What's the meaning of life???

Stress

Stress is a thing that we as human beings cannot avoid in life. It can be inflicted by many causes. Peer pressure and parents expectations are two of them.

Peer pressure

We can be very stressed up when seeing our friend score higher marks than us in an examination.This is a very common sight in HCI. We will therefore need to work very hard in order to get the better of them in the next examination. In this way, it is a positive thing as it gives you the drive to work harder and achieve your goals. However, too much of it will lead to stress that we ourselves cannot handle. Therefore, our goals must be realistic in order to avoid this effect of overwhelming peer pressure.

Parents expectation

It is good to know that your parents expect you to achieve certain goals. This shows that they care for your well-being. However, this can also lead to overwhelming stress. Your parents care about you. They care for you so much that they they want the best for you. In other words, I can say that your parents are kiasu. They want you

to be top of everything which sometimes might not be good.

I would like to share an example here:

I saw in a newspaper that a 13 year old boy jumped down from a 7-storey building but survived. It is reported that the boy was scolded because he played truant.

A 13-year-old boy ending his own life because he was scolded for playing truant? If that is the case, many students would have died. Maybe he had some other problems he faced? Maybe it is not the because he was scolded for playing truant that caused him to jump? Maybe he was caused by an overwhelming of stress because of peer pressure or parents expectations? No one knows what is the truth behind it but one thing for sure is that what he did was extremely unacceptable. He shouldn't run away from his problems by ending his life. Instead, he should face them and try to solve them. If he cannot solve them he should ask his parents, teachers or maybe even friends who can provide a listening ear to his problems and try to help him solve them. This is the same case as Adeline Ng Ai Choo where she didn't want to tell anybody about her problems. Therefore, I advise you that before you do anything foolish please please please tell someone about your problems and that might actually save your life.

Way to keep stress level down

-exercise often

-take up some hobbies

Exercise can include swimming, jogging etc. Most importantly participate actively in your ep3 as that might be the only time you can destress.

Take up hobbies like collecting stamps, keeping pets, reading books etc, things that you can do conveniently at home so that whenever you feel bored or stress up you can immediately destress.

Okay I think I should end here. However, if you guys have any opinion to share feel free to post in comments. You can give comments on other ways to destress or other ways that can cause stress. Thank you.

Puddle of water case

The case of the puddle of water

What happened?

I did not know the exact detail of the incident so I will just describe what I feel and see.

During recess, I stayed back for a while to complete my homework. After that I went to the canteen to have my break. When I was going out through the door of the class room, I noticed a puddle of water and a water bottle nearby. Apparently the water had spilled out of the water bottle. Thinking that the person who had spilled the water might have gone to get a cloth to clean up the mess, I simply brushed this incident off my mind. After recess, I came back to class late for a little bit and Miss Soh was already in the class. I was shocked to see the puddle of water still there but I went back to my seat as quickly as possible, carefully not to step on the puddle of water. Miss Soh was standing in front of the class on silence when she finally spoke,"Why is there a puddle of water on the floor with clothes over it. Why isn't there any one cleaning up the mess? Will the clothes be able to soak up all the water if you leave them there?" At this moment, the students sitting near the puddle of water immediately started to clean up the mess. As I was sitting at the back and I cannot see whether the students have cleaned up the mess therefore I didn't go forward and offer my assistance. However, I feel that this is not an excuse. I should go forward and see if they need any help rather than just standing at the back watching a 'free show'. There is reasons why Miss Soh asked us to clean up the mess. Firstly, if people did not see the puddle of water and accidentally slipped and fell, it will be disastrous. Secondly, if people accidentally stepped on the puddle of water but did not slip and continue walking, he will leave black foot prints on the floor, causing the floor to be very dirty. In the future, when I see such incident happen again I will render my help willingly and not let what happened on that day happen again.

Students changing in Classroom instead of the toilet

Students changing in Classroom instead of the toilet!

Personally, I feel that it is acceptable to change in classroom instead of the toilet. It is partly because I myself also changes in the classroom. I feel that changing in the classroom is not a big deal as we are in fact a boy school and there is no people of the other gender except for the teachers and the staff of Hwa Chong. The fact is that we only change from our uniform into our PE attire and are not totally naked. What is the difference between changing in the toilet than in the classroom? The only difference is that the toilet have cubicle while the classrooms do not. It only waste time when we change in the toilet as we have to wait for others when they are changing in the cubicles. If the whole class go to the toilet and change, it will be very crowded and people who are in need of using the toilet will have to push and shove through the crowd just to ease themselves and answer nature call. Not only that, many people will be looking at him in the process and he will feel very embarrass. Therefore, I hope that students can be more open-minded and change in the classroom instead of the toilet or maybe some can change in the toilet while others can change in the classroom so that less time is spent on changing and more time is spent on PE.
This is my view.
What is yours? Share it with me and comment on my post.
Thank you

Student stabbed professor at NTU

Student stabbed professor at NTU
David Hartanto Widjaja

Why did he do that?
Is it because he played computer games and got too addicted, causing him to stabbed the professor?
Or
Is he under too much stress from realising the fact that his scholarship has been revoked because of his poor academic performance?

My view is both of the above.
He might be under a lot of peer pressure as he might be competing with students that have better academic result then him. Because of this, he played the computer game to relive his stress. However, the type of computer games might be very violent and caused him to react in this way. He often played the computer games in the wee hours of the morning and affected his academic results. This leading to the termination of his scholarship. He was believe to have stabbed the professor as he thought the professor had caused him to lose his scholarship.

This is my view what is yours?
Please comment
Thank you!

Finally!!!

Omg! Finally, I can post for more than a month. This month has been very busy for me causing me to have no time to post or should I say too lazy to post. An update on the events that happened or going to happen.

Just finished my tests a few weeks ago.(Main reason no time to post) I am quite happy with my result although I feel that I could have put in more effort.
The results:
Mathematics-A1
Chinese-A1
Science-A1
Geography-A1
Infocom Studies-A1
History-B3
Language Arts-C5
MSG(Average):1.67

French Petit(mini) test:10/10
Yes man!

Got a lot of projects too. However there is one major project for project day.
Group Members:
Mark Loh
Jeffrey Oh
Grady Ng
Faced a lot of problems in this project. We can't seem to decide on the topic.However when we decided on it, it was rejected by mentors. I hope our current project topic will work and everything can go on as smoothly as possible.

My first waterpolo competition is this Monday and I really look forward to it. I hope we can win all the matches and clinch the gold medal. That is my goal and I will work towards it.

Sec1 camp is just around the corner. I both look forward and don't look forward to this camp. Some of my friends who have been to the Sarimbun Scout Camp said that it is very dirty and that we will have a terrible 3day 2 nights there while others said that it was a very fun and enriching experience for them and will want to go back there. I feel that I cannot make any decision whether I like the camp until I experience it myself. However I will be going back on Thursday night so that I can attend my waterpolo competition on the next day.

I have come to the end of my post and I hope I can post again without waiting for another month.Thank you

The Taximan's Story

1.What is the irony of the story?

The irony of the story is that Lay Choo is intelligent and is very good in her studies but unexpectedly, she was fooling around instead of being in school.

2.What are the themes raised in this story?

The themes are Parental Guidance and Teenagers this days etc

3.How realistic is this story?

This story is very realistic as the writer potrays the taximan to be a typical Singaporean who do not have much education and speaks singlish. She also writes about the current problems faced by most families about handling teenagers, like the taximan's.

4.What do you think of the taximan?Do you feel sympathy for him?

I think that the taximan is very violent and strict. He beat and slapped Lay Choo when he found out that she was fooling around. He even lock her up in her room for three days. I feel sympathy for him as he did all this because he love Lay Choo and was concerned about her studies. He worked all day and save for her University, yet she went fooling around.

5.Do you agree with his lamenting?

I do not agree with his lamenting. He can only blame himself and no one esle when Lay Choo went fooling around because it is the responsibility of a father to instill good moral values and discipline to his son or daughter so that he or she will not go astray.

6.What about the other characters in the story? Do you feel sympathy for them?

I sympathise with Lay Choo's mother because I feel that she will be very disappointed in her daughter who is smartest of all her siblings to do such a disgraceful thing. I do not sympathise with Lay Choo as she was wrong to fool around and deserved to face the music. Even though She might have her own reasons. For example: Her family need cash urgently. She should have discussed it will her parents and don't act rashly.

Reflections : The taximan should not be so violent to her daughter as it might cause her to reble even more. I think he should advise her on the advantages and disadvantages on mixing with bad company and fooling around. E.g. It will affect her studies etc. The taximan should not be ashamed to tell Lay Choo's teacher about the incident so that she might be able to help in monitoring Lay Choo.

Third Language and Waterpolo

Ok I have not posted for a long time. Something happened to my last Thursday that makes me feel stupid.

On Thursday, I was actually supposed to take bus to MOELC for my third language with Tze han and Ming Shi but in the end they abandon me and went ahead first as I needed to let Mr Loh sign my Class Transfer form for my third language. It was my first time taking bus there as my father usually come and drive me there. As I was in the com lab, i checked the bus number in the Internet and finally found my way there. What a relief man. I thought I will lose my way and furthermore on that day I had forgotten to bring my hp.
Yesterday, the result for the students allocated into the different CCA was out. Darren, Zexter and 12 other students was in Waterpolo. I can't wait to see them in action. I hope they will start their training as soon as possible.

About Me
Name:Marcus Ong
Age:13
DOB:1 July 1996
Presents pls!!!
School:~~De La Salle~~
Hwa Chong Institution
Class:~~1o1~~ 2o1

Wishes
New hp!
~~New laptop~~

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