Lego stuff

Hi everybody, these few weeks I've been working on some custom made Lego figures. you can get them too! as long as you provide me with the needed Lego pieces and a reasonable price I'll try to make just about anything! warning, the harder the Lego is, the more expensive it gets, but the most expensive one is only .about two ringgit.

Collaborating constructively During Lit Circles

"OK, class. for the next lit circle, you will be working with a partner! Viet and Pasha, Harjot and Yu Ern, ......... Laura and Tem, Owen and Stephanie...." that instant, I had a strong feeling that this lit circle's going to be a lot less stressful, and a lot more well done.After I finished it, I think I like to work in partners a lot better than working alone. I was able to get help when I needed it, And I was also able to use the knowledge my partner had to better understand the book. Of course, I also had to share some of my own knowledge, but now, we both understand the book equally well. also, by working together, we finished much earlier and was able to get feedback from the teacher sooner.


there were not really many problems during the lit circles, but the hardest part was during the weekends. we were not able to contact each other orally, but we did send messages to each other by writing notes on the Google doc itself, or by our school E-mail, so that was a minor drawback.


By working with a partner, I was able to exchange information about each of our understandings of the book. everything was much clearer, the storyline, the mysteries of the book, and why we thought the characters acted in the book. Other than that, everything was pretty clear to me already! 


as an ending statement, I think working with a partner made my lit circles a lot better than before, as we were able to give each other feedback and help.

Lit Circle reflection.

In school, we are now doing the second literature circle in this year, and tis time, we are reading a book called the true confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, the author of many other books I like. Tem, Stephanie and Laura-Marie is im my lit circle group, and this is the reflection about the discussions so far...

1. How your groups discussion helped you better understand the novel. Write about of some of the key ideas from the novel that your group discussed and how these were important to the plot of the story.



Actually, Having the discussions helped me understand the book a lot better. after we finish our proper discussion, we would start a new one about all our points of views, what we noticed in the book, what we liked, what we were confused about, and sometimes even ways the author could improve the book. We often get into heated arguments about what will happen later on in the book, Tem told us that she has read the book before, and told us that a guy in the book (Zachariah) was not a bad man, I tried to back that idea down with evidence from the book, but I finally got it into my head that he is a good man. Generally, we talk about whether a man is good or bad, whether someone or something will change the storyline somehow, and predictions for the rest of the book, we were really able to understand the book and the main character (Charlotte) better.


2. Describe some of the connections that you made during your discussion.


I don't really make connections from the book to my life, I mean, face it, not many people have been on a huge ship all alone with a murderous captain and a crew wanting revenge.But I did make some reactions, like the observation I made about Avi really concentrating on suspense and describing the scene, allowing us to paint a "picture" in our minds about what's going on! 




3. What predictions do you have for the rest of the novel.


Normally, I don't make predictions for books, unless it's a series with many books in it.But Avi just put too many clues for us to ignore! personally, I think that The captain will commit a murder, and push the blame to Charlotte. It hinted it might at th start of the book, and I also think someone (maybe Mr. Cranick) could (maybe) die somewhere in the book.

Symmetry in KL!

I took this photo of an iron kettle. In this image, there is one line of symmetry, going down the center kettle, kind of cutting it in half.