My first semester as a secondary one student

Time past so fast...... In the blink of an eye, 6 months have past since I first enter my secondary school. Life in secondary school is so different from primary school. I can relax when I was in my primary school but now, I could hardly do so. The subjects taught are twice the number taught in primary school and the things I learn are tougher than taught in primary school. What a large gap from primary to secondary! But after 6 months, I am used to these changes cause we need to adapt to the environment so we could learn faster and be ahead of others.



Talking about my experience as a secondary one student, there are many moments which I cannot forget, most of which are good memories. One of these moments is when we have the secondary 1 camp where we go through hardship together and try to solve problems as one. One of such activites is when we have to lift a rubber wheel out of a pole which is thrice the height of me. before putting it back. At first we though it was impossible, but after some though and some tips from our helper, we decided to from a human wall, where one person stand on top of the other and try to get the wheel, which is so heavy, out. But there are many things we have to consider first, like how are we going to get the wheel up before passing it to the person on top, how many people are going to be the base and so on. We tried a few times but to no avail cause some people were obviously not helping, and we were trying to see how many people are needed for the base so that the person on top won't fall. But in the end, everyone helped out caused we were pushed by our helper as there was not enough time, so we managed to take the wheel out. Putting the wheel back was much easy as lesser people are needed to form the human wall so most of us just support. From this activity, lots of teamwork are needed and can be see how well the team are together. Of course, we were a sort of coordinate team even though some people laze around.

There were some unhappy moments in my life in secondary school such as in class, I quarreled with my friends many times just for some small matters which I forgotten clean about it cause I believe that keeping hatred is harmful for one as the more you keep, the more you will hurt that person until everyone looks like your enemies to you. Sometimes I feel sad when my friends don't help me. Some of them are lazy, some are just trying to bully but of course I don't know what they are thinking. I am also upset that sometimes I don't understand what the teachers are talking about during lessons especially infocomm studies and chinese. Infocomm studies was like alien thing to me cause in my primary school, I don't have lessons about the programs on computer. Furthermore, the lessons taught in term 1 was hard as it was about programming. For the first three weeks, I don't understand what teacher was talking about. But after that, I somehow understood it. Chinese was like different from primary 6 chinese, most of the things were changed and new things were introduced like letter writing, shortening of sentences etcetera. I was so stressed up as I try to remember what the teacher was saying but found that I don't understand all of them. I was like so angry with myself for being stupid..... finally, asking my trustworthy friend, I understand it all. Lucky me to have such a nice friend!

Overall, I can say that my semester was a decent semester as nothing very bad happen to me even during my project's day prelimary rounds. In this semester, I experience things I never do before and I learn lots of things, not just in studies but also in morals and in life. I guess I have make the right choice in coming to this school, the school of future leaders.

Social networking sites

Facebook? Friendster? Myspace? Do these ring a bell in you? Yup, you are right. They are social networking sites and are known to be the top few out of many other sites. Social networking sites are places for people to get to know and communicate with one another. It also focuses on building online communities of people who share interests or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others and are being used regularly by millions of people. But many people used these social networking sites for their own benefits like promoting their own business or trying to sell some items. One band got famous by promoting themselves in these sites. I cannot blame these people for doing so as these social networking sites are places where many people visits, therefore are good places for sellers to advertise their goods.
Social networking sites are also not a good place for people to make friends as people can hide their identity. They are "evil-hearted" in reality but try to be nice to you in these social networking sites and would even ask you out. Then they show their true colours. Though such cases are not frequent, we must not let down our guards and only add those we know. I had encounter such cases, people trying to make you givve your credit card number to them. So be wary of who you add as friends and what information you put.

Finally Over!!!

Guess what's finally over? Tests!!! All the tests are finally over!!! Today was the last Mathematics test of the term!!! I am so happy, can finally relax and have more free time to do what I want even though got homework. Today just gotten back english composition marks and only got 19/30. Teacher say below A2(21/30) means fail and I got only a B4. But I totally agree with teacher that below A2 fail cause all of us could get 21 but is just that we did not have a good amount of vocabulary. Guess we all have to read more. So bye for now, nothing interesting to post on for now.

Malaysia trip

Just went back to Malaysia last weekend to attend my cousin's wedding and had a great feast there. Nothing interesting or weird I can write about there so let me recount the days' events.

Wake up at 5 plus am to get ready before setting off. No traffic jams at the checkpoints in Singapore and Malaysia. But waited half an hour for bus 170 to come. Went to larkin bus terminal to have breakfast before going off to grandparents' house by bus. After 3 hours., finally reached my destination and found that all my relatives are there!!! I was sort of the last few to reach there. Later at night, had a buffet and was feeling extremely full. Many people came but still, the food cannot be eaten finish. I also drank beer!!! Haha!!! Taste bitter but I don't know why I drank it in the first place. Slept about 1 am after watching a chinese drama show.

Next day, I woke up at 6.30 am. At 9.30 am, the bride came and my cousin and the bride began the traditional way of marriage which is offering tea to elders. Then at 1 pm, all of us went to the school hall of my cousin's primary school to attend the wedding ceremony, also to have a wedding lunch there. The food there was delicious as there were shark fin's soup, chicken, duck et cetera. Then had rush back to Singapore. At Woodlands Checkpoint, there was a temperature check to make sure no one had a fever which can be due to H1N1 flu, lucky I am not sick caused if I am, I will have to stay indoors for observation for 7 days!!!