School's Out!!

School's Out!!

My first year of middle school has finally come to an end. It has been a very exciting year for me!!! It seems only yesterday when I walked through the gates of middle school for the first time. I was so nervous! When I was at P.E.L in 5th grade I felt that I was one of the biggest people in school, but that all changed when I moved to middle school. I felt like a tiny first grader again, so curios about everything you see.

As I was progressing through the year. I think I've done a fairly good job in maintaining my "A" grades throughout all the subjects in 6th grade. I think I have improved a lot in my English and P.E from 5th grade.

Now what will I be doing spending the next 2 months at home?!? Well during  the holidays I'll be playing basket ball and I will be going for "Aqua dragons" every single day, Monday to Friday :(( I'm doing this because I need to keep healthy and fit. I know this will be hard work, but in the end it will be good for me in the long run. 

I also will be preparing for 7th grade next year by practicing my; Math,Spanish, Writing, Reading and e.t.c. Next Monday I will be going for a trip to the Library to check out some books to read. I don't really get why  do you have to pay 150$ deposit in the library. Because if you loose a book which costs less than 150$ they get to keep the 150$. I think that's not fair. Instead we should just pay the library how much the book costs.

I think that in these two months of summer I will be very occupied!! 

Video Advertising

• Person: Emma Fukar
• Purpose: Increases hair strength and makes your hair smooth & silky
• Target Audience: Teenage Girls and above
• Why Effective?: Because it shows the lady doing karate with a man, then the man grabs her hair and slips through, this indicates that DJ Wills Shampoo makes your hair smooth. Then  laser beams pop up from everywhere and traps the woman. She then smashes her hair against the beams and they all then she grabs her hair and gives it a pull and she opens her hand to show that no hair fell from her head. These two actions represent that it increases hair strength.

Ahhh, what's going on? I can't believe I'm going to be the next "Receiver of Memories".  Everybody is saying it is a great honor, but then the chief elder told me I will have to go through great pain, physically and I'm not even allowed to take medication for the pain, as it said on the rules and Why Is That? On the steps and rules of training, it said I can ask anyone anything. Would they actually allow me to ask about the person that failed their training for the Receiver of Memories. So many questions to ask, but then again I could still ask them no matter how rude it is.

Target Audience: Children from 9yrs.-11yrs.old

1. Symbolism: The ad is trying to say that some children may want toys and e.t.c, but others just want a roof above their head. I think that Covenant House is like an orphanage that house children from the street, making them happy.

2. Body Language:  I think the message in the ad should be big and it should have a contrast to catch your eye before you look at the picture

3. Camera Angle: The picture is taken from the side and shows the full picture

4. Special Effects: The house in the back looks old and abandoned, which means that this place is a run down area. Any type of metal you see is rusted. It looks kind of dark so I think the picture is in an alley way. Since the alley way is dark, rusted metal,unclean.I think he's not the only child who needs a shelter.

5. Lighting and Color:  The part where the message is dark in the background, while the message is in light colors. Above the message part there is not much of contrast. Except the box is bright  while surrounding the box there is a dark background. So the 2 things that will catch the person's eye, will be the message and the main picture.

6.  Beauty and Standing: I think this part in the deconstruction of an ad would be the hardest part. I couldn't really find some thing in the ad for this part.

7.  Target and Graphics: The ad is trying to say that some children may want toys and e.t.c, but others just want a roof above their head. I also think that the ad is trying to make kids to stop being greedy about things they want, instead they should feel affectionate for the kids on the road who don't have as much as other rich  kids.

My advertisment

Targeting Audience: Teenagers to adults aging from 13-50+ for people who play lots of sports this is meant for you!

Tired after playing a sport?

Sweating.

Smelling.

Well slip on our new Com: Fit shirt to make you feel cool on the inside as you feel on the out. Our revolutionary technology is the reason why it's so EXTRAORDINARY. 

So hurry these shirts will go out fast, the first 10 people at our F.I.T stores to purchase the shirts will get it at a premium price.

 BE COOL IN AND OUT!!!

What's you favorite type of book?

Do you think you hate reading. Well actually you maybe just not reading the books you like. You see I always hated reading, but my sister will just keep on reading until you say "STOP." I could never read a book nonstop, even if my parents tried to force me. One time I just said to myself  " Why don't I try reading the last book of the Harry Potter series." And that's what I did. Once I finished the first page I was hooked on the book and I read nonstop. It took me just 2 days to finish an 800 page book. I then read another book related to HP, it's title was "Eragon". I immidiately got hooked. Then I thought to myself I don't hate reading, I'm not just reading the books I like. My favorite type of books are Horror, Suspense, Mystery and Fast Paced books. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE.

Summary of "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

  Communities,  each community there are strict rules, like language. Jonas feels apprehensive of ceremony of 12 saying this at dinner table.

Learning a Language, is there a point???

Did you ever think learning a language is hard. Well we all know we have to take a language in Middle School, but for what??? Is there a point in taking a language??? I mean, sure you can communicate with other people who don't know how to speak English, but they speak another language,and you know that language. But here in Indonesia you don't need to speak Spanish, Mandarin or French. The only language you need to learn is INDONESIAN!!!  It's a good thing I speak Indonesian fluently, so I don't have to learn it in Middle School, because that just means  EXTRA HOMEWORK!!!  Now I am currently to learn spanish, which I hate more and more!! :-{

Physch: Pilot

On Friday we watched an episode of Pysch.  Pysch is a show with mystery and comedy at the same time. On Friday we watched the first case. As you know in every mystery there needs to be a problem. The crime or the problem is, there was a family, the Mc Callums, a very rich family. Their son Camden McCallum was kidnapped for ransom money. Also another element in a mystery is that in every crime there must be someone to solve it. In Pysch it was Shawn and Gus. Shawn was actually the detective and his partner and best friend was Gus. Another element is that every crime needs a villian. The strange thing is that the villian was Camden and his kidnapper was Camden's friend Ourso.  Camden actually planned the whole thing out. His motive was to get some of his father's money. He needed the money badly, because he couldn't get any jobs.  In some mysteries there is a surprise ending and luckily there was a surprise ending in Pysch. The surprise ending was that Camden's father accidentally killed his son. And when Camden's friend Ourso wanted to drop off the ransom money he had seen that Camden's father had killed Camden. In the end Camden's dad killed Ourso and made it look like sucide. Camden's dog saw all of this happening, so that truly makes him a witness. The dog then realized that Camden's father was not a nice person, so the dog bit him. Camden's father tried to cover the wound with a bandage, but Shawn had already realized this. The wound acts as evidence.

Stormbreaker

By: Anthony Horowitz

*****

The book "stormbreaker" is about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider. The book starts out when his uncle, Ian Rider get's murdered in a car accident. Ian Rider is Alex's only family relative left . His parents had died in a plane crash.  Alex thinks that Ian Rider works for a bank called Royal & General. On the day of the funeral some people from Royal & General come to Alex and tell him that his uncle wasn't a banker for Royal & General and the bank doesn't even exist. Ian Rider was actually a spy who was working for an agency called M16. The Royal & General Bank is a cover up name for M16. 

M16 wanted to recruit Alex, but he refuses.  In the end Alex accepts because he doesn't have a choice. They had to bribe Alex. His first mission is when they send him to infiltrate Sayle Enterprises. This actually a company that manufactures these computers called "Stormbreakers." The head of the project is a rich man named Herod Sayle. Herod Sayle wants to donate the Stormbreaker Computers for all the schools in London. Everybody thinks he's a her, but M16 are a little suspicious. That's why they want Alex to get to know Herod Sayle and see what he's up to.

In the end he finds out that Herod Sayle wants to spread out a computer virus so all the computers in London will have the computer virus.  Alex tries to stop but an unknown man named Yassen Gregorovich murders Herod Sayle and rescues Alex. Alex finds out that this man murdered his uncle Ian Rider... 

The 6 Elements of a Mystery

Crime: The crime is the main problem in the mystery.

As you can see here the crime is that the man, who is

the villain is threatening the cat who is the victim.














Investigator, Private Eye, Sleuths: The people that are paid 
to solve the crime, a classic example of this is Sherlock Holmes.                 

Villain, Bad Guy, Criminals: These people are the ones who commit the crime. In this picture the person at the right with the gun is the villain .


Victim: A victim is the villain's target, or one of his/her targets. In this picture it clearly shows that the victim is the one on the left.










Evidence: Items that are found by the investigator
to get closer to the mystery. In this picture it shows
that they found the bullets from the gun and they store it 
in the evidence bag.
























Clues: An idea that will lead the 
investigator closer to the mystery.  Finger prints
Foot prints, Hand Prints and Shoe prints
are one classic example of clues.

Mr. Monk and the Curse of the Voodoo

Today we watched an episode of monk called "Mr. Monk and the Curse of the Voodoo." This episode is about when they find a baseball hit an old lady in the head. Later on her family comes to collect all the items from the house and they find a package. It is called a voodoo doll. A voodoo doll is a bad luck charm, there will always be a name on the doll, so if the person who is the person on the doll, looks at the doll they will die. This is what superstitious people believe in. 

Then a few days later. Another person died again, but this time there had been a lightning strike. When Mr. Monk arrives on the scene he finds a package and in it there is another voodoo doll showing that the person is struck by lightning.

The next victim was a rich golfer. When Mr. Monk arrives on the scene he finds a voodoo doll with a replica of the victim having a heart attack. As Mr.Monk is investigating the house he finds a lot of good luck charms spread out around the house. When he finds an upside down horse shoe, this means it is bad luck. Mr. Monk then sees a lady who appears to be the victim's niece Angeline.

Suddenly a fourth victim occurred this was Mr. Monk's assistant, but she wasn't killed when she looked at the doll, It showed that her head was cut off. Since she was superstitious she believed in voodoo doll's, so she never slept, until this case was solved. She calls a potions master who is superstitious too, his name was Reverend Mc Jorgenson. SO when he finished creating the potion, Mr. Monk's assistant thought that she was supposed to drink it, instead of applying it to her neck. The potion had some chemicals that she wasn't supposed to drink. Then when they called the ambulance, the paramedic said there was no room for Mr. Monk. The paramedic was the same person he met before Angeline. So he followed the ambulance with Mc Jorgenson's car. Then a lot of things started to make sense in Mr. Monk's mind.

It turns out that maker of the voodoo dolls was Angeline, but she wasn't the one who murdered the lady and the person who was struck by lightning. She actually murdered her rich uncle with a drug that supposed to look like he was killed by heart attack. No one noticed this because she was on every scene when the victims were murdered, because she was a paramedic. 

Crime-  Angeline murdering her Uncle, the rich golfer

Detectives, Sleuths- Mr. Monk

Villains- Angeline

Victims- The main victim was Angeline's Uncle

Suspects- Reverend Mc Jorgenson

Suspense, Danger- The car chase

Red Herring-  Mr. Monk thought the other victims were actually murdered by somebody.

Witnesses- None

Evidence- The voodoo dolls, and the upside down horseshoe 

Clues- When Mr. Monk was thinking back to a news paper that showed the paramedic on every scene someone died

Surprise Ending- None really 

Plastiki

The Plastiki is a boat made out of recycled materials. The bottom of the boat is made of 2litre plastic bottles. In total there are 36,000 plastic bottles on the ship. The leader of this project is a person named David de Rothschild. He wanted to create the Plastiki, because there was garbage in the ocean and if you collected all the garbage in the ocean you could create some thing spectacular! Like the Plastiki. The construction of the boat started 3 years ago in 2007. The sail is also made out of plastic bottles. The technology used to create the Plastiki was unimanginable! They used Solar Panels to power the boat and the backup power for the engine is by pedalling a bycycle to create power for the engine.

The Plastiki set sail on moday and it's route is to cross the Atlantic Ocean

Impeccable

Beckoning

Probation

Ambivalent

Melodramatic

Melancholy

Dispicable

Godsend

Primative

SKELETON KEY

By: Anthony Horowitz

*****

Skeleton Key is the third book in the Alex Rider Adventure Series, by Anthony Horowitz. The Alex Rider Series is about a boy who’s name is Alex Rider. He lives with his uncle Ian Rider. The thing Alex dosen’t know about his uncle is that he’s a spy. After one of his missions Ian get’s murdered by one of his enemies, Yassen. The company that Ian Rider worked for was called M16. Sincle Alex’s uncle is a spy, he told Alex that he was working for a bank. A day after his funeral M16 invites Alex to take the place of his uncle. At first he refuses,then he makes up his mind to join the agency.

His third mission was located on an island named Skeleton Key. A small part of the island is owned by a rich, Russian man. He used to be a general for the Russian Army. His name is General Sarov and his only wish is, that Russia will control over all the other countries in the world. To do this, he ordered a nuclear bomb. Alex Rider is going to investigate and will attempt to stop the nuclear bomb. In the end he was succsesful. If he hadn’t stopped the bomb, it would shatter the world into pieces.

Too much of tests!!!

This week and last week there were so many tests I had to study for, all kinds of tests, spanish,health and math, infact there is an upcoming formative science test !!uhhhhhh!!! Some thing I noticed about me this year is, when I do all my tests I get a letter grade I'm not proud of, like yesterday. I recieed my results for my spanish test and I got 2 B's and an A. Last semester I mostly got all A's, except for one B!!! Somehow I'm getting results that I'm not too proud of!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING???

10 Vocab Words

1. Cask- A wooden barrel to store drinks, often there is a tap at the bottom so you can remove the drinks
2. Cynical- Whining, complaining all the time, has a negative attitude

3.Provisions- Supplies or materials you need for an occasion, mostly about food

4.Subvert- Trying to ruin an expedition without anyone noticing.

5. Accumalate- To collect more and more items

6. Congregate- When people or animals gather at the same place

7. Ominous- A signal when something happens

8. Contradict- To talk back against someone

9. Adversary- To disagrree against someone, to go against

10. Flabbergast - Celebration, Jubilation

The Weekend

Weekends are always the best days of the whole week, bcause you can sit back and relax ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! This week I went to my friend's party, his name is Ian. I recognized a lot of the people there because they were all in 6th grade. We first played futsal, which is indoor soccer for about 1 and a half hour. Since I'm not really interested in soccer it was pretty boring. But when we had lunch at Ian's house that's when the fun started, for me! After we had a nice lunch we played all sorts of games such as PS3( Playstation3) and a nerf gun war.

Waking Up

Every single day we have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning, SO EARLY. When I arrive at school, I always see people yawning and it makes me yawn too!!!!!! I just wish school could start at 9:00 because 7:30 is much too early. Sometimes I get a hadache because I'm so sleepy. When I daydream the only thing I think about is going back to sleep!!!!!!!!!!

SLEEP SLEEEEEEEEEEEP SLEEEEEEEEEEEEP SLEEEEEEEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEPY GO TO BED, GO TO BED, GO TO BED AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

1. Christopher Colombus discovers the island of Hispaniola, which is now known as Haiti in1492.

2. The French takes over in the 1600's and increased production in crops, sugarcane and e.t.c.

3. In 1804, Haiti claims independence over the french rule.

4. Haiti means "the land of the mountains.

5. In 1957 Dictator Francois Duvalier ruled over Haiti. The deep poverty was hidden behind the strong government. Whoever argued or disagreed with Duvalier ended up dead!!! Haitians left the country for safety.

6. The population in Haiti is 95% black and 5% white. Extended family members live in a small house with other members of the family. So it's very cramped.

7. Mostly Haitians speak French, because the French rule Haiti.

8. Carnival and New Year's are the most important holidays for most haitians.

9. Haiti produces coffee,sugarcane,rice,corn and e.t.c.

10. President elections happen every 5 years. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

AHHHHHH Black Out!!!

Yesterday the lights went off just before I had dinner and just after I finished having a shower. This is not the first time the power has went off in my house. Unfortunately we don't have a backup generator. So we had our first family candlelight dinner. Suddenly I heard the water pump running, the fans spinning, could this be? The lights had came back on!!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!! I realized I couldn't get much of my homework done. I just went to bed and it was 11:00 'o clock in the NIGHT!!!!!! And that was the end of a dark experience!!!

Haiti Update

Last Monday a terrible 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti. There is good news and of course bad news. The good news is that aid is being rushed into Haiti from all over the world, but there's a minute problem. All the aid that is being rushed into Haiti is by going through Haiti's main airport in Port -Au- Prince, the capital of Haiti. There is so much of aid to be sent through the airport and into Port-Au Prince that there may be an overload of people in the airport, which will obviously cause a very very very long line!!!

The second part of the bad news is that the death toll is rising by the minute. The giverment has to make a new solution with the airport.

As I am writing this post there are a lot of things going on in Haiti, RIGHT NOW!!!!! Such as the Dominican Republic are helping Haiti with the quake, or people are stealing goods from shops while other people are trying to take it away from them by murdering them!!!!!

Earthquake Shakes Haiti!!!!!!!!

On Tuesday a massive earthquake shook Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world and the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Everyone was in shock. The quake measured a whopping 7.o magnitude on the richter scale. The epicenter of the earthquake was very near the capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince. The quake was only just 6 miles below the surface.

This is Haiti's most grandest building, the presidents palace. The first picture shows the President's Palace standing up tall and erect. Now look at second picture, which shows the destruction made by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The President's Palace has been sadly destroyed. Other important buildings have been destroyed, such as the cathideral and the Un Building.

She is one of the many people who have survived the earthquake, but she may be injured. She's probably crying because she has lost all her loved ones, her parents, her sibling and the rest of the of the family. Also she has no place to live once all the rebble is cleared up.

Our Exciting Trip to India

For the December Break we went to Mumbai and Goa. Mumbai is India's second biggest city. Goa is my hometown and it's a 45 minute flight from Mumbai, you can aslo go to Goa by train. Goa is a wonderful place and is full with beaches and a little bit of rice paddies, just like Bali! Except Goa is less devoloped and their beaches are dirty. I didn't really want to swim in the sea, just looking at it made me vomit.

In Mumbai we had to attend my dad's cousin's wedding. I had to wear a suit for the first time in my life. My dad said that I looked like a buisness man!!!! Anyway, we celebrated Christmas with a special mass at my dad's school and his classmate was the priest!!! It was a very special christmas for my dad and me, because I got an I pod Touch for Christmas!!!!!!!! Yipeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

We celebrated New Years by going for a midnight mass. The New Year was a special day for my mom and dad because it was their wedding anniversary and it was my mom's birthday too!!!!

We had to go to 3 family reunions during my trip to India. 2 from my dad's side and one from my mom's side. Next I got to visit my grandparents from my mom's side personally because I had to do a school project where I had to interview my grandma.

Finally we had to go back home to Jakarta, it was a long flight,but it felt nice being back in Jakarta again, away from the hustle and bustle in Mumbai.

What I did over the break

Watched Movies

• Avatar
• 3 idiots

Avatar

Avatar was a movie I watched in 3D!!! It was basically about a person named Jake who is a soldier who is in a future army trying to destroy the heart of Pandora. Pandora is a place where these creatures live. These creatures are called the "navies" and they look simillar to us, humans. The Commander of the army tells Jake to close his eyes, then they put him into a machine and it transforms him into one of the Navies. He had to transform into one of the Navies so he can tell all the Navies to evacuate from where they are living. Jake told them this, because the army wants to attack their tree where they live. In the end Jake wants to be one of the Navies for good. Finally since the army shot down their tree where the Navies live. Jake had decided to fight back and the Navies won the battle.

Avatar is made by the director of Titanic, his name is James Cameron. Avatar has been the most expensive movie in the history of all movies. The cost to make this movie is.......... DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!

200,000,000$$$$

3 idiots

3 idiots is a Hindhi film, which is actually based on a true story, when the father forces his son what to take up for college. Here the father forces his son to take up engineerig, but he's actually the class clown. While his two other friends were about to get expelled from the engineering college because of him. In the end he runs his own school, which is located far away from the cars,the noise and the pollution.

The main actor is Amir Kahn. And I think this is a "must watch movie" so as Avatar.

Celebrating Christmas

Celbrating Christmas in India was special for my dad, because the priest who was celebrating the mass was my dad's class mate and the fact that the mass was located at my dad's school. It was a special Christmas for my dad, but not so much for me. I knew the next day I would get get my christmas present which was an i-pod touch!!!!

Celebrating the New Year

We celebrated the new year in Mumbai by going to church, then we went to a high end restraunt called "Salt and Water". It was a special day for my mom and dad, because it was not just only the New Year, it was my mom's birthday and it was my parents wedding anniversary too!

Visiting Family

The reason we came to India, because we could visit relatives and family. I had to go for two family reunions, two from my dad's side and one from my mom's side. Also I visited my grandparents with my mom. The Reason I had to visit my grandparents personally, is because I had to interview my grandma for my English and Social Studies project. Not only that I video taped the interview.

In the end it was a really nice holiday!!!

The Falcon's Malteser

By: Anthony Horowitz

*****

A lot of people have read the Falcon’s Malteser by Anthony Horowitz . This book is the first in the series which is called the Diakmond Brothers Mysteries. The main character is a boy named Nick Diamond he’s thirteen years old and he lives with his brother Tim Diamond who‘s running a private detective buisness.

This book is all about their first clien who is a dwarf named Johnny Naples. Johhny Naples gave them a package to guard, and will return to pay them. Unfortunately he was murdered by the Fat Man’s assistant. The Fat Man is London’s most dangerous crook. The Diamond brothers later discover that the package Johnny Naples had sent is a box of candy, but this box of candy is no ordinary box of candy, the Diamond brothers later discover that the barcode on the box of candy is a key to the safe where the most dangeours and richest man in Europe stores his diamonds which were hidden in his grave. His name is Henry von Falkenberg, but he is called The Falcon. His memorial had a special device to scan only one barcode which was the barcode on the box of candy. This device opens a vault stored in his grave where all his diamonds are located. When Nick scanned the barcode under the device in his grave, the container was empty and there were no diamonds.

Later Nick got a letter from a person he met in a bar when the Diamond brothers with were looking for clues. Her name was Lauren Bacardi. There was a small package under the letter, it was a diamond which was the size of a peanut. Then Nick suddenly realized that when Nick told her about the barcode she made a photocopy of the barcode on the box of candy when Nick wasn’t looking. Later she then scanned it under the device in the falcon’s grave so she was the one who took all the diamonds worth of five million dollars