Experiece of the Japan EarthQuake

This is my letter to a close relative living in Singapore.

Dear Uncle Grob,

How are you? It is very depressing a story to tell you that my parents are fatally injured in the recent Japan Earthquake, it is a very strong earthquake as its magnitude is as high as 9.0! My parents are now in Dokyoshou Hospital located in the center of Japan and I am currently living in an orphanage, waiting for a new school to be built and the repair works to be made. I feel so lonely and sad as though a knife has been stabbed deeply within my heart.

It was a very sudden earthquake, I was on my way home from doing some errands Mom asked me to do. Maybe it was destiny but I survived the earthquake because of the errand. When I walked past the town library, the earth beneath my feet shook vigorously. Losing my balance, I feel down. I was puzzled upon what has happened but time waits for no one. Immediately, a large wave came into town but was luckily stopped by the buildings in front of me. I climbed up the platforms of the library to get to safer grounds. Everything was destroyed in a flash of a second.

I was so scared, I was alone, thinking about my family. Luckily the library was built with strong metals that could withstand the raging floods. People often say that the Tsunami came once every 100 years, but according to the history of the world, there was one in year 2004. Why me? There are many countries in the world, why Japan!? I was rescued by the military soon after the flood came, my parents were found in coma 2 days later. My parents saved my life.

So, may I ask you if I could stay with you in Singapore? Unlike Japan, Singapore is very well-protected by several countries and is most unlikely to get natural disasters. I wish to start my life anew in Singapore, together with my parents who are in coma. Please consider this as Japan is a very sad place for me.

P.S. : The medical fees are being subsided by the hospital up to 75%.

Your Nephew,
Kiyama Hiroto

ShaoLin Soccer

This is a great movie I have recently watched on the television. It is about 6 students from ShaoLin temple, believing in martial arts. But as time goes on, they slowly turned their backs against it, except one. Slowly, they begin to use the ancient technique for something more modern, SOCCER!

SHAOLIN SOCCER TRAILER


This is nice show that I have watched as it clearly shows my favourite sport, soccer.

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Justin's Blog

MouseHunt said...

I feel that what the pictures chosen are very well as the man looks shocked in the starting. However, in the second picture, the man looks more angry than shocked and he looked sad in the following picture. The choice of the characters are too dull though, as they are repeated. You should try to include more movements of the character. I am also quite confused at how the man successfully glued his ear to the handphone but I know that these pictures are hard to find.

Also, there is not a very clear theme stated, so I will assume that it is "We must always remain alert". This theme teaches people alot of things as people nowadays get robbed easily especially teens as they like to show off what they have. But I am not sure how to be alert or how to defend yourself against these kind of phone scams.

February 22, 2011 4.53 AM

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MouseHunt said...

I feel that the book "Village By The Sea" is a great book to read as it applies "Show not Tell". Many of the things are realistically shown in the book, the descriptions and the characterisations are really welll done. The story talks about a boy travelling alone just to make ends meet. He travelled a long distance across India, luckily he met a kind old watchmaker than gave him a good job.

I agree with Justin where he said "Due to their parents not being able earn money, the children themselves have to go out to work for money to buy everyday necessities but have no extra to indulge in other things, compared to us here in Singapore where most of use have a comfortable life. " This phrase tells us that we can never understand the real pain within poverty as Singapore's economy is quite good. We have all been living great lives, having good food on the table almost everyday. Food like hamburgers are very rare in the third world countries but to us, we can eat it for the three meals every day. This will cause us to be fat though.

February 22, 2011 5.00 AM
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Jun Hong's Blog

MouseHunt said...

This comic strip is quite funny as in the second picture, the guy that played the prank should be laughing, instead he is screaming or something. The guy being fooled by the prank is laughing, that is very weird. Also, the comic should have a nice background, to further attract people to see the comic strip. I like the way that you showed little infomation and readers had to find out what the comic meant, but the comic strip is a little too broad and people can easily misunderstand. For example, my dear friend Josiah does not even understand your comic strip, the importance of a comic strip is to tell a story using limited amount of pictures. To me, drawing a comic strip is much harder than just to write a novel.

I feel that a theme is needed to narrow down on the meanings of the comic strip. For example "Payback". Just one word can depict the story and be more easily understood.
22 February, 2011 5:06 AM
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