What I've learnt this past few lessons

In the first lesson Mr Wong briefed us on what was going to happen in the CID program this year.

He talked abt the OELP and what were the expectations of us.He also talked to us abt interesting signs in other countries,e.g.the v-sign is offensive in America.In the second lesson,he showed us a picture of a vulture closing in on a scrawny,malnutritioned girl.What struck us was that the photographer actually waited for the vulture to come near the girl and did not get her out of the way so he could capture this perfect shot.He eventually felt so guilty that he eventually killed himself.

Chinese New Year

Green as it signifies harvest and wealth.

This is what I chose to represent CNY this year as this is the year of the horse and red is auspicious to us Chinese.

This is the amount of red packets I receive each year of course all of them contain a 2-dollar note eachis is what I chose to represent CNY this year as this is the year of the horse and red is auspicious

-Jordan

Chinese new year

 I choose red to represent Chinese New Year. Red is a auspicious colour to Chinese because of nian monster story. The monster was chased away by things that are red, which made Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour. On the day that "nian" was chased away, we celebrated the day as Chinese New Year. This I decided to use red to represent Chinese New Year. 

I felt that this is a good symbol to show cny because 2014 is the year of horse in the lunar calendar.

As for this picture, it shows the usual things that I receive from adults. It's a blessing given from adults to wish a happy new year ahead. I always look forward to cny as it not only gives us the chance to meet up with relative, but also I get ang pao from them.

-yida

What I've learnt

For the past 3 CID lesson, I've learnt a lot of meaningful things and taught me a lot of things. 

In the first lesson, mr wong shared with us about the interesting sign of other countries. Example: pointing 2 finger in a "v" shape is an offensive sign in America. 

 The second lesson was one of my favourite lesson because it was the most interesting one. Mr Wong showed us a famous picture of a starving Africa child being eyed by a vulture. Yes, this picture is just a normal scene of a vulture waiting for the child to die and feed on him. However, the real story behind this picture that made it so famous is the fact that the photographer decided to stood there and wait for the best chance to take the picture instead of helping the poor child. This showed us that we are living in a dog-eat-dog world where people are selfish and only think for themselves, just like how this photographer did not help the child just because he was scared of bacteria infection and also he wanted to get the best angle for the shot. I learnt that we must read beyond the picture as things are not always as simple as it seemed.

During the third lesson, we talked about the school spirit of rv. Pictures was shown to show the spirit in rv, how are the lifes of pupil in rv. We are also taught how to take a good photo and make our blog more interesting.

-yida

Poverty In Singapore

We decided to use this picture because this a very symbolic image of the lack of filial piety in our nation.This is what happens when parents are abandoned by their adult children and left alone to fend for themselves.Many of the poor are people coming from this scenario of life.Looking at this picture leads me to wonder what would the majority of our poor look like;grey-haired and pathetically weak citizens?

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School Life in RVHS

I took this photo to represent school life. In my opinion, the school track is an area where we will come into connect with almost everyday and has left me to with a deep impression. Be it walking across it to access the gate after school or attempting to complete our 2.4 run/walk, this is definitely an area I will never forget.

This photo represents our school spirit, as pupils of all levels gather together just to celebrate our school's 58th anniversary. This also shows our love for our school :D

This photo shows the fear in these Year 1s, as they look for their names in the CCA shortlisted list, afraid that they are not able to get into the CCA they want. 

Happiness can be found simply by talking to your friends. Hence this photo serves to show the happiness shown on the smiles of these pupils, as they talk to their friends (:

A Starving Child :(

A few days ago, our teacher showed us this photo. The first word that came to us was cruel. This poor child was starving and was trying her very best to get to the food camp. However, the photographer didn't help her to get to the food camp, because he was told not to touch her due to the risk of  transmitted disease. I feel that this is understandable, but the photographer could have spared her some food :( Even if it's a small piece of bread, I'm sure it would be able to give this child hope to survive and get to the food camp. All he did was chasing the vulture away after taking this photo. Out of a thousand words that describes this picture, we choose to use 'cruel' to emphasise on the photographers actions towards the child.

My holidays

My holidays weren't very interesting at all.The breathtaking sceneries and exhilirating rides were not present in this holiday.All I did was mostly watching YouTube vids and homework.this holiday I was a loner lazing at home except for times when I went to play basketball or when my mum brought me out.This holiday,I went to my grandpa's place for a whole month,and that is about all the highlights of my holiday
-Jordan (25)

Holiday Reflection

My holidays, to be honest we're not as fulfilling as I planned it to be... I as per always told myself to complete chores which I have always found excuses to not do usually, but still failed to complete 😱 For the holiday, I was only slightly productive during the first week, managing to get my homework done and a little little bit of chores. 

I'm still feeling incredible guilty for allowing myself to procrastinate so much, but all in all, it was a very satisfying holiday 😊

-Ong Gee Hun (14)

Holiday :)

The December holiday was pretty awesome as I get to take a long break after months of school, and get to travel oversea with family. On the first week of December, I went to Thailand for a 5day4night trip with my family and relatives. This was my second time going to Thailand but I'm still extremely excited for the trip. The most memorable part of the trip was riding on the elephant at the floating market. Riding on an elephant isn't as easy as it seemed. The seats on the elephant was swinging from side to side vigorously and I was afraid of falling of,and when the elephant steps into the river, the dirty water splashed onto my shorts. That place had an unpleasant smell of the poop of the elephant as many tourist bought banana to feed those elephant. However, it was still a fun experience.

The rest of the holiday was spent doing homework, going out with friends and playing games at home. I went out with my cca mate to play basketball. This not only allows us to be more bonded, but also improve our basketball skill and teamwork. I also played computer games with classmate, chatting through Skype, which made our relationship better and of course, made this holiday relaxing and fun. 

-yida(28)

Holidays!

The december holidays was the time to go travelling and have fun for everyone. To me, it was just a boring 2 months. I had to stay in Malaysia with my grandparents for 2 weeks as my sister was on a school trip to China and I could not cook for myself :/ Homework and market was the only thing that revolved around my world during the stay. Who could help tolerating this? Being an active child I kept complaining, and without knowing it, 2 weeks was long gone and I'm back in Singapore, anticipating my primary school gathering. :D However, the gathering was a bit disappointing since some of us made an effort to organise and the rest were all busy with school activities. :(( But a small group of us managed to meet up. Even though we only played basketball, it was extremely fun. All of us didn't even want to go home! :b 

Although my holidays were accompanied mostly by homework, the want for a gathering by my fellow primary classmates really touched me, because it shows that we have strong bonds that will not break us apart even when we are all in different secondary schools! ((; Here's a group picture of our meet up!

-Bei Xuan (8)

December Holidays

I was looking forward to the december holidays as I thought it was going to be extremely fun. It wasn't as fun as I expected. I went out with my friends on the first few days. It was fun. But after the first week of holiday, it was the same routine everyday- homework, cca, homework, cca. Sometimes, after cca, I would bake together with my teammates. Occasionally during the weekends, I would go out with my cousins. We would go to places like Universal Studios, West Coast Park. I went to Batam with my relatives and had a fun time there. We were shopping the whole day in an extremely big shopping mall there. The food there was super nice too. The food and clothes there are super cheap. Dinner for 7 could only cost a total of $30+. After all, I enjoyed the trip there. I thought maybe the december holidays wasn't that boring after all. When I was back in Singapore, I went for a few friendly matches and a netball carnival. I felt that it was a good experience as I could make new friends and also practice for the zonals which was coming up in January 2014. I also went for a team outing which would help the team bond. During the last week of the holidays, I was rushing to complete my stack of homework. This is the consequences of procrastinating. In the end, i had a study date with my friend and we completed most of the homework together. I really did not expect the study date to work. I thought we would end up playing. After completing my homework, I felt extremely relaxed. I guess I should have done my homework a long time ago... Thinking back, the december holidays was quite fun.

-Charmaine Soh (4)

Group Photo

A picture of Happy Folkss!