A Trip to Hong Kong Museum Of Coastal Defence

Today, my teachers took our Talent Pool class on a trip to the Hong Kong Museum Of Coastal Defence.  It is located on a high ground at Shau Kei Wan.  The place covers a vast area.  But this time we only visited the auditorium which is beside the car park.  The most interesting thing is that the auditorium building was originally for military use.  It looks rather old on the outside but modern inside.

Through the glass doors, we went in the building where we were given a brief talk about Hong Kong under Japan’s occupation.  Using a Powerpoint presentation, the speaker talked about Hong Kong between Japan’s invasion and today’s remembrance day of Hong Kong’s victory.  Ten minutes later, we were divided into several groups and remained in the auditorium.

First, we were asked to make medals.  The speaker gave us some golden and silver-coloured papers, saying that we could cut out any shapes we liked from them.  The pattern with four pointed ends were one of the common shapes.  Then, we drew pictures on the front and wrote letters at the back.  Finally, we finished it by backing the medal with a piece of cardboard fixed with a ribbon.  The ribbon had red, white and blue stripes on it like the national flag of France.  The medals looks like those used in a competition.  I like it and still keep it at home.

Next, we played a war game in groups of two on a higher ground.  Actually, the area was a trench.  The trench could slow down or deter the enemies invading the military base. This is because the trench is flanked by two high rock walls and the enemies had to climb up and down across it to the base itself.  On one end of the trench, there is also a fort which has holes on its thick wall.  The gunners used the holes to shoot the enemies’ feet.  We rolled sheets of newspapers into paper balls on which we sprinkled some cornstarch powders. Then, we took our position and hurled the balls at the other group.  When the balls flew through the air, there were powder smokes trailing them.  The balls hit the players and left powder marks on them. Luckily, for keeping us clean and counting powder dots in the end, we wore black plastic sheets.  At last, all groups tied. We had a memorable trip.

Visiting Great Grandma

Last Saturday, we paid a visit to Great Grandma at the home for the aged.  The place was quite quiet but a bit old.  It looked rather forlorn. Great Grandma was at great age.  Her health condition seemed okay.  We were all very glad to see her, and she was also delighted by her visitors including my family, my two uncle’s families and my aunt’s family. I wish her well.

Lion and dragon dances

The banging and drumming went louder and louder.  All of a sudden, they stopped and the dances finished.

The spectacular lion and dragon dances took place along the waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui this afternoon.  My family made a trip to watch it.  I like the lions more than the dragon because the lions are more nimble.  They were active and agile in jumping, acting curious and interacting with the crowd.  The most special scene was when the lions ate lettuce on the bamboo sticks.  Firecrackers going off was also cool.

A Shakespeare Story: The Tempest

Retold by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross

Dear Prospero,

     Hello, I am Timothy who has just read the Shakespearean story, the Tempest.  It was about you who to fix wrong into right.

     When I first meet you you seem to be an evil magician because of you using magic to raise a storm and wreck a ship. You also enslaved the spirit, Ariel and the monster, Caliban.

     Gradually, I learnt that you do not seek for revenge but justice.  You used love to put right the great wrong that was done before by your brother and old enemy.

     It’s also great for you to free Ariel and Caliban, destroy the magician staff and the books of magic and rule Milan again with your brother who had overthrown you before.  You are a kind, generous and mighty man after all.

Yours sincerely,Timothy

 

德蘭修女

書名；一雙溫暖的手 ---- 德蘭修女

作者；錢莉

出版社；景行出版

出版日期；2007年

對角色的評價；

德蘭修女放棄當教師，選擇終生為貧病交迫的人無私地服務。她走遍加爾各答的街頭，把被遺棄、奄奄一息的病人帶回垂死病人收容所照顧。德蘭修女不辭勞苦，自我犧牲服務他們，終於在一九七九年獲得諾貝爾和平獎。但是，她竟然無條件地把所有獎金捐出，用作興建新的痳瘋病療養院。德蘭修女真是一個有愛心、憐憫別人和能感同身受的人。

Roald Dahl: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Gist

     Billy made friends with the Giraffe, the Peel and the monkey of the Ladderless Window Cleaning Company.  He was surprised

     With his marvellous friends, he hand an adventure in the Duke’s palace.  They did a great job for him and saved the say. He felt excited.

     For the award, Billy finally owned a thrilling sweet shop.  It was his big dream and he became famous.  Billy was happy.

Four Seasons

I am in the school strings.  Our conductor is Woo, who is also the soloist and conductor of the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra. On Saturday night (19 November 2011), it presented Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the St. Margaret’s Church in Happy Valley.  My parents and I attended the concert.

The St. Margaret’s Church is a beautiful old building, sitting on the top of a flight of stairs.  It is pale in colour and western in style.  There have been four occasions when I came across similar buildings.

The Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra composes of roughly 30 musicians.  That night they played a number of songs, including the Orchestra member, Austin Yip’s Psalm 61, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the fifth season – the Angry Bird tune.  They put up a very good performance.  The songs lifted up my soul.

Well done, Woo!

南丁格爾

書名；南丁格爾 -- 戰火中的護理先鋒

作者；林文月

出版社；突破叢書

出版日期；2008年

對角色的評價；

南丁格爾生於非常富有的上層社會家庭，受到父親悉心裁培，精通多國語文、哲學、歷史、數學。十七歲起下定決心要從事護理工作 ---- 一項被當時人視為低下卑微、不受尊重的工作。南丁格爾的父母強烈反對她做護士，勸她嫁給上流社會的富家子弟，享受舒適的生活。可是，她當護士的決心從未動搖。在這兩個例子可以知道南丁格爾很勇敢、有決心和對自己有信心。

Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill

Tonight, my family, my grandma and I had dinner at Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill.  It was in a shopping mall called Pacific Place at Admiralty.  We ate sumptuous American dishes there.  It cost six-hundred dollars!  However, the food was yummy.  After dinner, we went to Upper House Hotel because Dad’s winning photo was on display.

Excellent for My Writing Class Work

Excellent for My Writing Class Work

  

My Writing On YCPS’s Front Webpage

http://www.ycps.edu.hk/report/2011-09-27.pdf

Macbeth the play

In the evening of 14 October 2011, my family and I watched Macbeth the play performed by TNT theatre Britain at the Hong Kong City Hall.  After a sumptuous meal at the Maxim’s Cafe on the second floor, we moved over to the theatre beside it.  The theatre is not really big but just big enough for roughly 400 seats.

The play started pretty soon.  It is an exciting and disheartening story about Macbeth turning into the bad guy.  I read the play and the performance was as good as what is written in the original play.  The best part of it was the scenes when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plotted and carried out the murders.  Those were quite scary scenes.

What surprised me most was not found in the play but at the intermission when I ran into three of my teachers.  It was an enjoyable night.

The Shakespeare Collection: Macbeth

Retold by Anthony Masters; Illustrated by Stephen Player

Background of the Story Plot
Event 1: After fighting a war, the two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo met three witches who soothsaid that Macbeth would be King of Scotland in future.
Event 2: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth murdered the King of Scotland.  Macbeth was made the king.
Event 3: Macbeth wanted to secure his throne, so he killed Banquo and Macduff’s wife.
Event 4: Macdull and Malcolm sought revenge and killed Macbeth in a war. Malcolm became King of Scotland.

Characters
Hero: Macduff
Heroine: No
Villian: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth
Other Characters: the three witches, Duncan, Donalbain, Malcolm, Banquo, Ross

Setting
When: The story took place a long time ago when Scotland was ruled by a king.
Where:  Scotland

Theme
The story is about ambition. Ambition is natural.  It can be good or bad. If one is too ambitious, it may be bad.  If being too ambitious is added with a bad method, it will be very disastrous.

. But if one is too ambitious, or one uses wrong ways to achieve the ambition, it can be very bad.

Talent Pool Writing: First Lesson

On the Friday a few weeks ago, some students of grades four and five were chosen to have the Talent Pool lessons.  I am one of them.  We had to go to the hall at the last hours before the school day ended.

When we arrived at the hall, we were asked to play "call out your number” and “make a guess”.  For "call out your number”, we formed into four columns and had to call out our number one by one.  However, all fifty-six of us mumbled slowly rather than  calling out our number.  It took us five minutes to finish.  Luckily, all of us got focused at last and managed to finish it in less than a minute.

Then it was "make a guess”.  Miss Wong used a projector to show us an enlarged image of a thing in a Japanese restaurant.  As I was wondering if it ought to be some chopsticks on a plate, a kid shot her arm up,“A sandal rack?”  In the end, Miss Wong pressed a button and a picture of an old Japanese lock appeared.  Oohs and ahhs filled the hall at once.

At last, the grade five students grouped into groups with the students from grade four.  Miss Wong invited all the groups to observe any creative and interesting new things in their daily lives.  However, I don’t have any clever ideas yet.  I hope lots of ideas will spring to my mind later so that I can have a wonderful presentation with my group.  Before dismissing the class, Miss Wong announced that we would pick a president, two vice-presidents and other officers in the future soon.  Also, the Talent Pool will visit the Museum of Coastal Defence.  It was a rather great beginning of the Talent Pool.

Swimming

This swimming gala, I won a gold medal of both back stroke and relay race.  I was just gonna to grab the freestyle bronze medal when I slowed 0.01 second!  My brother also got a gold, silver and bronze.  In the early morning, my family and I went to the indoor swimming pool in Kowloon Park.  My mum’s best friend, Sally had attended to watch my brother and my races too.  Mine were 50m freestyle, 50m back stroke and my brother were 100m freestyle and 50m back stroke.  beside, we had a 4 x 50 relay race with our two classmates.  After the swimming gala of more that seventy races, the YCPS students were rather happy.  But more happy, my family and I had a buffet lunch in Marco Polo Hotel with Sally.  Sally likes dessert, Dad likes bread, Mum likes seafood and my brother and I like every food.  However, I’m found of Japanese food and noodles especially. 

Tuesday was another day for my brother and I to swim.  My classmate, Timmy’s Mum appreciate that if we could go to Timmy’s outdoor swimming class.  That was because his coach was better than the YMCA’s.  The coach helped me to swim the butterfly two second faster and corrected my freestyle posture.   After class, my brother and I played water judo.  I spent two ‘aqua’ days.

12th September, 07 ；Wednesday (sunny)

It was the date of my first day to write my Timmy’s Tibits.  Until now, I had written for five years!  There were about 1400 people who had watched my blog.  Thank you all for giving the comments.

Shatin Regency Hyatt Hotel

My family and I had a break after two schooldays of P5 at Shatin Regency Hyatt Hotel with my cousins’ family.  the new Regency Hotel is near the University.  When we just arrived, we strammed straight to the tea buffet hungrily.  In the middle of the tea, my cousins and I pretended that we were goofy sheep.  We munched some grassy seaweed and sipped glasses of goat-milk-like chocolate milkshake.  It tasted quite good.  When we were almost full, my cousin found a big black ant.  We tried to feed him with sesame.  However, it struggled weakly instead of eating.  At last, the ant died when we played antball.

We also did some sports like swimming and cycling.  My bike broke down twice unfortunately.  Luckily, a kind staff carried another bike a long way for me.  So, I can still cycle enjoyably.  At night, we Long Wah Restaurant nearby.  I blew many colourful balloons after dinner.  I also watched a dozen of Cartoon Network Cartoons.  I had a pleasant weekend.      

Back to YCPS Is Cool

Today was the very first day of class E in grade five.  Although my brother and our old friends weren’t in class 5E, I didn’t care a lot.  That was because we can pay more attention in the lessons.  At the assembly, I heard some good news.  Headmistress Ho said, “Good morning! Had you students noticed there were air-cons in the covered playground!?  There were also some plastic  curtains and blue soft lining.  The most exciting was the library had transformed into a ‘space station'!  The canteen had ‘Greened’ too which is still renovating now.  Have your first school day great!’’  My class teacher was Miss Wong.  She was a student of YCPS then and, an instructor of an indoor camping which I had joined when grade one!  Miss Wong always calls some students in a funny way like Little Car and King of Leaving the Seat.  At recesses, my brother and I played a game which we had to walk on the tracks and lines of the basketball and football court.  We called it the BFTL.  It was so exhausting that I sweat all over my body like I had just swum.  I had a really great day which Headmistress Ho said exactly. Certainly, I had happy moments too the days after.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Background of the Story Plot
Event 1: Five main characters are having a conversation.  The time traveller told them about his time machine.
Event 2: The time traveller travelled into futurity where he saw the human beings in future and explored the place.
Event 3: He came across the Morlocks and had a fight with them.
Event 4: He travelled further into the futurity and saw the end of the world.

Characters
Hero: The time traveller
Heroine: Weena
Villian: The Morlocks

Other Characters: His four friends

Setting
When: I think maybe the story took place some 100 years ago.  Also, the place which the time travelled to was 800 thousand years into future.
Where: It happened in one of the European countries because of the ways the characters dressed and appeared in the illustrations. 

Theme
The story’s theme is time travelling and the future of the earth.