A summary

Well as I have most definitely been procrastinating, I should be posting a new post now. On Wednesday, we were commemorating Founder's day, and thus, we went for CIP. We went to a private school and it was really fun mixing with the younger children. It was interesting to see them run about during lesson time.

Today we had the passion play that others and I have been practicing every week for. It was satisfying knowing that our hard work has paid off, satisfying that the little children did not try to harass us and satisfying to know that we have completed it.

Well I guess this is it for now. Until next time.

sabbatical week

This week is our sabbatical week. In other words, we have no classes :D We take 'extra' activities instead of our classes. I managed to get in Science Eureka. Its basically science practicals. On Friday I need to present a sideshow about perpetual motion. In a nutshell, its moving forever.

The allpowerful retest.

Like I said, today I took my retest. I think it was actually easier than my first test. Either that or it was due to the fact that i crammed as much chemistry knowledge into my skull.
Either way, after the test, my mom brought me out. As she went to the gym, I roamed around. I bought coffee, a drink and sweetys. It was a long time since I drank canned coffee. ah....

A feeling

for the past few days, I have had a feeling of doom... Maybe it was due to the fact that I had not done my homework? Or maybe it was due to the fact that I have not revised for my retest? Or maybe its because I got exceptionally bad marks.... Either way, this feeling of dread will not go away. I do certainly I hope I pass my science retest tommorow. May good fortune shine upon those who need it.

Home learning part 2b

Here's the second part of the second task.

Interpersonal:

a. Conduct an interview with a friend (not from HCI) or family member. Find out from their point of view on prejudice and discrimination. Either record the interview or write out the interview transcript.
This was done with my cousin.
Me says:
What is discrimination to you?
He says:
it is discriminating for or against a person or object for certain qualities eg race
Me says:
ok next, do you think it is right do discriminate people? If yes, why so?
He says:
um thats a yes no answer
cause i mean u clearly shouldnt cause their of a different race but lets say ur picking a sports team for the olympics or something. u will have to discriminate against the ppl not as good in order to have the best possible team
Me says:
I wasn't expecting something like that
very deep answer
next
what in you opinion is the difference between prejudice and discrimination
He says:
um
a prejudice is really having a strong belief about something without knowing all the facts
discrimination in some sense is like knowing why u like/dislike something


And that's basically it.

Home learning part 2a

Now onto the actual serious work J:

Let us consider this: Is Maycomb a good place to live in? Is Maycomb corrupted? [focus on 2 main themes: Courage and Prejudice]

The following is a list of tasks designed to suit different types of intelligence.

To show your response to the above question, pick 2 tasks according to your learning profile (eg: If my 2 highest scores are in spatial and lingustics, I will pick the spatial and linguistic task).

As I scored on nature smart,
Naturalist:

a. Do a research on the natural habitat of mockingbird. In your research, include the kind of flora and fauna you think exist in Maycomb and explain why the mockingbirds live in Maycomb.

The mockingbird lives in towns, suburbs, backyards, parks, forest edges, and open land at low elevations. Maycomb was a "dusty tired old town". From this, I infer that it was a suburb. The main mocking birds in TKaM are Arthur Radly and Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson lived away from Maycomb(at the edge)[links to forest edge] while Arthur stayed in his house away from others(behind closed windows)[backyards]Mocking birds would also live near but separate from other birds. Tom lived near the other blacks while Arthur had neighbors like Ms Maudie.

Home learning part 1a

TASK I

If you have not done your learning profile/ style assessment last year, please go to the following link to find out more about your learning profile/ style.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm

Post your learning profile on your blog and write in no less than 100 words the implications or what you feel about the Multiple Intelligence test.

According to the scores, my scores are(arranged in descending order):
Interpersonal(people smart)
Naturalistic(Nature smart)
Linguistic(word smart)
Musical(music smart) and kinaesthetic(body smart)
logical(number smart)
visual/spatial(picture smart) and intrapersonal(self smart)
I guess I should have seen that coming. I always used to make friends easily. When I was young I swam. As I was not very good, I hardly advanced thus I always met new people and I always made friends with them.So even when they had advanced, I was never lonely. AS for the Nature smart part, when I was young I would always go into my garden an grab at millipedes. After a while, shay all dissapeared. I always wondered what happened to them. Currently I go the the park every now and then to catch grasshoppers. I need to be stealthy in order to catch the and it is no mean feat. After catching them, they made greats snacks for my terrapins.

A memorable quote

Now that I think about it , i just remembered a quote from To Kill a Mockingbird. "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." Yesterday I knew I was licked before I 'ran'. This proves I have real courage. You think so too?

Either way after today, I still hope I remember what my senior said. My techniques certainly need a lot of brushing up.

A new post.

Once again I have promised to do something, but failed to do it. nearly half a year since my last post. It seems that I really am a chronic procrastinator.So for this year I resolve to not procrastinate as much. I hope I really can do it though.
Either way, today I just ran my school's 4km cross country. I managed to complete it however I was in a state of extreme tiredness after the run.