Monday, September 26, 2011

Universal Studios

On 24th of September, My brother and I went to Universal Studios at Sentosa. We had to wake up at 7am and take the MRT to Habour Front then take a bus to Resort World Sentosa. When we reached there, it was about 9am. We met our aunt and had breakfast at Coffee Bean. Although the food and drinks was delicious, I felt it was overpriced. However, The rent there is most probably very high too.
After breakfast, we went into Universal Studios. Even though it was only about 9.30am then, it was already buzzling with people. My father, who is a staff there, told us to go to the rides first. We walked through the attraction called 'Hollyhood' and 'New York' to the ride at 'Sci-fi'. Hollyhood and New York was suppose to look like what there name is, though i had never been to any of thoese places. There were many fake cars there, but they all look like cars that were during World War 2. We decided to take pictures later and went to the ride at 'Sci-fi'.
The ride was called 'Battle Galatica' , where sitting on the roller coaster was suppose to be a space ship that was fighting of enemies. There were two tracks, the red track and the blue track.The roller coaster on the red track is like the normal roller coaster, sitting on a seat, but the blue one was very special, where people on board was left hanging, with their legs pointing at the ground. I did not dare to take the blue track after taking the red one, so my aunt and brother took the blue track while I waited outside.
The next ride was Revenge of the Mummy, but I was too scared that I closed my eyes the entire journey. Even walking to the roller coaster scared me! that roller coaster was quite special though, it does not just move forward all the time, sometimes moving backwards too!
After that, we went to the Jurassic Park ride, which was something like sitting on a chair that moves very fast, but it was not very scary and I did not really see any dinosaurs.
The last roller coaster was a ride called 'Enchanted Airways', where the roller coaster looked like a dragon, that ride was the least exciting one, as it was the slowest among all the roller coaster rides.
We then had lunch at a fast food restaurant there, as my father had recommended. Everything there looked like things during World War 2, with a jukebox. The drawing too looks old. The price of the food was high too, almost twice as much as McDonald's.
After eating, we went to watch shows, like Water World and Shrek 4D. I liked the Water World, where there were gunshots and explosions. Shrek 4d was quite good too, as when the character sneezes, water will be shot at you.
When we finished everything, it was about 2pm. The sun was very glaring and the queues for most of the things were very long. We decided to head home. I had a great time at Universal Studios and wished to go back again!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

English

I am weak at some things for English. First of all, it is comprehension. In comprehension, inference question are the worst. Most of the time i know the answer but not really sure how to express it. For use of own words, I am still not really that sure of the penalty words, except that they are not nouns. Linguistic and factual questions are better, though sometimes i may still get it wrong. Vocabulary is abit like inference to me, knowing the answer but not knowing how to express myself.
My summary is not really that bad,however sometimes I paraphrase too much and end up missing the key words, which was what had happened to my Common Test 2. There is nothing much besides paraphrasing and finding the points in summary.
Narrative writing and personal recount I am usually fine, but sometimes i make alot of tense errors. I do not really have that much vocabulary to use. I sometimes do not know how to express myself too, especially in personal recount where we are required to show, not tell."
I think i am quite bad in oral. I tend to get very anxious in oral and during the passage reading, I will stop sometimes just to catch my breathe! During picture discussion, I am again affected by my anxiousness. Sometimes i miss out on many points that I wanted to say. During conversation, I try to look at the teacher's eye but always tend to look elsewhere as I will get scared if I kept looking.
For grammar, I am generally fine but careless mistakes can cause me a lot of marks. I sometimes forget about some rules, like 'neither...nor' or 'either...or' .
That is most of the things I am weak in English, I am not very sure if i had written down everything but that is mostly it.