I had a little bit of time to spend on my website so I updated my Crabbing Guide. Specifically, I added some recipes to the “preparing and cooking crabs” page so visitors can try out some other ways of cooking their crabs. I’ve pretty busy with school lately, so I haven’t had much time to work on my sites. University is pretty tough… Hopefully I’ll get used to it.
The End of Summer and Back to School again
Well, it’s that time of the year again: time for me to go back to school. This year will be my first year at university. I’m a bit excited, but I’m not really worried though since I’m confident in my academic abilities. Well, I got through high school just fine. That must mean something right? High school was alright for me. It was really overly exciting like in the movies, but I had a good time. I’ll be busier when I go back to school, but I’ll try my best to bring new content to this website. Good luck to you all.
My first pay check
Woo hoo, the website classes I took in high school are finally paying off. I just got my first check from Google for my Adsense earnings. Hopefuly this will be the first of many checks to come. Making webpages is actually good for something after all haha. I’ll do my best to improve this website and provide even more quality content for you visitors.
The new TJ Online is finally ONLINE
I’ve been messing with this xoops portal for a while and finally found the right modules for my site and personally made a unique theme. The theme is my first xoops theme ever, and it took a while since I’m a noob at css. I basically just modified the default xoops theme, so the layout is still the same. I wanted to install a photo gallery and put some photos up for viewing, but unfortunately my webhost does not support GD or any other graphic libraries that are needed by gallery modules, so too bad. I ported most of my articles into this new website, but some of the larger articles such as the crabbing guides will not be ported because the guides are basically individual websites and need their own navigation.
By switching to a CMS like xoops, my content is now better organized and it is easier to administer everything. New features to the site can be easily downloaded and installed within a few clicks. There is also a search function which allows visitors to find article and a comment system for the articles. All these features will hopefully give you visitors a better browsing experience.
A “Short” Guide on Your BC Provincial Exams
This is a short guide I wrote to help future students in where I live with their provincial exams. I recently received my scores for my exams and I did fairly well, so since I have a lot of time on my hands, I decided to write a guide based on my experience. This guide covers the general stuff and also focuses on subject exams that I have taken.
Please note that this guide was written for the years that I took the provincials (2004 and 2005) and will not be updated with new info. The exams probably have been changed since then so some of the specific strategies might not be applicable anymore, but the general test taking strategies still apply.
“Things You Might or Might not Know About My High School” Essay
This is another essay written for my grade 10 summer school essay writing course. This particular piece was about my high school and some of its less uh… well-known features. I have taken the liberty of removing my high school’s name from this essay in order not to humiliate the school, but you might be able to guess which school I’m talking about. The things talked about in this essay may or may not be true at this moment, since I wrote this essay during the summer after my grade 10 year.
JP’s Badminton Portal
This is a completely separate website that is focused on the sport of badminton. I designed this site in order to put my father’s numerous badminton articles online. His articles talk about many aspects of badminton, such as tactics, skills, training etc. There is both an English and a Simplified Chinese version of the website, and visitors can switch back and forth between the two languages. The articles were originally in Chinese, and were translated into English by yours truly. This website has also been recoded completely to take advantage of PHP and MySQL in the December of 2006. Click here to visit.
Movie Review: “Batman Begins” (2005)
Now that I’m on summer vacation, I have plenty of time in my hands. Recently, I went out to see the new Batman movie, and I think it is a pretty good film. Even though I don’t have a film class to make me write movie reviews any more, I still chose to write one for this film, to practice my writing skills. Here’s my review of Batman Begins.
Star Wars Response
This is my final written assignment for my grade 12 film class. Our last field trip of the year was going to a theatre and watch Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Of course, like after watching any movie, our teacher made us write a response to the movie. The questions were is Episode III similar in theme and mood to Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and are the new episodes better or worse than the original films? Even though I don’t collect Star Wars merchandise, I admit that I am a Star Wars fan, and obviously, I had a lot to say. Below is my response, and like all my school articles, I got an A for the effort. Note that this is not a film review of Episode III, but rather a candid discussion of the series in general.
Tony’s Crappy Poetry
By looking at the title, you’ll probably know that there is going to be some bad poetry involved here. You can probably guess that I don’t have anything good to put on my site, and I had to result to putting up poetry. Below are two poems written by yours truly for a grade 12 English class. Personally, I dislike poetry. I think that poetry is the worst part of English class other than Shakespeare. This is probably because I’m a very logical person and poetry and arts may defy logic and that puzzles me sometimes. Anyways, when I was given these two assignments, I spent less than half an hour on each of them, because I didn’t really care. Surprising though, my English teacher actually liked my poems and gave them good marks. I guess preference is very subjective, and my English teacher either has weird tastes or is trying to play with my head. Either way, I’m glad that I got good marks for my half-ass efforts. Read on and see what you think of my poems.