My Talent

My talent is being able to play the guitar. I am currently taking a classical guitar course at Yamaha. I just started learning to play guitar last year. I enjoy playing the classical guitar as it feels soothing and I am able to let my troubles slip away. My class comprises of students from other schools who are the same age as me. I am going to take my guitar exam soon and I feel nervous as it is my first time. Even though I am not able to master the songs, I feel ready to take the exam and I hope to be able to pass the exam as it costs $95.

Movie Review

This review is on 'Matilda'. Matilda is the main character of the show. The second most important charecters are Miss Trunchbull, Miss Honey and Lavender. Miss Trunchbull is the egomaniac of the show. She loves to torture children and says that it is good exercise. Miss Honey is the good guy, or should I say woman, who helps Matilda along the way as Matilda discovers her powers and amazing talents. Lavender is Matilda's best friend and shows encouragement for her most of the time. Lavender is also the one who started the revolt against Miss Trunchbull.

The show starts with Matilda being a cleverer student than the others in his class. She is, however, neglected by her parents who don't even know her age. They think she is just some dumb kid in the house. When Matilda starts going to school, she discovers she has the powers to move things without touching them. She discovered her powers during a lesson with Miss Trunchbull.

Miss Honey is the favourite teacher of all the students and Miss Trunchl is despised and feared throughout the whole school. They have good reason to fear her as anyone who messes with The Trunchbull gets swung around and around and then gets shot into the air. Students have been known to fly up to 10 feet.

This movie is good relaxation for anyone who likes comedies or excitement. So if you want to de-stress, go and try to watch the movie 'Matilda'.

Book Review

My favourite book is more of a series. The series is called Pendragon and if you have read my previous posts, you will know that I mentioned it. The book is more of a fantasy. It tells of a story of a boy, Pendragon, who is a 'Traveller'. Travellers travel through time, space and worlds called Territories, trying to save the galaxy from a demon named Saint Dane. Pendragon has two friends Mark and Courtney who are his friends and acolytes. Acolytes help Travellers as they travel to other territories.

I feel that the book is full of action and adventure. It is truly well-planned by the author D.J. MacHale. The story starts out with Bobby Pendragon's Uncle Press telling him that he is a Traveller. Pendragon is then taken away from his home on second Earth to a new territory of Denduron. Starting form there, Pendragon experiences adventures beyond his wildest imagination.

From basketball expert, he becomes a young adult who has seen many deaths, monsters, and Goodness-knows-what. Pendragon is an epic series of adventures beyond your imagination, those who love fantasies and adventure, this book is for you.


To quote 'Cool-Reads', "A hit with me from the start. Another Bobby Pendragon adventure is exactly what I need to read after a bad day at school."

So, quickly get the Ten Books of Pendragon. List of book 1-10: Book 1:The Merchant of Death Book 2:The Lost City of Faar Book 3:The Never War Book 4:The Reality Bug Book 5:Black Water Book6:The Rivers of Zadaa Book 7:The Quillian Games Book 8:The pilgrims of Rayne Book 9:Raven Rise Book 10:The Soldiers of Halla

You will not regret having read the series!

I Like Reading

Except for some school books, I enjoy reading books as a hobby. I love reading so much that I can hardly stop reading to do my homework and I get scolded. I will go to the library every week to borrow a book or I will go bored. I don't mind reading the same story twice if its interesting.

What kind of books do I like you wonder? I like fiction, fantasies, sci-fi, comics, manga and some classics. Some examples of books are: Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Fablehaven, Pendragon, Asterix and Bone. However, I find The Lord of The Rings boring as I find the action not so pronounced throughout the whole series.

Some reasons that I read books are because the books seem to surround me in mysterious and magical experiences(or when I'm bored). I can read about the wonders of human achievements, experiences and history. All books have either same or different views or descriptions of a subject. For example in Artemis Fowl Fairies are described to be human-sized while in Fablehaven fairies are described to be minute sized.

Books are objects which allow us to read stories either fictional or real. Some even share the experiences and opinions of long gone writers. Others are written for the entertainment of other people. I, myself usually read books for the entertainment. I recommend you to read more books, then, you can understand how interesting it can be and it may even become your hobby! May you enjoy yourself reading books!

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My Holiday to Australia with My Family( My Interest of Travelling)

What I like best during my holiday to Australia was the trip to the zoo and to the underwater world there. At the top left is a picture taken of an prickly animal in the zoo. There we could even hold snakes and rats. Some trainers were teaching the kangaroos some tricks. I was lucky enough to see baby crocodiles hatching but my camera ran out of battery...

Not much to say about the zoo but for the underwater world in Australia, it deserves a WOW! Look at the bottom right, is a picture of THE giant squid in ice , icy cool aye? There was even a car that held fishes as it was filled to the water, I CANNOT show the picture as my identity would be revealed but I don't mind showing my family. Bottom left are some newts I think. We even went to a show with seals doing tricks. There especially was the common trick of a seal balancing a ball on the tip of its nose.

Somewhere near the ending of my holiday, we had a cruise around Brisbane. (where we had our holiday) We had stopped to fish and used prawn as bait. The water must have been warm even though the weather was cold as the prawns turned orange when you took them out of the water.

Top right are some seagulls and pelicans, they eat almost everything we fed them, even orange skins. My brother was unlucky as a seagull dropped a sardine onto his shirt ha ha. The honey manufacturing center was nice too, we had breakfast there, pancakes with honey and ice cream, courtesy of the tour group. They showed us how they extracted the honey from the honey combs and let us try some, just some pre-caution to some, when eating sweets made from pure honey, watch out for any ants IN the sweet.(Honey is usually purified first before being sold so the only way to have ants in your honey pot is because someone forgot to close the container)

That was the best holiday that I've spent with my family, I hope to have another holiday like that again. I need to go already, be writing again some day. One thing I've learned from this holiday, birds are greedy. Sigh, I just love to travel.

P.S. I have good photographing skills don't I?

MOUSEHUNT (favourite game)

Top left: guardian Bottom: dog Top middle: father Top right: Mother

Happy family (JKJK). Hello again. Today let's discuss my favourite game: Mouse hunt on face book. On a rating of 1-10, 10 being the best and 1 being the worst, i give Mouse hunt a rating of 8. Some say its the most no-lifer game but it is fun to me. Might be boring to some with no patience the, too bad.....

Let's start this crappy discussion on mouse hunt. I think that Mouse hunt is a much better game than Mafia Wars. Seriously, its much more fun.

Now going on to how to play, I'll do my best to keep it short and sweet. You click on a horn which sounds the horn for hunting, then you will catch a mouse if you are lucky, the mouse pictures are really cool.(though some suck) You can sound the horn every 15 minutes or it will sound automatically every hour. There are ranks of your expertise and i'm only at the second rank...

Sorry if I have bored you till you sleep. I'm going now, going to play Mousehunt.

P.S. Play Mousehunt as soon as you can or you will be missing out an element in your life!!!

My Beloved Food

Hi guys. I'm back again to talk about FOOD for my English homework.*Yawn* Anyway as you can see at the left, is the $5.50 KFC Ultimate Value Box. I enjoy KFC Meals like the KFC Ultimate Value Box (Hooray for all who enjoy KFC). I don't really like chicken unless it is fried. (unhealthy :P) Sadly, I hardly eat at KFC nowadays. Another delicious place to eat fried chicken is from ARNOLD'S. I prefer chicken drumsticks and thighs as they are easy to eat and deliciously tender. I have other food that I enjoy but I don't have any pictures of them right now. For example grilled fish, eggs and baked rice are the other food that I like to eat. To make a list of places where I like to eat are as following: Han's, KFC, Arnold's and last of all Wan Chai Hongkong Tea Room. Anyway, I need to end off already, so well bye bye, see my next post. See ya.

P.S. I am not advertising these places XD.

Introduction of ME

Hi everyone, this is my first time blogging. Let me introduce myself to those who don't know me. My name is Daryl Tan. My hobbies are sort of similar to other teenagers. I collect stamps, stickers and I like playing computer games. I enjoy playing sports like badminton, tennis and sometimes play soccer. By the way, I'm typing this post for my school English work which is on Blogging. Yay! Luckily it's not on writing a diary or something like that. The games I enjoy playing are halo3 and maplestory. I like to watch documentaries and cartoons. The subject that i feel I am best at is maths and I totally fail at Chinese. I love reading fantasies or novels with lots of action in them. I occasionally read comics or books in the Horrible Science and Horrible Geography series. I like taking care of animals or plants. The activity I dislike the most is when I have to do the capsize drill for kayaking during NCC Land...That's about all about me. Hope you enjoyed the introduction. Comment on my posts to help me improve. Thank You!!!