Blog 8: Tips on drinking milk

      Milk is a kind of healthy drink, packing with lots of Vitamins and Calcium.  However, do you know that there are several dos and not dos about drinking milk.  Here I would tell you what we should know about drinking milk.

DOs:   There are three periods in a day which are the best time to drink milk.  The first one is breakfast.  As the breakfast can provide us about 30% of the energy we need for the whole day, we can have some milk during the breakfast,accompanied by some bread and eggs, to kick up out metabolism.  Therefore, we will feel energetic for the whole day.  Around 4 o' clock is also a best time to  have milk.  It would be better if we have milk before supper.  The last one is to drink milk before sleeping, which would help us to fall asleep.  The effect can be magnified if we have some biscuits at the same time.

Not DOs:  The first thing we should not do is that we can eat orange immeiately afte we drink milk.  Because the protein will solify when it meets acid.  Therefore, we should not blend milk with other sour flavoured juice.  People  like to heat  milk  before drinking it.  However, we must not add suguar to the boiling milk.  It is because some poisonous things will come into being we suguar is added.  We should waait until the milk get cooler.  The last thing we should not do is that we can not have medicine with milk.  The reason is that the mineral substance in the milk will react with the medicine,which will influence the pesticide effect.

       After reading this, I believe that you know how to drink milk in a healthy way.  Next time when you drink milk, remember to drink healthily.

Blog 8:Detective game

Last Saturday we had our second English Speaking Corner (ESC) activity.  I have been looking forward to it so long.  Fortunately I feel the activity is worth participating.

Different with the first ESC activity, this time the game was more interesting.  Last time we played some entertaining games.  But this time we played a detective game.  The story happened on 23^rd, March. A Philippine maid was found dead in her employer’s room at 7pm on that day.  She was stabbed to death.  There were six suspicious people including her employer who treated her badly, her agent who knows her many darkest secret, the loan shark who lent her ten thousand dollars, her employer’s son, her best friend in Singapore and her good-for-nothing boyfriend.  We played the role of “Dorlock Dolmes” who was a detective.  He was assigned to investigate the case and found the murder competing with detectives from other detective companies.  

The key of this game is asking questions.  We could interrogate the six suspects.  By asking questions and analysing their response, we should speculate who was the murder.  I felt it was hard to come up with the conclusions because we even didn’t know what they said and their proof was truths or lies.  All in all, we failed to find out the murder in the final.  However, I didn’t feel upset at all because I enjoyed the process of the game.  I improved my speaking and detective skills in the process.  Moreover, we met our lovely befrienders and we chatted for a long time.  Tired but happy, I enjoyed myself on Saturday.

I still remember the scene we met our befrienders at the central forum.  Time flies! I’m glad we have kept a close relationship.

Blog 8

      How time flies!  This is already our last blog, which means that our bridging course is coming to an end.  So in this blog I want to talk about what I have gained from bridging course.

      The most precious part I think is the acquaintance of 5 tutors.  The tutors in our group are excellent.  Ms. Lim is very responsible and really good at teaching.  In phase 2, she has to teach for one and a half day per week and take care of 6 mentees.  She is so busy but she has never complained about it.  Mr. Ng is a very humors and talkative person.  All of us admit that Tuesday is the most relaxed day in a week.  He always tells us some interesting news or some special experience of himself and ignores our study task.  I like his lesson very much. HAHA!  Mrs. Choo is our group mentor and research supervisor.  She is always willing to help us with difficulties.  Mrs. Choo really distributed a lot in our research.  And she also took us for meals several times.  It’s very delicious!  The two Ms. Lee are also very kind and responsible although they teach us only half a day per week.

      Besides, I also appreciate my 17 lovely classmates very much.  Everyone has his or her own specialty such as writing, speaking, reading, or singing.  Someone is outgoing, someone is easygoing and someone is charming.  I’m so lucky to study in Group 2.  However, the only pity is that we have never gone out for fun together as a group.  I hope we can get such a chance after bridging course.

      The last part is that my English level has improved a lot especially in speaking and listening. But it is not as important as what I mentioned above la!

      Wish everyone can get a good grade and get into his or her ideal major!

Blog 8: ESC

       Last Sunday, there was an English Speaking Corner at Marina Bay Sands, which was organized by our befrienders, in order to help us practice our speaking skills.  I was quite interested to participate the activity, because several weeks ago, I had had an oral report to introduce that place, but I never went there. 

When we arrived there, we were separated into several groups.  What we needed to do is to solve a case that an employee who was a maid was stabbed to die in the employer’s home.  There were several suspects performed by befrienders we needed to ask for details, who were staying at different spots of Marina Bay Sands.  Therefore, while we were looking for the murder, we could also go through the scenery of every corner of Marina Bay.  I quite enjoyed the shopping center and so many tall buildings.

After asking a lot of questions, we finally agreed with the victim’s friend or her employer, amongst her boyfriend, the agent and the employer’s wife and son.  What impressed me most was a befriender who performed as the nine-year-old son, because he sat on a chair and kept shaking and smiling like a kid.  I laughed a lot because he kept saying “my mama blablabla”.  It was so funny.  When the leader asked the final results of every group, one of our befrienders said,” Let’s vote! The first one is the friend” and then her hand rose.  Before the rest of our members rose hands, another befriender did not heard the word “vote” but only the word “friend” so that she said “OK” and ran away towards the leader too swiftly to be stopped.  We burst into laughter and shouted,” Oh, my god. We have not decided the result at all.”  However, to our surprise, we were the only group who made the right result.  We laughed and enjoyed the snacks we won as gifts.  When we told the others that joke, they all could not imagine how lucky we were.

Having enjoyed the food, we together took MRT to a food club which I was not familiar with to have lunch.  The interesting activity ended with chatting and laughing.  The time we spent with befriends was always gone too fast.

Blog 8: Wedding

 Wedding is the most important moment for most women.  Last Saturday, our host family took me to attend a Christian wedding which was much different from Chinese weddings.  Now, I`d like to share it with you, my dear classmates.

  The wedding was held in a Christian church.  When I arrived there, my host family took me to the dressing room to see the bride.  As imagined, the bride looked very beautiful dressing in white.  After taking photos with the bride, my host family and I sat down and waited patiently for the beginning of the ceremony. 

  At last, the host announced the ceremony was beginning.  Then everyone stood up and sang Christian songs together.  Later, the host told us the story about the groom and the bride.  He said that four years ago, someone had introduced the bride to the groom and they had exchanged the telephone numbers but had not contacted each other.  However, one and a half years ago, the couples met again in the church and fell in love with each other.  Therefore, they married.  After the long introduction, the most important part began.  The bride and groom were ready to come in.  Before they came, the flower girls and boys had come.  The father of the bride accompanied the bride walking through the red carpet and handed over his precious daughter to her husband.  Then the priest appeared helping the groom and the bride exchange vows and rings and announce them husband and wife.  After that, the new couple kissed, lit candles together and watched a video about their friends` wishes and their wedding pictures.  At the end of the wedding, every guest took photos with the new couple and went downstairs to enjoy the feast.

  The wedding ceremony lasted only two hours but it was significant to the couple, especially to the bride.  From then on, she was not a carefree girl any more.  She must care for her husband and the whole family.  She could not enjoy the happy time when her parents did everything for her.  She must learn to do housework and learn to deal with other tiring things.  From my perspective, girls should not get married too early.  Girls should enjoy the freedom without any restriction.  The old saying tells people that the marriage is the grave of love.  Once girls get married, the boy who always considered his beloved girl as the center of the world will not do it any more because he have got what he wants and he will not cherish the things he gets.  That`s why many women complain their husbands love them less after marriage.

  In conclusion, I do hope every girl can be happy forever.

blog 8: More Than a Dream

The other day, I found that my twin elder sister had written in her twitter, “Sister, I love you!” Although she wrote sweet and embarrassing words of me from time to time, I was still curious and responded to her asking what happened. She replied that she had dreamed a wonderful dream, after which she wrote it down.

And this was what she had dreamed: at first she and I were on a train. Then we suddenly realized that we had missed our stop. Both of us were very worried. When the train slowed a bit, I jumped out of the window, taking away my schoolbag and hers at the same time. She shouted to me,” sister, wait for me! I will see you later! ” the train went on, and gradually it became a bus. When the train almost stopped, my sister impatiently jumped off the bus. She was very anxious because the train, or the bus, had already gone so far away since I jumped off. It was a remote place with no other transportations, and she had to run back to me. She ran as fast as she could, thinking that I must have grown lonely and worried as I waited. Engulfed by a feeling of sympathy, she began to cry, and had a notion to shout” Sister, I love you!” she almost cried out these words, when my parents suddenly came to her sight. They asked her what was she doing and she answered that she was looking for me.

Right on cue, my older sister’s hand phone rang, which ended her dream. It was from her boyfriend. She felt it a pity that she had not cried out “sister, I love you!”, so she immediately wrote it down in her twitter.

“How could your boyfriend serve as a ‘light bulb’ at that critical moment?” I teased after she finished telling me her dream, but we both admitted that it was a wonderful dream.

Moreover, it was more than a dream. It reflects my sister’s deep love to me. How lucky I am to have my sister in my life.

Blog 8: "DISC" assessments

Last Friday, MOE arranged a special activity for all of us, in which teachers and volunteers helped us to understand ourselves better using the “DISC” assessments.  DISC is a quadrant behavioral model based on the work of Dr. William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. It therefore focuses on the styles and preferences of such behavior.

The assessments classify four aspects of behavior by testing a person's preferences in word associations.  DISC stands for: Dominance – relating to control, power and assertiveness; Influence – relating to social situations and communication; Seadiness – relating to patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness; and Compliance – relating to structure and organization

I scored very high in “I”, which means I usually influence others through talking and activity and tend to be emotional. I am described as convincing, magnetic, enthusiastic, persuasive, warm, trusting, and optimistic.

I also scored high in “D”, meaning that I am very active in dealing with problems and challenges.

In “S”, I got very low scores, implying that I like change and variety.

I also got low grades in “C”, suggesting I am willing to challenge the rules and want independence and are described as self-willed, unsystematic, arbitrary, and unconcerned with details.

DISC proponents believe that characteristics of behavior can be grouped into these four major "behavior styles", which are  and they tend to exhibit specific characteristics common to that particular style. All individuals possess all four, but what differs from one to another is the extent of each.

After the activity, many students wanted to know how to change themselves and there indeed are some tips in response; however, I believe that we should not force ourselves to change because the world is beautiful as a result of variety.  If everyone is to be the same “perfect” person, the whole human society would be very dull.

Hence, I would appeal that it is okey to make some adjustments so that we can get along with others more smoothly but there is no need to change “what I am now” to”what I should be in the future”.  After all, a beautiful garden must include flowers with different colours.