Elijah's Life Experiences

"A wonderful birthday party indeed!" - have a read on this new essay by my classmate, Jarrod.           My birthday was on the 25 th  of March. I had invited some of my friends over to celebrate my birthday. The guests were Justas, Justin, Choi Minh, Joel,  Davin  and Jun Yan.           On that day, after I had my breakfast of  buttered toast  and sausages, I went upstairs to get changed into a smart but rather old suit, as we were going to have a water fight later, and I did not want my best suit to get dirty. As I went downstairs, I saw my parents already awake, and about to put up the balloons and banners.           “Please don’t put them up, Dad, Mum. I’ve grown up now. I’m ten! I’ve got to be ‘cool’!’ I said. My parents agreed, since they also wanted to be ‘cool’ when they were young. Then, they wished me a happy birthday, and said that they would give me my present later. ...

Allow me to introduce my pal and Ngee Ann Primary School classmate, Jarrod Paul Dharmaraj , who has contributed the following essay on "Incident of cheating at the exams" - my version was published earlier .       John was both a copycat and a lazy boy. He loved to play computer games and never gave a thought about his schoolwork. He spent most of his time glued to the computer screen. The PSLE was drawing near, and John had not even started revising for the examinations. As his Mathematics examination drew nearer and nearer, John started to get anxious. Finally, he decided to take desperate measures ; he was going to cheat!       A day before the examination, the teacher asked John, Tom and Jake to go to the staff room to collect some books. When they were there, they picked up the books from the teacher’s table. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, John saw the examination paper on the table. He purposely dropped his books, asking the others...