My Nature Story

Hiking in Hong Kong


8:30am, 1st November, 2010. CAS week started. We took our bulky and heavy bags to the bus. And we were all excited, we were going on a 5 day trip. 2 days in a camp. and 3 days in the wild. I sat down on the bus. I was busy chatting with my friends and we talked about our expectation for this trip. Thirty minutes pasted and I looked out the window. I saw lush green tree on both sides of the road. The sky was all blue, no clouds, t nothing.


Another 30 minutes past and we finally reached the drop off location. We meet our guides. They too carried bags like us, but bigger and heavier ones. We walked to the camp. The walk was fantastic. We walked right beside a very long beach. It’s sand was golden and the water was crystal clear. We walked and walked. When we reached the camp, we had sandwiches for lunch.


In the two days we sent in camp, we did a lot of activities. Kayaking was one of them. I love kayaking despite I don’t kayak much. The water there was clean. (but very salty) We paddle and paddle until we reached a small beach separated from the main beach by a lot of rocks. We play fun games and we had a very happy time although I was shaking mad in the cold.


We also hiked. We hiked up and down mountains. I and Joey volunteered to push the car that holds the equipment for forestry. I and Joey pushed and pushed until we reached our destination. We got some wired nets and we surrounded some plants with it. So did that to make sure the plants grow straight up.


After staying at camp, we went to the wild. It was a little camp site near the beach. Often, you will see cows walking on the beach. And the waves there were big which made me exited. The first activity we did when we finished putting up our tent, was to go swimming. We changed and we rushed to the beach. Me, Owen and Ian sticked together as we get battered by multiple waves. We just rush to a wave like a crazy guy and we let it hit us. Soon, I was getting cold. So I got my got out of the water.


After a tiring day, we had dinner. We had tomato sauce with spaghetti. Honestly, I tasted quite bad (it was sour) but what do you expect for a dinner in the wild. So I ate as much as I can and I went to bed.


The next day, we went to a canyon. We climbed rocks and we stepped over streams. 20 minutes later, we reached our destination. It was a rock wall. Most of us abseiled down the rock wall. But I and Alex Lin jumped from a rock and “cannon balled” (to save time) The first time I slipped and did not have a good feel. So I jumped a second time. I looked down. I can feel my heart beating. I was frozen. I did not dare to jump. Then I just forced myself to jump. When I was in the air, I though: “Have I gone crazy?” And a loud plunge followed.


Then the camp was over. I had a great time canyoning and kayaking. I knew more about my friends. The nature there was just amazing. Imagine every single tree you see is a person. A living thing. And then think about the cruel people in the developing countries cutting tree. It is like cutting a persons head off. It is cruel so don’t cut tree and if you could stop people from cutting trees, that would be awesome. I hope next year’s CAS week would be just as fun as this one.

My Comic

This was made by me and one of my friend it is basically about a terrorist forcing the president's wife to marry him (The terrorist). And the presidents agreed and the terrorist and his wife lived happy ever after for a reason.....

How the internet works

The internet. It is a important tool in our life and it make life much more convenient.
In the post, I will tell you how the internet works with a simply example.

You are going to share a image with you friends in Twitter. A lot of step had been done to make this happen but it just happens so quickly.

1. Your computer coverts the image to millions of packets. This step is called Packet switching.
2. The Packet travels from the server and this is how its done
3. It goes to the server you are using
4. Then it will go to the server of your city
5. Then it goes to your country's server
6. After that, it goes to server that has the twitter server in it
7. The packets reach twitter and it is sorted and put in order to make an image

More important words:
Network: A system that connects computer, machines and operations.
Server: A computer or a computer program that provides resources or a service in a network.
Server in Server: It basically means that there are many "mini" servers in a server.
TCP/IP: Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol. It is used to govern the connections of computer systems.


For more information you could watch this video. or copy this link: www.ichk.edu.hk/wiki

The Internet is a very important tool to us and it makes our life so much easier.
In this post I will teach you how the internet works with a simple example.

You want to share a video in youtube.

1. Your computer will find the server
2. Your computer will convert the video into packets (Packet switching)
3. It will past through numerous numbers of server until it reaches the Youtube server.
4. The packet will be put in order and this makes a video.

Important keywords
Packet switching: Changing things to packet form and packet form to a thing
(“Thing” could be a video/image......)
TCP: It is a thing that will guide the packets to their destination and put them in order
Network Of Network: It basically means networks in a network

For more information you could go to this website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZB6rjeiUg

Comics

My Favorite comic is: Pc and Pixel
I created this post because we are learning about what are comics and the different genre of comics in ICT class. We were asked to post one of our favorite comics from the internet to our blog and here it is. I included the Title, Audience, genre and feature of the comic. Hope you like this comic.



Here is where i got this comic from: http://comics.com/pc_and_pixel/2011-02-20/

Title: PC and Pixel
Audience: Kids
Genre: Comedy
Features: Speech bubbles, color and pictures

Extra: For more comics, you could go to www.comics.com