Sunday, August 29, 2010

Reflection

3 new things I have learnt this term, one of them was the importance of unity. One of the secret ingredient to a successful performance was unity, because without it everything would be in a mess and nobody would enjoy the performance we put up. The other thing I learnt was time management, an important skill required in Home Econs. Without a good time management skill, we would not do a good job out of it thus, time management is an important skill I learnt this term. Lastly, I learnt something important from the camp I went to, and that is team spirit, when we are in a team full of strangers we have to learn to cooperate with each other, get to know each other than the usual people we hang out with, we' ll find out the people we work with are better than we think.

Two things I would like to improve on is history and socialbility. I would'nt say I don't like history because I find that history is interesting, I aim to improve on my history by trying to read it more often and getting to know it, as a quiet girl, I aim to try to talk more often and be more brave in many ways as socialbility is important to us in many ways, as we grow up, we need to interact with more people from around the world.

Lastly, the one thing I would like to learn is making paper cranes, it is an interesting hobby to do when we have free time and it is also a very good hand exercise for people playing piano as piano requires alot of fingering movements for them. I hope that the things I learnt this term would be useful in the future for me.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Living in Singapore

There are many reasons why people live in Singapore, each time if somebody ask a local, they would give many different positive answers. Singapore has many unique things to talk about, the buildings, the road names, the food and many more. Buildings like the esplanade which is shaped like a durian, the merlion, the flyer, and recently, the sky garden. Singapore also have fun places to go like Escape theme park and Universal Studios. Singapore is also surrounded by many trees, I remember the time I went to Hongkong, Macau, there were nearly no trees at all while Singapore has so many. There are many different people in Singapore, people from China, Thailand, the Philipines , Malaysia and Australia, New Zealand and many more. In school, there are students from different countries, scholars from Indonesia ,Philipines and Malaysia. I remember a scholar friend of mine, would always comment how nice and unique Singapore is. Singapore is also a country full of many races, chinese,malay,indians, peranakans and hindi people. On Racial harmony day, they would come in their traditional costume and tell us more about their culture and language. This is what I like about Singapore

Monday, August 9, 2010

Myth legends, folklores and fairytales

The two stories I've selected is "Eliza and Athena" and "The Monkey and the Crocodile". Eliza and Athena is about a princess named Eliza who was very lazy and can't even do the simplest things herself and had always called the servants to help her, finally one day, a father ,the king, decided to punish her by setting a room with just a loom and told her to loom a blanket and Eliza called for Athena. Mostly the story is about laziness and how ants came about. The Monkey and the Crocodile is mainly about being smart. It is about a crocodile's wife wanting to eat a monkey's heart, so the crocodile went and try to cach a monkey from a tree but in the end the crocodile fail to do so. I like Ëliza and Athena"the best as it teaches us not to be lazy when doing things