Team Singapore In Water.

18 students had been sponsered by the school to go to YOG Swimming Event Semi-Finals and Finals on 17 August 2010, 6.30pm at Singapore Sports School. I had been chosen to go to the event by my CCA to take photos of the event. When we boarded the bus, everyone was filled with excitement and could not wait to get to the venue as most of us had never gotten a chance to go to a event before to watch it LIVE.
When we reached there, we had to go through checking of bags as the security was tight before proceeding in to the seats. We could hear many people screaming for their own country to win! Our school had gotten first row seats and we could see the athletes swimming very clearly.
After 1 hour or so, we were all feeling restless until Singapore started to compete in the Men's 50m Backstroke SemiFinal.

We cheered as loud as we could for the Singapore athlete to win! There was a close fight for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place of it. When we looked at the scoreboard once it ended, Singapore had won in 1st place. The athlete was Rainer Ng Kai Wee, 18. He was the first Singaporean in all the swimming events to qualify for the finals.

Another event that Singapore had competed in the semifinals was the Men's 4 x 100m Relay. Although Singapore had gotten the 7th place out of 8 countries, we did not jeer at them. Instead, we encouraged them because we knew they had tried their best.
China, Australia and Russian Federation were the countries that have won quite a number of medals be it Gold, Silver or Bronze medal. We all hope that the Rainer Ng would win in the finals and bring honour to Singapore!

Preparation for Teachers' Day Performance !

Top (from left to right) : Hanafi, Lionel, Bryan.

Bottom : Natasha, Najlah, Siddique

Preparation for Teacher's day has started. Students of different levels were preparing talents of their own to showcase to the school during Teacher's Day Performance. A group of upper secondary students were practicing at the empty area outside the science lab.

"I feel excited and fun to prepare for the performance! But at the same time, I feel pressurized because of the tests we have these weeks and the short time to prepare for the audition," commented Natasha from 3E4.

The group consists of 6 upper secondary school students. They had put in a lot of effort and time to meet up for practices even though they were busy with their studies and studying for exams around the corner. They had chosen songs to sing while playing the guitar at the same time.

"We really put in effort in this performance and I would be really honoured if my group were chosen to perform for the students and the teachers!" exclaimed Bryan Joseph from 3E3.

Olympic Games.

History of Olympics

The Olympic Games started in Greece in 776 BC. The origin in the Olympic Games is of myths and legends. One of the most popular myths is that Heracles an his father Zeus, were the founders of the Olympic Games. Heracles gave the name "Olympic" to the Games and he established the custom of helding the games once every four years. The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon (consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race and wrestling), boxing, wrestling, and equestrian events. Coroebus, a cook from the city of Elis, was the first Olympic champion.

Youth Olympic Games.

In 2010, the Olympic Games will be complemented by Youth Games, which is the Youth Olympic Games, where athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 will compete. YOG was conceived by International Olympic Committee president in 2001. The First Summer Youth Games will be held in Singapore in 2010, while the inaugural Winter Games will be hosted in Innsbruck, Austria, two years later. 3500 athletes and 875 officials would participate at the Summer Youth Games.

Swimming Event at the Youth Olympic Games 2010

There are 26 sports in the Youth Olympic Games. For the Swimming competition, it was last from 15th August to 19th August, at the Singapore Sports School. Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and medley events all will be included in the YOG swimming competition schedule. In addition to many standard events, a mixed gender 4x100m freestyle relay and a mixed 4x100m medley relay will be swam for the first time in international competition.

Picture from: www.google.com.sg

World Cup.
Interview with students about their views of World Cup.

Fifa world cup 2010 was one of the major event that happened around the world.
Many people around the world are anticipated with this major event. Many stayed up late just to catch the exciting matches.
The matches were thrilling and superb.
All teams put up a competitive fight for the placing in the finals.

Interviewee:Jeryl Zheng (2e3), Nicholas Ng (2e5)
Matthew Chan (4e4), Kah Wei (4e4)


Hello. Do you both watch world cup?

Yes yes! It was awesome, SPAIN WON!!

So how do you feel about this year's Fifa?

This year's Fifa was pretty weird due to the unexpected defeats of the strong teams like Italy. In addition, animals came into the pictures. Like Paul The Octopus and Mani the parakeet.

So you both support Spain? How do you feel about the finals that they played recently?

It was expected that Spain will win due to their all star members in the team. Holland played well defending too. In fact, I feel that Holland should win as it wasn't fair towards them.

How do you felt when Spain won?

Happy and at the same time neutral because I was expecting them to win.

Do you think that Germany should be in the finals?

Yes, OF COURSE. I thought that Germany will be in the finals as they were strong. At first, I didn’t thought about Spain defeating Germany.

Will you support Singapore if they were in the World Cup? Why?

NO! Singapore will CONFIRM lose in their first match. Come on, what's with the Tampines Rovers and all. Crap. I wouldn’t want to see Singapore getting thrashed like nil to 100.

What happen if Singapore won the World Cup?

Wow, That will be so shocking! Like, when will that happen?

Do you want World Cup to be more often? Okay. Thanks for your time.

YES! Every 4 years is too Long! Like so long…..

Okay. Thanks for your time.

Charity Bazaar Blast.

Secondary 2 students had a Charity Bazaar on 2nd August 2010 to help raise funds for the Children Cancer Foundation. The profits will be donated to help children with cancer.

In the afternoon after assembly, every Secondary class started to set up and decorate their booths. When everything was set up, all the students in the school started coming down from the classroom to the parade square, where the Charity Bazaar was held there.

"This Sec 2 Charity Bazaar was very innovative and they had much more creative ideas about the things they sold and the games they invented," said Shermaine Yim from 1E3.

The Charity Bazaar had different kinds of booths. They had booths for games, drinks, food, accessories, and song dedications. Many students were shoving to get their way through the crowd to a specific booth for the fun and interesting things that they sell. To attract attention from the crowd, 2E4 had a creative idea where they were giving out free hugs. 2E3 had chosen to do an arm wrestling game where it is only 50 cents per game and you could get a handmade bookmark if you won. It indeed attracted more students to come.

This Charity Bazaar had raised quite a large amount of money for the Children Cancer Foundation.

"I feel that this Charity Bazaar was a success. I hope there will be more of it in the upcoming years," commented Cedric Cheok from 1E4.

Climate Change Article

The picture above shows the recent flood in Singapore at Orchard. It was really raining heavily and therefore causes the flood. Many cars could not move when the water reached knee level. People had to get down from their cars and go to a higher ground where the water could not reach. The flood is also caused because of the drainage system. The sewage was blocked and had to be cleared, but the heavy rain didn't stop and thus, a flood was caused.
Sea level is also rising due to global warming. We cannot guarantee that an even heavier rain could not cause the water of the sea to increase and there would be a bigger flood next time round. We have to stop the climate from changing, we have to stop global warming, if not, the consequences would be dire. It would not just be a flood the next time round. Stop climate change, we can all do a part in it. We should not let whatever things that this generation had caused, to affect the next generation.

Racial Harmony Interview

Name of Interviewee: Lua Xin Hui
Class: 4E3
Interviewer: Eunice Lim.


What do you feel about the carnival in school during recess today?
- It was quite good, and I enjoyed it very much.


What was good about the carnival?
- The carnival today was somewhat successful to me. There were lots of food of different variety and there were fun games too!


Why do you think racial harmony is important?
- If we do not learn to tolerate each other, there would be many disputes over minor issues. If we do not understand different cultures and races, we will easily offend people from other races because of their different cultures and beliefs.


Was there anything you dislike about the carnival?
- Yes, there was. It was too crowded and noisy, everybody was running about and shouting loudly. It was so chaotic at the booths because there was nobody to maintain the discipline.


What would you do if a riot would to break out suddenly?
- I'm not too sure, but I believe it would not happen. If it were to really happen, I would do the best of my ability to stop as many people as I can.


What will you pledge to preserve racial harmony in Singapore?
- I would make friends with people not only from my race, but also people from other races.