Are you no longer in an everyday routine? Have you been slacking off and lazing around? Been overeating because of boredom? Well today is the day you change your ways and once again become that person who was healthy and outgoing.

Summer is all about having fun and relaxing but also staying in shape, so you can go back to work or school looking even more fabulous than when you left.

Firstly make sure you stick to a routine where you are having a balanced diet and plenty of exercise. To avoid feeling sluggish try to avoid ordering too many takeaways (ooh that’s greedy) and instead have home cooked family dinner whenever you can. Although the weather has been hotter and hotter don’t use that as an excuse to overeat on ice-cream (Even when heartbroken). Read the rest of this entry »

Who is Nadine Lesforis???

Nadine is an extremely talented pianist. She has played the piano in the school assembly. Imagine how terrifying it must have been. I interviewed her about how she first learnt to play. She said that it was in school in music lesson when she was 12 years old. She realised she had a natural talent for it and so she kept at it and enjoyed it. She can also play the clarinet which she also performed in front of everyone when she was just only 10 years old. But underneath all this talent she is just an ordinary 13 year old girl in an ordinary school.

Funny stuffs

Nadine loves a bit of mischief, probably because she is the youngest of her 3 sisters. Once she started a food fight in her school. Everyone got involved chucking bits of mash and sausages! She didn’t want to get dirty so she hid under the table after doing the deed. Luckily Read the rest of this entry »

Its 4.05 in the morning, looking at the alarm clock from the corner of my eye, pressing the snooze button from time to time, unaware that today may be the last day of this blessed month of Ramadan. As usual, no alarm clock had been able to wake me up on time but the non-stop alarm of my mum dragged me out of bed and got me ready for Sehri (The morning meal before fast). After finishing the meal, I rushed to my local mosque for the sunrise prayer.

It’s 6.25 in the morning. I am the only one awake, with everyone having gone back to sleep, I finish reciting the Holy Quran. Sitting down near the window observing the time between dawn and sunrise, a thought is triggered in my mind about my Ramadan last year. I rewind my time to the point of my first day at college. I remember, in the fasting condition, I was passing through the library. It was a short while before I noticed the poster of Mahatma Gandhi on the wall ahead of me. That was the time when I was more proud to be an Indian than anyone and anything, so I went close to the poster, gazing at it for a while and reading a quote below it from Gandhi, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Unaware of the value of the quote and ignorant of the value of Islam, I smiled at it and walked away. Today, I realised Read the rest of this entry »

An unclean environment is a problem. It affects the people and it also affects animals. That’s why today I’m going to tell you what people think of how clean Newham is.

Most environments that are unclean are usually caused by littering. Littering is when rubbish is thrown on to the streets and causes the area to look horribly unhygienic. Litter may start off by little but it can result in a big situation and put people’s lives at risk. This includes dumping, where people leave large furnitures like mattresses on the street! Also so much rubbish is put in bins when all the good leftovers can be recycled to make other things which help reduce litter and save money. The rubbish is dumped in the landfill, which eventually will not have any space for other rubbish.

In my opinion, I think Newham is great in some areas but, I find rubbish around and not only that, the streets seem very dirty. Read the rest of this entry »

Call Of Duty 4 has received many, many different awards for the game play and graphics but here is what I think of the game.

Call Of Duty 4 has a massive variety of weapons and maps which give you the ability to do many different things while you are playing online e.g. snipe with the sniper guns (M40A3, Dragnov, R700, M21, Barret .50 Calliber) which you can add a variety of scopes to, or you might want to run straight across the map with an SMG (e.g. Mp5, P90, Mini Uzi, Skorpion etc.). There are also many different modes you can play online and each mode has a different objective to it.

The graphics are probably the best part of the game. Let me give you an example, in the game when you throw c4 the player shouts “throwing c4!” and lets all his teammates know that he is throwing c4. When he is shouting this warning, if you look closely at his mouth you can actually see his mouth and eyes moving, which is just truly amazing! Read the rest of this entry »

DANCE! It either brings you on to the dance floor or it makes you want to run away. Either way it makes time fly by because you are having fun. It creates a warm lively atmosphere which can bring family and friends closer together. The different types of dance are: salsa where you have to be flexible, Indian where there is more hand movements, Bollywood is a mix of everything, Street dance is more locking and popping and Classical is sharp movements. All of these styles form different rhythms to create a whole dance piece.

I enjoy dance because it keeps me active at home and in class, it keeps me healthy and fit, it is fun. I can make new friends and meet different people each time a new term starts. It makes me happy and gives me an opportunity to teach my family and friends who don’t go to the class but enjoy dance. It also gives me lots of chances to perform in and out of Newham in front of hundreds of people. Read the rest of this entry »