Saturday, June 20, 2009

Holidays Task 4

Rewrite Cinderella from the POV of one of the step-sisters.

I am Anastasia, one of the step-sisters of Cinderella. As you know in the story of Cinderella, my sister and I always bully Cinderella. Actually, I am innocent. You all did not know the truth side of me. Really, my other sister is very bad. She always order Cinderella around, and scold me if I try to help Cinderella. I had no fighting power in the house, as my mother and sister are very fierce. I can only watch helplessly as my mother and sister ill-treat her frequently. As not to let them found out my kindness, I need to act as if I am cruel to Cinderella. Even though I treat Cinderella badly in front of my mother and sister, I always comfort her and treat her nicely secretly.

My mother and sister did not want to bring Cinderella to the ball as they scared that Prince Charming will fall in love with her instead. So, I called Fairy Godmother to help Cinderella. Fairy Godmother is actually my aunt who love to help people.

When Cinderella is able to married Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother and I are very happy for her as she found her true love. On the other hand, my mother and sister are unhappy about this.

Holidays Task 3

Confessions of a Cooking Chief

Big room with a lots of cooking utensils. The room is as hot as a sun filled with different aroma. Some are tasty, some are delicious and some comes from our sweaty odour. There are a lot of sound from all around the room. Like chopping sound, sizzling sound, bubbling sound. The room is also filled with laughter and shouting.

I was moving around all the time, preparing dish, cooking dish and creating new dish. All day long, I was in the kitchen moving around with my colleagues in preparing all sorts of dishs for our customers. It was a challenge everyday. We faced shortage of ingredient, unsatisfatory customers, meeting unreasonable requirement from our superior. We also faced problem like shortage of chief that we require to do more work to accomplish our needs.

I am a great chief working in my own restaurant. My restaurant is a five-star restaurant with very high standard of cleanliness. All my working staff are very hardworking and they seldom take medical and holiday leave.

I love my job very much and I enjoy cooking for those who enjoy and like eating my food. I feel that cooking for others is a very enjoyable things as we chief can bring happiness through our food to them. When we put our own heart in to prepare any dish for our customers, they will be very happy when they enjoy our food. Some of them also will leave some comment about how well done our food is and our restaurant service. When I heard all this, it make me happy being a chief.

When I am at home, I can only be found mostly in the kitchen. This is what all my friends had told me. I was creating new dish for my customers and letting my family and friends try my new dish.Whenever I had a new dish out, I will called all my friends to my house to try my new dish. This is how my restaurant dish came about.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Holidays Task 2

a)

The girls were excited as they waited for the results.

The heart-beat of the girls are getting faster and faster. The moment they have been wishing for had finally arrived. The Principal took her own sweet time to the notice board with the result in her hand. It only took a few minutes before the Principal put up the result on the notice board, but it took a million years, just for the girls to get to know their results.

e)

She sat heart-broken on her bed.

There sat a person on a bed, who had droplet of tears endlessly flowing out of her eyes. She could no longer feel any pain except of the pain in her own heart. The heart that have been continuously hurt by a thousand needles. The ear of hers, could not hear anything else expect of the heart-beat of her own. No sound came out of her no matter how much she wanted.

Holidays Task 1

b)

Topic: Working during the school holidays: What are the pros and cons of working during the school holidays?

Nowadays, students intend to work during their school holidays. It is good to have students working during holidays but there are pros and cons. The pros of having students working during the holidays are "Jobs help students develop a sense of responsibility" and "Jobs help students learn to manage their money". The cons of having students working during the holidays are "Students who work find it difficult to keep up extracurricular activities" and "Overworked students sleep less and spend less time with their families".

Firstly, I feel that working during the holidays could help students develop a sense of responsibility.When students work during the holidays, they tend to learn new things as they start working with what they had never experience before. Therefore, students learn to be responsible when they work as they do not want to make mistake and get fired by their boss.

Secondly, I feel that working during the holidays could help students learn to manage their money. When students get to know that earning money is a very difficult jobs, they tend to spend lesser as they know that money is not easy to earn. Therefore, students know that working life is not easy.

Thirdly, students will have difficulty keeping up with extracurricular activities. When students start working during the holidays, their working and extracurricular activities time may clash together. This make the students have no choice but to go to work instead of going to their extracurricular activities. Thus, this may affect their attendance for their extracurricular activities.

Lastly, students will get overworked and ending up sleeping less and spent less time with family. Students will rush over their work and holidays homework and tend to sleep less and even spent less time with their own family. Thus, this may affect their health and family bonding.

In conclusion, I feel that students are encourage to work during the holidays as it is a very good experience for them to know about the hardship of working and earning money. At the same time, there are also disadvantage of working during the holidays.