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?

O

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)