Teaching & Learning English
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
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 happened. I don’t even know why they did it, I don’t know why they took her, I don’t know why they left me … 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
List of things I hate: People calling me names People taking my stuff People breaking my stuff Losing things People copying me People making fun of me People making fun of my stuff P.S. I’m not putting any more chapters of A Rip in Mythology because you can find it at the library.
Who is more powerful, Donald Trump or Elon Musk Since 1920, 21 presidents and prime ministers from 9 countries graduated from oxford with degrees in economics, law, math, science etc. Would it have been better if they studied history?
I have to say, Shakespeare really does have a use in real life, like for example to insult someone with the highest possible manner, or in quotes. “Her face is not worth sunburning.” from Henry V. Meaning someones soooo ugly the sun don’t even bother giving him/her a sunburn. “Villain, I have done … Read more