War poetry ( Children in the Darkness)

Children in the Darkness There are children in the darkness
Who have not seen the light
There are children in the darkness
Who someone will teach to fight

Chalk and blackboards will not be
To this door there is no key
From this life they can not flee
And these children are not free

Could we simply light a candle
Could we give them half a chance
Could we teach them how to read
Could we teach them how to dance

Or will a war consume them
Their body and their soul
Will their life and blood be poured
Down some endless thirsty hole

Back into the darkness
From which there is no flight
Back into the darkness
Into which there shines no light

by Henry M Bechtold


1) The poet wanted to write a poem about the girls who worked in the park in Vietnam and were treated badly by the men. However he could not think of anything and at that time the news was on and he saw the background picture of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle. By seeing that pictures, the poet wanted to write of how children are treated even in war. Children have to work as soldiers and adults see them as ordinary people who are born to die in a war. These children cant learn to read or write but simply learn to fight in war. These children are separated from their parents so that they will not think about them when they are learning to fight.
Sources:http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2010warpoetry.html

2)Personal response Back into the darkness This shows me how badly treated the children are in preparing for war.
Into which there shines no light

Steps in Analysis
			Point		Evidence	Elaboration
1.			Point of View		There are children in the darkness Who have not seen the light	The author feels sorry for the children who have to fight in the war as they have no opportunities to learn to read or write. The whole poem basically depicts on how the author displays his sorrow for the children.
2.			Situation and Setting		There are children in the darkness Who someone will teach to fight Or will a war consume them	The situation here is the children are forced to learn to fight so that when they grow up they can become soldiers so that they can fight in the war.
3			Language/ Diction		There are children in the darkness Back into the darkness	There is some repetition in the poem. It occurs at the beginning and end of the poem.

Projects Day

I know i haven't been posting in my blog for sometime. so SORRY! Anyway, me, zhi quan, colin and thomson(203) have been recently been working on our project which belongs in cat. 5. There have been a few changes after my first post and the whole content has since changed.

Now our board game (yes it is a board game -.-") is called Mystical ( don't know why name it ). I am writing this blog to describe about my project. There are a few concepts people who plan to play this game need to understand before trying to play this game. There are 5 kinds of cards. They are the Power Card (will be explained later), Mystery Card (will be explained later), Treasure Card(a.k.a money/gold), King Card (will be explained later), and Guard Card(used to guard the king).


God Cards
Our game plot revolves around the greek mythology and about the gods like Zeus and Poseidon. King Cards are these Gods. These Gods protect the area which they live in. The Gods are Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo and Athena. Zeus is the god of lightning, Poseidon is the god of water, Apollo is the god of fire and poems and Athena is the god of strategy.


Guard Cards
Before a player gets to attack the opponents king, he/she has to penetrate the guards who will be protecting the king with their life. These guards fight each other according to the dice power( later explained) that the player gets.

Power Cards and Dice Power
Power Cards are cards that increase dice power to defeat an opponent easier. Dice power is what you get when you throw two dice and add together the sum of their power. For example, I got 8 dice power and my opponent got 9 dice power, so the opponent attacks my guard and kills it since he has more dice power. This is where Power Cards come into play if you are desperately trying to win. However, with pros comes cons. Although Power Cards can help you to increase the Dice Power, you need to use Treasure Cards(explained later) which you get after killing each guard or enemy.

Mystery Cards
These cards provide you with either super powers or self-inflicting items. They can help you get rid of the king immediately or can instead kill yourself! In order to use these cards, you will need to roll your dice and depends on how much dice power that you have then you can use the Mystery Card. For example, if you have 8 Dice Power, and the Mystery Card requires 5 Dice power and another Mystery Card requires 3 Dice power, then you can use both of them as long as they add up to your Dice Power or is lesser. *Take Note: you cannot use your power card first to add Dice Power then use the Mystery Card.

Treasure Cards
These cards are basically gold or money which you use to buy Power Cards as earlier explained. Using these Treasure Cards, you can also buy the ultimate attack for your King to attack so that you got a higher chance of winning!

How it is played
You will start with 10 power cards and 10 treasure cards. Obviously the power cards will be not as good that can be bought. 4 players must be playing this game, no more no less. Each person throws the dice to see who gets to start first. Each player shuffles his cards ( yet to be clarified where did the deck come from). Each used card is placed in your graveyard. Each turn you can only attack one time, buy one card or use a power card or mystery card. The power of the Mystery Card is used before you throw the dice.

Well that's all for now about my project. I will post more about my project next time if we make it to the semi-finals ^^. Cross Fingers. Bye-bye!

movie review

During the holidays, I went to the cinema to watch a moive "Alice in Wonderland". This movie is about a Alice grown up who is going to get married to her boyfriend but she didn't even know she was going to get married to him. When he proposed to Alice, she wasn't sure of accepting or declining. She saw a rabbit with a watch ticking and she decided to follow it by giving an excuse of needing to think about the wedding. Alice follows the rabbit to a tree with a big hole. Alice accidentally falls into the hole and lands up in a room with a table with a key and a bottle which is labeled "drink me". She drinks the liquid inside the bottle and shrinks. She forgot to take the key and becomes to small to reach up onto the table. She sees an item which is labeled "eat me" on the floor. She eats too much of it and grows until the reaches the ceiling. Having the key she shrinks herself down again by drinking the rest of the liquid and she uses the key to enter a small door. Inside there are creatures not normal to see in the human world. She is believed by the creatures to slay the Red Queen's guardian, the Jabberwocky, on the Frabjous Day using the Vorpal sword.


Along the way she encounters the mad hatter, the mouse, the blue caterpiller, the flying grinning cat, the rabbit and two fat boys. They want Alice to kill the Jabberwocky. The hatter gets captured by the Red Queen. Instead of going to the White Queen, Alice goes to the Red Queen's palace to save the hatter where she is known as 'umm'. Alice learns that the Vorpal sword is inside a small house with the creature which once attacked Alice. She returns him his eye ball which got plucked out by the mouse and he gives her the key to unlock the chest to the Vorpal sword. The creature brings her to the White Queen's palace where everyone is reunited. Soon, everyone prepares for battle. Alice has to fight the Jabberwocky which is a huge flying beast who breathes fire. Alice brings it to the top of a circular staircase where she beheads the Jabberwocky and everyone looks at her in awe. The White Queen sends the Red Queen and her aqquintance to the outlands forever.


Alice climbs out of the hole and returns to the wedding where she decided not to get married as she is still young and is not ready. Having been through this adventure has made her more independent and can think on her own without the help of others choosing for her.


I would recommended this movie to others as it is not like the previous movie where Alice is a young girl but now is a grown-up who slays a beast.

these are two screenshots of my primary school friend's opinion on prejudice and discrimination.

Multiple Intelligence test

I find that the multiple intelligence test is a good way for one to find out which way he/her studies best in without struggling too much. Should one follow his/her way of studying, he/her will find it faster to learn things or to memorise them. Lastly, with his/her prefered choice of studying, he/her will enjoy learning instead of thinking it's a labour or a chore to study.

3rd post

Crap! I haven't been posting for the past 1 week!!! Last week we went for PE after IS in the computer lab. We had to run around the school 3 times to practice for NAFA ( dunno how to spell =.= ) . While running around the school for the second time, we were told to stop because someone from 2P3 took a bus to the other side and allighted!!! Anyway that was the only thing that happened. Back to work bb!!

2nd post zzz

AARRRGGGHHH!!! Today was a complete waste of my time!!! I came to school at 7a.m. and waited until 9.30 a.m. to perform lion dance for a minister and in the end he didn't want us!!! I wore a dumb pants which is so long, is new so the colouring is very strong hence caused my socks and shoes and pe shirt and pants to turn pink. :( The good thing is I missed the 2.4km practice run. ^.^

Anyway today was quite slack. The only real lesson I had was 1 hour of math. Today was the only day which was the most fun. I missed IS(sad) and PE(happy), had math lesson(favourite) and music lesson(only watching Andrea Bocelli sing the ferrero rocheo song. After music we were supposed to have geography lesson, but didn't know why Mr. Lim did not turn up. So we talked and did work in class for 1 hour by ourselves. ^.^

Still, I'm screwed this year. :( My Chinese sucks(not surprising), which is the subject that is going to kill me!!! This year Chinese EOY test takes up more percentage and there is no more ACE or OP left to pull me up!! Now ACE and OP are 2 different subjects, which means more subjects. I have to pass the first round and the second round of projects competition or I am dead. And for OP, I'm going to have a hard time doing debate cause my Chinese sucks like I said. Worse, my sec 1 Chinese teacher came into my class and told us that if we didn't get A1 or A2 for Chinese at the end of the year, I would have to go to a class to take normal Chinese O level, which is most likely to happen to me. No fair to those people who are good at Chinese!

Sigh back to work, next post will probably next week or the following week.