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1. You are reading this right now
2. You know that is a silly fact
4. You didn't notice I skipped three
5. You are checking now
6. You are smiling :)
7. You are still reading this even you know it is silly
9. You didn't realize I skipped eight
10. You are checking and smiling that you fell for it again
11. You are enjoying this
12. Don't forget to send/ show this to your friends!!!

 First Day of Grade Four Five

Wow! My friend's and I are now in grade five! Our LA teacher became Ms. Prerna Paryani, Math as Ms. Penny Alphena Lukens, Ms. Praveena Sachdev as Science, and Social Studies as Mr. Brent Anglin. Our art teacher is now Mr. Renante Sison, PE is still the same as before, Mr. Mark Caunan, my Chinese teacher as Mr. Deng (same teacher like last year), and Mr. Jess as our computer teacher. On the first day of school in grade 5, I saw on the notice board the I was in grade 5 Yellow. Two of my best friends were in the same class too, but the other two were in a different class. Our old friend from grade two came back. As you may know, I study in an International School.

  The classrooms were all different. Of course, we all felt weird on the first day, to remember all the classrooms and the teachers that were going to teach us. The schedule was not fixed, so we were really mixed up on where to go. On that day, some parts of the schedule were blank and some were not in order. It was supposed to be Thai Culture on the first period, but instead we had to go to the auditorium on the third floor and read, because the name of the schedule was blank. As I told you, we kinda got it hard to get along on the first day to find the classrooms we are supposed to be in at the right time. The other class got confused too. HaHaHa...

I Can't Wait!

  Now that my school will almost closed for the "End of Term Break", I can't wait to go to Indonesia to meet the rest of my family! I also can't wait to ride on that Tubby Wonderland, like last year, but now on the twisty one by myself. I can't wait to play with my cousins there, can't wait to take a trip to Puncak and Bandung, can't wait to play, play, play! I can't wait to play in all the places that I mentioned in the last post of Indonesia too! Again, I also can't wait to ride bicycles with my cousin, swim and eat at my favorite Chinese restaurant there, May Star in Emporium Pluit around my grandparents' home district which is called Pluit. I can't wait to play my wheels in Indonesia with my brother and my two cousins. And again, my family, me, my brother, my mom, and my dad, will stay there for two months which is around sixty to sixty-two days! Sorry I keep saying "I can't wait" I'm just too excited to go back to Indonesia! Bye! I JUST CAN'T WAIT! (Oops I said it again) \(^,^)/ This video reminds me of my days in Wells Thonglor.

P.E With Mr. John

  Hi everyone! Today I'm going to talk about when Mr. Mark did not come to school on Friday to teach us P.E so, Mr. John taught us instead. Mr. John taught us girls how to throw a ball. First, he said to hold a ball. If you are right handed, hold it on your right hand. If you are left hander, do all these steps the opposite way. I'm right handed, so I will tell you the right hand way. Your right hand must be behind your body, where you are going to throw. This picture here shows you.

  Then lift up your opposite foot (left), and throw at your target! Done! Easy right? After that, we played soccer in groups of 3. I was with my friends, Hasina and Ananta, against Jarina, Nimmita and Zunera. Both teams cannot have a goalie. You have to kick the ball to the cone of the other team. We kicked the ball to the other team's cone 7 times as they got 0. Wow! I can't believe it! We won! Bye Socceries!

Mother Earth

  Hi everyone today's post is about Mother Earth song. Our Science teacher, Mr. Geoff taught is this song (I did Geo of Geoff, bold, italic, and underlined to my friends so don't think about it too much...). He says it cools him down when he listens to this song. Because of that song, I love to listen to it during computer blog hw, Aleks math and computer stuff. It's a nice song. I can almost remember the whole song. It is by the band Within Temptation. You might have heard that band and the song. Here is a video of it. Some of my friends like this song and listen to it the same way like me. Here is a video of this song. I like the parts when the singer shows her funky moves. The fire part, I like it too.->
                                            Mother Earth-Within Temptation~With Lyrics

My Chinese Class (我的中文课-Wo de Zhong Wen ke)

  Hello! My name is Sasha! I learned Chinese since I was four years old.That's where I learned most of the Chinese characters that I know. My Chinese teacher came to my home every Saturday. Now she teaches me on Sunday. Her name is Wang Jing. I call her Wang laoshi. Not only me now who learns Chinese at home, but also my brother. He has a Chinese name. I also have a Chinese name. I got the Chinese name from Wang laoshi. My brother, Brandon also got his Chinese name from Wang laoshi. Some simple Chinese characters are:

_____Pinyin__________________________Meaning______________Chinese Character_________

• Ni Hao                                                     Hello                                           你好
• Zai Jian                                                 Bye Bye                                         再见
• Xie Xie                                                Thank You                                      谢谢
• Bu Ke Qi                                         You're Welcome                               不可欺
• Ba Ba                                                       Dad                                             爸爸
• Ma Ma                                                     Mom                                            妈妈
• Ni                                                             You                                               你
• Hao                                                      good; fine                                          好
• Shi                                                            to be                                              是
• Lao Shi                                                   Teacher                                         老师
• Wo                                                             Me                                               我
• Ma                                                  Question Marker                                     吗
• Ta                                                              He                                                他
• Ta                                                             She                                                她
• Ta                                                              It                                                   它
• Bu                                                             No                                                 不
• Ge Ge                                                Older Brother                                     哥哥
• Di Di                                                Younger Brother                                 弟弟
• Jie Jie                                                 Older Sister                                        姐姐
• Mei Mei                                           Younger Sister                                     妹妹
• Ye Ye                                                 Grandfather                                       爷爷
• Nai Nai                                              Grandmother                                      奶奶
• Ye                                                            And                                                也

  Well then. Maybe that's enough for simple Chinese characters. Hope you had fun learning Chinese!

               （那么。也许这就是足够简单的中文字符。希望你有学习汉语的乐趣！)

  您好！我的名字是林虹霞！我学习汉语，因为我是4岁。这是在那里我学到了大部分的中文字符，我知道。我的汉语老师来我家每个星期六。现在她教我上周日。她的名字叫王京。我叫她王老师。不仅是我现在谁在家里学习中国，但也有我的弟弟。他有一个中文名字。我也有一个中文名字。从王老师，我的中文名称。我弟弟，林伟伦也得到了他从王老师的中文名称。

                                                                            再见！

                                                                   Gong Xi Gong Xi

Ni Wa Wa

Dang Women Tong Zai Yi Qi

H.H.H.H! (Happy Hua Hin Holiday!)-Day 1

  Hi everyone! I had another fun holiday in Hua Hin from Tuesday, April 17th 2012 to Friday, April 19th 2012 for our Songkran break in Ibis (opened in January)! I stayed there for four days and three nights. Our hotel room is on the sixth floor, room 627. When I went in, there was a huge bed, a balcony, TV, a bunk bed, and behind the wall, an XBox, refrigerator and a wardrobe with a safe inside. Turning to the left of the entrance door to the room is a small bathroom. When I saw the bunk bed, a ran up the ladder of it and saw a huge teddy bear doll. I went back down the ladder and under the top bed, was another bed with an Ultra man doll. The second thing I did was to go behind the wall and turn on the XBox. The games were only Hexic, Peggle and Pinball FX. Instead of playing, I gave the joistick to my brother because he wanted to play. He played Hexic. When he finished, I also played Hexic. After playing theXBox, we changed into our swimming clothes and went downstairs to go swimming. The swimming pool in the hotel is not deep, just 1.20 Meters deep. The smaller one is just 0.30 Centimeters deep. We went into the bigger one and swam in there. My brother was learning how to swim with my dad. He was learning how to do the hands of breaststroke (the frog), but with the flatterkick. We swam until evening. After that, we went to take a look around at the beach. When we went to the shore, we were able to walk through the water and then on to the land deeper in the ocean. It was very windy as we stood in the middle waching the sky turn dark. The waves were growing strong that it splashed hard onto our legs that my brother almost fell down, so we had to leave and eat dinner. After eating dinner, we went back to the hotel and went upstairs to our room. After getting ready to sleep, my brother played the XBox while I went to sleep on the bunk bed.

This part was about my first day in Hua Hin so you can find me on the second day in:

H.H.H.H! (Happy Hua Hin Holiday!)-Day 2

Bye Bye! See you next time!

H.H.H.H.! (Happy Hua Hin Holiday!)-Day 2

  Hi there! This is now me again in Hua Hin, but now I'm telling you about day 2! Here is the story of my family in Hua Hin, day 2! I was the first person to wake up in the morning. It was very quiet. The curtains were drawn down so I saw a little bit of the sunlight outside. I sat up on the 2 level bunk bed (I wish the bunk bed is a 3 level one like the on in the picture!), and opened the curtain. I saw daylight streaming into the room. It didn't wake the others though. I love early, quiet mornings. I went down the ladder, to my brother. I slept a while there and then he suddenly said, "Hey! Don't sleep over here!" That was how the quiet morning began to start the noisy morning, because that woke my parents up. I told them that I wanted to swim, but they said we have to eat breakfast downstairs first. After I got dressed, I played XBox for a while, waiting for the others. When my brother was done, he said, "Hey! Why are you playing the XBox! Give it to me!" Then I said, "You played for a long time last night so now it's my turn. Don't you remember anything or what?!" I played Hexic, then tried Peggle, then last Pinball FX, but before I finished playing Hexic again after trying Pinball FX, my dad was dressed and then he said to me to let my brother play. As always, my brother is always the one who got to play it the whole holiday. So don't ask me why in the next two days of the holiday's posts, I told you that just now. Alright if it's enough let's get back to the story. Where were we? Oh yah, right when my brother is playing it. It was a long time before we were ready to go down. After we ate, we went back upstairs. We just did a little upstairs, then went back down. We went to our car and drove some where to eat lunch. After eating, we drove back to ibis.We walked to our room and changed to our swimming suits to go to swim downstairs. When it got very hot, we walked back upstairs with drops of water because we were wet. We changed again and I then watched cartoons on Boomerang while my brother played the XBox. When it got cooler a bit an the sun was not really there hiding behind the clouds, we changed again and packed the beach toys to go to the beach. When we reached the beach, the first thing I did was to play in the ocean. I found 3 large jellyfish. After playing in the ocean, I ran to my brother who was playing with the sand trying to make a sandcastle. We found alot of small shells too! When we almost made the sandcastle, it was getting dark so we had to pack up and go back. Suddenly, before we started to pack up, my mom saw 3 pink lights from the sky meeting together at one place the light looked like comets in the sky. We took pictures, then packed up and went back to the hotel. In our room, we washed ourselves off from the sand and changed our clothes to go out to eat dinner. After driving somewhere to eat dinner and eating, we drove back to the hotel and changed to sleep. I watched the news for animals for a while then went to sleep. Oh I forgot! My brother had a loose tooth so when we ate, his tooth fell off! He was so excited that he brought the tooth to the hotel and put it under his pillow right after changing, played, then slept.

Well that's all for day 2 now! Don't worry! There are still 2 more days then bye to Hua Hin!

Come on and meet me in:

H.H.H.H.! (Happy Hua Hin Hoiday!)-Day 3

Bye Bye! See you on day 3!



  I love Lego. I love to make things with it. I have Police Lego, Hospital Lego, Harry Potter Diagon Alley Lego, Star Wars X-Wing Lego, 2 in 1 Helicopter and Airplane Set Lego Technic, Crane Lego Technic, Star Wars Hoth Battle Lego, A Box of Plain Lego (to make your own city), 3 in 1 Lego House Set, 1 plain Lego plate, Airplane Lego, Warship Lego and a 3 floor sea-house. That is THIRTEEN LEGO SETS. We play it almost everyday. My brother also loves to play with it. My dad loves to play with it too. The most exciting part of Lego is when you build and put all the Lego pieces together. Here is a funny Lego Star Wars Video Clip.

Star Wars X-Wing

    This is my first Star Wars post, and it is about my brother's (Brandon) X-Wing. He got it for his birthday. The minifigures in the X-Wing box are Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, Princess Leia, Wedge Antilles, Chewbacca and Han Solo. My brother put all of the Lego pieces altogether all by himself. He just turned six that time, but he can make it all by himself. Actually, that Lego is for 8 years old to 12 years old. There are four hundred, thirty-seven pieces in all. The X-Wing Starfighter just looks like the real Starfighter in the Star Wars Movie. Here is the video of the X-Wing Starfighter Lego Review.

The Talent Show Last Year

 

  Last year in grade three I used to join a talent show. I played piano, sung a song called "FireFlies" and danced a ballet that I learned in CalaDance in Emporium. I practiced playing the song on the piano in KPN (where my piano class is) many times. I almost went there everyday afterschool practicing that song for the talent show! I also practiced singing "FireFlies" on the microphone in KPN too. Sometimes I practice it at home. I always practiced the ballet dance after ballet class in CalaDance with my teacher. The talent show is a competition. On the day of the talent show, I felt nervous and I felt like that I would'nt win. I tried my best on the talent show and because of the hardworking and trying as hard as I could, at the end the judges announced that I won! There are 5 people who will be the winner, but I came in 1st place! I was so happy and my mother and father was very proud of me. Here is a video of the FireFlies Official Music Video and one with the lyrics.

FireFlies Owl City Official Music Video

FireFlies Owl City (with lyrics)

Hoedown Throwdown, By: Miley Cyrus

 

 
  Hi! This song is about  Hoedown Throwdown. We learned this song in Performing Arts class and the dance steps. It is by Miley Cyrus. Ms. Pae taught us how to do the dance steps. Some parts are easy to do, some parts are hard, but most of them are fun! Especially all the girls like it, but even boys sing the song everywhere they go. Sometimes they even sing and dance at the same time. It only took us two weeks to learn it all. Here is the video of the dance steps and the whole dance. The beginning of the dance and the song together starts like this: Pop it lock it polka dot it, country-fy it hip-hop it...

Steps For The Dance

Music Video

Khanom Bua Loy Benjarong (A Thai Sweet
Introduction)

  In all the other posts I told you before were almost all adventures, sports, piano and books but, now in this post I will tell you about "Khanom Bua Loy Benjarong". In Thai Electives Class we were able to try to make it and eat it. It was yummy. "Benjarong" means 5 colours (white; blue; green; yellow; purple [like the colour of the title]) It is a Thai sweet. Here is the recipe for making the sweet. Children would love to roll the sweet dough into balls and it will be very fun to make it.
The Thai Sweet Ingredients: 
Khanom Bua Loy Benjarong Ingredients:

• 3 Pandanus Leaves (Optional)
• 1/2 Cup of Sugar
• 3/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Cup Creamy Coconut Milk
• 1 Cup Coconut Milk

How to Make The Colours of The Bua Loy
(The Round Balls)

Ingredients For White Colour

• 1/4 Cup Sticky Rice Flour
• 4-5 Tablespoons Jasmine Water

Ingredients For Blue Colour

• 1/4 Cup Sticky Rice Flour
• 4-5 Tablespoons Chitoria Water

Ingredients For Green Colour

• 1/4 Cup Sticky Rice Flour
• 4-5 Tablespoons Pandanus Water

Ingredients For Yellow Colour

• 1/4 Cup Sticky Rice Flour
• 1 Tablespoon Potato Flour
• 2 Tablespoons Smashed Steamed Pumpkin

Ingredients For Purple Colour

• 1/4 Cup Sticky Rice Flour
• 1 Tablespoon Potato Flour
• 2 Tablespoons Smashed Steamed Taro
• 2-3 Tablespoons Chitoria Water

  Bye Bye! End of The Introduction! Do You Want To Make It? What Colour?
Buy The Materials and Make It! Have Fun!

* On The Next Post There Will Be The Instructions On How To Make It So Don't Worry! If You Want To Make It, Just Buy The Materials First!

Here Is The Website of The Next Post-
http://sasha2002.blogspot.com/2012/03/khanom-bua-loy-benjarong-instructions.html

Khanom Bua Loy Benjarong: 
Instructions How To Make It

  Before on the other post I told you the what the sweet, to make the colour and the ingredients right? If you didn't click on the website at the bottom of the post. Here are the instructions on how to make the Thai "Khanom Bua Loy Benjarong" sweet.

  Directions:

1.  For each colour's set of ingredients, knead the ingredients together until a dough is formed. If the dough does not form in a long time, sprinkle with warm water as needed. If the dough is sticking to your hands, sprinkle with sticky rice flour as needed. Cover the dough with damp cloth.

2.  Pinch off the dough and roll into a small ball on your palm. The ball should be around 0.5 centimeters (1/4") in diameter. Cover the ball with damp cloth.

3.  Boil a pot of water. Drop all the balls into the boiling water in the pot. The cooked balls will rise to the surface of the water. Remove the floating balls and put them in a bowl of cold water to shock them so that they stop cooking. Drain and set aside.

4.  In a seperate pot, add one cup of water-like coconut milk, padanus leaves and sugar. Bring to the boil.

5.  Add cooked sticky rice balls in the pot. Bring to boil.

6.  Add 1 cup of coconut milk cream and salt. Stir and remove from heat.

7.  Serve warm.

Directions For "Pandanus Water":

1.  Cut 2 pandanus leaves into small pieces, about 1"x 1".

2.  In the blender, add pandanus leaves and 1 cup of water. Discard the pandanus pulp. Keep the pandanus water. Freeze the leftovers for future use.

The Website-
http://sasha2002.blogspot.com/2012/03/khanom-bua-loy-benjarong-thai-sweet.html

My Grade 3 After-school

  Hi, you know I learned after-school with my homeroom teacher in grade 3 who is Ms. Anna that comes from the U.K. Malika, Harshitha, Ananta, Seo Yun, and many of the grade 4 students this year joined it. The after-school is about Glee for students that are in Wells Thonglor Campus. Ms. Anna is a great singer and a great guitarist. She taught us many songs. Sometimes at the end Ms. Rhiannon(the 3B class teacher)goes too the room and watches us sing. Sometimes after that we play Bang. It's so fun. There should be at least 2 people and up. We have to put our hands on the sides of your body and when Ms. Anna says someone's name, that person has to duck down. The person beside that person who duck down has to turn to each other and say bang. The slower one will be out. When there are 2 people left, they have to stand back to back. When Ms. Anna says, "1,2,3 go!", they have to turn around and say BANG! The slower person will be OUT! ;) :D
This is the list of songs she taught us.

• The Climb by Miley Cyrus
• Don't Stop Believing
• True Colours
• Defying Gravity

  There are still more but I like these songs the best. Here are the videos of all the songs.

                                                               The Climb

Don't Stop Believing



True Colours

Defying Gravity

I was one of the solos in The Climb on the Spring Concert last year we had it in Wells Onnut Campus.

The Adventure of Exploring... Japan! (Volume #3)

  Oohh! It was a drizzly morning on the second day of our trip to Japan when I woke up. I got ready and started playing in the room. When everyone was ready for that day(with all the raincoats and umbrella's, just in case if it rained more harder), we went downstairs and went to the Meiji Jingu Temple by train to the Harajuku Train Station. While we were going there, the drizzle stopped. Over there, we went to the Harajuku Toy Shop, The Snoopy House and looked around the Meiji Jingu Temple. When we looked around, we saw dressed up teenage boys and girls. The dressing up is called cosplay. I took pictures with 2 of the girls in that crowd. We went back to the apartment after the whole tiring day. (L.L)

Japan Trip Volume #2

 

  On the 3^rd day of Christmas...? Why Christmas? I'm not going to talk about Christmas?! I'm talking about...no. Guess what I'm talking about. You should know by the title! About Japan! On  the 3^rd day of our trip to Japan(sorry it's this one not that one. My brother was saying it when I was going to start typing that's why lvovl.^..(sigh...)), we went to Tokyo Disneyland where we met my friend Moka. When me and Moka played there, a drizzle started. Then it grew to a sprinkle, then light rain. After that it turned to rain, then heavy rain started pouring on us. We quickly wore our raincoats and opened our umbrella's. We played for so long in Tokyo Disneyland in the rain that we felt very cold. Moka couldn't bear it, so she went home. I wanted to go back to the apartment, but I also wanted to stay. So, I just stayed. I played and played and played and played and played. It was late, so I had to go home. I was tired though, but I didn't show it. I just happily skipped alongside my parents. When we reached the apartment, my brother Brandon was so tired, but happy when my parents put him to sleep with me. Nightie Night! Time for the good night sleep. (v.v)<zZzZzZ...l Tomorrow is the day we will go to other places. Read the next post...(^_^) \l>.<l/

What I Like To Do In School

  In school I like to do experiments in Science, do PE and swimming, World Maths Day in Math, World Spelling Day in LA, learn about things in Social Studies and read books in the library. Science is fun when we do experiments because we get to see rare things move and act in like real life but only in the class. I like to do PE and swimming because I like sports and other outdoor activities and games. I like World Maths Day because we get to do Math against other people and friends around the world. I like World Spelling Day because we get too spell words against other people and friends all over the world. I like to learn about things in Social Studies because it is interesting. I like to read books in the library because I like to read books and even one chapter book, can keep me sitting down reading for a long time without even stopping. I also like to read books because all of them that I like to read are adventurous books. (>.<) Ta ta so long! I'm done! (>v<) Good Bye! (^_^)

What book do I like to read?

The Secret Garden!

I have the same book like this one,

and my brother reads this book too! 

Japan Trip Volume #1

  Konichiwa! I have always thought of how Japan looks like and how the Japanese people live. I also always dreamed of going to Japan and I really went there! I went to Japan on July 2007 when I was around four and a half years old. We went there by plane. The flight was at 12:00 A.M. My dad was already there in Japan because he went there for work, so me, my mom and my one and a half years old brother went there together. My mom already called the Taxi and while we waited in our room already ready, I fell asleep around 9:00 P.M. When the Taxi came, my mom left my brother and I in our room, and took the luggage to the Taxi first and went back upstairs to carry Brandon down and went back in again and carried me to the Taxi. Then finally we went to the airport. I opened my eyes in the Taxi but I was still sleepy. I opened my eyes a little bit to see where we were going. When I saw the airport, I opened my eyes so wide to really check if it really was the airport, and it was! I was so excited that I couldn't sleep in the airplane. I slept around 2:00 A.M in the airplane instead. It was five hours until we reached Japan. Japan is three hours faster than Thailand, so we reached there around 8:00 A.M. We went by bus to the bus stop from the airport around the apartment we are going to stay in. The ride in the bus from the airport to the apartment was about 1 hour long. When we reached the bus stop, my dad came to pick us up, we had to walk to the apartment. We were very tired but we still had to walk all the way there. We reached the apartment. We were even more tired and went to sleep. (v_v)-> So tired...(LoL) Ooohhh...Going to sleep...Bye...zZzZzZ...(L_L) (v.v) I was thinking where we would go the next day while sleeping. We went here the next day. l_l
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My Family

  My family has 4 members. Me, my brother, my mom and my dad. We are from Indonesia and we are Catholic. I am 9 years old. I learn Chinese, piano, ballet and swimming after-school every Monday with Mr. Mark.

  My brother is 6 years old. He learns Chinese, piano, soccer and swimming after-school with Mr. Mark just like me (except soccer with ballet that is ['u']). My mom has 2 sisters and 2 brothers. My mom makes cupcakes and makes them at home. If you want to look at some types of cupcakes please visit Cupcakelicious U at: http://cupcakeliciousubysukma.blogspot.com/

Or you can look more on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CupcakeliciousU

  Now let's go back to the topic. What were we on again?... Oh yeah. My dad has one sister. He likes to do swimming, badminton, Lego and do outdoor activities. That's all for today! Good Bye! See you on my next adventure! (^v^) l'v'l ('o')