My First Chess Competition

Today was my first chess competition. Mummy and I left very early in the morning to catch a cab to the place as it was very far. At the Civil Service Club, mummy took me to a big hall with rows of tables. This was where the competition was held. I felt quite nervous and excited. My first opponent's name was Lionel. I lost because he was a very good chess player. However I enjoyed the game very much. After my first game, mummy took me to Dhoby Plaza Singapura for lunch. We ate at Burger King and the food was delicious. For my second game in the afternoon, I lost again and felt a bit discouraged. Mummy told me that it was alright to lose as it was my first time playing serious chess.

On the second day, Daddy and I took the public transport to Civil Service Club. First I checked on the list for my pairing partner and went to look for my seat. This time round, my opponent was easier and I won him in a short time. I felt happy.... Then I called mummy to come and fetched me. I walked to Farrer Park station myself and boarded the train to Doby Ghaut to meet her. I just ate a curry puff as I was not very hungry. We went back to the place of competition for the next game. Do you know that for the afternoon game, my opponent was my friend in the chess class! I was very surprised that we could be paired up together. Anyway I won this game again.

Today, daddy brought me to Outram Park station first and then I took a train myself to Farrer Park station. I felt great going to all these places by myself! At the club I found my seat and can't wait for the game to start. I won this game although I did an illegal checkmate! I only found out when my coach analyzed my game. Then together with my brothers and mummy, we met daddy at his office area for lunch. I ate fishball noodles which was my favourite. The afternoon game was very tense as my opponent was a good player. I lost as I made a careless mistake.

On the last day, I lost two rounds I felt very disappointed that I could not make it to the National Junior Squad. You need to have 3.5 points to enter the squad, but I had only 3 points. Daddy said that next year I could try again. I am thankful for this experience.

The A-10 warthog

I borrowed a book titled "A-10 Warthog" and found some amazing facts about these planes.
The A-10 warthog can still fly even though one engine is destroyed! Its front has a big machine gun that shoot many rounds of shells. Its wings also has compartments with flares and chaff to confuse the enemies missiles. The A-10 warthog also has a bulletproof cockpit. These planes will stay in service until 2028 and it will be used as a spotter plane. I wish the Singapore Airforce will buy this plane, so that I can fly in it!

F15 Estrike eagle

This morning, when I looked in the newspaper, I found an interesting article about the F15 Estrike eagle! Wow! what an amazing modern plane. I have always loved planes. The radars and missiles make this plane looked so cool that I feel like flying in it!

Science centre (Robotics)

Yesterday, together with the homeschooled group, we went to the Science centre. We were followed a man, who took us to the lab.

Inside the lab, I saw a big rectangular table with many gadgets. I was very excited because it was my first time seeing such complicated things. First we sat down and the teacher taught us about robots. Then we were split into groups of two. I paired up with David. The first activity was to use a computer to programme our robot to shoot at a round lego piece. This was fun because we could control the robot. Next we used icons on the computer to make the robot take out the germs which was in the form of blue balls.

Finally we used a lego saw hooked on the robot to cut rubber tubes. The purpose is to unblock lungs. I had a great day at the Science centre.

Baking (chemistry)

After lunch I wanted to try out an experiment using milo, butter and sugar. First I melt the butter with milo in a pot, then add the sugar and stirred the mixture. Do you know that the end result looked like "poo poo" to me! Next I put in coloured sprinkles and freeze the mixture. After an hour I ate a bit of my creation , it tasted very buttery.

Thoughts of singapore

I am thankful that Singapore has freshwater for me to drink, lots of greenery and good public trasport systems.

Praying for Singapore

I pray that the people in Singapore will not smoke and that christians will tell others about Jesus.

Rangers camp (mar 08)

Last Thursday was the start of my Rangers camp.I had to wake up at 7.00 am and at around 8.00 my brother and I arrived at Home TeamAdventure Center. First we had some camp briefing followed by devotion followed by some ice breaking games and played some tricky obstacle course. The first game was called 'blow wind blow '. I did not really enjoy the game because I find it a little childish. Next we had our lunch in the shed. We ate chicken rice which was delicious.
After lunch we had a bible study on the book of Ruth. In the evening we had a campfire. All of us sat around the big, glowing fire and sang songs and ate our dinner. After that we wentback to our bunks to bath. You know what, we played Netendo Wii after the wash-up! The game was fun and exciting. At about mid-night we went to sleep in our sleeping bags. What a long day.