Category: General

Singapore is a very diverse country, and we celebrate lots of different holidays. Chinese new year is one of them. I go to an international school, so during classes, we learned about Chinese new year and how to celebrate it.

This year my family decided to do something special. On Chinese new years eve, we went out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant and did Lohei. Lohei is like a salad, and every ingredient that we put in the “salad” has a meaning to it. For example, Crispy crackers symbolises greater wealth. Peanuts and sesame seeds wish your business to enjoy good profits. Lime wishes you to have good luck, success and prosperity and so on. After we put all of the ingredients in, we toss the salad as high as we can and mix it in the air and say chinese phrases.

My younger brother’s Chinese tutor kindly offered to spend the night on Chinese New Year’s day with us, and taught us what to eat and what to do. At home, my brother and I did some activities. We did Chinese calligraphy and wrote different hopes for the new year. Then my brother and I made tiger lanterns out of oranges because it is the year of the tiger. We went to China town in Singapore and ate at a restaurant the teacher recommended. My whole family practiced speaking Chinese by ordering our own food. It was a very fun experience.

I really enjoyed spending the Chinese new year with my family and learning new things about the Chinese culture.

Last week, I went to my brother’s school’s family weekend. It was the first trip ever in two years. I really enjoyed the whole weekend as everyone was always smiling, and having lots of fun. I watched a super exciting football game, and I felt that it brought everyone on the field together. I also watched the girl’s volleyball match, and it was so different from middle school volleyball. Their spikes were so strong, and I could see how everyone worked as a team. When someone made a mistake, they supported her and helped her get back up. I participated in some of my brother’s classes, and they were so interesting. The classes had lots of discussions, and it was very different from my normal classes in middle school. Everyone looked like they felt comfortable and not scared to say their opinion. I watched my brother’s jazz band performances and I could see how everyone supported each other and performed as a team. I also visited my brother’s dorm room several times. After the family weekend, I learned that boarding school in high school was so different from my middle school experiences. It was a great visit and learning and I was so excited.

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This story is about when my second last tooth fell out. Usually, I don’t like pulling teeth out on my own, especially the big ones so my dentist usually yanks them out but it doesn’t hurt at all but it is really sudden so it can scare me a little and I don’t like the taste of blood at the end. So for me pulling teeth out is not that fun.

I was at my friend’s house, and I already had a wobbly tooth. We went to the gas station to get some candy, She got a drink there and a tube of mentos, I only got a drink. We got back to her house and we started to eat and drink what we got, and she gave me one mentos, I chewed the mentos and I felt something strange in my mouth, it felt new and I wasn’t used to that feeling. I didn’t feel any pain at all and suddenly my friend said I was bleeding and I was shocked because I didn’t know what happened. It turns out I had lost my tooth! I was so surprised because I never get my teeth pulled out this fun! I was so excited and happy because the big tooth was also aching a little and hurting my mouth. This experience was very fun and I learned that pulling teeth out can actually be fun and not always very scary. :0

This blog is about my father’s room door. During the Corona Virus, my father is staying home all of the time, and when he is in his room I feel like he goes through this magical door into another country. If you don’t understand what I mean, I mean that when he goes through that door and starts to call someone from another country I feel like he’s just going to the other country in a second. Because he doesn’t come out of that door unless it’s dinner time.

This is my first ever blog. The spring holiday is chaotic right now, but I am trying to make it as fun as possible. Every day there is new news about the Corona Virus. My older brother studies at a boarding school in the U.S., and he was supposed to come back to Singapore but he couldn’t come back because he may not be able to return back to America. Instead, my father went to the U.S. to visit him. It was really sad for the whole family.

The good thing is that I made a holiday plan so that I can focus on more productive tasks that are really meaningful during the holiday.

1. Write 140 SSAT words on the flashcards. 2. Read 2 books. 3. Observe, Research & Write about the Corona Virus. These are the things I would like to do in the following 2 weeks.