James Lee

This week I got a new mobile phone. I love my phone so much that I always have it with me, but I am not allowed to take it to school. If you would like my phone number please email me and I'll send it to you.

The other weekend I went to Parkway Parade. Parkway Parade is a shopping mall a short distance from our house.
When I was in parkway parade I was buying some chocolates for my mum for mother’s day. After I had bought her some chocolates I went to the bookshop on the bottom floor to have a look at some books.
There was a big crowd in the bookshop, so we went to see what was going on. All the people were queuing up to see James Lee.
James Lee is an author; he has written a series of books called ‘Mr. Midnight’ which I think are really good!
I bought 5 of his books and got him to sign them. While he was signing them he asked me some questions, such as: “Where are you from?” and “How long have you been living in Singapore?”
After he had signed the books I told him I had a sister called Lucinda and that she had written the first page of a story for him.
In the back page of his books he invites readers to start a book and he then finishes it.

When he had signed my books he gave me a goodie bag, it contained: two magnets, a poster, some bookmarks and some notepads.

After buying my books we went home. When Lucinda saw everything she took it around to her friend Erssy’s house. Erssy and Lucinda then wanted to go to parkway parade, so we all went out again.
When I saw James Lee for the second time, he recognized me and asked “Is this Lucinda?” and I said yes.
Erssy and Lucinda bought some books and went to get them signed. Then James Lee wrote our names on a piece of paper and said “I will keep this with me and put you in danger in the next book I write” We all got excited and started to think of the first page of a story we could write for him.

Next we went to get some ice cream, I had a dark chocolate, Erssy had a Belgium chocolate and Lucinda had the same.
After we had eaten our ice creams we went back home had some dinner then went to bed and that day was very fun!!

Poppy & Lucinda on 'Deviant Art'

My mum is a designer and photographer. She sells some of her photographs on 'istockphoto' so other designers can use them, the money that she gets for these goes to help Tibetan children living in exile in India. She also has her own website of her photography called 'Samsara'

My mum also sends pictures to a website called 'Deviant Art' so that other artists can use them to create digital art pieces. She has uploaded several pictures of me and Lucinda, these are some of my mums photographs of us that other artists have used to make pictures with. We love them, what do you think?

If you click on the title of the picture it will take you to the artists gallery so that you can see more of their work.

Nimue - (Poppy)

Vow - (Lucinda)

Daughter of Dawn - (Poppy)

Little Reds Fairy Godmother - (Lucinda)

Pink Fairy - (Lucinda) by mum

The Enchanted Forest - (Poppy) by mum

Bintan

On the 25th of April I went to camp at Bintan with my class from school.

When I arrived at school I went down stairs to join the stage where choir was being held, so I could sing my songs. When I had finished I went to the classroom and played some games with Esther and Zoe.

At 11.00 clock we left school for Bintan, everyone was excited! When we got on the bus I sat next to my friend Esther and we talked to each other about what fun it was going to be without any parents around.

We arrived at the ferry terminal, got off the bus with our passports in our hands, ready to get through the gates. As soon as we got through the gates we got on the ferry and watched x-men, the journey was two hours long!


When we arrived at the Indonesian ferry terminal we waited half an hour for the people to stamp our passports, it was tedious. After that we left the ferry terminal and got onto a bus which took us to a boat.
After an hours journey we arrived at the boat which took us to ‘Loola adventure camp’ which was where we were staying. The journey was two hours long so we did some boom netting on the way and it was fun! Boom netting is an activity when you jump from a boat into a net which is dragging along the water. You are allowed to jump from the 1st floor the second floor or the 3rd floor which is really high up! When I went boom netting I got 5 goes, I jumped from the second floor 4 times and the 3rd once because it was scary!

When we arrived at Loola it was night time and we had to get in to groups depending on how many people can fit in a cabin, so I stayed with Esther, Zoe, Seung-a, Sophia, Louisa, Isabella and Ananya. Our cabin had two bunk beads next two each other and four mattresses on the floor so we decided 4 people would sleep on the mattresses one night and we swap over the next.

The next morning we woke up got ready then went to breakfast. After breakfast we came back and talked about the cabin, I thought the cabin was nice because it was situated above the water on poles.

Our first activity of the day was rock climbing, it was quite hard because the rocks were quite small, I had three goes and I only managed to reach half way up.

After rock climbing we went to the obstacle course, it was really hard! At the obstacle course we had to climb up a wall about 2 metres high there was nothing to stand on to get up there, so a girl called Tsenyi pushed us from the bottom whilst Ananya pulled us up from the top, it was really fun!

After the obstacle course we had free time so I went out crab hunting with Zoe, Dheina, Hugh and Seung-a and we found lots of crabs even purple ones.

Building a raft was our next activity but it was so difficult so no one managed to do it because when they were put in the sea they fell apart, it was tiring.

After building the rafts we went kayaking, I kept falling out every minute so Esther and Dheina left me in the water to swim back to the shore, but don’t worry the water was shallow and we had life jackets on.

The last activity we did was the flying fox and it was awesome! The flying fox is an activity where you hold onto a bar attached to a long rope, then you slide down the rope into the sea. When it was my turn I said I wasn’t going to go because I was too scared, the drop looked steep. A minute later the man attached me too the harness and said he wouldn’t go too fast so I jumped off the platform and screamed awesome, I was flying in the air, a few minutes later I had landed in the sea and I wanted another go but I wasn’t allowed so I played in the sea with Esther.

After the flying fox everyone got a shower then went too dinner. We were having a BBQ by a huge fire. After we had eaten, a man who worked at Loola put some music on and we all danced around the fire for an hour. After dinner we put our pyjamas on and went to bed.

The next day we woke up at 6:00 a.m. got ready then went to breakfast. Our first activity of the day was archery. When it was my go I didn’t hit the target because it was so hard, Louisa was the only one who hit a bulls eye.

After archery we played badminton with a partner. I played with Esther but she didn’t know how to play so I taught her and she kept getting better until the end of the game.

When badminton had finished we had to pack our stuff then leave, it was sad. Everyone enjoyed Bintan and I wish we can go back there again.

Photos from top:

1. Zoe, Esther, Me and our teacher Miss Foster on the ferry to Bintan
2. Esther, Seung-a, Isabella, Me, Zoe, Ananya, Sophia and Louisa
3. Our Cabin
4. Esther on the boat