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All of them were looking at something,
Something considered very important
Which they had to finish quickly,
'Cause it's considered very seldom.
I was not involved in it
And I happened to walk past them.
I was curious about what they were doing
And I moved to them to see what happened.
When I was there I found out
That they were looking at two roosters
The roosters were fighting out
To see who is the winner.
I looked somehow surprised
I tried to advance to see more closely
All of the sudden I was realised
And they fled as if I am a beast.
All of them were suddenly shocked
And then they turned to look at me.
Then they blamed me and make me mocked,
What on earth had I done to them?
I swear on earth and to God,
That it was not me who scared them away.
I didn't know that at such distance,
The roosters would be scared away.
And so I was confusingly despised,
Recognized as the "scarerooster".
I didn't know there is a curse in disguise
That prepared to strike at me first.
Although I hadn't experienced the incident in the poem, other incidents are particularly similar. And, yup, I'm such an unlucky person.
Somehow I have gotten with this book of tragedy and read it up. Never mind how I got it, but this book is really tragedic. With this guy called Hamlet avenging his father to kill his uncle, all became so sad.
It started when suddenly the castle is haunted by a ghost. Three sentinels, Marcellus, Barnado and Francisco were standing on guard, chatting when suddenly a ghost comes in. Strangely, this ghost looked like the dead king of Denmark! Three of them forced him to speak something, but the ghost just went off. After this, the scene was set in the Council Chamber where the king, Claudius, grieves for the recent death of the previous king which was also his brother. He also granted the leave of Laertes, the king's advisor Polonius's son, to France.
This is where Hamlet comes in. The king asked Hamlet not to grieve too much on his father's death and look on the bright side. When I first looked at Hamlet, I always thought that he hated the king, also his uncle, by the use of words. Anyway, after only Hamlet remains, he grieves again for his father (and I knew one thing: the king remarried the queen!!). The real story begins when Horatio (Hamlet's friend) with two sentinels came to Hamlet and told him of the ghostly thing. Hamlet seemed interested and kept asking Horatio about the ghost.
In the next scene, Laertes prepared to take his leave with Ophelia (his sister) watching him leave. He advised Ophelia not to love Hamlet too much and stay away from him (Ophelia can also be said as Hamlet's girlfriend, and seems to me that hardly anyone likes Hamlet). Later, Polonius comes in and advised Laertes before he leaves.
This poem is written in a free verse describing the author's school life. The sequence of the stanzas matches the sequence of things which happen at an ordinary school day.
The poem is somewhat amusing from the description of the author. It shows that the author had once an interesting school life. It seemed that the past school life is unforgettable for the author as he can remember the interesting things which happened to him before. He also seemed to have enjoyed his life in school. He wrote this poem to mourn the loss of youth. He wrote that he is handicapped at the last paragraph, which actually shocks the readers.
And then we have to compose our own poem. Mine is like this:
The Expected One
On the year I reach 7
Sent by my mother
To the school of great expectations
Where I was one of the expected ones
Expected to fulfill hopes and dreams.
I was expected a lot in my class
Expected because I had great potential
Maybe I can be like seniors
Once being expected and never regret.
At this school we were always expected
Expected to have manners by wearing full attire
Uniform shirt, uniform shorts, white socks and white shoes
In this school cleanliness is highly expected.
Assembly is also where we are expected
When singing the national anthem and the school song
We are expected to sing with passion
As a means of fulfilling the country’s expectations
I was expected especially on tracks and fields
‘Cos I have the potential in track-and-field
Jumping and running is what I am expected
Jump higher and run faster.
We were once again highly expected
Expected to score well in PSLE
For education, quality and reputation.
And so I did fulfill the expected
Scored higher than the expected score
With that I was again expected
They expected me to go further.
Our mathematics teacher, Mr Chua Boon Woo introduced the usage of algebra with some magic tricks. Said he that a lot of tricks about numbers actually cling to algebra (and very, very, very tightly indeed!) and whatever numbers we picked will actually "fall down" to the one and only number.
This is one of the magic tricks he showed to us:
1. Pick either a 3- or 4-digit number.
2. Jumble the digits up.
3. Take away the smaller number from the larger number.
4. Circle any digit in your answer, any except 0(coz it's already a circle!!).
5. Tell the magician (whoever it is) the number left uncircled and he will tell you the number you have circled. You will find that he is always right.
Have you noticed something in the process that is awkward? It's the 0 thingy. Ever wondered why it asked you not to circle 0? It's reason that it is already a circle is only an excuse.
Here's the secret:
1. Take the 3-digit number as 100a+10b+c and the 4-digit number as 1000a+100b+10c+d.
2. Jumble the digits up. In this case, the 3-digit number is jumbled to a+10b+100c and the 4-digit-number as a+10b+100c+1000c.
3. This is where the "trick" comes in. Subtract the smaller number from from the larger number. In this case, the difference between the 3-digit-numbers is 99a-99c whereas 999a+90b-90c-999d for the 4-digit numbers. Notice that the answer you get will always be a multiple of 9.
4. Circle a random number except 0. Why? Remember that multiples of nine has digits that add up to multiples of 9? This is why once you circle a number leaving the others and tell the magician the other digits, the magician can subtract it from the nearest multiple of 9 which is greater. Circling 0 is not allowed as there will be two answers, 0 and 9 (as said, the reason of not circling 0 is that it is already a circle is just merely an excuse)!
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