CIP Experience

I found out that many elderly only knew dialects. We had a hard time trying to have a conversation. In the process, i learnt some of their pass experiance like how they live through the World War. Only 1 of the many elderlys could speak English very fluently and told us clearly about her experiances during the World War ll. She described the Japanese as being very cruel and very dominating.

24/2/11 and 25/2/11 stress period

24/2/2011 and 25/2/2011 were the most stressful days of my life. Back in primary school, the maximum tests that we had was only once per day. During this 2 days, we had a total of 4 tests , averaging out to 2 tests a day and it was harder to revise compared to primary school. I had to put in 5-6 times more effort to prepare for the tests. On top of the test, there were the Ace Assignments too. Our Chinese Ace dateline on the coming friday. Last year, 3 newspaper cuttings was worth 5 Ace points but this year, 3 newspaper cuttings are only worth 1 Ace point. Even though I find that our new China Chinese Teacher has too high standards for chinese, he is very generous in giving CIP points and test marks. Maybe this is because his new to the ACE system. I hope the class will give him a chance to get use to the system instead of criticizing him.

LA Blog Post 5 - Character Sketch

For this ACE blog post, I will be writing about Atticus Finch form To Kill A Mockingbird. I decided to do this blog post on Atticus because I feel that he is a very great person who is very honest, polite, persistent, knowledgeable and is not prejudice against the coloured folks. He took up the case of a black man,Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white girl because he felt that the black man was innocent. Despite knowing that people would criticize him for defending a black man and that the chances of winning the case is very slim, he still put in his best and fight for the rights of Tom Robinson. Along the case, people insulted him by saying he was a nigger-lover etc. but he still kept his calm and tolerated all the insults. Despite losing the case in the end, he has no regrets because he has already put in his best to fight for what he thought was right.

Neighbourhood photos

The even black and white zebra crossing connecting 2 passageways together.

The bulb in the middle of the zebra crossing brightens up the zebra crossing.

The yellow pillars supporting the passageways.

The white arrow pointing the exit of the to direct cars.




The long zebra crossing with even black and white stripes, spanning from one end of a passageway to another, connects them together.

The small little bulb in the middle of the zebra crossing brightens it up.



The long zebra crossing with even black and white stripes, spanning from one end of a passageway to another, connects them together. The small little bulb shining on the zebra crossing make the white stripes shiny and the black stripes even darker and duller because of the contrast. The place is very mysterious because of the dark background and the only shiny thing is the white stripes, making it very special.

Secondary 2 Life

Secondary life has changed alot from Secondary 1 to Secondary 2. In Secondary 1, Kuiran was still in our class, bring joy and laughter to us . There was also no Future School program and no Malay Language classes. Now in Secondary 2, Kuiran had to leave us and return to China and Malay classes took over our fun and interesting music lessons. Computers are essential for our learning such as the 10- minute blog post that we do in almost every LA lesson that can help us reflect on our actions etc. Even though in many ways Secondary 1 life is better than Secondary 2's , I still feel that Secondary 2's life is much better. We have a form teacher from China who teaches interesting stuff in the history of China and helped me learn many new words. Our IH teacher explains clearer and makes lessons more lively compared to our previous teacher. To sum it all up, our teachers have improved and school life is more stressful.

Found Poem

Mrs Dubose was close to a hundred
And she was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
She spent most of each day in bed and the rest in the wheelchair
It was rumored that she kept a CSA pistol

Jem and I hated her
When we passed her porch
We would be raked by her wrathful gaze
But we could do nothing to please her

‘Hey Mrs Dubose’
‘Don’t say hey to me, you ugly girl!’
‘You say good afternoon Mrs Dubose!’
She was vicious

‘Don’t contradict me!’
‘What are you doing in that overalls?’
‘You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady’
‘You’ll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your ways!’

‘Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers!’
Jem stiffened.
I was terrified.
When she died, Atticus said ‘She was the bravest person I ever knew’

Review on the video game : Special Force ( Just doing because of my interest )

Well as most of the class know im playing the game called Singapore Special Force a First Person Shooter (FPS) but few wanted to try it. Here I will describe the game both negative and positive points and bit about its history. It is developed by Dragonfly and license by CDC Corperation in China who made into a game which is highly supported by the Korean military. Special Force was launched in Korea in July 2004 and has been the top ranked online game in Korea's Internet cafes for the past year with close to 12% market share in a recent survey by a leading games research company. It has over 11 million registered users and a professional league with 36 teams and the richest prize money for online gaming in Korea. CDC Corperation also published the game in China. Now around the world soldier front is played. Special Force now is played across 30 countries with players exceeding 100 million and there are more than 20 servers around the world. Singapore's and Malaysia's Server is held by DragonFly itself and has a short history of less than a year. Although the game's graphics is one of the worst in the list of the top few fps, but I can ensure that it is more challenging and the gameplay is more fun. As the idiom says, Don't judge a book by its cover. In this case it will be " Don't judge a game by its graphics". We choose a game that is fun, worth spanning our time on and not because the graphics (looks) is nice. It is like choosing a soulmate. No one would choose a soulmate by their looks. I hope people who have time to spare will try this game out and give it a chance. And in SF , guns are permenant, gameplay is realistic, unlike wolfteam, and they provide you with sufficient game money. In Blackshot guns are not permenant and are expensive.

Today's Infocomm Test

Many people feel that the Infocomm test on the programming language , C++, is hard but i do not think so. The logic is simple and it is more or less like maths. The only reason others find it hard is that they would talk among themselves when Mr. Koh is explaining. When people talk on the first lesson, they would not understand the second lesson even if they payed attention as there would be many linkage between the lessons. Due to time constraints, the teacher would also have no time to explain to those people who do not understand. When it reaches such a state, the students would never be able to catch up unless he puts in 10 times to effort to catch up, asking friends or surfing the net for answers.

Chinese New Year Celebration

I celebrated chinese new year as usual this year. My father's side is more traditional and we would prepare our own "Yu Sheng" to "lao yu sheng" every year during chinese new year. Everytime this year, my whole family of 40-50++ people would gather over today around the ancient round table that was there since I was born and start tossing the Yu sheng. Loud shouts of " Huat Ah! " , which means prosper, could be heard repeatedly as we begin tossing the Yu Sheng, spilling over the whole table. After the little " ceremony " like usual, we would play a little game called " finding the abalone" every year, in the enormous plate of Yu Sheng, there would only be 1-2 cans of Abalone, making the little " game " difficult and challenging. The whole scene was very chaotic as everyone took a pair of chopsticks and begin snatching for the abalone. I got 2 slices of abalone this year after a good hard work, ransacking every corner of the plate of Yu Sheng. After everyone got a share of Yu Sheng, we would clear the table and prepare for the 2nd course, the steamboat. The whole family only gathered together today and we cherished this time very much.

LA Essay

Singapore

“Argh! Why do we have to move to Singapore!” I said for the 100th time. My Father was transferred to the Singapore branch with a pay 3 times his current job here in Australia. It was too good a offer for my father to turn down. He decided to bring us along with him to migrate to Singapore. I firmly took my stand of not going.I did not want to leave Australia which my friends and relatives were and go to a foreign country where I did not know anyone. “You know the reason very well so stop asking! You have to go and that is that!” My mom replied impatiently. I knew that there was no room for discussion and quietly packed my bag. We were leaving that day on a flight scheduled at 5pm.

I had always thought that Singapore was a undeveloped third world small country. But when we reached Singapore, I was extremely surprised to see that an island as small as this could have such an amazing airport. It was very beautiful and it was very big. It was way better than what I had expected. As I walked out of the airport, I will amazed by the greenery of Singapore which could not be seen in cities in Australia. The streets were clean and was well planned just like in Australia. As we moved into our new flat, I saw many facilities like swimming pool, badminton court, tennis court and so on. I started to think that Singapore was not such a bad place after all. The apartment was quite spacious and my room was bigger than before. School would not start will 1 month later anyway. I would just have to explore Singapore within this time.

The next day, I was forced by my mom to shop within the district and explore around first. There were many new shops that I have never ever seen in my life and it was quite fun roaming around. After 5 hours of continues shopping, I started to feel hungry and went around finding some food stall. But after a long search for some ‘normal’ food, I still could not find any. I decided to buy a plate of chicken rice as it looks edible not like the Laksa which made me tear just by looking at it. The plate of Chicken Rice was so unexpectedly good that I ate 2 servings straight! I wondered why they did not sell this delicacy back in Australia. I spent a good 8 hours going around the neighborhood and familiarize myself with the new environment. I even visited my new school and explore it a bit.

This little trip developed my interest of Singapore a lot. I spend the rest of the day searching for more information about Singapore. I found other specialties other than Hainanese Chicken Rice I ate that afternoon such as the Hokkien Mee and Laksa which I saw while eating at the hawker centre. I listed down all the places I would like to go, all the food I would like to eat and all the things I would like to buy during the 1 month holiday. I visited many places of interest like the Merlion and the Under Water World. I ate almost all the delicacies I could find from a website. The website provides addresses of some of the best hawker centres and even recommendations made by the people! I learnt a lot during this period where I would go online and research about the origins of the food and the reasons why those landmarks were so important. I had a more in-depth understanding of Singapore’s history

During the last week of my holidays before school starts , I accidentally bumbed into a gang of students of my age when I was shopping for some clothes in 77th Street , a Singapore company. They were kind and friendly and after chatting for a while, I discovered that I was attending the same school as them!. Finally the holidays ended. Before I went to bed on the last day of the holidays, I began to wonder if I would be accepted by the rest of the school. I was the only few ‘Ang Mor’ and was different from them. Even though I had made some friends during the holidays, I still was not confident enough.

The next day, when I entered my new classroom, I found that to my amazement that most of them looked friendly. After a few days mixing around with them, I was gradually accepted as one of them and up to now, 10 years after I stepped on Singapore soil, I am still a proud Singaporean.

All Summer in a Day

The person who should be held responsible was the boy who started the whole thing, bullying Margot and coming up with the idea to lock her up.

I would have stepped out and bravely support Marget, explaining to the rest why was she different compared to the rest. Or at least try to delay time until the teacher arrives, or save Margot after the others have left.

Comic E-Learning

1. I used Watermelons becourse it is a very heavy fruit. I also used this background as it was the only outdoor background which shows a road and sidewalk as bullying cases happens often here.
2.The background image gives the comic a European feel. The bully is Muscular to show that he is the bully and the victim is skinny and smaller to show that he could not defend himself.
3. I used words like "STOP THROWING AT ME" to show that the victim did not like watermelons landing on him. The bully's speech in the 1st speech bubble shows that he did not cared about the victim. The speech bubbles help me to deliver a better understanding to the people looking at this comic

2. Have you ever been part of a group of people who were unkind to one or some individuals?What was the circumstance? How did you act? What did you fe

Yes. In 2010 at around February, The whole class hold a ( Campain ) against Shu Ming because he always sort of spin his hand when he talks and keep stammering.
Without me knowing, I just joined the group and make fun of him despite knowing that it was wrong. Slowly as months go past, I knew how to differentiate between right and wrong. I stopped making fun of Shu Ming and did side with him a bit. But the mastermind,( cant name him ) just keep making fun of him even till now. I think that this isnt the right way to communicate with friends and the mastermind should not do those things to anyone if he do not like people to do it to him too. Now even though Shu Ming is still acting a bit funny with his funny habits, we should just learn to accept it and not criticising him and making fun of him. We should advise him to change so that he would not be ridiculed by others next time.
Now the culprit has other victims too like Zheng Yan because he always play handphone will walking home. I do hope the culprit will change for the better.