Friday 13 May 2016

The Haunted House Grand Finale. chapter 4 and 5




Chapter 4

When I had woken up and when everyone had woken up, everything was calm and quiet like it was earlier, before all of this started. We started looking for the chest and this time we finally found it. 


It was hidden amongst two drawers and it was against the wall. Inside the chest was an old piece of paper that had the reasons to why Vipor had become an evil poltergeist and there was also an old map pointing to a hidden room. 


On the map, it said that Vipor was hiding a secret inside this room and the room was buried deep underground, but there was a hidden maze, leading to a hidden stairway that would lead to the room. 

“We have to find this room now,” Declan shouted, as he pumped his fist with plenty of enthusiasm, 

“we have to find his secret and destroy him for good! Destroy him that he can’t come back to here again!”


“All in favour,” I shouted firmly, as everyone put their hands up, “right, let’s begin finding the room now!”

Everyone started walking downstairs and starting the big search. We all looked behind cupboards, large picture frames, doors and basically all of that kind of stuff. 


We had all split up into small groups and kept searching, which was mainly behind bookshelves, but we found nothing, not a single thing.

About half an hour later…..

I know it was a very long time, but someone had finally found something and it was a very good thing. “Guys,” Annie yelled excitedly, “I found a secret tunnel!”

Everyone went over toward the tunnel. It was still really hot outside and inside the house, everyone was sweating very badly, but everyone was relieved when they felt the coolness of the tunnel against their faces, mostly me.


 “I think this tunnel leads to that maze we were talking about on the map,” Annie shouted, “I hope it does lead to the maze!”

Everyone started walking through the hard and stony path that was slowly declining in elevation.

About a quarter of an hour later…..

The path finally stopped at a very large maze that seemed to go on forever. It seemed impossible to go through, but I still thought we would still be able to pass through it somehow.

Suddenly, Katelyn squealed and shrieked as something fuzzy and terribly itchy was crawly speedily across her face…..













Chapter 5

“Eeeeeeeeeeek,” 


Katelyn squealed, as she was trying to knock a large spider, which was crawling all over her, off her. 

This was the second time a spider had jumped on Katelyn, “somebody get this spider off me!”

After a few minutes, Katelyn had finally flicked the spider off her and there was a gate in front of them that couldn’t be unlocked. 

Everyone was trying to pull the gate open, in hopes that the lock would break, since the gate and the lock looked like they were hundreds of years old, but the gate didn’t even budge, not a single bit. It was like the gate was frozen.

After a while of trying to open the gate, Marley, fell back and stepped on a pressure plate, which immediately pushed a block of stone above the surface and on that block of stone, was a golden key. 

The key didn’t look like it was so old, since it was shiny and clean, but it probably was really old. Marley tried the key on the lock on the gate and immediately, the gate flung open and with a large creaking sound which made everyone cover their ears, since it was so loud.

Everyone walked inside and started talking about how they would go through the maze, since it looked impossible to pass through.

 “How on earth are we supposed to get through this maze,”

 Kathie asked, as she tried to look for the end of the maze, “we can’t even see the end of it, so how will we get through it?”


“I don’t know how,” I replied, as I was fiddling with a small stone, “we’ll just have to find out when we are in the maze.”

Everyone started to walk down the first path of the maze they could see, of course everyone thought it would soon be a dead end, but still, they couldn’t see the end of the path, or any sign of another path anywhere.

About three quarters of an hour later…..

We finally came across something, after a very long walk along a straight path. Everyone was really tired and what we saw made us very glad, mostly including me, since my throat seemed like it was a desert inside it and my tongue was so dry, that it was really stiff. 

Right in front of us was a huge water fountain that was filled with many litres of water. We could all finally have a drink after many long hours and we could finally fill up our drink bottles, which didn’t even have a single drop of water in them. 

After we had all filled up out drink bottles and of course, had a drink, we all left the fountain area and started walking.

After a fair distance of walking along the path, a few of us at first, but then all of us, heard the sound of evil laughter coming from behind us and the sound of a furious wind and the sound of thunder and lightning crashing…..



Monday 9 May 2016

Dear Jones House,


My name is Lasith Kulasekara and I'd like to talk about
my passion today and I'd also like to talk to you about
some things that are about me.

First of all, my family and I are from Sri Lanka and we came to
Adelaide when I was around 2 years old. Just before that, my
family and I lived in Norway for about 1 1/2 years.


Then 5 years later we came here, to Bendigo.
Later on, we became citizens in Australia and Sri Lanka.


Now I'd like to talk about my passion. In my spare time, I do paintings at home.
 I also write stories for Scribe Young Writers Club.
 I'd like to be a scientist or doctor when I'm older and
 I'd also like to be an artist and write stories as well.

Here are some acrylic paintings that I've been doing recently.....






I got into painting pictures last year, in 2015, when I went to one
watercolour workshop for the whole day, at my previous school,
 which was St' Therese's Primary School. 


The artist, who was from Bendigo,
 who leads that workshop was called Terry Jarvis. We had done a plan on
 a watercolour painting that we were going to do later in the day.




After that class, I decided to try out watercolour painting at home, so
 I asked my parents and they bought me a watercolour kit.




So over about a month one month period, I did lots of watercolour paintings.
Then, at school, we did some acrylic painting and I enjoyed it a lot.



 I decided to try it out at home and then I got even more into it.
 Next, I decided to do a bit of landscape art and
 I liked it the most, so that's how I got into painting.








Finally I'll talk about something no one knows about me.
Something no one knows about me is that
 I was born in a city called Kandy, in Sri Lanka.


Thank you for listening!


Saturday 23 April 2016

The Haunted House Grand Finale. Chapter 2 & 3





Chapter 2

“Declan,” I yelled, “we better go and check out that old and abandoned house that’s down the street, it might be where Vipor is hiding!”



We all went down the street to what seemed like a house where Vipor would like to hide. We all decided to go into the house and see what was inside. We went inside and I saw a mysterious looking shape that seemed to be glowing and it was on the staircase leading to the second floor. I said to everyone that we should check it out. When we got up to where the shape was, it suddenly disappeared. Everything was quite strange about this house. Including the way it was built, what was inside it and so on. It just seemed like that to me.



Later on, after we had checked out a few rooms and had found nothing strange, we decided to check the basement. We went through the creaky old door and we went through the narrow staircase which was made up of rotten and ragged old planks and which seemed to be poking out at me to the basement. The basement had a musty smell and the air was clogged with tons of dust. It was so hard to breathe that I was basically choking on the dust.



We started looking through some old chests and drawers which were probably over a hundred years old. Spider webs were all around the basement, even inside those drawers and chests. Eventually someone ran into quite a large spider and started squealing about. It was Katelyn, who was a twin sister of Declan. She hated bugs a lot. “Eeeeeeeeek,” Katelyn squealed as she was desperately trying to knock the large spider which was on her t-shirt off, “someone get this stupid spider off me!”



Katelyn managed to get the spider off her t-shirt and everyone went back to looking through the chests and drawers again. It was quite a while when Jackie Caldwell found a key of some sort and she told everyone. “Guys,” Jackie yelled excitedly as she showed the key to everyone, “Look at what I found. It’s a key which probably unlocks something in this house. We better go find out what this key unlocks!”



The key was pretty old and was made of iron and copper which had turned partially green over a long period of time. The key seemed over a hundred years old. Everyone decided to go to the attic so we all went to the attic and opened the door to see what was inside. The door seemed older than the basement’s door and it was very pale and rotten. It creaked so loudly that the sound echoed downstairs. We all went up the ladder one by one until everyone had reached the top of the ladder and into the attic. Suddenly, the door slammed shut and the door couldn’t be opened….








Chapter 3




“Help,” everyone screamed, desperately banging on the door and trying to open the door, “somebody please help us!”



Just then, the door swung open and the lights flickered on. Everyone calmed down and decided to sit down on a chair and then all pitched in to help find the chest that the key unlocks. This calm moment only lasted a few minutes and then something even worse happened. All the lights went out, the door slammed shut, there seemed to be fire in the room and then what looked like a tornado sprung up out of nowhere. This was crazy!



“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh,” everyone screamed at the top of their lungs, as they were all running around in all directions filled with panic, “let us out!”



It was absolute chaos, as a tornado was chasing some people around and fire was hovering above the ground. This house was haunted and very badly. “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh,” Jackie Caldwell and Annie screamed, “the giant tornado is chasing me, someone help!”



It was no use, this chaos seemed impossible to stop. Then, a howling sound came into the room and lightning and thunder were flashing everywhere. More screams rose from this and more people were running around. We had to get to the bottom of this mysterious haunting and we all needed to help each other, we couldn’t just let this poltergeist rule and haunt our neighbourhood forever, we had to save it.



Suddenly, the poltergeist stopped and all the lights came back on and the door also opened. Everyone finally calmed down and because they were so tired, they all fell down on the floor and so did I, since I was sick of all this chaos.

To be continued........ 






Friday 11 March 2016

The Haunted House Grand Finale- Chapter 1



The Haunted House Grand Finale

Chapter 1



Bang! Crash! “Aaaaaaaaargh,” I shrieked, as I heard a big crashing sound, “what on earth was that?”




By the way, my name is Jake Ruthford, I have a sister called Katelyn and I have a friend called Charlie Stevenson. I’m 12, Charlie’s 12 and Katelyn’s 10, but Charlie and I are almost 13 and Katelyn is almost 11. 

It’s just a few weeks until all of our birthdays arrive, they come around pretty quickly. 

We all decided to move into this new neighbourhood, because our old house was haunted and so was Charlie’s, but I’m starting to think that instead of moving into a haunted house, we’ve moved into a haunted neighbourhood! I hope I haven’t, but at this moment that’s what it feels like now.

“Hello,” I asked, as I looked around, “Katelyn, mum, dad, are you there?”

It was hopeless, all the lights had gone out and no one seemed to be around. I tried to call Charlie for help, but he didn’t seem to be around either. 

They were here a few minutes ago, but after some bang and crash noise, they all disappeared. It was very weird, as the whole neighbourhood seemed to be really dark outside, even though it was the middle of summer. 

The sun usually goes down at about 9:00p.m., but it’s very dark outside. I don’t get why such strange things happen so often.

Suddenly, there seemed to be something glowing outside.

 I decided to go outside and have a look. It was very hot outside. Here, the temperature can get up to 59 degrees Celsius, but the temperature today was about 44 degrees Celsius. 

The object that was glowing looked orange and round. It kind of looked like a massive orb, but it wasn’t floating, instead it was standing top of a small column, which was about a metre high. 

Some other people were also coming out of their houses, to see what was happening in the middle of the street. 

I seemed to recognise all of those people, it feels like I’ve seen and known them before. Like I said a while ago, everything seems to be strange.

“Hi,” I replied, as I walked up to all the people, “have we seen each other before because I’m pretty sure I have seen you before, maybe a very long time ago.”

“Yes,” one of them replied, “we have seen you before. All of us here are neighbours and we have had some pretty wild experiences with haunted houses and Vipor, the poltergeist. 

He’s a very evil poltergeist and he said he wanted to destroy us all, so we formed a group together and when the day he returns comes, we will attack him and chase him away for good.”

“I also know this poltergeist called Vipor and I think that’s why I know all you guys,” I replied.
“Well then,” he replied, “I guess you could join our group if you wanted to.”


“Of course I will join you guys,” I exclaimed, “I really wanted to get revenge on that evil Vipor too.”
“I’ll introduce you to all the people here,” he exclaimed, “I am Declan Thompson and these are my twin sisters Jackie and Katelyn. I am 12, Jackie and Katelyn are both 10. 

This is Jackie Caldwell and her little sister Annie. Jackie is 12 and Annie is just a few months younger than her. 

Then there are Jackie’s friends: Marley, Lucy and Kathie and all three of them are 12. They’re all the people here to meet!”

“I am Jake Ruthford and I have a little sister called Katelyn and a friend called Charlie Stevenson,” I replied, “can they join this group as well?”

“Sure,” Declan replied, “where are they both?”


“That’s the big problem,” I exclaimed, as I quickly remembered the horrifying moment they all disappeared at once, “they have all disappeared at once when I heard a bang and a crash!”


“I bet this is the work of that evil poltergeist Vipor,” Declan roared, as he was enraged with fury and shaking his fist wildly in the air as he spoke, “you will pay for all of this Vipor and I know you will. 

We will all hunt you down and we will destroy you for good so that you can never come back into this world again!”

Wednesday 25 November 2015

කැප්පෙටිපොල දිසාවේ හෙවත් වීර කැප්පෙටිපොල


රාජපක්ෂ වික්‍රමසේකර මුදියන්සේලාගේ බණ්ඩාරනායක මොනරවිල කැප්පැටිපොල තමයි කැප්පෙටිපොල වීරයාගේ සම්පූර්ණ නම. ඔහු උපන්නේ මාතලේ මොණරවිල නම් ගමේය.

කැප්පෙටිපොල ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අවසාන රජු ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ පාලන කාලයේ දිසාවේ කෙනෙක් ලෙස සේවය කලේය. 

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉංග්‍රීසින්ට යටත් වූ පසුවද ඔහු ඔවුන් යටතේ දිසාවේ කෙනෙක් ලෙස වැඩ කලේය.

1818 දී ඌව වෙල්ලසේ ජනතාව ඉංග්‍රීසින්ගේ පාලනයට විරුද්ධව නැගී සිටියේය. 

මේ කැරැල්ල පාලනය කිරීමට ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩුව කැප්පෙටිපොලට භාර දුන්නේය. 

ඒ වුනාට කැප්පෙටිපොල දිසාවේ කැරලි නායකයන් සමග එකතුවී එම කැරැල්ලට නායකත්වය දුන්නේය.

මේ නිසා කැරැල්ල පැරදවූ ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩුව කැප්පෙටිපොල ඇතුළු අනෙක් කැරලි නායකයින් වැරදි කරුවන් කොට හිසගසා මරා දැමිය. 

එය සිදුවුයේ 1818 නොවැම්බර් 25 වෙනිදාය.


තමන්ගේ රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන්කර මියගිය නිසා කැප්පෙටිපොල දිසාවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික වීරයෙක් ලෙස සලකයි.

Saturday 31 October 2015

My show and Tell about Dr. Pahlagedara Jayathilake in 2012

My show and tell is about a disabled Sri Lankan person. Now he is a doctor researching at National University of Singapore. He is Dr. P Jayathilaka. I will call him Jaya. Jaya had Polio when he was a child. Both his legs were paralyzed. His mum who was a poor lady, thought education was the best thing she could give to her crippled son. When he went to school his mum took him in a wheelbarrow. Somebody donated a wheelchair for him after seeing their courage. Jaya was very good at studies in class. He won many awards at school. He was selected to do engineering in Moratuwa  University in Sri Lanka.
He got a Super First Class in his final exam. Then he was selected to do Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the National University of Singapore. After getting his PhD now he is working as a researcher there.
Jaya was born in Dandu Bendi Ruppa which was a remote village in Sri Lanka. He was born in 1975 and now he is 37.



Monday 12 October 2015

වෙසක් උත්සවය

වෙසක් උත්සවය


වෙසක් උත්සවය සමරන්නේ මැයි මාසේ පසළොස්වක පෝය දවසේයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පමණක් නොව ලෝකය පුරා විසිරි සිටින බෞද්ධයන් මෙම උත්සවය සමරනු ලැබේ.

වෙසක් පෝය දිනයේදී බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ ඉපදීම, බුදුවීම සහ පිරිනිවන් පෑම යන කාරණා තුනම සිදුවූ බව පොත් වල සඳහන් වේ.මේ කාරණා තුන සමරන වෙසක් උත්සවය බෞද්ධයන්ගේ ඉතාම වැදගත් උත්සවයකි. වෙසක් දිනයේදී අප සමරන්නේ බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ මේ තෙමගුල් කාරණාය.

වෙසක් දිනයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පුරා වෙසක් කුඩු සැදීම, වෙසක් දන්සල් පැවැත්වීම, වෙසක් තොරණ පෙන්වීම සහ සිල් සමාදන්වීම වැනි දේවල් සිදු කරනු ලැබේ.














ලිව්වේ: ලසිත් කුලසේකර