THE SON OF NEPTUNE___THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS

Yesterday I finished reading 'The Son of Neptune' a book written by Rick Riordan. This boom is the second book of the series, The Heroes of Olympus. I had been waiting for this book to be published for one year, and I was really excited when I read the book.

This book is basically about Percy Jackson's quest to save the god of Death in order to gain back his stolen memories from Hera. The story started off by talking about Percy Jackson being taken from Camp Half-Blood by Hera and was put to sleep for eight months after taking his memories. Hera did this in order for the Roman Camp to accept Percy, as once the Roman Camp finds out he is Greek, he might lose his life. Jason Grace, from the Roman Camp, memories was also stolen so he could be accepted in the other camp. This procedure is required as Hera needed the Roman Camp and Camp Half-Blood to work together to fight against Gaea and her allies, thus Percy was sent to the Roman Camp, while Jason Grace was sent to the Greek Camp. In the book, Percy made friends with two kids at camp, Frank Zhang, son of Mars, and Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto. Then they were sent on a quest to save Death, during the quest Percy slowly regains his memory due to the Gorgon's blood he drank earlier.

At the end of the book, Percy had regained all of his memories, and now he was waiting for his friends from Camp Half-Blood to find him.

I would highly recommend this book to people who likes Greek mythology and fantasy.

Aliens in the Attic

My favourite movie is called "Aliens in the Attic". I watched this movie with two of my friends at a sleepover party. I really enjoyed watching this movie because it is action-packed, and it taught me to have team spirit. The plot of the movie is mainly about four aliens, also known as Zirkonians going to invade Earth, and the children, who were on a summer holiday, have to save their parents from becoming alien- zombies. Before the invasion, the children were not close to their families and between themselves. Though after the invasion, they grew closer to one another. One of the main characters was Tom Pearson, he was a techno- geek, because of this reason he started failing his grades purposely just to fit in in school. After this alien invasion, he changed his mind about failing his grades as he realised that being a geek has its advantages. The other main character was Jake Pearson, Tom's cousin. Jake was a teenager that acts rashly and known as one of the cool people, which was the total opposite of Tom. Tom and Jake were not that close because of their interests and personalities, but after the invasion they became best buddies. As Tom had saved Jake once, and Jake had helped Tom in the battle against the aliens.

I would recommend this movie to both adults and children as it is suitable for all ages. If you want to watch this movie, you can only buy the DVD or rent it.

Difficulties in English

The difficulties I have in English are usually making grammar mistakes, and subject-verb mistakes. I make grammar mistakes commonly in my composition, and summary. For subject-verb mistakes are made in all English papers, but more commonly found in compositions. For comprehension, I make mistakes such as misinterpreting words. Thus, I get the wrong impression of the word, so my answer for that question is wrong.

In summary, the most common mistakes I make are misinterpreting words, grammar mistakes or wrong paraphrasing. In my CA2, the mistakes that I make was not completing the point, or describing the point wrongly. The second mistake I make was being very long-winded. Sometimes, in the long-winded sentences, the point is not really brought out, or not clear enough.
For my SA2, I hope that I would not make any careless mistake, espicially grammar mistakes and subject-verb mistakes.

My trip to Australia, Melbourne

During this June holidays, my family and my cousin's family visited my uncle's family in Australia. We went to many places like Philip Island, the Twelve Apostles, the Koala Reserve, and many more. We also went for the Great Ocean Drive which took 6 hours before reaching the Twelve Apostles.

First, we went to Philip Island to see the penguins returning from the South. The temperature was freezing as we were sitting right before the sea. There were about 480 penguins returning to their families. After the programme, our parents went to the souvenir shop to do shopping.

The next day we went for the Great Ocean Drive heading towards out next destination: The Twelve Apostles. The night before the drive, we went to Cosco, a supermarket which is as big as Ikea in Singapore, to get snacks and food. The next day, we woke up at 5:30am to start moving all the necessary items into the van. Since all of us were so sleepy, we spent the whole journey sleeping or stopping for photographs. When we reached our destination, we had to go for a short hike up a cliff to see the view. (picture shown right) After this,we went to a koala bear reserve. We spotted 5 koalas, and one of them was quite close to us. Since it was near, my older cousin and some adults started throwing twigs at it to wake to koala from its slumber. I think one hit the koala as it started moving away from us. Next, we were allowed to feed the parrots outside a store in the reserve. We put seeds and nuts on our palms, soon many parents, ducks and pigeons flew towards us. One of them even landed on my brother's head as there were scraps of nuts on him.

After this two day drive, the last place I went was the museum. I went there because there was an exhibition of King Tut, the Egyptian boy Pharaoh. Items were brought from Egypt and the golden coffin was brought over too. Before we entered that exhibition,we went to look at others. In the human body exhibition, real organs were used to construct the body systems for us to see. The intestines were all shriveled up and yellow in colour. It was kind of disgusting to see. It was a wonderful experience.

Soon, it was also time for us to return to Singapore. I had really enjoyed my time in Australia and I really want to visit it again.

My younger brother

This is my younger brother Timothy Tang, he is currently studying in Innova Primary School. He is nine years old turning to ten soon. He is a kind, caring, and a puppy lover. He is an active person who likes playing soccer everyday. He is a fan, of the England soccer team, Chelsea.

Sometimes he can be very annoying and mischievous. For example he can hide my homework or books for few days before I am able to find it. Once he hid my library book for one week, and only returned it after I pestered him for three days. On other days, he can be cute and fun to play with. When he is happy, he will ask me to play soccer with him or basketball. Usually, when he is alone or bored, he would be playing with his soft toy puppy. His soft toy has been accompanying him for five years and it is still in good condition. If I do anything to it, he would be upset. I guess that soft toy has become part of him.

The picture on the right was taken just two months ago in Australia.

Now he is quite brave as once he walked into a shop in Australia and he said: "Hi, my name is Timothy and I am nine." We were all shock, because he was usually shy around strangers.

In conclusion, I think my brother is funny, caring, kind, mischievous and annoying.

Literature Night-2008

When I was primary 4, in China, my school held a program called Literature Night. It started from five in the evening until 7 pm. In this program, each student and teacher were required to dress as one of their favourite character from a book or movie, and put on a skit, parents are invited too. I decided to dress up as The Phantom of the Opera. I was also required to act in some Greek play so I had to wear two costumes. This photo here shows me before the play( I had my hair done already) After that, I had to go to the restroom to start changing. The changing part took ten minutes, but putting the white cream on my face took twenty minutes. My mother was the one who helped me put the cream because she knew that I would mess it up(Left picture) Soon I was ready to go and enjoy the rest of the evening.

The first place I went was the canteen as there were many delicious snacks made by the Parent Helpers. So I settled down, ate some brownies and a Japanese dessert. Next I visited the library as there was a storytelling session. After the session, I went to the Grade 3 classroom where free ice-cream was given out. I can tell that the ice-cream was vanilla-flavoured, and it was mixed with Oreo and something that look like mud. The ice-cream was made because they were telling a story of a worm and the ice-cream was meant to describe the place where the worm lived. At first the parents thought it was real mud but it turned out to be ice-cream.

Soon it was 7pm, and everybody was required to leave the school compound. School buses were provided to send the students home. On the bus, I had to wipe off the cream as it scared a driver while I was looking out of the window. It was 9pm when we reached home, we were all exhausted. Even though we were tired, it was still a fun night for all of us.

All about me

My name is Tiffany Tang and I am 13 years old. I have a playful younger brother and a quiet younger sister who are both in primary 4. I love reading books, especially the books written by Rick Riordan. I enjoy listening to songs sung by David Archuleta and Westlife. My hobbies are drawing, reading and playing with Lego. I have also lived in 3 different countries: Switzerland, China and Malaysia. I studied in Elias Primary School, Wuhan Yangtze International school, Innova Primary School. I have been to many different countries and studied in different schools due to the nature of my father's work. He is required to travel to many places, and my family has to be relocated whenever it is neccessary. I enjoyed the most in the international school as I have the opportunities to interact with students from many different countries and of diverse backgrounds. There were students from Japan, Korea, Iraq, Germany, Hong Kong, England, South Africa, United States and so on. From this experience, I learnt about their cultures and how to live in harmony with so much diversity.

After returning to Singapore more than a year ago, I had to re-adapt back to the Singapore environment and ways of living. As I went to an American International School, I picked up the American accent, thus most of my Singaporean classmates found it amusing. I lost the accent after few months, however it took me quite a while to get rid of my American spelling style.

Though I have travelled to many countries with my family, I still think Singapore is the most ideal country to settle and live in.