find a job, he finally found work as a valuer in Jones Lang Wootton. My father worked there for nine years before he resigned and went to work at DTZ.

My father met my mother in 1989 while working in Jones Lang Wootton and they were married in 1992.

My father had an enjoyable childhood, had loving parents, good friends and believes in hard work, honesty, integrity and perseverance.

Cinquain Poem

Instrument
melodic, harmonic
tuning, plucking, bowing
playing my heart out
Erhu!

ENG: Spider Monkey

Introduction
The spider monkey got its name from its ability to climb objects quickly and quietly. The spider monkey lives in the central American rainforest. It is a large monkey and an endangered species.

Party Animals
Spider monkeys are extremely social animals that live in groups of 40 to 50. The spider monkeys can die of loneliness.

Civil Defence
The spider monkeys will try to frighten intruders with loud bark-like calls or banging of branches.

Fun Time
The baby spider monkey likes to climb onto its mother’s back for a joy ride.

By TC, Primary 4 Kindness
Focus Writing 1

LP Compo

Composition assignment for LP. Written while right arm was in a cast.

Ali was listless as he had just come back from school and had no homework to do. He went to the playground to play when he found a lamp.

He was so excited that he quickly picked it up and rubbed it a few times. Suddenly, a puff of smoke came out from the lamp! A small chubby-faced genie popped out. Ali had watched the movie “Aladdin” and knew that genies could grant wishes, so he said “I wish I could score perfect marks in all my exams!”. Ali smiled excitedly for a few seconds. His smile soon turned into a frown as he realized much to his disappointment, that the genie was a baby, and could only say “goo-goo-gaga”. It could not grant any wishes yet!

Suddenly, Ali felt droplets on his face as he saw, much to his horror, that the baby genie was regurgitating on him! Ali woke up and saw that his baby brother Irfan had crawled onto him and was drooling and giggling happily away. “Whew, it had just been a dream!”, Ali said, with a sigh of relief.

News Summary

这份报纸文章是 关于一对夫妇如何庆祝今年的情人节。 卢先生打算送巧克力给妻子，可是他送的巧克力只能‘用’，不能吃。 虽然巧克力不能吃，卢太太非常喜欢收到这份独特的礼物。其实，礼物是美容中心的“巧克力按摩”服务。卢太太平时照顾孩子，常常腰酸悲痛。有这机会去享受这么特别的按摩，真是满心期待.

Science Project

Purpose:
To show the differences between the density of salt and fresh water.

Materials:
Raw Eggs
3 Tablespoons of Salt
2 Tall Glass Cups
Water

Method:
1. Make salt water by dissolving salt in a cup of water.
2. Put fresh water in another cup.
3. Put 1 egg in the cup of fresh water.
4. Put the other egg in the cup of salt water.


Result:
The egg in the cup of fresh water sinks to the bottom of the cup.
The egg in the cup of salt water floats.


Conclusion:
Salt water is of higher density than fresh water.

Changi Airport

Our class went on an excursion to Changi Airport on Wednesday 1st August.

Changi Airport is a major Aviation Hub in the World. We saw many international flights like Garuda and Malaysian Airlines listed on the Flight Information Screens.


We did a practical exercise in Measurements, Multiplication & Division using the chairs, pillars, tiles & counters.


We also interviewed a passenger Mr Gurmit Loi. He’s from New Zealand and was on his way to India. He had lots of presents in his luggage for his family and friends.


We ended the trip with a yummy meal at McDonald’s. I had my favourite McNuggets with chilli sauce.

I had lots of fun on this outing!!!

Shrek 4D

My favourite movie is Shrek 4-D. We saw this movie when we were at MovieWorld in Australia.

We have to wear these goofy glasses called “OgreVision Goggles” so that we can watch this movie in 3-D.

This short movie shows the spirit of Lord Farquaad returning from the dead to kidnap Princess Fiona. The Shrek and Donkey then go to her rescue.

The movie is 4-D because we can feel what we are watching. For example, as Shrek & Donkey run after Princess Fiona, the seats will move; and when Donkey spits, it would spray right at our face!!!!

It was a very exciting adventure to be part of!

Travel Log: My Trip to Malaysia

Travel Log: My Trip to Malaysia
(Primary 2)


Tuesday, 12 June 2007

We started out early at 8am. We packed the car with our luggage, toys, books, snacks and drinks. Daddy checked that we had all our passports ready. We then drove off.

We reached Malacca around 10am and decided to have an early lunch at the famous Farmosa Chicken Rice Ball restaurant.

We reached Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon. We stayed at Berjaya Times Square and had lots of fun at the Cosmos World.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007
After breakfast, we drove up to Genting. On the way, Mom decided it would be a good idea to take the cable car instead of driving all the way to the peak. We spent the WHOLE day going through many fun rides at the Genting Theme Park. When we left in the early evening, we saw a beautiful sunset from our cable car.
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Thursday, 14 June 2007


We took 2 hours trying to find the other hotel that we were moving to stay at. The roads were just very confusing to my Dad and there was a bad traffic jam.


We went to the “Eye on Malaysia”. This is at Lake Titiwangsa. It is a gigantic ferris-wheel. We could see the Petronas Twin towers, the KL tower and the Cultural Center while up on the ferris wheel. It was fun for the 1st 3 to 4 rounds and quite boring by the 5th and 6th round!

There was a light and laser show on the Lake.

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Friday, 15 June 2007

We went to Batu Caves. There are 272 steps up to the Caves. We had run up the steps very quickly because we thought the 5-legged cow was up in the cave. We found out later that the cow had already died!

We set out on our drive back to Singapore that afternoon. My sister made me a cute robot from our leftover snackbox.

Kuti-Kuti

My Pri 2 Chinese teacher 罗老师 gives us these little plastic toys as rewards. He says it's an old toy. I've collected so many this year already! I also trade some of them with my friends so that I can have different types of Kuti Kuti.

Mommy also says it's a toy from when she was just a kid and they could buy many of it in a small packet for a few cents either from the Kacang Puteh man or the "Mamak" (Indian) provision shop.

These are Special. They can stand. I only have 7 of them. I just got the blue sail-back dinosaur one from my friend today.


I had fun counting my collection of kuti kuti this afternoon. Then I had the idea of arranging them into the pattern of a sun. So nice !




Mommy helped me take these colourful photos.

Journal: Fave Book

其中一个故事是《我玩游戏不推挤》。
故事里的动物在游戏场溜滑梯。

小猪动作慢吞吞。大家就抢在它前面，推到 小猪 跌下来。

我喜欢这本故事因为 它很有趣。我们也学到玩游戏时要 注意安全，才能玩得很开心。

Pirate School

My favourite story book is a Pirate School book called "The Bun Gun" by Jeremy Strong.

In this story, the children at Pirate School are hungry. They know that their Head Teacher Patagonia has yummy food, but it is all locked up in a cupboard.

So the children set out a plan to get hold of this food. They even have a Secret Weapon - the Bun Gun! The Bun Gun is a cannon that fires sticky buns & doughnuts.

I like this story because it is very exciting! And very funny!

Show & Tell: Jacket

Topic: Things We Wear
Item to SHOW : Jacket

Tell: This is my Winter Jacket.

I wore this when I went to Korea for the holidays.

It was winter then. It was very cold. This jacket is very thick. It kept me warm and cosy.

It has a hood that I put over my head to keep my ears from freezing. When I zip the jacket up and close the hood, it keeps my neck warm.

There are also some pockets for me to put my mittens when I want to eat all the Yummy Food in Korea!

This is a GOOD jacket for Winter.

Show & Tell: Toy

Topic: 我最喜爱的玩具 My Favourite Toy
Show: 直升机 Toy Helicopter

Tell: 我最喜欢的玩具，是这一架电动 直升机 。这架直升机是爸爸送给我的礼物。我带它到 我家 楼下 的空地 玩。直升机 有一个 遥控器。 遥控器 上有 几个 按扭。 每次我 一 按 左边 的 按扭，直升机就会马上飞到天上去。 我再 按 右边的 按扭，直升机又会回到我的身边。真的是有趣极了.