ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
24 August 2009
Call us, helplines urge to troubled teens – (Home Section Pg B6)

Q1a) List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.
Q1b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?

Q2) Have you confined in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school/life? Why or why not?
Have you been betrayed by your friends before? If yes, how? (You may change the names of the people involved for privacy)

Answers:
Q1a) Teens do not prefer to talk to strangers and trust their closed ones more and they also felt weird and shy to talk to strangers about their problems.
Q1b) Touch leadership and Mentoring prefer to help youths because it is effective such as educational workshops and also counseling.

Q2) Yes, I have. I confined to them as it is easier as they know me better and I trust them more. Sharing problem with them is easier because our friends and families can understand our problems better and faster.
Yes, I’ve been betrayed once. There was once me, Dily and Fiqa (not real names) being scolded by our malay teacher due to disturb the malay boys not our class. It was Fiqa idea to disturb them. We both just followed her. Those malay boys complain to their malay teacher and we was called up. Fiqa blamed it on me and Dily and both of us are being scolded infront of their class. From then on, I do not trust her and will never get closed to her.

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
17 August 2009
PM’s 4 Basic Rules for Religious Harmony – (Home Section Pg B3)

Q1a) What are the 4 rules for religious harmony?
Q1b) In your opinion, how can we maintain a common space in schools?

Q2) Do your respect other religions? Why or why not?
What do you think of children who stay away from their parents’ funerals because they believe the traditional rites are against their new religion?

Answers:
Q1a) The first rule are all groups have to exercise tolerance and restraint.
Second rule are to keep religion away from politics. Thirdly by maintaining the common space that all Singaporeans share. Fourthly, the government must remain secular.
Q1b) In my opinion, we should respect others be it their different religion. We must not be racist between others. Different kind of beliefs should not be compulsory for every student for example doing prayers and others.

Q2) Absolutely, I respect other religions. We should respect other religions if not they will be riots all over the world. We should not be racists because each individual is the same except their beliefs. We should respect and treat everyone the same. Besides, Singapore is a multi-racial country.
I think they feel dishearten because parents’ funerals should be visited by their family members. If not, who else would visit them?

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
3 August 2009
Elderly Falling Prey to ‘Volunteer’ Ruse (Trick) – (Home Section Pg 1)

Q1a) What is the modus operandi (method of operating) of the con artists?
Q1b) What are the Lion Befrienders planning to do to ensure the old folks do not get conned again?

Q2) Do you like doing social work? Why or why not?

Answers:
Q1a) The modus operandi is to pose as a volunteer from welfare organization on project to spruce up the homes of the senior citizens and let them in. They will help themselves mostly to their unsuspecting victims’ cash.
Q1b) The Lion Befrienders sends volunteer to help the elderly and have alerted those under its charge about these scammers.

Q2) Yes, I like doing social work. There is an advantage of doing social work for example we may gain experience by helping them and may able to understand elderly feelings. Doing social work will help to occupy our time rather than doing nonsensical things. Doing social work will help us to expose more to the elderly and disabled societies. We will be able to help them and may make them feel happy and also may let them feel that they are also being remembered.

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
27 July 2009
A deadly Business – (In Section Pg 3)

Q1a) What are the 2 worrying trends about drug trafficking mentioned in the article?
Q1b) Why are Singaporeans increasingly being used as “drug mules”?

Q2) What will you do if you find out that one of your friends is selling drugs? How will you react if someone tries to sell you drugs?

Answers:
Q1a) First worrying trends are the increasingly number of Singaporeans are being arrested for drugs crime overseas. Second worrying trends are mostly young peoples are the one who sell drugs not the adults and also punishment of selling the drugs.
Q1b) Singaporeans increasingly being used as drug mules because Singaporeans does not require a visa for many places and are seldom checked due to Singapore’s reputation for being tough on drugs.

Q2) If one of my friends is selling drugs I will have a talk with him/her. I would try to advise her to stop selling the drugs to others. If she does not hear my advised, I would inform the teacher or ask her to go for counseling.
I would firmly say no and walk away if someone tries to sell drugs to me. If it was my friend selling to me and still disturbing me, I will threaten him/her that I will inform the teachers even though he/she is my friend because have a drug in possession is already a crime. If it was a stranger still trying to sell to me, I will try to threaten him by saying I will calling the police.

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
20 July 2009
Hawkers fall prey to brazen break-ins – (Home Section Pg 1)

Q1a) Why is it easy for burglars to break into stalls at the two markets in the Kallang area?
Q1b) What is the Geylang East Central Merchants’ Association going to do about the break-ins?

Q2) What do you think should be done to tighten the security of the markets? What do you think of the burglars who brazenly break into stalls?

Answers:
Q1a) The stalls units are open and are located at the top which makes the burglars easily to break-ins through the open ceilings or the metal bars along the walls.
Q1b) The Geylang East Central Merchants’ Association discussed with NEA and town councils. They look into improving the security and will modify the stall layouts and design.

Q2) I think they should put more security systems and alarm alerts. I think the burglars who brazenly break into stalls are selfish who thinks about themselves. The owner of those stalls work hard to gain money but the burglars simply steal them and the owner hard works are for nothing. I think the burglars should think first before stealing because they only think about themselves and not others.

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/2E
13 July 2009
3 Cheers for the Team – (In Section Pg 8)

Q1a) Why is cheerleading an expensive sport?
Q1b) What makes cheerleading such a tough sport?

Q2) What is your opinion of cheerleaders? If given a chance, would you join cheerleading? Why/ why not?

Answers:
Q1a) Cheerleading is an expensive sport due to the costume quality and the material to attract the audience. The costume may cost expensive due to the embroidery. Cheerleaders also need good shoes which will cost highly as the shoes is important. They also need hair products and accessories to look good during the competition. These accessories cost expensive too. Each cheerleader need to have vitamins and nutrition which cost them $50 - $130. Cheerleading also need mats to train and in competition. In competition 144 mats is needed and each mat cost $50.

Q1b) Cheerleading makes such a tough sport as each individual need a lot of perseverance and patience in order to perfect the stunts and dance moves. Cheerleading is more on doing stunts which needed strong and fit cheerleaders. Cheerleaders will have to work very hard to achieve the stunts and which they need to train every week or everyday after school.

Q2) In my opinion, I think those cheerleaders are very patience and have a spirit of teamwork. With their performance which can put a smile on each audience, I think they are totally good and wonderful cheerleaders. If given a chance, I would not join the cheerleading. Basically to me, it seems tough and tiring. I think I can’t possibly train each day when my studies are lacking. Most cheerleading requires stunts which require heights. Basically, im afraid of heights and will be a problem for me.

ST Reflection 2009 - Secondary 2NA/2E

ST Reflection 2009 - Secondary 2NA/2E

ST Reflection 2009 - Secondary 2NA/2E

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA / 2E
Term 1, Week 7 (16 Feb 09)
No Loitering After School (IN! pg 7)


Q1) Why Coral Secondary School forbids students to idle around near their school in their school uniform?
Q2) Do you agree with this rule? Explain your answer.



Answers:

Q1) This rule has been obeyed for several years in Coral Secondary School. The student could go if he/she has fill in a form and get it approved by the Discipline Mistress or Operation Manager. The school does not allow student to even loiter around the housing estate near the school or even neighbourhood areas to prevent any trouble from happening. Teachers would patrol around this area furthermore Coral Secondary School emphasis on inculcating the student good habits like using time prudently.

Q2) Yes, i agree. Loitering around with school uniform will drop the school reputation. Outsiders will think negative about the school instead of the students. Students can loiter around but not in their school uniform. Instead of loitering around, they should spend their time wisely by revising or doing benificial things. Students who loiter around with their school uniform will be in trouble. Once they make a nuisance, people will complain to the school immediately. Eventhough most student would want to walk around the shopping mall, they should change their clothes first. To me, the safest way is to change our clothes and then loiter around.