Book report- Life, the universe and everything

This book is written by Douglas Adams, and is the final book in the hitchhiker trilogy. In this book, Arthur Dent finds himself stranded on prehistoric Earth in a miserable cave. However, he hitches a ride from an alien out of prehistoric Earth. After a chain of events, the fate of the universe rests in his hands, and Arthur is about to discover a secret about life, the universe and everything. The book ends with the mystery of the question being solved.

I find this book very interesting as there are many seemingly impossible things happening in the book. The book also gives us some very humourous parts in the middle of chapters, such as how to fly, etc. I would recommend this book to my peers, and I hope that they will enjoy it as much as I did.

Book report- The restaurant at the end of the universe

This is a book written by Douglas Adams. It is the second book in the hitchhiker's guide trilogy. In this book, the story continues on where it left off in the previous book. Arthur Dent and his partners found the gigantic supercomputer named Deep Thought, and have found out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Now, they roam the universe looking for the actual question which Deep Thought was supposed to answer. They travel through many galaxies, go through different time periods, and get into many different sticky situations.

This book is one which I would definitely recommend to my friends, as it contains quite a bit of humour, even though  the book at certain parts may not make sense. I went to find and read this book after watching the movie "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy", and finding it quite interesting. I hope that you will enjoy this book as much as I have.

Reflection for MI profiling

Recently, we were required to do a survey. I believe that the aim of this MI profiling surveyThe results came out a couple of weeks after, and let me share with you mine. I got very low for musical, and this shows that my musical ability is very low, which is true, as I do not have any interest in music. I got the highest among my scores in the Math and logic category. I believe that this reflects on my personality which tends to see things from the logical side. From these two results, I wad convinced that this test was quite accurate. I scored low for the spatial category, high for the interpersonal, intrapersonal and technical categories, and moderate for the kinesthetic, naturalist and linguistic categories. This test really reflects on my personality more accurately than the questionnaire that Mr Lundberg got us to take.

Reflection on comprehension test

The comprehension test this time was pretty tough, and I scored a B3, 1 mark from A2. I think that I could have performed better if I have slowed down and read the passage and questions more times, which would have given me a better understanding of what I had to give and what the passage was talking about. I think that I have to work on my vocabulary, as I had a few words in the passage that I did not know the exact meaning of, and that cost me a few marks. I also have to buck up for my summary question, as I miss out points and phrase my points into long phrases, when they can be much shorter. I believe that I will be able to achieve better results in the End of Year exams for comprehension if I revise these skills and get more practice at them too.

What I have learnt so far

From the start of the school year till now, I have learnt many things from Mr Lundberg. Some of which I will mention in this blog post. In the first term, I learned writing techniques for compositions, which were applied during the term test. In term two, I learnt about the format and technique to writing literature essays. I think that term 2 was the most enjoyable term for LA so far. For term 3, I have learnt more about analyzing poetry, by using the 10 step process, finding out the meanings of certain ways that the writer has phrased the lines. I think that the things we have learnt in term 3 is quite dry and a little boring, and the boring part can be seen from people sleeping in class!

Bodily/Kinesthetic blog post

This picture shows a girl about to place a flower on the ground, and is similar to Lila who bends down to offer flowers to the sacred rock.

This should be the position that Lila was in, as her face should have lit up when she saw the medicine man, and she would also have been happy that her mother would be saved.

Lila would have been bending over Pinto, who she was emotionally attatched to, being in a similar position as the girl in the picture.

Naturalist blog post

Recipe for Chapati:
Ingredients: 2 cup whole wheat flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup water

Instructions:
 1) Put the flour and salt into a bowl.
2) Add the water and mix to a stiff dough; knead well until the dough feels firm and elastic.
3) Place in a greased plastic bag or in grease proof paper and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.
4) Turn onto a floured board, shape the dough into a long roll, and divide into 12 equal slices. Roll out paper thin.
5) Heat the heavy frying pan and when very hot, cook the chapatis for about one minute on either side.
6) Cool between paper towels.
 

 Recipe for Jalibi

Ingredients: 2 cups All purpose flour (maida)
11/2 tbsp fine grained semolina or rice flour
1/4th tsp baking powder
2 tbsp curd (plain yogurt)
11/4th cups warm water
1/2 tsp saffron threads, slowly dry-roasted and powdered
3 cups sugar
22/3rd cups water
1/2 tsp green cardamom seeds powder
11/2 tbsp kewra water or rose water
Ghee or vegetable oil for frying

Instructions:
1) Mix the flour, semolina or rice flour, baking powder, curd and 3/4th cup of the water in a bowl (preferably a ceramic bowl). Mix well with a whisk.
2) Mix well and then add remaining water and 1/8th tsp. of saffron powder, and whisk until smooth.
3) Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment.
4) Whisk thoroughly before use.
5) Prepare one string syrup by dissolving sugar in the water. Just before the syrup is ready add saffron and cardamom powder.
6) Heat oil in a kadhai. Pour the batter in a steady stream ( or coconut shell with a hole) into the kadhai to form coils. Make a few at a time.7) Deep fry them until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.
7) Remove from the kadhai and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the syrup.
8) Leave for at least 4-5 minutes so that they soak the syrup.
9) Take the jalebi out of syrup and serve hot.

Difference between Chapati and Roti Prata: Chapati is generally eaten with ghee (butter), however, roti prata is usually eaten with curry

Difference between Jalebi and You Tiao: Jalebi has a chewy texture and is considered a sweet. It also originates from the Middle East and North Africa. However, You Tiao originates from the Chinese, and is eaten either dipped in soy milk or together with porridge.