Some inspirationanl quotes :)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." - Ernest Holmes

"You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it." - Charles Buxto

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth." - Julie Andrewsn

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." - William Shakespeare

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart." - Confucius

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart." - Alan Alda

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." - Zig Ziglar

"We learn by doing." - Aristole

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The only people who never fail are those who never try." - Ilka Chase

"We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start." - Anonymous

"Delay always breeds danger." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity." - Sir Walter Scott

Well, goodnight! and have tons of rest please :)

- P3

SOCIAL STUDIES

Key points for your essay (qn a)

Developments in transportation & communications (t&c):
- globalisation could not have occurred without improvement in t & c technology.
- Perform two different but complementary roles in encouraging globalisation
- people, goods can move about freely.
- information can be transmitted from place to place in form of ideas, instructions and images.

Transportation:
- Improvement has "shrunk" the world = in terms of time taken to get from one place to another.
Eg: Containerization.

• Reduced time and cost of moving goods over long distances
• Greatly simplified transfer of goods
• Easily transferred from ships to trucks

- Increase mobility of goods and people
- Efficient & integrated transportation infrastructure:- airports, railways, highways
-> to facilitate movement
- efficient transport made it possible for goods to be moved around the world easily.
- people can travel easily.
Eg: Businessman from HK can attend morning meeting at SG and be back in HK by evening.

Communications:
- Improvements has made communications among people in different locations faster & convenient
- People across globe can communicate via tools:- phones, video conferencing, fax
- Satellite technology enables messages to be transmitted from one location & receive in another part of the world simultaneously.
-> Live telecast of World Cup at South Africa to Singapore.

- led to invention of internet
- enable consumers to access information about new products & places conveniently & efficiently
Eg: Reservation at hotel is possible thru internet.
- Can also buy ticket via internet without leaving home.
- Transformed way one communicates, conducts business and such.
- this led the TNCs to coordinate and control worldwide activities

=== Developments in T&Cs led to TNCs? or Is a factor to TNCs?

TNCs:
- Large global firms operate in no. of countries
- Have production or services outside country of origin
Eg: Toyota Motor

- Set up operations in different locations around world for variety of reason.

• sourcing for new market
• lowering cost production

- coordinate and control Headquarters, located in country of origin.
- source components from around the world before assembling final product in another country
Eg: Boeing, American TNC, sources aeroplane parts from around the world
- Doors from France
- Tail Fin from USA

(pg 49 of textbook)

#~#

Environmental Degradation:
-> Deforestation & Related problems.

- cut down to make way for development of industries, agriculture, housing.
- govt allow trees to be cut down at rapid rate as economic activities:- mining, forestry can generate revenue for country.
Eg: Brazil`s Beef
- Success as beef exporter.
- comes at price of huge devastation of Amazon forest.
- total area of forest lost in Amazon rose from 41.5 million hectares in 1990 to 58.7 million hectares in 2000.
- suspicion that Brazil`s deforestation rate is due to high international demand for Brazilian Beef.

Global Warming:
- worsened environmental problems
- goods can move freely due to airplanes and ships
-> they produce large quantity of greenhouse gases:- Carbon Dioxide & Nitrogen Oxides
- Factories & different modes of transportation around world emit large quantity of fumes to atmosphere every day.
- Presence of gases in atmosphere leads to increase in average global temperature
Eg:
In 1895: the global average temperature was 13.4 and in 2020, it will be 14.5

night study

hey.

today was the first day of our night study...

and we did our revision!hahas

i know you are tired,worn out and exhuasted.

but don't forget everyone is also tired. Including the teachers and uncles taking care of the keys whom also stayed back with us!

so let's study and work hard !

Drink lots of plain water and have many many fruits

and turn in early after you have reach home from school.

-ham ji peng

First paper.

How was it? :) I hope it was manageable.
I know the MYE results were disappointing, but to think of it, how many of your actually put in your effort to study or at least read the notes given by the teachers?
It's okay, this isn't the end.

Yes, it's a process. You've to keep on going. Never say never, never give up! I know this might be a little bit, uhm.. worthless to read about, but just think. Without practice, you won't go anywhere. It'll slowly become a habit.

"It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline." --Anonymous

When you're down or unmotivated, look through your noMADic booklet. The photos, the videos. All that we went through together. The walks, the talks, the running, the complaining, the sun, the camping trip, the long bus rides. We walked all over Singapore. Is that not a big accomplishment?

Yes, they are just numbers on a piece of paper that'll determine your future. Others are similar to us. blood, nerve impulses, brains. Equal.
What makes them so special?

Never use 4E4 as an excuse.

:) Enjoy your holidays!
There's intensive tomorrow.
(:(

JY 4E4

G O O D
L U C K
E V E R Y B O D Y

ACE THE EXAM.
:)

10 things:

1) SLEEP EARLY.
2) DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!
3) Come with a POSITIVE MIND!
Before you go to school: Say I can x10 and do your best x10!
4) BRING YOUR IC AND ENTRY PROOF.
5) DICTIONARY with a stamp! Make sure no notes/tag/flags/annotations.
6) CLEAR PENCIL CASE (no notes! highlighters! fluids! make sure you have at least 3 pens, 2 pencil and an eraser, also a ruler)
7) Make sure your UNIFORM IS PROPER. School badge, skirt length, shirt tucked, shoes, socks, hair.
8) DON'T PANIC! or you'll go *_____* in the exam hall.
9) Relax! BUT DO NOT SLEEP. (during the exam) Check your paper, re-check them!)
10) This is it. This isn't any exam. This is the O Levels.

do it ONCE, do it FAST, do it RIGHT.

(minus the fast part, make sure you're well paced)

Good luck :)

let's work hard...

Lets work hard and not let other things affect our revision.

- Tina :)

ilive journal

PLEASE DO YOUR ILIVE JOURNAL

OR NOT YOU PAY 50 CENTS TO MS. YEW.

PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

:)

14 more days

14 more days till O levels MT? :\
good luck to all! results and prelims!

Question of the day:
What do you think about society today?

Leave a comment at the tagboard! <<<
Thank you :)


- put3

HEY E4lians,


GOODLUCKS FOR OUR MYE!
all pass with lots of flying clours!
dont fail, hope so, ! =DDDD
all the best !
jiayous jiayous =DDDDDD



loves,weitian(:

iLIVE TO DO!

PLEASE GET AN iLIVE JOURNAL FOR THE FOLLOWING TASK(S):
please and thank you :D

This semester, you have covered the following values or lessons in your iLive lessons:

• Respect
• Responsibility
• Resillience
  
• Anti-bullying
• Cyberwellness

Write a reflection based on ONE of the values or lessons listed above. You may use the following guidelines to help construct your reflection:

• What are the 2 key ideas that you have learnt from this lesson?
• How can you apply the lesson in your daily life?
• What are some challenges you may face in applying the lesson?
• How can these challenges be overcome?

Important instructions:

1. You may refer to your iLive journal for reference.
2. Indicate the topic chosen clearly at the top left hand margin.
3. Your reflection must be at least 200 words, with no lines in betweeen.
4. Please write legibly and coherently. You are also advised to use paragraphing to organize your thoughts.
5. If it helps you, you may include drawings or other forms of your expression in your answer.
6. Staple your completed reflection together with the question paper on top.
   

No. of words: _____________

- Khalisa.

4E4?

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

- Dan Rather

"Thank you and goodbye Mr./Ms./Miss/Mdm ____. Have a nice day" How many times have we said that? Everyday, after lessons. And how many of us actually mean it? Or we just say it cause we are forced to, and it becomes a habit..

I tend to forget that the person standing in front of us is a teacher. He/She is a human being. We show our attitude towards them, we rebelled, we yelled, we do just about anything that can/may/always displeases the teacher.
They have a life on their own. Yet, they chose to stay back with us for extra lessons just to ensure that we are well-aware of our progress in our studies. Yet, we never turn up. Just because we are lazy. Just because we had a rough day. Just because (insert your own excuse)

Mr. See: Thank you for always being there for us. For your "funny" jokes, your concern and care, your 'pov' of 'other' classes. your contributions, your motivations, your talks, your teachings, your 'let-people-use-your-camera' ability, your idea in donating the frog-bank thing to make a wish, your running with us during M.R & for always believing in us even if we have disappointed you frequently. Thank you :)

Ms. Yew: Thank you for always 'loaning' us your magazines :), for always being there, for being flexible with our 'attitude', for contributing lots to the class decoration, for keeping the frog-bank, for influencing us with your English :), for teaching us, for waking-us-up, for encouraging us & for always believing in us even if we were too much. Thank you :)

Mr. Tan: you've been with us for quite some time and it's a miracle how you can always tolerate with us despite our 'bad attitude'. we sincerely apologize if we've said/did things that is unimaginable. we should understand that you had a long day, and we should respect your words/decisions. Thank you for always joking with us, for taping the guys' eyebrows, making us laugh, pulling the guys' sideburns (it really hurts :O), for being able to care for us, for always treating us like adults even if we violated it, for always checking on us, pushing us & for always believing in us and never giving up on us :)

Mrs. Lau: thank you for your guidance, for your teachings even if you need not teach us, for always reminding us about our homework and revising before class starts, for treating us like adults, for making us laugh and smile, without you i guess our class wouldn't really be passing biology :) thank you! :D

Mrs Tan: Thank you for giving your best effort to make us understand your lessons better through the videos and notes that you have made. We know it is difficult on your side to juggle so many things/classes at one time. Even though we have the least number of lessons with you, all of us in the class know that you had our interest deep down in your heart, and if possible you do want to see us excel in our studies.

Mdm Kartini: Thank you for treating everyone in the class equally. Even though at times our ears get hurt from your amplified voice, it was an effective way to not make us fall asleep. Also, that song/exercise that you made us do as before the class begins when we look fatigue, somehow did made us feel a little bit more awake as we laughed through it. Thank you for your guidance too.

Miss Khong:Thank you for giving the few of us the privilege of studying in a well air-conditioned room, thank you for being patient with all of our laziness and "i forget to do homework" attitude.

We should be grateful and thankful that there are people who still believes in us. Has the noMADic journey taught you nothing?
Did you walk the whole of Singapore just to be famous for failure again?
Did you know that there are SOME classes out there saying irrelevant stuff about our class just because we're in 4E4?
Yes, we are in 4E4, Face it.
If we don't work hard now, then when?
Next year? Next two years? A day before the O Levels?
You think you can make it, but we all can't without effort, I know that and I'm doing my best to juggle stuff about.
The teachers are giving their best in teaching us, not only us BUT OTHER CLASSES. We're not alone.
Is it the time again for us to give up on ourselves, just because we're in 4E4?
Never use that as an excuse, but a reason to excel.
:)

- 4E4 loves the teachers and everything :) and the whole entire Earth.
Recycle! Reduce! Reuse!

Best of luck to all! :D

homework:
Ms. Khong's class: Math textbook Ex 5.2 Qn 3 - 7.
Bio TYS + worksheet given.

a week more till MYE.
please, please s t o p fooling around.

MT O'Levels is nearing - 30 May 2010.

Bring TIE tomorrow :)
Okay, bye.

"Do it once, do it fast, do it right"

4E4'10:

BRING TIE PLUS SUNGLASSES FOR PHOTO SHOOT TOMORROW.
this is what i heard
PLEASE BRING OKAYYYYYYY
IF NOT 50 CENTS.

:)

CONGRATULATIONS TO:
IRFAN FOR D&T!
AND WANI! FOR MALAY LANGUAGE!
TING LI FOR NPCC! :)

If you can't then you must.
See they did it! :)
Yes, we can do it despite being in 4E4.
who says we can't?
all it takes is a good attitude + being hardworking + enjoying life at the same time :D

Please pay up 50cents. To those who failed.
The class tee, I'll be ordering today. :D
So hopefully, two weeks time = Tee okie dokie! :D
Dalilah & Ridzuan = not paid
But I'll pay for your guys first ^-^V

Tests are over, but this is just the beginning. 1-2 more weeks till MYE
borderline pass (eg: 15/30) = 50cents
almost pass but still failed (eg. 13/50) = $1
okay-okay fail (eg: 10/15) = $1.50
EPIC FAIL (eg: 1/15) = $2
and i'm serious about this.

And no more playing around, no more softball in class, no more catching, no more army, no more. Please? :)
Now it's the time to focus.
Set your priorities.
Studies first.

Pay now, play later.

- put3

:))

-Khalisa

REMEMBER TO BRING TIE TO SCHOOL TMR 7/4/10

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ONG WEI TIAN!
best of luck for the future and also for O Levels :)
Stay happy! :D

weitian very cute, no choice, same as someone = gab&ggjk

- Put3/wt

Short update 2

Ms. Ten's class:
English 2006 November Paper 2.
Complete everything exp for summary.

Morning run tomorrow!
Bring PE attire.
Ms. Khong's class: bring 4B Math book :)

Tomorrow's the last day for this week!
No school on Friday! :)
Happy Good Friday! ^-^v

Short note

hey guys!
here is a short update on our achivement! *clap hand, standing ovation*

for jogathon, we raised a total of

$714!!

:D *YEAYYYY!!!*

Study Group :)
1. Joanne
2. Deedee
3. Put3
4. Khalisa
5. Wei Tian
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
*sign up~
Tuesday: 2.45 - 4.30PM
-Either at D&T Studio(soldering room thing) or IP Room (If I can get it booked) :)

NO PLAYING AROUND.
NO NONSENSE. :)
If not, kindly leave the room. :)

Friday
Math Lesson with Mr. See
12.30 - 5.30PM
Algebra lessons!
*those who get F9*

RING DING DONG!
- 15 VOLUNTEERS
TO CHEER FOR CLASSMATES DURING HONOR'S DAY!
Recipients are:
1. Dian
2. Irfan
3. Wani
:) Let show our support! Cause they are representing us!
The more the merrier.
If not. lots would be drawn.
To volunteer:
Give names to Put3/Khalisa :D

there'll be free food + drinks (maybe hehe)
- Put3 & khalisa