My Learning Styles Results

Few weeks ago, my form teacher and also english teacher, asked us to go to a website to find out which categories of smartness do we fall in. I did the test and surprisingly I found out that I was not only number and visual smart, but also nature and body smart! It was so unusual that I was actually body smart! I was also close to word smart which I had expected. To my greatest surprise, I found out that I was not intrapersonal smart, which I also thought I was! I had been focussing on being word smart that I had neglected the degree of smartness for being intrapersonal smart! I now, should start working on my intrapersonal level of smartness and also number, which I achieved the top degree of smartness as recently, my mathematical standard has not been that good and I should try to improve it. Well all, this is all for today, bye!

My New Recreational Activity

Hi all! Today, I am going to talk about the new Recreational activity I have recently picked up. This new hobby is known as International Chess. I like it as it can not only get one's brain alert, but also help people have a clear mind by strategizing. Many people might think that Chinese chess is very much similar to International chess, but however, they are wrong. International chess requires more logical thinking as in to trap the king while Chinese chess only requires thinking and playing. The king in International chess is much easier to escape than Chinese chess, whereby chinese chess, the king is blocked by other pieces. Well, this is all for my new hobby. Hope that some of you will also have the alert mind to pick up Chess.

My CCA

Hi all! I have just received my CCA results last Thursday and as I have stated in earlier posts, I got into NPCC. Although it was not really the desired CCA, I made deal with it and went for the first CCA. I came to realised how fun NPCC actually was! At first, I heard many people saying that NPCC or other uniformed groups were terrible so I did not want to get in and instead, wanted to go into a sport. Since Hwa Chong Institution is full of talented gentlemen, it was no wonder that I could not make it into those prestigious CCAs like table tennis. I felt so lucky after knowing that I had made it into NPCC as it was so fun and helpful in daily life. The people there were also very nice. Well, this is all for now, see you later.

Scrabble

Hi all, today I am going to talk about one of my strengths, Scrabble. I played Scrabble in Primary School and won many prestigious awards. My school, Hougang Primary, was also known as the best Scrabble school in Singapore after winning the champions of champions cup. The trophy we won was very big, almost the size of an adult's head.

To me, Scrabble is a very unique CCA, which helps to improve one's brainpower and also helps in one's english. Everytime I see a chance to play Scrabble, I will leap at the opportunity. After seeing the post on Scrabble on the SMB, I immediately appealed for a chance to go in. Because Scrabble is not a very common CCA in many schools, I have to grab any opportunities that come by. Well, that is all for now, see you later!

My strengths

Hi all, my name is Mervyn Cheong and this is my second time blogging about daily events. But today, I will be talking more about myself. I will be talking about my strengths so that you can understand me better. My strengths are playing table-tennis and Scrabble. I have went for the try-outs of table-tennis CCA and I did not get in, but at least got into NPCC. Well, this is all for this post, see you again!

My first Current Affairs mock session: What it means to be a Singaporean.

On Friday, 19th of February, my class and I had our very first Current Affairs mock session and the topic was what it meant to be a Singaporean. At the start of the session, I was pretty nervous as not only had I not printed out the marking rubrics, I had also not read the articles on the topic. All I know is that the topic was about Singaporeans.

Luckily, I was not picked as the leader of the panelists or the discussion so I did not have to keep the ball rolling. I took out a piece of paper and jot down notes relating to the articles. After the topic had started, I had an idea of what we were discussing about. Thus, from there on, I participated actively. I talked about what it meant to be singaporean and I soon came to realise that the topic would never end as different people had their different point of view. I voted on loyalty to singapore makes us singaporean while others voted on 'Kiasuism' and "singlish". The topic would never come to an end if it carried on! Well, at least I learnt a few things from the discussion which was to speak confidently and that to think before you say anything or else you will contradict yourself, which I did a few times, before amending my words.

I feel that we should have this kind of discussion topic more often as it is very meaningful and that I can learn more from it. It allows helps one to be able to shout out there views with no right or wrong answers.