25/05/2020

I've decided to share with you one of my short stories, so here it is!

I was in this shop, shopping for some simple groceries and ingredients for my next cake. “Oooh, what’s this?” I was carefully inspecting the coffee machine like I always do. You never know, they can be very sneaky. Like the time I bought that garden hose with the huge “100% money-back guarantee” badge plastered over it. But I didn’t notice the tiny asterisk next to it in point-seven font size.

I came home with the garden hose, and walked outside, into my backyard. It was actually quite expensive, about $300! Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating, it was actually $83. Hey, that’s still expensive!

Anyways, please ignore those… (Hang on, let me count…) those last three sentences. So I was in my backyard, and after about five minutes of struggling to pull the hose out from the plastic, I finally managed to attach it to the tap outside.

But when I twisted the tap handle to it’s on position, it never turned on! And since the product holds a 100% money-back guarantee, I decided to go back to that shop and request a refund. Yes! I finally get to request a refund! Isn’t that something everyone wants to do? Request a refund? No? It’s just me then?

With excitement I hopped into my BMW, shoved in and turned my car key and drove precisely twelve kilometres over the speed limit. And I got a fine of $357 along with three demerit points, like you suspected would happen. Just kidding! I never got a fine! Ha! Take that everyone! Actually, don’t. Kids, don’t copy me! I’m being naughty, but also careful.

I walked into the shop with pride. I truly loved requesting refunds. (Terribly sorry if I sound lame.) “Now, where’s the refund cashier?” I pondered aloud. “Ah, there it is!” I ridiculously walked over.

“Hello, how can I help you?” the old lady behind the desk neutrally said. “I want a refund for my garden hose!” I kind of screamed that. Everyone around turned their heads to glare at me. Well that was embarrassing.

“Do you have it with you?” She was looking at me as if I was trying to teach a slug English. “Yes! It’s here!” I basically threw it at her. She was now looking as if she wished she didn’t come to work today.

“Sorry about that,” she randomly apologised. “Sorry about what?” I asked.

“Sorry, but this product doesn’t allow any refunds.”

“What?! But you can see the guarantee badge right there!”

“Yes, but there’s an asterisk.”

“A what?”

“An asterisk. It leads to here.”

“Lemme see,”

There was a lot of “Where is it? I can’t see where it is,” and “It’s right here!” until I finally found it. At the very bottom, in the most miniature writing read, “Refunds are not supported within the product’s guidelines.”

…

When you do everything for nothing.

08/05/2020

I was in the car driving home from school today. I had my laptop open in front of me, but there obviously was no internet connection. Just that classic Dino game. I was thinking about pressing the space bar to start it. Should I, or should I not? I was looking at the space bar. “Press me, please! For me?” the space bar squeaked. “I’m not really sure.” The space bar was looking really desperate. “Please?” The space bar looked as if it was about to cry. “Oh fine,” I answer. I press that now satisfied space bar (“Thank you so much!”) and the dinosaur on my screen starts running forth.

I am on 600 points, with the tiny little dinosaur still running with all it’s effort. “It’s night now!” The screen did indeed turn black. “Noooo!” I squeal as I run into a bird, while waving my hands around. Pink nerds were now sprinkled all over the car. “Ooops!” I utter. I pick up each of them one by one, dropping them back into the mini box packaging that I was holding.

08/05/2020

Yesss! I have another trending deck on Tinycards! It's basic facts about the human anatomy. You can view it here: https://tinycards.duolingo.com/decks/Z3LfUBv9/human-anatomy

04/05/2020

To all my readers,

Thanks a lot for reading my blog posts! You reading my posts has given me a huge boost in confidence for everything I do. I write my posts every day, but I realized that I have lots of other things to do in my life. I have to go to school and study, and when I come home I take a while to write a blog post. Which is why I have decided to write a few per week. I will have more time on the weekends!

01/05/2020

“It’s starting to rain,” I neutrally said. “Let’s just stay here,” Evalia replied. Emily didn’t answer. (Maybe she was day dreaming) Light rain was falling onto the ground while we stayed under the canopy. A few seconds later, rain was pouring from the grey sky as everyone started screaming and screeching and squealing, with all of them heading towards the direction of the main building. “We better go now!” I stated. It was now our turn to start screaming and screeching and squealing while we ran towards the main building too.

30/04/2020

Last night Fiona called me and said that she would be coming to visit me, at my school! (She moved schools last year and was a really good friend then!) *but you shure? itt corona time ritt noww* Anyways, she told me that she would meet me after school, and she told me that I was uniquely me. I waited outside the Music Room for a few minutes, but I didn’t see her anywhere. My mum was just next to me as she asked me, “Where is Fiona?” *btw how my mum doo that, just pop up in front ove mee?* “I don’t know, she might be coming soon though,” I replied.

After about ten minutes she still hadn’t come yet. “How much longer?” I ask. “I don’t know Roxy.”

“Because we still have our things to do.” It started to lightly rain. “We should go in the car and wait, it’s starting to rain,” So we did. A bit later we saw someone walking around the school, accompanied with a smaller person. “Is that Fiona?” my mum asked. “I don’t know,” I answered.

After a while, we went back inside the school. “Look, I can see Fiona!” I exclaimed. I could see her looking out from a window in the school building.

“Hi Fiona!” I said when we met in the middle. “Hi,” she replied. She then told me a bit about what she was doing. I noticed that she was wearing the uniform from her own school. And then I noticed her jacket. (Actually, she did just have her school day and it was cold!)

After a few minutes, it was time to go. “Bye then! See you soon!” she said. “See you,” I waved.

29/04/2020

I was on my bed, thinking about what to write for a blog post. But I had no idea what to write about. For a whole ten minutes, the only moving thing on my screen was that tormenting blinking text cursor. So I went onto Pinterest to find inspiration for my next drawing. I still didn’t know what to write about when I came back to my Word editor. How about some more photography? No, I didn’t want this to be a photography blog; a lot of my posts was photography. For my blog, that’s a “sometimes" thing.

More thinking. More time wasted. After checking my Scratch messages, I came back to my blank document. With nothing written on it. I continued to stare at that blinking cursor, then BOOM! I came up with a blog post idea. To write this! It reminded me of how annoying it was to have a blank screen with no work written on it. Maybe that blinking cursor is useful after all!

27/04/2020

Oh hi! I was just trying to figure out why my keyboard was not letting me type on some websites, so I have to use the offline Word and then copy and paste. My laptop is going crazy today.

I finally got back to school today! (I was going to die sooner or later of boredom) It was a very simple yet enjoyable day. I was hanging out with my friend Emily who is in my classroom, since my other friends weren’t at school today.

Hopefully I can keep going to school!

(I felt like this post was too short so I’m going to post more photography!)

I took these at a lake that I went to a few days ago! (Or is it a water channel? I don’t really know.)

25/04/2020

I walked into my room. I looked around. It was definitely time I tidied everything up. Especially that really messy desk. It was full of scrap pieces of paper from crafts, scattered pens with no box to keep them in, and scrunched up chocolate wrappers from Easter. Not long later, I was at my desk, noisily and insanely throwing all kinds of rubbish, food wrappers and unwanted junk onto the floor. I called this tidying up. After ten minutes of that, I then dropped to the floor and started to pick it all up and actually put it in the bin. Then I comfortably and gently sat on my desk chair and opened the lid of my laptop. It works for me!

23/04/2020

Roxy opens the lid of her laptop. She makes a new Word document and begins typing away while her complicated little sister spies on her from behind her slightly ajar bedroom door. She gently tip-toes towards her older sister. “Ana, I know you are in my room,” Roxy says without turning around. “I have to do my work, I can play with you later.” How did she know?! Oh, she has practiced this a lot. It is part of her daily routine. Ana quickly but quietly scrambles out of the room. While in her own, she shouts, “Roxy, but I’m not in your room!” She tries to muster a giggle. This process will repeat ten more times throughout the hour.

21/04/2020

I drew this today! Here are some pattern designs you can use to decorate words and posters.

To view this in full screen, right click on the image on the left, then select "Open image in new tab". In the new tab you can double click the image to zoom in.

21/04/2020

This is a photo of my cute ink pen! It's of an ice cream pug. It looks new because I don't use it that much. I just use it for note-taking. My sister has a purple mermaid tail one. I really like this one! It's my favourite pen ;)

21/04/2020

We are always pretending that this is the coronavirus. Actually, I mostly pretend to be the coronavirus. *smirk* "Hi, I'm the coronavirus! You wanna know why I caused a global pandemic?! For FAME!!!"

21/04/2020

Did you know that bamboo takes a really long time to grow? It takes a whole five years to grow. For the first five years of life, bamboo can only grow a few centimetres. Imagine, being the bamboo. Would you give up trying to grow? Think: I only grew a few centimetres in five years. But after those five years, the bamboo rapidly starts to grow. It grows 30 centimetres per day. Soon enough, it has reached the sky.

So be like the bamboo. Just because you haven't achieved much yet it doesn't mean that you should stop the great work that you are doing. It takes years to grow all those roots underneath you.

I read about this yesterday in a Chinese article online, so I decided to put it in my own words and into English! I hope that this can inspire you to keep going; It is inspiring me to keep working on my blog, even if it isn't well that known yet. I know that if I keep trying, I will one day make it to the top.

20/04/2020

I have a Tinycards account! If you have one, you can follow me there at RK325! I also have a viral Tinycards deck. It has been featured once!

Tinycards deck: https://tinycards.duolingo.com/decks/3uxfFkDN/harry-potter-characters

Me on Tinycards: https://tinycards.duolingo.com/users/RK325

20/04/2020

When I was eight years old, I was hanging around in the living room. My sister was four at the time. “Roxy, guess my favourite colour!” Ana, my younger sister said. “Umm… Is it pink, red, and purple?” I answered. Ana all of a sudden put on her daring face. “No, no, NO! You got it all WRONG!” she exclaimed. “It’s pink, red, and PURPLE!”

20/04/2020

So, I've decided to answer the five most interesting ones!

19/04/2020

I know, we’re all super bored! Like, it’s almost killing us right now. In this post I will suggest some things to do in quarantine!

Browse the internet

Browse the internet! Google “toilet paper memes”, “corona memes”, anything you like. (I recommend browsing memes to bust boredom!)

Read

Reading is a favourite pastime of mine and has always been. I can read for hours on end! If you don’t know what to read, then try something random!

Go on Scratch!

Do some coding! It can be Scratch, or a different programming language. You can even try something new! Don’t know where to start? Try coding with Python. If you want something easier, then go do some HTML! You can use the software Notepad for HTML, or you can use Glitch.com, a site that can help you code HTML if you’re new.

Still bored?

Then, I guess you could hang around on this blog! (By the way, I might do a Part 2!)

@cookieshreya from Scratch asked, so I made a blog post about it!

19/04/2020

My life in quarantine. Sigh. It’s really boring, to only stay home. It’s the middle of the school holidays right now. Health officials say that we will be able to go back to work and school again after the school holidays if there are absolutely no more new cases. Yes!! I get to see all my friends again!! I almost DIED of boredom. Online school is way too complicated. I’d much prefer to actually be there, at the school. Staying at home is pretty boring since there is almost no fun to find in it.

Once I asked my mum, “Will I have my birthday in a pandemic?” (My birthday is in about two months.) “Most likely,” she replies. “I don’t think that in this situation it will be over soon,” That sucks. Having your birthday in a pandemic you didn’t even ask for. I will only be able to stay home. Before the coronavirus disrupted our lives, I was thinking of going somewhere fun.

We are all allowed to go outside, as long as we are shopping for supplies or outside doing exercise. All playgrounds, small businesses and schools are closed. So are workplaces.

Let’s all wish for the best to happen. Hopefully we can all see our friends again!

18/04/2020

Ana is my adorable yet annoying little sister. She often takes my things, like my phone. "Ana, have you seen my phone? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I did just leave it on my desk..." A part of me suspected that it was her. "Oh, no, I don't know where it is," she would reply. But I know all about her. I did live with her for seven years. "Then, I guess I could use mum's phone to call mine," I chant. "Oh, I just remembered! It's right here, under my pillow." She rushes to her room. "See?"

I take the phone from her hand. "Why was it in your room?" I ask. "Oh, I was just looking after it. Because someone might steal your phone," she added quickly. "Oh, okay then," I say. I go into my room to change my passcode. I told her my passcode since she uses it a lot. *Sigh* It's a long time until I can fully trust her ;)

18/04/2020

Hi there! I'm Roxy, an eleven year old girl that loves to read, listen to music and blog! Here I will share about my life, such as my friends, family and my online self. I might even spoil a few of my secrets! ^^