My reflective journal

1. My parents have plenty of expectations for me if you were to ask. One of them will be to get grade 8 piano by next year. I have been playing piano for 8 years now. I started when I was in Kindergarden and now am learning for grade 8. I hope I will be able to pass my piano so that I can get rid of that burden. Another of my parents expectations is to get good grades for my exams and to get a good job when I grow up so that I will be able to support them. Unfortunately, one part of this expectation is half way there. I do not do totally well in exams and I even think I suck at my subjects. I don't do well in my English, Chinese but am still improving, History and Grography ( for this subject sometimes I do well, sometimes I do badly ) . The only subjects which I consider myself good in is Science and Math. I still have a long way to go before I can score in my exams.

2. For me, I wouldn't put too much burden on my children if I even do get married. I would just give them one objective that all parents have including In mmy own parents, do well in exams and do well in PSLE, O/N/A level and so on. This is the most common expectation for every parent as they will lose face if their children do badly in the exams. Doing well in the exams will also affect the children as it will determine whether or not the child is smart enough to qualify for University and continue studying and eventually earn a good amount of money to live comfortably. Without this expectation, children will have a care-less attitude and will not do well in exams.

3. In my opinion, I would say that the expectations of the two generations will not differ cause every parent wants them to do well in their exams.

Book review

I have just finished reading "Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH". The story tells us how Mrs. Frisby goes about taking care of here children and her sick child. Moving day will be coming soon but Timothy who is the sick mouse, is not strong enough to move. Hence, Mrs. Frisby meets a crow named Jeremy and he tells her that there is an owl living in one of the hollow trees in the forest and that she should meet him should she want to get advice on what she should do about moving day. The owl recommends her to seek help from the rats and tell them to move her house before moving day and talk to Nicodemus who is somewhat the chairperson of the rats. These rats are the civilized type and not the typical ones seen on the everyday streets. Nicodemus tells Mrs. Frisby his story about how he knows Mrs. Frisby's husband, Jonathan Frisby who got killed by Dragon the cat. Nicodemus tells her that they were ordinary rats looking for food when people caught them for an experiment and injected them with some liquid which was supposedly able to allow the rats to live twice as long and could make them smarter and intelligent. Slowly, the rats learned to read and write along the journey as they escape from the laboratory and enter somebody's house and read encyclopedias and later escape and arrive at where they are now. In order to move her house, the rats had to put sleeping powder into Dragon's food. While doing so, Mrs. Frisby gets caught by Dragon's owners and overhears that the rats were going to be exterminated.When she got out, she told Nicodemus everything and on the next day after moving the house, all the rats shifted out except for 10 of them who stayed back. In the end 3 of them died. As Mrs. Frisby did not tell her children the truth and what really happened, she decided to tell them everything and the truth, about the rats and how Jonathan Frisby was related to them.