Book review: What would we do without Jill?

This story is written by M.D.Spenser. After reading this book, I found that this book is very interesting and full of suspense.

The main character in the story is Jill. She had no confidence of herself as she thinks that she is ugly and she has many friends because they pitied her. Her parents had divorced and she lived with her mother. However, her mother was always nasty to her. Therefore, Jill always wanted to be Molly, her best friend as Jill thinks that Molly is perfect, with loving family and friends. Thus, being Molly was what Jill always wished for.

One day, as Jill and Molly are walking on a pavement near Jill's house, a black car immediately stopped beside them. A man wearing sunglasses stepped out of the car and asked them the way to the concert hall. As the concert hall is near Jill's house, Jill then told them the directions. Jill and Molly then followed the car stealthily as they were curious at why were they asking directions for the concert hall when the hall was closed.

They then saw the men entering and leaving the hall through the window. However, they were not carrying anything and just drove off. Jill and Molly immediately called the police. However, the police found nothing after two hours. Molly's parents were called in. However, Molly's father was sure that they will not cheat the police. In contrast, Jill's mother wanted her to be caught by the police. Jill therefore slept in Molly's house that day.

Next morning, heart broken Jill went to the restroom and was wishing hard to be Molly after that incident. Suddenly, Jill saw her reflection through the mirror and was shocked that she had turned into Molly. Just then, she heard a knock on the toilet door and heard Molly's voice. She meekly opened the door and scared Molly as she saw her own reflection. After explaining did Molly calm down and told Jill to change back to her own form. Jill tried to wished hard and after much difficulties, she changed back to her own form.Therefore, Jill realised that she could morph.

There was a concert in the concert hall one day. Jill and Molly decided to go and watch it. Suddenly, they heard an announcement that the conductor, Maestro Andrews was caught by the bugler and everyone were told to remain in the seats. Jill immediately used her morphing power and morph into a police officer and pulled the alarm. Immediately, sirens could be heard outside the concert hall. Jill immediately aim her gun at the bugler. The buglers immediately fired their guns at her and unfortunately, a bullet grazed her. She knew that time could not be wasted anymore. She immediately morph back to her ownself.

She persuaded all audience to meet her in the back stage at 2 p.m. Then, she stealthily lead them to the buglers. They immediately start to scold the buglers and coner them. Immediately, all the buglers even the boss were very frightened and were forced to surrender.

Labels: Book Review on the book- What would we do without Jill?

| Lin Yuan - 21:59 |




Book Review: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

Chinese Cinderella is a true story about an unwanted girl written by the author herself. This story is very touching as the author wrote about her past sorrows.

The main character in the story is the author, Adeline Yen Mah. When she was born, her mother had developed a fever after three weeks. When she was a moth old, her mother passed away. Therefore, all her siblings thought that she was a bad luck in the house as if she was not born, her mother would not have died. Adeline therefore shared the same room with her aunt since young and thus were very close.

Later on, Adeline's father married another woman and gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. Therefore, there were twelve people in the house including her grandfather, grandmother and her aunt. Although Adeline and her siblings were also father's real children, everyone could see the difference her stepmother treat her own children to her stepchildren.

After Adeline's grandmother died, her stepmother thus became the monarch of the house. Although she treats her step children cruelly, her father will just remain silent.

As Japan had conquered China that year, the Japanese forced father to be their business partners. Father had no choice but stealthily escaped to shanghai with his family. As Adeline's father was a business man, he was thus rich and could buy a large house in Shanghai.

However, Adeline's stepmother will only allow her step children to live in the third floor and could only eat plain porridge with vegetables. Adeline's three brothers were ordered to keep their head bald while she and her sister were to cut their hair Short. On the contrary, her own children was allowed to eat whatever they like and could loiter around the house freely. They also have their hair cut in the most fashionable hair style at that point of time and they are allow to wear beautiful clothing whereas Adeline and her siblings could only wear the traditional old clothing.

Although Adeline had always done well in her examinations and could skip grade year by year, her stepmother was always trying to get rid of her. Once, her friends came to her house wanted to give her a surprise party. However, her stepmother slapped and scolded Adeline in front of her friends and father and even sent her to an orphanage cum school. She was very sad as her father was siding her stepmother although she treats Adeline so cruelly.

She longed yearned to go to England's Oxford University to study and not be like her big sister, having an arranged marriage arranged by her stepmother so as to get rid of her big sister. Therefore, during the vacations in the orphanage school, when she came across an article which states a competition on book writing, she strives and hope that she would win the competition so as to make her father proud.

After a few months passed and yet she had not received any letter from the play writing board. She then started to give up her hopes of going to the university. However, just then, her father's chauffeur came and fetch her home to see her father. Adeline then realised that she had won the competition of the play writing. She was elated as her father had also agreed to sponsor her to go to England to study.

Labels: Book Review on the book- Chinese Cinderella

| Lin Yuan - 04:03 |




Today is the E-learning day, glad that I need not go to school today. Although I was able to wake up later than usual, there seemed to be more homework than usual school days and some of the instructions were not very clear though.

However, I am able to do my work at any point of time I like which is a good thing to me as I need not hurry to finish my work like during the normal school lessons and there are only five subjects that we needed to do. However, maybe because of that, our homework seemed more than usual.

I think that this is a good way to train us to study at home as when there is any diseases or terrible haze, we can easily know how can we get our homework from school, instead of idling around.

However, despite having some negative remarks, I still looked forward for more E-learning days.

Labels: My reflections for E-learning day

| Lin Yuan - 01:15 |




This is my blog address:
http://www.personal-entry.blogspot.com/
Yvonne: www.three-entries.blogspot.com
Xin mei: www.english-entries.blogspot.com
Rebecca: www.el-only.blogspot.com

Labels: my friends and my blog address.

| Lin Yuan - 21:27 |




Time flies past and I then came to realised that the June holidays are coming to an end. I realised that I have made used my time better this year rather then the previous years. As I have just started my secondary school life, I could not slack like what I had done during my primary school life.

I went for my chinese oral eams during the holidays. I was very scared, wondering whether will it be hard. Luckily, I was able to answer the teacher's questions and everything went well for the examinations.

My family and I also went out during Vesak day. We went to the temple and then we went shopping for clothings. It rained that day which caused us so much trouble as we did not bring our umbrellas.

There are alot of homework from different teachers teaching different subjects which make me quite busy. I also had quite alot of tuition homework from my tutor as it is the June holidays and my tutor is trying to brush up on my weak subjects and revise on new topics.

However, despite alot of homework, I still had alot of fun during my June holidays.

| Lin Yuan - 00:56 |




Curtis, Sandy and Greta got a box of Monster-Making Kit free from a shop.
It was a Saturday night when they decided to built the robot. However, once they finished making it, they were shocked as the monster came alive and wanted to kill them. Just then, there was a knock on the door. They realised that it was the shop owner. Just as they are questioning him on the robot, the robot ran out of the house, into the rain and escaped. They immediately went to chase the robot who went to a factory. However, Curtis, Sandy and Greta soon realised that the shop owner was missing. Soon, the robot instead cornered them. Curtis talked to the robot, trying to calm it down. After much struggling of coaxing it, they soon started to make friends with the revengeful robot and "smuggled" it home. However, few days later, the robot had rusts on the metal due to it running in the rain. It had no cure and Curtis, Sandy and Greta went to find the shop owner in the factory as they new that the shop owner will surely went back to find the robot. Soon, they found the shop owner for help. The shop owner was shocked to find the robot in such a poor state. They tried ways and means to save the robot but in the end, the robot still 'died'. From then on, the owner did not make anymore robot again.

Labels: Mr midnight- We Made A Monster

| Lin Yuan - 23:11 |




My target for English is to get at least a B3. However, I would like to score higher than B3 as English is an important subject and hence I could not afford to score poor results. I will work harder as I have not reached my target of B3. I will try to improve and score better results next time in the oncoming tests and examinations.

| Lin Yuan - 05:09 |