My Speech
Posted on March 3, 2009 by lionaise
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Forces
Posted on February 16, 2009 by lionaise
You would think that your on the ground because you are heavy but when you think about it we all know it’s gravity. Gravity is the force that keeps us from floating away. According to Einstein it was all bending time and space but I won’t get that complicated. Gravity is the main force in our lives, it pulls you down the hill when your on your skateboard and it keeps the juice in your cup.
You would also think that when you stop you stopped because you stopped but it is really another force called friction. Friction stops everything in it’s tracks, literally. If you kick a football, it rolls a lot but eventually friction stops it but if you kick it down a slope it will roll further because gravity pulls it down the slope giving the football momentum. If you drop a ball from the top of the air it is not friction acting it is air resistance, call it air friction if you like. Friction only occurs when two solid objects (liquid and solid) come in contact like the ground and the football.
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Holidays
Posted on January 12, 2009 by lionaise
Cor! what a holiday and its been such a long time since Ive been on the Blog of lionaise. I went to Phuket over Christmas along with some of my best mates from rugby at Hong kong Football Club ( strange name for a rugby club eh? ). We went to beaches, pools and cable skiing venue were I first learnt to cable ski on skis but I haven’t tried a wake board yet. There is this one beach that is a good 4 kilometers long if not, longer. The beach has sand as soft and as thick as flour in a strip along the far half of the beach but the strip of sand above it consists of large grains of sand and is less comfortable but the entire beach is still great fun.
The hotel has a long skinny pool intervening among the blocks of flats. We spent most of our mornings in the hotel flats eating breakfast we cooked in the kitchen and then plopped in the pool till lunch. In the pool is a water bar were you can drink while your in the water so long as you don’t use glass. When me and my sisters are in the pool we often played tag and ran round the back of the hotel buildings. To be truthful the hotel was really a block of small flats with a pool and a restaurant attached.
There were lots of other beaches that were smaller but still packed with excitement. The cable skiing was a blast and was like riding a motorbike over water with the wind in your face and a gentle spray of fresh water landing on your skin but if your not careful that gentle spray could be replaced by a bucket of water hitting you hard. Your hands get sore if you don’t have gloves on or have a habit of crashing, its like doing the monkey bars to much but it all happens in a few hours not over a month thus the pain is more intense but over as quickly as it came. Over all my experience was fantastic but how was your holiday?
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Hallloween and Diwali
Posted on October 31, 2008 by lionaise
Hey it’s me Lionaise and on Friday the 31 of October two celebrations came to life. The one that most people celebrated was Halloween but there was a Hindu celebration as well. Diwali is the Hindu’s “festival of light”, small lamps are lit in honour of a great hero and lady’s get henna art on their hands. Halloween is a very different Christian festival. It all started when people dressed up as frightful characters and lit bonfires to scare away the evil spirits.
To find out more about Haleween and Diwali you can click this and this.
I think that these two festivals are marvels its a great way to mix two religions together, especially at my school. Boy what a candy haul did I get on the 31st, 94 sweets, that’s my personal and family record. Lets see what you got, did you beat me to 100? What did you dress up as? I dressed up as a blood mad scientist, at least it seemed to get me more sweets!
I went to a party on Halloween and we planed to throw water balloons at a man who was stealing some of the children’s candy but he never really came. Do you celebrate Diwali? My school does and its a lot of fun but to be honest I celebrate Halloween more. What was your highlight of the 31st? Mine was all of it!
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Widgets!
Posted on October 29, 2008 by lionaise
As you may have seen I have some more widgets on my blog. Space invaders is my favorite game on my blog but I don’t know about you. The strategy game is a bit more difficult, you have to make as many boxs as possible without the computer making more boxs than you and if you make a box you get another go. P.S it doesn’t mater if you use the computers lines as well as yours to make a box. You should see small little cats in the corner of my blog. Just click on it once and it will follow the mouse all over my blog!
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Wetlands
Posted on October 14, 2008 by lionaise
Last week I went to the Hong Kong wetlands Park. It was amazing! The birds looked wonderful, the Fidler crabs were huge and the frogs put on a croaking display.
We saw some snakes near the start of our trip, they glided through the water with ease with scales of perfected camouflage covering their bodys. Further on we saw some snail eggs, they were very peculiar for you’d think that the eggs would be camouflaged so predators would not see them but they were a bright pink and the surroundings were green.
The mangrove boardwalk is where we saw the fiddler crabs and the Mud-skippers. The male crabs were a bright array of orange and red with a pincer the size of ther chest to match. The females were a dull grey and are much less aggressive. Mud-skippers are fish with lungs as well as gills. They can hop across the water and the mud like a bullet and awestruck us all. It was breathtaking as their scales on their back raised like the sail of a boat as they engaged in battle for territory.
By some freshwater pools we saw some dragonflies fly like a jet and fish swim in a dance as we watched their scales shine. At the entrance was Pui Pui a freshwater crocodile found in south east Asia, she was at least 2-3 meters long but the fully grown males can be 4-5 meters long, that’s as long as a car!
To go to the wetlands website click here. The homepage gives a fantastic birds eye view of the park. There is also a exhibit all about Hong Kongs frogs, to find more about the wetlands click this .
Inside we went to see some exhibits, the first one we went to was the living wetlands this is where you can see three habitats which were the Arctic tundra, a tropical swamp and the Hong Kong wetlands.There is also a exhibit called the wetlands challenge you can become a wetlands reporter and stop people destroying the wetlands.
For those younger ones is the swamp adventure , it is like a giant playground with enormous fake trees. At the entrance to the building there is a gift shop with plenty of souvenirs. Last but not least for all those butterfly lovers there is a butterfly garden. 
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Camping Disaster
Posted on September 30, 2008 by lionaise
Hello again, I may not to be able to go camping this weekend, here’s why. The last typhoon has spelled disaster for Pui O beach. The beach is covered in so much trash blown onto it by the typhoon’s winds it is unsafe to walk on the beach barefoot, personally I think this is terrible.
Pui O beach is my favorite camping site unfortunatly it is right next to the beach so it has also been demolished. “Its really sad,”explaned SG online one of my fellow classmates.
“Its terrible we should clean it up,” said my sister who has been camping with me. I think they are right on, I cant go camping because of this so I am hoping it gets better soon. What’s your opinion? I hope I agree with you.
Ta ta!
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Saviour
Posted on September 21, 2008 by lionaise
Go to freerice.com to donate rice for families in Asia if you get a question right you donate 20 grains of rice but don’t worry, its all for free! Its a great website for all the family and you will also save families from starvation. I got this website from one of my links, rugbyblog. Now get the website for a brighter future.
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Links
Posted on September 21, 2008 by lionaise
I have some new links as you can see. Snake blog, rugbyblog and carvemeup are all excellent blogs made by friends of mine. Animated is a cool animation site called aniboomand there is a awesome game called shape shifter were you can make your own little animated movie but don’t worry More links will be coming soon.
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Football!
Posted on September 18, 2008 by lionaise
I have a football tornament on the fourth of October and I will be playing for my school www.dbis.edu.hk. I will be playing with a team of ten in Kowloon I hope I have a good time but I might get sick because of the pollution in Hong Kong. I wonder what school activity’s your doing. Wish me luck!
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