What I learned from my classmates’ and my ULBS Presentations

So for the past few weeks, we have been told to do ULBS presentations for our SPM. I am doing it because it is for SPM and I do not want to fail.

What I learned from my ULBS presentations is that keeping in topic during our presentations are very important. We had to do our ULBS twice and my first try was very bad. I did not really follow the topic and it was sort of out of the topic. If that was my actual ULBS presentation, I think I would have failed where as the second time, it was the official ULBS presentation. I think I learned from my mistake and I guess I did quite well.

As I was giving comments to my friend’s presentation, I also learned a lot from it. I had to give comments on Lacshen and Farisha’s presentation and they did very good, it was honestly very hard to find a negative comment but I realized that we have to show evidence about the facts that you are presenting from the novel. This gives me a lesson to help me in exam so that I will not repeat the same mistake.

Sleep ( free topic )

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than coma or disorders of consciousness, sleep displaying very different and active brain patterns.

Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes: REM sleep and non-REM sleep. Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. A well-known feature of sleep is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.

During sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these are vital processes that maintain mood, memory, and cognitive function, and play a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems.The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night. The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research.

Sleep is a highly conserved behavior across animal evolution

Humans may suffer from various sleep disorders, including dyssomnias such as insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea; parasomnias such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder; bruxism; and circadian rhythm sleep disorders. The advent of artificial light has substantially altered sleep timing in industrialized countries.

How I’m going to utilise my English period on Monday 25 February 2019.

I’ll be utilising my English period on Monday 25 February 2019 is by doing homework that I have accumulated for the past one and a half months. I was really lazy and I procrastinated a lot. Therefore, I wrote all my homework down and I decided to do it all at that time. It is rushing and hard but at least I am trying. I hate doing homework. Bless my soul… I can die. 

I will also do my tuition homework. My life is boring I know. 

Malaysia is a multicultural country. Describe a festival you celebrate in Malaysia

A festival that I celebrate in Malaysia is Chinese New Year (or generally referred to as Lunar New Year globally) is the Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China, and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Observances traditionally take place from the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. In 2019, the first day of the Chinese New Year was on Tuesday, 5 February, initiating the Year of the Pig.

Chinese New Year is a major holiday in Greater China and has strongly influenced lunar new year celebrations of China's neighbouring cultures, including the Korean New Year (seol), the Tết of Vietnam, and the Losar of Tibet. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries with significant Overseas Chinese populations, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Mauritius,as well as many in North America and Europe.

Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include that of good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. For the northern regions of China, dumplings are featured prominently in meals celebrating the festival

FAMILY (FREE TOPIC)

 In the context of human society, a family is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family")[citation needed] or some combination of these.[citation needed] Members of the immediate family may include spouses, parents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters.[citation needed] Members of the extended family may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law.[citation needed] Sometimes these are also considered members of the immediate family, depending on an individual's specific relationship with them.[citation needed]

In most societies, the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children. As the basic unit for raising children, anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended (parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family). Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo.

The word "family" can be used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village, and humanism.

The field of genealogy aims to trace family lineages through history.

The family is also an important economic unit studied in family economics

My impression of Dear Mr Kilmer

When my teacher, Pn Monica gave us the Dear Mr Kilmer book, she told us to go home and read it. I was really lazy so I didn’t.

She gave us work regarding about the book because she was not here for a month. As I was doing the work, I read the novel too. It was a very interesting book. The fact that the book is about Richard Knight’s passion on writing poems just motivates me to do things that I love. The novel also tells me that I accept what other people does and that I should not judge or discriminate. After all, we are all humans.

Besides that, we should also love our family members. For example, how Pa actually loved his sons by accepting what Richard does in the end. He was also worried for Gus who served in military.

‘Ping.. My mobile phone lit up with a message from Pn. Monica....’ Write a story starting with the above sentence.

‘Ping… My mobile phone lit up with a message from Pn Monica and my happiest day has been ruined by that message. It was supposed to be my most memorable day as I was having an amazing time in Bangkok for my holiday. There many things to buy and shop. I usually do not like shopping but somehow I loved it when I was in Bangkok. But a message came from Pn Monica and I was really sad because she told us to finish our composition homework.

In my heart, I was asking myself whether holidays are supposed to be a time to relax or a time to be stressing out with school work. It drove me up the wall. I had to release my anger as I did the work. I tore the book into pieces and I did not care whether if I will get scolded or not. It is honestly very ridiculous to give work to the students during holidays. Can’t the teachers emphatize with the students?