Little India

Little India is a busy place where Indians lived. It was given to the early Indian settlers that came to Singapore.

On the 16th of May, the five classes lined up in the canteen and settled down. The teacher in charge told us about the history of Singapore. It was once said that the Sumatran prince Sang Nila Utama sailed to Singapore . When he reached , he saw a creature, which his men told him it was a singa or lion. I learned something while waiting for the bus. The animal Sang Utama saw was not a lion, it was a tiger.

When the bus arrived, we scrambled up the bus. During the bus ride, the facilitator told us the different types of gods that the Indians believed in. Examples were Shiva,Krishna etc.when we arrived, we glanced around. We were at the Tekka Centre, one of Little India's shopping malls.

We went to a shop selling saris. The shopkeeper greeted us and showed us how the 6 metre sari was worn and all about the Bindi. She also showed us how her husband did the Henna design. She told us that the paste was grounded from henna leaves and put onto the hands of a person to form a tattoo.

We went to a shop selling Indian snacks. Yummy! Those snacks are making me hungry. Unfortunately, we were only here to do a study trail.sigh...We found out that the cheapest snack was the Jabli, which was 50 cents.The most expensive was the Rajajoli, which cost a dollar.

After all the work, we went to look at the shop houses in between Campbell lane and Dunlop street. Now, the facilitator showed us a magic trick. He asked us to add the numbers of the shop houses and divide it by seven. This was our answer:68+66+64+62+60+58+56=534. 534 divide by 7=62??! Impossible...

Lastly, we went to Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple. We noticed the devotees ring bells when the prayers enter.Our facilitator told us that it was a gesture of asking their gods to grant their requests.We then entered the temple. We saw the goddess Shiva. She looked kind of GROSS.Blech! She was stepping on a man, holding a woman, holding onto a baby and the yuckiest part was the mother's intestines were dangling from her mouth!EWW..

After the trip, we went to wait for the bus in the car park. It was invested with flocks of pigeons!We waited for ten miniutes before the bus arrived. After we boarded the bus, the bus' horn sounded, and we saw the feathers fly! We handed in our booklets and relaxed as the bus took us back to school.

We Want Silton, Geronimo Silton!

Do you know my best writer? Geronimo Stilton! He is the HOTTEST writer in town! Or should I say... Almost the hottest in town.I love his stories! They are very interesting, expressive and captivating and sometimes... a little funny. I have nearly all these mice stories, all the way from
1st to the latest.

One of the funniest stories is the book called ' Shipwreck On The Pirate Islands'. In the story, the four mice, Geronimo, Thea, Trap and Benjamin go to the Pirate Islands on a vacation. They took a hydroplane to Thump Flop island, but the plane crashed into the ocean due to a tornado. The mice said that there was treasure on the island, and what the mice said was true! The treasure was a ship made of gold! On board the ship, the manual of the pirate 'Silverpaw' said that Geronimo's great-great-great-great-grandfather was the cousin of 'Silverpaw' ! That meant Geronimo and his family had pirate blood!

The story was very captivating and very interesting. I hope that you will like to read these books!