Firing Towards A Brighter Future

I forgot when, but I recently read an interesting article, or post, on the Chinese Newspaper. The title of the post is of course the heading of THIS post. I'm not going to dilly-dally so I'm going straight to the story. There are two woodcutters, let's just call them A and B respectively. They decided to have a competition between each other to see who could cut the most amount of wood. Woodcutter A, without thinking nor hesitating, went up to the hill and cut down any tree his eyes met. Woodcutter B just rested for the day. On the first day of competition, Woodcutter A did managed to cut twice as much wood as Woodcutter B. However, no matter how hard he worked for the next few days, he still cut much lesser wood than Woodcutter B. How on earth did this happen? Haha! Woodcutter A's axe was already badly blunt as each day passed, and hence he had to use more strength to cut down each tree. Woodcutter B was a clever guy, no worries. While he wasn't cutting down trees,...

On April 8, RV held the launch of the Youth Olympic Games. On that special day, we came to school in our house T-shirts. My house was Minotaur, and the four others were Centaur, Gryphon, Unicorn and Pegasus. The first activity was the march past. We ( the five houses) had to march past the VIP and wave at them just like any other march past in the Games. However the next part was the torch relay, and I was part of it! I had to get the torch(not the real one) from Ms Ek and pass it on the the SCs. I accidentally spilled dry ice along the way!! Hope it didn't affect the whole process!! Then during CHAMPS lesson, we had PE instead and could choose our own games to play. Clinton and the others went to play soccer. But I suggested we play a Boys vs Girls Captain's Ball game. What's more, we had had five boys - Jeryl, Sammy, Jiang Xu, Tze Kiat and I!! We got off to a bad start, which was expected, and fel 2-0 behind the overwhelming girls. Funny, you might say, but we didn't ...