Ahoy, matey! The Cow, the Fish and the Riceball are back with our favorite topic-- Harry Potter! YAY! There are so many things to discuss about Harry Potter but we're only going to be talking about ''The Deadly Hallows'.
What indeed is 'The Deadly Hallows?'
❝The Elder Wand, he said, and he drew a straight vertical line on the parchment. "The Resurrection Stone," he said, and he added a circle on top of the line. "The Cloak of Invisibility," he finished, enclosing both line and circle in a triangle, to make the symbol that so intrigued Hermione. "Together," he said, "the Deathly Hallows.❞
The symbol of the Deathly Hallows.
Basically the Deathly Hallows revolve around a myth of three
brothers known as the Peverells, who all at once crossed Death (that’s right,
in capital) and managed to escape it by defeating a deadly obstacle with their
magic. So Death pretended to congratulate them by awarding them with a desired
gift. And we all know the saying “be careful what you wish for”, which leads us
to wonder whether the brothers did indeed take heed to this warning?
❝The eldest brother asked for the Elder Wand, the most
powerful wand in existence which is able to perform extraordinary acts of
magic. It is said that the owner of this wand would have to master Death in
order to utilize the extreme power of this wand.
The second brother asked for the Resurrection Stone, which
brings back shadows (and ONLY shadows) of the holder’s loved ones. However,
these shadows are mere ghosts and do not possess any living thing. They will
appear as long as the user holds the stone.
Lastly, the youngest brother asked for the Cloak of
Invisibility, which would hide the user (yes, even from Death itself) and not
fade in age and provide everlasting protection to the wearer, something that no
normal invisibility cloak could perform.
Obviously, the youngest was the wisest (aren't they always?) and so when Death claimed the lives of the first and second brother, he/she could not find the third. When the youngest brother grew old, he took off the cloak and handed it to his son and welcomed Death.❞
What a nice story. And now, for the topic for today:
"Which Deathly Hallow would you choose if given the choice and why?"
Thomas Lee Jian, 12
Lots of lame answers at first... but he managed it.
Sai Lin Rou, 14
Sticking with invisibility seems to be the safest.
Trina Yong, 12
For causes bad and good... interesting.
Trinity Chua, 14
And in case you're reading this, Tri, the font's Georgia-- just like your middle name!
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After some intensive stalking for pictures and running around, we managed to fish out (get it? FISH out?) some very interesting and intriguing answers from each of our participants. Although they might have got the concepts of the Deathly Hallows a little wrong, it's alright all the same. As we can see here, out of 4 teens between the age of 12 and 14, only 1 out of 4 would go for the Elder Wand. Very modest, aren't we?
Anyway, we'd like to thank all the participants for taking part in our last minute vox pox(es), and sorry if the pictures embarrass you. Thank you for reading, readers, and until next time, au revoir!
Greetings from the Cow, the Fish and the Riceball! Riceball here (nearly always) and today we'd like to talk about... FOOD!
Random, I know. What's with the sudden topic? Recently, our class has been rushed off our feet with the Merdeka decorations (Merdeka is the Independence Day in Malaysia) and we decided to give out small squares of paper to the class and ask them to draw what makes Malaysia significant to them. There were lots of things, such as buildings, flora and fauna, and of course, food. I myself drew an unappetizing nasi lemak, but at least it was better than the one with the oversized anchovies.
We were also having an English letter-writing session with the writer(s) residing in a place other than Malaysia and describing that place to a friend back in Malaysia. Louisa (from LouBriTri!) and I chose Sweden, and I learnt that there were indeed many differences in these two countries. For instance, potatoes are the 'rice' in Sweden. I'm surprised that some people never get bored of them.
Anyway, The Cow, the Fish and the Riceball present... the Top 3 Foods You Must Try Around The World!
Well, not really. It's basically the top 3 foods WE wants to try around the world. Very opinion-based. Back to the topic...!
● Top 3 Foods We'd All Like To Try When We Travel The World (Soon) ●
❀ Riceball-san ❀
I know I've said that I LOVE eating Riceballs, but just so you know, I won't be munching on them all the time when THESE foods exist.
"Freak-Shakes" !
Pretty sure I'm gonna have to work out a ton after I have one of these.
In a café by the name of Pâtissez in Canberra, everyone is losing their minds over these whimsical creations consisting of hot chocolate fudge, honey, pretzels (interesting!), Nutella, toasted marshmallows and loads of cream. Kindly leave your diet at the doorstep.
Positive these milkshakes were made for Instagram.
Next up, we have...
"Elotes"!
Worth having a CORNY smile on for ;)
Corn on the cob. We've all tried it. But what about your average corn on the cob-- Mexicano style?
This godsend begins with a roasted, grilled or boiled corn on the cob which is then coated with butter and mayo, then rolled through a motherload of crumbled cotija cheese, topped with chili sauce or powder to give it that extra kick, and finally drizzled in tangy lime juice. It's literally making my mouth water.
Cow...
Jeez, Riceball is so corny sometimes. For me, all food is FABULOUS but I can't list all the food I want here so I'm just gonna name a few.
I came across this picture and since then, I am OBSESSED with this food.
THE PIZZA CAKE/PAKE
This chewy goodness is a self-created recipe by Pillsbury. Consisting of only 5 ingredients, this cake is made of FIVE layers of pepperoni pizza. How can one resist this holy cake? ALL BOW DOWN TO SENPAI PAKE!
There really is nothing to say about this delicacy except that it is MAGNIFICENT. Sorry for the caps. The waffles are cinnamon flavored, filled in between with creamy mint ice-cream. Drools.
This is the real senpai sandwich. SANDWICH-KUN!!!
THAT'S IT FROM ME! BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
P.s. I just realised I didn't mention where these foods come from. I'll tell you now. "They're EVERYWHERE." DUN DUN DUN!
The Fish :3 -
Gah! Looking at all these pictures of food is making me HUNGRY! As you can see Cow is not a very picky person. She eats everything, and when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING. However, I am very picky on certain things especially food. But of course, I still have some favourite foods, and most of them are Italian. I just can't help it when it comes to Italian food! Here's a few of my favourites:
Caesar Salad
I know this dish isn't Italian, but hey, I can eat what I want to. This healthy choice is my favourite. It may not seem really exciting or delicious but I guess I just love it this way. This recipe contains croutons, chicken and lettuce of course. It's a really simple dish, and its perfect that way.
Next up...(drumroll)...
Chocolate -Strawberry CrumbleBall!!!
Look at that dessert, and say that it doesn't look finger-lickin' good. This is an Italian dessert, it's really famous in Italy and you are able to find at any coffee shop. Well, maybe not all but I'm sure the majority of the coffee shops there sell this FABULOUS dessert.
This Chocolate-Strawberry Crumble Ball is made up of a few desserts like chocolate, strawberry and as you can see there's a piece of chocolate-chip cookie at the bottom. Also, there's also crumbled peanuts and coconut pudding inside the chocolate bowl.
And that's all for now. If you guys haven't checked out our other blog post... well, you should. Hasta la vista!
Welcome back to the Cow, the Fish and the Riceball once again! Riceball here, and first I'd like to start off with a sincere apology to eager readers of our blog (though I doubt there's many). As you have noticed we haven't been updating recently, plainly because there wasn't really anything interesting going on at school... okay, so maybe there was. But none of us were able to find to update anything. We didn't have enough resources to fuel the post, so we scrapped it.
Maybe our classmates have been updating their blogs but it's because they have TIME. And maybe we don't. We had a very hectic weekend (which was like, two WEEKS ago) and we still haven't got over it. Well, I still haven't gotten over it. Partly.
But anyway, we'd like to say sorry to anyone who has been sitting in front of their computer for days waiting for yet another post from us. You've wasted your time.
And that's about it! And onto our music video review...
P.S We had two birthdays this week! *cue confetti* Happy belated birthdays to both Bridget and Yon Ern! Thank you for making our lives full of laughter and more laughter!
|| music video review ||
The judges will be reviewing the following music video below by:
Plot (according to the video)
Lyrics
Music
Overall thoughts
WARNING: Haters gonna hate man.
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Okay, okay, so this was another project from our English teacher (shoutout to Miss Daphne!) to review a specific music video of our choice. After days of suggestions, we've finally decided on the one and only... Little Mix!
A little background information on Little Mix:
❝Little Mix is an English group formed in 2011, consisting of (from left) Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. They were formed exclusively for the X Factor and became the first group to win the competition. Later they signed Simon Cowell's contract to work with his recording label Syco Music.❞
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you... "Black Magic"!
Cow.
Honestly, I was paying more attention on the video then on the music. HMMM. I think the whole music video's content is quite clear, there's not much to explain further. But I will still point out a few things I noticed in both the lyrics and the video.
The video starts with showing the four nerd friends and how they're loathing over a girl who is stealing their crushes. And then it proceeds to the scene in the library where Jade finds a magical book. Then they use the magic (with no hesitation or thought) and apparently gave each of them powers. All of a sudden, they became very attractive and beautiful. I wish I had that book.
Then, they made fun of the girl they disliked, made a boy who was being bullied very attractive to the girls and jinxed a teacher to dance.
The beginning verses basically talk about how boys don't find them appealing and they wished that they knew how to be more attractive. The chorus is about how they magically obtained love potions and unbreakable spells that can bewitch boys to 'belong' to them. The next verse is about how magic can turn Mr.Wrong to Mr.Right and how magic can get your boy on his knees.
And that is all about this music video. Not a lot interpretation to make but I think this song is very catchy and interesting and of course... MAGICAL!
Fish
To be honest, I kept on telling my friends to check out this song when I found out about it, that one of my friends asked me how the song goes. I blacked out for a second because I realized that the whole time, I was only concentrating on the video and not the song. Anyways, I think that this song is a really, really nice song.
It's basically about a group of four girls liking a boy, but the girls are nerds so yeah. HOWEVER, in the next scene, a book dropped on Jade's head, and she found out that is about Black Magic, she then brought the book to her friends and showed them, while they were looking through the book, they found a spell that will make them look bea-u-ti-ful.
Of course the next thing they do, is the spell to make them beautiful and attractive. The next day, the perfect couple broke up because the boy found Little Mix attractive (Pshh, I wouldn't want a boy friend like that) and the four girls made a nerdy boy to be liked by a few girls.
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I find this MV great. Besides, I wish that a book would drop on my head. -_- If I had a book like that, the first thing I would do is, to make myself invisible, I've always wished that nobody can see me sometimes and so I can play some tricks in front of their eyes. :)
○ Riceball ○
To be honest, I was scrolling through the comment section at 2:00 (in the music video) and I saw this girl voice my thoughts exactly.
Oh well.
Anyway, what I understand form the plot is that there are four nerdy girls that are probably fangirling over a popular guy, and when they assume he is waving to them, they get excited and wave back. Unfortunately for them, he is actually waving to his attractive girlfriend behind them, and she walks through, shoving them aside like trash-- a high school cliché.
The next scene is in the library, where Jade gets up to find a book when one magically drops from its shelf and falls onto her head. Sounds like something that would probably happen to me. The four come over to inspect it, and, what do you know-- they gain super cool magical powers: Perrie can turn her hair purple, Leigh-Anne and Jesy have yellow and blue powers, and Jade can levitate her glasses. I'd want to be able to levitate someone's glasses off their nose. *evil laughter*
They return to school the next day as the real Little Mix, where heads are once again turning and the popular girl is pissed. They then get their revenge on her by causing her to fart break wind. Continuously. She then runs away.
The girls then see yet another group of popular girls laughing at a nerdy kid who's just dropped his books. Out of sympathy and with style, they fire their spells to make them fall in love with him. The scene then switches to a boring study hall when the girls turn into an extreme dance party where the students (and teacher!) all dance on tables and chairs. Then they all move down the hall, papers flying.
I personally think that this plot was good and well-versed; although most people might mistake that girls make themselves pretty in order to be accepted. It's the confidence they find in looking good, not being pretty, because if it was for that, that's jut vanity.
As for the lyrics...
All the girls on the block knocking at my door! Wanna know what it is make the boys want more!
The words the song starts off with tells us that other nerdy girls (like them before) want to learn the Secret of all secrets-- just kidding, the secret of their beauty, or should I say, confidence. Moving on, the lyrics somehow give off a advertisement vibe (or is it just me?)
Black magic, also known as dark magic, is a type of magic (THREE times now) which is used for selfish and evil purposes. And so it is! All girls want to be beautiful for their selfish purposes. They'd want to look beautiful for the boy they like.
Personally I think that the way they portrayed their message to watchers was slightly wrong because they would think that this video would be exploiting vanity. The real message is, in my opinion, to have confidence even without being beautiful and such.
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The Cow, the Fish and the Riceball have concluded the morals of this song:
1) Don't mess with black magic.
2) Don't mess with Little Mix.
P.S It's ok to fart. After all, they are just butt sneezes. But just in case, learn how to hide them NOW... from the one and only Ryan Higa. Enjoy!
Welcome back to the Cow, the Fish and of course, the Riceball! *bows*
Two days ago we had our first class trip this year to *drumroll*... a chocolate gallery, a batik handicraft workshop and lastly, the aquarium in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre! It really was quite an exhausting day, thank goodness there was no Phys Ed test the next day.
POWERPUFF GIRLS! (it's POWER RANGERS, lol)
This is just a brief summary of what we did during our class trip, so forgive me if we have missed any significant details.
Note: As we have said earlier, we were not supposed to be revealing ourselves so soon in the future, but as it is troublesome to blur out all our faces in each photo, we've decided to leave them there and let you decide who is who.
We set off at about 7.40 in the morning along with a... *cough* friendly *cough* bus driver. We didn't actually talk to him, though. It was rowdy in the bus, with the sounds of chattering everywhere and music playing throughout the ride. We took tons of selfies that ended up deleted, watched anime crack videos and laughed till our stomachs hurt, but nonetheless it was a lively trip.
We reached the batik center first at about 9 something. Since we had some time to kill (our batik session was at 10.30 due to some of our friends coming along later due to performances), our bus turned back and stopped at guess where? The Chocolate Gallery!
We have an absolute chocolate freak in our class whom we always pick on. We saw her eyes widen with ecstasy when she merely heard the word. As we got down from the bus, we did a headcount so that we could be sure everyone was here.
A lady ushered us in and showed us the cacao pods, where they only harvest the cacao seeds and process them in factories through conching, which makes cacao (or cocoa?) butter. (Credits to geography teacher for the chocolate knowledge, actually!) We were then brought inside and were shown a magnificent work of chocolate art: twin dark chocolate dragons with a pearl made of white chocolate in between. We all ogled at it and I personally thought of taking it home when one of us noticed there were ants inside the glass casing... eww! (That is one ugly pic )*sigh
The lady told us that it had been there for eleven years, and kept at room temperature so that it will not melt. Can you imagine it? Eleven years! Anyway, she then led us down a corridor to a counter full of goodies, and introduced various types of chocolate to us, such as black sesame chocolate, tongkat ali (ginseng), green tea chocolate (?), and even chili chocolate! And then she took out a packet of small brown chocolate eggs coated with cocoa powder, and to our amazement and horror, began to smash it on the counter. Hard. The chocolate barely had a crack after all the smashing. All of us were SURPRISED and of course, we did wonder if it will break our teeth but it amazingly wouldn't.
After all the touring around the chocolate gallery, we went to the Batik Handicraft workshop. When we reached the center, we had 1 hour to spare before the workshop so we toured around the batik handicraft centre, but the things there were EXTREMELY expensive, so most of us thought it was not worth it so we didn't get anything. We weren't supposed to take pictures but hey... AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!
In the workshop, we were given pieces of cloth to draw our designs. We used hot wax to draw our designs, then we blended different colored dyes onto our drawings. The batik experts guided us with our batik making and gave us many useful tips. It was hard and tiring work but most of ours turned out well. MOST.
After we finished our batik and left it to dry, we went to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) to have our lunch and go to the aquarium, Aquaria. There were a few stalls selling food; it took us almost ten minutes to figure out what to eat. In the end, we still chose western food. Their pizza wasn't really that nice but it was filling at the least.
At last, Aquaria!
Although some of us had been there a few couple of times already, it was still fun because we went with our classmates instead of our families. Fish was really excited, and kept babbling about meeting her relatives. We saw many types of beautiful and healthy sea creatures like...
A shrimp...
A unicorn fish...
A pedophile super weird fish thingy...(it's a STINGRAY)
We even watched the divers feeding the sharks, there's only one word we can describe them with. BRAVE. We wouldn't have dared to do that. While the divers were feeding, a sea turtle was trying to be cheeky and attempted to take some fishes from the bucket. Alas, it didn't get to have any because the divers were just in time to take them away from it.
After the trip to Aquaria, our original plan was to return to the handicraft center to pick up our artwork, but to our surprise and delight when we boarded the bus, good old Mr. Bus Driver had already picked them up for us! Told you he was friendly.
Whew. That was a long story. It's probably not a summary anymore.
And that's about it for our blog post! Sorry for bad pictures (lookin' bad in all of them, ew) but until next time, sayonara!
The Cow, the Fish
and the Riceball are, in reality, a bunch of dorks who delight in watching
anime, reading, writing, drawing and making fun of butts fangirling.
Before we continue
on, let’s have a brief introduction to the administrators of
this blog who will be hosting (and participating in) an interview later on.
First of all… please
welcome the fabulous Cow!
Hi, compadres! WELCOME TO OUR FABULOUS BLOG. I'm fourteen this year and I love the Harry Potter series. I'm a professional assassin and I love to pull pranks on my friends. My great sense of humor is highly recommendable ;) as well as my habit to procrastinate but still manage to pass up my homework...most of the time. I especially love cute things like Toothless and Hiccup. *sigh. I can be quite the sentimental person at times. Especially when it comes to anime and books where you feel like crying your eyes out:'( I am also a very, very forgetful person. I can never remember anyone's birthday or secrets, so it's safe to tell me anything because I am likely to forget it. So yeah...bye? P.s. I am aware the word 'cow' has 2 meanings. I am the actual animal, thank you:| Cows are so not appreciated nowadays.
Next up… we have the
charming Fish!
Hola, My Friend! So, My name is Goldfish, but you can call me Fish. So...I'm specifically 14 years 4 months and 8 days old. I LOVE to spend my day on my reliable gadget, reading books on Wattpad, Facebook and Chat with my friends and of course Youtube-ing. I'm not like the one below, who likes fangirling although I sometimes do (don't ask me about what). Besides that, I go for swimming whenever my parents are free(which is not most of the time) and doodle on anything that is in front of me, even exam papers, I guess I like to leave a remark that I was there ^_^. That's basically me. If you really read this, I would like to ask a question. Why are you reading about me?(-_-) Just skip to the interesting part.
And last but not
least… the Riceball of Riceballs!
You can continue
scrolling because I’m not that important.
For those of you who
are just bored with your life and insist on reading my introduction, well, you
leave me no choice.
13-and-a-half year
old who enjoys reading, writing and fangirling (will not deny that). Extrovert
on the outside, introvert on the inside. (Even though at school I may be a
friendly person, I’m actually a shut-in.)Mostly writes adventure fiction,
watches shonen anime (I strongly recommend The Seven Deadly Sins, Soul Eater,
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Fairy Tail [it’s worth the watch])and may be
capable of drawing a little bit.
And that’s the end
of the introductions! Now…
An Interview With
The Cow, the Fish and the Riceball by The Cow, the Fish and the Riceball
Bowing to the enormous pressure from readers
to reveal more about ourselves, we have granted ourselves the permission to
interview… ourselves. We’d like to start off by asking the big
questions—are “Cow”, “Fish” and “Riceball” your real names?
All: Of course not. What do you think?
Can you tell us your real names? Cow:How about no.
Fish: I wonder what makes you think I will. Riceball: You’re very funny.
You should do comedy.
What is this blog about?
Cow: That is highly personal, Dumbledore said so.
Fish: It's stated above.
Riceball: This blog is merely for entertainment purposes, where useless stuff is posted.
Why did you create this blog?
Cow: For your enjoyment, of course. Our top priority;)
Fish: To share with you guys my life.
Riceball: Nothing, really, it was just a project from our teacher, although we plan to turn it into something fun.
Why do you call yourselves by the respective nicknames?
Cow: 'Cause cows are fabulous!
Fish: Well, apparently cow started calling me that, and I thought it's pretty cool. Even though is just 'Fish'.
Riceball: I love riceballs, considering since they're tasty and one of my fave anime characters is represented as a riceball.
How frequent are your posts?
Cow: At least once a week. It depends on the mooood.
Fish: Once a week. Depends if there is any interesting 'stuff' happened.
Riceball: Once a week, at the very least.
Do you have any personal blogs?
Cow: Nope!
Fish: No.
Riceball: Hmm... I don't know.
Will you answer questions?
Cow: Yes, as long as the questions are actual questions.
Fish: If it's worth answering.
Riceball: Only if they're logical, or when people need to cut down on their lameness.
Where can we contact you?
Cow: justamango@gmail.com. But why would you want to contact me...?
Fish: You can email me. callmegoldfish92@gmail.com. But I don't check my email frequently. So, just comment below unless e-mailing me is necessary.
Riceball: mintchocolatechipnut@gmail.com. Will have to look through junk and spam to find them, so don't expect much.
How long are you keeping this blog up?
Cow: I am quite forgetful, so I might forget I even owned an account. So yeah.
Fish: As long as I can.
Riceball: We'd probably on hiatus for a long time (let's say, a hundred years), but as long as there's stuff to talk about, stay tuned.
Will you reveal yourselves in the near future?
Cow: Ta-da! Already revealed. Too bad you can't see me.
Fish: I don't have a future teller ball. Therefore, I'm not sure.
Riceball: Don't think so.
And that is the end of our interview! Thank you, and have a nice day!
