Jia Rui

Year 2 Suzhou OELP
Name	School	Class	Stream	Period of Internationalisation Experience	Country
Liang Jiarui	River Valley High School	2G	Integrated Programme	20 may to 26 may 2016	China
Reflections: 我选择来到中国，苏州是因为这是一个很好的经验。这是我第一次没有跟父母一起到中国。我也希望这次的经验能到给我在学校里学不到的知识。因为新加坡和中国是非常不同的，我可以从这次的经验中学习到新加坡和中国的不同。当我一看到这个活动，我就想，我一定得去! 这可是一个非常难得的好机会啊! 我还真怕我的父母不让我去呢。 到了中国，苏州，当我们去参观联合国教科文组织保护的狮子林时，我却看到了很多乞丐。有一只乞丐的手竟然是异形的！他的双手都不像人手了！他居然还拿着一个碗，摇着里面的钱，乞讨！之后我的一个同学问为什么有真么多乞丐，我最深刻的记忆就是导游说这是因为乞丐们其实把当乞丐作为一各职业。虽然政府有给他们住的地方，他们不愿意去那里。他们要弹乞丐维持他们的工作。因为这些乞丐竟然是自愿的！我看到的乞丐都是挺老的人，他们不去住政府给他们的住宿！我真的很吃惊。还好我们有一个好导游，让我们了解这种事情。我们的导游懂得很多知识。她让我么这一班知道了很多关于中国，苏州和上海的一些知识。当我们问了很多问题时，她都回答了我们，从此我们学到了在课堂上不可能学到的知识。 这次的经理使我更加了解了其他国家的情况和事业的情况。我也看到了一个国家更黑暗的一面，这就是在新加坡跟本看不到的乞丐。这也使我珍惜我现在所有的东西。我也希望我以后也能参加这种活动，好让我更加了解其他的国家。

Pre-trip to china reflections

I have expected this trip to china to be a nice and fulfilling one as we rarely get to go on trips with friends to over seas and it is a learning trip too. I hope to learn a lot of things in this trip as it is a new environment and i have never bean to china Suzhou before. Although I have been to other countries with my classmates before, this is my first time going to such a large place that is so far away from Singapore.

I feel that I should try my best to make full use of this rare occasion to china. This can improve my awareness of things going around in the world and I can also have new experiences in china. I must also try my best to take many memories of the trip and try to learn all i can. i think I will also take note of what the tour guide or what the bus driver is saying so as to take note of all the good places i should visit.

As for visiting my buddy,I feel that I should be grateful to her as she and her family used their precious time to take care and host us.  As this trip is a valuable learning experience, i will not waste the time I have in china and use it properly.

                           This is a picture of the Merlion in the future.
In this future, the Merlion is just a hologram ,a 3D version of a image. This allow the Merlion to operate on minimal electricity. It will also be less likely to be damaged. There will also be much more buildings behind the Merlion.


Why must Singapore not be complacent on her achievements

This is because Singapore is just a small island. We cannot afford to be complacent. If we are complacent, we could ruin our whole country. I have once heard a proverb "Pride goes before destruction". It means that if a person is too proud, his pride will lead to his destruction.

I think it is the same for Singapore as a country as Singapore's main resource are humans. If the people in Singapore were to be too proud, the country will not be able to be maintained as everyone is too full of pride to do work, thinking that the foreign people would do it all for us as we are better than them. This mentality is not good. We are all humans and we shall be equal, not more nor less.

Being complacent means that Singapore thinks that she has no need of improvement anymore. Singapore should continue to improve as there are still many areas to do so. Firstly, we should  improve to be more prepared. Although Singapore is accomplished now, such as being one of the world's busiest ports, but unexpected situations may still come up. Being prepared would also mean that everyone would be calm in any situation. This will solve the cause of the discord faster. Hence, Singapore should always improve to be prepared, improve to adapt to all kinds of situation.

Furthermore, being perfect is the cause of complacency. When Singapore accomplishes a few great achievements, it does not mean that she is already perfect. There is no true perfect being, be it a country, a person or an animal. Being perfect refers to not needing anymore improvements. Singapore is still far from perfect. Although there are the great achievements that she have made during the years, we must not forget the help that some Singaporeans still need. We need help, but that is just covered by the achievements. We would have been blinded and be complacent if we do not see past the few achievements and ignore the help our people need.

In conclusion, I think that Singapore must not be complacent on her achievements. We indeed do have a lot of problems that w needed to solve. Thank you for reading.


                                                                                                            
                                   Reflection for lesson
3 Things I found out
-That China have changed from one child policy to two child policy.
-The mind set of people in china may be different than ours.
-Not all people have education.

2 perceptions I have gained
-Taking care of children to many people is difficult.
-There is more stress on the child to take care of the parents.

1 question I may have
-How did people realize that taking care of children is difficult?
                                                         Chingay reflections


On the 29th of January, our whole school went to watch the Chingay parade at the F1 racing repair building. This year, 2016, is the first year of Singapore's next fifty years .The theme of this year's Chingay parade is "Lights of legacy, Brighter Singapore."

There were many different types of performances there even though it was just a rehearsal. The whole performance looked spectacular and the action was exhilarating. We had to wait quite a while before the performance started as the performance started sometime in the evening. The first group of performers to come out was the group dressed in costumes of the Indian race. They danced for quite a bit before leaving for the next group of dancers to come out. The more exciting part of the whole show is the part where a lot of people started to come out, all holding "oars". There was also a big boat with people at the side. Some parts of the performance actually came out wrongly and wasn't as good as it was supposed to be. Some props were not functioning properly as well as one of the performer's "oars" is not lit.

There was one performance that I had liked very much. It was about the long list of performances that started coming out on different moving platforms that is driven by a car in front. The performances were so colourful and vibrant that I could not take my eyes off them. I was afraid that I would miss some of if I even tried to blink. There were many different martial arts on display. I was impressed when they managed to kick up until to a high level. The others were a different people dancing. Surprisingly, there were pole dancing. The performers were all amazing.

There was another performance that had caught my eye. It was the performance of a dragon that is made out of explosives. The dragons started exploding when it came out and I could literally see the sparks dropping onto the performer's clothes. I wondered how on earth they were not burnt. I felt really excited seeing all this amazing performances in the chingay parade.

I think the purpose of this chingay parade is to celebrate the way for a new future, the starting of Singapore's next 50 years. I have researched that the Chingay Parade in Singapore as we know it today had its beginnings in the wake of the total ban on firecrackers which once were a must-have at any Chinese New Year celebration. That was back in 1973 – the parade was a relatively simple one which had been put together by the People’s Association and the Singapore National Pugilistic Federation, and saw a procession of lion dancers, giant flag bearers, dragon dancers, stilt walkers, clowns and juggling acts down a 3 kilometre route that took them from the old Victoria School to the end point at Outram Park. Being very much a celebration connected with the Chinese New Year, it was a very Chinese-centric passing some of the streets of Chinatown along the way. A resounding success in its first year, the decision was made to make it an annual affair and the four decades of Chingay, saw it first move into the housing estates starting with Toa Payoh in its second year, before it was moved to Orchard Road in 1985. In that time, the parade also took on first a multi-cultural flavour and then an international flavour – moving from being a street parade not just for Singaporeans but also for visitors to the island.

Now, the chingay parade is much more colourful and many people from foreign countries have came specially to perform in the chingay parade too. The current chingay parade has changed so much from the first time. I think it has changed as Singapore is getting more advanced, we attracted more people as we develop further and further, making it more and more popular.

I think that the organisers have successfully fulfilled this purpose of it being a new beginning. There were many lights. They were very bright and described the part of the "Lights of Legacy" well. There were really a lot of lights. Almost every part of the performance had lights. As light represent a new beginning, the organisers did a great job.

In conclusion, this year's chingay parade is really exciting. I hope that one day, I would be able to go to watch chingay parade again. Thank you for reading my blog post.

                                                         Poverty and happiness.

Poverty and happiness level are linked. Most of the time, people think that being rich will make them happy. But, that is not true. Sometimes, being rich means that the person will have to work extra hard to have more money than another person. The stress of having to work much more and much harder will lead to unhappiness. Another example is the rich person’s child. Those type of people are the ones that are the most lonely. Their parents have gone to work for almost 24/7 and the friends that they have are most likely to have befriended the child just because of the child's money. Others are people that are jealous of his or her riches. This will make the person unapproachable and leading to no genuine friends. These people will be alone every day and unable to socialise with people, they will soon turn reclusive and unhappy.


The examples above show that poverty in linked to happiness level. The example of a poor person being unhappy is that the poor person has no money to buy the bare necessities. They may have to live in fear of when do they finally run out of food and die. Others may be poor and forces to pay a debt by richer people. The debt will stack up and eventually passed to his descendants and generations will suffer the same fate. On the other hand, poor people are easier to please than rich people. Because they have not even the bare necessities, the basic things that they need to live will be sufficient to them. We are richer than them, so we complain about a lot of things that we need to do .Those things are the things that the poor people cannot even manage to do as they are poor.


In conclusion, poverty is linked to happiness level and being rich does not necessarily mean on is happy. The way how it is link is different. A lot of different other factors can lead to happiness. Happiness can occur even when someone have recovered from an illness or a particular bad event has been avoided or stopped.




                                            

Extraordinary RV
This here is a picture of the spiral ball slider that we have in RVHS.I always seen it when I come to school in the morning. A ball could be slid through the tunnels and slides that this structure contains and the whole process is repeated until the ball is taken out. I personally have never seen any ballmoving through this structure. This is a special structure as rarely have I seen such complex structure displayed openly anywhere before. I  am able to study it closer.
The structure is complicated in the sense that it is both difficult to build and design. The design must be able to include the movement of the ball, the mobility of the ball and the momentum that will allow the ball to move up and reset the entire round. I ,for one, have never seen such a structure, with or without a ball in any schools I have been to. This shows that this is a structure that only RV have. I think I have seen a ball slightly bigger than the diameter of the tunnel and it is stuck at the top of the structure at the starting point.

I only wish to be able to see a ball roll down the structure and see how the ball would move around in the structure. Hopefully, one day, I will be able to put a ball of my own there and watch it roll around. This is part of the ordinary that is River Valley, yet part of the extraordinary. Thank you for reading.
Jiarui self introduction

Hi fellow classmates and Ms Huang. Welcome to my section of the blog. As you can see, my name is Jiarui. Here are some facts that you can know.

    Age: 13 -14

    Hobbies : Reading, drawing

    Occupation : Student

I like having lessons that are fun and interesting and we actually get to do some fun stuff. This year's cid is going to be very fun as we are doing things on a blog and the OELP! Its going to be a fun  year of cid!

If now the ice haven't break yet, I shall tell you about my friends!(I've got nothing more to say about myself.)

I have a friend, her nickname is Hydrilla. She is a very interesting individual as she is similar to me. She like a lot of things that I also like . To cut a long story short, I became friends with her on the first day, when I saw her play a game that seems fun to me

Thanks for reading this!