Double ess

2009-06-13T08:11:00.000-07:00

We were going to see some monkey but there were no monkeys. We were at MacRitchie Reservoir.

There was the bandstand where we sit down.. It was a very nice place.

Here is my baby brother touching the bird nest fern.

This is the tomb stone of Lim Bo Seng: Hero of Force 136.

Please go to this website to know more about him.

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/about_us/history/world_war2/v09n06_history.html

We walked along the forest. We saw some fish.

This is the leaning branch of the sea apply tree.

This is a liana. According to Wikipedia, a liana is any of various long-stemmed, usually woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in order to get access to well-lit areas of the forest.

We were walking the forest and we were trying to find monkeys but there were no monkeys.

Human Heart. (A ghost stories by Ariel Ess.)

2009-06-13T07:53:00.000-07:00

One day, there was a girl named Sally. She was going to this haunted island with her father and two brothers Tom and Leo.

They were going to the haunted island to find the treasure. Normally haunted islands have ghosts. But they thought there was no such thing as ghosts.

When they reach there, they found a house.They thought they could ask the owner of the house but when they went in there was no one. They went upstairs and found the bedroom. In the middle of the room, Tom's blanket came off.

Tom woke yup and the ghost killed him.

The ghost did the same thing Leo. But this time he screamed. The father was very scared and he came into the boys room and found both of them dead.

He woke up Sally and Sally did not know what was going on.

Outside the boat was the treasure.But the ghost was walking so they thought they could bring the treasure in to the boat.

When they reached the middle of the sea, a sea dragon came out of no where and he said:"Give me back my treasure.!!!!"

In the treasure, was a fire arrow.Sally shot the arrow at the dragon. And the dragon went down and pulled teh father down too.

The father was pulled down by the sea dragon while Sally escaped with the treasure and went back home and told her mum. All she has left was baby sister Susan and her baby brother Like.

Movie review by Atticus.

2009-03-27T23:25:00.000-07:00

This is E.T. and me. He looks like me when I am silly.

:D

My favourate movie is E.T.

I like it because it's funny.

The movie is about an alien called E.T. He cames down to earth with other E.T. excpet that E.T. could not go back up because the space ship went up first.

My favourate character is E.T.

There was a normal boy named Elliot. He was ten years old.

Then one day, Elliot met the alien called E.T. And together they were good friends.

When E.T found out more about Earth, Elliot found out more about friendship.
That if he help E.T. go back home, he will lose his friends.

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My first holy communion

2008-11-02T05:12:00.000-08:00

ariel:these are my friends
in communion the one on the right side is me. the one on the middle is nicolette. The one on the left is my teacher's daughte but I do not know her name.Ha ha.

Ariel : This is my friend Sophie.

the president of usa

2008-10-15T23:04:00.000-07:00

Ariel : Today,Thursday 16th October, I watched the debate between Obama and McCain. They were fighting to be the next president of the USA.

The elephant is John McCain while the goat is Obama.

Ariel : Obama is son of a goat herder .

This means his father is like a shepherd who is a person who tends to, feeds, or guards sheep especially in flocks. But he is a person who tends a flock of goats.

Ariel : This is John McCain.He was a naval aviator which means he is a USA pilots.

Atticus : I want Obama to win because he is better.Because on TV, John Mccain kept on distracting the audience so that no one will listen to Obama. So I think that Obama should win.

Ariel : I want Obama to win because he is younger.

me my mummy and my daddy

2008-09-28T04:56:00.000-07:00

I love mummy and she loves me too.
I love daddy and he loves me too.
Daddy loves mummy and mummy loves daddy too.

BUT do they love me?
Answers
By mummy and daddy!

Mummy’s Answers: Yes she loves me

Daddy’s Answers: I love you so much.

Atticus’s respond: yehhhhhh they love me!!!!!!!!!

I love games but my Mummy and Daddy say no games to me.
But they still love me

By atticus

Sailing Sailing ...

2008-08-23T04:48:00.000-07:00

Today, is 23rd August 2008, Saturday.It was a rainy day. We went to Mayflower Secondary School.

Atticus : I managed to connect several strings together.

Attcius : My friend is teaching me how to tie two together in another way. I am learning to tie a knot.

Ariel: I was helping Atticus to tie a long knots.

Here is Anicius at the National Sailing Centre.

Ariel . This is me and my sailing friend,Virginia.She is teaching me how to sail today.

Mamafess:Anicius is putting on a life vest.

Ariel: These are the three sailors who are teaching us how to sail.

Ariel: This is my boat and I was very scared Later I was not afraid anymore ha ha.

Atticus :I was sailing with my friend. His name was Ryan. He taught me how to sail and someday I hope I can became a sailor.

Mamafess: This is the boat that Anicius and mama was on. The man driving the boat is mama's friend in school.

Ariel is responsible for the colour of the words.

2008-07-23T01:53:00.000-07:00

Ariel:We were sitting in a desk at Suntec City. We were helping our mother with the Singapore Garden Festival

Ariel : We were helping Professor Vilma to set the posters.

Ariel :My brother was holding one of the poster.

Attrial : I assembled the poster all by myself.

These are Uncle Andrew pictures. This is how the booth look like finally.

Atticus: I agganged the three posters.Do you like it?

Going to Kukup Malaysia

2008-07-06T17:26:00.000-07:00

Ariel: We went to a farm with a lot of fruits. The farmer gave us someits fruits . like mango, and watermelon,pineapple and papaya.

After a while we found a swing and we had a lots of friends to play on the swing. We called the swing a boat.

Water Cycle

2008-04-27T02:44:00.001-07:00

Water is made of one oxygen and two hydrogen. That is why it is called H2O.

Starting with with arrow A . The sun sucks up water. This is called evaporation where the water change to a gas called water vapour.

Next, the water vapour in the air turns back into water or liquid when the temperature is very cold. And so clouds are formed. See Arrow B

Next, arrow C shows that how rain falls on land or sea."Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow."

All the rain will collect in the river, lake and sea.

Farm visit

2008-04-11T04:28:00.000-07:00

Ariel: One day, we went to a goat farm. We went with our family.

Ariel: I went with Bel and Aubrey. They are my two sisters. And I also went with Angus, Atticus and Anicus too. They are my brothers.

Ariel: Here my elder brother and my youngest brother were feeding the goats. Anicus was enjoyed himself :) (:

Atticus : This is a goat. He does not have horns because the farmer cuts off the horns.

Atticus: I am now feeding the goat with drued grass called hey.

Ariel : I am feeding an adult goat.
Atticus: My sister is feeding the goats.

Atticus : This is a barn where the goats live inside.

http://www.haydairies.com.sg/

You can go to this website and see all about the goats farm except there are no kids club or games .

The Boulder and me.

2008-03-21T03:25:00.000-07:00

Atticus: I was there near the boulder. There was water in between the boulder and the flat rock I'm standing on.

In between me and the rock was very deep water. And I didn't go there to climb the rock. Although I did want to, I did not.

Swimming at the Yacht Club Chalet Beach

2008-03-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

Ariel: We went onto the boulder, (a boulder is a very big stone). We were crossing to it but I couldn't swim across it. My sister Amabel helped carry me to the big stone.
While we were on the boulder, we were putting up numbers. My brother was putting up one, my cousin was putting up two, I was putting up three, and Bel was supposed to put up four but she didn't want to put it up :) :D. I think it's because she was shy. My cousin's friend was putting up five.

United Nation

2008-02-11T06:13:00.001-08:00

United Nation.

The UN sign shows the world held in the “olive branches of peace”.

There are 192 countries in the United Nation

Christmas play

2007-12-20T02:12:00.001-08:00

Ariel :I was acting as an angle in a Christmas play. The Chirstmas play was in St Francis Xaviour Church.

Ariel : My baby brother, Anicius,came on the stage to watch us rehearse but my mummy doesn't care about the baby and she just sat down and read newspaper.

Meanwhile my brother was playing with his own friend. He was a shepherd.

HAHA I'am a shepherd

Fruit cake for Christmas

2007-11-28T23:42:00.000-08:00

Ariel: One day,in Novermber, my mummy, my brother, Atticus and me was making a fruit cake.

Atticus: It was not Christmas time, but it was near Chirstmas. My sister, Ariel, my mother and me made a fruit cake for Christmas.

How to make a fruit cake

1. Get a big metal cake making bowl.

2. Wash the bowl and dry it.

(My little brother was watching me drying the bowl)

3. You need the following:

Plain Flour

Butter

Eggs

Jams

A jar of fruits

These are the flavors for the cake but we are calling them magic potions.

4. We put the butter into the bowl and stirred the butter until it was nice and soft. Then we added in the magic potion.

5. We mixed the flour, baking powder, salts and other magic potion together.

Atticus: I added in the eggs and stirred and stirred. It was massy but quite fun because I always seperate the egg yolk from the egg white. I poked a hole in the egg and turned it around and let the egg white fell out instead of the egg yolk.

Ariel: I was shaking the flour into the fruit cake mixture.

I took the fruit out of the jar and put it into the bowl. Atticus sprinkled the flour onto the fruit. After that, we added to the fruit cake mixture.

Ariel :The most enjoyable part was licking the spoong after making the fruit cake.

Ice on Mars?

2007-10-29T06:28:00.000-07:00

Click this picture and you will find out about ice on Mars. Mars is a planet on the solar system.

Is there ice on the moon?

2007-10-28T04:16:00.000-07:00

This is The Lunar Prospector which takes pictures of the moon.

If you look at the picture on the right, you will see the picture that it took.

This is the Lunar South Pole.

This is the moon. I always thought that there was ice on the moon. But one of the internet website says that the moon does not have ice. Because there is no water. Because there is no water vapour to form rain. There is noi water vapour because there is no air on the moon.

2007-10-02T03:39:00.000-07:00

Atticus : Click the picture and you can see what this picture means. Click it two times and then you can see it.

It is about the life cycle of a butterfly.

From an egg to a butterfly, and then it will lay eggs again.And once it grow into a butterfly, it will start all over again.

Ariel: A butterfly will lays eggs and the egg will turn into a caterpiller. Then it will turn into a pupa. But the caterpiller he wants to turn into a puap himself. But because he does want to show his own magic, becasue it does not want to show how it turns into a butterfly.

I found this butterfly in the internet. My mother found it for me. I chose the butterfly because it looked nice. But if you think it is a real butterfly, it is not a real butterfly.

Plato's Chariot Allegory or The Black and White Horse

2007-09-19T04:22:00.000-07:00

Arield: My mummy was tellling us about the black and while horse. The black horse does bad stuff and tell lies. The white horse tell good stuff and he does good staff.

Atticus:The man in the chariot ride the black and white horses.

Atticus :My mother just ask me a question.Is it that the horses are riding the man or is the man riding the horses?

Ariel: The black horse was very very bad because I thought he was the devil and the white horse was the very very good one. And I also thought was Papa God and Jesus and the black horse was the devil and all the othwr bad angles.

Atticus: Just before my sister wrote the words above me,my baby brother was bullying me. Ha ha I hope you all find it very funny. Ha ha

Ariel I was using the internet along time ago. I use the internet to type in butterfly and i got that picture. I got a few in my files. So I put in file and I have a lot in a kind of typing.

Trip to Crocodile farm

2007-09-05T07:08:00.001-07:00

Ariel: One day we went to the crocodile farm. This man came to turn the turtle which was living with the crocodile. He turned around with a stick.

Atticus: This is how my mother carry my sister to look at the grandfather crocodile.

Atticus: My silly mother wanted to tkae the picture of the crocodile butt on purpose.

Ariel : He looks quite big and fat but my mother said it does not look fat.

Ariel: My mother said that that crocodile is the grandfather and that it is two table long. But when I went there, I saw that it did not look so long.

Atticus: But my silly sister do not believe it.

Atticus:This is the first crocodile. His mouth is close. If you look at the picture below you will find the crocodile's mouth is opened. But now in this picture, the crocodile's mouth is closed.

Ariel: My brother is wrong because the crocodile's mouth was open first. Then it was closed.

Raining Cats and Dogs

2007-08-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

One day, it was raining heavily and my mother told us that it was raining cats and dogs.

Last time, there was a house. There were cats and dogs. They were up on the roof. The roof was made of leaves. Then suddenly it started to rain heavily. All the cats and dogs fell down from the roof. That is why when it is raining heavily, we said it is rainig cats and dogs.

Making ping pongs balls.

2007-08-09T05:50:00.000-07:00

One night, my mother thought of making ping pong balls.

1. You take glutenous flour and you add water to make a dough.

2. Then if you want to have let say red ball, you put red food dye into the dough.

3. You rolled it up into a ball.

4. Lastly, you put it in boiling water and let it boiled until the balls float.

5. You need someone to watch it when it starts to float.

Ariel: "My brother Atticus, rolled the white dough into a round ball."

Atticus : "I was having fun showing off my balls."

Ariel :"My litlle two years old brother Anicius came along. He wanted the longan which we put in the ball."

Atticus : " My baby brother stole the longan from his mother. He was crying because his mother refused to give him any more longans as his mouth was stuffed with longans."

NDP Family Day

2007-07-14T20:26:00.000-07:00

On the 7th of July,we went to the National Day Parade (NDP) Family Show. Our maid, Aunty Juliet, went along with us. We wore red shirt because our Singapore flag is also red.

A man dressed as a fish was making ballons for everyone.

These are the ballons which the fish man gave us.

This man was acting as if war was coming. If he was pointing at me, I would put my hands up on purpose. The reason why I did not put my hands up taht time was because the sholdiers wern't looking at us.

We saw a helicopter pulling a big Singapore flag. The colour of the flag is red which is above a white part. It has a new moon and fiver stars in the red part.

My mother and I found the meaning of the flag from the web.

The flag consists of two equal horizontal sections, red above white. In the upper left section are a white crescent moon, and five white stars forming a circle. Each feature of the flag has its own distinctive meaning and significance. Red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of man. White signifies pervading and everlasting purity and virtue. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the ascendant. The five stars stand for the nation's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
http://www.sg/explore/symbols_flag.htm

I still do not know what it means but my mummy knows what it means. The flag is beautiful.

Quiz Time

1. Is the flag red on top of white or white on top of red ?
2. Does the flag has ten stars or five stars?
3. What do you wear to show that you actually love Singaore when you go to the NDP?
Red or some other colour?
4. What is the colour of the moon, white or black?
5. Is the moon on the flag a new moon or a full moon?

If you have any comments please put send it to us.

This is the end of our quiz and it is design by Atticus.

Learning Journey to a mosquito exhibition

2007-07-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

Mosquitoes lay eggs in plain water. The egg will turn into a lava. Soon it will grow into a pupa. Then they will turn into an adult mosquito.

This man was telling us where the mosquitoes lay the eggs in the house.

The man told us that we must pour out the water in the flower pot into the sink.

I was pretending to put the toliet flush. Mummy took a picture of it for fun. I was doing that on purpose.

My mother said that a mosquito has many eyes. She said they are called compound eyes.
If this mosquitoe bites you, you will have a fever. Therefore if it breeds, you will bleed

Penang and Kuala Lumpur Trip

2007-06-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

Last week,we went to Penang with my grandmother and my cousin's family. Here we are in the bus going to the bus station.

This is a group photo of us before
we went up to Penang Hill.

We went to see the temple with a black and white Kuan Yin.

My cousin and me,went on top of the dragon
which is in front of a Thai temple.

My brother and me were looking at the big Buddah in a another temple.

The next day, we were at a place that had guns. My mother said that that is a fort.

We were waiting for a bus the third day to bring us to another hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

We went up to Genting Highland to play bumber car.

We had a lots fo fun.

Cooking Chicken Porridge

2007-05-19T03:20:00.000-07:00

Today, my mother cooks porridge because my brother is sick.
My fathre, my sister and my mother first brough him to see the doctor.
While my brother is wating a movie, my mother and I cook the porridge. My mother cooks the porridge because he could not eat anything else for dinner or lunch.

Here, my mother is standing at the stove stirring the porridge.

My brother Anicius and I are watching her.

Here I am washing plates so that my maid do not have so much work to do.

How to make chicken porridge:

1. Wash rice.

2. Put some oil and sesame oil in the washed rice.

2. Boil some chicken stock.

3. Pour rice into the pot.

4. Stir for one hour while the rice is boiling.

5. Make sure brother and sister do not steal chicken while stiring rice.

Nine Times Table

2007-05-03T05:08:00.000-07:00

Atticus: What I saw was a pattern of the nine time table when my mother told me to write out the nine time table.

Like 9 x 1 = 9 that means that 2 x 9 = 18 because that is how I found out the pattern. When you get into each number there is a taking away because 3 x 9 = to 27 see 9,8, 7 but you must add the left hand number 1, 2,3 ,4 .

But I also did something that I have never done before. like 13 x 9 = 117 I also did
14 x 9 = 126 because you add 1 to 1 and take away 1 from 7 so you get 126.

13 X 9 = 117
14 x 9 = 126
15 x 9 = 135
16 x 9 = 144
17 x 9 = 153
18 x 9 = 162
19 x 9 = 171
20 x 9 = 180

My moter says that I was very smart while I was doing it. This evening Uncle Kwong Fook came over and tested me on the time table. But I could not answer some of his questions but I could do others. Ha ha very funny.!!!!!

BODMAS

2007-04-22T01:37:00.000-07:00

Today my mama told me that BODMAS means Brackets of division , mulitplication, Additin and Substraction.

This is because Uncle Kwong Fook, who always come to our house on the weekend to eat our food, was teaching me maths.

The first sum was (7-6) x (3+4) x (2+3)

My mother did not believe that I can do it. She said the first time is an accident.
So he gave me another sum.
(8+2) x (3+4) + (1+6)

I also got it correct and she said it was a coincidence

So he gave me the thrid math.
((1+6) x (8-3))+(10-7)

This time when I got it correct she said it is an incident. So happy.

Cleopatra The Queen of Egypt

2007-04-14T05:01:00.000-07:00

Ariel: Cleopatra was the Queen of Egypt.She is beautiful.
Atticus : She died in the end.

Atticus : Julius Caesar -- He was the Emperior of Rome. He was a soldier.He took over many cities and land.

Ariel : Cleopatra and her son were going to see Julius Caesar.

Atticus: Mark Anthony also wanted to take over the world.But all his soliders died.And he heard horses travelling near full of bad guys so he went and took his horse and ran to the bad guy. He took out his sword and went and told the bad guy to fight but they did not. So he went to Egypt and look for Cleopatra.

Ariel : Mark Anthony fall in love with Cleopatra.He was a bad man.

Cheese Cake

2007-04-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

Dear Aunty Doris,

We are eating your cheese cake now with our neighbour. She is the the one we gave our easter eggs to last week. This is a photography of her with us in her house.

Ariel said the cheese cake is very nice.

Atticus said that the bottom of the chees cake seems not nice but actually it taste quite good.

Oh no we ate the cheese cake before lunch so my mother will make sure that we eat lunch.

Thank you Aunty Doris

Oh no. My big brother Angus said it is very good. And he ate our share.

We hope to make the cheese cake ourselves soon.

My neighbour said that Angus cannot eat the cheese cake as it will make his hair more curly.

My brother asked what is wrong with curly hair.

She said that it is the wrong era to have curly hair. He should be living in the 1960's like Elvis. Now my neighbour is trying to comb away his curls.

Easter in the Esshold

2007-04-08T06:19:00.001-07:00

Last week we made easter eggs.We gave it to our neighbour. Our neighbour eat it. they like it very much but 3rd sister ate my egg.

The first easter eggs that we have ever made.

This is the first time that we made easter eggs.

This is how we made the easter eggs:

1.Carefully break a hole through the top of the egg so that
the egg white and egg yoke can come out.

2.Then wash the egg shell.

3.Then we made the aga aga.

4.Pour 1 litre of water into the pot. Mix the aga aga and sugar.

5.Boil the aga aga and add colour!

6.Put the cocktail in the eggshell.

7.Put the aga aga in the eggshell!.

Aunti Zu taking a photo of our basket of egss before it was eaten up.

We have a Easter Branch where our grandma, Uncle Kevin, Aunty Zu and Uncle Kwong Fock came and eat with us.

Hopefully next year we will be able to make better easter eggs like the one in the picture.

Marcus's Birthday Party

2007-04-07T05:34:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday,we had a birthday party. It was Marcus's birthday.He is one of my friend. He is nine years old now.

Daddy was cutting the cake for Marcus and Johnaton and Ariel and Atticus.

We were all drinking sparkling juice.We had fun but Ariel and Marcus tasted the wine!!! first so I got the right to taste the wine. he he he haha

We were taking a picture!.

Discovery Channel A History of Singapore

2007-04-05T19:36:00.003-07:00

On Good Friday,I watch a DVD called "A History of Singapore." I also watched the movie with my mummy and daddy and my sister named Ariel.

And the movie also had three parts. The second part was about the Japanese fighting the Singaporean and killing everyone. While we were watching it, I asked my mother how was it that Lee Kwan Yew managed to escape from the Japanese? Also my mother's grandfather (Taikong) also managed to escape.

The Japanese also dropped bombs from the airplane onto Singapore. The Japanese might have wanted to conquer the Singaporean and therefore they dropped bombs.

In another DVD called the Raid, the Japanese caught the American and the other Americans have to try to save them. But along the way,they found Filippinos (where my girlfriend lived) and when the Americians found the Filippinos,some of them died.But my girlfriend was in Australia :)

I saw this man inside the DVD. His name is Standford Raffles. He was the founder of Singapore. He also planned the town of Singapore and today he is dead.

I was on the statue of Raffles because my mother was taking a picture of me.
In front of the Victoria Hall, there is a statue of Raffles but he is painted black. So there are two statues that I saw that day.

So there must be two statues of Raffles;one in Victoria Hall and one near the Singapore River.

Singapore is a trading port where people come to buy and sell and work to get money.

And it is 2 months before we will go to Penang with my grandmother.

composed by Atticus Ess 6.4.2007

Field trip with mama

2007-04-05T19:36:00.001-07:00

Ar The Chinese Heritage Centre

One day during the March holiday, my mother brought my sister Ariel and me to a field trip. We went with her students.

We first visited a shop house which shows how the Chinese lived.

My sisteer Ariel was pretending to eat food upstairs in the building in Chinatown.

At the URA

At URA, we saw a model of Singapore. Here is Ariel. She nearly pushed down three buildings but small ones becasue she cannot push down so big buildings.

I also saw a spider very near but it was going all around the model. O boy, I wish I was sometime like spide going all around Singapore.

I was looking around the model. Suddenly I put my finger near the road but I wasn't touching it because it said :"No touching." So when I was putting my finger near it, I just used my finger to follow all the roads.

We were very tired. So we rested inside the bird cage. And my mother's students named Eugene was with me. And everytime I lose him I called out "Eugene where are you?" because I always lose him.

Blog of double happiness

2007-03-18T22:24:00.000-07:00

I am Ariel. Here I am studying. My baby brother was playing next to me.

My sister Aubrey asked me to study.

Atticus and Ariel were studying because our mother wanted us to write out a story from a book. So we studied for our mother. And once we were funished we could go off and play and have fun.

Before we study, we asked our mother if we could watch a movie. And so our mother asked us to study. Aftre we studied, we could finally go and watch a movie.

2007-03-16T21:05:00.000-07:00

Ariel: Hello, I am sitting with my dog named Princess.

Atticus: I am sitting down with my dog named Froggy and he was the one that saved Princess from the evil dragon and he was a Prince.

Here we are playing Scrabble in the afternoon in our house.

And suddenly my sister and me started a fight. I wanted to play like my mother but Ariel was playing the wrong way. But Ariel said she wasn't.We gave up after a while.

The next morning, when our mummy went to school to teach other students, we thought of a game. We will put all the words on top of each other that belongs to each other.

ART APPRECIATION

This picture is about Ariel. She has a house. It was too hot so she went out to make snow men. Aftre a while, she got too cold, so she went in. That's all.

I drew this picture because I like it. I drew it for my family also.