Rupert

It is consoling to know that I win the first prize of the composition competition. It seems like hours spent writing those essays are not wasted. This recalls me of winning the first prize of the speech contest in school, another consoling prize for me. However, just because I win the first prize in school doesn't mean I am excellent when I reach out for competitons outside the school. If I can't enhance my ability to prove that I can surpass others, then the prize will be useless and meaningless. 

It doesn't matter whether it is the speech or composition, I will give it a try as long as I have a chance. But comparing these two, I discover that the impromptu needs intellgence and rapid reaction, on the other hand, the composition needs great volcabulary and good grammar. The road leading to succcess is still long and hard for me on both ways. After all, I need to prepare for tests first!

lyric everyday:

Days before exams seem boring since I can even hardly find pleasure in test papers and quizzes. To study at night is a torture when my mind is wide awake with caffeine but my body is asleep and hands searching for pillow on desk. Sometimes, I raise my head to make myself breathe again and watch the fan blades on the celling spin but the air is never cold. 

However, I get up, recover my lost energy when I hear, “It's time to begin, is't it?” Yes, every break I take is another beginning of endeavor and effort. Yet, the night is long and dead, deep and silent, which can reallymake me sleepy. Occasionally, I cast a glance at the air-conditioned bedroom and the way that leads to the door. My heart beats on struggling whether I should just fall into those quilts' arms or hold on to the last miles to go before I sleep. Sadly, I always choose the former one.

lyric everyday:

This Sunday, I woke up hearing my mom saying, “Hey! Wake up! Today is Mother's day!” To my surprise, I totally forgot this holiday as she continuously saying, “Come on! Just give me a hug!” I laughed and replied, “You can just pretend that I had done that.” I thought we didn't need to celebrate it if I regard every day as Mother's Day. I knew that lots of friends of mine had bad relationship with their family, not to mention the most important role in family – mother.

Sometimes they envied at this friendship between me and my mother everytime I talked happily to my mother when we met beside the classrooms. Being a mother of two daughters, I knew that you can tell and feel the same. This Sunday was Mother's day, however, I didn't give her presents because her smile was the most prescious present ever. Happy Mother's Day to my dear teacher!

lyric everyday:

Browsing through this correspondence book from top to bottom, I felt a sense of achievement thinking that I had put lots of effort on writing  those short essays every day. Every wrong word or grammar is a reminder of mistake I have made and a warning that I should learn lessons from it. Besides, the lyrics written down the bottom of the pages distracted my attention as I recalled those melodies and tempos, immersed in wonderful worlds of songs. 

With the magnificence of daily English diaries and songs, I could tell that this correspondence book was not wasted but fully used. I could be proud of owning such a memorable book before no longer using correspondence book. By the way, I want to have my composition of competition back after the judgement so that I can contribute it, can I?

lyric everyday:

I believe I can stay up all night just listening to Owl City's songs and reading all the lyrics. Every time I pay attention to his voice and plunge into his world of lyrics, I feel the love and see those supernatural scenery he tries to express. Also, the words he uses make songs even more alive. In the song of “Alligator Sky,” he says “harmonize with the singing satellites,” “dip your toes in the galaxy,” “take a taste of the melting milky way.” It seems like the dead universe is reviving in his world of imagination. 

Furthermore, I can learn lots of words that are rarely seen. In the song “The Real World,” I learn words like ponderosa, canopy, mahogany, dusk, ablaze, etc. Some of them are really unimportant vocabulary, however, their appearance make the whole song vivid. I can say that Owl City is a singer I love the most!

lyric everyday:

These days I've been searching all over my “music tank” for good songs. I'm not sure whether you discover or not that these singers of the songs never repeat except for the first day. Turn back and you'll find there are hardly any songs that are sung by the same person. At the same time, I'm trying to look for modern songs with aesthetic lyrics, avoiding classic songs that you may hear before. Sadly I don't listen to songs variously, so now I'm lack of new good songs.

However, I still regard Adam Young, the singer of Owl City, as my idol because of his literary lyrics. Also, there are lots of Linkin Park's songs with good and profound meaning in lyrics. And if I want to break the rule I set of introducing different singers, I will be able to tell you more good songs of Owl City, Linkin Park or more. 

The choir competition this morning was really a torture for me. There were songs that I'm familiar with destoryed by unordered voices. Actually, it was ok if the songs were sung by single vocal. 

The song "Call my maybe" was not good to be sung by a group, so as "Just the way you are." Who sing "Yellow submarine" should not cast shame on Beatles. This song should be sung in respect rather than in unconcern. "It's my life" will be nicer to be heard if they could sing louder and more powerful. Learning the way Bon Jovi sings can make it more pleasant to enjoy. 

Two songs of One Direction were good choices since their songs could be sung by a large group of people. With motions and loud voices, if so, the whole performance could be perfect. However, "Sha la la la" was a good song for both singing and performing, and they collocated it very well, I have to say.

I spent almost all the Sunday with my family: After waking up at 8 in the morning or so, we went to help my father do some chores. We had lunch together which can only happen on Sundays. I had a little time to take a break when father was asleep. However, I had a good time at dinner when we all could chat leisurely and merrily, Despite the heavy eyelids and heavy homework, I didn't end the conversations with parents until 9 in the night. 

Weighed down by heavy eyelids and quiet atmosphere like lullabies, I finally finished the work with the help of willpower. Nethertheless, I still enjoyed the day with my family even if there were piles of homework. Sometimes I couldn't even finish my work because of having spent much time with my family, but it was worthy of. If I have to choose between studies and family, I think I will unhesitatingly choose family instead of studies.

lyric everyday:

I haven't prepared for the competition of composition since I signed up. I felt a little panic hearing we are going to do it tomorrow. I'm afraid that I haven't got ready and stumble all through the composition. In fact, I discover that if I want to be ahead of other classmates, one thing that should be done is to improve my speaking and writing ability. I still need to be better and better at both of the ability now I lack.

Besides constructing my compositions more correctly and completely, I can also try to put some more gorgeous words to use easily and freely. On the other hand, speaking ability still need to be improved by constantly having English conversations with classmates and the impromptu can also do me good. 

However, to say is human; to do, divine!

Don't I want to join it again? Yes, of course we all want to be in that activitiy if permitted. Probably this time we would be much more prepared for proposals and more familiar with the rules of procedure. I was anticipating, however, when mom sobered me up by claiming that if we sink ourselves in it once again, we would lose more time for studying since it takes times to collect information and order it.

She watched me with great anxiety while waiting for my agreement. I felt I agreed to her idea and perspective toward this. Maybe it was enough to enjoy it once and leave the memories in my mind so that we could still be glad that happy memories for once could be forever and ever. 

Despite those words above denied my anticipation, I still had little hope to be there. I shouldn't, should I?