Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Legend of Bukit BatokThis legend was set in Singapore, 500 years ago when people are still very poor.
All the villagers lived in wooden houses except Milah, the village head’s daughter, who stayed in a more refined place.
Milah was kind and beautiful. She was soft-spoken and was filial to her parents. And because of this point, her name spread all over the village, and out of the country. Most of the men from the village were dying to marry her. At that village, there came an infamous rich pirate from another village, named Abbi. He had also heard of Milah’s name, therefore specially came to ask for her hand in marriage. Although Abbi was rich, he was a selfish and arrogant person. Once he sets his mind on something, he will do what ever he can to achieve it.
Abbi decided to ask Pak Seman, the village head, to let him marry Milah. They discussed about the marriage process endlessly. Finally, Abbi offered him the highest price he could afford to marry Milah. However, Pak Seman knew that he was infamous and was a pirate, decided to refuse him. Pak Seman said rudely “Abbi, I will not agree to this marriage” Abbi was stunned by his reaction, he then pleaded and asked him to reconsider, he will come back in a few days to confirm. After days of waiting, Abbi came back to the village with an evil smile. “So how’s your decision, father-in-law?” Abbi said gently with silence after that. Pak Seman then reacted strongly and shouted “WHO IS YOUR FATHER-IN-LAW? Don’t call me YOUR father-in-law.” After this rejection once again, Abbi went back.
After a few days, Abbi decided to kidnap Milah, it was the only way he thought. So he went to the garden, when Milah always went for her brisk walk at night.
Shouts of scream then were heard after a few minutes, the villagers went to help her, and managed to make Abbi to leave the village in a hurry..
Abbi then brought war to the village, the village was in chaos.
Milah was brought to a shelter to protect her from Abbi’s men. Weeks went by and more people died. Milah couldn’t stand to see the villages suffer anymore so she decided to sneak out of the shelter and find Abbi. Milah successfully sneaked out of the shelter and immediately went to find Abbi. She told him that she will marry him only if he left her father and the village alone. Abbi agreed and the wedding date was set. On the wedding day, Milah was getting ready for the wedding when she heard one of her servants scream. She rushed to her servant and to her horror, found a hand sticking out from the ground.
Milah reluctantly asked her servants to find out who it was. Her servants carefully dug around the area. Soon, everyone could see who it was. It was the village head, Pak Seman. Milah dropped to her knees and cried. Out of nowhere, a villager popped out and ran towards Milah. He told her that he had saw Abbi burying something there last night but he did not know what it was.
It turned out that before Abbi and Milah’s wedding. Pak Seman went to find Abbi to discuss about the wedding. They started arguing, so Abbi decided to end Pak Seman’s life then, he used his dagger and pierce through him. Abbi buried Pak Seman’s body without anyone knowing.
Milah was angry and called off the wedding. She then cursed Abbi,all his men and people from his village to suffer from a disease for 100 years. After all this, Abbi lived near a hill and it was renamed Bukit Batok because whenever you go near it, you can hear Pak Seman screaming for help silently.
The moral of the story is to treat people nicely and don’t force people if they don’t want to do it. :D!
Done byyy: Ayu & Waimun from
1e2:D!
We will never say goodbye ; 10:56 PM
Monday, July 6, 2009
For the H1N1 outbreak.
i think everyone plays a part.
If you are feeling unwell, refrain from going out.
BE hygienic at all times, if you have flu, wear a mask.
If you have came back from affected countries, quarantine youself(:
Wash hand before and after meals.
The H1N1 cases are increasing around the world.
We should prevent it from spreading even to other countries.
so take care ourselves.
We will never say goodbye ; 1:02 AM
Thursday, July 2, 2009
During the June Holidays, i had went to Cambodia, for girlguides.
First we went to Siem Reap(:
To do some charity work.
We went to an orphange first.
the kids there look skinny in size.
They were very excited:D
When we are stepping down the bus,
the kids ran out, and waved their hands(:
Well, it was heart warming.
After a few 2 days in Siem Reap, we took a few hours bus ride to Phnom Penh
To interact with their guides.
They were quite interesting though.
So then, after 1 day.
We flew back to Singapore.
It was a memorable experience for me(:
For the rest of the days,
i stayed at home.
Nowhere to go-.-
Done my homework.
somehow at the last minute:P
Time flies okay-.-
after awhile, school is back.
We will never say goodbye ; 9:14 PM
