https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l NCER Academic Penang Group 1 (3/11/2021) en-us 2021-11-03 12:01:12 UTC 2021-11-04 14:07:00 UTC hello@padlet.com shessicaelf https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l/wish/1864389802 Write a composition of about 350 words on :

Write a story when you discovered you were no longer afraid of something. End your story with : “…after all, it was nothing at all.”

(Do remember to write your name as the subject and highlight/underline the idea or the lyrics of the song that you use in your essay)

]]> 2021-11-03 12:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l/wish/1864389802 shessicaelf https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l/wish/1864498744 If you ask me to put all my friends in one room, i might not be able to do it. It is because i do not have that many friends to begin with. But i do have one friend that is more a family than a friend to me and his name is Vernon. Vernon and i have been friends since he first noticed my Spiderman school bag on our first day of pre-school. Even now when we are both form 5 and leaving high school soon, he is still very much my best friend but he is now in a different class and i can feel our relationship slowly fading and that is what i fear most; losing my only friend.

For some reason these days i keep on thinking about us and how happy we were when we were friends and were in the same class. Just like the sky is high and the wind is cold, like the ocean is wide and blue, I’m afraid that I’ll take you for granted (Seventeen - Smile Flower) because now that we are not together, I miss all of it. Vernon used to come to my class before recess and we would both go to the canteen together but now that he has new friends, he tends to leave me alone. We also used to go to the convenience store near our school every time school ends to buy ice creams and candies but it is now something i do on my own. I can feel him slipping off my fingers like water and i am so scared.

One day i went up to him and told him how i feel like we were both fading away from each other but he assured me that we were not like that. I do not need that luke-warm kindness, but a word to gouge  the depths of my heart  that has been raided  by grumbles (Official Hige Dandism - Cry Baby) So i told him
"We are only separated by classroom walls and you already left me out, what about next year when we both move out of the city to continue our study? Will you then completely forget about me?"
I know there is hope in these waters ,but I can't bring myself to swim. Even when I am drowning in this silence (Adelle - Easy On Me) But then Vernon shocked me by saying
"Now this might be a mistake. We are broken in so many ways, but I’ll piece us back together slowly" (Faouzia & John Legend - Minefield)

After that day, we spend most of our borrowed time together because we both realized how much we meant for each other and how precious our friendship is. I felt so stupid for believing that Vernon would leave me to fend for myself because now i know that he would never do that. My fear of losing my only friend; Vernon after all. it was nothing at all. (497 words)]]> 2021-11-03 12:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l/wish/1864498744 https://padlet.com/shessicaelf/vdjuhqtwdqz6qz6l/wish/1866953394    It had been a long time . It happened when I was in elementary school . Indeed I am not a person who is smart and quick to understand something I have learned but thankfully I was able to get the best results even though unlike others who are much better than me . Sometimes compared it's very sad but I just chose to keep quiet even though it was very stabbing in the heart . Cause all the kids are depressed . Nothing ever makes sense . I'm not feeling alright . Staying up 'til sunrise and hoping shit is okay (Jeremy zucker - all the kids are depressed) .

   It started when I was in year five . I got into the first class,it made me feel very happy . Actually for me it was coincidence because I got the best place in the exam in year four but I was in third class . My feelings changed in the blink of an eye when I got last place in the class during the first exam. Self loathing is on the rise. The negative words around me are increasing. Compared becomes a habit because they are actually comparing even though they say they are joking . A broken heart is all that's left . I'm still fixing all the cracks . Lost a couple of piece when I carried it ,carried it, carried it home . I'm afraid of all I am . My mind feels like a foreign land (Duncan Laurence - Arcade).

   Not just stop there . I proceeded to get the best results but the darkness that I could not block within myself . I failed again in the end of year exams in year five . I got the last place once again . I realized that in that class everyone was very unusual . I'm impressed with them . Even though I fell back in third class during year six . I will never give up because I'm sure there is still a chance . Birds don't just fly . They fall down and get up . Nobody learns without getting it wrong . I won't give up , no , I won't give in . 'Til I reach the end and then I'll start again . No , I won't leave I wanna try everything . I wanna try even though I could fail . (Shakira - Try everything) .

   After finished upsr thankfully I was able to pass all the subjects even though I didn't get an A . I continued my schooling at Smk Pokok Sena .  History repeats again . It's during form 3 . I took PT3 and I failed in math subject .The sadness I could see from my parents faces even though they smiled and said it was okay because I had tried my best.  I'm so thankful that they continued to give me encouragement even though i gave a rather disappointing result . Things I look forward to while in form 4 when the teacher announces the stream of each student they will be taking . I was announced to enter a class that had an art subject.  I don't hate it just because i don't have a talent in art i feel i can't go on .

   After almost a month of school , I heard the news that accounting stream classes lack students . That's where I started to be interested in entering that class even though I felt a bit challenged because if I entered maybe I would have missed out on what they had learned and not forgetting that the class also took additional mathematics subjects.
Not forgetting with the support of my friends and my parents, I immediately informed the class teacher to enter the class . The failures I have  gone through have taught me something . I put my armor on l'll show you that I am . I'm unstoppable . I'm a Porsche with no brakes . I'm invincible . yeah , I win every single game . I'm so powerful. I don't need batteries to play . I'm so confident . yeah, I'm unstoppable today
( Sia - Unstoppable ) .  Maybe I'm afraid of failure but failure is something I can learn and an opportunity for me to fix my weaknesses. Other people's point of view of my weaknesses that often play is thought of but it's useless if I keep thinking about it because it's so negative . After all . It was nothing at all . 

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