Primary 5 awarded pieces* (2nd place, 3rd place and merits)
Chinese New Year SECOND PLACE
Andrzej So 5C
The cheer of crowds, the happy sounds,
people get wads of cash, loaded in their hands.
Adults and kids snatch hundreds of pounds,
keeping them neatly in rubber bands.
You won’t see a person frowning or sad,
even the animals shout with glee, running and racing.
Now look at the parents finally not mad,
instead buying packets, running and pacing.
The families eat of course like a horse,
ordering meals and eating pork.
Demolishing course after course after course,
never stopping to sharpen their forks.
Everyone keeps buying and buying stuff,
only looking at the cost.
Fathers buy ties, mothers buy powder puffs,
but they are missing a detail that is lost.
Fireworks explode, the dog runs away itself,
we offer presents to sisters and brothers.
But have you realized something else?
The real gift is being together!
Andrzej So 5C
The cheer of crowds, the happy sounds,
people get wads of cash, loaded in their hands.
Adults and kids snatch hundreds of pounds,
keeping them neatly in rubber bands.
You won’t see a person frowning or sad,
even the animals shout with glee, running and racing.
Now look at the parents finally not mad,
instead buying packets, running and pacing.
The families eat of course like a horse,
ordering meals and eating pork.
Demolishing course after course after course,
never stopping to sharpen their forks.
Everyone keeps buying and buying stuff,
only looking at the cost.
Fathers buy ties, mothers buy powder puffs,
but they are missing a detail that is lost.
Fireworks explode, the dog runs away itself,
we offer presents to sisters and brothers.
But have you realized something else?
The real gift is being together!
A Day in the Life of My Pet THIRD PLACE
Jayden Chow 5C
“Yawn…” I woke up sleepily. A huge racket was going on. I patted on the plastic door on my cage. It swung open. I did that little trick all the time. That door’s loose. As I crawled over, my owner tried to pick me up. I immediately turned around and crawled at a speed of 0.9 kilometres per hour. That’s pretty fast for a turtle, like me. I might have broken my new record. Yes!
Ugh! Now I’ve ended up in my owner’s sink. He filled it up with water. You might be thinking, I thought you were crawling extremely fast! Well, think again! My owner is a human, not a snail! I actually clawed around, but I don’t think he got the message that I hated, despised and disliked being lifted into the air and being forced to fly through the air at a speed of 10 kilometres per hour.
Sometimes I wonder why my owner doesn’t know that I like and what I don’t. If he doesn’t, I will state it once more: I don’t (I repeat: don’t) like sitting in a giant sink for 3 hours with the lights off. That’s exactly what he did! I’m guessing, he doesn’t remember that I’m there. How could he forget when he has that colossal brain? Finally (after 3 hours), he let me go.
Now that I’m free, I need to eat. That’s the best part of the day! After that, I need a nap. I feel exhausted after all that swimming in the sink and gasping for air (Arrgh!)…zzz…wait a minute. I’m still wet. Now, not to brag, but I am an expert at sleeping. To get your best sleeping experience, the humidity should be 60%. Now I am at 100%. That is not good. I wandered towards the fan in my owner’s room, leaving a slippery water trail behind (Not my fault – I was wet!). After drying up, I wandered back to my cage, and (of course) slept. Zzzz…
This day had turned out to be a bad one. I hope the next day won’t.
Jayden Chow 5C
“Yawn…” I woke up sleepily. A huge racket was going on. I patted on the plastic door on my cage. It swung open. I did that little trick all the time. That door’s loose. As I crawled over, my owner tried to pick me up. I immediately turned around and crawled at a speed of 0.9 kilometres per hour. That’s pretty fast for a turtle, like me. I might have broken my new record. Yes!
Ugh! Now I’ve ended up in my owner’s sink. He filled it up with water. You might be thinking, I thought you were crawling extremely fast! Well, think again! My owner is a human, not a snail! I actually clawed around, but I don’t think he got the message that I hated, despised and disliked being lifted into the air and being forced to fly through the air at a speed of 10 kilometres per hour.
Sometimes I wonder why my owner doesn’t know that I like and what I don’t. If he doesn’t, I will state it once more: I don’t (I repeat: don’t) like sitting in a giant sink for 3 hours with the lights off. That’s exactly what he did! I’m guessing, he doesn’t remember that I’m there. How could he forget when he has that colossal brain? Finally (after 3 hours), he let me go.
Now that I’m free, I need to eat. That’s the best part of the day! After that, I need a nap. I feel exhausted after all that swimming in the sink and gasping for air (Arrgh!)…zzz…wait a minute. I’m still wet. Now, not to brag, but I am an expert at sleeping. To get your best sleeping experience, the humidity should be 60%. Now I am at 100%. That is not good. I wandered towards the fan in my owner’s room, leaving a slippery water trail behind (Not my fault – I was wet!). After drying up, I wandered back to my cage, and (of course) slept. Zzzz…
This day had turned out to be a bad one. I hope the next day won’t.
A Letter of Advice to a Character in “Matilda” MERIT
Taurean Chan 5A
Dear Miss Trunchball,
I hope this letter finds you well. Having read about you in the book of Matilda, you seem very angry and upset these days. I want you to be happy and joyful with your life, so I am writing this letter to offer some useful advice for you.
First, you should be loving and compassionate to everyone at school. If you are always angry, students and teachers at school will be terrified of you and will not want to spend time in your company. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. In addition, it is so important to know that every time you get distraught, it drums your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you exhausted. Always fuming with anger like a volcano ready to erupt will mess up your health.
It’s so much better to be loving and kind to others. For instance, my teachers are friendly and gentle to us, so we feel elated whenever we are with them. When we have a problem, they will always lend an ear to us. Our school is like our second home.
If you have bad thoughts all the time, it will show on your face. A person who has good and positive thoughts cannot ever BE UGLY! I know about this couple who were called the Twits. They used to look handsome and beautiful but they always thought of nasty things, so ugliness grew upon them and they passed away alone and miserably. If you have happy thoughts, you will always be pretty and lovely no matter what you look like, and people will be drawn to you.
I hope this advice is helpful to you. Cheer up! I believe underneath you hard exterior is a heart of gold.
Regards,
Taurean
Taurean Chan 5A
Dear Miss Trunchball,
I hope this letter finds you well. Having read about you in the book of Matilda, you seem very angry and upset these days. I want you to be happy and joyful with your life, so I am writing this letter to offer some useful advice for you.
First, you should be loving and compassionate to everyone at school. If you are always angry, students and teachers at school will be terrified of you and will not want to spend time in your company. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. In addition, it is so important to know that every time you get distraught, it drums your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you exhausted. Always fuming with anger like a volcano ready to erupt will mess up your health.
It’s so much better to be loving and kind to others. For instance, my teachers are friendly and gentle to us, so we feel elated whenever we are with them. When we have a problem, they will always lend an ear to us. Our school is like our second home.
If you have bad thoughts all the time, it will show on your face. A person who has good and positive thoughts cannot ever BE UGLY! I know about this couple who were called the Twits. They used to look handsome and beautiful but they always thought of nasty things, so ugliness grew upon them and they passed away alone and miserably. If you have happy thoughts, you will always be pretty and lovely no matter what you look like, and people will be drawn to you.
I hope this advice is helpful to you. Cheer up! I believe underneath you hard exterior is a heart of gold.
Regards,
Taurean
The Future MERIT
Daniel Ho 5B
Nathan was 8 years old when he stepped out of the reinforced bunker into the real world. The date was 16th July, 2093. His parents had made a decision that it was finally time to expose him to a little glimpse of this uninhabitable world, once known as Planet Earth. Now it’s a nightmare land, a place of death – not a tree, not a flower, not a blade of grass. The sky was covered with acidic clouds, and the air was unbreathable, filled with CO2. I can’t believe I’m living in this hellish world, Nathan thought. I was expecting to see a lovely world, a use-to-be world filled with life, not this! Who in the history of mankind would have zero consideration to us “futurelings” who had converted such a beautiful world to literal HELL?
His mother had sensed his thoughts because she answered that it was the people from the last generations that polluted this planet, and she had an idea. She suggested that we use the public time machine and travel back to 2019AD to warn them not to pollute anymore.
So that’s exactly what Nathan did. He grabbed an energy generator, a photo of the dreadful land above, and stepped into the time machine. Travelling at a million times the speed of light, Nathan appeared at Hong Kong’s power plant, which was pumping inordinate amounts of carbon dioxide into the oxygen-rich atmosphere.
“Stop!” cried Nathan.
“Wuzzat? Who are you? WHAT are you? What are you doing here?” said the boss.
“Stop the plant!”
“Why?”
“For us weak ‘futurelings’! Every molecule of CO2 you produce is damaging our very lives!”
“Where did you come from? WHEN did you come from?”
“I’m from 2093AD, and I’m here to stop you from polluting this planet! Look at our world now. Then look at MY world! “He showed him the Venus-like Earth. “You see? If you stop this dreadful process, your next generation will have a better life! This is a stupid process to make energy anyway!” He fished out a small machine and said, “This is a stellar reactor. It absorbs almost all of the solar energy and does zero damage to Mother Earth! With this machine, technology will advance so fast that you might even become a planetary civilization EARLY!”
The boss immediately accepted his idea and complimented him that he was a genius. Nathan, feeling satisfied, went back to his time. He was greeted by a breathable atmosphere, a planet full of life, and unimaginable technology. He was then known as the first planet-saving savior, known for a million years, to infinity and beyond.
Daniel Ho 5B
Nathan was 8 years old when he stepped out of the reinforced bunker into the real world. The date was 16th July, 2093. His parents had made a decision that it was finally time to expose him to a little glimpse of this uninhabitable world, once known as Planet Earth. Now it’s a nightmare land, a place of death – not a tree, not a flower, not a blade of grass. The sky was covered with acidic clouds, and the air was unbreathable, filled with CO2. I can’t believe I’m living in this hellish world, Nathan thought. I was expecting to see a lovely world, a use-to-be world filled with life, not this! Who in the history of mankind would have zero consideration to us “futurelings” who had converted such a beautiful world to literal HELL?
His mother had sensed his thoughts because she answered that it was the people from the last generations that polluted this planet, and she had an idea. She suggested that we use the public time machine and travel back to 2019AD to warn them not to pollute anymore.
So that’s exactly what Nathan did. He grabbed an energy generator, a photo of the dreadful land above, and stepped into the time machine. Travelling at a million times the speed of light, Nathan appeared at Hong Kong’s power plant, which was pumping inordinate amounts of carbon dioxide into the oxygen-rich atmosphere.
“Stop!” cried Nathan.
“Wuzzat? Who are you? WHAT are you? What are you doing here?” said the boss.
“Stop the plant!”
“Why?”
“For us weak ‘futurelings’! Every molecule of CO2 you produce is damaging our very lives!”
“Where did you come from? WHEN did you come from?”
“I’m from 2093AD, and I’m here to stop you from polluting this planet! Look at our world now. Then look at MY world! “He showed him the Venus-like Earth. “You see? If you stop this dreadful process, your next generation will have a better life! This is a stupid process to make energy anyway!” He fished out a small machine and said, “This is a stellar reactor. It absorbs almost all of the solar energy and does zero damage to Mother Earth! With this machine, technology will advance so fast that you might even become a planetary civilization EARLY!”
The boss immediately accepted his idea and complimented him that he was a genius. Nathan, feeling satisfied, went back to his time. He was greeted by a breathable atmosphere, a planet full of life, and unimaginable technology. He was then known as the first planet-saving savior, known for a million years, to infinity and beyond.
The Future MERIT
Tim Wang 5B
“Rise and shine sir, it’s 7:30 am, 26 May 2037.” I was woken up by this pleasant voice and the moment I opened my eyes, I saw a robot smiling at me. “I’ve already prepared your toothbrush, your favourite breakfast and your suit, you also have two important meetings to attend today…” After brushing my teeth, I finished my delicious breakfast, and hopped into my car. My autonomous asked me, “Is your destination the office?” I replied by nodding my head, it then started to move, playing some music on the road. Arriving at my office. The entrance camera recognized my face and opened the door for me. Around 6:00 pm, my car came and drove me back to my house.
This was how my day started and ended, it was great…until one day, the AI system stopped working due to a hacker infiltrating it! When I woke up, I realized it was already 10:30 am, I noticed that my robot was motionless when I yelled at him! What happened? I quickly turned on the TV and saw a breaking news – all the robots were paralyzed due to a major cyber-attack! I would be late for work. I had to take a bus to my office and it took me more than an hour to get there! Arriving at my office, the face detection system didn’t work either! I had to call my boss and he was very mad when he saw me late for work! What a disaster!
“Beep, beep, beep!”, all of a sudden, my alarm went off the I was woken up “again”. Thank god I just had a bad dream. But it was so vivid till now that I still remember how helpless my life had become when the AI systems malfunctioned. I’m really glad it wasn’t real. But with the development of the AI systems, I fear that will happen in 10 or 20 years. Time to really get up!
Tim Wang 5B
“Rise and shine sir, it’s 7:30 am, 26 May 2037.” I was woken up by this pleasant voice and the moment I opened my eyes, I saw a robot smiling at me. “I’ve already prepared your toothbrush, your favourite breakfast and your suit, you also have two important meetings to attend today…” After brushing my teeth, I finished my delicious breakfast, and hopped into my car. My autonomous asked me, “Is your destination the office?” I replied by nodding my head, it then started to move, playing some music on the road. Arriving at my office. The entrance camera recognized my face and opened the door for me. Around 6:00 pm, my car came and drove me back to my house.
This was how my day started and ended, it was great…until one day, the AI system stopped working due to a hacker infiltrating it! When I woke up, I realized it was already 10:30 am, I noticed that my robot was motionless when I yelled at him! What happened? I quickly turned on the TV and saw a breaking news – all the robots were paralyzed due to a major cyber-attack! I would be late for work. I had to take a bus to my office and it took me more than an hour to get there! Arriving at my office, the face detection system didn’t work either! I had to call my boss and he was very mad when he saw me late for work! What a disaster!
“Beep, beep, beep!”, all of a sudden, my alarm went off the I was woken up “again”. Thank god I just had a bad dream. But it was so vivid till now that I still remember how helpless my life had become when the AI systems malfunctioned. I’m really glad it wasn’t real. But with the development of the AI systems, I fear that will happen in 10 or 20 years. Time to really get up!
Love MERIT
Cyrus Ngan 5C
Once upon a time,
there was a village full of bird,
a couple was scolding at their son
with pitiful words.
“How could you do this,
you’ve always been well-behaved!
How could you be naughty
when you aren’t safe!”
“I’m leaving forever!
And I hate you since youth!”
“You can go but that will not
change the truth!”
Without further ado,
the bird spread his wings,
heading to nowhere and
without any landings.
The bird was blaming his parents
without a reason,
the wind brought it to a place
to teach him a lesson.
The bird saw a boy stealing food,
but his mother ignored it.
The boy got arrested with a hood
and the shopkeeper threw a fit.
Witnessing the scene,
the bird felt ashamed.
He finally knew his sin
and knew that he was framed.
He flew back to his village
and apologized to his mum and dad.
His mum and dad comforted him
and courage him to be a fine lad.
Just like everyone of us,
we should always feel lucky
to have such good parents
and never forget the infinite love of honey.
Cyrus Ngan 5C
Once upon a time,
there was a village full of bird,
a couple was scolding at their son
with pitiful words.
“How could you do this,
you’ve always been well-behaved!
How could you be naughty
when you aren’t safe!”
“I’m leaving forever!
And I hate you since youth!”
“You can go but that will not
change the truth!”
Without further ado,
the bird spread his wings,
heading to nowhere and
without any landings.
The bird was blaming his parents
without a reason,
the wind brought it to a place
to teach him a lesson.
The bird saw a boy stealing food,
but his mother ignored it.
The boy got arrested with a hood
and the shopkeeper threw a fit.
Witnessing the scene,
the bird felt ashamed.
He finally knew his sin
and knew that he was framed.
He flew back to his village
and apologized to his mum and dad.
His mum and dad comforted him
and courage him to be a fine lad.
Just like everyone of us,
we should always feel lucky
to have such good parents
and never forget the infinite love of honey.
A Day as a Hamster MERIT
Nick Wong 5E
Hello, it’s me, Mike the hamster. Since you’re reading my diary, I’d assume you’re a human! I’m the only hamster that can write!
Long story short, when I woke up, I found myself as a hamster. Originally, I was a human, but some sort of magic took place and changed me into my pet hamster.
Anyway, I woke up to an alarm clock this morning. How does this make sense? Even when I become my pet, I still have to wake up at six o’clock! Man, this is so unfair!
Well, at least my breakfast was prepared. Thank goodness my servant (sorry, my former servant) decided to give me cornflakes. Not nearly as good as my bread and scrambled eggs, but I suppose this will have to make do.
Looking on the bright side, I don’t have to go to school, nor do I have to do homework. Hey, I’m trying to be optimistic.
Having nothing to do, I approached the hamster wheel. I ran surprisingly well, when you keep in mind that I am a hamster.
Half an hour later, I was hot and sweaty. Bath time, I decided. I got into my hamster-sized tub and started bathing. Quite embarrassingly, I fell asleep in the tub.
When I woke up, it was already four in the afternoon. The sight that my eyes saw was completely unbelievable. I saw myself.
Now, most of you might say, “Come on, Mike. I see myself every day in my mirror!” Alas, this is totally, utterly different. This is the first time in history, that one has seen oneself directly.
If you want to know how scary it was, read on. First, imagine entering the scariest thing on earth. Quite scary, right? Then, multiply it by a thousand. Enough to wreck anybody’s nerves already. Finally, take what you have to the power of a thousand. This is approximately how I felt back then.
So, when I saw myself, I did the only natural thing: I fainted.
When I opened my eyes again, it was dinnertime. I was still freaked out. I was so scared that even my food seemed tasteless.
So, here I am, writing this diary. You know, I’m kind of…sleepy…zzz…
Nick Wong 5E
Hello, it’s me, Mike the hamster. Since you’re reading my diary, I’d assume you’re a human! I’m the only hamster that can write!
Long story short, when I woke up, I found myself as a hamster. Originally, I was a human, but some sort of magic took place and changed me into my pet hamster.
Anyway, I woke up to an alarm clock this morning. How does this make sense? Even when I become my pet, I still have to wake up at six o’clock! Man, this is so unfair!
Well, at least my breakfast was prepared. Thank goodness my servant (sorry, my former servant) decided to give me cornflakes. Not nearly as good as my bread and scrambled eggs, but I suppose this will have to make do.
Looking on the bright side, I don’t have to go to school, nor do I have to do homework. Hey, I’m trying to be optimistic.
Having nothing to do, I approached the hamster wheel. I ran surprisingly well, when you keep in mind that I am a hamster.
Half an hour later, I was hot and sweaty. Bath time, I decided. I got into my hamster-sized tub and started bathing. Quite embarrassingly, I fell asleep in the tub.
When I woke up, it was already four in the afternoon. The sight that my eyes saw was completely unbelievable. I saw myself.
Now, most of you might say, “Come on, Mike. I see myself every day in my mirror!” Alas, this is totally, utterly different. This is the first time in history, that one has seen oneself directly.
If you want to know how scary it was, read on. First, imagine entering the scariest thing on earth. Quite scary, right? Then, multiply it by a thousand. Enough to wreck anybody’s nerves already. Finally, take what you have to the power of a thousand. This is approximately how I felt back then.
So, when I saw myself, I did the only natural thing: I fainted.
When I opened my eyes again, it was dinnertime. I was still freaked out. I was so scared that even my food seemed tasteless.
So, here I am, writing this diary. You know, I’m kind of…sleepy…zzz…
