2F CID Group 2

After today's lesson, I learnt more about how much we should trust people and some of the people's attitude towards poverty and their mindset. I feel that we should not always trust beggars so much as some may be just lying just to get people's pity and to get more money. And some of them have legs and hands, why don't they get a job instead? Some of the "beggars" may also be disguised as mothers with a baby that is handicapped, but actually they work for syndicates that purposely handicap the baby by breaking their legs or to wrap their hands to pretend the baby is handicapped to get people's pity and to get more money. In the end, it is the syndicate leader who gets the money not the mother. Thus I feel we should not trust beggars so much.

During the holidays, I did not do anything much or go to many places or do much interesting things. The main places and things I went to and do was mainly going back to school to study and going to Bangkok for a holiday. 

For this holiday, it was pretty simple.the first thing I will remember for this holiday will be studying in library, yeah. Because I did not really score well in last year, so it was a catch up for me and a few other students. Although it was boring, but there was still other people accompanying me. That turns the studying more fun.

Through today's lesson, I learnt about looking into things better if you have a solid background of whatever the thing is about and also some of our classmates' attitude. Mainly when we were grouped up in the decision we have for the scenario, I realized that most of us do not trust easily and I was one of them. I hope that I would learn more to trust and to not be so suspicious.  And about having a background on something we will come upon, I think it is pretty important to know as it will lessen so much more unnecessary misunderstandings.

During the December holidays of 2014, I spent most of my time going for badminton trainings in school, doing homework and relaxing. However, the highlight of those days was definitely my trip to Hawaii with my parents and cousin. There, we visited two of the six islands of Hawaii - Maui and Oahu.

Before we flew to Hawaii, we had a stopover in Japan for a break and some food. As expected, the people there were extremely responsible, returning their trays after finishing their meal. The sales assistants there also never failed to greet customers entering or leaving their stores, unlike some store owners in Singapore who merely sit at the counter looking at their phones and not even looking up to make eye contact with their customers.

So I did a lot of things during the last December holidays, its one of the longest school holidays I had ever since I started school (holidays start later in Primary school). I am going to share just some of the more significant thing I did during the holidays (other than homework) in this blogpost.

First, I participated in BNCO( Basic Non Commissioned Officer) course, a SJAB activity. It has almost been a year in SJAB and going to NCO course is a significant activity as a cadet. This course is held throughout 6 days separated into 2 camps which involves theory face(2 days 1 night) and camp face(4 days 3 nights). This camp is a zone activity and involves cadets that are from other schools. This camp is a pretty furfilling one as I had fun and also tried out a lot of new things. We are grouped up in platoons and I made friends with people from schools around the Jurong vicinity.

[platoon photo]

As for the most memorable activity in camp was of course during camp face, it was the hike we had during day 2. The hike required all of us to work together and use a compass to find out the checkpoints during the hike which will lead us to the final destination. During the hike, it rained and stopped but rained again and this situation required us to put on stuffy ponchos and taking them off and on again, it was really frustrating but it was not that bad after everything. The final destination was the Old Ford Factory which we watched a video and went to see the exhibition in the museum. The next day I had even more fun which involves games, we played different games and we had a lot of fun with the water games. The water games were like the highlight of the camp (for me at least) as it is the part where discipline is not as highly enforced. The part which got everyone having fun was the actually a game to save your friends which were 'hostages' however everyone got crazy and started randomly throw the water bombs at each other until no one is left dry. BNCOC is a new experience for it and I believed I had gotten alot of knowledge throughout this camp and I had also made friends out of RV.

Well I had also gone overseas during the holidays to Hong Kong for a very short while during Christmas. This trip is a pretty short yet fun one as we did nothing much other than eat and pointless shopping.

[amazing ice cream called 火牛牛]

We also went to Disneyland which is to me a place I would not get sick of no matter how many times I had gone there. It is my 4th time to HK Disneyland and everything there is still fresh for me. As a avid Winnie The Pooh fan, I went for the Winnie The Pooh themed ride twice.

[me and my sister in disneyland with Winnie the Pooh]

We had a very good time in Hong Kong and I believe it could not be better. I am not sharing much about this trip as holiday trips are usually about shopping, seeing new things and trying out new things, eating new food. Hong Kong has been a place my family enjoy going due to the food. The last December holidays is very memorable and I think its a good time for us to reflect on what we did in thw whole year. I will look forward to 2015's holidays too.

What I think about poverty in Singapore is that, you don't really see it, it is kind of "invisible". I said so because I have been in Singapore for 7 years but I don't really see any beggar that is on the streets or so on, but I do know that poverty must be existing somewhere in Singapore.

Zhi Qing