During the Assembly

Hey people,

In the assembly this Monday(four days ago), I got the prizes. :D I got trophies for the English Essay Competition, Science Speech Competition, and Jiunn Sheng represented our team to get the Explorace prizes. You can see the photos of the trophies below.

Some of you may wonder where I got my accent when I speak English?

Well, it began like this. When I was small like 1 or 2 years old, my dad got posted to Holland so I moved there and lived there for about 2 years. I think I studied at the Helen Sharman British School. I seriously remember myself having a British accent since I guess that was the only place I spoke any English, so I learned my English there. XD

Then, after two years, I returned to Miri and studied at Tadika Sri Mawar then at SJK Chung Hua Pujut. But at the start of Primary four, my dad got posted to Beijing, China. I still have warm memories with my friends at Chung Hua Pujut. :) Almost everyone in my class gave me a present before I left, including teachers XD. I lived in Beijing for about 3 years, and I studied at the Yew Chung International School. I rememeber having a Malaysian accent at the first few months there, but after a while, since everyone else was speaking English with an Americna accent, I started to pick it up. And since then I have spoken English with an American accent. XD Even until this day. XD Maybe you can hear me speak sometimes? Lol, just joking.

However, I think my accent is kind of fading now. Do you think so? Sometimes I speak with a bit of a Malaysian accent. Some people don't understand when I speak American-ish. :(

And that was the story of how I learned to speak English the way I do now. :) Lol Do you like it? :D

Ok nowww for pictures!~


Don't mean to brag but this is my English Essay Competition trophy!


These are the Science Speech Competition trophy and the Explorace trophy...(Actually I was expecting something bigger and more golden in colour XD)

Anyway, I'm just showing you, I'm not bragging! XD

Please comment before you leave! Thanks!

Cya ppl!~

Tian Yun Concert!

Hii Everyone~

I'm currently listening to 爱来过 by S.H.E. It's kinda cool~ you should listen to it. Ok soo why is my heading "Tian Yun Concert"? Because that's the concert I went to last night. It's a Chrisitan concert, and the singers are from Taiwan. I think it was OK. XD I even got to take a picture with one of the singers!

Wow it's been a very long tiem since I've been to a concert. I mean, I don't usually go to concerts, and most of the time I can't go. :( And in Miri there are no lik really big concerts. Have you ever seen Jolin Tsai have a concert in Miri? If got I wanna go! XD Ok that was weird.

Ok, now I shall talk about the concert. It was at Eastwood Valley. It was seriously jamming when we got there. But good thing we got good seats. We also saw other church members from our church too. The theme I think was 你的手永远比我大 (Your hand will always be bigger than mine) I took lots of pictures. You can look at them below later after you've finished reading my post. Don't just skip to the pictures. Hehe XD.

The singers were really cool. Their voices are soooo good. They really know how to blend their voices. They also have sharing sessions in between the singing, where one of the singers share his or her experiences and events that have changed his or her life and brought him or her closer to God.

Overall, it was Ok. After the concert, all 8 singers were down the stage and you could walk up to them and take photos witht them and ask them questions. Lol, my brother wanted one of the guys to sign his arm! Yeah but he didn't get it. -_-" o well. Anyway, I got to take a photo with one of the woman singers! Yeah ok now I'll jsut post the pictures before you get bored. XD

The Praise and Worship before the concert.

Three of the women singers. XD

I took this photo when they sung the song 自然的书. It's quite nice. You should find it out!

All the eight singers.

The woman singer singing after her sharing. Her story was quite touching, and so was the song. Here she is surrounded by....i dunno the devil?

But in the end thing she was saved!

After the concert: One of the guy singers shaking hands with people~

This was the woman singer I took a photo with. She was kinda nice. She asked me how old I was and told me to "jia you". That was cool XD~

Overall, it was a really cool concert. Some of the songs were quite touching. Gods hand will always be bigger than ours. Amen? Amen! XD

Ok, I'll end this post here first. I'm gonna post other pics of another event later~

Give me comments! Lol Thx~~~

Know your Name!

Hey everyone~

Wow I was surfing the net when I suddenly decided to check my own surname. It's kinda interesting, getting to know your own surname. If you didn't know, my Chinese name is 夏信哲. And from what I know, it's not very common. XD. The only person I know who has the same surname as myself besides my relatives is Madam Ha. LolXD. Some people even say we're related, like -_-"".

Here's my surname's history! (simplified)

Origin of Xia*, Hsia*, Ha*(夏):

-The 55th most popular last name in China.
-It is the first last name that is directly related to a dynasty. The Xia Dynasty lasted for more than 400 years and was brought to an end by the Shang Dynasty in 1,783 B.C. After this, the people of Xia, made Xia their last name. (Xia means summer).

Here is also the history of some surnames which some of you might have :D (All are simplified) :

Origin of Fan*, Fang* (范):

-The 61st most common last name in China.
-Descendents of Tang Yao and Liu Lei.

Origin of Huang*, Wong*, Huynh*, Hwang*, Oei*, Ooi*(黄):

-The 8th most common last name in China.
-The Huangs and Zhaos have the same forefather, Shao Hao (2,597-2513 B.C.).
-The Huang Kingdom was recognized by the Zhou Dynasty, but was eliminated in 648 B.C., by Chu, and the descendents began to bear the last name of Huang. (Huang means yellow in Chinese).

Origin of Wu*, Ng*, Ang*, Eng*, Ing*(吴):

-The 10th most common Chinese last name.
-Wus last name came from one of the following sources:
1) descendents of Wu Quan, an official of Zhuan Xu (2,513 2435 B.C.),
2) descendents of Yu Shun (2,255 2,205 B.C.),
3) descendents of the famous archer of Xia Shao Kang (2,079-2,057 B.C.)
4) descendents of the kings of the Wu Kingdom established by Tai Bo and Zhong Yong. The fourth source is the biggest one.

Origin of Shen*, Sun*, Sung* (沈):

-The 37th most common last name in China.
-There are three main origins.
1) Descendents of Shao Hao. The grandson of Shao Hao was the kings teacher, and he had two sons, Yun Ge and Tai Dai.
2) The youngest brother of Zhou Wu Wang, Ran Ji, was awarded the kingdom of Shen, for his achievement of suppressing the rebellion following his brothers death. His descendents also have the last name Shen.
3) Yet another origin came from the last name Mi. During Chun Qiu, The great grandson of Chu Jon Wang, Shu, was the governor of the town of Shen, and was known as Shen Yi Shu.

Origin of Li*, Lee*, Yi* (Korean), Ly* (Vietnamese) (李):

-The 2nd most common last name in China.
-The origin of the Li last name was quite complicated, having to do with the official title and tree name.
-During the Tang Dynasty, many people (including Xu, Bing, Dong, An, Ge, Du, Wu, Ma, Zhang, and Hong) were give the name of Li for their contributions in establishing the Tang Dynasty, and Li became a big family.

Origin of Cai*, Tsai*, Choi*, Choy*, Chua*, Chye*(蔡):

-The 44th most common last name in China.
-They are the descendents of the 5th son of Zhou Wu Wang, Shu Du.

Sooo as you can see, my surname is quite uncommon. XD That is sooo cool.

Be proud of your own surname! XD

That's all for now, I'll blog about happenings or events sometime else.

Bye~

A Typical Day

Hey ppl~

Yeah I know I haven't been updating lately. I am sooo lazy. XD

So now I'll just write stuff about recent happenings.

Today, nothing much happened.

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Well, we did have English class in the morning. Which we had to write some love conversation between a man called Jim and woman called Della. Lol, I write some really freaky/mushy lines. I think it was something like this:

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Della: Oh Jim, I love you!

Jim: Oh Della, I love you too!

(hugs and kisses)

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Lol yeah I know it's weird. Haha~

So then, we had Physics class. We did the heat experiment. Well, the other group failed to get the right results because something happened? I forgot what happened. And then the teacher was like telling our group that they were all counting on us now cause the other group failed. Well, it turns out that we failed as well because when we took out the heating equipment it wasn't even hot. So I guess we wasted our time waiting there, looking to see if the ice would melt? Well, how would anyone know if the heater actually worked or not if no one dared to touch it? XD

Anyway, after recess. We had History class. Problem was, the teacher didn't come. XD Well, everyone was busy trying to study for the Chemistry test next period.

Then, as if a miracle just happened. The test was CANCELLED!~~ MUAHAHA. Right.

Well, we were just sitting in our class during chemistryt period because the test was supposed to be in the classroom. But the teacher didn't come. Then I think it was Wan Wei who came in the class, and told everyone that the test was cancelled! They were like screaming~ I don't know what they screamed about, but the test was cancelled. Woohoo~

Anyway, we had to go to Chemistry anyway. We did some sort of exercise there and then after that we went home.

Tomorrow, we have an Indoor Games meeting and an ICT meeting.

I am sooooo bored. Somebody has to talk to me on MSN, so stop complaining and get online! lol~

Oh yeah, does anyone have any ideas on what I should put for the class noticeboard? I'm the AJK Keceriaan if you didn't know. And even if I wasn't, I would still put fun stuff, just for fun. XD I'm thinking of making contests? Yeah so give me ideas.

Ooooo and one more thing. I don't wanna brag but I got first place for some competitions! Muahaha Yeah~! Here's what I won:

-Science Speech Competition: 1st Place

-English Essay Competition: 1st Place

-Science Explorace (Our group was Jiunn Sheng, Poh Huai and me): 1st Place....!!!

They're gonna give the prizes during assembly next Monday. :D Don't forget to see me there! Haha~!

Comment on my posts people. (Either comment here, or in my cbox)

Cya~!