Teaching & Learning English
As a person who was born in a country where everyone looks different from you, or when you’re back at your supposedly “home” yet everything feels unfamiliar, I tend to feel confused on the term “home”. I’ve always considered Nottingham as my true home, only because I spent my childhood there and feel the most … Read more
Characters: -Major: Parallel to Lenin, Karl Marx, as they all inspired uprising/consider revolting, but didn’t live to see the revolution they started. -Snowball: Parallel to Leon Trotsky, as he was exiled from the soviet union(Manor farm in the book) after posing a threat to their leader(Stalin in reality and Napoleon in the book) -Napoleon: Parallel … Read more
When my extended family—grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, and a squad of cousins—decided to go on a family trip to Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu, I knew it would be full of chaos, laughter, and a lot of food. It turns out I’m right! Waking up early always seems like a destined start of every holiday trip. At … Read more
I have doubts about almost everything: I doubt that Darwinism is true, I doubt that the Earth is round, and I doubt that writing analytical essays is fun. But there is one thing I have no doubt about—“Bird Paradise” in Singapore is the most spectacular zoo in the world! Bird Paradise is the largest aviary … Read more
First, I hate hegemonies. Second, this is my Grade 8 SA ‘vestige’. Third, please have a look 🙂 The fall of the Ottoman Empire (News report) Leo Muzhen Li Introduction It was a cold winter afternoon in Istanbul in 1705. After a heavy shower, the air was moist, and the street was wet, there were … Read more
©Leo Muzhen Li This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. … Read more
Analysis: first, in “I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about this that I wish to speak … Read more
“So, I need to wash Princess Terrett’s mobile phone?” Lemon asked uncertainly. “No, you need to wash her car,” Froggy corrected. “It’s pronounced mo-bil, like the Batmobile or something.” ”Just wash her car.” Nightshade added. “This one is really tame. Just use a garden hose and some special soap. Simple.” Lemon felt a little less … Read more
“This one’s relatively tame,” commented Nightshade. “All you have to do is cut her toenails, Lemon. Simple.” Lemon groaned. “Have you seen Princess Terrett’s toenails? They have about thirty years of grime and muck stuck under them AND they’re about six inches long. And all fragile and yellow and cracked. It’s a method of torture!” … Read more
This is the first part of my story The Paths Will Meet. If I reach 3 likes I’ll show you the rest… eventually. Six months ago, everything went wrong. The birds were singing, the wind was blowing in the trees. Me and my mother were having a nice stroll in the park. That’s when it … Read more
“Code,” said Nightshade. ”What?” Asked Lemon. ”You need to learn a code language.” ”Whattt?” Nightshade sighed. “It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, Lemon.” ”But Nightshade,” Froggy said, “we’re supposed to learn a language, not a code.” ”Code languages, Froggy.” ”Oh.” Froggy and Nightshade decided to teach Lemon a Caesar cipher, since Caesar ciphers are … Read more
Inspired by essay Absurdity and suicide form Le Myth de Sisyphe and La peste, Written by French writer Albert Camus. Préface One lived in absurd, yet some is ignorant of that. Why absurd? Irrational, bizarre, void. One had options to give up and succumb: Either made haphazard expectation of the coming future, yet this idea is … Read more