June Holidays

For the upcoming June holidays, I think that I seriously need to buck up on my weaker subjects and I will study hard during this period of time. I can hope and pray all I want just to get a good result so that I can and will continue in the IP stream with the rest of my classmates. Part of the reason for my bad results is that my time allocation is not good and I often leave things to the last minute before doing them. This is a bad habit and I promise that I will change it. So, I will definitely work hard for my own future.

Size Prejudice

Size prejudice falls in between obesity and height. Often enough, we see those with a good build calling those who are fat things like 'pig', 'lump of fats' and other names. This is again not good for sure and I find it unnecessary. It seems to be a personal thing, your diet, and your daily timetable. I find absolutely no reason why those of a good body build should call those who are obese such names, this also shows how senseless they are.
Again, people who are tall call those who are short names like the most common, 'shorty' and any others you can come out with. This is yet again another argument which could have never started. This is actually all out of respect for that person. If one calls someone else this way, we can see how immature he is and we will then know whether is he someone worth to befriend.

Projects Day Semi-final

I am now preparing with my group for the upcoming Projects Day Semi-final in one and a half month's time. I will work hard for it as it contributes to a portion of our Independent Studies component. Another reason why I like Projects Day stages is because we a day off from the busy timetable and it is also very enjoyable to see people from other classes in other levels present their own innovative project. It is quite fun to see what props and cons other groups have and we can also improve our project's quality. Therefore, I find Projects Day a component which cannot be gone from our syllabus.

Gender Prejudice

Gender prejudice, I believe is not that much of a problem now in the current society. All of these gender prejudice issues happen mainly in China as the people there have the old-fashioned way of thinking that having males are better than females as only males will carry the family name. I find this thinking very stupid. If the whole world wants boys, boys and boys, what will happen to the girls? Won't they then be treated badly as their parents dislike them? Will parents choose to abort their child if they found that the child was a female? I find this argument another one with no cause of argument as this can be put to a halt once the parents cancel off this way of thinking in their minds. So, I find no reason why there should be a debate about gender prejudice in the world.

Racial Prejudice

Racial prejudice, another significant sight of prejudice. This is probably more common in countries with many people of different races and religions like Singapore. I have seen people from different races quarrel over religious issues. I believe that most Singaporeans have seen the main religious quarrel being over the Malay culture of not eating pork. I personally have seen it before, as stated in one of my previous blog posts. I find this quite a useless argument. I mean, like, you should respect someone else's culture in the first place if you want someone to respect yours. I find racial quarrels the most baseless as they do not even have a proper reason why they are quarrelling, it is just a quarrel due to disrespect for each other's culture. Therefore, I find these people who go around agitating people very erm... as the Chinese say, 无聊. Yah, that is what I think about them.

Class Prejudice

There are many kinds of prejudice in our UGLY world with one of the few most major ones being class prejudice. I really do not get it, what is this 'classification', I mean like, putting different peopple in different groups? How could this even happen? We are living in such an UGLY world. Before, you go around protesting, let us analyse this situation first. Class prejudice seems to be a sight which one can see in any society in this world. This is definitely not something good for a society. If someone of a lower social class is under such bad pressure everyday, this could lead to a violent mentality in these people and the number of crimes will increase by a lot. I do not see a difference between people of different classes other than the wealth. I just cannot stand people who are very arrogant just because they are rich. It is not a serious thing in Singapore and I hope that I will not see such a sight in the years to come.

Expectations

I hope that I can do well this term as I really worked hard and I hope that I will not be demoted to the Q class. This term, I had one failure, IH. I really studies for it, but the result is so as I interpreted the question wrongly, which I failed and resulted in my final score of D7. Nevertheless, I will still work as hard as possible for Term 3 to pull up my results to continuing the IP programme with my friends.
I WILL WORK HARD!!

My feature article!!

Class Prejudice, Like It Or Not
By Lye Tee Yin Joel
PREJUDICE is the actual behaviour of those who treat others differently depending on their social situation, to “pigeon-hole someone socially, such that someone on benefits is treated unfairly compared to that of someone who works for a living”.
Individual attitudes and behaviours, systems of policies and practices that are “set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes”, showing extreme inequality among people of different social class.
People who generally tend to find charges of classism against “lower” classes to be unfounded or “unreasonably harsh often characterise the perceived prejudice as expressive of classist class envy”.
These people are especially “pervasive or fundamental to the society that they live in”. This will then rise up to the hot debate of social classes and causes class warfare.
Currently in the world around us, social class prejudice is can still be sighted everywhere around us in our everyday lives. Different areas of the word “class” include power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture.
Since early nineteenth century, the terms “working classes”’ and “middle classes” were already in common usage. People who then succeeded in “commerce, industry and other professions” would then be classified under “upper classes”, resulting in people from this class controlling the political system, and thus using their authority to “deprive” those from the “middle classes” and “working classes” of “a voice in political processes”.
Examples from the recent past include novels like “Pride and Prejudice” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”, with latter focusing more on the class and racial prejudice.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the theme of prejudice is shown mainly through the characters like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Dolphus Raymond.
Examples would be how the town of Maycomb has many different stories in how these people act even though they may not have even met them once. This could be how in Maycomb many people believe that one day when Boo was cutting out pictures from a magazine he stabbed his father; or that Dolphus Raymond decides to live and have children with a coloured women because he's drunk all the time, although he's not, he just pretends to give them a reason. These are examples of prejudice, which is equivalent to having an unsupported argument, judging everything based on your personal opinion.
Nevertheless, social prejudice is an element which cannot be removed entirely from this world as long as humans rule the earth.

Annual Hwa Chong – Nanyang Sports Meet

Yesterday saw the start and the end of the annual Hwa Chong - Nanyang Track and Field Meet. Another enjoyable day for me again. Everyone was all smiles yesterday as the track and field meet meant another day of fun for us. A relatively warm day though, following a few days of scorching hot weather with little rain. Many new events were implemented in this year's meet, my favourite being the 12x200m relay race. This race saw many overtakes and it was very exciting. The most interesting of this event was the JC1 girls race. Faculty Apollo had a runner which fell down and wasted much time in standing up and continuing. In the end, Apollo still won and I admire the peserverance of that particular girl which fell as she stood up very quickly to pass the baton on to her fellow teammates.

Difference between broadsheet and tabloid newspapers

What is the difference between broadsheet and tabloid newspapers? Does one always deal with more respectable news / produce more professional journalism than the other?

Broadsheet newspapers is usually for straight and formal news that are important, like murder, political news interational news and news that would shake the world. In broadsheet newspapers, one will then expect to see news on the more serious tone.
On the opposite, tabloid newspapers usually focus on entertainment news, like who and who are getting married in the entertainment ring, other gossip news like who and who are dating secretly. All of these are those one usually can find tabloid newpapers.
Of course, the more respectable news usually land up in broadsheet newspapers. However, I do not see a difference in the professionalism in each. As long a report can be officially published for the entire world to see, it must had went through many rounds of editing before it can be published, So, I do not think that one produces more professional journalism than the other.