Labour Days on the First of May

Most countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1, known as May Day and International Workers' Day. In Europe the day has older significance as a rural festival which is predominantly more important than that of the Labour Day movement. The holiday has become internationalised and several countries hold multi-day celebrations including parades, shows and other patriotic and labour-oriented events. However, in Northern Europe, Walpurgis Night is celebrated on the preceding night and this holiday merges with the Labour Day in some countries.

May 1 is a national holiday in Albania, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia (locally known as Hari Buruh), Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon,Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, the Philippines (spelled as "Labor Day"), Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

In Slovenia, Serbia and Ukraine, May 2 is also a national holiday.

In Poland, while May 1 is a national holiday, it was renamed from Labour Day to simply "State Holiday" in 1990.

Beach cleaning CIP work

Two days ago, we went to sembawang beach to clean. The weather was quite good. As soon as we reached there, we are all excited and can't wait to go to the beach. We were given gloves, trash bags etc. We settled down and went on to collecty rubbish. As we were collecting, i feel sad. I realised that people who went down do not clear their rubbish. Instead, they left it there and leave the place as if nothing have happen. But at the same time, i am also very happy as can do our part, cleaning the beach. The process was fun. Tell you guys a secret, we went to throw stone without the teacher knowledge. The worst part to us is we have a thick stack of worksheet to complete. The place was much cleaner after we cleared the beach. We hope to make singapore a clean and green city even though there are only a few of us. But i believe, every hwa chong-ian will want to do somthing for singapore and do more CIP.

In overall, i hope that the school can organize more CIP work for us.

Thank you! Yong rui!

Hey guys. I am back to post. Today, this post is specially dedicated to our chairman, yong rui. In my point of view, he is a very good chairman, a chairman who is willing to help the class with all his might. He is chairman who has lots of patient and his tolerance level is high, higher than anybody in our class. Despite the fact that everyone call him names, but he is able to tolerate it even though he does not like it at all. And when the class results were poor, he took the initiative to hold a CMC meeting during recess. He sacrifices his recess time just to come out with plans. Not only that, he also emailed the teachers on our behalf, requesting for more work to be given. More practices will make us more familiar on the subject. To him, every minute, or in fact every second to him is very important to him. But he does not mind using his precious time to help the class. I think that yong rui has a potential of being a future leader of Singapore. In the opposite, I would like to voice my point of view of the class reaction (overall). Firstly, when yong rui is trying to tell us his plan, not many wanted to listen to him. In fact, they cause a disturbance to the class. They tried to oppose yong rui, trying all mean to end yong rui ‘presentation’ fast as they think that it is just a waste of time. Secondly, when yong rui said that he would like to implement the reading programme for the class, which means that either which day of the week, the whole class have to go to the school library as a class, and read a book, after that, produce a book review, everybody was like shouting the whole class off! Some said that ‘how you know we are free!’. I do not think that such comments are needed as it will be taken into consideration when they(CMC) are planning to launch the reading pogramme for the class. Well, I shall end here as if I were to continue writing, it will be a long post. But overall, I will like to thank our chairman, Poh Yong Rui for his contributions to the class. I hope everybody can understand him, try not to oppose him as is not an easy task to be a chairman like him. Thank you! Yong rui!

Welcoming the arrival of term 2

One term have passed. The times in hwa chong in term 1 was really quite tough as i have to pick up subjects new to me like geopgraphy. I have to adapt to the changes in secondary school as compared to primary school. Everything is different from before, including the style of learning etc. But well, i do enjoy the times in hwa chong in term 1. Despite the setbacks like my poor results i have to face, i manage to get over it and decide to work harder than before. Let's wish this term would be a wonderful term for us and enjoy everyday in school! For your information, i have changed my blogskin and thus, enable comments to be posted for a particular post. So feel free and leave your comments, for both improvement and some personal view for my particular post.

camping

Hello guys and girls! I am back. Sorry for not updating. Well, today, I am going to post about my trip on the camp. Overall, I think I benefited a lot from the camp. I learn to cherish everything I have, even if its is just a bowl of porridge. During the three days two night camp and sarinbum camp site, I, in fact most, suffered, but learnt a lot of valuable things. During the camp, we had food that does not match our appetite, a place we would not ever want to stay in. But we were left we no choice. I was arranged to stay in tent. Can you ever imagine 8 persons to a tent? And you imagine how hot, stuffy inside the tent during noon? Well, to me, I rather not take something I need in the noon as it was very hot, stuffy inside the tent. I could not stand it. This was the first time I am living in a tent. I finally have a taste of one who is living in a tent feeling. It is always not a nice thing to live inside a place without air-condition, fan. But I manage to catch some sleep as it was much cooler in the night. As for the food, it was not really nice cooked. But due to our hunger and the need of energy for activities, we had to eat it despite the fact that the food was really not nice. This two factors, living condition and food, is enough to reflect on how fortunate, how lucky we people are. People who are poor might not have nice place to live in, nice food to eat. But we Singaporean, take a lot of things for granted. Sometimes, we even complain that a bowl of plain porridge is not nice enough. Through this camp, I learnt how fortunate we guys are, and we should not take things for granted, not even a grain of rice.

Of course, we also have bonding games, activities that we had to work together in order to reach a goal. We work well together, and get to know each other better. This helps to strengthen the bond between our friends. And we also had fun together, leaving a memorable times with our new friends in secondary.

Well, I hope that the school can organize more camp, such that we can have fun together with our friends. In conclusion, I want to comment that the camp

class test

Well, everybody, sorry for not updating and replying tags. Today, I am going to post about my term test. Okay, apparently, I did not do very well. In the opposite, I feel that this is the worse result I ever get since I started studying. I am not going to disclose my results. Maybe for those who know me, you can ask me in school. I am really very disappointed in myself. I knew I have not work hard enough. I know the cause of my bad results is because of me. even though this time I have not work hard enough, I promise my self not to give up and strive for the better! Okay, I have to go. I will be posting again soon. So sit back and look forward!

Growing up too soon(news paper article)

Today, I am going to post on the article ‘Growing Up Too Soon’ that is extracted from the section “IN’ of The Straits Time. The article is most likely a Idea-Driven Story. It is about teenage are having sex before they are 16. Latest police figures also show that 310 girls below the age of 16 were caught having sex last year and nearly 45 percent more than the year before.

After reading the first paragraph, I was totally shocked and panic. I wondered why there is so many teenagers having sex below 16 years old. 310 girls. Its 310 girls! Its not a small sum of people. It is equivalent to about four fifth of the secondary 1 in my sch (Hwa Chong Institution). It is really unbelievable. The number of girls having sex under-aged was shocking to me.

Teenagers nowadays are getting even more daring. Having sex under-aged is a serious offence. Male offender can be jailed for up to a maximum of 20 years, and fined or canned. Girls aged 12 to 14 will be considered as statutory but for girls under the age of 12 are investigated as rape.

From a 13 year old young teenager’s view like me, I really don’t understand why the teenagers still want to carry out under-aged sex even though it is an offence. I agree that some might not know the consequences of having sex under-aged. Thus they made a wrong move and carry out sex. But to those who knows, but why? To me, I think that because they tend to get too curious about what is sex all about and wanted to try it out despite the serious punishment that will be meted out if they were to get caught. This is really too complicated for a young teenager like me to understand thoroughly.

By the way, here are some precautions that parents and school that I suggest could take to prevent their child or students to have sex under-aged. Firstly, school can have more talks on ‘sex’ that enriches the teenager’s mind on sex. This will let them know the consequences and be responsible for their acts if they really were to have sex. Secondly parents should always check if his or her children has a girlfriend or boyfriend and make sure that they aren’t going out with their partners without other friends. This will ensures that the teenager’s mind run wild and do something wrong and rash as their friends are around to remind them the consequences.

In conclusion, I think having under-aged sex in strongly not encourage. One should not have sex under-aged no matter how urgent, how curious they are. Remember, one should be responsible for his or her act. No one is able to help you if you make a wrong step.

Kampong

Hello everybody! I am back to post again. Today I am going to blog about the topic on kampong. In Singapore, from what I have seen on the youtube website, the government might be destroying the old and the only kampong if I am not wrong, in Singapore. The people who had stayed in the government since a very long time ago was very depressed and felt a little bit pity if they were to leave the kampong and leave else where.. Those that were staying there for long was interviewed and they say out their feelings, opinion, etc. Some said that they have lived there for a very long time and think that they will not be used to the life if they were to move to a HDB flat. As the people living in kampong will hardly interact with the people outside as there are no internets connection or even hardly have any phone, their life is thus much more simpler and more peaceful While some also said that they are used to kampong life, and have been neighbours with the people in kampong for years, they thing that it might be a pity to separate. Well, in my opinion, I think that the government should not “destroy” the kampong for land even though they have the right to do so. Even if the land does not belong to the people in kampong, we should at least respect them and let them carry on with their kampong life if they are really contented with it. We should not think that kampong is low-class or despise them. Actually, they reflect the past of Singapore and tell people nowadays not to be granted for what they have now. Thus I really hope that the government can preserve the kampong and treat it as one of the treasure of Singapore! Okay, it’s getting late and I have to go. I will be posting soon again, so look forward to it! Thanks for your kind attention

Hello, everyone! i am back to post. Today, some of the pupils from 1o1 and 1o3 went to the home academy team. The place was awesome. It is equppied with lots of equiments and training grounds for people who are training, e.g police. There was a guide who explain the equipments to us along the way. Now then i realized how dangerous some things can be, and even the things we use daily or some days like nail polisher. In overall, it is a meaning full trip and i learn more about how singapore train their soldiers, officers. It was indeed worth it to spend the time there!

CCA

Hello everybody. Sorry for not updating so frequently. Okay, today I want to talk about my CCA. I received the CCA posting result. And I was quite elated at first. I got into the water polo which I put for the first choice when I was filling my option form. Official will start next Tuesday but I already had one session of training today. The training was rather tough, and like what the coach said, the training will be an intensive one. Even though it might be a challenge to me, but I am willing to face it, persevere to the end. My training is on every week, Tuesday , Thursday and Friday. It will begin at 2.30 pm and ends at 6.00pm. I hope it does not affect my performance in work and get too tired frequently. Lastly, I just one to end off with an sentence. Persevere in whatever you do! Thanks. Comment will be on the tag board. So feel free to tag!