summery for MYE el exam @ 5/15/2008 01:37:00 PM
In the new breed of universities like New College, Students are able to study alone at their own pace. The students create a contract with the teacher on what to study. To graduate, students need to finish seven contracts. Populations at in such college are small, which creates a close-knit academic community which makes learning enjoyable. New college uses narrative evaluation instead if grades. The evaluation is good for feedback with no rewards or punishment. There is no tension between students or teachers or bad competitions among students. There is no need for staying up late to cram for exams. At New College, they value good results and contracts while other school value things like law and order, and some 'working through real problems’. New college also does not have credit-hour system of going to lectures and tutorials.
Some people like being alone; others are happiest when they are with a crowd of people. Which do you prefer? @ 4/23/2008 12:41:00 PM
To be alone?? Or in a crowd?? Both of this has it’s of its own good points which I will explain in this passage. Personally I would prefer being in a crowd of friends as there are many things you could do and stuffs you could talk about.
Being in a crowd means that you get to spend time with your friends and bond with each other. You will get a very nice feeling that your very safe as your with your friends. And by being with your friends, they could take you to places that you don’t even know about.
Another reason that I like being with friends is that you will not get the feeling of being bored. Let me give you and example. One fine day u went to orchard road alone, and after you do what you wanted to do and you realize that you have a lot of time and do not know what to do. This is the part where your friends give you suggestions on what to do and where to go. If you were alone, you would just be walking about orchard road doing nothing but walking. If your with friends, at least u won’t find yourself wasting time and you will not get bored easily.
Although being with friends is fun, but being alone has its advantages.as said just now, if your with a group of friends you will not get bored easily. But if u went to orchard to do something and after that you need to do something else, being with a group of friends will interfere with your decision to go do what you actually planed. You will find it hard to reject them.
So being alone or in group has its pros and cons. But it all depends on the person. If you do not like noise and cannot concentrate with noise, definitely being alone will suit u better. But of your like me, when u go out, u cannot think of what do do next or cant decide, being with friends will help you a lot.
My favourite food @ 2/28/2008 02:18:00 PM
My Favourite Food
There are many kinds and varieties of food and cuisine that Singapore offers us. I will talk about some of them before I reach my main and only best favourite.
If u go around east coast park, there is a fantastic pizza restaurant which makes wonderful pizza that really make u drool. The name of the shop is called artz pizza. It is located near a golf range and has open and closed eating table. The kitchen is open spaced which let u show how the pizza is make, and the aroma of the pizza when is being made simply just controls u and make u more hungry. They have about 10-12 type of pizza in which each has its own unique flavor. I recommend the pizza di fungi as its top with mushroom and ham all over which makes it very nice and tempting.
Another nice shop is at river valley road. 5mins walk from great world city. Located at near 7 eleven straight to its left at a corner. Although it’s a market place, the chicken rice and char siew rice is really really really very nice. But because its very nice they open only at night at 7pm. Some lucky days they open at 2pm. The char siew rice they serve in is in big portions. Rice freshly cooked for u and the char siew is boiled in some special soup and top with even nice extra special sauce which both of them complement each other.
My best and favourite restaurant is called alar carte di alfolno also located near great world. I recommend ordering in a set . the appetizer I like is toast bread with garlic, tomatoes, olive oil, vinegar , and some basils on top. Eating one makes u even more hungry. The next dish u should get is mushroom soup or pasta as they serve in a big portion and if you are u small eater, u should just stop at the pizza cause the main dish is really heavy. You can get steak or lamp, mixed in pepper sauce and has boiled potato cut in half for u. and some vegetable to make it healthier.
So if u really happen to go to one of my recommendations please leave your comment on what you ate. Thank you.
Letter To teacher @ 2/18/2008 01:13:00 PM
How have u been doing these few years? I have been promoted to secondary 4 express and I’m trying to cope with the new stress. And as seniors, we get to sit in the best spot in the hall, the gallery. I can see the whole school below me and the view of the whole hall is simply amazing.
It has been 4 years since I saw u, and many things have happen and changed since u left. I will tell u how the schools change since u left.At the start of January, the school has changed the school uniform, changing the collar pin badge to iron-on badge. The iron-on badge is cheaper by alot and we do not need to worry about not wearing the collar pin to school, and waste money to buy a new one. Although the quality is poor but at least the badge differentiates us from the tanglin secondary school students.
Our school also has a new principal, Mr. Koh, and he is a little bit stricter than Miss Chamb. Our one and only miss heng has yet again followed us to 4e. and the teachers we have upgraded to super teachers with a big bag of scolding arsenal prepared for us. One example of this teacher is mrs.tan mei ting, our chemistry teacher. From all the rumors we heard about her. The common thing is that she is very strict and fierce.
This year I will be taking my o’levels and since it’s a very important and crucial year, most of our teachers have been change to help us improve. Especially our chemistry teacher we got Mrs. Tan may teng to help us recover from our secondary 3 injuries and teach us more stuff. Although she jokes a little in class, but its is to keep us awake from her lesson so we can concentrate more. This is very helpful especially when she goes into a very dry topic.. And as usual, we have more homework and even more remedial. They started to early that we have not been mentally prepared.
I hope you are doing great in your new school.
Yours sincerely, giulio
My First Day at School @ 2/18/2008 01:12:00 PM
My first in school has a very original effect, like the usual I would stare into the new school for minutes checking the surrounding and most importantly is to look for familiar faces so as not to be lonely. I quietly sat in the hall at the back of my class as I was the latest to arrive. I looked in front to see who my new form teacher is. And the same thing that happens every year, the old and tedious boring speech the pricipal will give us. almost everyone in the hall would look like their listening very attentively, but in actual fact, they are just day-dreaming like me.
After the long talk, I could hear one of the fiercest teacher in school, Mr. Koh, screaming around. Shouting with that big bad angry face, as though he is ordering the classes to quickly get back to their classes. We took our bags head head down to our new classroom and it was rather big compared to my primary schools classroom.
We changed into our P.E attire and line up outside our class, ready to start our icebreakers in the hall. We all got introduced to each other and know more about each others hobbies or their favourite. We played some games we get to call our student leaders funny names and talk to each other. We had a lot of fun and totally enjoyed ourself.
The best time of the day still was recess. I could not make up my mind on what food to eat. I scan through the canteen looking at all the variety of food they offer us and in the end I chosed the noodles stall as it has the longest queue. So I thought I might give it a try.
After school ended, all the sec 1 including me ,gathered in the hall for this weird and lame mass dance that goes with cool music. After all, my first day of school in secondary life was not as bad as I thought.
