Animal Farm

Utopia is an ideal community or society where everything is perfect and nothing wrong could possibly happen. To me, utopia is make up of a place where everyone is equallt treated, where there are no war and people do not compete for power. The people must have good moral values such as integrity so that there will be peace among people. Everything must be shared equally among people so they won't quarrel over it. To sum the whole thing up, utopia is a place where everybody which to go, it is a place where everyone lives happily and peacefully. Although utopia does not exist and is impossible to have, many people had try to achieve it but failed. It can be only obtain when the day human beings are selfless, caring and most importantly, have integrity.

Reflections

Doing some reflections about what happened in class....

On Friday, one of my classmates accidentally spilled the contents of another classmate's water bottle. So he just took some cloth and put it on the wet part, hoping to absorb the water dry. In the end, our next period teacher came in and saw it, saying that we should not this but should clean it dry. Two boys near it hastily went to take some newspaper to clean it while the rest of us JUST STOOD DOWN THERE AND WATCH. So got reprimanded for not helping.( Actually, I wanted to help when I saw the teacher's looks as if they are telling someone to go help but I was timid and asked my partner about it but he could not hear what I said.) So she told us to do some reflections and here I am now doing it.
Well.... guess we are not caring towards what may happened to other people and just only cared about ourself. I think that this is the cruel nature of mankind but we could do something about it like try to help when possible and it will become a habit. I think that our class do not really know how to solve problems and think of the future problems that the original problems might caused.
I think that the whole class can improve on it by trying to show more concern to whatever is happening around them.

Abraham Lincoln

I am going to blog about one of the great leaders in history, Abraham Lincoln.(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) . I am going to blog about him because I had read a comic strip about him in my primary school when I was primary 6. I was touched by the comic as it depicts Lincoln helping the slaves to be free,who were blacks. But sadly, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was the 16th president of U.S. and he successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War. He preserved the Union and put an ending to slavery. But he was criticised by the Copperheads for refusing to compromise on the salvery issue. Also, Radical Republicians, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Still, he successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches, which Obama did to get elected for the president of U.S. Their speeches have make influence on people to believe in them. Lincoln brought the leaders of each faction into his cabinet to make them cooperate. When he was young, he saw black slaves being treated badly such as a mother being pulled away from her child to be sold to buyers. Lincoln immediately was disgusted by it and wanted to abolish slavery as he felt hurt for those slaves. I admired his determination to influence the country and help them despite some difficulties he faced. He aslo managed to led the country through the Civil War, which not many leaders can do.

Lottery's Q5

Relevance of today:

When you are doing something bad to someone or just looking at someone being hurt, you would not complain about how nasty the treatment is. But only when such things happened to you, then you start lamenting how unfair it is for you to have this treatment and would complain why these things happened to you, and not others. From here, you can see the selfish act of people, they only want the good things for themselves and hope that others get the bad ones. This is also the cruelty of mankind. Friends are not as what you usually think they are. When you are rich, they would try to flatter you to try to get some money out of you. But when you are broke, they would just stay away from you as they can't get anything from you and might not even treat you as friend or help you.
We also tend to flock toward nasty gossip and are interested in spite of the privacy of the subjects involved. Whether it is standing on the side to watch a fight, an accident, or discussing the relationship between two people, we seem to have no problem "butting in" where we do not belong. We have no problem remarking on an individuals' actions until it is ourselves that get caught. We have no problem stereotyping people until is we who are stereotyped. It seems as though we sometimes condemn everyday truths that we know are characteristics of most people, including ourselves, and being afraid to admit them, place the spotlight on someone else. It is sad and definitely hypocritical, but it happens all the time.

Camp

Just came back from the camp and I felt that I am going to collapse on my bed.....



So tired sia, went back to tent to sleep at 11pm plus but slept at 12 plus cause my tentmates were talking about some stuffs of theirs and got to wake up at 6am next day. Let me elaborate about the camp according to the days.

Day 1

Got into our own groups in school and did some icebreakers to build the team cooperation.
Then went to the campsite and settle down. Did some teambuilding games, some of which were dangerous so the trainers and student leaders kept reminding us about safety first but still got scolded in the end for not being careful. Got into the 'Milo Pond' which was super fun, though it was a bit dirty and smelly. After dinner, did rehersal for the performance on campfire night. Then debrief and supper and went to bed at 11.15pm. ( Super Late cause I usually sleep at 9pm :P)


Day 2

Wait up at 6am and got prepared. After breakfsat, we went to have teambuilding games which is super hard, had to get a heavy tire out of a pole which is so tall. Have to lift people up and let them stand on shoulders. Also, the person I lift stepped on my head!!!! But still must thanks him as he took the tire out. And got to put it back in which took us only less than 5 mins cause we already know what to do. Then went to build a raft which keep breaking up. Sigh, but nevertheless, we were not deter by this incident and continue to build it back again. But still, it broke again!!!! Who cares about the results, the process is more important. In the afternoon, did the Saribum challenge, some of which are just useless, such as the 1km trail, in which I don't see any use in it. At night, we have campfire. We did the BANANA DANCE!!!!! Funny I must say to see myself do it.

Day 3

I was so excited cause today is the last day and I am going back home cause I miss my computer and my extremely comfortable bed. Pack up our stuffs early in the morning. Did area cleaning which is so tiring. Have to unpitch the tent and clean the canvas which is very big and we took about 1hr to finish it. Then have prize-presentation which of course we did not get. Suddenly, it RAINS!!!! Sigh, got wet in the rain while walking to the bus. Home Sweet Home!!!

OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCES

Today in class, we did future problem solving. During these lessons, I saw that what a big problem man can cause if we accidentally upset the ecosystem like over consuming of shark's fins, resulting in lesser sharks as fishermen have to kill more sharks to meet the human's consumption. These will allow the sharks' prey,such as cownose rays to reproduce faster and increasing at a faster rate, this will result a population to decrease as the rays might feed rapidly on other animals. In the end, it will caused the whole food chain to collapse.
Also, alot of our natural resources have been used excessively such as water, trees and petroleem. I have seen people wasting drinking water like spraying them on the ground. People also leave water running from the pipes for a long period of time and not bothering to close. People have also been wasting paper, resulting in more trees being cut down. This will in turn cause global warming as trees play a very important part in keeping the temperature moderate and not too extreme.
Petroleum is the necessary thing that is needed to power cars. Researchs have said that petroleum will be totally used up in the near future. Now scientists have begun to to turn to other alternative of sources usch as solar power and hydrogen.
So everyone, please use our resources wisely and when you see people wasting such precious recources, remind them not to do so as everything man do can affects the Earth.

Online shopping

Is online shopping safe? Is it efficient? Personally , I think that online shopping is not safe at all as people could use your information to do illegal things or use the money. This happen when people sign up in the website, thinking that there might be no harm. But in actual fact, alot of things is happening RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE!!! You should be more aware of the websites you visit and do not let down your guard when you see something that is on a special offer. Do not reveal information to websites you are not familiar with. But online shopping is very efficient as you can buy or book the items you want a lot first before other people buy from shops. This could also save time.
I got the inspiration to write about this when i listen to the 'News in Class' in school today. :P

MY OWN OPINIONS

8 weeks have past.... so FAST!!!!! Now is the 9th week and next week is my camp but I don't know whether to be happy or sad. Happy because I am probably going to do a lot of fun things and sad because I am going to leave my comfortable home and my family for three days. I have been to many camps before so I don't care what is going to happen at the camp as long as the activities are not too hard. After the camp is goin to be March HOLIDAYS!!!! ISN'T IT GREAT? Gonna enjoy the holidays soon so just endure the tough week in school.