MONEY

According to dictionaries, money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods, services and even repayment of debts. Money can buy a person almost anything, handbags, clothes, basic neccessities and many many others. Thus, people can do many things with money.

Money can make people do crazy things. Friendship is important, especially when one is in need. However some people just do not treasure friendship. To them, money is always more important. These people do not treasure the people around them like their bestfriends and family. Why? Money, of course. With money, friendship can turn into betrayal and backstabbing. A person could accept bribes to murder or harm his closest friend or even family.

Some people could also forget their virtues when it comes to money. For example being thrifty, some people love to spend their money like they have all the money in the world. No matter how rich a person is, if he or she do not save money, even if its just a little, he or she could go broke. And once a person makes the mistake, then that person would regret it and want to change. But by the time he or she realises it, it would be too late.

Yes, money can buy many things. But has nobody can buy one's heart. Using money to buy love or friendship can end up in making fake friends or relationships. Those friends would only want money and not help the person when he or she is in need. This, i feel, is worse than having no friends at all.

Thus i can conclude that money can buy a person almost anything in the world but there are certain things that cannot be bought and must be treasured. Money is valued differently with different people and so it is up to each individual to judge on how to spend their money wisely.

June Holiday 4

Laughing, Jason held on tightly to his knife and walked towards Jack, who was already injured by Jason. He tried to move further away from Jason, but there was just not enough space to run away from him. Jason, laughed softly, "Finally, this was what i was waiting for. After how you have treated me." Jason moved another step and stopped.
"Goodbye, brother."

June Holiday 3

John laughed pointing at Jane. The students around her also pointed at her, whispering to each other.
Everyone started laughing. Jane was an obese girl who only had one bestfriend, Janet, and as long as she knew she had Janet to help her, she was contented and did not care of what others thought of her. However, all her friendship between Jane and her only friend was to change forever.

Jane had a terrible past that she did not want anyone to know. But only Janet knew. Only she knew, Jane thought, how did the other people even know that i have no parents? How? Only Janet could have told them. She cried, after questioning Janet about it. Jane knew, but still asked, not wanting to believe the truth that her friend betrayed her.

June holiday 2

Tears dropped down as Vivian recalled what happened. She kneeled down, crying, "Why must this happen? Why? Why?"

That day, when the incident happened, it was raining. Raining very heavily. Vivian had a fight with her grandfather in the morning and left the house angrily. When school ended, it was raining cats and dogs. Realising that Vivian had not brought her umbrella, he went out in the heavy rain to fetch her from school. Vivian stood outside the school gate, not knowing what to do as she forgot to bring her umbrella.

However, when she saw grandfather, she ran, not wanting to face him as she was still angry with him. Her grandfather, seeing that she was running away, got very worried and ran across the road. Everything happened so fast.

June holiday 1

Vivian was a rebellious child. She lost her parents when she was young and her grandfather was the only family she had. However, she always felt that her grandfather caused the death of her parents and thus always did not respect him. She blamed him. And yet her grandfather still showered his love on her, even though she always threw tandrums on him.

T2W10

He was jocose and a person filled with candor. However, no one knew why he was being malign as the person who stole a wallet. Everyone knew he would not do such a thing. He was a boy with such decorum that many who knew him would not try to destroy him. But then again, people were starting to doubt him. Could he be a charlatan and deceive people that he was a nice boy? No one knew.

T2W9

She was a happy-go-lucky girl, who was usually so garrulous and was always dilettante in whatever things she did. However, that was before she found out about her illness, and now, she is always in a state of apathy, not willing to do anything. Once a cheerful girl who was filled with bliss, has now given up on herself, becoming an obese and pessimistic person.

T2W8

John looked at his results sedately, tears dropped one by one onto the piece of paper. His mother was insatiable, however well he had done for the examinations, she was never satisfied. He looked up and looked at his disgruntled mother, "I dont understand! I've got 90 and you are still not satisfied!" John suddenly blew up, eradicating every chance of his mother scolding him. He was sick and tired of his irrational mother, and stormed out of the house.

T2W7

Jane smiled proudly as she climbed up the last step. "Finally!"she said to herself and smiled, looking down at all the puny villages from the pinnacle of the mountain. She always made sure that she was loaded for beer before starting the climb usually with a voluminous bagpack, and this time was not an exception. This ardent mountain climber always never fail to evince an exultation about the view from the top. Jane breathed in the fresh air deeply, lied down and closed her eyes.

T2W6

Feeling lethargic, Tim threw his bag on the ground and lied on the sofa. His mother, after seeing that he forgot to close the gate, said with hostility,"How could you be so remiss to close the gate? What if our dog runs out?" Tim got up, expecting a nag from his mother, it was inevitable, he thought. He closed the gate, evincing a irritation.

T2W5

Jack walked with caution as he passed the debris caused by the volcano eruption. This eruption had caused the whole village to be obliterated. It was a deplorable sight as the village was destroyed by the conflagration caused by the lava.

T2W4

"This is so bizarre!" the teacher said, looking at the artifact that John brought back. "Its so absurd, I found this in the middle of the street,"he said. A crowd gathered around the teacher, looking at the strange inanimate artifact. The teacher, after a while, announced that sending the artifact to the museum is imperative as they would know what to do with it.

T2W3

Jane looked at her father's grave. It has been a decade since his mortality. Jane's father had died in an accident while saving Jane's life. Eversince that day, Jane became neurotic, refusing to talk to anyone including her mother, who was the only one to bring back the bacon. Her mother, seeing her like that, suddenly got her back up and scolded her. "You are not the only one who is sad about him, all of us are. But we still have to carry on with our lives!" She shouted. Jane kept quiet then enunciated," Sorry mother."

T2W2

Being a girl who loves things to be neat and tidy, Vivian left with the house in apple pie order. However, when she came back, the house was in a dreadful mess. Sean who was in the house all the time, fabricated a lie that a dog ran into the house and messed up the place. Not only that he lied, he also tried apple polishing Vivian to escape her punishments. This sudden actions of Sean made Vivian suspicious of him but she kept quiet. Sean continued trying to delude her and not acknowledge that he was the one who did it.

T2W1

Jack entered the lush house. He was amazed as to how the old rundown house he had when he was in destitution turned into such a beautiful and luxurious house after selling it away to a wealthy man in a remarkable metamorphosis. The new owners of this house had pondered over whether to buy over the house, but they still bought it anyway and even renovated it, this was a salvation for Jack as he badly needed money.

T1W10

Hundreds of people ran out of the extant, screaming for help. The building was on fire. It was sultry inside the building. Burning debri started flying out of windows, and came crashing down to the ground. Many died. There were more and more vicissitudes as the more and more people were sent to the hospital. Families were lugubrious as they saw their loved ones die in front of them.
No one knew who started the fire. It may be a pesky little child trying to have fun, but accidently started the fire.

T1W9

In order to fix the clock, he had to dismantle it. Parsimoniously, he opened up the back cover of his favourite clock. The clock had been with him for so long and yet he still had to dismantle it just to have that little hope of saving his dear clock. He knew the ropes, yet was still scared that he would spoil it by accident and not able to repair it ever again. Strife was mounting with his father and himself as his father had wanted to throw away the clock. However he balked. He would not just throw away and give up on his beloved clock.

Computer Game Addiction

With the advancement of technologies, computer games nowadays seem to be rapidly evolving. With much better visual and sound effects, computer games seem to become more fun and exciting. As a result, it attracts people of different walks of life to play. Teenagers, children, and even adults play them now. However, getting addicted to playing computer games could become a big problem.

Firstly, getting addicted to playing computer games could affect studies. By getting addicted to computer games, more time would be spent playing computer games, so the person would have less time to sleep or study. Having less time to sleep means that the person would become less attentive in class and keeps falling asleep. Thus, grades will fall as a result of not listening in class or having any time at all to study.

Secondly, getting addicted may lead to a neglection of the surrounding world. The person may just get glued onto the computer screen and not meet anyone, including friends. the person may have very little self control over how much time spent on playing the computer game.

So being addicted to computer games has many negative factors. But getting addicted can be aviodable, for example, we can practice time management, controlling only to play for a few hours.

T1W8

Looking at the his watch, he grew nervous. A few more minutes time, the examination will start. This examination was very important to him. It would determind whether or not he would be able to enrol into the school. It was his childhood dream to get into the school.

A myraid of students gathered at the entrance of the examintation hall. The time passed, he made an abortive attempt to calm himself down, as he was too nervous. Though he had an innate music ability and his parents who gave their full support, but inside, he still deemed that he would fail. However he was willing to try. He stepped into the examination hall, with the rest of the students romping into the hall, confidently.

T1W7

Mary looked down to the murky lake and smiled. She finally had her revenge. After many years of concocting a perfect plan, she finally made it. She had finally succeeded! Finally she was free, free from all the humility she had suffered because of her, free from the abusing she had suffered from Vivian's beatings.

Vivian was once an impeccable mother that Mary had. However, after the death of her husband, Vivian seemed to go crazy. The once gullible Mary turned into a cunning woman, everyday thinking of how to stop her mother from abusing her. But when she finally did it, she did not exult nor did she cry. She just stood there, and stared into the lake, wondering what she had just done.

T1W6

Taking a cursory glance back at the rundown house, she left with her coterie. That rundown house was about to be demolished and it was their cache, a place where they shared precious memories together. They became frugal so they could raise enough money to embellish the house, to make it seem less rundown. Tears streamed down each of their faces. Now they had no chance of doing that anymore. The house was about to be demolished.

T1W5

The policeman looked at him in the eyes. "Speak up! Who is your accomplice?" he said, with a hint of asperity. Mary looked away, silent. The policeman, Jack, banged his fists on the table. "I repeat, who is your accomplice in the liquidation of Sally?" Jack said, frustrated.

Jack went out of the room, banging the door behind him. It was useless. She refused to say the name of her accomplice. Jack knew there was someone who helped her, she could not have killed Sally by herself. He had to track that person down.

In the room, tears dropped on to Mary's handcuffs. She had sucessfully made them think that she was culpable and kept her mouth shut so it would preclude anyone else from being suspected. "Its all worth it."She thought.

T1W4

As the knife plunged through Jane's stomach, she fell down on the floor, and landed in a supine position. While the rebels continue to raze through the city, Jane was being sent to the hospital. The nurses moved fast and quickly brought her to the operating table. The doctor examined her and realized that the knife had contained a lethal poison. She was doomed to die.

Jane's parents greived as the doctor told them the saddening news. Many deaths have been caused by the havoc the rebels created. Though they did not have any mammoth sized tanks, the city was destroyed in just a few days.

T1W3

This was the third time i importuned my sister if she could help me with my homework."For the third time, no!" she replied."You have to do it yourself!". I was doing my homework at the last minute, i had lessons an hour later! Though the questions were quite simple, the time i had left was not propitious. I did not have enough time. Since my sister would not help me, i eventuated in curtailing my answers, giving sloppy work.

I had already surmised that my teacher would scold me. So i was not surprised when i was being called up. I guess last minute work can never be completed on time.

T1W2

WORDS USED-meticulous, lax, fruitless, obviate, conjecture

Vivian grimaced with pain as the doctor meticulously out on the cast for her. "Why are you so lax to fall into the drain?" scolded her mother. Vivian looked up at her mother. It was only the beginning of the holidays and she had a bad fall. And the doctor had announced that it would take 3 to 4 weeks to recover and because the pain was unbearable so she had to stay in the hospital for a week. "What? That means i have to be bed-ridden for a week?" she complained. "I am feeling fine now. Can i go home then?"she tried to walk to prove to them but she fell again. It was fruitless, she still had to stay in the hospital.

As she conjectured what she could do during the holidays with a fractured leg, she realised that there was nothing much to do. Vivian sighed, obviating any chances of having a fun holiday.

FEATURE ARTICLE

HOBBIES

Stamp collecting, card games, creative and artistic pursuits. All these are examples of hobbies. I guess many have them, right? Hobbies are a unique expression of ourselves and in some ways also a way to interact with the rest of the world. Hobbies, for some people,are the most important part of their life, while others use it as a relaxing escape from stress.

However, there are people who make a living with their hobby. A chef might like cooking as a hobby; or a game tester might enjoy playing and (helping to debug) computer games as hobby. Generally, people who makes a living from what they like to do are usually called amateurs or hobbyists. Many amatuers have made great contributions to this society.

Do you collect things to keep like postage stamps? This hobby of collecting is one of the most common hobbies. It consists of collecting specific items based on one's interests. These collections are very often organized, carefully cataloged and displayed attractively. Since the collection depends on the collector's interests, the collection may deal with almost any subject.

Some may not like collecting but this is only one of the examples of hbbies. Of course there are many more, like playing games. Due to the fact that a wide variety of activities are enjoyable, many many different types of games are created. What creates an enjoyable game? Well, this varies from person to person. Usually, age, understanding of the game, intelligence level, and to some extent, personalities are factors that determine what games a person enjoys.

Its always good to follow a favourite pastime to pass time. Hobbies are usually for personal interests and enjoyment, rather than for financial rewards.