reflection of my life in Hwa Chong

When I entered Hwa Chong, I didn't expect life to become that hard and challenging, but everyone has to be flexible and adapt to the new lifestyle. My CCA which is basketball is held 6 times a week and up to 5 hours per training. Therefore I only manage to reach home at about an average of 7pm each day. And I only manage to complete my work on time, it is because of my CCA that I have managed to learn how to manage my time well.

Secondly, I would like to comment on the class. In the starting of the year, when we entered the class, we seemed too be kind of distant and everyone was “shy” and the class was very dull. However, as the days passed, the class seemed to work more like a team and took many initiatives as well as taking part in many events and/or competitions together.

To end this post off, I would like to thank the CMC for making the class a better place for all of us and for efficiently carrying out their duties.

Summary of "The Gift Of The Magi", by O. Henry

The Next day would be Christmas, but Della only had one dollar and eighty-seven cents despite trying her best to save up for it. Della had badly wanted to buy a gift for Jim for Christmas, but could not do so with the amount of money she had. Jim took a pride in to posscessions of his, that is had father's gold watch that had been handed down by his granfather and the other, Della's long hair. To buy a gift for Jim, Della sold her hair for twenty dollars. Della than bought a platanium fob chain to suit Jim's watch. 

On Christmas day, when Jim entered the house and saw Della had cut her hair short, he stared at her with a shocked expression that terrified Della. Della only understood why Jim had reacted that way when Jim gave her the expensive combs that she had longed for. Della than gave Jim the Dandy that was meant for his watch, it was than that Jim broke the news to her that he had sold the watch to buy the combs for her.

In the end, Della bought a Dandy for Jim who had no watch and Jim bought a set of combs for Della who had cut her hair short. Both Gave the other a better gift but caused them to lose even more than what they originally had.

The full story of "The Gift Of The Magi", by O. Henry can be found at this link: 

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html

Comparison of my feelings when i first entered Hwa Chong to now

When I first entered Hwa Chong, I was firstly amazed by the size of the school and as every other sec 1, I was naturally confused as to where to go to and how to get there. When I entered, I thought that school wasn't going to be that bad as I had friends from my previous school and the work wouldn't be very tough. 

However, as the day by day passed by, the workload was getting larger and the level of difficulty also rised steeply. There were also many problems I faced like how was I supposed to keep up with the school work and revise for the test during the basketball competition season, naturally I would feel like giving up and putting the work to one side and rest, however one must persevere to be able to produce results.

Due to the long CCA hours, and the heavy load of work, I would feel stressed over whether i could complete it on time. From this I have learned to manage my time and put important things in the front queue.

summary of the beggining of animal farm

Animal Farm is a fable set on Manor Farm, a typical English farm. George Orwell uses a third-person perspective, and reports events without commenting on them directly. The narrator describes things as the animals see them.

Old Major calls a meeting of all the animals in the big barn. He announces that he could die anytime soon and relates to them the concepts and rules to abide by in Animalism. He explains why man is the greatest enemy of all animals, therefore the animals must take charge of their destiny by overthrowing Man by Rebelling. He relates his dream of rebellion.

Old Major soon dies and the other animals prepare for the Rebellion under the pig’s leadership. One night, Mr. Jones passes out drunk, creating the perfect opportunity for the animals to rebel. They are so hungry that they break into the store-shed. When Jones and his men try to whip them, the animals run them off the farm. Snowball changes the name of the farm to “Animal Farm” and comes up with Seven Commandments, which are to form the basis of Animalism. They are:

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animals shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

Every Sunday, Snowball and Napoleon lead a meeting of all the animals in the big barn. The pigs are the most intelligent animals, so they think up resolutions for the other animals to debate. Soon after, the pigs set up a study-center for themselves in the harness-room. Snowball comes up with various campaigns for social and economic improvement. Napoleon opposes whatever Snowball does. Because most of the animals lack the intelligence to memorize the Seven Commandments, Snowball reduces them to the single maxim, “Four legs good, two legs bad.” The sheep take to chanting this at meetings.

soccer game

Firstly, i regret to have only started blogging now, however i will try and blog to meet the deadline.

For your information i have added a musicplayer and a tagbox.

In today's soccer match organised by ileague against 2I2, I am pleased to say that we won them over a margin of 5-3. This is an unexpected result as the sec 2's have much more experience in soccer therefore we were not very confident of winning.

Goals's breakdown:
The first goal was scored by me(goalkeeper, lol), which gave us a 1 point lead (technicaly i didn't score as it was an own goal as the other team's keeper touched it). Unfortunately the sec 2's made a comeback with by scoring two goals. Justin scored two goals and the 2I2 scored 1 more. the game was tied until justin ended the first half by scoring once more. We ended the first half leading by one with the score being at 4-3 to our advantage.

In the second half Our team scored one more goal extending our lead by one more. This goal also proved to be the last goal of the game. The game ended with us winning 5-3.

goals scorer:

Timothy Lung-1

Aloysius Poh- 1

Justin- 3

With a combination of teamwork and fighting spirit, we managed to overcome 2I2 with our tough defence and justin scored mercilessly.

Lastly, I wish to thank the supporters who were there, you kept all of us going. Hope you'll be present in the match against 1I2. Three cheers for 1I3 for being the first class to win a sec2 class.

With this, I wish you the best of luck in the examinations to come.