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W riting ProjectMiraculous Way of

Life

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am Melina Bob. Everyone call me Zanow. I was born on August 26, 1991 in Perth. I am the only son of Miss. Malee Bob, and Mr.licon Bob.

From 2006 to 2005, I studied at Tuart College in secondary school. I got a Bachelor of Fine & Applied Arts. I graduated from Edith Cowan University Joondalup in 2010. Now I am a designer. When I was very young, I was a heroic deed. I wanted to eat some mangoes, after that I tried to climb a mango’s tree to picked up them. Unfortunately, I fell down. My knee was abraded. My mom treated me, and she said “If you wanted something you could tell me every time I am going to find everything you want for you.” After my father died, my mom is always beside me she helps me do everything, and she also cheers me up when I am discouraged. She does everything for me since I was very young until now. I realize that it is the time to take care of her. Every time when I think of my mother, I always miss my favorite menu. The menu is pancake. Then I go to the kitchen for asking my mother. Surprisingly! My mother is preparing the ingredients for making pancakes. She persuades me to make this delicious pancake.

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“So, if you want to know how to make these delicious pancakes. First of all, you need a large bowl, or you can use a food processor if you have one, a large frying pan, a woodenspoon, a ladle, and a spatula or "fish slice". Today, we are going to make about 6 large pancakes. Let’s start by

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preparing the ingredients; there are 4 tablespoons of plain flour, 1 large free-range egg, one-half pint of semi-skimmed milk, 300 milliliters water, a pinch of salt, and a little piece of butter for frying. The next step is to sieve the flour and salt into a large bowl and mix the mixture together well. Then break the egg in and stir it to make a bread crumby mix in a jug. After that, add one-third pint of milk, top up with water to make one-half pint, and make a lovely light battering. The fifth step is to add the milk and water to mix bit-by-bit, and beat constantly to avoid lumps. If you have a food processor just pour all ingredients in and zap until they are smooth. While pop a large frying pan over a medium heat, add a large knob of butter and melt. Pour the excess butter into a small bowl and reserve it later. After that, use a ladle, pour a spoonful of the pancake batter into the hot pan and swirl to get a full covering. Cook for about 1 minute each side: it's ready when it's easy to flip over. Finally, you can enjoy your delicious meal with sugar and lemon or other exciting toppings.”

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I recognize that when I was young, I used to play a folk toy, which my mother used to make for me. It was called that “walking with coconut shells”, so I ask my mother how to make it.

How to Make Walking with Coconut Shells

Materials:

1.A rope (1.35 meters)2.2 coconut shells (Cut into half)3.A sheet of Sandpaper4.A drill

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5.Some lacquer6.A spoon

Methods:1.Use a spoon to scoop coconut out of the coconut

shells completely.2.Wash them cleanly and leave them until they

are dry.3.Use sandpaper to scrub the coconut shells until

their surface is smooth.4.Use a drill to penetrate on the top of the middle

of coconut shells (diameter about 1 cm.)5.Smear lacquer to coat the coconut shells for

beady, and leave them until they are dry again.6.When they are dry completely, use the rope

insert into the drilled of coconut shells.7.Face them up and tie the rope’s tail into a knot,

and check to make sure that they are strong.8.Try playing them by standing on the “Walking

with Coconut Shells”, and walking to everywhere with your friends.

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I walk to my bedroom. I can see something on my bed that receives my old memory. It is my Teddy Bear. Teddy Bear is my cute doll in a form of a bear. My mom bought for me when I was young. He has soft brown, black and white fur. He has large round ears. He has small beady black eyes. Small black is known as his nose. Frank has long chubby body. He has short straight legs and small foots. He has short straight arms and tiny hands. He has a big brown bow. Frank is very kind, generous and friendly. My mom has told me that the name Teddy Bear comes from Roosevelt (former USA president.) Frank is my close friend forever.

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Before I go to bed, mom gives me a glass of warm milk. Mom says to me that when I was young, mom always narrated the tale to me. My favorite tale was “A fish and a turtle”. Tonight my mom will narrate to me again.

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“Once upon a time, a fish and a turtle were friends, and they were alive only in the Aquatic world. One day, they wanted to travel the Terrestrial world, but if they lived without water, they would die. Therefore, they were blessed from the God. Suddenly, the God appeared in front of them, and blessed them. The God said that the fish and the turtle could travel and be alive in the Terrestrial world only in night time, but in day time, they could not travel and live in the Terrestrial world. The fish and the turtle accepted the God's blessing and promised to do that. Three nights after that, the fish and the turtle travelled to the Terrestrial world and went to many places, where they wanted to go, and they went back to the Aquatic world in the day's morning after that. They went to the Terrestrial world as a routine every night. One morning, the fish was going to the Terrestrial world without the turtle and the fish did not believe in the God's blessing. After that the God knew that the fish did not believe in himself. The God was very angry with the fish, so he called the fish and the turtle to meet him. The God cursed the fish could not go to the Terrestrial world forever. If the fish went to the Terrestrial world, it would be dying. The God blessed the turtle could go to the Terrestrial world every time and

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every where it wanted, and it could live in the Terrestrial world all the time. This is the origin of fish and turtles’ lives.

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I get up at 6 O’clock. I had a very good dream because my mom narrated my favorite tale last night. It made me feel like I was a baby again. Today mom and I are going to the beach. We are ready now.

Ripples of waves are hitting the coast during the way to the Memory beach like sound, which is telling me to cheer up. At the moment, I look out the car’s window, and I see a bird standing on a shaky branch without any fear. It makes me think of my mother’s teaching, which she had told me, when I was very young. She had told me a story of a bird like this one that a bird, which is standing on the shaky branch, is not afraid of falling down. It is not because of its belief in the branch, but it believes in its wings. My mother taught me to believe in myself. Now we are arriving the beach in five minutes, the smell of grilled chicken with sweet red sauce making my mouth water. After we arrive the Memory beach I quickly jump from my mother’s car and run along the beach. The current of wind blow myself like walking through a small storm, and it makes me imagine when I faced with problems, I always called my mother. I relaxed my higher-pressure situations by talking with her, as usual she always taught me by telling story to cheer me up. She told me about a dog stabbed by a nail. A dog is painful and roars, but it doesn’t stand up to go away because its wound is not deep enough. After that I continue going for a walk, but suddenly it is raining. As soon

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as the drops of rain bounce on the ground, they make me recognize the aura of ground, which I like very much. The cold weather begins, but I do not feel that it is cold at all. On the other hand, I can learn how to dance among the rain instead of avoiding facing the rain and doing nothing. When the rain stops, I go back to my mom’s car, and we go to our favorite seafood restaurant. My mom pays for this meal to congratulate me that I graduated a Bachelor’s degree, but I promise to myself that after the time I get work, I will look after her, and I will pay every meal for her. I will not let her have a difficult life. Everything in our lives will be better. The sweet-scented seafood was served, and our mouths make water again. I cannot wait anymore. I cannot control my hands, and they move automatically to use my fork and spoon scooping spicy seafood. I swallow spicy lemon steamed fish without chewing. At the moment, I feel very happy, and I love seeing my mother’s smile. I feel warm although the rain has just stopped. I can see the sun smiles and the sky is cheerful after the terrible rainstorm. This is the great time of our lives that deserve to remember. After we finish the meal, we go back home. During the way to home, I feel sleepy with the final sunrise of the day because it is in the evening, and my eyelids are going to be slack, so I have slept by my mother until we arrive home. I think the happy time is going away so rapidly.

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In the evening I ride my bicycle around my village. The old memories come back again. I remember that I have two friends who are pregnant near my house. They are Legha and Racha. Zanow has seen them in her daily life for a long time. Racha

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is care of herself when she is pregnant whereas Legha doesn’t care of herself. They are so different. Both Legha and Racha are friends. Racha lives in Sandee village, and Legha lives in Seejun village.

Racha is pregnant for 5 months. She cares of her healthy so much because she thinks that her healthy is very important for her baby. She cares of her healthy so much because she hope that her baby will be strong like other babies. She has many secret to care her healthy when she is pregnant. The first secret for caring her healthy, she chooses about eating. She eats protein and carbohydrate a lot because the baby who is in herself, he wants to use protein and carbohydrate for growth. Therefore, she has to be careful about eating. The second secret is about relaxing. She has to make herself relaxed; for example, listening music, reading books, and etc. Because of making her relaxed, it can help her baby relaxed. If she is so serious, the baby will be serious like her. However, she has to make herself to enjoy everything all the time. The third secret is exercising. Exercising can help her has a good healthy, and it can cause her baby stronger. She tries to exercise for easy sports; for example, walking about 200 meters, swimming softly, doing yoga, and etc. When she tries to relax, her blood will flow and bring it to her baby. So, she has to exercise for her baby’s healthy. The fourth secret is about resting. She rest about 8-9 hours a day because she believes that if she rests for several hours, it can make her fresh, and it is a good for her baby. The fifth secret is about drinking water. She has to drink 10-12 glasses of water a day because drinking water has many benefits for herself and her baby; for example, it can help her face looks fresh and firm.

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She knows that if her face is fresh, her baby’s face is also fresh. However, the water has many benefits, which people who is pregnant; should drink a lot of water. The sixth secret is drinking green tea or coffee. Drinking green tea or coffee is not good for baby because in the green tea and coffee has caffeine which can make her is not sleepy. If the baby gets much caffeine, it can make baby’s heart beat unusual; it is very dangerous. So, if you are pregnant; you should not drink green tea and coffee. The last secret is controlling weights. She has to controlling weights because if she has high weight, it can be many diseases; such as, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and etc. If she has many diseases, it can cause the baby handicapped. So, she has to control her weight until she will born. There are 7 secrets to care of her healthy. It is important for the new mother. To conclusion, the secrets that she gives, it has many benefits for people who are pregnant. If someday, you have a baby. You have to care them to be good because they cannot say, they never know about experiences in real life. Mother should care of them closely and be with them as much as you have time.

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Racha wants to have a baby, so she carefully took care of herself and her baby. She pays attention in everything to choose the best thing for her baby. On the other hand, Legha has a lot of problems because she is unready to have a baby. So, Legha’s behavior is not suitable to be a new mother. The first reason is she ate everything when she is hungry, and she does not choose eating food

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and beverage. She eats a lot of carbohydrate about 3,000 g for a day. So, she becomes a fat mom. In contrast, Racha chooses the best of eating for her baby; for example, fruits, milk, or vegetables. Next reason is Legha always strains and she has never relaxed herself. This reason can affect herself and her baby. Maybe the baby becomes a bad mood person when he is born. If she strain every day, it affect her health worse. However, Racha always make herself relaxed. She is very happy when she listens to music and read books because these activities can help her baby have a good mood. Racha thinks that baby’ health is the best thing for her. Racha does more exercise than Legha, so Legha has a bad health and her baby is not strong. While Racha often exercise 3 – 4 times because she wants to have a good health for her baby, Legha hardly ever exercised. The fourth problem was resting about 8 – 9 hours for a day. Legha sleep only 3 – 4 hours for a day because she always go to pub or party every night, this is the reason for sleeping only 3 – 4 hours of hers. This behavior may have effect with baby’s brain. On the other hand, Racha restes for several hours, it can make her fresh. It is a good thing to do for her baby, and help the body get to relax. Another reason is to drink water. Legha drinks water about 2 – 3 glasses in each day. She always drinks green tea or coffee instead of the water, so it make her face is look pale. The water is the most important to help the baby is fresh and strong, but she does not drink water a lot. So the baby may become weak and ill, he becomes weak when he was born. Nevertheless, health of Racha’s baby is very strong. Racha believes that the water has many benefits, and she should drink about 10 – 12 glasses in each day. Hence, she likes to drink a

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lot of water; it make herself and her baby have a fresh and firm face because she believes that drinking water about 10 – 12 glasses in each day has a good benefits for people who are pregnant. The sixth reason is drinking green tea or coffee. Legha usually drinks some coffee in every day morning. In the coffee, which she drink, has caffeine, which could make her, is not sleepy, so it can affect to the baby as well. If she gets a lot of caffeine, it will make her got a headache and heartbeat unusual. This problem is high risk and very dangerous for women who are pregnant. Nonetheless, Racha is hardly ever drinks some coffee when she knows that she has the baby. At that time, she has a good health, and she never gets a headache because she always drinks orange juice in every day morning. She knows that orange juice has a lot of vitamin C to help her baby’s health. The last problem is controlling weights. All of these problems are the most important parts of Legha’s eating behavior because she always eat worthless or junk food. Those foods are full of carbohydrate and cholesterol that make her fat and high weight. As a result, Legha and her baby are unhealthy, and they can easily get diseases. If she can not control her weight, she will become the very fat mother, so her baby had high risk to be disabled. On the other hand, Racha has to control weight because she thinks that if she has high weight it made her unhealthy and perhaps her baby affected too. In addition, Racha controls her weight for beauty, so she is the very beautiful and healthy woman. She and her baby are deprive of diseases. These are the problems of Legha and Racha who are pregnant. Both of them has differences of living that are important for the new mothers. If they learn about

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pregnancy, they can live correctly. They will be good new mothers, so when the babies are born, they would become perfect people.

These are the characteristics of my two friends. It makes me get many experiences from them. In the future if I will have a baby I will care of my health like Racha. It makes me confident that my baby will born to be healthy.

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After having a large meal with my mom. I go to my bed and write my favorite diary. I open my radio and start writing it.

“I think happiness is the thing that everyone wants in their lives. The key of happiness is the success in your life. People want to be successful in different ways, such as, education, work, jobs, competition or dream. But my success is having a happy life and taking care of my parents well when they are old. Now, I can be the one who is successful in education because I graduated this year and I have a job now. Although someone thinks that I am very intelligent and can be successful with everything in my life by myself, it’s not real because there are a lot of supportive.

I wonder if you have ever known the most successful human in this world, you will find some secrets. Their successes did not happened because of their mind or action, but it happened because they had similar things that are “characteristics”. They had been built their character until they could be successful.

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There are five special tricks for me to become a successful young woman. First of all, I am always being a person who has an aim. I have to give myself the reasons why I want to do it. Having an aim is building the beforehand achievement images, which let you can see and feel that you can do it. It can be a huge power for you to do it quickly. The next tricks is I don’t spend the time with using Social Media or watching television because I don’t want to waste my time with useless things in Social Media. According to Reuters news agency’s survey findings, a psychiatrist reveals that there are a lot of children and adults patients who consumed social media by spending time with Social media more than 5 hours a day. Some of them consume social medias too much, and it affected to their daily lives; for instance, Eating and going to bed lately are the cause of going to work and school late. Moreover, I usually learn and improve myself. If I learn more I have more changes to be successful. Working hard can’t make me successful. I can be a perfect woman by learning, practicing, and finding news experiences every day. Furthermore, I never say give up. I believe that everybody has got a worse day, but they can rise up every time when they fall. If you don’t give up you can improve yourself with every mistake. The last trick is to believe in yourself. Don’t say “You can’t do”. You might have done many mistakes, but it out of control. It’s not limit yourself; for instance, Tiger wood, he couldn’t play a golf when he was young and, Tan Passakornnatee (A famous businessman who sells green tea named “Ichiton” ) has fallen his business many times, but he never gived up. “If you always think that ‘You can do it’ Try to do it the most and do not give up even it is the only small thing. It will

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become your success one day,” said Tan Passakornnatee. You can always restart yourself. Start with believing that you can do everything you want. For these tricks, it can make me become a successful person. I want to say “Thank you” to everything that happened in my life even there were good or bad. Every success was the gifts and every mistake was the lessons. Thanks to every people who make me have today, especially my most beautiful, perfect and best woman. I love forever.”

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Authors and Responsibilities

1. About Me 2802. Do-It-Yourself 3103. Do-It-Yourself 2764. My Story 2815. Define Me 2876. Describe It 2847. Let Me Tell You 2738. Comparison and Contrast 272

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9. Believe Me 282