Book Review: SLAM

Slam is a book written by Nick Hornby. The book is about a teenage boy, Sam Jones and about how he is torn between to tough choices. The character in Slam, Sam Jones, dreams to be a professional skateboarder. Sam’s dream of skateboarding is shattered when his girlfriend, Alicia, gets pregnant. He does not know what to do or how to handle his life as he is torn between Alicia and his hobby, skateboarding. Sam has to cope with having a baby and stress from Alicia’s parents who are university professors. They want Sam and Sam’s baby out of their lifes. Sam puts up with all the pressure ad manages to pull through it and haves Alicia’s baby in the end. How Sam manages to pull through, read to find out.

Book Review: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

A baby escapes a murderer who is intent on killing his whole family and the baby finds safety and security in a local graveyard. The ghosts who are looking after him gives him a name, “Nobody” or, “Bod” and takes good care of him.
Brought up by ghosts living in the cemetery, Bod learns about life from the dead. Bod is also taught some ghostly tricks like fading from mortal sight and haunting. Bod is haunted by a man called Jack, the man who had murdered his whole family and vows to kill Bod before he reaches man-hood.
Silas is Bod’s guardian until Bod is mature enough to defend himself from the man hunting him. Teacher and counselor to Bod, Silas is not alive but he is not dead. Unlike other ghosts, he can move among the living to possess food, medicine and anything Bod needs. Silas instructs Bod on the ways of the world while simultaneously protecting him from harm and rescuing him from deadly perils.However, he can leave to procure books and food for Nobody, instructing him on the ways of the world while simultaneously protecting him from harm and rescuing him from deadly perils.Will Bod survive the mysterious Jack? Read the book to find out.

3rd post on YOG

I think that the youth Olympic games that is held in Singapore is an eye opener for many Singaporeans as Singapore has never hosted such a wonderful event before. This youth Olympic games has also help Singapore to straighten it's path, tying up loose ends and proving that Singapore, although being such a small country, is able to host such a large event that has taken the world by storm. The youth Olympic Games also taught us Singaporeans to be grateful for being born here as we can witness such an event in our own country and do not have to travel far. The youth Olympic Games helped many young athletes to fulfill their dreams as they are too young to participate in the real one and given them a chance to participate in the youth Olympic Games. Thank you YOG.

2nd Blog on YOG

There are 26 different sports in the whole youth olympic games, the 26 different sports are... Aquatics, things that have got to do with water. Archery, shooting an arrow. Athletics, running and sprinting, track and field. Badminton, Basketball, Boxing. Canoe-kayak, rowing a boat... cycling. Equestrian, riding horses... Fencing, poking each other with sharp sticks... Football, 20 people chasing after a ball... Gymnastics. Handball. Hockey. Judo. Modern Pentahlon. Rowing. Sailing. Shooting. Table Tennis. Taekwondo. Tennis. Triathlon. Volleyball. Weightlifting. Wrestling, people throwing each other around... THESE ARE THE 26 SPORTS THAT THE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES HAVE...

1st Blog on YOG

The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international multi-sport event first held in Singapore from August 14 to August 26 2010. The games are planned to be held every four years in staggered summer and winter events consistent with the current Olympic Games format. The Youth Olympic Games will feature athletes between the ages of 14 and 18. The idea for such an event was introduced by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge in 2001. On July 6, 2007, IOC members approved the creation of a youth version of the Olympic Games.

The person I admire
Michael Schumacher is a Formula One Racing Driver who was born on 3 January 1969. He was previously from Ferrari and now he is driving for Mercedes GP. Schumacher was born in West Germany. When Schumacher was four, his father modified his pedal kart by adding a small motorcycle engine. His parents took him to a racing track where he became the youngest member of the karting club. His father soon built him a kart from discarded parts and at the age of six Schumacher won his first club championship. To support his son's racing, Rolf Schumacher took on a second job renting and repairing karts, while his wife worked at the track's canteen.

Regulations in Germany require a driver to be at least 14 years old to obtain a kart license. To get around this, Schumacher obtained a license in Luxembourg at the age of 12.
In 1983, he obtained his German license, a year after he won the German Junior Kart Championship. From 1984 on, Schumacher won many German and European kart championships. By 1987 he was the German and European kart champion; he quitted school and began working as a mechanic. In 1988 he made his first step into single-seat car racing by participating in the German Formula Ford .

Schumacher finished third in the Drivers' Championship in 1996, and helped Ferrari to second place in the constructors' championship. In 1991, he competed in one race in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second. According to the official Formula One website is "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen" Michael holds many of the formula's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season in 2004. In 2002 he became the only driver in the sport to complete an entire season finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in all races.

Michael Schumacher is greatly admired by a lot of people including me and to me, he is the greatest racer who ever lived.