I am pretty nervous about the speeches my class and I are supposed to memorize by the end of the 3rd term for oral. It is rafly about a few hundred words altogether. I am not sure if I will be able to pass the oral but I will definitely do my best to remember as much words as my brain could possibly remember. I plan to get at least a B.

The holidays seem to past so fast. In the twinkling of an eye and it is the 3rd last day of the June holidays. However there is still some work to be done for me. This holiday I have been trying out new formulas to study more efficiently and hopefully, I will be able to score better in the up coming tests so that I can go for sabbatical the next term.

Sabbatical, to me is one of the most enjoyable week in the term because my previous learning experience was fun-filled with exciting stuffs. I will miss sabbatical this term because I had 4.7 for my msg last. Nevertheless, I will strive to get better results this term and I will. Watch me do it.

Do you all agree that we are pressurized almost by everything we do? Even when we are playing computer games or soccer? Well, I personally feel that whatever we do, excluding sleeping or in other words unaware, I would most of the time feel pressured.
Of course, when we talk about stress and it causes, we would automatically think about doing work, high expectations etc. Well, I think that the most amount of stress all of us students have come from high expectations. High expectations can be given from parents, cousins, friends teachers and more. I think that most of us would already know about the high expectations from both teachers and parents because we would quite frequently hear them nag, scold and warn us about pulling up our socks and beating our own limits. However, how does friends and cousins play a part in giving us stress under high expectations?

Well, it is quite simple because when you see your friends or cousins score with flying colours in their tests, will you not want to win and score better than them? Although their scores may not matter to you, but you would not want to loss to them, would you, maybe because you cannot stand others bickering at you and embarrassing you. Therefore,this kind of stress can also be considered caused by your own!

Please give me your response after reading this post.

Our class is starting to sort of have a mini-war, whereby a few of our classmates are quarrelling with each other quite often nowadays. However, I think that it is an unnecessary fight for the person whom I think had started all this, has already changed for the better. I strongly encourage my classmates, including those who are not involved, to try to understand him by replacing you instead of him, in the situation he is in and know what it is like to be in his shoes. Please think over this and think if what we had done to that guy, who is Yichao, is right. Moreover, Yichao has just recovered from his illness, missed his exams and has a whole huge pile of homework compiled for him over the days he was unable to attend school.

Mr Lee’s Memoirs is his version or his understanding of numerous personal and historical events that occurred over the eight decades of his life. With the help of many assistants and past documents as well as inputs and verifications from numerous sources, Mr Lee has put up a very rich and powerful book on his life story, which overlaps with the Singapore Story.

My research on the web-site http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html show that the definition of Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing. Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened.
Why can the Memoirs be considered to be a Primary source? For a start, it is a first person account, straight from the person who experienced the events. Although he is recollecting those past events only now, Mr Lee took care and extreme efforts with many others to check and verify his facts.

Why can the Memoirs be considered, on the other hand, to be a Secondary source instead? The book is subjective, as in it being written by Mr Lee from his own angle. It is coloured by his own judgments and values and is not objective, a requirement set out by our above definition of what a Primary source must be.

What do I think Mr Lee’s book should be classified as – a Primary or a Secondary source? I think that is too simplistic a question and I find it difficult to make a choice. Why? The book contains so many facts, some primary facts which Mr Lee knows personally about and which facts are backed up by other sources or documents. The book also contains Mr Lee’s one-sided story, which I am sure some of the persons named in his book may disagree with him on. Those are not purely objective facts.

Therefore, in conclusion, I will state my stand that depending on what the particular facts that we are trying to reach a conclusion on, Mr Lee’s book can be a Primary source if all of the information in the book is factual and is personally written by no one but only himself or Mr Lee’s book can be a Secondary source if he looks up the past with the use of reliable sources and puts them into his book. Examples of such sources can be via internet, books, newspapers, magazines, videos, recorded speeches etc.

Flowers For Algernon

The author is trying to get readers to appreciate that we can all act in a manner that is unkind to people who are inferior to us. We may laugh at them and bully them and that is hurtful to them if they are conscious or not stupid.

How we perceive things depends on how intelligent we are. When Charlie’s IQ was 60, he never realized that people were making fun of him. When his IQ rose, he started to see and understand things better. Unfortunately, with realization, came sadness as Charlie felt hurt.

High IQ people do not mean that they are honest and honourable people as in the case of Dr Nemur, he is a grouchy person who is not really interested in the welfare of his patient, Charlie. Dr Nemur only wants the reward of the chair of professor and poor Charlie is the guinea pig in the experiment.

I think that we should always be conscious that we do not act badly or condescendingly towards those who are “lesser” than us.

We must not let our ambition blind us and we must act honestly and with dignity always.

Sometimes, being too knowledgeable and clever may bring about exposures which may surprise us.