Busy

Exam coming, I'll be too busy to update my bloggie...exam is from 11th May to 14th May. Goodbye for a few days !!

Secret

HEEHEEHEE, today someone in our class, xxx told me a secret. lol. I promised that I won't tell anyone, because just four ppl in our class know about this. So i better keep the secret. THE EXTREMELY SUPER BIG SECRET...

The BIG day arrives...

Tomoro, me, CY, Chantelle, Emily, Michele, Jia Wei, Edmund, Jason Ong, Sticky, Chicken Essence and Sue Lynn will be going to 钟灵中学 for a Maths Olympiad competition. Kinda nervous...and scared...I think we won't be able to win, because there are more stronger school like 槟华 or whatevuh...

Donating Something

I, Teh Jea En would like to donate my Runescape account to anyone. If you are interested in Runescape account, please add me in msn:

jeaen_melody@hotmail.com

Thanks,
J.E

Pictures To Share

E X A M problem

Will be sitting for 2nd trial exam next month, so afraid that I can't make it ( 7A's ). If we (6M) don't get good results, ...god knows what will the headmistress do...she wants 48 7A's !!!!!! How could this become real ?? This is a DREAM ...just a DREAM ok?? headmistress Chew !!!!! We can't do that, I'm really sure, please don't force us to do tons of homework and stay back in school for tuition(S) every holiday!!!!!! Don't waste our time, and as well as teacher's time !!! And don't waste paper, money, energy, and saliva (to explain all the useless things) OK???? Stop doing that !!!!!

Times Warehouse Clearance Sale !!!

Last Sunday, we went to Island Plaza. I went to the Times Warehouse Clearance Sale !!! There are tons of books there. I bought a book : Nowhere To Run by Judy westwater. It was really great and i enjoyed a lot. =D

Brown-All-Over-The-Room !!!

Today, me, CY, Evynn and L went tuition in CY's house. And when the teacher was explaining something, suddenly CY spilted her milo on the table and on the floor !!!!!! We screamed !! muahaha. And Evynn's shirt was all-wet. My pencil was kena milo and my shirt also kena a few spots. L's whole book was brown ( because of milo ) haha, so funny and CY's paper also all-brown. Well, today is the BROWN'S DAY. hahaha, that's why i use brown font for this post, actually brown is not my fave color.

That's all.Bye ~~~

Happy Easter !!!

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Easter in Germany
Easter in Germany

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Easter ("Ostern")
The Easter season starts on Palm Sunday, the Sunday immediately prior to Easter. This takes its name from the account in the Bible in John 12:13 of how Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and palm branches were strewn on his path. Although palms are not common in northern Europe, they are held in high esteem at this particular time of the year and in certain areas are still blessed in church, after which they are believed to have protective qualities when taken home. In some areas a parish palm (Gemeindepalm) is constructed in the shape of a cross and is placed in the church. A similar cross-shaped palm decorated with red ribbons used to be buried close to each house in Rippoldsau in the Black Forest. Palm branches in the form of pussy willow or hazel decorate many homes, and the head of the household in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) used to symbolically eat three pussy willow heads on behalf of the other members of the family, and in some areas twigs of palm used to be planted in the garden to ward off lightning.
"Green Thursday" (Gründonnerstag) was the day on which penitent sinners were accepted back into the church for Communion. It used to be traditional to clean the house thoroughly on this day, a custom which is possibly linked to the preparation for the Passover Feast. Another custom attached to Green Thursday was that of taking a bath, either simply out of a desire to be clean at Easter or possibly as a vague reminder of Jesus Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper, which is thought to have taken place on the Thursday before the crucifixion. Green food, such as spinach, kale, cress, leek, chives and other herbs are traditionally eaten on "Green Thursday", because of the superstitious belief that greens eaten on this day would keep one safe during the year.
The German name for Good Friday (Karfreitag) comes from the Old High German form kara, which has the same meaning as the English word 'care'. This gives the meaning of "Sorrowful Friday" to the day when Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is also known as "Quiet Friday" (Stiller Freitag) for obvious reasons. On this very solemn day no church bells are rung in Roman Catholic churches. Some children believe that the bells are sent to Rome at this special time to be consecrated. Consequently the male members of the communities make up for the lack of noise with the "Good Friday rattles" - in appearance rather like football rattle - which not only provide them with pleasurable task of making a lot of noise but also summon the villagers church services. In Swabia a loud-mouthed person is rebuked with saying: "You have a mouth like a Good Friday rattle" (Dui hot e Meul wie e Karfreitigrätsch).
In former times there were far more restrictions on individual behaviour on this day of mourning than there are today. The drinking of alcohol was strictly forbidden in order to bring to mind the fact that Jesus Christ was thirsty whilst on the Cross. No one was allowed to kill an animal and the blacksmith was not allowed to use either hammer or nails, since these were employed in the Crucifixion. In some homes the crockery which had been specially polished during the Green Thursday spring clean was kept covered up in baskets until Easter Saturday, since it was considered unfitting for anything sparkling to be on view on Good Friday.There are special church services on Good Friday, some lasting for three hours, and Bach's St. Matthew's Passion is performed in many churches. Passion Plays used to be popular on Good Friday but are rarely performed today. The Passion Play in the Eifel mountains was banned around the year 1800, because it was considered to have become too worldly and to be too distracting. Many families eat the familiar Lenten food on Good Friday, choosing fish in preference to eggs or meat, and in some areas the bread eaten on Good Friday has the sign of the cross marked on the crust. Twigs from the sloe tree and buchthorn are sometimes brought into the house as an Easter decoration, reminding the householders of the crown of thorns which Jesus Christ was made to wear. Furthermore, a symbol of new life and future growth is to be found in the blossoms the branches bear, in the same way as Jesus Christ in his resurrection was the first fruit of believers.
For children especially the symbol and great joy of Easter is the Easter egg. The egg has long been regarded as a symbol of fertility and new life and was eaten with particular relish at Easter after forty days' abstinence during Lent.
Whatever the actual origin of the custom, children themselves are in no doubt as to where their eggs come from. In general they are supposed to be personally made (or laid) and decorated by the "Easter Bunny" (Osterhase), which was formerly regarded by the Germans as a sacred animal.
The Easter Bunny is even more elusive than St. Nicholas, but he often leaves a life-size chocolate version of himself together with the eggs on Easter Morning and is also to be seen on Easter cards, transfers or on bought cardboard eggs, used as containers for Easter gifts.
On Easter Saturday some children make little nests of straw, moss or twigs, known in Swabia as the "Bunny Garden" (Hasengärtle), so that the "Easter Bunny" will know where to leave his eggs when he makes his deliveries during the night. One can also buy readymade baskets and artificial grass from most departmental stores in which to collect all the small chocolate eggs, chickens and hares, which are hidden on Easter Sunday morning. For all children there is an exciting start to Easter Morning as they set out to hunt for the small chocolate, marzipan, sugar or decorated hen's eggs which have been hidden either in the garden or inside the house, depending on the weather.
In some areas the colour of the first egg to be found is thought important. Blue is unlucky, red will bring three days of good luck. The custom of hunting for eggs has been traced back to 1662 and, as he recorded in 1783, Goethe used to enjoy hiding eggs for the children in his garden in Weimar. Another favourite pastime for children is decorating hard-boiled hens' eggs for the breakfast table on Easter morning and blown eggs for use as decorations on the "Easter tree" or as gifts.The oldest surviving decorated egg, which dates back to the fourth century AD was found in a Romano-Germanic sarcophagus near to the town of Worms, but decorated eggs were known long before this. Blown or hard boiled eggs can simply be painted (the most popular colour for Easter being red) and decorated with faces, flowers or abstract designs, depending on the age and ability of the children concerned. The eggs can also be dyed with special bought dyes or by boiling the eggs with such natural substances as onion skin, tea beetroot juice, spinach, nettle roots and leaves, alder and oak bark. Vinegar added to the water makes the colours brighter and rubbing with either bacon fat or salad oil produces a shine.
Eggs are also decorated using batik (the method of printing coloured designs by firstly waxing the parts not to be dyed), etching , scratching and blocking techniques or by sticking felt, ironed straw, beads, rice grains, lace, wax, paper cut-outs or bought transfers on to the eggshell. They are still decorated according sophisticated techniques in the area around Marbourg.
If other small presents are given at Easter, they are sometimes put inside a cardboard Easter egg, decorated with spring flowers, Easter bunnies or chicks, which separates into two pieces to reveal the present. As already mentioned, eggs play a role in Easter decorations in many homes. Decorated blown eggs are sometimes hung on yellow forsythia branches in a vase together with little wooden painted eggs, 'Easter bunnies' or chicks, which are specially bought for the purpose. Similarly, blown eggs are spiked on to sticks, decorated with ribbons and put into a vase, sometimes with an Easter bird on the central stick, its body made of an eggshell and its plumes and legs made of bright paper or felt.
Besides these decorations, Spring flowers, especially daffodils, - which are known as Easter bells (Osterglocken) in Germany - and branches of willow are given pride of place in German homes at Easter.
If you would like to find out more about the different traditions throughout Germany, please read the following specials.

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Bunnies hopping online – Web tips for Easter
Which colours are the best for decorating eggs? What is the best way to make an Easter egg basket and what are the tastiest ingredients for a lamb meal? A truly creative Easter celebration in Germany calls for proper preparation and that is where many Internet websites can come in handy.
Hanni Hase is regarded as a genuine expert. There is plenty of information about Easter customs on his website www.hanni-hase.de which is run officially on behalf of the Ostereistedt district of Lower Saxony.
Along with stories and jokes are tips on how to get those eggs decorated in time and how to make a festive basket for the eggs. There are also suggestions for creating T-shirts and crockery with an Easter theme and downloadable templates of Easter pictures for children to colour in.
Hanni Hase explains the significance of Easter bonfires and candles along with that of Easter water. Younger users in particular will enjoy trying out a range of Easter online games. They can even get in touch with Hanni and write letters to an address given on the site, while a list of the dates of all the Easter Sundays up until and including 2050 is more likely to be of interest to their parents.
The best way to blow out Easter eggs, with advice on how to colour them and to hang them up as decoration is to be found by clicking onto sites such as www.ostern-mit-dem-osterhasen.de using the link “Ostereier” (Easter eggs) and clicking through to the section on “Ostereier färben und andere Bastelideen” “How to colour Easter eggs and other handicraft ideas”.
It is worth noting though that the colour applied to the eggs is by no means immaterial. The website www.ostern-im-web.de explains that yellow eggs symbolise enlightenment while orange ones stand for strength, stamina and ambition. There is a lot to be learned about the rituals and customs in other countries by using the link for “Easter international”. Information on how the dates came about for Whitsun, Ascension Day, the Feast of Corpus Christi, Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday can be found under the heading of "Osterzeit" (Eastertide).
Exactly why the bunny chooses to hide its eggs at Eastertime has yet to be explained for sure although there are plenty of theories. Some of them can be found on the website www.das-osterportal.de. For more background on the religious and historical significance of Easter it is worth consulting www.ostern-mit-dem-osterhasen.de. It addresses such questions as: How did the Easter egg come about in the first place? In olden times eggs were hard boiled in order to ensure that they kept longer during Lent. They were coloured so that the hard-boiled examples could be distinguished from the raw ones. dpa tl mb

Spring
Classical German poetry by major German authors:
Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929)
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)
With the kind permission of www.literaturcafe.de

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"Advent of Spring" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal [x-mpeg; 3,071.51 k]
"I Dreamed That Same Dream Again" by Heinrich Heine [x-mpeg; 1,006.21 k]
"Spring Lets Its Blue Ribbons" by Eduard Mörike [x-mpeg; 2,071.1 k]

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What A Boring And Lazy Day !!!

What the ''heaven'' ??!!! I'm so lazy and boring today....just stay in front of my dad's laptop for (almost) all-day-long .......wondering what to do all the time. I'm super duper cuper tuper ..........(whatevuh) BORING !!!!!!!!! anyone pls tell me what to do .....




WISH THAT I WON'T BE SO BORING AFTER ALL, HEHEZ~ *BYE*

I'm back

Back from Bella Italia, and Haggen Dazs..hehe. I ordered the all-new flavor of Haggen Dazs, the Cappucino Truffle, it was really great !! A little bit sleepy now....*yawn* wanna sleep early today because i slept at 12 something yesterday night !!! i miss weekend so much...today's only Monday, that means i still have to wake up at 6 for 4 more days....haiz..bye ~

kinda free today

I'm kinda free today, because i just have 3 homeworks today...so still have time to online...haha, using my aunt's new Sony Vaio...and tonight we're going to Bella Italia to have Italian food. I will be wearing my new hello kitty t-shirt bought by my aunt.


Nothing more....toodles guys ~~~

when??when?when???????

I am gonna faint!!!!!!!! still have 5 homeworks to go....out of eight... (fast huh?) I've completed 3 homeworks in about 20 minutes...hehe ..no la , very slow == !!! lol so boring...buh bye !!!! still have to finish up all the homeworks because tommorow still needa go the maths class of chicken chicken vomit

The Day After Tommorow....How Will Our Country Become?

The new p.m coming up.....i have no idea how will our country become......is it good or bad??let's see ...

BACK TO THE NORMAL LIFE OF BEING A STANDARD-SIX-STUDENT

We, 6M is back to the normal life of being a STANDARD-SIX-STUDENT again today, the normal life of a STANDARD-SIX-STUDENT , means everyday life of homeworks...haha, today we have 8 homeworks (finally back to the usual ammount) =.='' lol......busy again...I HATE HOMEWORKS !!!!!wanna go holiday !! i will be following the school trip to Singapore and Melaka and Genting and KL on this november 22nd...hehez, finally my mom let me follow the school trip, but even if she don't wanna let me go in the end, i will USE MY OWN MONEY...MUAHAHAHA...just wanna go vaccation with my friend...just once..in the year 2009, the last year being a STANDARD-SIX-STUDENT..teehee...the last year full of homeworks and tuition for preparing UPSR!!!


Bye ~~~

THE FIRST FREE-DAY IN 2009!!!!!

WAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!! I SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE THIS TRUTH....TODAY HAS NO HOMEWORKS!!!!! i think this wouldn't happen again in this year....i wondered why and when the teacher become so nice and dedicated...today i'm all free !!!! hahaha....i can online chatting with my friends and aunt!! :) muahaha..and my aunt will be coming back on 5th :)



THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY.. BYE ^^

difficulty

olympiad math is so difficult !!!!!!!! i don't even understand the teacher's ''alien-words'' , it's really really difficult and i'm totally regret i went to the training class of olympiad maths competition....my school will ''lose-face'' if we don't win the competition, but the ''chicken-chicken-vomit'' is always saying something we don't understand...well, all we need to do is just pay attention to what ''chicken-chicken-vomit'' says...that's all



bye =D

:)

what a boring day.................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......................................i'm wondering what should i do...2nd trial exam is coming next month....this is life of being a standard-six student...everyday homework(S) and tuition(S) .. all these stupid things are making me crazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is this the life we want??????????MAD TEACHER !!! LIFE IS DIVIDED INTO HORRIBLE AND MISERABLE, i saw this in my cousin's blog, and am totally agree of this....

TOODLES~~~