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 Hye guys !! i really feel more better and confident to write in english even just a simple message to my mom now after follow this blog. i really want to thank to you because giving me the opportunity to turn a new leaf. i used to be a nerdy before and i was too shy to talk infront of my friends in class due to the lack of confidence. bully ?? haha, it seems to be part of my life before. however, after reading this amazing blog, i am now a new person with full of confidence to talk in English and standing infront of  the people.

Wordless Wednesday

Describe your best childhood memory

            Years passed by, and I grow up from a baby till teenager now. Here I am, a seventeen years-old girl. Through the years that I lived on, I have met many friends from different backgrounds, different cultures and religions, also different behaviours. I can tell the stories about all many friends, but I don’t want to, Yes, I’m not denying that I love all of them but there is one person that I called the true “friends”. This person have been with me since in primary school. This person is My Best Friend,Nik.

            I recounted the first time I met her in primary school. She was just an ordinary girl with a typical Chinese look. Many of our friends like to talk about her Chinese eyes. She would just laugh and say, her mother had born her with that eyes. We hardly could see her eyes brow, that’s why her eyes made they attracted to find out. She has a brother and five little brothers and sisters. All of her siblings have that looks and eyes. When the times moving on, we becoming closer and she has been my best friend, indeed.

             I love Nik because of her characters. She is well-taught by his parents to be an obedient, latent, and polite girl. She is so contrast with me. She is full of forgiveness and always be with me through thick or thin. She said, a coward dies a thousand times before his death. The person who cannot forgive the others is just like a coward. She always give me a big help and pour my ears with many precious advices that no one could give. When I was sad, she was there for me, and when I was happy ,she also laugh with me. I will not tell any of my problems to anyone but her. N o one really understand my feeling but her. I am a clumsy girl but she was calm. Sometimes, I contrary will lead a good match. 

          Usually, a good beginning makes a good ending. However, I used to have a few quarrel with her. One of our big quarrel was when we in form two. Best friends is not peace all the time. A war between us will make us more appreciated this friendship. Yes,I admit ,on that time, it was my fault actually. I couldn’t contain myself when she got closer with the other girl. I felt neglected and embittened.I can’t possibly angry at her because that was her attitude.She treated everyone nicely and friendly. But her nice treat made that girl feel comforted with her and she always try to walk together with Nik. I always been left behind, walking alone. I have said to Nik, don’t get to closer with that girl,I don’t like it. But she was just sighed. I cried at home and sent some text  messages to her that I felt offended. I was to naïve before and now,that such things will never happen again.

          The incident strengthen the pure friendship bond between us. The meaning of true friendship was buried in the depths of my soul. We have promised to each other to struggle deadly to pass the coming SPM examinations with flying colour. I want to go to university with her. Although we might get different university and different courses, but It’s okay. I want to succeed and had a piece of degree with her one day. Hope this friendship will last for our life.

             What I want to reveal here is, to own a long lasting friendship, we need value of loyalty, trustee and love. These values are significant things that one should potrayed. It takes all sorts to make a world. Everyone is different and nobody’s perfect. So, we must remain a good faith when build friendship. It is not just about you and me, but “us”. Nik is very dear to me. East or West,she is the best.

 Written by:

Nurul Hidayah    {5A, 2012}

When there is a will there is a way

Stories like this, always have their own way of making people perspective on life. Even though, life can be such a mundane things but sometimes it could be stressful and harsh with a good memories sparkles within it. Mrs Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class which is the school located outskirts from the city, in the very first day morning with a beautifully glancing smile. Instead, she stood in fall and told the childrens a lie. She exclaimed that she loved them all alike, so that she retreat them all alike. On the other hand, in front of him, slumped little boy sitting in the third row was Teddy Stoddard.

Mrs. Thompson noticed from a year before that Teddy does not well liked among his childrens. Despite, his clothes was unkept and constantly he needed a bath for a long time. On the whole, he was an unpleasant person and tardy one.

        In the nick of the time, the school would held a test for the childrens in the school. During this on top of world, Mrs Thompson was shocked when she needed to buy a board red pen,making x’s bold and making F on the top of  Teddy’s paper biggest of all. He was a sullen little boy, no one seemed enjoy with him, eith.

        For sure after an examination ,Mrs Thompson needed to fill up each one of her children’s improvement and vulnerable action during the learning process. She was in surprised when she opened up Teddy’s file. His first-grade teacher wrote “ Teddy was a bright, inquisitive childs with a good manners and has a bundle of friends”. Second-grade teacher wrote “ Teddy was smart childs in class. However, his mother terminal illness tortured himself to study and life at home must be very hard”.

        Third-grade teacher wrote, “Teddy was still a work hard boy to succeed. On the other hand, his mother death deriotated himself to control his emotions. His father does not seem to encouraged him work harded and forget the saddened memories. Fourth-grade teacher wrote,” Teddy was withdrawn and make up the tables to stop making ideas and his voice hardly audible in the class. Besides, sometimes he slept well in class. Besides, sometimes he slept well in class and does not have any friends, regretted he was tardy and could become a problem.

         By now, Mrs Thompson realized the root of the problem, but Christmas was coming fast. All that she could do, was play and all until the day before holiday began she suddenly forced to focus on Teddy Stoddard. Like saying ‘garden does not made by sitting in the shade’.

         In the pink of health, she had received a bundle of Christmas present from her childrens with capacious and posh ribbon with a bright colour. Except’s Teddy present, his prevent was clumsily wrapped with scissored plastic bag. The class started to laugh added with some vulgar noise, when Mrs Thompson opened in pairs in the middle of the other present,which contains a rhinestone bracelet, with some of the stone missing and a bottle fill with a quarter of cologne. She stifled the class when she exclaimed how pretty and beauty was the bracelet, put it on. She dabbing some perfumes on the other wrist of hand. Teddy was stood behind her for a long enough to say “Mrs Thompson today you just smelled like my mom used to”.

          After the whole class left, Mrs Thompson cried for at least an hours. From now on, she does not writing, speaking anymore but she started to teach. She paid a particularly attention to the only one boy named ‘Teddy’.

        In the meantime, after awhile the whole school having their examinations and the results had turn the tables when proves that Teddy was one of the smartest boy in the class. Mrs Thompson was so proud of him an ensured that when there is a will, there is a way. This shows how meaningfulness the present of one person called teacher.

        After a year, she found a note under her door,from Teddy. He assummed that all the teachers he had in elementary school she was his favourite and it could never be replaced once ventru thru life. Six year later, she found another note in her garden. Teddy exclaimed that he was going to having a bachelor’s in engineering. Despite, he wanted to further his studies while making Phd. That’s why he was stucked with studying and comprionesed that once he had turn,Mrs Thompson was still his best and favourite teacher all walks of his furiously deriotated life. But this time, the letter was signed a little bit longer. Therefore, F.Stoddard.M.D.since the last day of school,Teddy was become a  ‘pet’ to Mrs Thompson who vowed all her loved to her students were the same.

              Even though, life can be such a mundane things but certainly for Teddy Thompson which is become famous around the world which writing a lot of huntuous novels would always appreciated and remember the way Mrs Thompson, his teacher stifled his friends laugh as the most remembering part of volar.  

Written by :

Nadia Farahin 

5A 2012

Education

 Education equips youths with the skills and knowledge for the working world.However,many young adults find that they are ill-equiped to deal with the pressures they undergo during  adulthood.There are many dangers that they should guard against when dealing with obstacles in life.

 One of the dangers,they are bound to face is peer  presure.Onfortunately,this is a very influential power that compels one to live up the lifestyles and standards of one's peers.Thus many have succumbed to the lure of vices such as substance abuse and gambling just to gain acceptance by the in-crowd.

 Youngsters must also beware of neglecting their health in pursuit of succes.Most youngsters start out by working long hours just to prove themselves and they neglect to lead healthy lifestyles.When they are beseiged by ailments they find that they are alone with only their money to get them through the illness.

  Young people should therefore develop good moral values and principles which can guide them through life's decisions. one way of achieving this is to seek good counsel from role models who have respectable and admirable approaches to life.

FAMILY VACATION

                          

    I was searching for some information about interesting places in Malaysia last week , and I came across an advertisement about contest. The competition requined us to create creative slogan and it pramised and attractive vacation to Cameron Highlands. I joined and about three weeks later , I received a phone call that said I’ve won the grand prize. Then , I told my parent about this and they gave me the green light. I and my family were happy like ‘heads over heels’ because we had planned to go on a holiday before this. The date had been confirmed on third of June , on during the mid-year school holidays. We took this golden opportunity to call it a day as all of us had worked and studied hard before .

    

   The sun shone brightly and the wind blew softly, it was a suitable time to get the ball rolling. About a couple of days ago, my dad had serviced our car to make sure we would have a smooth ride, we took about 8 hours to reach our destination. The journey was quite long and boring for me and my sister, so we played our favourite movie , Twillight Breaking Dawn. We also tuned in Hitz FM listening to the latest hits and Dj’s cracking jokes. As we bagan our journey at 9.00 a.m , we reached Tapah at 3.00 p.m. Before driving to Cameron Highlands , all of us already had lunch at ‘RnR’ joyously and my dad also had taken a short nap to refresh. The rood to Cameron Highlands is like a zigzag road, therefore, my dad drove carefully and keep his eyes on the road. However , our hearts had been captured by the beautiful of nature where the green trees rustling and the birds melodiously. We were seduced by the beauty of nature. The situation was completely different with the noice of the city like chalk and cheese.

   

    About a quarter to seven, we reached Cameron Highlands safely.  As planned we stayed at Cosa Dela Rosa , a boutique hotel that was located just a stone throw away from the main town. The hotel is more to family inn. We could experience living in an English country side home with a dassy restaurant. We heard the hotel served tip-top service for its costumers. The moment we reached the hotel, we checked-in and flag our bags down. Then , we headed to the hotel’s restaurant to have dinner. We had western food for dinner. On that night, all of us slept soundly because we ran out of steam due to the long ride.

   

    It was a sunny Monday and the air was very cold and fresh without any pollution. We had breakfast at the nearby food court and the meal was really ‘ finger linking’ good . The first spot that we visited was the Boh Tea Estate. It is a spacious green tea form with some workers that brought a big basket on their backs picking the tea ledues. More , we also got a chance to view the factory and looked how the tea was processed. Now I knew that almost like whole process used modern machines. Besides , we also had a cup of tea each at the Boh Café. My mom bought some packets of tea with variety of flavours like strawberry, blackberry and grape.

   

   As we all knew, Cameron Highlands is famous with strawberry farms. So,we took this chance to go to Big Red Strawberry Far, located not far from Brinchang police station. There, we could pick strawberries without any limit. The strawberries were really sweet. The most suitable period to visit strawberry farm was in April to June, so we were lucky. The Big Red Café served us many types of mouth-watering snacks like cakes, waffles and ice-cream. 

                                                                              

   After that, we went to the D’Cameron Restaurant and we wera having scrumptious Japanese cuisine for lunch. That was my first time of eating sushi and I had fallen in love with that meal. Our next destination was the Bee Farm at Habu. There, we could see how people collect the bee honey from the bee hives. We knew that the work is really risky. We also took a look to bee museum that told us many information about this creature. They also have giant bee statues. The clock alredy showed 7.00 p.m., so we decided to go back to our hotel and took some rest.

   Sharp at 9 o’clock, we started to travel again. Brinchang Night Market was our nest stop. The market opened at 4.00 p.m. and close at midnight. We could get best product of Cameron Highlands at the lowest price. There re many hawkers selling local dishes. The market was relly crowded and everyone was busy looking for something they wanted. Out of blue, I lost my way and could not find my parents. I panicked and felt afraid. At that time, I knew that my face was pale like a ghost. Fortunately, there was a kind-hearted woman who was willing to lend me a hand. I usedher handphone to call my parent and told them where I was then. About 10 minutes later, I could see my parents coming towards me. My heart was beating normally again. I thanked that woman and this incident taught me to be more careful next time. We went to the hotel and ‘hit the sack’ fter that.

   It was my second day in Cameron Highlands. We off to Time Tunnel Museum. People also call it as the time machine as they kept many historic stuff such as old radio, televisison and bicycle. Most of these items were left by the miner that live here once upon a time. The museum had many sections such as classic pubhouse, traditional saloon and old bedroom. We had  whale of time there.

   After that, we set off to the butterfly farm. There were many colourful butterflies roaming in a landscape of shrubs and flowers. That was such a great view. There, we visited the zoological wing too. The insects, lizars and snakes were displayed in a big tank.

   Next, we went to Cactus Point where we could find many types of cactus. As my dad hs green fingers, he bought some cactus for our house’s garden. Rose Point was only beside the Cactus Point, so went there on foot. The rose point is a big colourful garden like in fantacy movie. We were speechless t firt.

   We also drooled over to Multi-Crops Central Market. There, we could get many eye-catching souvenirs and handicrafts. It is like a shopping heaven especially for girls. The market arrangement is like small indoor park, with benches, fountains and landscaped gardens. It ws our last stop for that day.

   It was full-moon night and it was 2012 earth hour. Se, we celebrated with a barbeque under the twinkling stars. My dad played the guitar while my sister sang some sweet songs. It was really a joyful night. Besides, my mom also told us some funny stories when she was young.

   All to soon it was time to go home. We checked-out at 9.00 a.m. and had our last breakfast there. On the way home, we stopped by Latar Iskandar Waterfall. The waterfall is visible from the roadside. The water was really cold and crystal clear. There also a bridge that allowed us to cross the stream. As my passion was in photography, I took this golden chance to take as many pictures of flora and fauna as I could. Along the ride, we talked and talked of our unforgettable holiday. We were very exhausted but delighted. Now, we left it refreshed and filled with quite joy.  


By: Mimi Syafiqa A. Jafri