Our Identity

Jesus Colon

Jesus Colon is a Portuguese man who met a white lady with 3kids and a suitcase. He wondered what to do... The white lady and him was getting off in the same stations. He was wondering what to do. Should I help her? Should I not help her? What would she do if I go and help her?

Jesus Colon was full of regret after he left the lady, he just thought she will shout, scream, mad at him for a BLACK man trying to help! He regrets it. He thinks that he should have at least tried to help. Ask maybe? Then he wouldn't live in regretting mind forever in his heart.

Racist is one of the strongest and worst thing ever. Because of looks, they have to be treated different like a man in 'Man in the island.' Getting hurt, can't to anything else, illuminated from everything. Always being watched from someone. I would be like him if I was in that part. I would just walk away because of the fear that I am black.

The victim is Jesus Colon, who try to be nice and helpful but tightened by a chain called black. There looks doesn't show their personalities, looks doesn't show their spirit. He have rights to do things that he wants to do. Sometimes humans are alone, lonely in the world, smiling at outside, crying in inside. They have to do what they don't want to. So why don't you do things that you want to? Why don't you do things that is right?

What Do We Do with a Variation?

What do we do with a difference?

Do we stand and discuss its oddity

or do we ignore it?

Do we shut our eyes to it

or poke it with a stick?

Do we clobber it to death?

Do we move around it in rage

and enlist the rage of others?

Do we will it to go away?

Do we look at it in awe

or purely in wonderment?

Do we work for it to disappear?

Do we pass it stealthily

Or change route away from it?

Do we will it to become like ourselves?

What do we do with a difference?

Do we communicate to it,

let application acknowledge it

for barriers to fall down?

James Berry

Will this? or not? This questions have power to make people hesitate. Ignorance is the people's fear. Jesus Colon had a same problem and regretted it forever until now. After that moment, he promised himself to do anything that he thinks it is right not according to the answer. Caring is sharing. Caring each other, just looking at each other's good sides, that is what makes us into a society.

Sad Reality

No Man is an Island

No man is an island entire of itself; every man

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as

well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

own were; any man's death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

This poem explains how people are combined... Like stacking cards. It rattles and rattles and end up falling. It sounds like one person, dying seems to be nothing.But it does matter. Maybe not to us but to the close people... It will feel like end of the world. This is happening all around the world. People who get noticed... People who doesn't... Just dying on the side. Not noticed. This Connects to the book called,'The Island' it is a story about a guy from the another island, arrested. Don't have rights to do anything. They just follow the rules, trying to learn the ropes, but, the ignorance and the word 'different' divides them from it. People are equal, just their faith changes it all.

2 Voice Poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CcRXr0GBY

We could see the conflicts between Odysseus and Poseidon. Poseidon is cursing Odysseus as far as he can for killing his dear son, Cyclopes. I tried to show the conflict between them, who is feeling different even though they are in the same situation.

Odysseus

Poseidon

a strange island filled with rocks the War is over but the storms drives us to a map-less island regret the giant, I regret giving him wine A gift of thankfulness by eating us all up? many of my people devoured by Cyclopes Guzzling Gobbling Gulping Gorging sneaky wondering how to find a way to save myself and all my sailors We want to go home A sharp burning stick , cunning words stabbing his one eye with a burning stick Blinding him The screams, the painful howls Blind victory! surely we can go home

a strange island filled with rocks map-less island If they harm my son I will make them regret arriving on that island regret my son allowed strangers to enter his ...gloomy cave! many of those people many of those people are nothing but robbers raiders ransackers ravagers sneaky wondering how to punish the vermin That crafty Odysseus A sharp burning stick , cunning words treachery, ingratitude, blinding my son Oh my son The screams, the painful howls wake me from my ocean deep sleep Blind Victory they shall never reach home

This Is Me!

People say that simple objects can show a person’s personality. A panda arm pillow, top of hanoi, cross stitches, alarm clock, letters, flash light, picture, necklace, book and violin. This is me in 10 objects!

The first object, panda, is an arm pillow. I got it as a birthday present from my friend when I was in 3rd grade. You wrap it on your arm and sleep. It makes me so comfortable! When I first came to Malaysia, my panda pillow was my friend who understood me! After having a hard time in the different worlds of my new English speaking classrooms, panda encouraged me so much. When I came home from school I would hug panda and tell all the stories from school!

My favorite puzzle, ‘Tower Of Hanoi’, is the best thing I have ever done! You just have to move the stack of blocks to the other place without putting a big one on a small one. When I bought it for the first time, I did it for whole day. I did it until 9 blocks but I wonder if there are more levels that I can reach. It is all about logic. But the negative side of it is that I feel dizzy after finishing 9 stacks, because I had to concentrate so hard! I want to show everyone my Tower Of Hanoi because it shows that I love puzzles!

My violin is my friend... When I am really angry or sad, I play the violin. It calms me down! But it can also annoy me with its squeaky sounds. This usually happens because I am not paying attention. I started learning the violin really early but it was way too hard for me to do it. My fingers were so little that all the fingers twisted. So I was not really good at it but now, I like it.. I don’t know even I am good at it or not but I like it. I just wanted to say that I love music!

Whenever people come to my house, they always surprise when they see my study room. All sides of the room is covered with bookshelves. When ever I try to study in that room, books call me like crazy to read them! I can’t focus! But it was also my best friend when I just came to Malaysia. There was nothing to do.. No friends, no place to go, so books became my best friend. I always stay in that room for whole day, reading. Now, I don’t have much time but still I try to play with my best friend as much as possible. Reading makes me so calm. Whether I am angry or sad, it makes me calm down.

Cross stitch and making cushions are the best thing to do to spend time. They are wonderful presents too! It take like 1 month for me to finish one stitch but I feel proud of myself after finishing it. Also seeing people laughing and smiling after getting them from me is great happiness for me too! The first time, I messed it up completely and had a hard time taking it off and still, I am bad. I wanted to say I love continuous things like Cross stitches!

Mickey mouse alarm clock is special. I have to press it’s face to turn off the alarm in the mornings. Plus, it snoozes itself automatically. So I can’t even try to stay in my bed peacefully. I can remember the first night I had it on. It was so funny. In the morning, I heard an melody which was really childish. So I HAVE to use this alarm to wake up early...

This is letters that I collected. Actually my mom collected it since my 1st grade and I didn’t know it is going to be this valuable memory to me. It just makes me laugh when I read all of my letters. Bad hand writings, funny stories, and everything else is one of my most valuable things! Even I can remember people who was teasing me like crazy! There are loads of things that I want to tell them but I don’t have their contact. So I noticed that I have to be good to friends when I am with them.

This picture is taken in 63 building in Korea. I was in field trip at that time. Friends, teachers and my classmates trills me. They were my best friends. We fought a lot but we were still friends. I was in the same school with them until 5th grade. I look different... Also, because of this picture, I can see how I am growing. It is like a miniature album!

Book Flash light is most important thing for me. After mom turns off the lights, I take out my secret weapon, Flash light! and start reading. There is some time that you can’t sleep even though you try so hard. In that moments, I use this. Friends gave this as one of my birthday present in 6th grade. I still love it. I put this because I am a bookworm!

Best friends necklace is for best friends. I put that up because I wanted to show that I have best friends that I can share secrets. I think best friends are always together. Cry together, laugh together and doing all the things together! I think best friends goes forever! Even if they fight....

These may be the normal and just formal thing to other people but for me, it is the thing that represnts me and most valuable thing ever!

Destination

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

I chose this quote because I think eventhough we put in a lot of effort and courage in something, and if we don't have the purpose of doing that, it can't be better from that point(I think). In parts of our lives, we have to decide things many times. It is a decision that you can't go back when you chose. When you are doing that, it would be easier to chose if you have your dream or purpose. Also you can be more eager when you have your destination.

I chose this picture because I wanted to say you have to decide really serious things in you life and there is no going back.

I chose this picture because I wanted to say that in your life, you have to make a lot of decisions. There is no going back to most of them. So you have to make a right choice and to do that, you better have a destination. That is what I am trying and I didn't choose destiniation yet. So I chose the quote that I want to try.

Danicing all over the world

Matt Harding was brilliant! After posting one video in his blog, all of his friends spread that video all over and over 20 million people has watched it. What he did was he chose a particular place in every country and danced. Anywhere like subway station, narrow street, anything can be a stage for him. He was practically repeating the same motion but it felt different every time. After the few videos, people started to send money to support him. Now, everywhere he goes, he is not alone. People gather around and dance together… as crazy as they can be. They are strangers. But because they know the same person, they join in and dace together. We maybe don’t know each other, but we are one. We feel comfortable to each other after doing something together. Our thoughts from the past, early humans are still alive. We are just connected in someway and world is still one.

Photograph by Danilo Rizzuti - I chose this picture because it shows us that world is one by holding a globe in two hands.

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Complimenting

Compliment guys are people who make people to cheer up. They say that person has at least one thing to compliment. One single compliment might make their day better. If I were there, I would cross them every day to get a compliment. Their compliment is not complicated. They just say, ‘cool shoes! I love that bike! Nice hair!’ when you think positive, everything goes better and in your way! Also the compliment guys will feel proud of themselves when they see them smiling and cheering up because of it. Maybe we can start our day saying, ‘we are cool!’

I chose this picture because I thought when we start our day, complimenting ourselves, smiling, that day would be more better.

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Discovering a new island...

plants can be used as tools, medicine, and food!



i will live in forests and try to make as plains even though it is not as plain as this!

i will live in this kind of olace to get water!

Now that you know what environmental factors are, let's see if you can use some critical reasoning and creative thinking to complete the following activity:

Imagine that you are living 200 years in the future. Earth has been invaded by a powerful empire, Akkadiana, but you manage to escape with several friends in a small space ship. Your space ship lands on an unknown planet, but you find that the geography and the environment is just like Earth. The only difference is there are no cities, towns or villages and you and your friends are the only humans here.

Your task:

1) Think about what you have learned in Chapters 4-7 before you begin this blog.

2) Identify 3 environmental factors you would look for before you build your own small village.

3) Write a short explanation for each environmental factor describing why they are important for the survival of your village. Example: I would look for a river...(give details)

Environmental Factor 1:

When I get to an island that I never gone before, I will look for fresh water. Water is most important thing in our lives. We can’t survive without water. I will go on to rivers which doesn’t have salty water. Then, I will start to do everything with it. I will start fishing to get food supply, wash myself to protect from getting diseases, and transportation to get to the other places. Transportation is important because you might have to leave that place to catch some fish!


Environmental Factor 2:

The good topography is large pain with a good soil… but I can’t get that because I would be in the forest! So I will grow my crops in the forest even though it’s tilted. It has really rich soil which will make crops grow fast and healthy! Forest has really good soil which includes a lot of minerals. Also they are out of pollutions. Also because it’s right beside rivers, we don’t have to have a hard time watering them.


Environmental Factor 3:

Next challenge that I have to go over vegetation! Vegetation is all the plants and trees which grow in nature naturally. Plants give us a lot of things like medication, food and tools. Mountains or forests will be really good for this but I will look for forests which doesn’t have many animals around. Even though it’s not carnivores, I can affect crops by eating it!

When I Jina's curch, I had to practice my violin 4 to 7:45. At first, I was so excited because I get to be with Jina. But gradually, I was getting tired and tired. I stretching, yawning, and complaining for long practices. We were supposed to practice until 6 to 7 but everyone was lazy adn song was difficult. So we had to do it until it was good! Only clarinet was the problem. We waited at the practice room doing nothing...

Answer:boring..!!!


At sunday afternoon, I went to pavilion to watch 'Alice in Wonderland.' I was lookinf foward for it for whole week! When we were taking tickets, my heart was pounding. I was thinking,'Yay, I get to see this movie finally!' I was wondering how good that movie will be. I heard about that movie everywhere! When I was going in to the KLCC Suria, I saw that movie's advertisement. Clover, spades, diamonds and hearts were going through my mind. I couldn't think about anything. I was only thinking about 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Answer:excited...^.^

Nowadays in our ESL class, we are learning about 'Civilizations.' So Ms.Nadaraj asked us,' Is your country civilization?'

RELIGION: Korea has a lot of religions. Those are buddhism, christianity adn catholic. But the most popular one is...... christianity! You can feel that Koreans actually LOVE god. When you go top of the tower or mountains at night, you can see the red flashing lights covered whole city! The second popular religion is buddhism. In the past, Korea had ONLY buddhists. But civilization was growing, other country's customs were started to come in! But still, you can see over hundreds of people are visiting temples for anniversaries.

WRITING: When we look at the past, we were used to use Chinese as our language. But it was tooo hard for the normal citizens to learn it. So one of our greatest king in history, King SeJong made the language 'Korean.' Many governors disliked it because they thought learning language is only for the high class people. But King SeJong didn't changed his mind. He made it! Now Korean is one of the most scientific and easiest language in the world.

TECHNOLOGY: Korea's one of the best part, TECHNOLOGY! Korea is known as most strong band in technology stuff. Phone, TV, ect. SAmsung, LG, Kia, hundai, ect. They are in the whole wide world. So noticed this at first when I came to Malaysia. Almost all the people use LG or SamSung phones and TV. Now it is not only popular in Korea, it is the world brand!

GOVERNMENT: Okay... So what do you think? Do you think Korea has government? Of course yes! Korea has Government from 500 years ago! That was the greatest King, SeJong. At that time, they cared about people a lot. because he cared about people a lot, he got sick.... But nowadays, president control the country with governors!

ART: Korea art has a lot of examples. Korea traditional masks, sign, drawing, sculpture, buildings, ect. Korean art is special. Maybe it is similiar with japanese or chinese but it has our own style! Korea's tranditional masks are really spooky adn scary becasue they wamted to make ghosts go out of their room.

STABLE FOOD SUPPLY: Korea has stable food supply. Korea has good weather to farm which is winter, summer, spring and fall. When it was long time ago, Korean farmers had hard time at April and May bacause they barely had food to survive until fall. But now, we invented the green house so we can eat stuff even though it is not fresh enough.

SOCIAL STRUCTURE: Korea doesn't have that strong social structure. It is because Korea is democracy! Korea's owner is citizens. No one is controlling the country by their selves. They have to ask for it if the all people agrees with it! It is the most fair thing I have ever seen. The only Communism country in the world is North Korea. THey have to work for country, and they have to do the job that government chose for them.They can't reject it because then the food supply will stop.

My Academic and Social Goals for 2010

FRIENDS


GRADES

FIRST RANDOM COMPUTER TYPING ESSAY

Finally, almost 1 year passed in Malaysia. I can't belive how time flows. I think now is the time to edit my goals.

Okay, so my academic goal is to stuby verbs, nouns and all the grammer stuff. I think I am really WEAK at grammer because eglish is not my first language. Although I am LEARNING! I am quite sure that I will be better when I keep practice. Well, I learned grammer from long~long~ time ago but I think I was too young or teacher explained it too hard. So there I barely knowledge about grammer inside my brain#.#

So my social goal is, be more active and try to be friends with all the people in different countries. I think its kind of unfare that Koreans make a group. Then how about the other country students like china?

SECOND NOT RANDOM ESSAY

Almost 1 year passed in Malaysia. But I have things I have to arrange. For example, I have to edit goals.i think I have to put things which I can achieve fast.
So my social goal is try to communicate and understand people more. I think sometimes I ignore people or made people feels bad (not on purpose). Also I want to be friends with the people who is not Korean. The reason is, this is international school. We are attending this school to make our English better and Bias different. If I will join with only Koreans, why don’t I go to Sayfol which has 70% Koreans? I can learn their special things like ‘Ramadan’. That is the season that Hindu people starve! Well that was one of the strange thing when I just came to Malaysia.

My academic goal is to arrange grammar tense. Of couse I know but I make a mistake really often. So I will try to think before I write. My other goal is make 1 place up for every subject! If I want to do that, I have to read question carefully when I am taking a test! Well I know that I always make a stupid mistakes from nothing! Hopefully, I will review even though I don’t have test or quiz!

So that’s my goal from now. My goal will change as I go FORWARD!

Choir

REMEMBER POWER OF THE VOID CONCERT

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding(silence)to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I put the slience after the understanding people because I wanted people to think about 'so???' So thats why I put the silence after the understanding. So after they thought 'so that kind of thing make student to be?' The answer comes over.

Composers create the tension in their music by stopping their music and suddenly start the music loudly. If composers make the void long enough to make audience think 'what's going on?' and they make a loud sound, it will make audiance surprise, also more tension to their music.

During the winter vacation

BOBO&MARMAR&SHIONY

Main idea

1 week in Sydney (beach),(Blue Mountain),(Port Stepen)

I week in Melbourne (Great Ocean Road), (Penguin Parade)

Sleepovers in Shion’s house with Shion and Marisa

During the winter vacations, I did a lot of fun things. For the 2 weeks, I went to Australia and visit 2 of the cities which is Sydney and Melbourne. For the last one week, I did all the reviews for school and I did sleepovers with Marisa and Shion which was my best sleepover ever…!!! But it was really weird that having the winter vacation without snow. And also it was rrrrreeeeeeeaaaalllllllyyyyyyyyyyy hot. When i was doing track and field, i felt like i'm gonna faint.

First of all, I went Sydney. I felt it’s kind of cold because of the strong wind. During the whole week, I went to the Port stepen, Blue mountain, Manly Beach, Bondi Beach and few Museums. But the best one was the beach part. At that time, it was freezing. But I did change and jump in to the ocean… The good thing about Manly beach was that the depth of the beach was shallow but the wave was high and strong. So that was the reason that I loved it. Also blue mountain and Port stepen was interesting also because the origin of that name ‘Blue’ is because of the alcohol when Queen Elizabeth saw it look like blue.

also The guide said many people asked him that if they go in to the Blue mountain, do they feel like drunk. But the answer is that you just feel a bi tsleepy. and other thing is all right! Another part of the travel, Port Stepen is like desert. I rode the port stepen send sleigh. But it was not that fast… Also we went to the Taronga zoo. It was huge. We had to ride the ferri to go there and then we have to ride the sky safari to go up to the top. We could experience the Australian animals and also we saw the Koalas and Kangaroo. We got chance to touch them. They were so cute and they were so soft..! But the bad thing was that when I see my hand after i touch them, there are a lot of hair left. so i have to wash my hand immidately. I also saw the dingo. It looks like just the formal dog but when you see him eat the raw meat. You will notice that is wild because, it just put everything in his mouth and eat very fast.

In addition, I went to Melbourne. And the first thing I saw was the ‘tram’ which was really interesting. It’s looks like train but it’s going on the car road like bus. The one that I loved it was ‘Penguin Parade.’ First we have to wait until 8o’clock and you can see the 4~5 penguins at the water. They try to come out but because they are so tiny (only about 30cm), it’s really hard to come out. Also even if they came out they jump in the water again when their friend didn’t come out. They took so long time to come out of it…! So that’s why I thought they are really team working well.

Lastly, I did sleepover in Shion’s house. It was really fun. It might be the best sleepovers ever! We did listen to music, play board games, swim, Nintendo, and also we did truth or dare. The favourite thing was we turn on the music and record our video randomly. It was fun but now, I am scared because Shion might put that in YouTube Face book. But at that thim, it was so fun. Also we go on to Skype and tease Diksha. Diksha was so mad at us! We were not scared because we knew that we will not connect camera or microphone. After few minutes, we went to bed and did truth or dare. After that, Shion said I have to go to sleep because I have to go to Korean School tomorrow. But Io was not sleepy at all so i told Shion to wake me up. Tomorrow when i woke up, Shion and Marisa was staring at me because, Shion shook me so hard even Marisa get up! But i didn't felt anything...

At this winter vacation without snow, was my first vacation in Malaysia. I think because of that, it's more important because i already did the 1 and a half of school year! Especially that I been to the Australia and had many experience and understanding of the other culture. Also doing sleepover with friends made me friendlier. Even though, I’m not staying for a long time in Malaysia. I want to enjoy everything.