大家好，我是2J班的栾嘉璐。今年我十四岁了！其实我也不知道名字的意思，只知道嘉是嘉宾的嘉。狮子座的我脾气不好，性格也是一惊一乍的，不稳。我心情一坏，就会撅嘴巴，面带冷酷的 表情。我很喜欢音乐，因为它可以让我放松心情。因此我喜欢所有关于它的活动，比如：唱歌，跳舞和玩乐器。我虽然外表很平静，但我还有对朋友很热情的一面。在他们面前，我不会隐藏自己的想法，就像一个小孩似的，疯狂的很。连我也不敢，狮子座的我竟然是内向的A血型.....这令我“有点儿”胆小。我怕黑、也怕昆虫，还怕壁虎。我最怕的竟然是男性，特别是陌生人。每次我去吃饭，无论是什么，我一定会去不是个男滩主的滩位去买饭。我朋友（隔壁的李星宇）说我有点性别歧视。男士对不起了，我真不是故意的。这种恐惧不是与生俱来的，从我妈妈口中得知，我小时候一点都不怕生。好像是从小六开始，自己就不自觉地远离男生，不再那么信任他们了.....唉.......难道是因为我失恋了？？？应该去咨询心理医生对吧？没有啦，开玩笑的啦！！！！我喜欢自由的运动：滑冰⛸⛸⛸、足球⚽️⚽️⚽️和乒乓球。我认为自已还挺乐观的，不经常哭。我一向来都喜欢和平，是所谓的peacemaker。我很喜欢蓝色，因为它会让我感到幸福、平静。最喜欢的卡通就是善良、纯洁的吉蒂猫。它虽然很女孩子、不适合女汉子的我，但它毕竟陪我度过了童年，对我来说意义非凡。我今年最大的愿望就是希望我认识的人都会快快乐乐地度过这接下来的日子和世界和平。我来自联华小学，虽然不是什么好学校，但在那儿我有很多回忆。在那里，我对理科产生了很大的喜爱和兴趣，数学和科学都是我的菜，文科嘛……就不说了.....在令我怀念的是我小学的课外活动：科学俱乐部。在那里我做了很试验，我印象最深的是那个模拟宇宙的模型，那是我和我的好朋友画了好久才完成的。比起立化，我比较喜欢联华的周围的环境。围着联华就是小桂林，那里是我认为在新加坡最美的地方（至少我还没去过更美的），那里不但有“山”，还有水。在那些我听说是人造山上长着许多绿油油的树，水里还有鱼儿和可爱的乌龟。我建议大家去看看，可是如果令你失望了，那真对不起。如果你们听说过EXO-L, A.R.M.Y ,Monbebe和PLUS，那就是我。我是个韩流的大粉丝，从小二那年我听到第一个韩国歌曲（GEE）后就迷上了它，后来我听了FX的LaChaTa，是它真正让我爱上了舞蹈。从那时到现在已经过了六年一个月，但我对它的热忱并没消失过，反而慢慢地多了。大人都认为小孩子追粉都是坏的，会阻止他们（有可能不是全部，但我知道我妈是这样子的）但我不这么认为。我不会花钱去买他们的专辑、演唱会门票和其他的，尽量避免自己乱花钱。而且有很多偶像都有很多值得大家学习的地方，比如说EXO的张艺兴吧。虽然他是个很有名、也有很多人支持他的明星，他不但没有骄傲，还依然很有礼貌。这一点值得我崇拜。这是最后了，我这个人很保守，只能说到这了，白白！！！
平凡中的不平凡
在RV60里，我们二十四节令鼓虽然不一定是最累的，但我敢保证我们算的是很努力的，而在我们这50几个人的当中，还有几个派来领队的去年是高一的学姐们。她们像妈妈一样，要在训练的时候管住我们五十一个如猴子般顽皮的小孩，每次练习都比我们累上两倍以上，是在里面最辛苦的。去年只有十七岁的她们俩要包住所有繁琐的事情。在十二月假期时，她们需要早来让工作人员帮我们开auditorium的门；还需要做我们的好榜样，每次不但要主动去搬鼓和鼓架，还要叫我们这些没有主动性的中一上来帮忙。做完了，当大家有开始休息的时候，她们却要帮我们把最后的细节做完,免得当教练来了看到了不完美的队形后要罚我们。她们在把鼓搬到操场时也是来回跑最多趟的人，保证工作都做完了才会休息。我还记得有一天我们的鼓都差不多搬完了，我还在搬那最后几个鼓的时候，天突然黑了，下起了大雨。我们搬鼓的时候都会把鼓放在一个没有任何遮掩的地方（礼堂后面）。当我赶到那儿事，看到了全部鼓都收进来了但是多了几个落汤鸡；在这些“落汤鸡”当中，有一位头发都湿透了、粘在了头上，体育服湿得透透的，却还是很努力想把鼓上的水给擦干。她就是学姐，Yinwei.由于教练太晚才教了我们的finale,大家都不确定怎么打那一部分。学姐为了快点进步，帮助我们，在我们那休息的时候，打了整整一个小时的鼓。
刚刚才成年的学姐们,两个很平凡的高中生，却有着不平凡的精神。她们就我认为的平凡中的不平凡。
RV60
那张照片凡是看了RV60的人都应该很熟悉。在一月十六号，那样一个无比平凡的日子里却发生了一件对我来说无比重要的事，那就是RV60。立化六十周岁，一个对我们，立化学子十分重要的日子。学校也为了这一天花费了许多钱，时间和精力。他们安排了一系列的节目，比如说：柔中带刚的太极拳，舞蹈和24节令鼓。我在这里表演的就是照片里气势汹汹的节令鼓。去年是我第一次接触节令鼓，在那几堂音乐课里，我对它产生了兴趣，非常希望自己能在立化六十大寿的时候表演这个我喜欢的乐器；结果在EOY过后，这个愿望终于实现了。得到这个消息时，我一连因过度兴奋而失眠了。我们第一次的练习是在十月十二日，离表演还差三个月四天。在一共二十八次的练习中我们必须把需要背的谱都练得孰能生巧，背得透透的，这些曲子是我们自己的表演，为武术进场时的伴奏和最终的finale。如果你问我在里面我认为是什么最难的话，我一定会说是搬鼓的过程。虽然我们只需要给每一个人搬一个只有十五公斤的鼓，但因为鼓的圆圆的形状搬鼓的任务足足难上了一倍。那个任务十分艰难，但我们一直可以在十到十五分钟内·完成任务。那是为什么呢？我们的团队虽然不怎么认识，但看到彼此需要帮忙的时候一定会出手帮忙的，搬鼓时走过的时候，还会互相支持鼓励。有了这样的团队，我从那时就坚信有了大家，我们什么困难都不怕，一定可以在最后的表演中发光发亮的。结果，不出预料，那天我们结束表演的时候传来的鼓掌声大如雷。那时，我才发现为校争光是一件多么光荣的事。谢谢RV60让我认识了这么多善良的人，谢谢RV60让我表演了节令鼓，谢谢RV60让我明白付出一定会带来回报的。
谢谢了!RV60
My thoughts about poverty and happiness
According to what Mr Chua had shown in the lesson that though Singapore is providing citizens with more experienced well-being and living the citizens in Singapore to a higher life expectancy and having more ecological footprint than how China is doing for their citizens, the citizens in China seems to have a higher happiness index score than those in Singapore, I think that poverty and happiness are not related.
Instead, from what I observed in my daily life being in a country with higher living standard, Singaporeans are busier and have less free time to do what they really like to relax. Hence, Singaporeans will get more stressed and stressed due to the never-stop-increasing pile of work for them. On the other hand, my aunts and uncles in China has more flexible working hours, allowing them to have enjoyable time, making them feel relieved, hence making them feel happier.
Therefore, I think that being rich does not necessary mean that one is happy.
Reflections of my personal experience at Chingay
The whole year 2 cohort went to watch the rehearsal of Chingay 2016 at last Saturday evening. Despite the flu I was having that night, I was still cheering and having fun that evening as I can feel the enthusiasm and passion of everyone there that evening including all the students from around 60 schools, the participants volunteer, the emcees for the night and definitely the performers.
For someone for me who like songs, the Chingay song"People,people,we are one. Chingay,chingay,we are one.Singapore,Singapore,we are one" took much of my attention. Now, thinking only about its lyrics, I realised that there is a lot of repetition of the phrase"we are one".Thus i think Chingay is mostly about bringing the whole nation together as one Singapore by involving people in different generations and races. Being multi-rational is important to Singapore as we are known for having many religious and races.Thus the purpose of Chingay is to promote racial harmony.
Chingay was started by our founding fathers after they realised that the law of not being able to play with fire crackers during Chinese New Year had made the atmosphere during Chinese New Year down in order to let the citizens celebrate Chinese New Year as a nation together and also to hyper up the Chinese New Year atmosphere. Chingay in the early days has been more traditional with the stilt-walkers and flag bearers. On the other hand, Chingay 2016 is more about being a united nation with different generations and races. Nowadays, they invite the people from other countries like Japan and Malaysia to join in Chingay 2016. I believe this great change in the purposes from celebrating Chinese New Year to promoting racial harmony has its reason, which is because flying on an airplane is not as convenient as now to the people then when Chingay just started. Nowadays, we can travel during the holiday period but to the people in the past it isn't the way. We can also do much more fun things now like watching the television as a family together now hence celebrating Chinese New Year (CNY) is not as efficient as before. However, to still bring out the high atmosphere that we have during CNY,the activities are then arranged to celebrate racial harmony.
In my opinion, I believed that the organisers still fulfilled the original purpose as they did make most of the audiences feel relaxed and pleased after seeing the performances although there are less traditional performances now.
Three,two,one(Reflection of lesson)
3: The three things I learnt from the lesson last week is the few consequences of gross domestic product(GDP) increases,the causes of the one child policy in china and lastly the impacts of the act.
The higher the GDP, the more time the people in the country needs to work which will then directly affect his emotions as he will then have less time to spend with his beloved ones or doing what he enjoy.The GDP will then increase the tax. With higher taxes, the rich ones will get richer as they are the people collecting the tax and the poor gets poorer. This will lead to the increase in amount of cars on the road as more people can afford them, causing a higher possibility of traffic jam.
The causes of the one child policy implementation in China since the early 1970s are due to inability to provide enough infrastructure, low supply for education which all leads to the drop of economics. Then, there was lack of furniture like tables and chairs and also a good teacher. With a great population of people due high birth rates, it limited the demand of resources like water and space which are essential for building the needed infrastructure. Most importantly, the population growth outstrip the food growth, leading to famine.
This implementation then causes much problem that was never found out earlier. It caused the imbalance of the number of male children and female ones. They believed that giving birth to a son is more beneficial to them as boys are better than girls, hence when some family found out that they had a baby girl, they will try to discard her. Now in China, there is more males to females leading to much more problems like inability to form families.
2: The two perception gained are the point of view we used to see the things we encountered is only for us however it may be different in other point of views, like for example I think that the one child policy is beneficial as it provides more convenience and benefits to the country itself but on the other side, it sacrifices many innocent lives of baby girls and the children will grow up in an environment without any siblings where is proven that will make the child more self-centred. The other one is there is a trade off in everything we do. In Singapore, despite a higher GDP, it is proven that we are not as happy as China who has lower GDP.
1:The question I have is "Is it really impossible to have happy residents and high GDP ?"
Postcard for China Buddy
Reflection for day 1 and 2
On 24 May 2016, the trip started
HORRIBLY. My friend and I got stuck in a
traffic jam and were late by about 10 minutes that morning, despite the fact I
woke up rather early that morning just to prevent that from happening. After getting
assembled we went to check in, which was when we got our tickets and saw the
seat number. That made the class quite excited. I was seating in between of one
of my groupmate, Lexuan and another girl called Chenxi. On the plane, it was
like heaven( maybe even better than home cause no one to control me). When we
just board the plane, they provided us with warm towel. Next, every passenger
has a screen for themselves where there is many new movies, television programmes,
music and games which was really useful to entertain myself for the whole trip.
Moreover, they really try their best to cater to every passenger’s needs, for
instance , one of the boys in the class asked for 3 more ice cream and even red
wine ( which they would obviously not provide for him). After 6 hours of
flight, we finally reached China. I felt refreshed once I reached China ( I
mean the air in China smells somewhat different than Singapore, as for me).
Another interesting thing that day was the trip from Shanghai to Nanjing via
the bullet train. I really looked forward to taking this thing as I haven’t
been on it before but to be truthful, it wasn't as good as what I expected out
of it. The first reason is due to the lack of sufficient over-head storage place
for the luggage which resulted in my luggage having to stay on the floor and
for some weird reason the train isn't straight when it is moving(or maybe it
was too fast), my luggage kept on moving to the left side which was the walkway
so I had to keep it in front of me using my foot. Secondly, the stopping time
was too short and some of the class almost did not have time to board the train
via the can't-be-any-smaller door. Yeah! After getting off the train we then
returned to the hotel. Please note that we reached the hotel in the night.
On the second day, we woke up at 6.30 which
was much later than what I thought. After assembling in the hall, we then went
to Nanjing Bole Middle School. When we arrived there, I was rather shocked
because I thought the school will be like any other schools in Singapore but
surprisingly it was very small compared to RV school campus. However, they have
like 6 basketball courts which replaced where our field are at when we only
have 2 of them(including the hostel basketball court). We had one lesson with
them that day which was used to welcome us to their class. One weird thing that
I realised that day is that they thought that we, Singaporeans, are like the
Ang-mos, who don't know dumplings and many other basic Chinese cultures and
food. We went to many places that day, which includes Yangtze River Bridge,
Yuejiang Tower and Fuzimiao Commercial Area, which is local tourist attractions
in Nanjing. Yangtze River Bridge and
Yuejiang Tower taught me a lot knowledge on the history of China, for
example at Yuejiang Tower, I learnt that during the Ming Dynasty, there was a
total of 16 emperors but there's only 15 funerals. The place which I loved a
lot was Fuzimiao Commercial Area. Why? There was so much awesome and delicious
food there which I had never tried before which was really important for me
cause I love food( which explains my size). I tried the local delicacy , 鸭血粉丝汤，which the teachers that may cause 肠胃不适. But for my taste buds and ambitious stomach I tried
it which was really awesome. My best friend, Xingyu and I bought a few key
chains in one of the shops as it was really very cheap. I also bought some
local food to bring back to Singapore to share with my family.
Reflection on Day3 and 4
On the third day, we got the
morning call at a later time than Day 2 as we arrived very early than expected
on Day 2 so the teachers thought that we can go off later. For some reason, we
were a little late that day but never mind, the day still continued as it was
planned. That day we had Chinese lesson with them about 诗. It's not me boosting but I am really quite
at Chinese and I understood the lesson( Hahahah). Though the lesson, I realised
the drastic difference between the students there and we, the RV students:
1. They were very proactive in the class when the teacher
asked question even though there wasn't any rewards for them if they answered
the questions, they all replied the teacher and wasn't fearful of making a
mistake.
2. Although they had mini-conversations in the
class but those were for the contents related to the lesson. (My buddy and the
person sitting in front her were having one themselves so I am quite sure).
That was the last day we had with them, so we had gifts for each other
and also talked a lot about many things, including the kpop boy band, Exo. I
was extremely sad and depressed when we boarded the bus and was ready to leave,
but I tried to prevent myself from crying(I am not telling y'all whether I was
successful). The next place we went was the Nanjing Museum which I really
dreaded going as I am someone more of listener so I really can't learn much if
I was just reading something. Luckily, our tour guide brought us through the museum
and explained those artefacts that more important due to time constraints. One
of them is 留院, not meaning to be
hospitalized but that's the name of one model that is supposed to resemble one
of the buildings in the past, one of the possible reason for its name is the owner
of the building has the surname of 留. (I'm so sorry but I
deleted all the notes I took for Day 3 by accident). Last venue we went to
before returning back to hotel to relax was Nanjing Presidential Palace, which
I personally thinks that is the funniest out the day. It was less formal than I
thought(which is like Istana). When we walked in, the tour guide stopped us
right in front of the main gate and pointed out the flag pole without any flag
on it, he explained to us the reason of not having any flag on it. The Nanjing
Presidential Palace used to be the place the government works at and at that
point of time, there will always be flag on the pole but after they changed the
capital to Shanghai, they moved out of this place and hence, not being the
place the government works at, the flag is also removed from the pole. At
there, I learnt a lot about Sun Yat Sen, especially after seeing the pictures
there about Sun Yat Sen. One of them also includes the 晚晴园in Singapore where he went to collect money
from the other people in order to start a revolution. Other pictures also
includes his portrait after learning medicine in Hawaii. Wait! I almost forget
that we went to the local supermarket to know the cost of living in China by
comparing the prices of things that is essential to life, food. Believe it or
not, the five of us in the group almost filled up a cart and the people behind
us who was also wanting to pay was also very annoyed. In addition, despite
buying so much things, it only costs 200yuan( around S$40), which was paid by
our fabulous leader.
On Day 4, we woke up even later
as we did not have to rush to Nanjing Bole Middle School to attend lesson with
them anymore. That day was really a bad-luck day as we visited so many places
which has relationship with dead people in on day, which includes Nanjing
Massacre Museum, Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s Mausoleum and Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. See
what I mean……. So we started the day by visiting Nanjing Massacre Museum, which
I thought will be very gruesome( I mean anyone will think of it like that after
knowing its name) so I was quite prepared to see those kind of things in the
museum but to my surprise, it wasn't very disgusting except for a few videos
that was played on the television but after walking through the museum and
reading the informations patiently, my emotions went down( maybe was also
partly due to the background music and the dark lighting inside). However, once
I went out of the place and saw the green grass, I was okay and back to the
normal self again. Then continuing on with this trip, we went to Dr. Sun Yat
Sen’s Mausoleum which was very awesome for me cause there was very minimum
talking and explaining there, more importantly, we were free at the very start.
Yippee! Freedom!!!!! Okay let's continue. So, basically for me, I really did
not learn much at Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s Mausoleum but instead the fats I gain that
few days was all burned. For so,e reason I was really interested in climbing
the stairs and due to the fact that my best friend and I are both Leos, we
can't allow people to reach the top faster than us(which happened as we started
climbing later than them =unfair), but I am rather sure that we are the 5th
and 6th to reach the top among the class and the teachers which made
me quite proud and HAPPY:) So one of the informations I learnt there is that the
reason for the stairs to be steeper and steeper is for people to bend lower and
lower to show their gratitude to Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Like when you are climbing
steep stairs, your body will bend forward also de. Moving on, we went to Ming
Xiaoling Mausoleum where all the explaining returned. But the only part I was
interested was about the 石像 of different animals: 石象， 骆驼，獬豸，石狮 and 麒麟. There is different meanings for every
animals: camel symbolizes peace, 獬豸symbolizes justice, the
elephant symbolizes vividness and simplicity. Day 4 was the last day for us in
Nanjing and also the last day of us with our tour guide in Nanjing. When having
our last meal with him, some of us went to take a picture with him and after
the meal, we took a class photo with him.
Reflection on Day 5 and 6
Next we
went to have lunch where we consumed a lot of liquid before setting off to
Shanghai which the guide says will at most take 3 hours. After that, we were
stuck when on the highway where there's no WASHROOM!!!!!! (On the side note, it
was a Saturday, 3 in the afternoon and the journey took about 4++++hours) This
is a tragedy where most of the class needed the washroom so badly but there
wasn't. I should not continue with the details. Another thing that happened on
the bus is that the teachers decided to change our route since Qibao Ancient
Town is an outdoor tourist attraction but it was raining then so they let us go
shopping at the 假货市场 at the train station in Shanghai. (I was agreeing to
this decision so much cause I really wanted buy things from China to bring back
to Singapore as it is so cheap). When we reached the假货市场,
I really sticked to Xingyu since I can't 砍价, I really needed her help. We bought lots of things
there, including clothing, stickers and other useful stuffs. And then we went
to have dinner and lastly a night tour at 东方明珠 and
Municipal History Museum. So, Xingyu who is scared of heights, was very afraid
when we were waiting to go up there but for some reason, she was the one more
enthu to take photos up there. Yeah, the third last day just ended:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
On Day 6, we went to visit Shanghai Museum, French Concession, had hands-on activity at Gongyi Xintiandi(公益新天地) and had free time at Book Store and Nanjing Road. So even the two peeps from haven't heard about somewhere called Shanghai Museum, I thought that it won't be as useful as Nanjing Museum. However, despite being smaller in size, I learnt a lot there, cause the things the guide said was interesting for me, the reason for 观音 to be called 千手观音. Next destination is Gongyi Xintiandi where we painted 脸谱. So due to my shaky hands, I ruined my work by accidentally painting red in the white area. I was so sorry for it but can't help it anymore. Everyone was provided with a frame to frame up our work and I decided to keep it as a memory in Shanghai when I returned Singapore.
Next, comes
the whole shopping time of the trip, from French Concession where I treated
Xingyu ice-cream for her help to Book store where I bought lots of pens, books
and even piano scores and lastly to Nanjing road where I bought 蝴蝶酥
which is like local delicacy of Shanghai ( it tastes awesome).
When we
went back to our hotel, the debrief for that day was really saddening, I cried
like 3/4 times (not including the times I cried on the bus and in the hotel
room) .
So….. We
were only left with one more day before returning to Singapore, I hope that it
will be wonderful.
Reflection on last day
Today
is the last day in China. After the saddening debrief yesterday( after crying
so much) , I promised my friend that I will leave this awesome place with a
bright attitude and will really try my best to not cry(which is impossible as I
am very emotional ). I remembered that day we woke up quite early(I swear that
the phone is very soft). It was really difficult to pack my things despite I
was trying my best to stuff my things into my luggage (I really packed a little
last night but it was too late) which resulted to my roommate and I being
slightly late. There's only one place that we needs to go that day, the Volkswagen
factory in Shanghai. Having an ambition
of being an engineer when grown up, I was really interested in this
thing(although I know any girl shouldn't be). When we arrived, they first
showed us a video made according to their history and also introduced us to the
different types of cars they had manufactured and the few different other car
factories in China which I had the least interest in since I am not even
planning to have a car when I grow up, I mean when there are public transport,
why is their a need to waste money to private cars( okay…I sound too mature).
And after moving through another few roads, we arrived at the FACTORY!!!!!!!!.
So basically we seat on the elongated car-like vehicle which is slower than my
walking speed when traveling around the factory. I saw some videos online
before coming how cars are assembled, but seeing the different separated parts
of the car we seat everyday was really amazing. I was really interested when
they assemble the car door to the main body. Despite our appearance, they
worked as per normal as if they were used to this. After leaving the car
factory, we set off to have our last lunch of the trip, 海底捞,which was specially planned by the teachers for us. So after arriving,
my group decided to seat with each other at one table. After that, we went to
get our sauces, which I really didn't use when eating. When eating the food,
the three of us whose hometown is China kept throwing the food into the spicy
area and we also ordered two more plates of 羊肉which vanished the moment
it appears on the table and was all thrown into the pot. The food that I loved
the most is the fried thingy that they provided, which I supposed should be
used to make the mouth not spicy(at least I used it for that purpose). After
the lunch, we really has to say goodbye to China, but to my surprise, 2F was
also there, boarding the plane. The funniest part is that the class agreed on
wearing house tee which was the same color as 2F on the last day and so did 2F,
so people boarding the plane can only see a sea of blue.
不知不觉中，我们一起度过了七天的美好时光，希望以后还能有机会。
This
trip to China is definitely not my first but obviously the most memorial one.
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