{"id":1681,"date":"2014-02-11T00:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1681"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:11:24","slug":"an-unforgettable-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1681","title":{"rendered":"An unforgettable gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">I was enjoying a bowl of noodles and looking at the various customers in the restaurant when suddenly I found what seemed to be a cockroach leg in my bowl.\u00a0 I screamed immediately as I hated cockroaches so much.\u00a0 Cockroaches were dirty and disgusting, weren\u2019t they?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">Well, all that happened last Sunday.\u00a0 It was a big and special day and I went to the restaurant with my parents to celebrate.\u00a0 The restaurant looked nice, clean and designed in a modern style.\u00a0 Simply high-class, I\u2019d say. I thought it was a beautiful restaurant with very good services at first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">When I sat down with my parents, I was attracted by the noodles ordered by the customers near us. I decided to have one too. A few minutes later, the food came.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u201cYummy!\u201d I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u201cWow, I\u2019ve never waited for the food ordered for such a short time!\u201d Mom spoke gladly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">Before my mom finished her words, I was eating it already. The beef was soft and the soup was made of shrimps and pig bones.\u00a0 It was so delicious!! But all of a sudden, I saw a cockroach leg in the soup! I was shocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u201cWhy will such a nice restaurant have a COCKROACH LEG in the food?\u201d I thought. Oh! I even saw a fly floating in the soup, which made me scared and shiver. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">A few seconds later, a man came to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u201cHello, I\u2019m from TVC and we\u2019re making a TV programme. Is it scary? The fly and the cockroach leg are fake!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">At that time, I really wanted to hit him.\u00a0 Although I was angry, I knew I was on a TV show, so I controlled myself. I answered calmly,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u201cYup, they\u2019re truly scary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">I kept my manners as a gentleman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">I would never forget my 13<sup>th<\/sup> birthday present. I hope you won\u2019t have my experience. After all, staying calm facing disgusting creatures was not an easy task!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">I was enjoying a bowl of noodles and looking at the various customers in the restaurant when suddenly I found what seemed to be a cockroach leg in my bowl.\u00a0 I screamed immediately as I hated cockroaches so much.\u00a0 Cockroaches were dirty and disgusting, weren\u2019t they<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\"><\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;\">Well, all that happened last Sunda.........<\/span><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1681\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-35"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}