Puzzle 18

Hi!

FINALLY... the robotics competition we've been preparing so hard and long for is over!!!!
We didn't get into the semi-finals, however :(
Oh well, better luck next year!

Now for Puzzle 18...

VOCABULARY

Difficulty: Medium

How good do you think your vocab is? Good?
If so, you should have no problem figuring what should go into the blank in the following sentence...

I do not like those people leaving ______ scattered everywhere.

A) flour
B) water
C) seeds
D) dirt
E) broccolis
F) eggs
G) cabbages
H) rubbish

Which of the above choices should go into the blank in the sentence above?


Now for the answer to Puzzle 17... Drag your mouse over the empty space below to see the answer!

They are all misnomers (i.e. cannot be taken literally).
Still confused? Here's the explanation:

A shortbread is a type of cake or cookie (not a bread).
A spanish fly and firefly are both species of beetles (not flies).
A shooting star is a meteoroid (not a star).
Prairie dogs are rodents (not dogs).
Catgut is a cord made up of natural fibres in the intestines of sheep and goats, but never cats.
Komodo dragons are large lizards.
Pencil lead is made of graphite (not lead).

:)
Glen

Puzzle 17

Hi!

It's true that in DHS, there's no such thing as a holiday. I've been so busy lately... CCA training every weekday, IH meetings, poetry recital, not to mention the HW... :(

Frankly, I feel that normal school day now seems much less stressful...
Oh, and will someone please reinstall the cbox? Thanks!

Moving on...

WHAT'S IN COMMON?

Difficulty: Hard

Look at the following list of words.

Shortbread
Spanish fly
Shooting star
Prairie dog
Catgut
Firefly
Komodo dragon
Pencil lead

What do they have in common?


Now for the answers to Puzzle 16...

1. 6 kg
9kg divided by 1.5 (quarter of 6) gives you 6kg!

2. 8th.
If the 8th had gone bad, the person would have said "3 of the first 7 stingrays in the row have gone bad."

:|
Glen

song to share :)

hellos peepo~

just a song to share with you guys, a song loved by many :)

enjoy~



The one that loves kejuju,
Sherlyn Lim

:)

Hello!

Thanks Ryan for that wonderful video! (hmmm you guys should hear his recording. he was recording himself singing that.)

LOL and he records conversations and signs off with that.

Ok... I just cant stop laughing :) maybe cause im happy that IH is done. and that ryan was... nevermind, it makes me laugh again LOL

So... i strongly advice everyone to sing along with that song! :)

Hope to see you guys at class outing!

Joyce

Puzzle 16

Hi!

This blog's nearly dead... just hope more posts will appear after our class outing 9 June.
Moving right along...

THE BARBEQUE

Difficulty: Easy

It's 1N's class outing! In case, you don't remember, 1N was the other class I did counting for during the NAPFA 2.4km run. To thank me, they have invited me to their class party! :D
We went to BBQ at East Coast Park.


1. Trevor was assigned to bring all the BBQ food to the pit.
In case you don't remember who Trevor is, he's register no. 22 and he got almost the same timing as I did in the 2.4 km run.

Anyway, as he is slow, when he got to the BBQ pit, some of the food had gone bad, especially the seafood :(

When we measured the weight of food that had 'decomposed', we found that it was 9kg divided by quarter of the 'decomposed' food's weight.

So what is the weight of the food that had gone bad?


2. We then started to BBQ! The food was great!

But soon, it was time to barbeque the stingray. We then realised we had forgotten to throw out the 'decomposed' stingrays. They were all wrapped up in aluminium foil, so we couldn't tell which stingrays had gone bad. We couldn't unwrap them as well, since they might go bad when exposed to the air.

Then, someone remembered something about the 'decomposed' stingrays. He arranged all 15 of them, still wrapped in aluminium foil, in a row. Then he said, "3 of the first 8 stingrays in the row have gone bad."

Which one of the first 8 stingrays (the 1st/2nd/3rd etc.) in the row is absolutely sure to be good?


Okay, now here's the answer to Puzzle 15!

Positive/Negative infinity. Or simply put... Impossible.

Let's assume that the distance between his house and the school is 40km.
The time he will need to take to reach school is 1h.

The distance of half of his journey will be 20km.
Thus, to travel the first half of his journey at a speed of 20km/h, he will have to take 1h.

He has 1h -1h = 0h left to complete the remaining 20km. So, as you know, anything divided by zero is positive/negative infinity, so 20km divided 0h will give you a speed of positive/negative infinty km/h. You could also say it's impossible.

:)
Glen

Hiyas peepo :DDD

so... how are ur holidays? having fun? i've noticed that this blog is kinda dead so i decided to spice it up a little by telling u guys abt

The facebook fail

so yea..er...blog so dead...i so dead...hope it comes alive again...
yea so......the joke
~attempt at creating an fb acc~
(yes...it's THAT hard)
ok so...err...not that i want to...but some improtant fb info is posted there...must create liao
info...info... birthday is the most troublesome
link: "why should i provide this info (birthdate)"
i clicked it.
YOU MUST BE SIGNED IN TO SEE THIS PAGE!!! MUAHAHAHA
FAIL.

hahas

and so...
~attempt FAILED~


what abt the cca info

ASK MY FRIENDS TO PRINT SCREEN
(LOL)

the inactive one