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.