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1 e Star Signs Reveal your future and discover the endless possibilities of your life! Christmas Party! In this amazing edition you will learn how to plan, and celebrate a Christmas party. You will also be able to learn how to decorate your party with these amazing and spectacular experts who shall guide you through this article. May the Christmas force be with you! Baking Find out all the amazing recipes you can make from this master chef of awesomeness!! Front page by: Samuel Lee and Keith Matanachai

2 Legoland Malaysia Johor Bahru Senai airport. For all Lego fans who would LOVE to go to a Legoland, but can t make it out to Denmark or America or anywhere else with a Legoland, it s a dream come true! However, although the name is Legoland Malaysia, it is built right at the bottom of Malaysia, near a town called Johor Bahru. This means when you are driving, like we did, it is quicker from Singapore than Kuala Lumpur (1 hour compared to 4 hours). It is much easier, but more expensive, to take a plane to the A handy hotel to stay in is the Palm Resort hotel. There is a good pool, and if you arrived on a plane and don t have your car, it runs a shuttle service to Legoland. However, when driving to Legoland, use a GPS or Satnav if available and take care not to make mistakes! The way to Legoland is not well signposted until very near to the actual park. Also, the GPS coordinates given from the hotel website and the Legoland website are both different, and wrong. We took a wrong turn, which led us onto a congested toll that took an hour to get through! Once you are actually in Legoland, there are a few high speed rollercoasters to entertain older kids, not just slow ones for toddlers. The log flume at Legoland Windsor (that I have previously visited) is quite good, but the one at Johor was not operational when we visited so I have no idea what it is like. These include Project X (Technic themed), The Dragon (Castle themed) and the slightly less scary Dragon s Apprentice (Castle themed again). The Dragon s Apprentice is basically a smaller version of The Dragon. I enjoyed The Dragon more, mainly because of the Lego models included at the beginning. Project X is a rollercoaster involving sharp dips and turns. On Aquazone Wave Riders, you get in a boat attached to a central rotating ring, control your distance from the ring and try to avoid water bombs and jets activated by passers-by! The Driving School is another fun activity. First, you watch a short video about road safety, with a Lego minifigure boy and woman as hosts. Then, you get to go out onto the track and try out this safety. There are two problems with the cars you drive around the course: firstly, the cars are the same size, so anyone near the age limit might have a hard time fitting in! Also, the cars have no reverse, just a brake. This meant when I tried to do a U-turn, I crashed into a wall and couldn t reverse back out and when my sister tried a three point turn it failed. Another fun thing is the Imagination Centre. In here, you can choose between two activities- build and race a car or build and test an earthquake proof building. When building a car, you need to borrow wheels from the front counter. After you have perfected your car, you can place it on one of the starting grids of the slopes, press down the gate and watch it go! In the earthquake test, build a tower out of Duplo bricks and hit the button to start the earthquake! By twiddling the knob, you can adjust the magnitude of the earthquake.

3 In Miniland, you can walk about and view the most famous Asian landmarks-all in Lego, and with figures to populate them! You can also interact with the models, for instance by making snakes appear at the snake charmer stall by the Taj Mahal or firing the Merlion s water stream in Singapore. There is a MASSIVE model of the Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur. Good scenes include the docks, airport, Twin Towers and the Penang pirate ship. The shops at Legoland are superb. Outside of the actual park is a shopping mall area, built at the same time as Legoland, which is good for dinner after you have visited. Inside the park, there are a few especially themed shops dotted around the place in their corresponding themed areas (e.g. in the Castle area the shop sells food and Lego Castle products). Near the entrance are the Brick Shop and the Big Shop. In the Brick Shop there is a small selection of individual bricks to put in a bag and buy. The bag is priced by the weight. Also, there is a make-yourown-minifigure station and a stand of key chains. If you have been to Legoland Windsor, then you will be disappointed by the range of buildable sets. The shop is about the same size as Windsor, but this is mainly because of exclusive, non-set products like stickers. That is about all I have to say! I hope this article/review helped you decide about Legoland Malaysia! By Duncan 5A

4 Directions Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ cup milk ½ cup water 2 eggs ¼ tsps. Salt 2 tbsp. butter melted 1. In a mixing bowl mix the flour and eggs together. Gradually add milk and water and stir. Add the salt and butter and beat until smooth. 2. Heat a lightly oiled pan over medium high heat. Pour the batter on to the pan using ¼ cup for each crepe. Tilt the pan so that the batter covers the whole pan. 3. Cook the crepe for about two minutes until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with spatula turn and cook on other side. 4. Add strawberry sauce and whipped cream or banana and chocolate sauce. Enjoy!! Directions 1. Preheat oven to 375 Celsius. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. Add egg, orange juice, vanilla extract flour and baking powder and mix well. 2. Cover dough and chill for 2-3 hours or until firm. Roll out portions of the dough to ¼ inch thick keeping rest chilled. Cut out with cookie cutters and sprinkle coloured sugar on the cookies. Place onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 8 minutes or until light brown. 3. If you want frosting wait for the cookies to cool completely. Ingredients 1 cup of butter softened 1 cup of sugar 1 egg 2 tbsp. orange juice 1 tbsp. vanilla extract 2 ½ all-purpose flour 1 tbsp. baking powder Coloured sugar (Red and green)

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7 1. How many ingredients did the Catholic Church decree that there should be in a Christmas pudding? 2. What game pie was traditionally eaten in Suffolk on Xmas morning? 3. What is a baby turkey called? 4. White Christmas, a cake that is made from coconut, rice and dried fruits is popular in which country? 5. Tai Tai are biscuits that are given to good children in which country? 6. Which cheese often eaten at Christmas is known as the King of English cheeses? 7. In the 17 th century Xmas cake was made to be eaten on what day? 8. People have an Aperitif before the Xmas meal, what does this mean in Latin? 9. New Zealanders would never serve which meat for Xmas dinner? 10. Which English Victorian cook wrote the definite cookbook? 11. What Christmas sauce at Cambridge University is known as senior wrangler sauce? 12. What is a Pfefferkuchenhaus? 13. What should be eaten on the twelve days of Christmas to bring luck for the following year? 14. Where did turkeys originate from? 15. In a traditional mince pie, which ingredient would make it unsuitable for vegetarians? 16. Who made the eating of mince pies illegal in Britain? 17. What is the popular name for the Sunday before Advent when it is tradition to make the Xmas pudding? 18. In what country is porridge called Kukya eaten on Christmas Eve? 19. The coconut flavoured cake, also known as Bibingka is a favourite in which country? 2o. At what time did queen victoria sit down for Christmas dinner?

8 Answers 1. Thirteen 2. Rabbit pie 3. Poult 4. Australia 5. Holland 6. Stilton 7. Twelfth night 8. To start 9. Brandy butter 10. Goose 11. Mrs Beeton 12. A ginger bread house 13. A mince pie 14. North America 15. Suet 16. Oliver Cromwell 17. Stir up Sunday 18. Russia 19. The Philippines pm Christmas night

9 TOP TEN CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS! Hi! Here are a few Christmas gift ideas for boys and girls! Typed by Duncan 5A with help thinking up ideas from the rest of the team. 1. Lego. 2. Nerf Gun. (In no particular order) 3. Match Attax. 4. Football/football boots. 8. ipad mini. 5. itunes gift card. 6. Books. 7. Pet (e.g. a puppy). 9. Football strip of the team they support. 10.Goalkeeper gloves.

10 What type of drink are you? By: Jordan 5O You are having a party and are choosing the amount of friends you are inviting, the problem is that your parents are going out and don t know! Do you pick: A. 2-5 people, your parents don t know so it s better to keep it quiet! B. 6-8 people, not that much but not too little! C people, you don t care if you get grounded, it s a party! 2. Your friends dare you to prank the teacher, you can pick which prank you do, do you: A. Put a bag on his seat, when the teacher sits on it they will fart! Everyone laughs and the teacher laughs too! B. Go a little too far and unscrew his chair so he will fall backwards when he sits down! You are sent to the principal s office after the teacher breaks his back. C. Play it safe, say it s ok and not do any pranks at all. 3. Its nearly Christmas and Mum just made a beautiful gingerbread house! It looks so good you are tempted to eat it,do you: A. Sneak down at night and eat half of the gingerbread cake. In the morning your Mum scolds you, grounds you and takes away your electronic privilege. You just burp in reply. B. Resist the temptation and just wait until Christmas. C. Sneak down at night but just taste a little crumb. In the morning Mum barely notices! 4. Today is Christmas Eve! Your rich uncle Pete gave you a huge present the size of a sofa! What is it? Do you: A. Just wait until Christmas Day. It doesn t hurt to wait! B. Wait until your Mum and Dad are asleep, then tear the wrapping paper, it s a miniature red Ferrari! You quietly wrap the present back up [badly] and tip toe back to sleep, unfortunately you trip causing your Mum to wake up! Uh oh C. Ask if Mum and Dad can step aside and take your doctor kit statoscope, put it on and start to listen to the present. VROOM! You can hear something! Instructions: Choose A B or C when you have finished the quiz [ ] look at the answers and add up your points then read your profile and you have finished your quiz! Answers: Key: P=Points A glass of water 0-2 points You are sensible, VERY. That is good, but sometimes just relax once in a while and forget your worries and just have fun! A fruit smoothie 3-5 points You are sensible and fun at the same time! You know how to have fun but you also know when to stop. Good for you! Fizzy DRINKS! 6-8 points You always want to have fun but sometimes you may get carried away. Once in a while just calm down and read a book or even watch some TV! 1. A-0p B-1p C-2p 2. A-1p B-2p C-0p 3. A-2p B-0p C-1p 4. A-0p B-2p C-1p

11 Puzzle Page! By: Jordan 5O Spot the difference! Find all the 10 differences. Merry Christmas! Just for some fun, why don t you try to solve this puzzle? It s an anagram, which is a puzzle that Ch has lots of jumbled up letters in it and you have to rearrange it. This has something to do with Christmas time. It has 2 words. Here s a hint, who delivers all the presents when you re asleep? He's Fat, Smart, Rich If you want some more anagrams, or the answer to this anagram. Go to this link: Who am I? Christmas riddles I am as sweet as a cookie but I m something else. Cookies are crumbly but I am hard and smooth. I have stripes. What am I? Answer:ENACYDNAC I like to hang onto a branch, I could be ugly or beautiful or recycled or new. And my biggest sister goes to the top, shining so brightly. Everyone admires us and but when Christmas ends, we get put away again. What am I? Answer: STNEMANROSAMTSIRHC

12 On Tuesday November 13 Patana School had their annual international day for Every one dressed up even my koala, we both enjoyed it and we are sure many others enjoyed it too. The food tasting was delicious, so many different flavours and smells, yummy! My favourite thing was the expo. It was so cool as it had all the games and prises. My favourite place was the Christmas place that gave you toys. I also liked the march because it was really cool seeing all the different country s outfits. It was really funny because there was a girl dressed up as a koala in front of me. Believe it or not I saw a little kid wearing a big blue hat holding a flag he must have been strong because that flag looked heavy. When we had the food tasting I think the best thing was the meat balls.

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14 Loi Kratong s purpose is to pay our respects to the Goddess of Water by floating candles and joss-sticks. At Patana Loi Kratong is on Wednesday the 28 th of November. \ You should wear a Thai dress for girls and a flowery shirt for boys. In the past Thai people use to call Loi Kratong Chong Pa Rieng. The person who started floating the Kratongs was Nang Noppama. The king of Sukhothai floated to one of Nang Noppama s Kratongs, after that he floated the Kratongs he announced From now on, on the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month, kings of Siam have to make floating lantern- like lotus-shaped- to worship the foot-print of the Buddha on Nammathanati River for ever. So now in November Loy Kratong is being celebrated with Kratongs from Nang Noppama.

15 The Loy Krathong festival is a oferring to the water spirits to say thank you for clean water and sorry for polluting the water. Loy Krathong takes place on the full moon and people come together to float kratongs a kratong is a small raft made out of banana leaves or bread with candles and coins on it.

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17 Page of Fun! Here is a Page Of Fun! consisting of a Christmas-themed wordsearch and an international-day themed crossword. In the wordsearch the words go forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally. Enjoy! Duncan 5A. G M I N C E P I E S J K L K O E C E O C H H P L O D U R J E A Y H E F D X W I D Q C U I W L G O R L O F R T N E M W O N S T D O I R W S H I O L I B C H U K I O S L K E T U I P L E A T R S R S T O O I U O V H S U I U L R S T M N J K O L C Q I T C J B U Y I A O P L N R S T k I N L O L N K S L E I G H O L I S T E L R E R Q A E R T Y M L O N A T S S A S O S N I S D O L Q R G T Y E U I O T E T J K L W G Y U S G M R L O P U E A T Y O M E A T Y B R P W H L R X H U N P L Z F L Y I R E Y U I K I O S R O O G E I U W T Y U I O E P L Y T I N T I N L Words: CHRISTMAS SANTA SLEIGH PRESENTS RUDOLPH SNOW BAUBLES SCROOGE SNOWMEN STOCKINGS MINCEPIES TURKEY E D F Q Y U Y I O L C V B N Z X Y / 1. / / / / / / / / / / / / 4. / / / / / / 3. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / 7. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / 6. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / NOTE: Any unoccupied spaces have / in them. CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS 2. Count Dracula? 4. The capital of this country is Beijing. 6. Lego was invented here! 7. The abbreviation of America DOWN 1. Tartan haggis bagpipes 3. The elephant is this country s national animal. 5. One of the smallest countries in the world, the Pope lives here.