WHAT I DID DURING LAST SCHOOL HOLIDAY

It was during the Hari Raya Season that Halim and Samy got hold of some firecrackers. Halim suggested that they make a huge firecracker so that they can get a super load bang. Samy agreed.

       Halim fetched some newspaper while Samy removed the gunpowder from the firecrackers.

       When Samy had removed enough gunpowder, Halim poured the powder into the tube that he had made out of newspaper. It was going to be giant firecracker indeed!

       Next Halim began pounding on the gunpowder in the paper tube to make it more compact. What he didi not realise was that the gunpowder was very unstable and could ignite easily. Pounding on the powder could very well do it.

       And it did!

       The gunpowder ignited with an almighty blast, taking off one Halim's fingers and burning the two friends in many places.

       In hospital all they could do were to regret thier stupid actions. They were fortunate that their injuries were not worse. They could have been killed. 

THE EMBARRASING MOMENTS IN MY LIFE

A few years ago I experienced an incident that was embarrasing moment in my life.

       It began one morning just as I was getting ready go to school. I put on my school uniform and my shoes. One of my shoes felt a bit tight but I did not pay much attention to it.

       Then I got my schoolbag and hopped into my father's car. I sat in front. My two sisters sat on the back seat.

       After a short while I felt something move in my right shoe. Strange, I thougt, how my toes should wiggle so. I dismissed the thougt from my mind.

       It wiggled again, and again. I felt the hair on the back neck rise eerily. My goodness, there was something inside my shoe! Adozen images of what it could be ran across my mind. I gave a yell of fear and hurriedly pulled my shoe off and dropped it on the floor-board.

       By then my father had stopped the car to see what the matter it was. All eyes were on the shoe. What was inside it?

       Then slowly a very dazedand squashed frog emerged from the shoe! It was still alive. M y father deftly picked it up with his fingers and tossed it out thee window. I breathed a sigh of relief. They laughed. It was very embarrasing me.

       Nowadays I always check my shoes before wearing them.   

MY BEST FRIEND

Mimie is my bestfriend.

       She also my classmate and she sits infront of me in class. We are usually together during recess and whenever we are not in class.

       I am little bit taller than Mimie but she is by far stonger than me. She has all those rippling muscles from helping her family cultivate vegetables. As you can see he comes from poor family of vegetables gardeners. I come from a well-to-do family.

       Her skin is permanently tanned from those hours he spent under the sun. My skin, by comparison, is pale and tender.

       Despite the differences between us, we get along superbly. She is such a jovial person even though she has to work hard both at home and at school.

       She brings us fresh vegetables now and then. I, in return, let she use my computer and other things she cannot afford to have. Sometimes I spend the afternoon helping her at the vegetable garden.

       Between us, we share these beautiful experiences together, each of us helping the other in whatever we lack.

LOVE

I love my grandmother. My grandmother is eighty years old. That, to me, is very old.

       In her old age, ahe sometimes does silly things. My parents say she is senile. I do not agree. I see that she is just absent-minded.

       The other day she came to me saying she could not find her spectacles. She had been searching all over the place for them. Ofcourse she could not find them because they were resting on her forehead all the time! She must have pushed them up there while doing something else and forgot about them. I told her so. She expressed her suprise.

       Once she went next door with her slippers and returned with a pair of wooden clogs.

       She leaves the lights on and forget to turn off the tap. She switches on the fan and says it is cold. She tries to cook without ligthing fire. She sweeps the floor umpteen times a day, 

forgetting she has already swept it. She keeps misplacing her ring, her spectacles and other personal items. In short she is terribly absent-minded, very forgetful.

       What can i do? Well, nothing except to help her as much as I can and to prevent her from causing danger to herself. 

IF ONLY I LISTEN ........

If only I listen my mother want to go out for shopping, I will not alone at home. I felt a bit hungry. I looked in the refrigerator but could not find anything to eat. So, i decided that I would fry myself an egg, sunny side up.

       Even though I had never cooked anything before, I had watched my mother cooked in many times. I reckoned I could manage.

       So I put the frying pan on the stove and added some oil. I waited for the oil to heat up.

       After a while nothing seemed to be happening. The oil was as cold as ever. I had forgotten to light up the stove.

       I lit the fire. When the oil seemed hot enough I cracked the egg and let the contents in the frying pan. Bits of the shell went in too.

       When I attempted to take the fried egg out with the spatula, I could not do so. It was stucked fast to the pan. After a few attempts the agg was in such a mess that I dicovered that I had cooked scrambled egg instead!

       Thus I ended u eating scrmbled egg with bits of shell. It was not too bad, really.

FAMILY

Last Saturday my family went to Port Dickson for picnic. My father took us there in his new car.

       We chose Saturday as it would not be as crowded as it always is on Sunday. Thus when we arrived at the popular Teluk Kemang beach at 9 a.m., we were the first there.

       My mother spread out a large mat that she had brought under a tree. She then arranged food and drinks on it. My father, my two brother, my sister and myself headed straight for the beautiful blue water.

       The water was cool and refreshing. We frolicked about playfully while my father kept watch so that we do not venture too far out.

       An hour later, we came out of the sea as the sun got very hot and we did not want to get sunburned. So we sat under the shade of tree and helped ourselves to food and drinks.

       Then we rubbed sun-tan lotion on our skin and plunged back into the water. Only my mother did not join in.

       Soon it was simply too hot under the sun. We were also too tired to carry on. So we took bath at a nearby hotel, packed up and went home cheerfully.

MY DREAM

My dream comes true. The first time that I ever travelled in an aeroplane was when I flew to Australia with my mother. We went there to visit my sister who is working there.

       We entered thu huge Jumbo Jet at Subang Airport after checking in and going through immigration.

       There were rows and rows of seats. The smiling faces of the air hostesses greeted us warmly. We were ushered to our seats. I felt that she seats were too narrow.

       Nevertheless we sat down and strapped up. We waited for a while till everyone was aboard. Then I heard the engines roar and the aeroplane began to move. The air hostesses came to demostrate safety procedure. After that I felt the aeroplane surge forward and presently I could see that the airborne. I could see the lights of the airport below.

       The aircraft shook now and then but all in all it was not unpleasent. We were served dinner after which we watched the movie. I tried to sleep after that but I could not. So I just sat patiently.

       Seven hours after take-off, we touched down at Melbourne. My first flight was over. It was not bad experience.