Poverty in Singapore

In Singapore, there generally are no beggars on the streets, giving most foreigners the impression that Singaporeans are rather wealthy. Well, even if that is the case, what is undeniable is that us Singaporeans are poor in etiquette. In our daily struggles to be the best in this competitive society, we overlook others. We get to the very top by bringing others down and in doing so we often ignore their feelings. This makes us extremely selfish in a sense and therefore, poor in etiquette.

African Poverty

A word to describe this photo is cruelty. This photo depicts how cruel this seemingly warm world can be, where one waits for another to die, in order to fill their stomachs. The fact that this is a photograph reminds us that the photographer did not help the poor child, reinforcing that this world is cruel.

My holiday -Saffren

My reflections Saffren

We've been learning how to see not look. This will help us I'm observing what we will get to SEE in Taiwan / china. We have been learning lots of thinking skills too. For example, the beggar stories help us in thinking before we donate money. 

Also, we have the vulture and child, which was one of my favourite lessons. I like good photographs but after understanding the background of the photographer and how he commited suicide afterwards, it really made that picture memorable for me.

Overall, I think that CID lessons were really interesting and I cannot wait for the next lesson.

My reflections (Yuanru)

Until now, I have learnt a lot from CID2. Just knowing that we would be going overseas got me excited.  

In the first lesson, I learnt about creating a blog and posting things about myself and sharing my experiences. After that, we observed the activities in school everyday, and learnt slightly more about our schoolmates and what they do. We had a deeper understanding of of school too. Although most of us are very busy, we are still reasonably happy in school. The most important thing I learnt in CID2 until now is how not to judge something or someone by his looks. He might not be the kind of person we think he is. The impression of somebody before and after we know about their story can really change a lot. 

Colour, Image and Symbol that Represents Chinese New Year for Us ^^

Colour to describe Chinese New Year:

Purple

Purple is a mix of red and blue. Since red symbolizes happiness while blue symbolizes sadness, we think it expresses how we feel as we are happy that it is Chinese New Year but sad that we only have a short holiday and still need to do homework during the holiday. T^T

Image:

The festive spirit of Chinese New Year: Crowded, busy streets of Chinatown which happens every year without fail :)

Our symbol of Chinese New Year

We are still happy about Chinese New Year (because we get ang paos XD). :D

Reflections - Carine

Throughout the last three weeks, I have learnt a considerable lot and here I would like to summarise what I have learnt and what I have done here.  For the first week, we were supposed to create a blog and post a reflection about our holidays on it.  I scoured through thousands of pictures and sifted through various memories and experiences to select some for posting about my overseas trip during the holidays.  I was tempted to put all! :P However, I think this task helped us to review our holidays, learn more from it and reflect on it, so that we took home valuable lessons and knowledge from it.  For the second week, we were tasked to take 4 pictures which depicted school spirit, fear, life and happiness.  This was our first try at taking meaningful pictures.  To be honest, I think it was rather difficult to capture a good picture at the right time, one which was able to express those words clearly, and I can say that the pictures we took were not really the best.  Looks like our photography skills need some work. :P This week, we are supposed to post about one colour, one symbol and one image to describe our feelings, thought or experience of the upcoming Chinese New Year.  I think this is meaningful since it makes us think deeper about this celebration which occurs every year but is not really given much thought. 

The most important thing I learnt from these three weeks is that almost everything has a background story.  Therefore, we should dig deeper to find more information about that particular subject before we judge.  As the saying goes, do not judge a book by its cover!