poly or jc?

haix this few days get back results thinking of subject combination....had lots of discussions with my friends...feeling really confused....

yesterday had a discussion with a primary school fren who is preparing for o levels. he is forced to take triple science in secondary school when he is actually very interested in humanities and china studies. Now he is aiming to join ngee ann poly even if he scores well enough to be able to enter a jc. He is aiming for their diploma course in chinese studies. After i looked at the course i suddenly feel the urge to pick it up too. In poly they can focus on their interests and areas that they are passionate about. The three year course offered in poly is really rich and it offers students one year of immersion program in china. http://www.np.edu.sg/hms/courses/CHS/Pages/chs_en.aspx

Whereas in JC we have to take contrasting subject -.- we are forced to take maths......haix i am jealous that in poly they don have to worry about their weak subjects they can focus on wad they wan. FOCUS! whereas for us? we have to worry for maths, worry for the contrasting subject....why must we make ourselves so 辛苦？？The thing i like most about poly is that more lifeskills are taught! For science students yes jc would be better but for arts and humanities students i feel that poly would be better...more experience and practical stuff there..

had a discussion with my mother and she wasn happy about my idea about joining poly....haix its all about money...wad diploma poly come out cannot earn as much as jc students..for me maybe cos i haven experienced life as a working adult, but 说心里话 being able to study wad i am interested and passionate about is wad i am more concerned about. Not that i think that money is not impt, but its not my priority! i don wan to do smth that i don like jus in order to gain high salary, or have a higher status....

haix lots of ppl regret taking up IP program now i finally understand their feelings....tio scam 的感觉...shall wait till all my eoy results are out. This is a really important decision to make!

重生

eoys ended on monday, other than physics and maths the rest were pretty managable :) got back maths paper 1 today and tio shock...i managed to do better than i expected. Hmm maybe 真的是皇天不负苦心人吧. i really put in a lot of effort to prepare and practice maths, glad not to disappoint my mum and ms choo.

Today during history lesson ms teo shared with us about how we should not take our foot off the gas and should continue to read widely in this highly competitive world. I fully agree with wad she shared. There are so many things happening around the world everyday, we should read widely to improve our knowledge. It will not only help us with gp, it will also improve our intellectual ability. Like what ms teo shared, we should reflect and think about these issues cos it might affect us. Haha she say we whole day only know how to gossip about which girl pretty, which boy handsome, which kpop band very hot, which guy very hot LOL, and these don really benefit us much. We can still discuss abt them but on the other hand we should spend more time on reading newspapers and coming back to "reality". Gossiping won help us to get our As, it won help us to earn scholarships, it won help us to pass GP, or help us to get pass interviews. Hmm i am determined to read more widely!!!

During assembly today got back my analysis on the type of personality i am. HAHA i am ESFJ !! E stands for extravert. S stands for Sensing, F stands for feeling and J stands for judgement. The analysis states that ESFJs are warm, sympathetic, helpful, personable, cooperative, and tactful. ESFJ type of people at their best like to organise people and situations and then work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. They are conscientious and loyal, following through even in small matters, and they want others to be the same. They value security and stability. Sociable and outgoing, ESFJs enjoy celebrations and traditions and bring a very personal caring to the workplace and home. They want to be appreciated for themselves and for what they give to others.

Haha not i praise myself la but i sincerely think that this indicator is 80% accurate on describing my personality :) Do u guys agree? LOL

Hmm class outing yesterday was A SUCCESS!! Glad that 4B can finally have a successful class outing after being 2 years of classmates. I feel that we are more bonded than b4 and we might be even having a class chalet soon!! :D Have some simple thoughts on the bbq that i would like to share. At the start we had lots of problem trying to start the fire...many of us were not really able to start the fire, we did not have the knowledge and skills regarding all these. Actually i feel very ashamed lo. We go to sch to build up our intellectual skills, learn science, maths and so on but real life skills like simple cooking, washing clothes, ironing, setting up fire we don really have them. At home we either rely on our maid, or our parents to do these house work for us so most kids nowadays in Singapore really lack exposure to these and i have to admit i am one of them. This brings me back to the issue on education. What is education? Recently while preparing for lang arts essay i found a definition and it states that education is the process of imparting general knowledge and to prepare one for mature life. However in my opinion education nowadays focus too much on the acadamic side. The school, our parents care more about our result than any other thing. Our main objective of education now is just for the cert, for the report cards for the good grades. And all these simple lifeskills are not really taught to us (have but very little) and it is very worrying. How can we grow up and get ready for mature life when we cannot cook for ourselves, cannot wash our own clothing, can not take care of our own needs and rely on others to do so? People now think that oh so long as i have money nothing is impossible, i can use money to buy food outside, i can employ maids to do my housework, to wash my clothing, to clean up my room. I don have to necessarily do these on my own. Haix but if we really think about it, all these will bring about serious consequences. We will become reliant on others, we cannot be independent. It cannot be guaranteed that these type of ppl can grow up to be a person with good character, cause they will most likely be very lazy ppl who don bother to do things on their own. Starting from now onwards i am determined to pick up more life skills from my parents, or even my maid. Things like ironing my own clothing, helping out in the kitchen with cooking, baking ( my father is a GREAT BAKER XD ) and tidying up my own room. Hehe.

Bicultural trip also helps us a lot in imparting us with essential life skills that's why i love bicult trips so much. Yay end of year trip is in one month's time!! Dam excited. Going to Chengdu, Chongqing and guangzhou. We will be going to 九寨沟! From young i have heard a lot of ppl saying how beautiful it is, so i am really excited about visiting that place.

立化精神：立德立功，化愚化顽。团结，服从，认真，是人生的一种美德。应具有舍己为群的精神，才能符合团体生活，并从舞蹈中学会坚持。

Few weeks ago if you asked me i would never have imagined that i would leave dance. The warmth that can be felt from ppl, teachers, in this cca is smth that for me can never be replaced in another cca. Haix but considering the fact that my grade 8 piano exam is in march or april next year i really have to make a choice, to make a very tough decision. The grade 8 piano exam really cost a bomb. It is about 400 sing dollars and i cannot afford to flunk it. Moreover, i have already delayed this exam due to my sch and cca commitments for the past few years. The syllabus would be changing after the exam period next march which means that if i don't take the piano exam next year, all my effort spent on practising my exam pieces, and preparing for the exam would be gone. That would be very hard on my piano teacher, myself and my parents considering the large amount of fees they had to pay for my piano lessons and books. Haix so in the end after considering for long periods of time, i decided to leave dance. It was a hard decision to make but i have to move on :( I really miss the instructors and dancers! Thank you so much! I really enjoyed the past few years in the cca, ( other than some unhappy events and moments that occured during the process which i don wish to elaborate on). The chance to take part in various performances, syf, and so on gave me valuable experiences. It really made become a better person, a stronger person. It also gave me the chance to know you guys, to know her...嗨，天下没有不散的宴席，该放下的还是得放下．．．．

Now i have joined bowling. Since young i have been playing bowling regularly, and i like this sport, so i hope i will be able to excel in this cca and perform to my capabilities. I think it will be less stressful for me since i have quite a lot of experience in this sport. Haha glad that jiwei is also joining bowling :D :D

Just came back from gym and a night swim. Feel very refreshed haha now i am adapting to a new lifestyle. I want to become more healthy, sleep early wake up early. I am aiming to go to gym everyday and if the weather permits, i also want to swim everyday :D

This is all i have to post at the moment, nitez ppl!

我想慢慢把你淡忘，这样对你，对我才是最好的．．

Last post until EOYS are over.

Shall let my blog hibernate for a month. eoys are a month away i have decided not to use my com for a month other than for writing reports. During this period i am determined to concentrate on my studies and let myself have plenty of rest. This few days i have adopted a different way of spending my time. The first thing i do when i reach home i sleep. Then i wake up at like 1am, fill my stomache, then get to work. I find it a very efficient way of spending my time. This allows me t0 ensure that i have at least 6hrs of sleep and after i wake up i will feel charged and ready to start mugging and doing my work. At the same time i won have problems waking up in the morning, and i can go to school early to discuss some work with my friends and do some exercise either with my ccamates or at home b4 leaving for school. 

Yesterday had year 5 subject combination briefing. Hmm wan take 4 H2s need gpa of 3.2. My first semester gpa was 3.2 not very safe so i must ensure that this term and eoys i can maintain and do even better. Heard from a lot of teachers that KI (knowledge and inquiry) is much much harder than GP. A lot of ppl are already struggling with GP and i think my english standard is really poor so i guess most likely i will aim for HISTORY/CHINA STUDIES IN CHINESE/MATHS/ECONOMICS. After eoys will have to really do some hw on the subjects and the courses offered in universities before deciding my subject combination. Like many teachers have said, this is a really important decision to make which will affect our future. So i really take it very seriously. All the teachers we have spoken to advised us to follow our interest. I strongly agree. Who says physics chem maths econs is the most popular combination in RV means we must follow suit and take that combination? Who says only take sciences then can get jobs or have a future? Who say take humanities or arts stream very dangerous, no future! Like what Huanglaoshi said a lot of students really have the wrong mindset! Doesn't mean a lot of people choose to take science or a particular combination means its the best route for us to take. Nowadays in order to be special, to be different from others, we should pick subjects or pick a route that nobody or very little people want to take. This will allow us to have more opportunities compared to the others in this highly competitive world. And most importantly we should follow our interest. Yes its impt to look far, to think for our future. However if we pick subjects just in order to ensure we can get a job, or have a future and do not consider our interests, it might result in worser consequences. We might end up struggling with the subject or even hating the subject after a few months. This would result in even worser consequences and that is failing or doing badly in that subject. Thus i strongly urge all who are going to be choosing subjects for nxt year to think carefully. Don make a wrong decision and regret for the rest of your life! 别一失足成千古恨！

Ok i gonna sleep le BYE PPL JIAYOUS TO ALL TAKING O LEVELS AND EOYS!! SHAll be back soon, don miss me XD.

Thank you Ms Teo!!!

Ms teo thanks so much. Talking to you really helped me a lot :D

Lesson was as usual today. Woke up to find it raining ON A FRIDAY MORNING AGAIN! :( PE lesson could not play soccer on the field. This is the 5th time this happened in around 6 weeks. Don know why we so suay :(

Cca was awesome today. Had PT with the guys then went for the DANCE FANTASIA syf concert. All the performances were of very high standard! We are really not in the same level as them. Hmm we need to work harder. Jy dancers! Especially year two dancers! Congrats on recieving the chance to dance acceleration :D You all can do it :D

This weekend have so much hw and things to do argh!!!!

Thank you Liheng!

Thank you liheng! For reminding me that "sometimes it is like tat la....u cant get everyone's understanding and appreciation". Haix was really hurt. I spent a lot of effort on writing a long letter on facebook for my p5 cousin. I gave him some really sincere comments hoping that he will take it to heart, hoping that he will benefit from it. In the end he told me to stop writing stupid comments on his wall.....Maybe i shldn have wrote the word girlrome( his nickname) on his wall. He told me that his friends are starting to call him by this nickname. Nevertheless i am still angry at him for deleting my post. I really 是一片好意咯。Nvm....

Today got interviewed by Yun Nan press...... they came my house to interview my parents as well as to learn more about our singapore education system, and our bicultural program.

Tmr must wake up early go sch again ARGH!! nitez ppl.

AYLC

hmm...this few days busy with asian young leaders convention. I am in the press committee, so my job is to go around and take pictures of people, make video and write article. Yesterday i was the emcee for the opening ceremony. I would say of the few emcee jobs i have taken up, yesterday was the most successful one :D Thank you Wei lin for being such an awesome partner ;) Thank you Miss Yim and Zhang Mei Li laoshi for your guidance and support :D

Today slept till 10 plus then wake up read bks, play piano before going to school. Don know why after sleeping for 7 hours i still so tired.....In the afternoon went around the school take pictures of aylc participants with Bella. Took quite a lot of unglam pictures and pictures of sian faces...

One problem i discovered for this AYLC is that due to the many different nationalities of the participants they all speak different languages so there are some communication breakdown between the participants themselves and between the facils and participants. So quite a lot of participants were like left out or not really getting themselves involve in the activities. I think the facils should speak to them in at least chinese and english since a large number of the participants are from China.

Haix..my weekend is gone. Have to go school for the next few days. After AYLC, i will have a stack of homework and a few tests and projects to clear. Wish myself gd luck man.....

Haix......

wow i haven been posting for quite some time le. hmm this two weeks a lot had happened. haha everyday when i log in msn tok to desmond first word is "haix". i have comments for everything i have thoughts on everything but lately i have became speechless. Not that i have nothing to say but i realise i already don feel like commenting. I have lost the motivation to. Is it because i have lost faith in everything? Is it because i have lost faith in the world? Perhaps...I have seen a lot of things that made me 心灰意冷. The disasters and conflict happening all over the world are just increasing and becoming worser day by day. After hearing huanglaoshi sharing about her experiences in china this few weeks i have no doubt about that. But how many of us really bother about all this environmental threats? We seem to be living in our own world. We just continue with our routine lifestyle. Wasting resources, polluting our environment and hurting the people around us.

2 weeks ago i suddenly recieved news that my aunt who visited me during June hols from America has discovered that she has gotten breast cancer...I was totally stunt. From my impression of her, she has a healthy lifestyle and she is very concious of her diet, and her health conditions. She and her husband decided to live in America in order to have quality life. They have two kids there, they have a big house there and their income is also good. But their quality life turn out to be like that. It really makes me ponder what is quality life? Can the so called luxurious quality life really bring us happiness and health? What is the best way of life? hmm i think its really hard to find out an answer for these questions. I really hope my aunty will recover from this, luckily her breast cancer still belong to the early stages. I will keep praying for her. 我阿姨得癌症这件事情真的让我感觉到生命的脆弱，和渺小。我奉劝大家开始珍惜身边的人吧。每一个人的命运都深不可测，不要等到失去他们才忏悔。

Last week i had a one to one session with my history teacher Ms Serene Teo for one hour. Talking to her is really very enjoyable. There is no pressure, no intensity, and we can really talk our hearts out. Before that i had missed a few history lessons due to some reasons which i have forgotten. However within half an hour with Ms Teo, all my concepts were clear, she taught me some really important skills on how to tackle study all sources questions. I am really grateful to her. For the remaining time i shared with her about how i am coping with my studies and life now. I also discussed with her about my nxt year subject combination. Maths, History, China studies in Chinese and Econs/ Knowledge and Inquiry. I asked Ms Teo about KI and i managed to find out that our school actually offers KI just that no one apply or rather a lot of our students don even know of this subject in our school. At first i was pretty sure i wanted Econs. However after conversing with Ms Teo about what is taught in KI, it got me very excited. KI is a much higher level of GP and the things we get to learn and analyze in this subject is lots of general knowledge. We will get to learn about religion, politics, history, social science. So its lots of current affairs and it covers a lot of areas. The method of testing is very similar to other humanities subject. Essay and Analysis. For econs though there are some humanities stuff in it but i have to be very strong in maths and i also need to be very passionate in in which i doubt so for both requirements. Haix see how lo currently if let me choose i will want to take KI but Ms Teo say need at least around 10 students then can open this course. So year 4s who are interested in KI please approach me ah :D

Last Sat after bicult talk and yishun junior college, i went to orchid country club gym and sat down at a corner with table and chairs to do homework and enjoy sometime on my own. I discover the environment there really suits me. Very little people, not noisy, no distractions. In two hours i completed an history assignment and a 报章读后感。Haha after that i gymed for 45 minutes as well. It was really a very satisfying afternoon for me :D I have decided to do that more often, if possible every week. Maybe on sundays. Now i every sunday go orchid country club with my cousin to study and gym he is preparing for his o levels as well. I also need to start to mug and prepare myself for the horrifying end of year exams......

Today was ndp concert, felt that i pretty much screwed up my emcee job....haix. Had another satisfying afternoon with Liheng, Peiyao and Zixin. Though did not manage to join them plus other yr 3 guys in the movie due to AYLC rehearsal -.- but we still had an afternoon of fun! Haha we shld play badminton and table tennis in the school hall more often! ;0 FOC somemore lol.

Long weekend YAY! shall end my post here haha some ppl say my posts always dam long.

Nitez ppl.