Satirical end-of-year project: Activity 5

I think this poem’s about school

But I remember this poem is cool

I tell you now you’ll have a thrill

But then there are parts that’ll make you chill

School time starts at eight fifteen

But if you have band its seven twenty

If you come early then do your thing

Until the bell goes “Ring! Ring! Ring!”

At the start we have tutor

The teacher can be a him or her

But know this so you won’t drop balls

The bell will ring and you will fall

I tell you this because it’s true

The bell means period 1 and 2

And if your class is on the other side

I tell you now RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

Three, four, five and six and seven

Count these all the way to heaven

When school ends you’ll feel cool

Cause that concludes the poem about school

Satirical end-of-year project: Activity 3

“This is CNNNN with Justin Khoong”

Good afternoon,

Today’s top story was certainly the most strangest anyone had seen and swallowed as a boy from China had swallowed and 10cm live leech and got stuck in his throat. Luckily it was pulled out alive. Yes, he is now nicknamed from the whole world "leech eater"! Now Chinese correspondent Justin Khoong reports

“Thank you Justin! I am located in the hospital at the Sichuan Province home of the most funniest and most strangest people I mean, people can have strange things that happen to them even worse than swallowing a leech.

Here with me is leech eater and his parents, the 16-year-old boy first started saying that he had a sore throat for two months and kept on complaining to his mother about this I mean, is he a crybaby just because he has a leech in his throat?

“I kept on saying that it is impossible to have a sore throat since there is no disease around Sichuan,  I normally think that he is playing up because when he is sick, he would solve it himself” Says the mother

But as time went by, the boy had started to lose weight and had difficulty breathing, in cases like this; the parents took him to hospital. Hey, leech eater loses a lot of weight! He should be a contestant in the biggest loser!

“At this point, I thought that my son has developed asthma but I clearly remember that the last time he went to be diagnosed that he is not born with asthma, he then started losing weight and breathing heavily.” Says the father

 Then the weird symptoms had been discovered, the boy did not suffer from asthma, it was a leech that is 10 cm long that was stuck and started sucking at the boy’s throat. I doubt the leech would find any blood to suck, keep licking that throat Mr Leech!

“It was pretty shocking to see something like that get stuck into a person’s throat. Definitely horrific seeing one of my patients having a worm in his throat I mean, how can it even get there!?” Says the doctor. Well hey! You're the doctor! Aren't you the genius!?

When the boy could speak, he talked about how the leech has got in his throat, the boy’s job was working in a field, during his break, the boy drank water from the stream therefore making it possible that a leech must have swam in his mouth. Wait a minute... Stream water? What field does the boy work in? A rice farm?

This is Justin Khoong from CNNNN News back to you Justin.

Analyzing satirical cartoons

The cartoon that I chose from the blog is comic number 19 which talks about a brother and sister quarreling about each other because the brother was carrying a fuzzy purple purse that belongs to their mother. This type of satire that is shown is normally challenging the gender stereotypes and the funny part is that the boy is carrying his toys in the purse which the parents conclude not insane. There are also words that expresses the girl's emotion "ARRRRGGGGHH!" showing that she is losing her temper and is very frustrated about her brother carrying possessions that are supposed to belong to a girl. This comic is showing just for entertainment.

This comic that is found online is basically a joke about politics, on how the White House needed a woman, NOT because to become president but to clean the oval office and other places. This character that is cleaning the oval office is Hillary Clinton, a famous M.P in America. The background is simple as this is the Oval Office in the White House. The flag of America is on the vacuum cleaner. This comic is just for entertainment. 

Why does it matter? Story Review- Chinese Lessons

Read any story that we haven't read yet and write a review of the story and explain why it matters. Why should anyone care about the story/read it?


The story I chose to review is called Chinese Lessons by Ivy Tseng


The author shows that she is describing how she dreads Chinese Lessons everyday with her father, but the main part of this story is that the author just wants to understand her Father.


What shows a lot of remorse is that the author's Father is a migrant from Taiwan and moved to Australia, he also does not speak English and so he would feel very lonely and left out, the father started the lessons with his children is because he wants to make sure that this language can continue in this country as it said in the book on why the the father wants to do the lessons "They were a way of ensuring he would still be able to connect to his past." This shows that Asians can have hardships in moving to a place that does not speak the same language.


The main importance of the story is that it shows how people would want to still learn their native ways especially if it is in another country, it is what of the advantages that different people carry with them. The result that is left with the reader is that the reader would wonder how a different language can get on with real life.

Conversations with my Parents

1. What is ironic is that they did not like each other as she left him, they started liking each other as the Father got his first illness and the author visited him.

2. I would characterize that when the conversation gets better, the sicker the Father becomes.

3. What worries the Author is that she doesn't really speak her native language and that there are supposed to be some traditions when speaking

4. The family still express their feelings by doing the right things for their loved ones.

My first kiss

1. Affection in Malaysia is sometimes referred to as Homosexuality and it is a very big crime in Malaysia

2. When the author hits puberty, she then started to become a tomboy and soon, she lost mind a little and then started to isolate herself.

3. When she first arrived at Melbourne, the white kids don't pay any attention to her until a further year into school.

4. What made the author feel that she wasn't Australian is because whenever she speaks English, there is always an Malaysian accent

5. What further alienated from her peers is because that she has started to now turn into religion for help. People nearly think that she is a ****ian.

6. The use of the description "crash hot" is to create that the author wants to show the shyness of herself to the audience.

7. The opportunity the University gave to the author is that she is allowed to film anywhere.

8. The role of creativity that is played for the author is that it can show the author that she can show the audience and her friends what she can do. Creativity is important to the author because it is her strong point and she uses this to complete her most important work

Teenage Dreamers

1. The first two sentences of the story is about the author pointed out that his father has a sixth sense and that this sense knows when people are going to die. This creates a rather spooky tension

2. What happened to the author's father is that he is just calm and said that the cousin is just "returning home" meaning she is going to die soon.

3. It is serious to his following statement because the father is always Leslie's No.1 Fan and his role model, it would be very sad for him to know that Leslie is going to die.

4. The father lives his life by normally crying when he knows someone he has been with for a long time is going to die. He may be called weird to some people but once people know the father enough, then friends would call the father intelligent