Now. i have 2 hours to memorize and come up with a story and sound convincing about the fall of constantinople.
Sucks.
Well, if it went like it went today, ( i annoyed sandra with it) then it would suck.
Today, was test again... and more test.. and blog a... and more test.....and SPOT CHECK!!
That was so frigging cool
Mental note to self : MR Alvin goes in idol list.
He just walked into the class, talk to cik hayati, saw the rubix cube , talk to cik hayati while doing the rubix cube.
90 seconds later, it was completed. We ALl Went WOW WAHHH FUYOOOOH COOLL WHOOPDEEDOOO at mr alvin who was still in the class
The prefects taught we were making nose on purpose and scolded us. I hate my class during spot checks, So effing noisy that its more noisy than the most noisy noises of noises.
Then was te kh test, where i actually learnt stuff today as i had read the kh form 1 text bok and alif and jared had explained stuff to me.
Then...... was after the test, the crappy oral... thenn....thenn....er...
O ya..
i sent in the unsent work because amanda " FOrgot" to LK
Then i met sam, amanda, and......... some one whose name escapes me...
So.. any way..i was like
Wait. it was sandra..
So anyway, i was like...
Evan : Did u send in the work??!!!!!!!!????!?!?
Amanda : we were suppose to??!!!
Sam : Yeah by thrsday remember
Amanda: O crap........ Crapp.... evan do u have a thumbdrive
Evan : No, wth?! u didnt send it in
Amanda : i forgot ...s hit... Omg... wth
Evan starts smiling here.
Evan : i sent it in aledy....
Sam and sandra laughing while evan gets repeatedly hit by amandas book ( as in the book hit me - it stood and hit me and ran away. DAM book!!!)
Then i walked.... i had class but my car didnt show... so i wen and talk to grace, chooi ern, tze wei and hsuyin. i didnt get skittles today. then ryan got us chips. then... we ate the chips
then we gave them away
Then ppl started to go away. I had a feeling i wasnt going to go to class. I walked around skool. i saw the probates swiming then went in to talk to mr ashwin about planes but found the junior designers
... alll girls unlike our batch who were all boys cept sam.
anyway....
Yeah....
so.....
hmmmm.....
Rite.......
Thinking......
Er...
Leme see......
Evan ROCKS!!
so. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . .
i wana watch the potter movie. and... simpsons.... and...........rule the world...... and ..... eat pasta.......and...................... red carl's comic which has been aledi sent to a proof reader.
O BTW... the rubix cube was confiscated. sadly.............
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Man... i am bored..
now my english oral:
THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Good Morning to our teacher, Mrs Archana, and fellow friends. Today i will be telling you about the Fall of Constantinople.
Constantinople fell on the 29th of May 1453.
The Fall of Constantinople to the Turkish armies of Sultan Mahomet the second, greatly assisted by the newfangled cannon, changed Europe, set new religious boundaries, spelled the end for armoured host and ended the Medieval Ages.
Medieval battles of the time were close quartered fighting left battlefield more resembling to a slaughterhouse. Once the cannon was added to war, the results were truly horific. Gunpowder revolutionized the world at the same time as the printing press, both in the fifteenth century. Progress moved at a lightning pace.
The Eastern Roman Empire was founded in the year 324 when Emperor Constantine chose Byzantium as his capital. Soon new dangers appeared with the Turks . Their army using the elite formations of Janissaries. Around fifty years before Constantinople fell, Pope Boniface the ninth issued a Holy Crusade against the infidel Turk. A hundred thousand Hungarians marched against the Turks. They were Routed. Soon the Turks attack Hungary, and with the death of 8000 Hungarian Knights and defeat of Hungary, the end was spelled for Constantinople.
This was a time of extraodinary violence where Prince Dracul of Valachia, Mongol Timus the Lame and Scaderberg. The English and French fought for supremacy in western Europe ; the Pope struggling in Italy while the Holy Roman Empire had a hard time getting rid of religious zealots. The Longevity of a Byzantine Emperor depended entirely on avoiding an assassins dagger or the poison of a jealous courtier.
Sultan Mahomet the second, Conqueror of Constantinople, set his sights on the Magnificent city as a young boy. He saw the Gracious tall glided spirals of the Christian capital across the water and swore that he would make it his. From then on, his every action was guided by a central thought. The fall of the pearl of the Byzance.
The stage for this Muslim takeover had been set centuries earlier when Pope Gregory pronounced, “ It is far better for a country to remain under the rule of Islam than Christians who don’t acknowledge the Catholic Church.” Another statement was than confirmed the hatred between the Catholic and Orthodoxy Church. This was done by a Byzantine Grand Duke, “ It is better to see a city n the power of a Turkish turban than that of the Latin tiara.”
The Great Turk now had nothing to fear from Rome, all he needed now was something which could breach the mighty walls of Constantinople. This arrive with Master Urban, the cannon maker. To prove the ability of the cannon, Master urban aligned it and with a mighty bang, a Venetian vessel anchored in the Bosphorus cracked open like an eggshell. He then made several cannons for the Sultan, with a true monster by the name of “ Mahometa” in honour of the sultan.
By spring, 1453, everything was ready for an attack. The Byzantines were commanded by the Genoasean Mercenary Captain General Giovanni Guistinianni. The number of defenders of the Great city only numbered 700 mecenaries against 150000 turks.
The fighting was furious. The cannons left huge gaps in the wall. These gaps were held on by an impenetrable defence of pikes, spears and swords which broke themselves upon time after time again. But they never got through.
On the 28th of may, Captain Giovanni knew defeat was nigh. The defence of Constantinople, the survival of an empire, was left to hope.The emperor sat alone in his palace. The inferno had raged for fifty-five days. That night, in the church of St. Sophia, thousands of sobbing and wailing people gathered. It was the last service to be held in the most magnificent Church of all time. In this high Citadel of Christian faith, mercenaries and nobles alike celebrated a final Kyrie Eleison. It was the most dramatic service in this church which had represented Christianity for the last thousand year.
The next day, the emperor walked among his men, all valiant and true. The inner gates were to be closed and for none would they be opened. this would keep the defenders from leaving their positions. - they would stop the attack or die doing so.
They slaughtered thousands of turks that day. even the mighty Janissaries could not breach the Italian defense. But all this was not to last, as a prisoner had revealed a single weak point. The turks poured in. Captain Giovanni rounded up 2 dozen and charged the turk. He was shot.
The inner gates defenders opened the gates or the retreating defenders. The Turks rushed in. As the all for help sounded, the Emperor on his horse raced back to help. He was surrounded, fighting an uncountable number. The Mercenaries rushed to his defence. Then the unthinkable happened. The Last Emperor of The Byzantine was cut down.
The city was lost. The fall of constantinople opened the door to muslim power in Europe. Constantinople, quickly rebaptised Istanbul, changed the world forever.
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