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The perfect world.

Pissed. Obviously over the fact that the school reduces our breaktime to 30 mins,and stil acts angelic. However,that is still not enough to make me post here. What makes me even more pissed, is the pure lack of fighting spirit within the school community. Whenever there is a stupid change, there are bound to be people who will always say"Accept it la,that's the way,it wouldn't change". And then soon after,the voices of those oppressed will die down somehow. So clever of students who claim to be in a elite school. Oh yea, of course things would not change if there are people who just accept it as they go. They have forgotten that our country,our nation is independent because our forefathers fought for our rights to self-govern. Oh yes, if they didn't do that and accepted how the British had controlled us for some hundred years,I bet you will be still living in your perfect slums. So darn clever to just accept change. Of course there will be some bastards who say...

On why we should not hinder the development of Singlish

Since independence,Singapore has always emphasized the policy of bilingualism. In Singapore, everyone needs to learn English and his/her own mother tongue. Campaigns such as the"Speak Good English Movement" and "华语 COOL!" has been running for many years to promote the learning of speaking good english and mother tongue. The Singapore Government discourages the use of so-called"Singlish ",or Singapore Vernacular English,as it believes in the need for Singaporeans to effectively communicate with other English speakers in the world. Being a small country, Singapore's economy relies very much upon trade links with other countries ,and therefore for economic considerations, the learning of Standard English is important for maintaining and communicating with other countries. However, I disagree that we should discourage or hinder the development of Singlish in Singapore. Firstly, Singlish encapsulates our cultural roots of being in a multi-racial society. Th...

Term 1 ends.

Official end of Term One of Year Four. Perfect. And I thought I wouldn't survive the month. The one week break is ahead. Although filled with homework and stuff,but still it is a break from the hectic life. Term 1 has'nt been quite at nice as I expected. Filled with some kind of energy which I lost from since year 3,but the sad thing is,it went as fast as it came. Learnt about too much heartbreaking stuff. Watched and read The Matrix over and over again. Really terrifies me though. Things have been cracking lately. My spherical compass broke a few days ago, my watch glass cracked(many people realised this for some reason I dunno why) broke a week ago,and the side of my specs broke into half 2 weeks ago. Considering the functions of these objects,I feel a rather bad feeling weighing on myself. Or maybe I am just thinking too much. Voices,sentences are appearing out of nowhere in my head these days. I need something to release thoughts. That's why I am here. Juz realised my b...