An interesting year in HCI, I feel that i have learnt many new things in my first year here. I feel that it has thought me that doing well does not come easily.
I will work extra hard next year so as to perform better. Thank you
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Reflective Journal
What expectations do my parents have of me?
They expect me to do well in school and have a bright future for myself, I am to work for it on my own and understand the importance of achieving a good foundation. They know that they are busy most of the time and expect me to be independant and work hard. Their wish is for me not to mix around with bad company and be a morally upright person. This so so that they would not be worried of my future and they can be left in peace to support the family.
What expectations would I have of my children?
I think I would take after my own parents, I would want my children to be independant and learn about things by himself/herself after we teach him the neccesities in life (morals, attitude, etc.). I will give him what he wants and I want him to be happy, as my parents are doing now, but there will always be a time to tell him/her when to "wake-up" and realise what he/she should do when he/she when he/she grows up. I will follow my parents style of guiding them all the way to the "door" but leave it to my child to think of whether he/she wants to open the "door" or leave it as it is. However, I expect them to do well in life but enjoy it more than anything else, with no regrets.
How do the two expectations differ?
My parents expectation is for me to grow up and live a very secure lifestyle, with a stable job to support the family. They want the best for me and for everyone else who is related.
I expect my children to grow up be kind, respectful and loving, I want them to not make mistakes and not follow certain things that I did.
They expect me to do well in school and have a bright future for myself, I am to work for it on my own and understand the importance of achieving a good foundation. They know that they are busy most of the time and expect me to be independant and work hard. Their wish is for me not to mix around with bad company and be a morally upright person. This so so that they would not be worried of my future and they can be left in peace to support the family.
What expectations would I have of my children?
I think I would take after my own parents, I would want my children to be independant and learn about things by himself/herself after we teach him the neccesities in life (morals, attitude, etc.). I will give him what he wants and I want him to be happy, as my parents are doing now, but there will always be a time to tell him/her when to "wake-up" and realise what he/she should do when he/she when he/she grows up. I will follow my parents style of guiding them all the way to the "door" but leave it to my child to think of whether he/she wants to open the "door" or leave it as it is. However, I expect them to do well in life but enjoy it more than anything else, with no regrets.
How do the two expectations differ?
My parents expectation is for me to grow up and live a very secure lifestyle, with a stable job to support the family. They want the best for me and for everyone else who is related.
I expect my children to grow up be kind, respectful and loving, I want them to not make mistakes and not follow certain things that I did.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Book Review: Deeper
The second book in the 'Tunnels' series (Free Fall is the third), the great adventure Will has to go through with his brother and his friend, they finally enter the realm of the Deeps, where every possible danger lurks in there, they have to struggle to survive, various creatures are waiting to strike, every corner conceals a trap from the Styx or even nature itself...
Cal soon falls into a deadly sugar trap and it seems that he would be lost forever, so Will and Chester trudge along, only to get captured by two strange people, Drake and Elliot, who turned out to help them, first by miraculously saving Cal from his death. Then teaching them how to survive the Styx and how to shoot using stove guns and sniper rifles. Most importantly, movement, how to effectively sneak about and execute enemies or escape.
After a rather 'carefree' life, Will discovers something else, a deadly plot to save the 'Topsoilers' from eminent doom. He strives forward with more help then ever to accomplish this seemingly impossible goal and eliminate any Styx and make them pay for what they have done.
This writer really has talent to write out such magnificent works of art, a great book.
Cal soon falls into a deadly sugar trap and it seems that he would be lost forever, so Will and Chester trudge along, only to get captured by two strange people, Drake and Elliot, who turned out to help them, first by miraculously saving Cal from his death. Then teaching them how to survive the Styx and how to shoot using stove guns and sniper rifles. Most importantly, movement, how to effectively sneak about and execute enemies or escape.
After a rather 'carefree' life, Will discovers something else, a deadly plot to save the 'Topsoilers' from eminent doom. He strives forward with more help then ever to accomplish this seemingly impossible goal and eliminate any Styx and make them pay for what they have done.
This writer really has talent to write out such magnificent works of art, a great book.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Book Review: Freefall
Finally! The next book to the series "Tunnels", the build-up was fantastic and many more unexpected things happen in this book. New characters and old characters come together unseemingly and the story is as smooth as a silk. The end was superbly dramatic and leaves a long lingering taste, the desire to read more.
As Will, Chester and Elliot drop down the abyss, together with Cal's body and Bartebly (the Stalker, an animal), they land on a gigantic fungus but Will and Chester realise the horrible truth that Elliot is seriously injure and a amazing discovery that the gravitational pull is only one third of what it is above ground, the deeper you are, the weaker the gravitational pull is.
Will has to prepare a few things before they go off and dumps Cal's body down a seemingly never ending shaft. He moves off with Chester and carries Elliot all the way and find an unexpected surprise... Gigantic spiders/monkeys/bugs underground! They attack with verocity like none other and they are saved by a rather elderly woman, about late 40's.
She brings them to her home where she tries her best to nurse Elliot back to health and tells them something for the worst. They have to travel deeper to an abodoned submarine (which none of them knew how it got there) and get some medicine to save Elliot.
Little do they know that as they are closing the submarine with the fatally sick Elliot, that the evil twin sisters, Rebecca and Rebecca, are following them with a Limiter. They avoid the weird spiders with Arsenic Flare but face a bigger threat, the Brights, the fastest moving creatures that anybody has ever witnessed.
Many more events pass like meeting Drake, meeting Dr. Burrows (Will's adoptive father), and the discovery of the second sun, the sun within the Earth. Where Will, Elliot and Dr. Burrows live peacefully for a while until the biggest surprise of all happens.
Fantastic sci-fi thriller/adventure, the best "Journey to the Center of The Earth" book i have ever read.
As Will, Chester and Elliot drop down the abyss, together with Cal's body and Bartebly (the Stalker, an animal), they land on a gigantic fungus but Will and Chester realise the horrible truth that Elliot is seriously injure and a amazing discovery that the gravitational pull is only one third of what it is above ground, the deeper you are, the weaker the gravitational pull is.
Will has to prepare a few things before they go off and dumps Cal's body down a seemingly never ending shaft. He moves off with Chester and carries Elliot all the way and find an unexpected surprise... Gigantic spiders/monkeys/bugs underground! They attack with verocity like none other and they are saved by a rather elderly woman, about late 40's.
She brings them to her home where she tries her best to nurse Elliot back to health and tells them something for the worst. They have to travel deeper to an abodoned submarine (which none of them knew how it got there) and get some medicine to save Elliot.
Little do they know that as they are closing the submarine with the fatally sick Elliot, that the evil twin sisters, Rebecca and Rebecca, are following them with a Limiter. They avoid the weird spiders with Arsenic Flare but face a bigger threat, the Brights, the fastest moving creatures that anybody has ever witnessed.
Many more events pass like meeting Drake, meeting Dr. Burrows (Will's adoptive father), and the discovery of the second sun, the sun within the Earth. Where Will, Elliot and Dr. Burrows live peacefully for a while until the biggest surprise of all happens.
Fantastic sci-fi thriller/adventure, the best "Journey to the Center of The Earth" book i have ever read.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Apologies
Sorry, Mr. B, for such a late blog post on the book review, I was compiling them and making sure they were good enough to be posted sorry.
Book Review: Tunnels
A great remake of the Journey to The Center of the Earth, which in my opinion, I think might even be better than it.
It tells a more realistic story of a boy(Will) whose father(Dr. Burrows) is something like an archeologist for the museum and they dig in hope of finding something but soon his father discovers something phenomenal and wants to share it with the world but gets kidnapped and Will is determined to find his father with the help of his good friend Chester, but soon realizes there's more to it than meets the eye and has to go underground to find his father. He then escapes from his wretched mother and strange sister, Rebecca.
They discover the colony which are a bunch of people who have decided to live undergrounds hundreds of years ago so that they can escape the so-called 'Topsoilers' and Will and Chester being topsoilers are then captured and thrown into jail but Will is set-free to realize the truth that he is actually born in the colony!!! And he then starts to know people like Cal(his real brother), and Uncle Tam and they decide to work together to find Dr. Burrows.
Like Rumo, this story also goes through many more adventures but there is no happy ending and it really hints that this book is a series. Fantastic reading content and character build-up.
Thank you,
1P421
It tells a more realistic story of a boy(Will) whose father(Dr. Burrows) is something like an archeologist for the museum and they dig in hope of finding something but soon his father discovers something phenomenal and wants to share it with the world but gets kidnapped and Will is determined to find his father with the help of his good friend Chester, but soon realizes there's more to it than meets the eye and has to go underground to find his father. He then escapes from his wretched mother and strange sister, Rebecca.
They discover the colony which are a bunch of people who have decided to live undergrounds hundreds of years ago so that they can escape the so-called 'Topsoilers' and Will and Chester being topsoilers are then captured and thrown into jail but Will is set-free to realize the truth that he is actually born in the colony!!! And he then starts to know people like Cal(his real brother), and Uncle Tam and they decide to work together to find Dr. Burrows.
Like Rumo, this story also goes through many more adventures but there is no happy ending and it really hints that this book is a series. Fantastic reading content and character build-up.
Thank you,
1P421
Book review: The City of Dreaming Books
Another great story by Walter Moers, like Captain Bluebear and Rumo, also by Moers, it is another fantasy book of the adventure of a lifetime for any writer.
It starts with Optimus Yarnspinner, a Lindworm,meets his dying 'authorial' granduncle, who then gives him a magnificent piece of writing that was said to change his life forever if he is to read it. This piece of writing is said to be so good that it could make you laugh, cry, weep like mad and then suddenly forget your worries and later be kept on tenterhooks throughout the strangely short 10 page writing.
Thus Optimus Yarnspinner soon seeks the author who is said to be living in an authors paradise called "Bookholm" where he meets strange people and somebody who seems to be helping him, Pfistomel Smyke( a cousin of Smyke from Rumo, they are usually crimelords), who then imprisones him in the Bookholm catacombs where he meets the so called feared 'Booklings' which are actually cute little cyclopses who have a great passion and 'eat' the content of the book.
Later, he finds the greatest bookhunter who seeked refuge with the booklings because of his many injuries which are too serious to recover from and many more adventures happen in this book and once again, it ends with a happy ending but this time not entirely without grief.
Thank you,
1P421
It starts with Optimus Yarnspinner, a Lindworm,meets his dying 'authorial' granduncle, who then gives him a magnificent piece of writing that was said to change his life forever if he is to read it. This piece of writing is said to be so good that it could make you laugh, cry, weep like mad and then suddenly forget your worries and later be kept on tenterhooks throughout the strangely short 10 page writing.
Thus Optimus Yarnspinner soon seeks the author who is said to be living in an authors paradise called "Bookholm" where he meets strange people and somebody who seems to be helping him, Pfistomel Smyke( a cousin of Smyke from Rumo, they are usually crimelords), who then imprisones him in the Bookholm catacombs where he meets the so called feared 'Booklings' which are actually cute little cyclopses who have a great passion and 'eat' the content of the book.
Later, he finds the greatest bookhunter who seeked refuge with the booklings because of his many injuries which are too serious to recover from and many more adventures happen in this book and once again, it ends with a happy ending but this time not entirely without grief.
Thank you,
1P421
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