A Dark Truth

Creeping in the darkness,
Mankind slaves away,
Looking for its partners,
Who are now here to stay.

Viruses in the air,
Poison in the sea.
It just wasn't fair,
Just to blame you or me.

We are all at fault now,
For causing all this mess,
But I still don't know
How we can put ourselves at rest.

Someday you will realise,
That we will be the end.
So don't think that I feel wise,
For I am just Godsend.

Truth be told to humans,
To Adam, Eve and Child,
To small freaks and large mutants,
To domestics and wild.

It falls onto our shoulders,
To fix the world again.
In the eyes of beholders,
Earth will soon be right as rain.

Phantoms and Monsters - Paranormal, UFOs, Cryptids and Unexplained Phenomenon

Above is a very interesting title. What does it remind you of? For me, it reminds me of a very nice refuge where I can retreat to at the end of a very long day, and where I can relax and unwind while immersed in a subject that interests me more than anything else in the world. It reminds me of - The Unexplained.

The above title is also the title of a blog which I often visit. Its content is far better than any other blog I've ever seen. The main content of the blog is about:

1). Cryptids or Cryptozoological Creatures (Ghosts, Close Encounters etc.)
2). UFOs or Lights in the Sky Phenomena
3). Fortean/Oddball News (Which is basically strange news from across the globe)
4). Unsolved Mysteries

This list is arranged in descending order of preference, meaning the higher up an item is, the more I like it. Mainly my favourite posts are the ones which detail discoveries of new evidence to prove the existence of cryptids. These are followed by UFO reports, then the strange news reports from around the world. Last but not least are the Unsolved Mysteries, most of which are not very interesting.

Several posts also appear when the creator of the blog, Lon, is unable to find anything interesting enough to deserve a place on this blog. The most significant of these are the Monsters, which are elaborations of folk tales told around the world about Monsters or Creatures not yet proven to exist.

What I like about this blog is that it has a wide variety of posts, and posts are made every day. Also, these posts give us insight into things which are happening all over the world right now. Besides, who wouldn't like to read a blog that talks about their favourite subjects over and over on a daily basis?

If anybody is interested in checking out or visting this blog, you can find it at this address: http://www.naturalplane.blogspot.com/

Do give it a try! Who knows, you just might find something that catches your eye!

Homework for Term 3 (Part 2)

This post will be even more boring than its prequel. Therefore, I advise you turn back now and remove this site from your History (unless you are a Language Arts teacher).

1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fantasy book by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain as he is commonly known. It tells the story of a young boy living in the Mississippi river town of Missouri.

The story tells Tom's adventures and misadventures in the town. Some of the adventures include the way Tom got his friends to whitewash a fence for him, when he himself did not want to do it. This was the basis of one of Mark Twain's famous quotes - "In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain".

I first read this story when I was very young, and for some reason, memories of those days were imprinted into the book although I did not understand it then. Memories of long ago came flooding back when I read it again, and this has made a very good impression of the book.

2) The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds is a science-fiction story by H.G. Wells. It is the narrative of an Englishman living in London, during the time of a Martian alien invasion.

The story starts from the day the aliens' first scout landed and ends several days after they are defeated by you-know-whats - viruses. These tiny little things proved yet again how important they are to our life cycle! The aliens were never adapted to life on Earth, causing their downfall and our survival.

The interesting part of H.G.Wells' stories is the fact that he imagined scenes long after his time. This, combined with his descriptive writing style, makes H.G. Wells' stories delightful reads, especially to bookworm science-fiction lovers like me.

The Maria Hertogh Riots

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The Maria Hertogh Riots

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