Go PUBLIC!- a speech

Hello boys and girls!I am Matthew Siew, president of the Activist's club.You may know why i am here but i will still tell you. I am here to discuss major environmental issues. The main issue is GLOBAL WARMING. I am sure many of you have heard about it. It is something like microwaving the world .
Number one Cars:

• believe it or not but with so many cars in Singapore, there are many traffic jams.
• this leads to wastage of oil and air pollution
• this can be solved by riding in the car only when need to,
• you can walk to school if the school is nearby, you can also ride a bus or bicycle.
• Riding a bus reduces the amount of oil per person and is much cheaper
• riding a bicycle cost nothing at oil but remember to observe safety rules.

Air conditioning

• air conditioning releases CFCs into the air
• these disintegrate and form a layer in the air
• the earth warms up bit by bit and the icecaps melt
• you can use a fan instead of the air-conditioner
• using a fan consumes lesser energy and money.

There are many kinds of pollution, one of the most common is air pollution.The air is being polluted by many substances that indirectly come from us.A form of air pollution is the depletion of the ozone layer.The ozone layer is a collection of gasses protecting us from the Sun's ultraviolet rays(UV) rays.
UV rays cause:

• Skin cancer
• Damage to crops and
• Blindness

And these are only the small minority of implications.I hope that you have learn from what i have just said. The earth is our only home and it is fragile. Do your best to protect it.

The Taximan's Story-blog prompt

The Taximan's story is about a taximan lamenting about the students.


1)What is the irony in the story?

I have found two:

• Even though he disliked the girls on the streets wearing skimpy clothes, they are a source of great income to him.
• Even though he disliked the girls on the streets wearing skimpy clothes, his daughter,Lay Choo, was like one of them.

2)What are the themes raised in the story?

• Trust-Lay Choo betrayed her parents trust and this led to her getting beaten by her father.
• Irony-see question 1
• Isolation-after getting dragged of the streets, Lay Choo was isolated from her friends.
• Generation gap-The taximan could not understand why the new generation of people took drugs and made love to each other)

3)How realistic do you think this story is?
I think it is very realistic but seeing as there is now a crackdown on drugs it may be harder to get the drugs for consumption.

4)What do you think of this taximan?do you feel sympathy for him?
I think he is very street-smart but can over-react. I sympathise with him because his own daughter let him down(even though this happens frequently) when he had pinned such high hopes on her.

5)Do you agree with his lamenting?
Yes in a way. Teens are becoming more and more rebellious but this in a way is better for it lets them find out the consequences the hard way.

6)What about the other characters in the story?Do you sympathy for them?
Yes i sympathize with every single one of the characters in the book including Lay Choo.She may have not know the consquences of what she did and only jumped on the backwaggon