Saturday, March 28, 2009

Confessions of a "Ball Loser"

I have always never been good at keeping things which I borrowed well. Maybe I am just very clumsy or do not have a "ball sense" which my friends used to call me when I lost their baseballs. Now, I reveal my actual account of my loss to the public.(Wishing that my friends don't read this)

Well, my co-curricular-activity is baseball, so it's basic common sense that I play using a baseball. However, I don't have a proper ball to train with at home, I use tennis balls to train at home, ridiculous, isn't it? So I decided to borrow a baseball from my friend for one month-again......
 
The day I got home after borrowing the ball, I was elated and in high spirits as I could finally train properly at home. I immediately rushed downstairs to try out "my" new ball. I smashed the ball against the tennis court's walls, enjoyingthe sound of the crunch. However, just at one moment when I did not flex my arms well, the ball flew out of the tennis court into nowhere. I was dazed for that moment and did not know what to do. My immediate instinct was to go  find the ball. I rushed out into the bushes outside the tennis court and begin my "rescue mission".

My rescue mission failed and I was well, depressed. I did not know what to tell my friend. In fact I had lost the previous ball he lent me and this was the second one. Oh man, why am I so clumsy? Well, I am still currently in the borrowing period and I only have about a week to return him the ball. Can anyone please offer advice to me how to handle this situation? Aw, I have a headache......

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Apology to everyone...(Blog-Linguistic)


I sincerely regret bringing trouble to the school. I really do not know why I committed those foolish offences just for fun. No, it was not for patriotism for America, just foolishness.Yes everyone, I have a confession to make so please hear me out......
On that day, when I first broke the school rule by humming the "Star Spangled Banner", I believed I had my reasons. However, as I think through the incident now, I can now understand the real reason for me doing it. I love track. However, because of my poor English grades, I could not get into the Track team. I despised Miss Narwin just for that reason alone as I thought she intentionally gave me the bad grades. Hence, I planned to get kicked out of Miss Narwin's classes by humming the national anthem disrespectfully when it was actually my own attitude towards Literature that made this happen.
I also wanted to do extra work and earn Miss Narwin's favour but my Father told me to stand up for my own rights so I interpreted it wrongly and there I ended up. I really regret doing this to you, Miss Narwin, I should just have stayed put and studied hard for English but instead I did those foolish acts and make it backfire on me. I am also very sorry for ruining your teaching career, Miss Narwin, I hope I can make up to you somehow......
Now, as I leave Harrison High for good, I apologize to the whole school and will try to make up for my misdeeds in my new school. I hope you will forgive me .
With full apologies,
Philip Malloy
Comments
Narwin:
Dear philip,
Although I am somewhat still furious at you for making this mess, however, I do understand the situation you were in and would like to forgive you. Philip , you know your own mistakes and I am already contented with that and thus you are already making up to me. Do not put in mind too much your regret. Study hard! Live up to your own expectations and strive for the stars!
With Regards,
Miss Narwin
Gertrude Doane:
Dear philip,
I am glad that you finally acknowledged your mistakes. Also, please work hard in your new school and do not cause any more unneccessary trouble. As long as you follow these advice, you will be fine. I just hope that this nationwide dispute would come to a rest soon.
Take care,
Gertrude Doane
Coach Jamison:
Hi Phil. Heard you got no track there in your new school. You should'nt have caused so much trouble. You should have listened to my advice and apologize to Miss Narwin. Narwin is a good teacher. If you really are wanting more track in your life, you should someday come down to Harrison track to work out. I'm sure Palleni would allow that. You can meet up with your friends too. Anyway, I just hope that everything will work out the way you wanted it to be in your new school , Philip. Take care.
Jamison
Mr Lunser:
Hiya kiddo! How are you doing? Terrible? I hope not. Yo,you Philip, shouldn't have done that to Narwin . Anyway I hope you can stick up for patriotism in your new school! Bet' you'll terribly miss my "lame" jokes haha. Work hard and don't try to get another teacher fired! haha. Just don't fail English again.
Lunser

Reflection on blogging

Wow.
I have never come across anything related to blogging before I came to Hwa Chong Institution after having been introduced blogging by my LA teacher I am really amazed and impressed. I did not know that it was so easy to put something on the net just by blogging. It is very convenient. I am also impressed by its user-friendliness and its convenience as I thought you needed to learn HTML if you wanted to post something on the net. I like blogging a lot as it has multi purpose functions. You can treat it as your diary or even an assignment board! However, the one thing I dislike about blogging is that while you are blogging, you tend to make grammar or spelling mistakes and it is not corrected automatically like Microsoft Word. Generally, I give blogging my "5 star rating".This whole process can be improved if only there was a human- error- correcting-system .I think tieing in the reading habits and electronic bookshelf is a really good idea as it makes us more aware of our reading habits and the number of books we have read so far. I find that the electronic bookshelf is a very useful website as it really helps us to read more and improve on our literature. In overall , I really fancy blogging.