Ke Xuen's Weblog

Is progress necessary for beneficial of society?

2009-07-15T05:12:00.000-07:00

I don't think progress is necessary for beneficial of society, as there could be contribution but not progress and maybe following that, the contributer fail to succeed in his own dreams. Still, the society has benefited and has moved on.

Favourite character in Village By the Sea.

2009-07-15T04:28:00.000-07:00

I like the character "Mr Sayyid Ali", because his role was very respectful and his words were wise and well spoken. In The last few paragraphs, he was in Thul and was watching birds. He was clever to appreciate birds just when Thul was going to be industrialised, and he knew how to appreciate and how to help others.

I would rather be a country rat

2009-07-15T04:10:00.000-07:00

I would prefer being a country rat so that even i might not find any food to eat, but so long i still survive and save some food, money altogether, even the harder days, I can beat them. Unlike the city rat, who only know how to enjoy and does not plan for the future. The country rat, in the end, lived a good life rather than the city rat, who had to rely on the country rat to live.

Confession of a nerd

2009-07-15T03:31:00.000-07:00

Me? Well, everyone calls me a nerd. I wear thick, round spectacles, and have a book in my hand, do not wear ankle socks, good results, and also, my bag is very high and heavy. Why can't we have a different personality, different styles? Whats wrong about being a nerd? I just want to study hard so i can have a good future, provide for my parents, and just concentrate on my studies? I admit, my studies have gone too far beyond good, and have caused friends' parents to worry about their children, thinking whether they have problems coping on with their studies while another child could do so well. That's their problem. They did not try their hardest, and maybe they are not clever enough, to prove their parents worthy. Why not we try to do our best in studies and earn a game ourselves, rather than only play games without earning it first? It's nothing wrong to be a nerd.

Poetry Appreciation

2009-06-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

The author is thinking of the past memories where and when he fetched his child and how he feels towards Singapore's multi-racial country.Yes, it was almost the same, except that it wasn't malay chauffeurs this time. Instead it was maids who were chatting around each other.

My school badge has a lighted torch
which carries the meaning for every thought.

To me, it has no reason
to think about such an embarrassment.

I once had a foolish idea
that was to drink beer.

My father had bought a crate
but which i drank only a sip.

The Primary school years were over,
and too were the chilhood years.

Poet

2009-06-29T18:45:00.000-07:00

I like Joshua Beckman. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied poems at Hampshire college, and since then he has written five books. His poems has a sense of irony, and he is also an editor of Wave Books, a poetry press.From the titles of his books, we can tell that he did not like to beat around the bush and always went straight to the point. I think he has quite a good sense of humour, and also can make the story turn right and left together, which creates the irony i previously mentioned.He is the now author of five books of poetry: Things Are Happening (1998); Something I Expected To Be Different (2001); Nice Hat. Thanks. (2002), written with Matthew Rohrer; Your Time Has Come (2004), and most recently, Shake (Wave Books, 2006).He also has numerous books of translation, including the forthcoming Five Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker by Tomaž Šalamun (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003) which was a finalist for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award.

Thanks to:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/381

Robot Wars & Battle Bots

2009-06-17T20:26:00.000-07:00

During the holidays, my brother reminded me of a show called robot wars which was shown on the television last time.it is a competition where some people form a group to make their own robot to compete with other robots. Here is the video i love most, with the invincible "Gravity".

sian

2009-06-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

now holidays.. so scary about the projects day.. failed napha 3 times liao..today just ran 3.3kmin the park. so tired, hope could see my friends.

Blog prompt: Genetically modified

2009-04-30T03:12:00.000-07:00

Genetically modified food is one of the most important and ongoing issue in the world currently. The question is: should we eat it? is it harmful?
Let's understand.
Genetically Modified (GM) Foods are made from organisms that have been given specific traits through genetic engineering, unlike similar food organisms developed through the conventional genetic modification of selective breeding (plant breeding and animal breeding) or mutation breeding. GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. Typically, genetically modified foods are plant products: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil, but animal product s have been proposed. For example, in 2006 a pig engineered to produce omega-3 fatty acids through the expression of a roundworm gene was controversially proposed.
Genetically modifying begins with isolating the gene that we want on a particular organism. It is then inserted into the organism and the new gene will adapt quickly into the DNA of the organism.It is almost indistinguishable from the other genes.If a strawberry plant is given a gene from an alpine plant that is highly tolerant of the cold, it may improve the strawberry's resistance to frost, or if a pig receives some genes from a spinach genome which barely has any fat, it will most likely reduce the fat content of the meat.
Between 1997 and 2005, the total surface area of land cultivated with GMOs had increased by a factor of 50, from 17,000 km2 (4.2 million acres) to 900,000 km2 (222 million acres).

Although most GM crops are grown in North America, in recent years there has been rapid growth in the area sown in developing countries. For instance in 2005 the largest increase in crop area planted to GM crops (soybeans) was in Brazil (94,000 km2 in 2005 versus 50,000 km2 in 2004.)[15] There has also been rapid and continuing expansion of GM cotton varieties in India since 2002. (Cotton is a major source of vegetable cooking oil and animal feed.) It is predicted that in 2008/9 32,000 km2 of GM cotton will be harvested in India (up more than 100 percent from the previous season). Indian national average cotton yields of GM cotton were seven times lower in 2002, because the parental cotton plant used in the genetic engineered variant was not well suited to the climate of India and failed. The publicity given to transgenic trait Bt insect resistance has encouraged the adoption of better performing hybrid cotton varieties, and the Bt trait has substantially reduced losses to insect predation. Though controversial and often disputed, economic and environmental benefits of GM cotton in India to the individual farmer have been documented.
These modifying of genes have caused more diseases to be found and also more allergies have been produced to some people ( cotton ).
THis is sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food.

cool

2009-04-20T18:01:00.001-07:00

thanks david, for letting me know this video, its so damn cool and funny too..
oh, its for the college..but nvm, just enjoy it..

prompt

2009-04-20T17:48:00.000-07:00

oscratic seminar was very good. itgave us the chance of having to talk about our different thoughts to the Lamb To The Slaughter story and the others would have a chance to know more about the person who is talking's feelings and how he thinks of the story.

edited video

2009-04-20T17:42:00.000-07:00

sorry for the front interview for the video i posted. youtube did not allow us to post the real one on the blog.

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 @ Yahoo! Video

weread

2009-04-20T17:11:00.000-07:00

i just heard from ms gordon that there was a weread.com.. its so cool!we can show off how many books we have read and can even read them online.
but i dunt know why we cannot add friends online..if you know, pls comment?

Susan Boyle rocks the world

2009-04-19T06:12:00.000-07:00

the only chance of expressing her talent, susan boyle, a contestant in Britain's got talent, rocked the world as her video received more than 27 million views, which is now about 29 million views already. Although she admits she does not look good, she is very proud of her amazing voice. even simon, one of the judge, joked and said, "the time you came out, i knew we were going to have something EXTRAORDINARY. and it really was!.."
this is the video.

ACE

2009-04-16T06:42:00.000-07:00

today i found out a few things, that was marcus low's birthday is tomorrow, and after tomorrow, is jing shiuh's birthday, and after that is qing zhou's birthday. I ask a question: does anyone's birthday fall on near august 25? please comment if your birthday does!

Video DIscreation

2009-03-31T07:03:00.000-07:00

WARNING!!VIDEO DISCRETION.ADVOID BEING SEEN BY CHILDREN> MIGHT CONTAIN GORY OR BLOODY IMAGES!!
this is the video i saw, didi not get too watch the whole video.. hope that by the time i see it, it will be more gory than now..just kiddin!!

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

So, save the animals by checking your email or inbox to see whether u have the email and just sign on it!!pls!!

was bloghopping and found this funny picture somewhere

2009-03-31T06:56:00.000-07:00

i wasn't ripping, it was just that i wanted to share with you guys, just to make sure, here's the URL: http://www.the-yanping.blogspot.com/ , one of my brother's friend. here's the pic.::

i think its not working..maybe i used something wrong?

Founder's Day

2009-03-25T03:29:00.000-07:00

After seeing the video, I felt very fortunate to be in such a generation where life is very easy(as compared to last time). I want to thank Mr tankk for building this school and thus giving us a chance to get into such good school. After that, i went to do project with the other group members. Some people slack. They say they very hungry and then just walk off. You think I not hungry?Anyways it was only 11.30.. but in the end we finished the ppt and went back home after darrell and hanyang came back.

Hot day

2009-03-19T08:12:00.000-07:00

today must be the hottest day of the year. the feeling that went down my throat to my lungs was intolerable. it was not a good feeling and it made me feel irritated at such weather and also made me did not want to do anything. I could not switch on the fan as i was having a slight flu but was still feeling hot despite my cold. I could not do anything, and i missed my normal schooldays, which at least boosted my energy for a while rather than just lying down on the sofa. this nightmare will soon end, i hope.

Camp

2009-03-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

The camp was not as i expected, as we were grouped with 1I1. At first, i hoped that it would be helpful as the isparks were known to be clever. But, i found out that they were not very wise. Clever, but not smart.They made a bad statement: those who are short or fat cannot play. So?what happened?their friends rebelled against them(which included me!!tee hee!). and in the end, it was me and marcus who really helped them a lot ( with the knots and all the stuff like outddor cooking), so, as i said, it was not what i anticipated the camp to be that fun. And, what gave me the moost bad experience? The first lunch. we had to cheer so much. Had we known, that the food waas going to come so late, everyone could just have rested instead of cheering their lungs out thinking that the food was there and they just had to cheer enough to get their food. based on all the 7 camps i have gone to, the campfire was way too small and not that entertaining. Although i agree that it was creative to make a spark and then let it grow to a fire, but the fire was too small and i thinkl it should be called a flame. A campfire should be one that shares all the memories we gone through all those days, thus if a campfire was so small, would'nt it be shameful and maningless? Other people out there, PLEASE share your comments with me.

Camp!!

2009-03-09T05:38:00.000-07:00

Yay!!one more day to the BIG BIG BIG camp in my hut, dont know wat to bring, dont care when to pack, but care for the camp!!now i hope i can skip all the projects seminars and all that to go back home and relax to wait for the camp to come. feel like slacking in my project, but i cant.

Money No Enough 2

2009-03-04T05:38:00.000-08:00

This video is very funny especially if u understand mandarin but there are subtitles, so..

I feel that this movie is very nice as it portraits out the real personality of some of the Singaporeans and it was so effective that it made me cry three times throughout the movie!
(5 stars!!highly recommended)

Reflections of first socratic seminar

2009-03-01T00:47:00.000-08:00

I personally feel that the green hat is the most important and most easiest to be as you can just share your comments on that day's seminar and need not think too much about it. As the paper which Ms Gordon gave us, it says that the one wearing a green hat offers proposals and suggestions, discusses new ideas and alternatives. If I was wearing a green hat, my comments about the socratic seminar would be: The seminar went smoothly, but of course with guidance of Ms Gordon as that was the first formal socratic seminar and which we were observed by teachers. I hope that I can participate in more of these seminars as the inner circle. I hope, though, that we do not have to take the cards or roles as it gives pressure that you must do that particular role but we can modify the seminar into such a rule that everyone in the inner circle must say something. In this way, it will help we classmates bond together in a way and understand more about one another's thoughts and character.

Nuisance callers dial up a 999 logjam

2009-02-23T04:50:00.000-08:00

A Plot-driven Story
Complaints about noise pollution from neighbour, reports of sightings of snakes, being an 24/7 information bureau, prank calls...etc. What do the policemen who pick up the phone on their shifts have to listen to every day? Now, even the police are complaining about the number of unimportant calls they receive in a day. The calls are jamming up the whole system and those with really important cases are lagging behind, just because of some prank calls! Why are people so inconsiderate? They might think it is fun, but imagine someone saw Mas Selamat or whoever else at anytime and any place, and tried reporting it but was lagged behind by th jam in the system of calling, and the criminal ran away, wouldnt everyone's life be at a risk, even yourself?
Think twice before u really decide to call the police. Is it important? Are there any other hotlines to call for this particular matter? I suggest that the police must check the prankster's number so that they will be scared and stop calling. Do you think it is very funny, irritating a policeman just doing his job receiving calls? I hope that more people and all the pranksters out there will stop it. Let them have a taste of their own medicine when they call again. This time, they will be called through a private number continuosly. Help crime prevention and stop messing up the system of calling the police station.

bubble tea for everyone!

2009-02-23T00:52:00.000-08:00

today, the high school council told us a few factors about the few factors
of the bubble tea stall. will it work?i hope it will as we do not need to queue
up in the canteen, which i personally feel that it is a bit squeezy and we can just go there after school to chill ourselves from the hot weather outside with the increasing heat from the cause of global warming.

hits(update)

2009-02-10T04:37:00.000-08:00

yay!i am leading in the hits counter number. today very happy as ms tong accepted my group as her 'student disciple'. matthias was so blur and forgetful...he went to the classroom to get his stuff and after that he forgot about the meeting with ms tong. then jing shiuh was like so addicted to table tennis that he even did not want to go for our science lessons, not to say the meeting with ms tong. today the trip to discovery centre was cancelled just because that we had our science lessons. why didnt the person in charge read the timetable clearly first? instead he made us got so excited about our first trip from hwa chong...hope its not cancelled but postphoned...so scared it was cancelled as everyone says so..

hits update

2009-02-07T04:56:00.001-08:00

today i visited blogs again...caleb got more than me and hanyang now!!

blogs maniac!

2009-02-04T05:34:00.000-08:00

lets see! today i am going to talk about the hits counter 0of our class' blogs.
1.david(a fake hit counter)
2. Han Yang(189 hits)
3. mine(148 i think)
i dont know anyones else who is high now...

Facilities Secretary

2009-02-03T05:51:00.000-08:00

today i was officially announced a fac. sec. i dont know whether i would do a good job of it or not. thank you ms gordon for trusting me. i hope that my class mates will co-operate with the duty roster and not let me remind them everytime.hope i can persuade them. i will also try to modify the class during the CMC meetings. i might even change the duty roster and add more rags to the bucket so more people can wipe at a time.yeah!i have been hoping for a personal locker.i was lucky, as my father had wanted to make me a wooden locker himself.i didnt want to trouble him and today, i was announced as the fac. sec. .

tired

2009-02-02T05:20:00.000-08:00

i dont know why but i feel that my body is getting tired and i am going to break down and just shut down in sleep. Homework is not really much, but i just feel that we have a lot of things to do...found three ideas for our team to invent..stressful to even choose( for me) today, i was very sianz as we were supposed to meet in the comp lab to do some research.one person never come. not to mention him...Yeah!finally had 100 hits!Kambateh!

Happy New Year

2009-01-22T05:57:00.000-08:00

woohoo!new year is coming!but why do i feel confused in a way and somehow a little sad?is it just because of the three people i met yesterday?

on my way onto the 961 bus, i saw an old man sitting on the elderly seat.i smiled at him and he smiled at me back.he told me to sit on something between the opposite elderly set and the seats behind the driver.it was something popping out, like a case with the wheel inside.then i sat there. it was quite easy for kids like me to squeeze in there. and so i made a new 'friend'. heasked me where was i going, and i said i was going to woodlands.he told me he was getting down at the marsiling statin.he said that the sun was very ferocious and bright. and he obviously did some hard labour as u could see his rough and wrinkled hand. his skin was so dark that he looked like a person in a dark room. he also told me to study hard. he did not study hard and thats why he was doing these jobs. i promised him to study hard. to 'repay' him.

so the other one i met was at the bus interchange.i looked at him at first and stopped beside him.i asked him whether i saw him before as he seems familiar to me.he says why not?he is there selling tissue everyday.and he gave me my words of wisdom.he says that u must study hard, so that u would not become an uncle selling tissue. he also said to remember him telling me to study hard. i can feel that he regrets now but he is trying to pass the message to others so that we would not be like him. he also insisted on taking his tissue paper.i rejected immediately and politely. this kind of selflessness is very difficult to find in people nowadays.

aafter that, i saw my kindergarden teacher.she still recognises me as i visited her not long ago and i was also one of her elite students.she told me to sit at the back. she asked me how was my school and all that stuff.i was quite suprised to see her, but this suddenly reminded me of the schools motto, i think. YIN SHUI SI YUAN.it means to thank ur ancestors or the people who helped u after u are successful.i will always remember mdm goh, my kindergaredn teacher.

thank u ppl, for making my day before today so meaningful and interesting!

unlucky day

2009-01-21T04:25:00.000-08:00

woa.today so unlucky.went to the swimming pool.when i got into the water, i found out that my goggles were spoiled!so i changed it...into a worst one...i was so angry and decided to quit the trials.after that, after i changed into PE, i was rushing to my MSP.the time for it to start was 3.30. i looked into my phone and saw 15.56. oo... i thought it was 2.56 and so i did not rush.but i took a plastic bag that was similiar to mine.omg... i feel agitated even thinking about it now. i took the wrong one!and i did not notice until i got back. Argh...thats how life is...so unfair.

adeline ng ai choo

2009-01-20T03:43:00.001-08:00

i feel that wat adelinde did was not responsible as her parents have raised her with so much harwork and yet she commited suicide.Even if her results were not up to expectations, she could try harder next time and instead of being a coward and escaping from the fact, she should apologise to her parents and really try hard to pass. if she did not pass, it would at least be good enough for her to try her best.

links

2009-01-20T03:40:00.000-08:00

at last linked so many people..wasted about two hours to link...so many ppl
who still havent been linked juz tell me

shoot first, feel bad later

2009-01-18T05:27:00.000-08:00

The article ms Gordon showed us on Friday was talking about the senator hillary clinton discussing about the games and the things we learn from it...i feel that the games we play have a limit of violence and stuff like that...there are even games with lot of violence, but they do say so in the front page, and so, i think it is the parent's responsibility to control their children into playing such games.

I would like to share my experiences.my parents seldom allow me to go on the web to play and not even to touch my electronic games any time of the day.they keep it locked in their room.at first, when i was young, there was no hard feelings, but, as time goes by, the influence from my friends boosted me on to play more games..then i would feel like part of them.this is 'peer pressure' , as i learned, this would get more and more in my secondary life. so, i became irritative to my parents, and would beg my parents just to get the games on my hand. so, as i said, my parents controlled me. this was 'no freedom' to me, but to my parents it was learning to be disciplined. so, i became more knowledgeable about this as i grew older.

Even the violent games kids polay nowadays, they do not have real discipline over themselves.the games they play, like GTA, is very violent, and has prostitution, murder and all of those mentioned in the article.people mistake games for bad things, but they do not read the labels carefully.GTA is M18 and only we kids know this fact.

In conclusion, games are not that bad as people seem to see and think.

left

2009-01-17T19:13:00.000-08:00

oo...so many homework...yesterday i did a lot of things...and at night i went to terminal 3 to send my father off to cologne...today just started doing my hwk...and the first thing on my mind when i woke up was (((homework))).i was so scared i couldnt finish.

linking

2009-01-16T05:33:00.000-08:00

did anyone remember about the clip and ms gordon talking about the linking into a community?if anyone of u want me to link u, just tell me by tagging at the tagboard to inform me.i wuld be pleased to link u.

first post

2009-01-16T05:26:00.000-08:00

omg...i cant belive it!this is my first post in my second blog! and if u want to see my first blog, the link is www.thestarsaredropping.blogspot.com and i will soon update the link into my blog.pls tag as u come by my blog thanks!