508's Secret English Garden

My bad habit           50825陳嬿容

Watching cable TV all night was my bad habit.

On holidays, I would notice TV programs on newspapers. Then I usually sited on the sofa all day long. Therefore, my parents often blame that I wasted more time on TV than on study.

This bad habit caused my grades worsen.

I quitted the bad habit when I studied in senior high school. Because a lot of school work

waited for me to do. I had less time to watch TV. Before I felt that I couldn't live without

TV, but now I no longer watch TV day after day. Instead, I spend the time studying and

accompanying my family. My grades gets better, and I felt more satisfied after I quitted

the bad habit.

32  鄭如岑

        I got a habit of imitating other’s silly or interesting movements.

        Once, Jessica, my junior high school classmate wanted to borrow a jacket from a boy, and pretended that she was weak.  Her action was so pretentious that I can’t help imitating her.  However, I forgot an important thing that they were standing by me.  That is to say, they have seen what I have done.  It was the most embarrassing movement.

        It’s true that imitating others might be stupid sometimes.  However, I still feel so fun.  To avoid bumping into awkward situation, I’m more cautious.  Not until the one I want to imitate goes away do I begin imitating.  This habit brings lots of joy not only to my life but also to others’.

                          Procrastination                             50833 鄭婷勻

  My bad habit is procrastination. Putting things off, so all tasks run after me and bury me finally.

  An old saying goes,” never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” However, there are some tips to keep me from putting things off. First of all, the hardest part about enforcing the task is the beginning. Don’t be afraid of getting start. Just do it, besides, break a large task into small pieces. A complex project usually scares people away, and is hard to deal with. Last but no least, change the environment. If there is too many distractions like noises, comfortable sofa or delicate food, change the space.

  Following the tips above, I won’t be stuck in the procrastinator’s prison. 

 I have an odd interest in ghost movies though I don’t look like a person who is crazy about horror. I love it so much in the reason of the pleasant sensation. When I see those sanguinary ghosts appear, I feel joyful.

  One night, I was watching a disgusting ghost movie with my friend. We had a lot of fun, but suddenly the DVD player cracked and the screen disappeared in a flash.

  We were confused. After a check, nothing was wrong. My friend was scare to death and ran out of the room immediately.

  Finally the answer came out: I kicked out the plug under the sofa.

  I think I will never stop enjoying ghost movies. It is not only happy for me also I learned how to deal with things in calm.

508 23 陳姝妤

My bad habit

50827廖芳誼

  When I study in the evening, I like to lie on my desk with my head on my arms if I feel tired. Sometimes I can sleep up to two hours. The bad habit once even posed a danger to my waist.

  Because my posture has been bad for a long time, my pelvis crooked last year. Even walking could be a hard thing for me！I suffered a lot of pain for the habit.

  I can never imagine a bad habit can almost kill me. In order to hurt my waist no longer, now I need to study and walk at the same time when I am weary. Or I can take a shower to keep awake. A simple change can really influence one’s life a lot and helps me break the bad habit.

My Special Habit

50820陳可馨

My special habit is collecting chocolate packing boxes. I got a chocolate packing box from my junior high school classmate a few years ago. The pretty box attracted me to start my collected life.

The reason why I collected chocolate packing boxes is they are beautiful and unique. Sometimes a company-like Meiji, might produce a series of models or limited products in season. The designs differ from companies. For instance, the milk chocolate packing boxes from Meiji was darker and simpler than Defu’s-actually, Meiji’s milk chocolate only used brown and white on the package-both are they make me crazy because these boxes are all my “treasures”.

Because of the habit, I spent all of my pocket money buying chocolates. I even only spent ten dollars on a meal for a month, in order to buy what I want but I didn’t really need. Now I have at least fifty boxes!

Though I still collect these pretty, I no longer do the wrong decision on spending my money. I will think twice before buying anything. The habit is only a hobby but not most important thing in my life.

50836蕭行雅

                                                 My Bad Habit.

I am a person of hesitation.  This indeed makes me suffer a lot.  I can’t make decisions especially when going shopping.  Since I usually hesitated for a long time about which item to buy, my friends felt impatient while waiting for me.  

  The habit also caused my procrastination.  Being unable to make up my mind timely makes me do things one step behind.  Till now, I still have one English assignment and two history projects unfinished.  I feel like always living in the past.  With new homework assigned every day, my pressure builds with time.

  I should make a schedule every day and make more efforts to carry it out.  As a saying goes , “Don’t put off what you can do till tomorrow.”  From now on, I will take it as my motto and always keep it in my mind.   

My Special habit 50815 林佳頤

I like to collect useless things such as a cover of the ball-point pen, advertisement paper, the empty of cans of potato chips, empty boxes, paper bags, etc.

I like to do this because I want to make the best use of everything and believe that the useless things one day will become useful. And the truth proved that I was right.

The empty cans can become the pen holder and some waterless pens can be fixed after soaked in the hot water.

  By this ways can avoid wasting resources, save money and reduce the amount of garbage. I can make our environment better. And I feel very happy when I doing these ways.

My Special Habit         508 34 鄭資千

My special habit is that I hate pencils very much.

I don’t like to use the pencils and I also hate to correct other’s test paper which was written by pencils, I think it looks dirty because the pencils easily to stain your paper and hands. For example, I stained my homework because of pencils, my teacher didn’t satisfy with my homework and my grades were very low.

When I was a child, I used the pencils to write just like other children. One day, my mom saw me eating the pencils and she shouted at me loudly. ”Don’t eat that.” She blamed me. From then on, I was afraid of pencils.

I tend to use the ball pens instead of pencils. Using ball pens helps me to write carefully and think twice before I write because it is hard to erase the wrong words. It will not to stain your paper and hands. I think that using ball pens to took the pencils’ place is great, so I won’t quit this special habit.

My bad habit         50803劉偉皓

I am confident in myself, but too much confident become arrogance, which will make me mess up many things.

For example, at a performance, everyone practiced hard. Except me “ I would do it well.” I thought to myself.

The performance arrived. When I stood on the stage, I forgot what I should do because I practiced too less before the performance. Due to my mistake our show didn’t get a good grade.

Don’t let your confidence become conceit. If you are over confident, that will harm you in your life.

                   My sister's bad habit                 508 07 王榆文

  When my younger sister was young, she had a bad habit of biting her fingernails.  Her fingernails were so ugly that they looked like the saw tooth.

  My parents wanted to correct her bad habit.  My father told my sister if she keeps biting her fingernails, he will cut her fingers with a knife.  My sister promised that she would break this habit.

  One day, my father checked my sister's fingernails.  He discovered that my sister didn’t keep her promise.  My father was so angry that he really took a knife to cut off my sister’s fingers.  When my sister saw it, she was so afraid that she cried.

  In fact, my father just wanted to scare her.  Since then, my sister never bit her fingernails again.

My special habit     508 26 黃香瑾

    I have a special habit. If I am not busy, I’ll feel uncomfortable. I found this hobby by accident.

   When I was a junior high school student, I often helped teachers with chores, and I like to be a leader to help classmate. When I was a senior high school student, I’m busy with studies and clubs. Although I feel tired, I enjoy these. I think I’m like a kind of insect, which put heavy things in its body constantly. Although I know it could be bad for me, I just can’t stop doing this.

   After I examined my personality, I found that I had that special habit. I like to be busy.

My Bad Habit        508 38 謝瑀倫

  My bad habit is listening to the music before sleeping, such as pop music and soft music.

  This terrible habit causes a lot of bad effects on me, like falling asleep during the class. Because of the time spent on listening to the music, I often stay awake until late night. When sleeping in class, I was afraid that teacher noticed and asked me to answer the questions. I tried hard to pretend I was conscious and took some notes. And the next day I found that my notes were all wrong and my words were ugly so I had to rewrite it.

   I think I must quit this bad habit as soon as possible. Otherwise, I can t pay attention during the class anymore and my grades will become poor.

50809何芸瑄

    I like to nag others about protecting the earth like a mom.  Nowadays, the environment is polluted by human beings seriously.  I am in a bad mood when seeing garbage on the ground, and even in the air.  Besides, I hate to see someone turns on the light but doesn’t turn it off.

    For example, when I see friends buy beverages, I tell them, “don’t take the straw.”  Because I think that tearing the packing can also drink it conveniently.  Taking a straw produces more garbage.  Furthermore, I often shout at my younger sister because she turns on the light but doesn’t turn it off.  She thinks that I am too exaggerating, but I think that saving the electricity is necessary.

    My special habit brings a lot of trouble to others.  They usually feel that I am annoying.  However, my habit can help the earth become clean.  I want to change the habit of people around me, and make the surroundings better.

  My special habit

I have a special habit that I like to hold quilt. The quilt has accompanied me since I was a baby. One night I found my quilt disappearing. I burst into crying. Then I asked my mom“Do you see my quilt?“”I throw it out , because it is too dirty to hold”she said. Suddenly I was like falling a deep pit. In those few days, I could not sleep well .

  I asked my parents to buy another quilt for me. When I got the new quilt I was like a fish in water. I carried it everywhere. Sometimes I will tell my feeling such as angry with

my friend, got bad grades and what good thing I have. It was my friend who can not say anything just listen.

  I know that holding quilt is not a good habit and a little–childish, but I do not want to quit it. Because it is my friend , who can keep secrets forever.        

My Bad Habit      50817 邱睦傑

  I have a bad habit.  I like very “silent” places.  When I do something like studying or sleeping, I don’t want anything to disturb me.

  The bad habit causes many inconveniences in my life. In my bedroom, I can’t hang the clock on the wall. It will disturb me because of its sounds.  I always do important things at midnight because it’s the quietest time in a day.  I also can’t bear the snore from other people when I’m sleeping.  All these sounds drive me crazy.  I know I have to break this habit so that I can get along with people better.

13 周怡萱

        My sister liked to store all the desserts and drinks under her bed when she was ten-year-old. At first, we had no idea why all the desserts and drinks were gone. I asked my sister. She said she had no idea, either. A few days later, I found she was eating the missing dessert on the bed. After she left, I searched the room to find out the truth. To my surprise, there were many desserts and drinks under her bad. Though she promised me not to do it again. Unfortunately, she kept hiding food. I turned to my parents. They said they would punish my sister.

        But until now, I still find her hiding desserts and drinks. I think she will never quit this habit even when she is an adult.

  Putting things in wrong places is my bad habit. For example, my clothes should be put in my closet, but I put them on my bed. The bad habit causes my room in a mess. I can’t usually find my things immediately, so I have to spend much time looking for them.

  My bad habit troubles not only me but also my family. Few days ago, before I went to school, I lost my keys. I was very nervous. In the last, it was my mom that lent me her keys, so I wouldn’t late for school.

  I hope I could quit this bad habit. First of all, I have to clean my room. Most importantly, every time I use my things, I should put them back in their own places. Therefore my bedroom would be clean and neat. The bad habit will no longer bother me.

                        10吳雅君

Watching too much TV is one of my bad habits.  Whenever I have time, my first priority will be watching TV.  I can watch TV shows almost whole day long as long as I sit in front of the television.  It’s because I like almost every kind of programs, especially the dramas performed by young idols.

To get rid of this bad habit, I had some changes.  For instance, when I needed to study, I used to study outside instead of being at home.  Now, I even live alone away from home to avoid TVs and try to make good use of my time.

“Where there is a will, there is a way.”  So far, I’ve been gradually quitting my bad habit of watching too much TV.  Indeed, I have more time now, and I can even use some time to relax myself because of the heavy schoolwork in workdays. Watching too much TV really wasted me a lot of time.  Next time when I want to watch TV, I’ll think twice.

My Bad Habit      50821陳則伶

  “Ok, I know, I know.” I interrupted and left directly. When someone is trying to inform me of a message, I often chime in before they finish their speaking. Consequently, I seldom get the real point which they actually express and get into trouble afterwards.

  For instance, one day, I accompanied my friend on her way home after school. Waving good-bye to each other, she kept telling me the direction home. “Ok, I know, I know,” my bad habit showed up again. I interrupted her and stepped on my way home immediately because we lived in the same neighborhood and there was nothing to worry about.

  After I followed what she said-go straight and turn right-there was a two-way fork in front of me. I started to feel nervous because the sky was getting dark, having no idea where I am. Suddenly, a man stopped the car beside me. Thank God! That was my father and I ended up getting home safely.

  Due to this experience, I learned that I should be more patient before getting the entire messages which might be a important information for me. Besides, it’s impoilt to chime in when someone is talking. No matter in what situation, I should make sure whether I realize others’ meanings. Otherwise, I could really be in trouble!