YOG - Tickets sold out, but seats empty?

As all of us know, Singapore is now hosting the first ever Youth Olympic Games. However, surely we would have noticed that the yog venues are always half-empty when we watch the games on television? And this is despite the fact that the Singapore YOG Organizing Committee had recently announced the majority of the tickets have been sold out.

It turns out that the MOE had bought tickets from the market and distributed them to students who were 'willing' to go. In fact, some students had been coerced by their schools to attend the games and generate 'support' for it. However, some of these students leaves the games early after having their attendance taken - resulting in the half-filled stadiums we see everyday.

I find the organizing committee's actions deplorable. Though I am not too sure about what really happened, I feel that even if there was poor response to ticket sales, they should just continue selling them to the public, instead of using such methods to generate fake support. The tickets should be left for those who really want to watch the games and cheer Singapore on. On the other hand, the students should not be made to attend the games against their wishes. I hope that they could rectify this problem as soon as possible.

However, no matter what happens, i believe that it is a great achievement for a small country like Singapore to host such a world-class event and it has been very entertaining so far. Just as i was writing this post, i realised that Singapore had just won another medal. I think we have done very well in this event and hope that Singapore could keep it up:)

Independent Studies in HCI - My thoughts about it

Well, during the principal's dialogue on Tuesday, our topic for discussion was about the new subject, Independent Studies. It consists of 50% from our project's day grades and the other half from ACE(I think). As the dialogue went on, i seemed to be getting even more anxious by the second. If you fail your independent studies, you would have to go to 3Q, how scary was that? TO make matters worse, I had done badly in this year's projects day. I could not make it past the semi-finals. Then, i thought about the Ace i have done for this term - virtually none. I was getting worried. However, I would be safe if i managed to max my ace. However, what about the people who did very badly for projects day? They could not even make the grade even if they maxed their ace? Isn't switching them to the Q class too harsh on them? I think that the IS grade should be included in the overall msg, without it having such huge importance by itself. By including it in the msg for sec 2s, we could try to pull down our msg through other subjects, rather then the decision being made after evaluating one subject alone. Isn't that too harsh?

Term 3 tests over!

Today, we took our last test for term 3 - history. Over the past few days, there were tests in almost every subject- math, biology, LA and some others. Some were quite easy some were not. I haven't studied so hard for ages. After the tests were over, i felt relieved. For the past week i had spent so much time studying for these tests. I just hope i did well in the tests.But for now, i can finally take a break and of course, start doing my ACE.