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.

a very bad start to the day...but a satisfying ending to it

got back my maths test on monday got an A2 but was very disappointed with myself for making a really careless mistake which cost me my A1. For a qn which i shld have got correct, i wrote my final ans as 216 + 1384 - 1384 = 1384 T.T!! That cost me one mark and i got 18/25 in the end. Haix such mistake i think pri sch students also won make lo. 或许真的是天意吧。Its fated i cannot get my A1 for this test....nvm i still made a huge improvment and Ms choo was happy with my result. I shall work extra hard for the nxt test and make sure i get my A1!

Today really had a bad start to my day. Seconds after i woke up i got scolded by my dad. (reason shall not be revealed) Then becos of that i was almost late for sch ( made yangyi wait for me at traffic junction vry long sry yangyi!). On my way to sch i suddenly realised i left my eom, kelly's eom and tseng wei's eom AT HOME! i am suppose to collect their work by today and submit in helaoshi's pigeon hole as it was to be graded and if nvr submit by today STRAIGHT ZERO! I was seriously dam angry with myself at that point of time. For being so careless. If i cost myself to be in trouble still nvm but if i cost my friends to be in trouble i will seriously regret it. Therefore after racial harmony activities i ran back home and collect the eoms with louis. Haha thanks louis for accompanying me XD. From sch to lakeside back and forth took around 20mins lol gd training! Nvr eat lunch went straight to open dance studio and then go for ndp meeting. Wow mr gan really has some great ideas for ndp concert haha he say he day dream a lot. This time it shall be a really fun and different ndp :D

First CIP session at jwps was a really great one i would say! WELL DONE DANCERS! :D:D i believe most of them enjoyed the cip and gained some really valuable experiences. They learnt some class room management skills and as their first time doing it i would say they did quite fine. Looking at the primary 2 kids really reminds me of my pri sch days haha today they wore ethnic costumes and looked DAM CUTE! haha some of them were wearing the same chinese outfit i wore when i was as young as them. Most of them were dam enthu and were eagerly trying to answer to our qns. Huge contrast to the present situation in RV. Always when teachers in class or during assembly ask qn, no one raise up hand to answer lol. I really wonder when these kids get to secondary school will they continue to answer qns or ask qns so enthusiastically?

After the cip i had all my energy drained. But the sense of satisfactory in me really make my day turn out to be very gd. I really saw a lot and gain a lot of valuable experiences through this cip. It boost my confidence level too. Today when i brief the p2 students in the hall I totally impromptu. LOL cost a lot of things didn went according to plan. I felt that i handled it pretty well above my expectations.

Shall go mug physics now.Hope to score an a1 for this practical test so as to pull up my physics grade. Jiayous to those who have test tmr!

WELL DONE south africa!! Spain make history!

The world cup has ended for around 5 days but due to the loads of hw and test i had this week i did not have the time to post my thoughts abt it.

SPAIN are world champions ! i would say it wasn't a surprise looking at the huge amount of talent the spain squad has. U guys just look at the spain squad bench. Players like cesc fabregas, fernando torres, lorente, marchena have to sit on the bench and watch their teammates play. This already shows the quality of the spain squad. I would say their squad is the best in the world at the moment. They have david villa and torres who are world class players making their front line. They have the BEST MIDFIELD in the world having the likes of players like xavi, iniesta, busquets, alonso, silva, fabregas. Regarding their defence, it is evident from the small amount of goals spain had conceded. what can other teams do to break their defence when they have sergio ramos, pique, puyol and capdevila who are like 4 rocks sitting at their backline. Their last man is even one of the world's best goal keeper. His name is Iker Casillas. The guy who made the save against arjen robben in the finals. I would say this is one of the best world cup squads ever. Spain would be rmb for their smooth and fast flowing attacking football. I like them as they play a similar style of football as arsenal. Possession football. Their players have fantastic technique, which enables them to pass the ball around like it is as easy as primary school maths.

I also enjoyed this world cup because it wasn dominated by the usual teams and football stars The defending champions Italy and runner up France were kik out early in the competition. Brazil, England, Portugal and Argentina also followed their footsteps. Through this competition i saw a huge improvement in the standards of Asian football with Korea and Japan both making it to the knock out stages. I also saw many emerging young football talents with most of them coming from Germany. Germany showcast their bright future by sending an extremely young and inexperienced side to this world cup. They did not disgrace their country as they saw off australia, argentina, england and uraguay in style scoring at 4 goals in 3 of those matches and 3 goals against uraguay. Their counter-attacking football was superb and entertaining catching teams like england and argentina off guard.

Something that shocked me was that none of the premier league stars or spanish stars from europe impressed in this world cup. Players like rooney, lampard, gerrard, torres, fabregas (other than the assist in the world cup final ), van persie, drogba......all did not impress. Players like cristiano ronaldo and messi also did not make much of an impact. This shows that european countries can no longer dominate world football as south american countries and african countries are all on the rise. This will only be good for the development of world football as more stars and countries impress :D

questions to ponder for world cup :

1. should video technology be added into football after the many mistakes referees have committed in the past few seasons and this world cup? ( england goal ruled out )

2. Shld countries start to adopt policies similar to arsenal by developing and trusting their youngsters more? Recently some news reported england are discussing on whether to adopt wenger's policy regarding youngsters. As we can see through this world cup countries like Germany and Ghana who sent out a young squad were quite successful in this world cup.

*Thomas Muller from Germany gets the Golden Boot with 5 goals. He also gets the young player of the tournament.

*Diego Forlan is awarded the Golden Ball (best player) In 2006, it was Zinedine Zidane who grabbed the award.

*145 goals were scored in 64 games.

Updated FIFA rankings: Spain are number 1, Holland are second, 3. Brazil, 4. Germany, 5. Argentina, Uruguay move up ten places to 6th, 7. England, Italy drop to 11th, and France drop to 21st.

So far in the transfer window, Arsenal have brought in two new faces. 1. Marouane Chamakh (striker)- free transfer from bordeux 2. Laurent Koscielny (central defender )- transfer fee of around 10million. Wenger has stated that he will wave his magic wand again and bring in at least one more new face to add to the current defensive line. I hope it will a goal keeper with mark schwarzer( one of the best goal keepers in epl helping fulham last season to get into europa league finals ) stating his interest to come to Arsenal.

Arsenal will start their preseason friendlies this coming saturday going to barnet fc. Hope to see the two new players making their debut and chamakh to score his first goal for the club :D

Coming to the end of the week le. Had chinese test and maths test today. Both okok la but i am quite satisfied with myself having put in so much hard work this few days to prepare for the tests. So even if the results are not really gd i won feel bad :D today for c lit had to evaluate two poems. I really love one of the poems let me share it with you guys.

《 一棵开花的树 》

如何让我遇见你

　　在这最美丽的时刻

　　为这

　　我已在佛前求了五百年

　　求佛让我们结一段尘缘

　　佛于是把我化做一棵树

　　长在你必经的路旁

　　阳光下

　　慎重地开满了花

　　朵朵都是我前世的盼望

　　当你走近

　　请你细听

　　那颤抖的叶

　　是我等待的热情

　　而当你终于无视地走过

　　在你身后落了一地的

　　朋友啊

　　那不是花瓣

　　那是我凋零的心

这首诗当真是堪称绝妙。 它把爱情的伟大之处和现实无限的残酷表现得如鱼得水。爱情真的是让人又爱又恨之。它有时候能带给你无限的希望和力量，但它可以在一瞬间给你致命的一击，使你一蹶不振，失掉所有信心..........

bicult trip/ syf mass display

continued from last post.

在此次的旅程中，我们也有幸去参观上海世博会，见证中国又一门盛事。虽然只有一天的时间参观，时间紧迫，而且大多数时间都花在了排队和等待。但我还是参观了十二个场馆，看到了一些精彩的表演和展览，对很多国家的文化有更深一层的了解。那一天的活动也锻炼了我的体力和耐力，让我觉得自己比以前更健壮更成熟或者说，更能吃苦。

这次的上海之旅让我感到最满意的就是我融入了上海的民间生活。我每天都有和上海的百姓交流，接触，观察他们的生活。我每天都尽量用很标准的华语与身边的朋友和当地的百姓沟通。我也在这个过程中有很深的体会。我们差不多每天都到复旦大学的步行街吃饭，买东西，尝遍那儿的美食。多亏有杨老师这个地头蛇带我们到处吃好的，给我们介绍好门路，帮我们，教我们杀价，以免被诈。你们有没有听过烧的寿司？在这次的旅途之前我可没听说过，但这次我竟然吃到这种寿司。 它是一大条的，够我们吃一顿，里头的米饭量大约等于一碗饭，而里头包的东西任我们选择。寿司里头还有放甜酱和 一点辣椒酱。吃起来美味可口，我们几个中四的同学一连吃了七天都不厌。它的价格少过十块人民币，又省时，能让我们边购物边吃，实在方便。我们还尝了很多上海的街边小吃。以前我根本不敢吃街边小吃，认为他们不卫生,不美味，但经过这次的旅程，我突然发现我喜欢上街边小吃。我发现街边小吃并没有我想象的那么差。因此很多东西我们不能只看表面，而要找它的内在美。此次的旅程，我发现很多便宜，看似简单的东西，能给我们带来很多喜悦。比如一杯两块钱人民币的葡萄粥，还是少过三块钱人民币的扇。这些东西都不怎么昂贵，但却能给我们带来许多欢乐。

我在上海的十四天里头看到了上海温馨，美丽的一面，也看到了上海丑陋的一面。在上海，我亲自体验到当地学生的热情，当我向他们分发调查问卷，请求他们帮忙完成，他们都毫不犹豫地答应了。这使我非常感动。但同时我也看到了上海人很多不文明的举动。比如在世博会时，我看到他们随地扔垃圾，推挤，相骂，插队，大声嚷嚷等等。我也看到一些上海男性光天化日在马路边撒尿，德士司机在酒店外吵架等等。这些事情都反映上海人的文明程度还有待改善。

离开上海的那天，我满载而归，买了很多书和光碟。然而我指的不只是物质方面的满足，在精神上我也感到很充实。从这次的旅程当中，我学到了很多的生活技巧，开阔了视野，也脱离了父母的怀抱，学会独立，在这两个星期里照顾自己的各种需要。在此旅程里头的许多收获都无法从课本里头得到的，这两个星期像一场梦，我过得很轻松很愉快，但也获益匪浅。当真是行万里路，胜读万卷书，我们不能永远做井底之蛙，只待在自己的国家，或只对着课本和书。到外面的世界看看，真的会让一个人更加成熟，懂事。因为，这种感受我深有体会。

在上海机场，我喝下在这次旅程中的最后一口农夫山泉水。我细细品尝了那一口水，我要记住它的味道，我要永远记住在上海的那些美好的回忆。过了那一时刻，我不知何年何月才能又回到上海。过了那一天，我又得开始数没有农夫山泉水的日子了。

因此我期待年底的双文化之旅，也想感谢四位带队的老师，感谢他们的辛苦付出，感谢他们这两个星期对我们的呵护。若不是他们，这次的旅程根本无法圆满结束。

this few days when everybody were busy having lessons in school, we the dancers and the whole year two cohort were busy with our syf mass display rehearsals, preview and the actual performance yesterday.

Overall, I would say it was a success. It was a great and unforgettable experience for everyone.Perhaps its the last time all the year 4 dancers can put up a performance together like this. Haix really can't bear to part with them. Through this performance i also made quite a few cat high friends. They were really polite and friendly. Some of them were quite cute and handsome attracting quite a number of RV girls ;) haha. 天下没有不散的筵席, though we cannot bear to part but life has to go on. Hope we will have a chance to meet again :D

However as we carry on with life, i feel that there are some things, some points that we should ponder through this syf mass display experience.This few days, i have seen a lot, heard a lot. There are some things that keep me thinking.

Firstly, through conversations with my teacher in charge, i discover that just for that few minutes of performance out there, the school has spent large sums of money. The transportation fees this few days cost the school at least 10k plus.The food that the school provide to us also cost around that amount too. The platform that the dancers used cost 6k plus. Each costume that the dancers and sec2s wear cost 100plus dollars.Each head gear the year2s wear cost 40 dollars! When we multiply it by the number of participants that took part in this event, the amount is really huge. This makes me wonder whether it is worth it a not. Though its not my money, i can don really care so much however, i feel that its a little 奢侈. The money spent is just for that FEW MINUTES! For the past few days and just now we were still talking about what will happen to the 6k platform and the hear gears after this event? The head gears are mostly damaged and useless. After the event they are just equal to rubbish! As for the platform,they are so huge, taking up so much space, where can we leave it in the school? Will we still use it in the near future? We all doubt so! They are too huge for the stage, therefore its not possible that we will use it for our future performances. Our teacher in charge was suggesting to throw it, which means throwing away 6 thousand dollars, i mean i am less concern about the money.钱只是一种形式上的东西，它只是一个数据。 Its the resources used to built the platforms and headgears that i am more concerned and worried about.A lot of resources were used just for this event, for that few minutes, and after that most of them become rubbish, causing a lot of harm and pollution to the environment.....Is it worth it?

This few days after every meal, i witness a lot of food being thrown away, a lot of bottles of water that are drank halfway being thrown away, a lot of plastic cutlery being thrown away. We generate A LOT of rubbish after each meal. 看了很令人心酸,teenagers nowadays take things for granted, they throw away food that they dislike, that they are unable to finish.难道他们不知道浪费食物会遭天谴吗？Moreover, they are also harming and polluting the environment with their irresponsible acts.Haix all these just for one event,for that few minutes.Is it worth it?

I really hope that most of the participants learnt some values, gained some impt experiences through the event then it would make all those wasteful acts "more worth it". However, i still feel that its wrong to spend so much resources and money for that few minutes of performance and glory.Its really not environmental friendly.....

Its 2.25am now i better go to sleep. I will post more thoughts of this event within the next few days.

Gd nite guys :D