Why Singapore should not be complacent

Singapore is a developed country and has many achievements, however, even with great achievements, Singapore should not be complacent. If Singapore is complacent, the country will not be able to improve as a country and other countries who have been working hard would easily overtake us. Also, as a small country, we do not have natural resources and have to depend on other countries to provide us with these resources for survival. Hence, despite the achievements we have, there will still be times whereby Singapore will require the help of other countries and hence we should not be complacent. 

Aging population

3 things that I found out 

- child policies are implemented to control population growth 

- child policies have both positive and negative impact 

- aging population is one of the negative impact of child policy where by there are more elderly than young people in the country

2 perspective that I have gained 

- not everything will turn out as expected 

- there will always be positive and negative outcomes 

1 question I have 

- how is the government going to solve the negative impacts caused by child policies?

Chingay parade 2016-Lights of legacy, brighter Singapore -Adeline

2016 marks the first year of Singapore's next 50 and hence, I feel that apart from bringing the people from different races to celebrate the new year of 2016, the purpose of Chingay 2016 is also to celebrate how successful Singapore have become in 50 years time and to look forward to a better Singapore as Chingay 2016 is themed, "Lights of legacy, brighter Singapore!" 

When Chingay first started in Singapore, it was held as a result of the ban on firecrackers due to fire hazards in 1972. Some people felt that the ban would dampened the festival mood for the Chinese New Year period. To address this issue, the People's association and the Singapore National Pugilistic Association organised a street parade, featuring the signature floats, acrobatic acts, lion and dragon dances, stilt walkers, which are mostly Chinese cultural performances to bring back some cheer to the public to celebrate Chinese New Year. When time passes by, the organizer make changes such that there are not only Chinese cultural performances, other cultural performances such as Malay dance and Indian dance are also included. With that, I believed that the change was made so that to bring people from all races and ethnic groups together to celebrate new year together as one Singapore. 

Chingay 2016 includes unique multicultural performances of all over the world which capture the essence of the Singapore's unique cultural diversity. Not only that, for the opening performance, the people wore costumes and props with LED lights. The light effect of the costumes and props symbolizes the theme "Lights of legacy, Brighter Singapore" which also brings out the purpose of Chingay 2016. Hence, with these, I feel that the organizer have successfully fulfilled its purpose.

-Adeline

Does being rich means happy?

Personally, I don't think that being rich means being happy. However, one can be happy if they are rich but it don't necessarily have to be this case. Money do not come with happiness. I feel that being happy is just simply being contented with what you have which has nothing to do with the amount of money we have. Sadly, I believed that Singaporeans are not happy even though Singapore is a prosperous country with good transportation, education system, and so on. Most Singaporeans are too caught up over academic grades, outcomes which weighs heavily on peoples' minds despite the city's transformation into a even more modern city and affluence. The modern environment and facilities the country provide residents with had turn most of us into ungrateful people. The affluence we have had caused us to take things for granted and becoming ungrateful and resulting to not feeling happy. Hence I do not think that being rich means happy. 

RV60

For me, RV60 was an important event and its purpose is to celebrate the effort put in by the school for the past 60 years by allowing all the students to perform for this event, which enable us to learn to appreciate our school lives and to have a further understanding of the school. This event was a great success and had also demonstrated the school spirit "立化精神” through the performances put up by the students.

Even though many students felt annoyed towards this event as we were unable to understand the purpose of having hours of practices under the hot sun which affected our daily activities and holiday schedule at first. I believed that all of us were still glad to had been given the opportunity to perform for the school as it is quite obvious that we had put in our best effort in making this event a success :D  however, I felt that this event would have been better if the school planned the venue used for practices more specifically as some of the locations that my CCA was appointed to was used by other CCA which caused quite a lot of trouble for us :( 

I felt really proud of RV as even though this is the first time the school is planning the anniversary celebration in such a manner, even with limited time and resources, we were able to produce remarkable performances which I believed had displayed the spirit of RV which made me feel really proud of :D

The extra in the ordinary

This is a picture of the school field. When anyone see this picture, I think most of us would just be thinking about how we play sports on the field during P.E. lessons and so on. However, this picture tell me more than just playing sports. It was taken during break time when I was practicing the RV 60 item with my CCA mates. All of us had to stay back in school to about 6 to 7 pm in the field for the past few weeks to rehearse for the mass performances. Practicing the performances not only caused me to reach home late and have less time to complete my homework, lessons were also affected due to the limited time given. However, our hard work were paid off when we see how well the event went. I think that this explains "the extra in the ordinary" as even though RV is just a school like any ordinary schools, we are able to bring up the school spirit "立化精神” by celebrating our school 60th anniversary in a way that makes us stands out from other ordinary schools which makes us the extra in the ordinary :D

Self Introduction

Hi, my full name is Adeline Ng Xin Yi. My CCA is dance and I dislike cats even though people may think that they are cute. I personally find them very creepy because of their look and the sound they produce which always make me feel disgusted and as if a million ants were crawling at my neck. My favorite colour are blue and green. I enjoy Science and Geography lessons the most and they are probably the few lessons that I do not dread when I go to school. I find English Language the most boring subject (I probably think this way because I'm terrible at English) Also, I dislike going out and prefer to stay at home. I like to watch the anime One Piece and I love to eat. I also dislike reading and running long distances because I always tend to vomit after it. I am a very lazy person who do not bring an umbrella when I go out and hence, I hate raining days because I would always be drench. I enjoy watching dance performances especially Chinese and Modern dance. Lastly, I love to dance. Even though it is a really tiring thing to do, I just simply enjoy it!