What do I think about National Day

In gernal Singaporeans means that racial harmony polite and respectful people. Futhermore, Singaporeans are people who are consern for others and tradional people. For me to be a Singaporean means to be proud of country and the others above. As for me I am a guy so I have to serve my country when I am 18 years old. This would teach me and ready me for anything the life ahead of me. Singapore has gave me a good education and medical service for me to live in Singapore. If there is war broken in Singapore I would not leave Singapore. I would stay on and fight even though how strong is the enemy. Until the last breathe of mine I would fight for my country. I would leave the Singapore only for education or something very important. After my education or somrthing else I would make sure that Iam back to my motherland.

Book Review

I have read the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.Rowling. In this book there are three main chracters they are Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione. Harry Potter as always thought that he is an ordinary boy like the others. After some incidents he realises that he is not an ordinary boy. He will also go to the school of magic which is Hogwarts. In the first year of the school he would be selected to the house of Gryffindor with his other two friend s that he made in the train who are Ron an Hermione. As after every student had been solt in a house. The head master of Hogwarts told the first that no one have to the woods which neardy to Hogwarts and no one is allowed to go to fourth floor room has if they did want to have a painful death. But before coming to Hogwarts a person had help Harry to buy the staff for the school his name was Hagrid. Hagrid told him who was his parents and hoe they relaay died. Harry's enemy was Voldemort had killed his parents. In the first year Harry had a lot of advantage in Hogwarts has one the professor had Voldemort in him. Voldemort not only wanted to take the life of Harry only he also wanted the Philosopher's Stone to regain power. As Voldemort had lost his power battling with Harry's parents. But his parents had transfered the power to Harry instead of killing Voldemort. When cast the spell of death to Harry it rebouned to him back. From than on Voldemort had no powers anymore. Somehow Harry deffeat him off but Voldemort said that would be back and vanished. As Harry had another 6 more years ahead of him.
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Euthanasia

Euthanasia is where you end your life without any pain. There are many different forms of euthanasia like animal, human, voluntary euthanasia's. This form of euthanasia would be asked before the permission of the people or the owner. Euthanasia is like committing suicide is ending the life before natural death, but this not illegal because if the country has agreed with the law of euthanasia.

I do agree with euthanasia. It is because if a person has illness which there is no cure for it and he or she is suffering a lot they should be put to sleep as well as the animals.

As in Singapore euthanasia is not being practised so far because our medical treatments are very good there is no need for this. Sometime there are we see people are so ill and there is no cure so I think our we should re-look on this matter.
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Draft 3 Kodeswarar
“Hey you there! Get ready for your sentence,” one of the Sinhalese soldier shouted at Balan.

Whereas as Balan was in pitch dark. The place was filthy. Cockroaches and lizards were crawling all over the cell walls. Balan was sitting down at a corner. He was pondering why was he a prisoner now and about his past.

He, his mother Durga and his sister Devi lived in a village called Polonnaruwa. Balan was a English teacher in other village called Sigiriya. His father Rajan had died in 1945. It was because as he father was coming back from the tea plantation after his night duty as a security guard and he met into an accident. Since then Balan had been working for his family. His mother also earned some money by selling some of her hand made art and crafts. Balan sister studies in a local high school. In 1948 Ceylon gained independence. Ceylon government passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act in 1948. As result of this Balan and much more Indian Tamil families became stateless. He still continued to teaching in Sigiriva school.

Balan was very humorous person always making jokes and made people relive from their stressful lives. One day Balan’s sister came home with a huge smile. “ Brother I have won the scholarship for the college, I also have finished my high school studies.” she said to her brother. Balan was so happy that he bought sweets for his whole street of neighbours and he going around telling that his sister is going to college.

After Balan’s sister had finished her college studies in 1960s she wanted to go to the university but Balan could afford it. It was because as Balan had been a English teacher, now the official language had became Singhalese. Anyway Devi also started work as a tuition teacher, after few years in 1975 Balan joined she sister in the university. In 1972 Indian Tamils scored better than the Sinhalese and the population in the university both the Tamils and Singhalese were equal. The government introduced a new university criteria saying that Tamils students had to score higher than the Sinhalese students to enter the university. Balan sister could enter the university because this so she continued as tuition teacher.


In Balan’s village there were many Tamils who supported the Tamil Tigers so the Ceylon government bombed the village. Balan did not know this because he was away from the village to find a job. When retuned to his village he got a shock of his life. His house was simply gone and is mothers, sister dead bodies were separated into parts. Balan was taken back from this incident. The Tamil Tigers used this as a good chance to get more people into the group. Some how the Tamil Tiger group leader brain washed people like Balan and made them join in. When Balan entered group he was questioned that whether he wanted to be solider or a suicide bomber. He answered as suicide bomber. Then he was trained for 3 years in the mountains as the Tamils Tigers camp sites were. Balan's training grew him physically and mentally ready for him to do the bombing.

On 1980 Balan mission was to destroy the head quarters of the Sinhalese base. He entered the base and a solider had identified him as a Tamil Tiger. The soldier was Balan old Sinhalese friend before. They captured him and he became a prisoner.

The cell gate opened, and the Sinhalese solider told him that his was going to be shot dead. The Sinhalese asked him “ What is your last wish?”. Balan exclaimed “ I want to see my mother and sister!”,after that he was in tears. The Sinhalese solider head was down. Then Balan was taken to a opened place and he took final stand and the next second his body was on the ground.
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Totto Chan Book Review

The story was about Totto Chan's mother coming to know of her explusion from public school. Totto Chan was a cute and naughty girl. Totto Chan mom relizes that why totto chan needs a school where more freedom of expression which will be allowed. Than, Chan's mother takes totto chan to meet the head master of the new school, Mr Kobayashi. From that moment onwards a friendship grew between the head mater and Totto Chan. How she and friends learn lesson from their mistakes. Thus I see how the normal world transfromed into a pleasant place full of joy. I also see as role of an adult, how Mr Kobayashi introduces new ways to interest the students. Mr. Kobayashi know the pupils well and develop the pupils qualities, mind, body and heart. Than the World War 2 broke out. But the head master rebuilt the school but he could not. The story end by Totto Chan beign a student of Tomoe Gakuen.

I would recommend this book to others as it shows different needs of children. It also shows how everyone is special in many ways.

Xin Jiang Riots

This riot was between the Han Chinese and Muslim Uighers. It was simply started because of with two races misunderstanding of each others religions. The misunderstanding grew bigger and it became a racial riot. As result of this riot more than 100 people had died and more than 50 people had been injured. Even others who wanted to help the injured ones they were also beaten up. I believe that Singapore will not and never encounter like this incident. If it would to happen I would somehow try to stop and solve the problem.

EL Formative Assessment (Semester 2)

Main Character
-Balan, Devi and Durga

Introduction
-Balan is a prisoner thinking why did he end up in prison and thinking about his past

Body
-Ceylon government passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act
-His sister can't enter the university because of the Ceylon government had introduced a new
university criteria
-The government made the official language as Sinhalese
-How the Tamil Tigers came about
-because of what reasons Balan joined the Tamil Tigers

Ending
-Balan's friend was solider in the Sinhalese army
-The friend was the one who identified Balan as a Tamil Tiger
-Balan takes a final stand and he is shot dead

'Should Singlish be the official language in Singapore?'

Singlish is an English-based language used in Singapore. It is the first language of many Singaporeans, and the second language of nearly all the rest of the country's citizens. However, educated Singaporeans are able to know the differents between Singlish and proper English.

The vocabulary of Singlish consists of words originating from English, Malay , Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and to a lesser extent various other European, Indic and Sinitic languages, while Singlish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series and films. Recently, because Mandarin Chinese is taught to most Singaporean Chinese students in school, Mandarin words have also found their way into Singlish.

As majority Singaporeans have made English to Singlish, our younger generations are also following it. We should not allow this to happen to our country as this is spreading very fast like a virus. Our government is also arranging “Speak Good English” campaigns in schools and to the community. We should also take some effort to try to speak proper English. I am also going speak good English after I have wrote about this topic. We should not let Singlish be the offcial language of Singapore.
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"Are Singaporeans gracious and socially responsible? Discuss."

It has often been said that Singaporeans lack of social gracious and responsibility. We would like to refuse this statement but it is very often true. The way we can always find the floors of hawker center littered with cigarette butts and how getting off the M.R.T is such a struggle as those outside, rush to get in are just two aspects of how Singaporeans lack social gracious ,responsibility and courtesy.
Of course, many would rush to their defence claiming that in a fast-paced society as Singapore, there just is not enough time to be gracious anymore. Gone are the days when people could afford to do some things such as hold the door open or wait for others to board the lift before hitting the close button. However, I disagree with the people who say so as being more gracious does not require grand acts of self- sacrifice, but rather doing just simple things that would bring smiles to the faces of those around us. I am sure that with Singapore could easily become a more gracious country.
Any way not all Singaporeans behave like this. There are still Singaporeans who are gracious and responsible towards each others. The Singapore government have to play a part by setting off courtesy, gracious and responsible campaigns. This would turn whole Singapore into a pleasant and gracious country.
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My career choice

My hobbies are to play soccer, to chat with my friends at school and outside school.
I do not like my friends to back step me and I do not like people to force me to do things.
I seriously dislike people who nag at me and other people. I am rarely at home because everyday single I have tuition. But if I am at home I would do the house work and watch television. My school life is best the I could say this because I enjoy going to school. And this is because my teachers and friends always there to support me, motivate and to teach me. Despite all this I have a ambition in live to be aircraft technician. I choose this job because I like to repair the aircraft parts and I would like to now how does it works. I am working towards what I want and I am trying my level best.
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Concerns and controversies over the 2008 summer Olympics

Question 1:Name one controversy that happen during the Beijing Olympics which you feel strongly about and explain why you have chosen it.

The controversy is "The gymnastics competition caused a major world wide controversy during and after the games when some Chinese gymnasts were accused of being under a minimum age, but then cleared after an investigation."
Chinese gymnasts who were under the illegal age for the Olympics should be disqualified from the competition as it is cheating. So the next time when they take part in such competitions that has age limits the organizers should check the competitor's identification card to ensure that are they qualified for the competition.

Question 2: If such a big event were to take place in your country, would you. as an organizer, ever do something like that? Why or why not?

I won’t do such mistake as this is a world event holding in Singapore which is a small country. Firstly Singapore is a small country and if such a great event like the Olympics is going to take place we should get things the year before the event begins. The participants information should be found out weather they are eligible for
the competition.

Last year I almost fail my final year exam and go to normal academic stream. But my principal Mrs Menon gave me a chance to prove her that I can study well and pass my upcoming exams this year and next year. My goals for next two years is to get good grades for the exams and prove my principal that I can do it .Furthermore for my ‘O’ levels I would like to get reasonable results and I want to achieve my goal as aircraft technician as my ambition. This what I have planned for my further and for my next two years.
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