Personal Response 1 : Racial Harmony

To me, racial harmony means races(eg. Chinese) getting along well with another race(eg. Indian). Misunderstanding among the races can happen due to religion. Take the Maria Hertogh riots for example. The riots started because a dutch girl called Maria Hertogh was under the care of a Muslim woman named Che Aminah. Soon after, her parents found her and went to court to decide who would look after Maria. The court let her parents take care of her but many Muslims were not happy. Riots soon broke out. Rajah's idea was a very good as it could actually solve certain issues, but his idea could not be possible as everybody needs to have a race. To let other people from other races know each other better, we could let a race learn a new language. On Racial Harmony Day the school should make the pupils play traditional games and sing traditional songs.

Reflection 1 : Looking Forward

I got 48/50 for my English, 38/50 for Maths, 44 1/2 for Science, and 37/50 for Chinese. I feel that I have performed quite well in all my all my subjects except for maths. I think the reason why I scored low marks for maths is because I made a lot careless mistakes. To improve, I will do more assesment books on maths. I hope that I will improve in my maths.

Trip to the Science Center

Yesterday, my class went to the S'pore Science Center for a lesson on the phases of the Moon. It was really interesting and I learned quite alot about the phases of the Moon. Too bad Ray and Costine could'nt come, because they had to go and play a soccer match with another school. And, poor Rayden! He lost 3 of his pens. Poor guy!

Excursion

On Friday my class went on an excursion to Old Ford Factory and Bukit Chandu. Old Ford Factory was actually the Ford Motor Factory back then during WW2(or even earlier then that.) I think the soldiers of that time were fearless in the face of death and even sacrificed thier lives so we could live in peace now.

Total Defence Play

We watched a play on Lietenent Adnan Saidi who was the leader of the Malay Regiment, a group of soldiers who fought with the Japenese at Bukit Chandu (in english, it means Opium Hill) and were outnumbered but continued fighting to the last man. I think they were very couragous and brave men, who were not afraid of dying in battle.

Total Defence

Today in school, we had a fire drill exercise. It was com lab period and I was going to switch the com on when the fire alarm sounded. (For the exercise of course!) We had to hurry down to the school field and my class took at least a few mins to come down. Why? The reason was that the com lab was on the 4th floor! The school tried to 'evacuate' all the classes to the field in 8 mins. But, the whole school did it in just 6 mins and 8 secs! :) :) :)