When I lived in Singapore, I remember seeing a bunch of kids picking on my friend in the elementary school courtyard. I didn't want to get involved with the incident so I just watched. It was hard to bear with, but it was the last day of school, and I didn't want to spend my summer grounded by my mother and father, because they usually get mad when I get into fights. So I had no choice, but to leave them alone.
How I would handle the situation? Well, during the time, I was not as brave as I am right now, so I wasn't really that much of a speaker, I was more of an observer actually. But, if I encounter a situation like this in the future, then, I would totally stand up for my friend. Because, anybody who picks on other people makes me sick, its just so unfair. See, when you're being bullied, you don't seem to answer back, because you're afraid that they're going to say something back to you. Especially if theres like 3 people ganging up on you. But, since I have had experience in these types of situation, so my advice to some people is to tell them to back of if theirs 1 person, or just tell them that you're being very annoyed and just leave.
2 goals:
My first goal that I will try hard to get, is to respect people, because, that way, it'll be more easier for people to get along with each other and make friends.
Another goal I want to make is to be more nice to the people I meet. That way, people will think that I am a nice person and they might want to make friends with me.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Courage, something we have experienced in life.....
I remember once when I was 5 years old, I was REALLY scared of this video that my big sister showed me. The video was actually mean't to be a lyrics video for a song made by the "backstreet boys" ( yes, at the time I used to like the "back street boys" but now I realised how much I DON'T like them ). But as a matter of fact, the video wasn't as I thought it would be.
When the video starts, its just what I expected, a bunch of lyrics scrolling down the screen and music playing - but 15 mins into the video, the lyrics start to shrink and shrin k and shrink, which makes it harder to read. But that was actually mean't to happen, the trick was to make me look closer at the computer, and that was exactly what me and my brother did, next thing you know......BOOM! A big hideous disgusting and EXTREMELY scary face pops up in the screen and starts making screaming noises, which doubles my shock, and makes me jump out of my chair and I practically crack my head on the ceiling, but me actually cracking my head was at the least of my worries, I need to get out of the room......FAST.
I'm aware that my brother had the same shocked expression as me when he saw the hideous screaming face which made him scream, but I couldn't hear it over my own scream which rattled my eardrums and I think nearly burst 1 of them, but I didn't care, I tried to run but I accidentally tripped and fell on the floor, by then, my arms felt like water which prevented me from standing up, plus, I was to scared to get up and thought that if I spent to much time doing so, the face on the computer would eat me!!! So just soon as my brother ran right beside me I hooked onto 1 of his legs with my arms, unlike me, he managed to keep his balance and not trip and fall on the floor, and he even kept running! So in just a few seconds, I'm speeding out of the study room hanging on for dear life on my brother's leg, when my mom and dad stop me.
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| Don't watch it! |
I explained the entire situation to my mom and also told her about the scary man on the computer that screamed at me. Then she sends my dad to the study room to X out of the screen so that the video is gone, as for my sister, well she got a big lecture on showing scary video's to me and my brother and how its bad to watch them. Well, I didn't exactly hear the conversation because me and my brother was in my room trembling with fear hoping that we'll never watch a video like that for as long as we live. Well later during dinner, me and my brother were discussing about the video and what the picture was. My sister then explained that the picture was from "Scary Movie 2", and that it was edited in photoshop, but my brother said that it looked like Michael Jackson. We all had a good laugh after that.
2 years later, my brother and I were still scared of the experience that we had, until my brother came up with the idea that we should face our fears and watch the video again. I refused at first but after a bit of thinking, I agreed to watch the video with my brother. When the video started, it was just the same old thing, 5 mins past, the words start to shrink, my nerves are being extremely strained by now. The words start to shrink even smaller, man, my nerves are killing me! Here it comes.....Boom! Just as I expected, the face comes up, my eyes bulge, I wanted to scream but I couldn't, but as soon as I'm about to run away, the video ends. Wow, now since I think of it, that video didn't seem as scary as I though it would be, thank god it was over, i'm just glad that i've conquered my fears and for me, thats all that matters.
P.S Just don't tell me to watch it AGAIN, that video gave me nightmares for days and i'm trying to get rid of the memory, if YOU want to watch it, take this ☝ as a warning not to!
Resources:
http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/images/blog/editorials/you-make-kitty-scared.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/02/10/epic-fail-the-worst-anime-ever/&usg=__PUSybg9UZIkZUVLsz7K5M4TNISw=&h=444&w=405&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=TzKvHn1pcbLt9M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscared%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1723%26bih%3D996%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=743&vpy=230&dur=829&hovh=235&hovw=214&tx=144&ty=124&ei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&oei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0
http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/funny-pictures-cat-is-scared-and-wants-to-sleep-with-you.jpg&imgrefurl=http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/11/21/funny-pictures-under-mai-bed-can-i-sleep-wif-u/&usg=__bMBhkOKz0LFv4T7zveRBuk6mnEQ=&h=374&w=500&sz=25&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=gm1bC05ikrYEsM:&tbnh=159&tbnw=212&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlol%2Bcatz%2Bscared%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D800%26bih%3D512%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=153&vpy=222&dur=457&hovh=162&hovw=217&tx=178&ty=188&ei=J3KHTLCMM8KVcayBtZoG&oei=J3KHTLCMM8KVcayBtZoG&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0
2 years later, my brother and I were still scared of the experience that we had, until my brother came up with the idea that we should face our fears and watch the video again. I refused at first but after a bit of thinking, I agreed to watch the video with my brother. When the video started, it was just the same old thing, 5 mins past, the words start to shrink, my nerves are being extremely strained by now. The words start to shrink even smaller, man, my nerves are killing me! Here it comes.....Boom! Just as I expected, the face comes up, my eyes bulge, I wanted to scream but I couldn't, but as soon as I'm about to run away, the video ends. Wow, now since I think of it, that video didn't seem as scary as I though it would be, thank god it was over, i'm just glad that i've conquered my fears and for me, thats all that matters.
P.S Just don't tell me to watch it AGAIN, that video gave me nightmares for days and i'm trying to get rid of the memory, if YOU want to watch it, take this ☝ as a warning not to!
Resources:
http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/images/blog/editorials/you-make-kitty-scared.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/02/10/epic-fail-the-worst-anime-ever/&usg=__PUSybg9UZIkZUVLsz7K5M4TNISw=&h=444&w=405&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=TzKvHn1pcbLt9M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscared%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1723%26bih%3D996%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=743&vpy=230&dur=829&hovh=235&hovw=214&tx=144&ty=124&ei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&oei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0
http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/funny-pictures-cat-is-scared-and-wants-to-sleep-with-you.jpg&imgrefurl=http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/11/21/funny-pictures-under-mai-bed-can-i-sleep-wif-u/&usg=__bMBhkOKz0LFv4T7zveRBuk6mnEQ=&h=374&w=500&sz=25&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=gm1bC05ikrYEsM:&tbnh=159&tbnw=212&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlol%2Bcatz%2Bscared%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D800%26bih%3D512%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=153&vpy=222&dur=457&hovh=162&hovw=217&tx=178&ty=188&ei=J3KHTLCMM8KVcayBtZoG&oei=J3KHTLCMM8KVcayBtZoG&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Artifact homework
What do the artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans?
I think that ancient artifacts tell us about the stories and adventures that early hominids have experienced millions of years ago. Many anthropologists have assumed that the cave paintings and sculptures found in caves could have symbolized an event or a celebration that must've occurred during the time, or it could be a story that early hominids used to tell to their own kind. Whether or not they were intelligent enough to even create such sculptures or paintings is a whole new story, as for now, I will explain 3 reasons of how artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans.
First of, many people may think that hominids are just a bunch of dumb apes that spend most of their times swinging from ropes and eating banana's from trees. I however, disagree, in fact, say that to a anthropologist and you'll get a heck of a lecture, it'll probably do you some good, but enough with apes, we're talking about hominids; hominids are actually prehistoric humans that hasn't evolved into the humans that we are today, but instead of focusing on what a hominid is, we're going to focus on some examples of how ancient artifacts give us info on how life was like on earth millions of year ago.
Reason 1.
Many paleonanthropologists say that cave paintings or sculptures were actually stories that related to the adventures and journeys or even events that have occurred way before the painting was ever made. Luckily scientists have been able to get useful information from the paintings in caves by inferring on what had happened 3 million years ago. But what does it tell us? Well this proves that the early humans were intelligent enough to make cave paintings, and it also tells us that they could make sculptures.
Reason 2.
Other artifacts however, weren't actually cave sculptures or cave paintings, they were actually tools that were used to help them catch and eat food. This tells us that the hominids were smart enough to make their own tools.
Reason 3.
Also another thing is that by studying a hominids bones you'll be able to see whether their brain was as big as a modern day human's, unfortunately no. This explains why hominids aren't as smart as us which why they are more ape like and not like us.
Resources:
http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/images/sheridenpeccaryallartifactssmall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2001octobersheridencavepage1.htm&usg=__hb7j9-DsSre7VONKt1A7Eho-OGM=&h=297&w=370&sz=14&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3cIgOuuc-Zbu8M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=243&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcave%2Bartifacts%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D1011%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=409&ei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&oei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0&tx=88&ty=61
I think that ancient artifacts tell us about the stories and adventures that early hominids have experienced millions of years ago. Many anthropologists have assumed that the cave paintings and sculptures found in caves could have symbolized an event or a celebration that must've occurred during the time, or it could be a story that early hominids used to tell to their own kind. Whether or not they were intelligent enough to even create such sculptures or paintings is a whole new story, as for now, I will explain 3 reasons of how artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans. First of, many people may think that hominids are just a bunch of dumb apes that spend most of their times swinging from ropes and eating banana's from trees. I however, disagree, in fact, say that to a anthropologist and you'll get a heck of a lecture, it'll probably do you some good, but enough with apes, we're talking about hominids; hominids are actually prehistoric humans that hasn't evolved into the humans that we are today, but instead of focusing on what a hominid is, we're going to focus on some examples of how ancient artifacts give us info on how life was like on earth millions of year ago.
Reason 1.
Many paleonanthropologists say that cave paintings or sculptures were actually stories that related to the adventures and journeys or even events that have occurred way before the painting was ever made. Luckily scientists have been able to get useful information from the paintings in caves by inferring on what had happened 3 million years ago. But what does it tell us? Well this proves that the early humans were intelligent enough to make cave paintings, and it also tells us that they could make sculptures.
Reason 2.
Other artifacts however, weren't actually cave sculptures or cave paintings, they were actually tools that were used to help them catch and eat food. This tells us that the hominids were smart enough to make their own tools.
Reason 3.
Also another thing is that by studying a hominids bones you'll be able to see whether their brain was as big as a modern day human's, unfortunately no. This explains why hominids aren't as smart as us which why they are more ape like and not like us.
Resources:
http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/images/sheridenpeccaryallartifactssmall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2001octobersheridencavepage1.htm&usg=__hb7j9-DsSre7VONKt1A7Eho-OGM=&h=297&w=370&sz=14&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3cIgOuuc-Zbu8M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=243&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcave%2Bartifacts%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D1011%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=409&ei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&oei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0&tx=88&ty=61
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