Caleb Chess Checkmate

Last week, My family and I went to Bintan for a holiday. We boarded the ferry called Aria Bupala ". During the ride, I felt very seasick. I guessed the waves were a little more choppy this time. This is a picture of my brothers and I seating at the top deck of the ferry. When we reached the hotel, daddy went to the reception to check in. Our room numbers were 1037 and 1035. In the room, my brothers and I quickly changed into my swimming shorts so that I could go and swim in the pool immediately! But when we reached the pool, I found out that the pool was not what I had expected because there were no slides, only a basketball net. I felt disappointed. A while later, we decided to head to the beach. The beach was my favourite place because there were so many black-striped fish, mudskippers and lots of crabs swimming in the stream that led out to the sea. After playing at the beach and climbing l a r g e boulders for a while, I decided to explore the stream further. We were so surpr...

Yesterday, I decided to make a Crossbow. I got the idea from a T.V programme called the Mythbusters on Discovery Channel. The programme is about people who heard of stories and try to make them true. For example Archimedes built a big shield with lots of glass pieces to reflect sun rays to burn down the Roman ships. So, the Mythbusters would try to build what Archimedes built to destroy a ship. This time, the Mythbusters tried to make a Crossbow out of paper and homemade glue and this project worked! I was fascinated by this creation; that they could make actually such a strong crossbow out of flimsy paper! That was why I decided to try and make a Crossbow. These are the steps: How to make a Crossbow Things you need: 1. two rubberbands 2. string 3. double sided tape 4. a pair of scissors 5. musking tape 6.wooden chopsticks 7. ice cream sticks. 8. paint(any colour you like) Steps First, tie two wooden chopsticks together. Then, using a double sided tape and string, attach a ice cream st...

This suspense story is about Louis who has a poor family. He works at a junkyard for Mr and Mrs Karnofsky. After eating his breakfast over at the junkyard, Alex another boy working at the junkyard and Louis would go around with a trailer to collect junk from people. Louis always brought his tin horn, altough its mouth piece was broken he still could play beautiful music with it. To attrack people to bring sacks of junk, Louis would play a song with his horn. Lots of people would come and give them junk. One day, when Alex and Louis were buying junk, a boy suddenly snatched Louis horn! Then ran through some alley's before reaching a group of seven boys. Louis quickly thought up a clever plan. The older boys were trying to play the horn but all they got was a buzz. Louis told them that they would never be able to play it and asked whether he could show them how to play it. The boys agreed and gave the horn to Louis to show them how to play the horn. But once Louis got the horn back, ...