Jul 26, 2015
Jul 30, 2010
My trip to Singapore
On 22th July to 26th July,I went to Singapore with my parents, my cousin Peter and his mum. Since it was my first time to Singapore, I was very excited.
Day One: I arrived at Hong Kong International Airport at noon and met my cousin Peter and his mum, then we boarded the plane at about half past one. There is no time difference between Hong Kong and Singapore so we arrived there at about half past four.
On arrival, we took a taxi to Sentosa Island and stayed in a hotel called Beaufort. After that we put our luggage into our room , we left the hotel and took a free shuttle bus to Vivo City, which is a shopping centre. It had a food court and we had dinner there. I tried Singapore's national dish, La Sha, it was quite spicy but really delicious!
Day Two: After having breakfast in the hotel, we took a yellow-line shuttle bus to the Imbiah Station. We travelled by the mini metro to Waterfront Station. I laughed when I saw that the distance from Imbiah Station to Waterfront Station which was only 200 metres, it took us 20 seconds to arrive there, I could even see Imbiah Station from Waterfront Station!
Singapore Universal Studio is located at Waterfront Station. It was not too crowded inside so I could ride on the thrilling rollercoaster. Unforunately, the biggest and the most exciting rollercoaster was closed! I was so disapointed!
After having lunch, we returned to the theme park again to play on other rides, compared to the Japan's Universal Studio, it is much smaller. When I was leaving, I saw two members of staff at the entrance who kicked some rubbish to each other. In Singapore, if anyone throw rubbish, there is a penalty of 500 dollars.In the evening time, we went to Vivo City again and had dinner with my mum's previous company colleauges.
Day 3: We went to Imbiah Station again and there was some mini rides. Participants had to pay and lined up. We chose three rides, they were the car ride, magazip, and the shooting game. Firstly we rode on the car ride, I couldn't controll my car well and nearly crashed into others. You know, bumping into others would be really painful! I controlled well during the second time and it was fantastic! Then we went shooting in a gallery and there were 15 other participants. I got 68 marks and I was in the forth place. My cousin Peter only scored 22 marks but he was not the last. The worst partcipant only scored 2 marks and her face was shown on the screen and I thought she was really ashamed and embarrased.
The Magazip is the most wonderful ride of all. Firstly we walked up a hill and had to wear a lot of heavy equipment. Then we walked again up to a tower. This is the highest place on the hill. Participants have to follow the staff's instructions and the staff will help them to tie the equipment to the ropes. Partcipants only need to take a photo before they slid down to the beach under the hill( I think it is 60 metres high) and hold on tightly. My cousin and I were the last partcipants to slide down. While waiting, I saw other partcipants who joined the parajump. The workers used a rope to tie the participants heavy equipment. The first one was a teenager, who joined with his friends. He was very afraid that he didn't want to jump. All the other participants encouraged him and clapped and applauded him. Finally the staff pushed him and he jumped down safely with a smile. When we slid down and arrived at the beach, where we met our parents and left Sentosa Beach and set off to the city and stayed at Sheriton Hotel.
Day One: I arrived at Hong Kong International Airport at noon and met my cousin Peter and his mum, then we boarded the plane at about half past one. There is no time difference between Hong Kong and Singapore so we arrived there at about half past four.
On arrival, we took a taxi to Sentosa Island and stayed in a hotel called Beaufort. After that we put our luggage into our room , we left the hotel and took a free shuttle bus to Vivo City, which is a shopping centre. It had a food court and we had dinner there. I tried Singapore's national dish, La Sha, it was quite spicy but really delicious!
Day Two: After having breakfast in the hotel, we took a yellow-line shuttle bus to the Imbiah Station. We travelled by the mini metro to Waterfront Station. I laughed when I saw that the distance from Imbiah Station to Waterfront Station which was only 200 metres, it took us 20 seconds to arrive there, I could even see Imbiah Station from Waterfront Station!
Singapore Universal Studio is located at Waterfront Station. It was not too crowded inside so I could ride on the thrilling rollercoaster. Unforunately, the biggest and the most exciting rollercoaster was closed! I was so disapointed!
After having lunch, we returned to the theme park again to play on other rides, compared to the Japan's Universal Studio, it is much smaller. When I was leaving, I saw two members of staff at the entrance who kicked some rubbish to each other. In Singapore, if anyone throw rubbish, there is a penalty of 500 dollars.In the evening time, we went to Vivo City again and had dinner with my mum's previous company colleauges.
Day 3: We went to Imbiah Station again and there was some mini rides. Participants had to pay and lined up. We chose three rides, they were the car ride, magazip, and the shooting game. Firstly we rode on the car ride, I couldn't controll my car well and nearly crashed into others. You know, bumping into others would be really painful! I controlled well during the second time and it was fantastic! Then we went shooting in a gallery and there were 15 other participants. I got 68 marks and I was in the forth place. My cousin Peter only scored 22 marks but he was not the last. The worst partcipant only scored 2 marks and her face was shown on the screen and I thought she was really ashamed and embarrased.
The Magazip is the most wonderful ride of all. Firstly we walked up a hill and had to wear a lot of heavy equipment. Then we walked again up to a tower. This is the highest place on the hill. Participants have to follow the staff's instructions and the staff will help them to tie the equipment to the ropes. Partcipants only need to take a photo before they slid down to the beach under the hill( I think it is 60 metres high) and hold on tightly. My cousin and I were the last partcipants to slide down. While waiting, I saw other partcipants who joined the parajump. The workers used a rope to tie the participants heavy equipment. The first one was a teenager, who joined with his friends. He was very afraid that he didn't want to jump. All the other participants encouraged him and clapped and applauded him. Finally the staff pushed him and he jumped down safely with a smile. When we slid down and arrived at the beach, where we met our parents and left Sentosa Beach and set off to the city and stayed at Sheriton Hotel.
Jun 9, 2010
A Writing Task
Write a letter to editor of the Young Post. Write and tell your readers about life in Hong Kong 10 years ago when you were a little boy.
You can use the following phrases to write
- Play hide-and-seek in the kindergarten
- Have a lot of toys from Mac Donald
- Play stones and bean bags
- Go to beach with family members
- Ride bicycles at the weekend
Jun 8, 2010
How to Have a Green Day
1. Why shouldn’t buy anything you don’t really want or need? It is because everything we buy is made using the earth’s resources in some way. If we don’t really need the things, we will waste the resources. |
2. What should we do with the old newspapers, jars and bottles? We should take them to the nearest recycling point, local charity shop or give them to a jumble sale. |
3. When we are cold in the evening, what should we do? We should put on a sweat, slippers, or socks. As soon as it gets dark, close the curtain to keep the warmth in. |
4. Why shouldn’t we take a bath? What should we do instead of taking a bath? It is because we will waste a lot of water when we take a bath. We should take a shower rather than a bath. |
5. What should we do if it is cold at bed time? We should try to do the following things: Ÿ Put on extra blanket on our bed. Ÿ Have a warm drink or snack Ÿ Use a hot water bottle Ÿ War warm pajamas Ÿ Wear some socks |
6. What should you do, if you don’t like sleeping in the dark? We should use a night-light plug or a very low power light blub. |
7. How much does it cost you to have a green day? No, it doesn’t cost any money to have a green day. |
Jun 4, 2010
A letter to a friend
Hi Fred,
How are things going?
Recently I have joined a chess competition with my mate at school. The opponents were all very good at playing chess and I had to play really carefully. Luckily, I beat them finally. My mate Terry beat the others easily and I was really amazed by that!We have got a bag of candy and a golden medal as a prize. I received them yesterday and shared the candies with my classmates.
Our final examination is coming soon and the school had alreday carried out the pre-exam policy. Our formal lessons was conducted until 2:30 and we left the school and went home to do revision. The examination will commence from 11th of June to the 22nd of June. I will have to work extremely hard because I want to join the prize giving ceremony.
After examination is over, we are going to relax and play crazily. The school has already arranged some activities for us and I am sure we will enjoy them. In addition, we are planning to go to Shanghai to visit the exhibition held there. According to the news reports, the exhibition will close after 6 months and we want to take a look. But I am anxious that we might have to line up under the hot sun for a long period. It could be tiring and perhaps I might faint, I know that you have lived in Shanghai for a long period of time and I think you are familiar with the weather in Shanghai etc, so if we really do make the trip, please be a tour guide for us.
How about you life in Shanghai, is it cool, are you enjoying yourself? I know that you have won in a solo competition. You have got some book coupons and a trophy as a prize. Congratulations to you! Please work hard and win in next year and also make good use of the book coupons. I know that you resistant to read books but please have a try. You knowledge will increase if you do so.
Ok! It is late now and I have to go to bed. See you soon and please take care!
Best wishes,
Jerry Lo
How are things going?
Recently I have joined a chess competition with my mate at school. The opponents were all very good at playing chess and I had to play really carefully. Luckily, I beat them finally. My mate Terry beat the others easily and I was really amazed by that!We have got a bag of candy and a golden medal as a prize. I received them yesterday and shared the candies with my classmates.
Our final examination is coming soon and the school had alreday carried out the pre-exam policy. Our formal lessons was conducted until 2:30 and we left the school and went home to do revision. The examination will commence from 11th of June to the 22nd of June. I will have to work extremely hard because I want to join the prize giving ceremony.
After examination is over, we are going to relax and play crazily. The school has already arranged some activities for us and I am sure we will enjoy them. In addition, we are planning to go to Shanghai to visit the exhibition held there. According to the news reports, the exhibition will close after 6 months and we want to take a look. But I am anxious that we might have to line up under the hot sun for a long period. It could be tiring and perhaps I might faint, I know that you have lived in Shanghai for a long period of time and I think you are familiar with the weather in Shanghai etc, so if we really do make the trip, please be a tour guide for us.
How about you life in Shanghai, is it cool, are you enjoying yourself? I know that you have won in a solo competition. You have got some book coupons and a trophy as a prize. Congratulations to you! Please work hard and win in next year and also make good use of the book coupons. I know that you resistant to read books but please have a try. You knowledge will increase if you do so.
Ok! It is late now and I have to go to bed. See you soon and please take care!
Best wishes,
Jerry Lo
May 7, 2010
Project
In secondary schools, there are lots of projects to do. Chinese, Maths, Integrated Science, Integrated Humanities, English etc. Usually these projects are indivual projects or group projects.
Teachers will set the deadline of the projects and ask the students to form themselves in groups. At my school, that's always happens. After forming a group, teachers are going to give you the title/instructions of the project and the group members have to start finding some useful information related to the title on websites, books, experts or other ways. Of course, you cannot directly copy and paste the information from the Internet and paste it on a piece of paper. If you do so, you will gain very low marks because nearly all students try to do this and how can the teachers give you high marks if all the students hand in a similar or even same projects to teachers?
Although I am only a secondary one student, I have completed some projects before. Now we will discuss about how to do a good group project. According to my experience, you have to find some classmates that you are fimiliar with ( It means that you have to know about the strengths and weaknesses of each group members). Then after forming groups you must write down the content page that what do you intend to do for this project.
Next, you have to discuss and assign jobs to each group members. If they are good at typing, let them type; if they are good at researching, let them research ; if they are good at interviewing others, let them do so, you must not assign jobs that the group members are not good at. If you do so, that will always waste his/her time.
A good project should invovles one or more content pages, an index, information about the topics, interviewing conversations ( opional ), a conclusion and group members' feelings. Group members have to set the content pages together in order to let all the members to know what they have to do, also always hold some meetings to see if there are any difficulties.
When you find any information on reliable websites or books,don't copy them directly,anaylise it and rewrite it again. Usually you can present the data in a passage form, but if you use charts and graphs, that will be easier for people to look at your data.
You can also set some questionaires to let other people fill in and symmaise the information into graphs. For interviewing conservations, you can find some well-known people and interview them. During the interview, ask them questions in a polite manner. You should always drop down the main points.
A conclusion is the most important element in the project, when your group has finished all the work, concluded the data in passage form. Marks would be deducted if you have not written a conclusion page. Pictures have also to be included in the conclusion. After writing a conclusion page, ask you members their feelings and write them down on the members' feelings part. You must write down the difficulties experienced during the project and how you solved any difficulties.
You must put down the sources of information and include the names of the books, websites, newspapers, people who helped you etc. Finally, you have to draw/design the cover page and the last page. You should use ordinary colour pens to colour the pictures and charts. ( Don't forget to write down your group members' names on the cover page!!)
You must hand in on time or earlier that will give a good impression to teacher that give you high marks. If you need do presentation, gather all the group members and discuss things that you have to talk. Avoid deplication or contradiction.
Teachers will set the deadline of the projects and ask the students to form themselves in groups. At my school, that's always happens. After forming a group, teachers are going to give you the title/instructions of the project and the group members have to start finding some useful information related to the title on websites, books, experts or other ways. Of course, you cannot directly copy and paste the information from the Internet and paste it on a piece of paper. If you do so, you will gain very low marks because nearly all students try to do this and how can the teachers give you high marks if all the students hand in a similar or even same projects to teachers?
Although I am only a secondary one student, I have completed some projects before. Now we will discuss about how to do a good group project. According to my experience, you have to find some classmates that you are fimiliar with ( It means that you have to know about the strengths and weaknesses of each group members). Then after forming groups you must write down the content page that what do you intend to do for this project.
Next, you have to discuss and assign jobs to each group members. If they are good at typing, let them type; if they are good at researching, let them research ; if they are good at interviewing others, let them do so, you must not assign jobs that the group members are not good at. If you do so, that will always waste his/her time.
A good project should invovles one or more content pages, an index, information about the topics, interviewing conversations ( opional ), a conclusion and group members' feelings. Group members have to set the content pages together in order to let all the members to know what they have to do, also always hold some meetings to see if there are any difficulties.
When you find any information on reliable websites or books,don't copy them directly,anaylise it and rewrite it again. Usually you can present the data in a passage form, but if you use charts and graphs, that will be easier for people to look at your data.
You can also set some questionaires to let other people fill in and symmaise the information into graphs. For interviewing conservations, you can find some well-known people and interview them. During the interview, ask them questions in a polite manner. You should always drop down the main points.
A conclusion is the most important element in the project, when your group has finished all the work, concluded the data in passage form. Marks would be deducted if you have not written a conclusion page. Pictures have also to be included in the conclusion. After writing a conclusion page, ask you members their feelings and write them down on the members' feelings part. You must write down the difficulties experienced during the project and how you solved any difficulties.
You must put down the sources of information and include the names of the books, websites, newspapers, people who helped you etc. Finally, you have to draw/design the cover page and the last page. You should use ordinary colour pens to colour the pictures and charts. ( Don't forget to write down your group members' names on the cover page!!)
You must hand in on time or earlier that will give a good impression to teacher that give you high marks. If you need do presentation, gather all the group members and discuss things that you have to talk. Avoid deplication or contradiction.
Apr 6, 2010
short essay about city life
The Red Cross Society found that 75% of Beijing residents were in poor health, along with 73% of those in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
According to the studies and reports, the elite, professionals, senior and mid-level managers have a shorter life than the usual person. The average lifespan of Chinese national average of 72 years of age while the average lifespan is 57 years old. The main reasons that causes their health problems are the lack of exercise, high stress and poor eating habits .
Also, the economic losses from disesase were as high as 400 billion yuan per year.
According to the studies and reports, the elite, professionals, senior and mid-level managers have a shorter life than the usual person. The average lifespan of Chinese national average of 72 years of age while the average lifespan is 57 years old. The main reasons that causes their health problems are the lack of exercise, high stress and poor eating habits .
Also, the economic losses from disesase were as high as 400 billion yuan per year.
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