Struggles, an element in life. In life, there are many struggles. Struggles include many types. You may face struggles in work, school and every aspect of life. In work, you may struggle do complete the work your superior assigned you to complete. You may need to do a lot of research for your work and by the time you finish your research, you may even realise that the deadline is approaching. In school, you may have to struggle to meet the deadline of the work and you might not even know how to complete the work. If the deadline is the next day and you do not know how to complete it, you will struggle to try to complete it even if you do not know how to do it. These examples will definitely result in stress.
Actually, in my point of view, people who face struggles should face them with an easy mind. If they take struggles too seriously, they will have a lot of stress, which might lead to them having depression. Stress is difficult to manage, so in the first place, we should not even treat our struggles too hard. I know that it is a difficult task to do as you will naturally feel stressed when you have struggles as I have experienced it before. I personally cannot handle struggles easily and I am trying very hard now to take them easily.
Many people assume that stress is something that helps you to push yourself harder and improve even more quickly. However, people do not look at the cons of stress. They look at the pros of stress only. If people have too many struggles and problems, they will have too much stress and it may lead them into a state of depression. An example is shown in the short story,"Adeline Ng Ai Choo", in the book,"Little Ironies". Adeline was a girl who had the struggle of being unable to concentrate when she is studying. This is a result of the stress she had to face when her father gave her presents for her to do well in her studies and when her mother said that if she did not do well, she would be a disgrace to the family. As Adeline could not concentrate in her studies, she failed her test by one mark and as she was unable to get this mark, she committed suicide. This is ultimately a result of her parents' high expectations on her.
Many students face stress due to peer pressure as well. If people score well in their examinations while you struggle even to pass, you will have stress as well. The consequences might be as dire as when the students' parents have high expectations on them.
Therefore, the purpose of this blog entry is to inform people not to be stressed out too easily and take things easily. Please do not be too stressed and lead a happy life! :)
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
In School!!
Hi all, I am doing this blog post from school! Recently, the work load is beginning to increase again. I am currently reading Scarlet Ibis, a very nice story. It is about an elder brother and his younger brother, Doodle. It is a very touching story. I will not tell you a lot of details about the story or it will not be exciting anymore. I highly recommend this book.For today, we are supposed to write down whether we empathise with the the elder brother or not.
By the way, we will have a Mathematics test next week on Tuesday. I cannot believe we will have our second Mathematics test so soon. We will be tested on Algebra, standard form, etc. At first, I didn't understand the factorisation for the Algebra. However, yesterday on our way to the Science Centre to listen to a lecture, Marcus, my classmate cleared my doubt. In addition, with the help of my father, who explained to me even further, I am much better in the topic now.
We did a passage for Chinese on Mr Tan Kah Kee today. According to my Chinese teacher, she will test us on him in the next Chinese test.
Oh right, I almost forgot to add in this thing. It was a sad thing that somebody actually posted as Yinn Jaye and wrote inappropriate things on people's blogs. If the person was a Secondary School boy, he should have been matured enough than to do this.
Well, this is it. I have to go and attend the ANGLES Grand Finale, with my classmate, Tan Mingshi, as one of the finalists. Bye!!
By the way, we will have a Mathematics test next week on Tuesday. I cannot believe we will have our second Mathematics test so soon. We will be tested on Algebra, standard form, etc. At first, I didn't understand the factorisation for the Algebra. However, yesterday on our way to the Science Centre to listen to a lecture, Marcus, my classmate cleared my doubt. In addition, with the help of my father, who explained to me even further, I am much better in the topic now.
We did a passage for Chinese on Mr Tan Kah Kee today. According to my Chinese teacher, she will test us on him in the next Chinese test.
Oh right, I almost forgot to add in this thing. It was a sad thing that somebody actually posted as Yinn Jaye and wrote inappropriate things on people's blogs. If the person was a Secondary School boy, he should have been matured enough than to do this.
Well, this is it. I have to go and attend the ANGLES Grand Finale, with my classmate, Tan Mingshi, as one of the finalists. Bye!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Piling Homework and Tests!
Hi everybody,
With the piling homework and my tests round the corner, I have been studying and do not have the time to post much. Therefore, I might just skip the blog prompts in the "News In Class" worksheets the past two weeks.
I had my Mathematics and English tests on Tuesday. The results have not come out yet, but I really hope I did well. Yesterday, Ms Soh, my Language Arts teacher, wanted the class to do a English composition to see how well we are at moving the climax to the front. The deadline for this assignment was Monday, but I completed it on the day itself as I was afraid I would not have time to do my revision if I left everything to the weekend. We were supposed to do two compositions. We were supposed to do the first composition in chronological order. For the second one, we were supposed to rewrite the first composition, but shifting the climax to the front so that the "W" effect is achieved. For both compositions, I wrote about two sides. Ms Soh said today that we were supposed to do only around one and a half pages if possible. However, I could not understand how short a piece could be achieved after writing the beginning, climax and the end. Thus, the shortest possible that I could achieve was about two sides. I wrote on a robbery by the way.
Today, my class had another assignment to do. It is a literature assignment this time. We will do this assignment with reference to the story, "Flowers for Algernon". I completed my assignment today and followed the PEE structure that Ms Soh taught us. I hope that I did my assignment correctly.
Apart from English homework, there is Science homework too. We are supposed to do a mind-map on the Bunsen burner and the types of flames and a powerpoint with your song or poem related to Science. I have not started on both yet. I plan to do at least one of them tomorrow.
During PE lesson today, we did some exercises to train our strength. In my class, as I was the only thrower and the only one who had used the room before during training, the teacher, my javelin coach, wanted me to show the class how to use some of the things in the room. I think I trained to hard there today as my muscles are aching now. Although my muscles are aching, I still have to go for training tomorrow. Up to now, I am enjoying being in javelin and I am having a lot of fun.
Despite all these, I still have to revise for my tests next week. There will be many tests next week. Practically, all the tests except Maths and English are next week. There will be a History mock test tomorrow too.
Well, this is what I can say about my school life currently. Bye.
With the piling homework and my tests round the corner, I have been studying and do not have the time to post much. Therefore, I might just skip the blog prompts in the "News In Class" worksheets the past two weeks.
I had my Mathematics and English tests on Tuesday. The results have not come out yet, but I really hope I did well. Yesterday, Ms Soh, my Language Arts teacher, wanted the class to do a English composition to see how well we are at moving the climax to the front. The deadline for this assignment was Monday, but I completed it on the day itself as I was afraid I would not have time to do my revision if I left everything to the weekend. We were supposed to do two compositions. We were supposed to do the first composition in chronological order. For the second one, we were supposed to rewrite the first composition, but shifting the climax to the front so that the "W" effect is achieved. For both compositions, I wrote about two sides. Ms Soh said today that we were supposed to do only around one and a half pages if possible. However, I could not understand how short a piece could be achieved after writing the beginning, climax and the end. Thus, the shortest possible that I could achieve was about two sides. I wrote on a robbery by the way.
Today, my class had another assignment to do. It is a literature assignment this time. We will do this assignment with reference to the story, "Flowers for Algernon". I completed my assignment today and followed the PEE structure that Ms Soh taught us. I hope that I did my assignment correctly.
Apart from English homework, there is Science homework too. We are supposed to do a mind-map on the Bunsen burner and the types of flames and a powerpoint with your song or poem related to Science. I have not started on both yet. I plan to do at least one of them tomorrow.
During PE lesson today, we did some exercises to train our strength. In my class, as I was the only thrower and the only one who had used the room before during training, the teacher, my javelin coach, wanted me to show the class how to use some of the things in the room. I think I trained to hard there today as my muscles are aching now. Although my muscles are aching, I still have to go for training tomorrow. Up to now, I am enjoying being in javelin and I am having a lot of fun.
Despite all these, I still have to revise for my tests next week. There will be many tests next week. Practically, all the tests except Maths and English are next week. There will be a History mock test tomorrow too.
Well, this is what I can say about my school life currently. Bye.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Little Ironies - The Taximan's Story (Questions)
1.What is the irony in the story?
Ans: The irony is that Lay Choo was fooling around. It was unexpected that Lay Choo would have done such a thing as her studies were excellent and was the taximan's favourite child. Also, the irony is that the taximan disagreed with the teenagers' behaviour but still ferried them around and did not take any action to try to stop these teenagers. However, when he found out that Lay Choo fooled around, he scolded Lay Choo and punished her by locking her in her room so that Lay Choo would not do it again.
2.What are the themes raised in the story?
Ans: The themes are the lack in moral values of teenagers these days etc.
3.How realistic is this story?
Ans: It is actually quite a true story nowadays. The newspapers also showed that the number of youngsters fooling around has been on the increase. Therefore, this story is quite true among many people now.
4.What do you think of the taximan? Do you feel sympathy for him?
Ans: I think that the taximan is quite a sociable man as he actually told the lady, whom he did not know at all, about his personal issues, which are quite shameful. He also talked to the lady alot and told her about his past experiences. Actually, I sympathise with him as his daughter did such a thing to make him so infuriated. His daughter should have known better than to do such a thing that disgraces him.
5.Do you agree with his lamenting?
Ans: Yes, I agree with his lamenting. Youngsters nowadays should know that they should not do such a thing that does not benefit them at all. They should be concentrating on their studies and not do all these when their parents are working so hard to pay for their school fees. By doing so, they are letting down their parents' efforts to carve them into being useful people in the future. Therefore, we must not do such a thing to let down our parents and make them feel that their efforts have paid off.
6.What about the other characters in the story? Do you feel sympathy for them?
Ans: I sympathise with the taximan's wife too as she would not have expected that her daughter who was the best in her studies among her siblings would have turned out to be like this, doing such a disgraceful thing. I do not sympathise with the taximan's daughter even if she gets punished severely by her father. She should have been wise enough not to do such a disgraceful thing. I feel that if her father had punished her severely, it is her just desserts and there is no need to sympathise with her.
Ans: The irony is that Lay Choo was fooling around. It was unexpected that Lay Choo would have done such a thing as her studies were excellent and was the taximan's favourite child. Also, the irony is that the taximan disagreed with the teenagers' behaviour but still ferried them around and did not take any action to try to stop these teenagers. However, when he found out that Lay Choo fooled around, he scolded Lay Choo and punished her by locking her in her room so that Lay Choo would not do it again.
2.What are the themes raised in the story?
Ans: The themes are the lack in moral values of teenagers these days etc.
3.How realistic is this story?
Ans: It is actually quite a true story nowadays. The newspapers also showed that the number of youngsters fooling around has been on the increase. Therefore, this story is quite true among many people now.
4.What do you think of the taximan? Do you feel sympathy for him?
Ans: I think that the taximan is quite a sociable man as he actually told the lady, whom he did not know at all, about his personal issues, which are quite shameful. He also talked to the lady alot and told her about his past experiences. Actually, I sympathise with him as his daughter did such a thing to make him so infuriated. His daughter should have known better than to do such a thing that disgraces him.
5.Do you agree with his lamenting?
Ans: Yes, I agree with his lamenting. Youngsters nowadays should know that they should not do such a thing that does not benefit them at all. They should be concentrating on their studies and not do all these when their parents are working so hard to pay for their school fees. By doing so, they are letting down their parents' efforts to carve them into being useful people in the future. Therefore, we must not do such a thing to let down our parents and make them feel that their efforts have paid off.
6.What about the other characters in the story? Do you feel sympathy for them?
Ans: I sympathise with the taximan's wife too as she would not have expected that her daughter who was the best in her studies among her siblings would have turned out to be like this, doing such a disgraceful thing. I do not sympathise with the taximan's daughter even if she gets punished severely by her father. She should have been wise enough not to do such a disgraceful thing. I feel that if her father had punished her severely, it is her just desserts and there is no need to sympathise with her.
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