Why Singapore must not be complacent in her achievements?

Singapore must not be complacent in her achievements as I have read that many countries are on a close competition with Singapore. From the first article, it says that Shanghai retained its title as the world's busiest container port for the fifth consecutive year and Singapore is its closest rival. From here, we can see that you cannot be complacent in your achievements if not other countries my overtake you. From another article, I read that the achievements achieved were achieved only after hard work by Founding Fathers and that we should continue on with the culture to make it better. If we stay complacent just because of the achievements we made because of our founding fathers, we would soon be overtaken by other countries who are trying very hard to beat us. Also in the last article, President Dr. Tony Tan said that "

We cannot be complacent. We have a special and close relationship with China. We have to continue to work at it, bring it to new levels, upgrade it, recognise the new changes in Singapore and in China, and bring our bilateral cooperation to new levels.

PRESIDENT TONY TAN KENG YAM, on Singapore's relationship with China"

I read that Singapore has been copying what ever China is doing and China is also copying whatever Singapore has been doing. It's been said that we are now a two-way street, in which we copy ideas from others and others copy ideas from us and we need to create more genuine ideas that we call our own to be better than other countries.

The aging population-yuxuan

Three things I have found out:

1. Just like China, Singapore has a two child policy. It is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family. It aims to control the population growth and achieve their optimum population.

2. China's one child policy was introduced in 1979 to reduce birth rates in China due to the rapid population growth. The government in China encourage couples to only have one child to slow down China's rapid population growth by rewarding the couples who follows the policy and punishing those who don't.

3. People living in rural areas tend to give birth to more children as they depended on their children for support. So the one child policy is more strictly enforced in rural areas compared to the urban areas.

Two perception I have gained:

1. Huge population does not benefit everyone in the country. It is more like majority poor and less educated working for the minority of rich people. Huge population means intense competition among jobs, schools and educations.

2. Every policy has its benefits and disadvantage to the country. 

One question I have:

 Does large population size really contributes to the economy of a country? 

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3 things that I found out 

- Why the 1 child and 2 child policies are needed for China and Singapore respectively.

- Impacts of the different polices

- Reason why they decided to reverse the policy

2 perspective that I have gained 

- There will be give and takes

- Things may not happen as planned

1 question I have 

- Will they start any new measure?

Introduction Of Myself

Introduction OF Myself. (200 WORDS)

Hi! My name is Khoo Jia Le. My Chinese name is 古家乐. I asked my mother before if there was any meaning behind my name and they said it was because of the phrase “家庭快乐”. I live in Woodlands and my Primary School is Woodlands Primary School. My family consists of me, my mother, my father, my younger sister and my grandparents. I like to play electronic games. My favourite subjects are Mathematics and History. My CCA is St. John Brigade. At first, I detested CCA as I didn’t know why I was in St. John Brigade when I didn’t put it as one of my CCA choice. But now, I am starting to enjoy CCA as I find it quite fun sometimes. My ambition is to become a lawyer or a successful businessman. I am looking forward to OELP as that is the time where I could go overseas with my class and have no parents controlling me. I am very lazy and therefore, I detest having homework over weekends as I would usually procrastinate and do it only last minute.

Thank You for reading my post and Thank You for your attention. Thank You.

Yours sincerely,

Khoo Jia Le.

Chingay Parade 2016 - LIGHTS OF LEGACY, BRIGHTER SINGAPORE

I think the purpose of Chingay 2016 was to connect Singaporeans together from different races, connect overseas memebers and celebrate the Lunar New Year. This has changed alot from the first Chingay as the intial purpose of the first Chingay is just to liften the spirits of the Chinese in Singapore. But now, the Chingay is an event where there are performers from all age groups, from all over the world and also backstage crew from all over the parts of Singapore. Performers and backstage crews have came united and stood together and completed this significant event. This changed has happened from the first Chingay to the Chingay this year as people were willing to put away their identies and work as one to have a better Chingay 2016. I think the organizers have successfully fulfilled this purpose as the performers and backstage crew have really unite together to put up a great Chingay show for audiences to watch. The organizers have also successfully bring the Singaporeans together and unite them as one Singapore. Lets all work together to a better SG100.

Being a prosperous country, are we a happy country? Why or why not? Does being rich means happy?

Although Singapore is a prosperous country, but in fact Singaporeans are not happy. Compared to China and Malaysia, the Happy Planet Index is lower. This means that Singaporeans are not truly happy. Why is this so? This is probably because of the hectic life we have in Singapore. Many people may not have time to interact with each other due to busy lives. Furthermore, despite some Singaporeans being rich, that does not mean that they are actually truly happy. Although you maybe rich and can afford everything that you want, but think of what you did in order to get what you deserve today. You may have worked hard for most of your life and got rich today, but during you milestones in getting rich, you often overlooked many things. You often do not have time to bond with your family and friends. In the end, your relationship with your family members and friends may just get worts. However, being poor doesn't mean you are unhappy. As long as you are doing something that you enjoy, it will make you happy. Thus, being rich doesn't means happy.

RV60 REFLECTION

The purpose of RV60 celebration is to celebrate the school's diamond jubilee. This is important as it marks the milestones the school has went through to become what it is today. Some issues of the celebration are unforseen weather conditions, av problem, lack of manpower and replacement of important roles like emcee due to unforseen problems. No. These issues aren't unique to this situation. People would volunteer for National day as they love their country and wants to do their part in celebrating the country's birthday. I can infer that RVians have the RV spirit,  ‘立化精神’.We assume from our inference that all RVians love the school. They will dislike rehearsals and play truant from rehearsal sessions when students view negatively towards their own school. The RV spiriit  and the feeling where RVians will always have friends by their side makes me proud to be a student of RV.

The Extra In The Ordinary

This may be just a simple school arch. But, who knows what's behind this. This school arch was built using the money of the school alumni. Many may thing that this is nothing, but to the alumni this is something that they want to give back to the school to thank the school for what they have today. This school arch wasn't simple. Just drawing one piece of the design was already not a simple figure. What more about the actual construction of this school arc. This school arc took a few months to complete and was delayed because of the haze situation. During the construction period, the main gate couldn't be used and when the side gates are closed, students often have to walk from the main gate all the way to the hostel gate to enter the school.