A 10 word essay should not even take a second to think of. However, ive spent more than 10 minutes thinking about what to write about. 

"Exam is here, group studying with friends, we are dead."

This shows just how much trouble we are in and im just glad my friends are here with me. Knowing how dead you are isnt bad when your friends are in just as much trouble as you.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, PUBG for short, is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporations, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole. The game is based on previous mods that were created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games using the film Battle Royale for inspiration, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round. I highly recommend this game especially on the mobile version or the pc version as they are quite similar due to their latest update on the mobile version.

What the word 'Merdeka Day' means to me

As to what this words mean to me and I'm sure to all students as well, it means only one thing, more holidays. It also mean long and boring speeches by the principal which contents repeats the speeches from last year's and the years before. Sure, it is a day that we celebrate for achieving independence. However, the way our schools wants us to celebrate it is boring and really kills the mood. I like to spend the day with my friends, outside of school, speeches made by friends and not by principals that tries to be formal.

My Plans for the August 2018 Holidays

Been looking forward to the upcoming holidays for a long time, and it has finally arrived. To get more sleep is one of my priorities during these holidays and so is finishing up all my physics pks. Other than that, relaxing sessions with my pubg squad at night after filling my belly with delicious food in Penang and after doing some homework sounds amazing to me. These plans was made before the holidays, so there is no guarantee that i will get enough sleep and might just end up playing PUBG with my squad till 2am.

What Actually transpired during the holidays

The holidays finally arrived and will soon be gone in a blink of an eye. There was nothing special planned for this holiday so  ended up playing PUBG with my gaming squad. I had no worries when I play with them at night. Although theres this guy who is kind of a burden to our squad, nonetheless, he's the leader who brings us to victory by sacrificing himself to the PUBG gods. I trust my squad with my life, literally, in game and in real life even though i might say otherwise.  Playing pubg and going to my favourite restaurants to have lunch and dinner is the only things i did throughout the entire week of the August holiday. Doing so little things and not being productive brought me joy and also stress and troubles when I realised holiday is finishing but not my homework, especially this blog which I'm only doing in september.

SMK DJ Carnival

Never did i expect anything much from a carnival organised by my own school. However, I had quite a blast and it wasn't because of anything that was organised by the school but of those activities organised by the students of SMK DJ. Firstly, there was a manually functioned machine put together by the scouts which allows people to make their friends wet by throwing a ball at a target. Other than that, the talents of SMK DJ performed on stage and everyone enjoyed it a lot. However, the food trucks there was over-rated as it wasn't as nice as they said it would be but i still bought the food sold by the food trucks as i was very hungry. Having fun in a carnival is not when the activities are fun. Sure, activities organised could be enjoyable but it could also be boring. However, what makes activities more fun or less boring is when you do it with your friends.

Comment on two of my friend's blog

1. https://anenglishblockofword.blogspot.com/2018/08/what-actually-transpired-during-holidays.html#comments

2. https://liewchungwei.blogspot.com/2018/09/story.html?showComment=1536072670713#c5196561744090382499

Birthday

A person's birthday is most probably his or her most important day. However, some people like to spend their birthday alone and enjoys the presence of just him or herself. Some people prefer to spend their birthday with friends and families which is the most common ones. I like to spend mine with my family, friends and myself. My birthday is on the 24th of July, so for those who never remembers my birthday, kindly refer to this blog whenever you forget so you can buy me a present. In the morning, my friends wished me a happy birthday, sang a birthday song and one my closest friends even wrote me an extremely long letter. Even now, I would read her letter once a while whenever I feel down. After hours and hours of tuition, my parents brought me to an expensive japanese restaurant. The restaurant is owned by a friend of my brother's and we will always have our dinner there every weekend so eating at that restaurant is a norm for me. Then, we reached home at 10. I would spend the last hour of my birthday looking at the night sky knowing that i will regret not sleeping early. This is how my birthday usually is.

Minggu Pusat Sumber in my school

Minggu Pusat Sumber is like an educational tour that the library gives to every class in the school and it lasts for a week. The librarians are given a theme to do research on and they then give us a tour around the library and tell us all bout what they know. The theme for this year is all about korean stuff. It was quite interesting although we were not given enough time to hang around in the library for the librarians to finish their presentation. It was an interesting week and i enjoyed it very much.

Academic Day

I have been looking forward to this day not because I'm getting my mid year results but as i will be playing a game called PUBG Mobile which is short for Player Unknown BattleGrounds for 5 straight hours immediately after we get our lecture from parents for blowing our chance of getting good results by staying up every night. It was an unforgettable day as i get to spend it with my friends instead of sitting awkwardly with my parents in the car after a short lecture as my parents have not much to talk bad about me.
Hi Pn Monica, if you are asking me why my blog is not about me being scolded in school but is instead me playing with my friends, it is still at the same day so it is talking about academic day technically.

Hari Raya Celebrations in School

Hari Raya is one of the festivals of Malaysia as we all celebrate together as Malaysians. The principal of my school decided to spend some money on celebrating it. The empty bank account is then filled up again by all the extremely helpful donations made by students after being pressured and forced by our beloved principal. This campaign called ICT-thon made me realise that my classmates are 'generous' and donated a handful of 1 dollars while i donated a handful of 50 dollars. Please do not kick me out of the school if you are reading this, our beloved principal. Back to the topic. That day, I had a chance to enjoy the amazing traditional food served in school and also finger-licking snacks given out by teachers. We also got to feast our eyes and ears on a few amazing performances. Time flew when we were having fun which is only a quarter of the day and time we spent in school. The best moment was when the bell rang and when i got to eat after lining up for what seems like hours.

The Changes My Country Has Experienced From 9.5.2018 Till Today

As all Malaysians know, an election was held on the 9th of May 2018 and I was surprised when i heard that the opposition party won. It was a historical event as the opposition party, Pakatan Harapan outvote the ruling party, Barisan Nasional for the first time since the country became independent in 1957.

For the opposition party to achieve such great results, it was obvious that all voters for Pakatan Harapan are waiting for a huge change compared to when Barisan Nasional was the ruling party. At Prime Minister Mahathir's first press conference on Thursday, our Prime Minister pledged to fight corruption. Investigation has been undergone against suspects. I have not been following much on the news about whats going on but i hope that corrupted officers will be caught and given the right punishment. Moreover, i also hope that our country, Malaysia will be going straight towards the right direction and away from corruption and poverty.

Burmese Pool

Recently, my family and I visited my grandparents in Taiping. While we were there, we went to the burmese pool. It was a must for us to go there every time we went to Taiping. However, we stopped going there for a few months, which is why we decided to go there again. The Burmese pool is not actually a pool people have in their backyard or at a club. It is in the mountains and the pool is actually just the river. Its not a place to go if you want to swim laps, but I strongly recommend going there if you want to relax. Even though there is a lot of mosquitoes and leeches that likes nothing more than to suck your blood dry. However, when you reach the top of the river, away from the public ( which is very dirty at the bottom of the river where everyone swims as they are lazy to climb up the mountain), the water is cold, fresh and most importantly, clean. Small fishes swim around me while lay my head on a rock and soak my body in the refreshing water while I think about all the homework I forgot to do. Other than that, the view of the river in the mountains are surreal! When you lie down in the water and close your eyes, everything can be heard. The water is very shallow but if you take some time and use rocks to block the flow, the water level will rise a little and therefore you can move around the water more. My brother and I even made a stone monument by stacking up rocks like how professional photographers or artists do. Its amazing how just stacking up rocks can be a work of art. We went back after an hour of stacking rocks and lying down in the water. An important fact was learned from this trip. Do not get attacked by leeches. They are poisonous. I got 3 leeches on me while i was jungle tracking in the mountain. When we were on our way to the burmese pool, we met a relative who is 80 something years old and selling coconut, bananas and papayas by the roadside as he is bored of staying at home. You would never believe someone like that can be a 'datuk', but he is. He was given the title 'datuk' last year for representing the country in the sports javelin when he was young. It was a surprise to me too.

Ladies Should Not Accept Jobs That Take Them Away From Home Excessively

I agree that ladies should not accept jobs that take them away from home. If the ladies wants to provide for the family, they should also consider about their children at home. Parents play an important role in the education of children in order to prevent them from choosing the wrong path to walk or choose the wrong friends who later on convince them to smoke or steal just because parents fail to educate or tell them what type of friends they should look out for.

Ladies can accept jobs that they can work from home or at most not take away from home excessively. This way, ladies can take good care of the children and at the same time provide for the family.

A Momentous Moment in the history of Malaysia

The most momentous moment in the history of Malaysia in my opinion is Hari Merdeka or  Independence Day, refers to the day when Malaysia request for independence from the British was officially declared. At exactly 09:30 on 31 August 1957, the declaration was read by the first Chief Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman at the Merdeka Stadium in the presence of thousands of people, members of the federal government, and foreign dignitaries.

To commemorate the event, Hari Merdeka was declared a national Day in Malaysia and observed annually on 31 August. Until now, it is celebrated by every Malaysia. However, there is also an event where there is a change for the prime minister position. This happened through the effort of every citizen that voted for the opposition.

This concludes my blog for today.

Teacher's Day 2018

To be honest, I never wanted to come to school on this day and for the past 3 years as it was thought to be a boring day where we just watch students and teachers perform and play games. The reason i came to school for the past 3 years was only because my mother asked me to. However, I came to school on teacher's day this year is only to pass up my friend's homework.

It was as always boring day until a few of the performances which is the K-pop dances. They were the only performances that made me take back my word for talking about how boring it is. The highlight of the day was this trio whose lead dancer was a friend of mine called Henry and one of the other dancer who was also my friend,Derrick. They were amazing! Ive never people dance so coordinately in my life!

I believe through hard work and skills, they manage to get to this level that I can never dare dream of reaching.

My First ULBS for English

ULBS is an important part of my English exam. This is why Im always checking my notes for the presentation and constantly looking out for any mistakes. As preparation, my teacher decided to let us talk and present about our favourite book in front of our juniors. I was a nervous wreck, with sweaty palms and shaking legs when i walked in the classrooms of my form 1 juniors.

Sometimes i wonder about my future, if I couldn't talk smoothy without being this nervous in front of a class of 30, how can I present or talk about a proposal in front of successful businessmen and businesswomen. Fortunately, that happened only for the first class i talked about my in, for the following classes, the audience was my friendly and talks to me, giving morale support. They gave me a vote of confidence that no one has ever given.

My English teacher chose her victims by having a lucky draw. The first presenter will choose the next victim after his or her presentation. This is the only first time that Im ever grateful for my bad luck during a lucky draw as i was the last to be picked, the person who never came to school not included. I quickly went in to talking about the book that I read for 3 times a month, and staring at the back of the class. Some of my friends tried to distract and make me laugh, but i quickly dismissed them from my mind by thinking about the story of the book.

At the end, I achieved a good score of 26 out of 30. I was proud of my marks but I believe that can do better if I wasn't nervous.

My Grandmother's birthday

On the night before my grandmother's birthday, we went to this restaurant that just opened at citta mall called the Manhattan Fish Market and the fried dory was amazing and finger-licking good! We then returned home full and satisfied. On the next day, we woke up as early as we could and set off to avoid any traffic jam. Fortunately, we arrived in Taiping without any obstacle.

When we arrived and my grandmother came out to check who we were, she didn't recognise me or any of my family members which is a little heartbreaking. However, with a bit of help from my aunt, she remembered and welcomed us with open arms. As my grandmother has a hard time remembering things, she always forgets that it was her birthday. Therefore , telling her that it was her big day always cheers her up.

After dinner, we went home to celebrate and the cake was delicious. Bought from a bakery shop that always has people queuing was the new york cheesecake and it was amazing. I had a great time celebrating my grandmother's birthday and i hope that she did too.

What I learned about how my efforts will contribute to my exam marks

Examination is a very important process in determining the level of knowledge a student has and also how good a person is in academics. For a person who is not active in sports or hate the idea of going out, studying or reading books is a great way to spend their time. Therefore, they can achieve excellent results from their exams. However, a person who is always out under the sun sweating, scoring hoops or goals, will not have enough time to study or hates studying or reading.

As for me, I'm more of a mixture of both. I love sports especially basketball, and i also love reading science-fiction novels. I also enjoy doing challenging additional maths questions or modern maths questions. Unfortunately, I always push back revisions and procrastinating on my assignments. Which is the reason i sometimes fail my tests. Recently, there was this monthly test that I fortunately got good marks at, which is for English.

I did all the homework my teacher gave and wrote most of the blogs my teacher told us to write. Thankfully , this ended up increasing my exam marks instead of decreasing it.

My First Term Holidays

Im a extremely busy person, at least Im busy sleeping. Maybe even busy doing something else. Nope, just kidding, I don't have a life, still busy sleeping. In fact, I feel tired and exhausted writing this blog. Thankfully, my dad planned everything out for me this holiday. Going to Taiping, Penang and few other places was tiring and yet also an eye-opener. The ocean view was breathtaking. It was so great that I stayed there the entire trip while my family explored the rest of penang. After that, we went back to Kuala Lumpur and I continued my way of life...

My First Form 4 Exam

Im speechless with nothing but disappointment at myself. Even though Ive not gotten all of my results for a few subjects, Im at a lost for words. Only 1 A maths and thankfully a F for add maths.
A part of me already expected the results as i never studied for the exam.

This is a huge lesson for me and I should never procrastinate in my studies. Just like what I said from the above paragraph, Im speechless and at a lost for words. Therefore, I have no choice but to end the blog. For those having their exams, study for it as it just might change your life.

A Memorable Sports Day

The last time i actually exercised was... i don't remember. Oh wait.. it was months ago. A few days before that unforgettable and torturing day, i was informed by a fellow house member that my beloved teacher signed me up for a few events, 200m and relay events which is 4x100m and 4x400m.

Knowing that it was too late to do anything and prepare myself for the day, I thought about how i would just shame my house and teammates that was willing to join me in this battle. On that fateful day, we just thought of doing our best and never dared to compete with the best. However, my skills were too great and my power.. strong beyond imagination. With my leadership skills and my teammates' actual experience in running, we were able to get our hands on 2nd in the 4 x 100m event and 3rd in the 4 x 400m event. 

I had a way that helped but it wasn't smart either, it was to not wear any shoes when i run which helped as the track was burning hot. The fiery sun was a lot of help in a way. Our house's cheer and marching was good enough as they couldn't get enough training and Im proud of them.

This concludes the day and walking home with blisters, torn off skin and 2 medals... I couldn't ask for more other than the medals.

Road Run 2018

ROAD RUN 2018

Recently, my school organised a marathon on the 24th of February. I have a winning streak and getting a medal every year is a must and is also a goal for me. However, my mother wanted to go back to her hometown, which is very unfortunate for me as I have no choice but to break my winning streak.

For the road run competition this year, I trained hard, going out of my comfort-zone, pushing myself to run further and faster. I knew that I will be going up against people older and better than me so I trained every day, sometimes I even feel like vomiting and my legs felt like sticks, having no strength to even stand up, but I still keep going.

When my parents told where we will heading off to that weekend, my mind went blank. Fortunately, after begging my mom for what felt like hours, she finally decided to let me stay. My mom, knowing how dedicated I was to school sport activities, finally let me stay for the road run competition!

On the day that I long awaited and prepared for have finally arrived. The competitors sat together at the pavilion. It was a very awkward situation where we looked at each other, trying to guess who is their potential nemesis. A very long speech later, we walked to the starting line and waited for the gun to go off. A few minutes later, BOOM! And we all ran for the finish line...

In the end, I got the medal..... for 1st!! Everyone cheered and clapped, even the school bell rang for my victory! Then, I woke up to the alarm clock, as annoying as ever. After putting the baggages into the car, we set off to my parents' hometown...

A MALAYSIAN FESTIVAL

CHINESE NEW YEAR
Chinese New Year, also known as the spring festival in modern China, and one of the Lunar New Years in Asia, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. What I just said, I got from the wikipedia, for more information, you will have to continue reading this post about my experience and how I celebrate Chinese New Year.

Going back to my parents' hometown is what always keep me awake in bed, causing me to not have the sleep I need for the big day which is dinner with my relatives. What makes dinner with my relatives so special is that my aunts will be cooking and bringing their best dish to my grandparents' house to enjoy together. We shared jokes over dinner and the atmosphere was what kept me warm for the night.

The next day, my grandparents' prepared mee hoon soup for us and gave us ang pao (a red packet with money inside). After that, we visited friends and other relatives. About the ang pao, there is an interesting story behind it. In short, a devil was causing children to fall sick and die, to protect their grandson, two old folks ask for help from the 8 chinese gods. They then transform into coins and was asked to be put into a red packet and was hidden under the grandson's pillow. In the end, the grandson was saved.

Chinese New Year is not about the ang pao or the money ( unless you are broke like me ), in fact , it is about celebrating and having fun with your family and friends. Happy Chinese New Year!!!

THE SKETCH

THE PROCESS OF PREPARING FOR THE SKETCH
Flame is the name of the story my group was chosen to make a sketch of. The story was from China, mainly just about a woman name Ni Mei and her love life. In my opinion, it was just some typical woman trying to get back with her ex.

Preparing for the sketch was not a piece of cake, not when you have a teammate who seems to always be busy and is not able to make it to discussions. However, we pushed through this obstacle by creating a discord group. It was tough but with great amount of planning, writing scripts and preparing props, we were ready. That was what we thought for 2 weeks, we messed up quite a few times, and that was when we realised we did not practice our sketch with the entire team present.

It was not the best and perfect sketch I've done, but I learned a few valuable lessons. Every single member of the team is important and we would not be able to succeed without everyone working together. Moreover, practice makes perfect, with more practice we could have done a better job in presenting the sketch. Fortunately, my teammates were able to understand the story enough to be able to recover every time a mistake was made.

About the story, as I said, was from China. The main characters are Ni Mei, Jiang Bing and Hsu Peng. After reading the story, I learned that we should take care of our health as early as possible and that we should not do things during the last minute.

MY BASKETBALL MSSD EXPERIENCE

We have been training for this competition for months, although i could not make it to some of the practices, i always practice on my own during my free time. The under 18 team of SMK Damansara Jaya, also known as DJHB, is made up of skilled players who are both hard-working and full of spirit.

It was difficult to forget and move on, when we finally accepted the fact that we lost by 11 points and was out on the quarter finals. It shattered some of my teammates' hearts and they broke down into tears. I didn't get a chance to showcase my ability or skills as i have been missing out on some team trainings, so it was harsh when i knew that i couldn't do anything to help the team win. However, my teammates were able to pull it off and brought home a triple win.

All of the above was pretty much how i felt after the quarter finals where we met our match. With the sad things aside, I'm going to talk about what i enjoy when i participate in MSSD. Firstly, I get to meet my old friends who were in my peer group in elementary school. It was the only time we get to talk face to face as we are never free on the same day. Moreover, I also get to meet new people from different schools and enjoy the delicious food that the canteen of SMK BU3 sells.

Hopefully I get to lead my team into victory in the MSSD competition next year...

The Power Of Information

THE POWER OF INFORMATION

     Recently, my english teacher, Miss Monica, gave an article to read on which is titled 'The Boys Who Fought The Nazis'. It is an interesting article about three german boys who helped spread awareness and the truth about the war during World War II. 

     The Nazis kept the German people in the dark about the war while Hitler was sending the Germans into battles they couldn't win. Moreover, the Nazis founded the Nazi club boys called Jungvolk, or 'Young Folk' in 1936 and the league of German girls to train them to become soldiers, shaping their beliefs since young. The three boys realised the truth when one of the boys, Helmuth showed them a shortwave radio he has and they then began typing up leaflets to show the German people.

     With these information about the war, the German people could help in the resistance of the Nazis and even stop the war from within. This shows us the power of information that can stop wars or change the tides of how the war will end. 

What I Did After PT3

     A heavy weight lifted off my shoulders after the final exam and all I could think about was how I was going to spend my holidays. Instead of going abroad, I decided that I will stay in Taiping, Perak for a week with my grandparents and help out in their palm oil plantation.

     The place where they lived was not very developed and there is not much traffic, so there is fresh air and less exhaust fumes. Moreover, the food in Taiping is delicious and it was easy to adapt to their lifestyle even though we had to wake up early in the morning. It was late at night on Christmas when i arrived and unfortunately, I could not celebrate with my relatives who lives nearby my grandparents' house. 

     The next day was the time of the harvest, and I was thrilled as it was my first time in the palm oil plantation. When we arrived at our destination, the workers came to welcome us. They all seemed friendly except one who was an annoying person, always asking my grandfather for a raise. Once he was begging my grandfather to give him a raise and not leaving him alone, so I stepped in. It wasn't a smart thing to do but I just did it anyway. I tried not to start a fight with him as it is the last thing I would want and it would just start a vicious circle so I just glared at him as a sign that I'm furious at him, if looks could kill, he would be dead. After listening to him talking about how hardworking he is for 5 minutes, he finally gave up and walked back to his shed. The entire 5 minutes was just me thinking about what to do if he started a fight and I couldn't come up with anything as this type of stuff never happens to me. Fortunately, nothing happened but my leg was still trembling.

     After 3 hours and several ant-bites, the harvest was over and we went home. After that, there was nothing for me to do other than cleaning up the backyard of my grandparents' home, so i just watch anime during my free time. This trip was worth it and I was glad i could spend more time with my grandparents.