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!!!

Track and fields Finals

Today was the track and field finals and the we, Hwa Chong Secondary 1s, went down to support our track and field team. The atmosphere at the Chua Cho Kang Stadium was tense as everyone is hoping their school teams could win. The athletes from our school face tense competition as some sports school was also there, especially Singapore Sports' School. Of course, our school teams did their best and put in their best effort. And we, Sec 1s, cheered for them by shouting our lungs out. Although our athletes was behind in the track events, they make it up in the field events and the results were pretty commendable. Our school teams got CHAMPIONS in B and C division!!!!!! For A division, they gotten 2nd place for girls and 3rd for boys which was pretty good. So our principal declare a holiday!!!! Woot! Three Cheers For Hwa Chong clap-clap clap clap clap, Three Cheers For Hwa Chong clap-clap clap clap clap, Three Cheers For Hwa Chong clap-clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap HWA CHONG!!!

Food poisoning

I am going to talk food poisoning in this blog post. Recently, there had been a food poisoning in Geylang hawker centre. The poisoned food was rojak. I could not believe such case has happened again after that milk poisoning in China. The poisoned rojak caused lots of people to be ill and even one pregant woman to lose her baby! I did not know this could be possible as usually, when I ate some food which is not clean, I would only get stomachache. After that day, I would be alright. The food poisoning had affected lots of people, the customers to be ill and have to be warded, the stallholders in the hawker centre and those working in the market nearby have lesser customers than usual , causing a dip in their profit. Also, from the news, the cleanliness of the stalls are very low, atrracting pests like rats. I was utterly disgusted at the number of rats they caught. But now, the National Environment Agency(NEA) is starting to do something to solve the problem. Also, the stallholders are going to clean the market once a week to ensure the whole place is clean and free of pests. I can at least see something done which is good. Some time later, I am sure the customers will come back again and need not be fear that there might be food poisoning. To end the post, I would like to say that such cases happening may not be good for Singapore so everyone, let try to keep Singapore clean as everyone plays an important part!

Famous Speech

Below is the Gettysburg Address, which is one of the most quoted speech in United States history by Abraham Lincoln.

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

The theme of his speech was to invoke the principles of human equality. He gave this speech during the American Civil War. His message was his views about the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation. I felt that what he said is true as people need to treated equally and probably a war can do that as now in U.S.A, Obama who is not a 'white man' is now president who can bring hope to people while some 'white man' could not have done so. There should not be racism as this would not lead to a cohesive country which could make the country vulnerable if other countries decide to attack them. Here is the website which you could listen to the speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gettysburg_by_Britton.ogg.

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.