Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Russian navy locates missing ship

The ship, Artic Sea, sailed off from Finland to Algeria on 23 July carrying onboard a cargo of timber worth US$2 million (S$2.9 million). The crew of 15 on the ship was said to be hijacked on the night of July 24 by 8 masked man. The crew let them embark on the ship as they were fooled by their lie that they had some problem with their inflatable craft. Then they threatened the crew to change the course way of the ship with their firearms and turned off the freighter's navigation equipment. The ship's owner claimed that hijackers boarded the vessel near the Swedish island of Gotland. The hijackers claimed to be searching for drugs and reportedly beat then tied up the crew. They sped off half a day later in a inflatable craft. The ship was found on Monday with all the crew safe and sound.

This kind of situation often happens. Someone gets tricked because he is too kind. People tend to make use of others' kindness to gain sympathy from them and then trick them of their properties or other kinds of valuables to reach their goal. This is quite despicable for those who do that as to those for lend them a helping hand. Being kind is good but it may lead to your ow demise sometimes so being suspicious of people sometimes is good as they may have ulter motives.

Favourite Food


I like eating fast food especially McDonalds. There are a variety of food and I like the Big Mac burger most. It has two layers of beef , vegetables and cheese. It is not spicy and the taste is very strong. The taste of beef is mixed with cheese and lettuce which bring out the taste of the beef to its maximum level for a burger. Since it has two layers of beef, the smell is also very strong. I can smell it from a distance. Every time I eat it, I always put ketchup before savouring the burger. Sometimes I put chili sauce but it was quite annoying as the sauce oozed out of the burger sometimes and make the burger seem disgusting. It is not much different from double cheese burger and I think most people prefer double cheese burger. For me, I like Big Mac because it has one more piece of bread. The beef is quite salty for me so I prefer eating it with an extra piece of bread just like eating salty kimchi with rice. The lettuce also helps make the beef taste less salty and one thing that I do not like about it is that it is too big and i have a hard time eating it.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Why is it important for students to keep up to date with the news? Share some tips on how students can keep up with what is happening around them

It is important for students to keep up to date with the news.Without knowing what is happening around the world,they will face problems with their lives.Like for example if students do not keep up to date with the news,they will now know that there are terrorists attacks happening in neighbouring countries.During the holidays he may just want to go there without knowing how dangerous it is.In the end he may get hurt.Now there is H1N1 diseases spreading around,if students does not read newspaper and watch the news regularly,he would not know the precautions to take to prevent being infected by the diseases and may end up contacting the disease.

Students can keep up to date with the news by reading newspaper regularly. They can also watch the news report every evening or during the night. If he is so busy until he cannot spare time for that, he can ask his friends and classmates about the recent news.