Blog3-Mr Seto-Li Bin-A Better World

 The world will be a better place if people have more sympathy in the society. It was known to all of Chinese that the case of Pengyu in 2006 had left a deep impression on Chinese citizens and had changed the basic values of some people’s recognition. The case was about a mans called Pengyu was enthusiastic that he volunteered to send an old people who fell down when getting off the bus to the hospital, but when his son came to the hospital, the old people insisted that it was Pengyu pushing him at his back that caused his falling down and they wanted Pengyu to afford his expense in the hospital and the money for recuperation. Finally, they charged Pengyu to the court and the result was that Pengyu had to give about ￥50000 to the old people. This case made people doubt whether it was right or not to show our enthusiasms and sympathies to others who needed help. A few days ago in Hubei province, China, an old man was knocked down by a car and he was badly hurt and lay down on the street. The driver ran away and no one of the passerby stopped and sent the old man to hospital in spite of blood on the ground. Unfortunately, this old man did not survive after the police sent him to the hospital. Hearing this thing, I felt so sad and scared about what people had done. If that man were our own father or ourselves, how would us feel about it? Should we scolded the passerby loudly or we just blamed ourselves for not giving a hand when others in need? We should not hide our consciences just to avoid being caught in trouble. We do not just have cases like this and we have many heroes such as Lei Feng and Li Guilin. They spared no time to help others, sacrificing their own benefits. Their sympathies leaded the society becoming better and better. Let us fellow these heroes and learn lessons from these victim, sharing our love and sympathies. Only if everyone in the society has more sympathy, can the world become a better place.

Blog3-"Ms Ivy"-"zhang chenwei"-"A Perfect World For Me"

For me, the world would be a better place if I can be more autonomic. Waking up in a quiet and fairly early morning every day, picking up the glass of water on the clear table, I will take down the water as well as take a deep breath when I overlook the scenery through the window. After that, I  walk on the track quietly with headsets in my ears and sunshine flashes on the tip of my hair. I listen to the music or English, and mesmerize new words at the same time. I give smiles to whoever I meet, just like a gentle breeze.  After lunch, sitting on the wooden chair next to many plants and turning on my computer, I will watch some English program like TED or BBC . Additionally, I may also chat with my Chinese friends or befrienders, sharing with them my delighted and relaxed spirit. After school, I sit in the study room to read English novels, or to review or preview my lessons, including C++ and calculus which though may be written in Mandarin. I just sleep  when I am tired. Every day I will be energetic and composed. No profitless novels, no sanguosha, and no computer games. How meaningful the world will be if every day can be as simple as it.

Blog3-Mr Seto-Dong Fangzhou-"A perfect world"

For me, the world would be a better place if there were only one language on the earth. There are too many languages in the world and people from different cultural backgrounds usually find it too difficult to communicate with each other if they do not share the same second-language. What’s more, people usually make many efforts to learn a foreign language for many kinds of purpose such as self-development. For example, we sm3 students have to learn English every day and every night to get prepared for our future learning as well as getting adjusted to the social environment in Singapore. On the contrary, if there were only one language in the world, all the efforts that are made for foreign language learning and translating would be avoided and people would make full use of the spared efforts to do more important things. And all the human beings would be able to talk to one another and exchange ideas freely. If it were to happen, the earth would be a wonderful place for people to live in and the human society would run more smoothly.

Blog 3 - Mr Seto - Chen Chi - A Perfect World

A Perfect World With No Marriage

For me, the world would be a better place if there should be no concept about marriage at all. Love is romantic, but marriage seems not. Marriage is the grave of love.

Marriage life is a heavy burden. People would feel that they were in a living hell even though they were fiances. After the proposal, they must have almost run out of money due to the purchase of dear diamond rings. Then, they had to prepare for wedding ceremonies, which could cost vast funds. Furthermore, I do not think that wedding ceremonies might be very romantic because their parents and relatives must have got involved in. After wedding ceremonies, parents would give pressures to the couple if they did not want to have a child, especailly in Asian countries. Feeding a child might cost more than a million dollars, as well as mental efforts. What the most important thing was that it was not refundable, while they could refund the diamond rings. Marriage life is so horrible.

To remain single can gave people more freedom. In a single status, there is no need to worry about the third party; there is even no second party. So, if a husband went to Geylang or Orchard Towers every night, why not just to keep single at first? This kind of marriage is unfair. In a word, it is better to keep single if marriage life does not suit.

A world without marriage is wonderful, but it is just a utopia. If this happens in my life, please bless me.

Blog3-Mrs Pamela-Song Zhuokun (Kevin)-A Perfect World

A Perfect World

   For me, the world would be a better place if there were no more poverty. In today's world, there are more than one billion people living in extremely poor conditions. We can see some children who live in North Korea or Africa are "big head babies" whose bodies are mere bags of bones. Moreover, as far as I am concerned, many Haitians even do not have enough food to eat. Every day, what they can "enjoy" is only a kind of cakes which are made from MUD. After a long time of crying, beside a pot that is filled with boiling water and small stones (the way mothers deceive children that the food is being cooked in the pot to help children sleep), hungry children fall  asleep with beautiful dreams. We cannot imagine if such poverty one day would happen to us. Rich or poor, every life has equal value. Therefore, rich people and governments should take ownership to help the poor live better. One piece of clothes, or even one piece of cake could be vital to the poor. If all rich people could donate certain amount of their money as well as all governments put out more functioning policies, I believe there would be no poverty in the world anymore. All in all, the world would be better if the poor could lead a good life. 

Blog3-Wang Xiao (Vicky)-Mrs.Ivy Chan- A perfect world

     For me, the world would be better if the whole human beings can treat the animals the same way as they do to their best friends.

    I still remember the day my parents bring me to the zoo, when I was a little girl. And I couldn't stop crying the moment I saw a little monkey. He stayed at the corner,and visitors continued to throw the peels to him in order to push him to get closer. Looking into his eyes, I saw the deep fear and sorrow, then I was crying out of control.

    How can we put our friends into these horrible jails? I was in deep depression.

    The same feeling beat my heart strongly yesterday while I was looking unbelievable news. It was about a tradition in a region of Rome, which is still very popular nowadays. The young there will celebrate their day to be adults by killing hundreds of whales. Seeing hundreds of whales died in the red river colored by their blood, my heart broke totally. I could see clearly the tears in their face, and the huge sorrow in their heart. 

    How can they ignore the cry from our friends? How can they kill their friends without any mercy? How can they use this way to show they are mature? How can they?

    If we are crying for help to our best friends, how horrible the time we will have when they ignore and continue to hurt us is! If we are killed by our best trusted friends, how deep the sorrow we will have is! If our best friends regard hurting us as a glory, how depressed we will be!

    How WONDERFUL the world will be if we live in harmony with our lovely friends!

   

Blog 3 ：Mrs Pamela - Li Xinyan - A Perfect World

   For me, the world would be a better place if every child had an access to education.
   There are lots of ills facing the world, such as war, poverty, crime, discrimination and pollution, which add up to make the world far from perfect. If you want to solve all the whole bunch of problems in order to achieve perfection, I'm afraid you would have a hard time listing terms one after one. But the only one thing which is the most fundamental building block for human development, I believe, is education. Children are undoubtedly considered as the hope of the world. And it is the education of children which equips us to build a better world. For the more children are educated and the better they are educated, there will be more people who are more capable to change the world in the future. If every child, whether rich or poor,  had the chance to go to school, everyone would be able to make a difference and they could work together to fix any problem they came across, so that we could be sure that our younger generation would continuously improve what hadn't been improved and achieve what hadn't been achieved; and I believe, this would be a perfect world.
 

Blog2

  We always send chocolate to our lovers on Valentine's Day, so today I want to talk about the origin of Dove, a famous chocolate. It is a sad love story. In 1915, a famous princess in Luxembourg royal would get married, so the cooks got very busy to prepare food, and there was a cook assistant called Lion; his hands had many wounds because of doing too much work. One day, Lion was washing the wounds with salt water, then a girl came to him and asked him''Are you painful?". Lion felt verry happy because there was no one cared about him before. In fact, this girl was a princess called Bazar, a distance relative of the king, so her position was verry low. She even had no chance to eat ice cream which was a kind of rare and delicious food in that age. After that day, Lion sneaked into the kitchen to make ice cream for Bazar every night. Gradually, they fell in love with each other, but in that age, they did not dare to express their love. So they just kept the love in their mind. Time went so fast. In 20^th century, Luxembourg made an agreement with Belgium, and then uniting by marriage was the best way to unite the two countries. Unfortunately, Bazar was chosen to marry with a prince in Belgium. She was so sad that she refused to eat to protest against the marriage, but it was no use. Lion was very worried, and he wanted to know whether Bazar loved him or not. So he came up with an idea. He used hot chocolate to write Dove on the ice cream, and Dove meaned "do you love me?". But Bazar did not pay attention to the ice cream, and the hot chocolate melted in a few minutes. So Bazar did not know Lion's thinking. Lion was very sad. A few days later Bazar went to Belgium, and Lion left Luxembourg for America, then Lion got married too, but Lion still loved Bazar very much. One day in 1946, Lion received a letter written by his friend who also worked in Luxembourg. In the letter, he said that Bazar asked about him continuously, but because of the second world war, Lion received this letter one year later. Then Lion overcame all the challenges to come to Belgium to visit Bazar. When they talk about the old things, Lion knew that Bazar loved him very much, but the hot chocolate melted so quickly that Bazar did not see the Dove. But it was too late for Lion to know this, Lion thought that if the chocolate was solid, the chocolate would not melt, then if the chocolate did not melt, Bazar would know his mind, and he would not lose Bazar. So Lion decided to invent a kind of solid chocolate which can keep for a long time. After researching for a long time, Lion finally invented it, and he inscribed Dove on every piece of the chocolate. Lion used this chocolate to commemorate the sad and beautiful love between him and Bazar. So when someone send Dove chocolate to you, they do not only send you a piece of chocolate, but also ask you the question "Do yu love me?".

Blog2-Ms Pamela-Liu Yanan (Linda)- LOVE

LOVE

I have seen a film called LOVE a several days before. I like this film very much. This is a story that happened between two cities, Taipei and Beijing, a story about eight lonely souls searching for happy endings. Everything that happened and every sacrifice that was made was all for LOVE.

           Although I haven’t got a boyfriend yet, I can feel what love means in this film. Love is not only how much you gain, but also giving unconditionally. If you  love that person, you should make him happy. The love is not just between lovers, and there are also many other kinds of loves. For example, family love, friends love, brothers love and so on. We need to spare no effort to make the people whom we love feel happy.

          The film love is a fantastic film. It is a good choice for you to watch it in your free time.

blog2)-"Mr Seto"-"Wei Wenbo"-"an interesting viewpoint about Valentines' Day"

I had read a viewpoint which I think was quite interesting in the Straits Times (February 11, 2012) and I want to share with you.

The author, named John Lui, said that he was horror of the day of the year set aside for romance. The way he saw it, it is a day that his lover sees sweet, endearing person he could be, but choose not to be for the other 364 days of the year which he thought was a problem with this lovers’ festival. And he had to prepare for gifts on Valentine’s Day, which if are not appropriate for his partner, crisis would come soon.

Here I want to share a pretty interesting paragraph about an inappropriate gift as he described:

Some think that it is effort that counts, not the results. So what they are saying is that women should pat boyfriends on the head and say “well done” when they cook a Valentine’s Day meal ineptly or bake something that looks like a something that smashed against another thing then fell on the floor and caught fire.(Note to men: if all you can cook is pasta, do not boast that you can cook. You cannot. A marmoset can be trained to make pasta. A women who eats you pasta is either desperate or trying to avoid a divorce.)  (paragraph 16.)

And he came up with a new festival. Festival Of Lowered But Realistic Sustainable Expectations, is the name of the new festival, including something like gazing each other for a full five minutes. And the festival is quite “quiet”, I think, but more safe for love, in author’s eyes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Blog2)-Ms Lim-Zheng Siyuan-My understanding of love

In my opinion, to love is one thing, but to live together is another one. For a couple, it is not easy to live together. In the marriage life, the husband and the wife should do a lot of things, not only love each other. As time passes, they will know more about each other because of long time of living together, and they will see the weaknesses of each other. If they cannot tolerate and forgive, they will always quarrel, and end up their marriage with divorce. Love cannot solve this problem, because their love will lose passion sooner or later. So they must learn to tolerate and sacrifice. Then when they become old, looking backward to their marriage life, they will find that their love between lovers turn into the love between families gradually, and to tolerate and to sacrifice become a kind of habit.

Blog2)-"Ms Ivy Chan"-"Wang Kexin"-"Love"

Love worth Everything

What would you do if you can have a second chance to go back to your most glory time? Will you make the same decision as you did in the past?

Mike O’Donnell is a 37-year-old unhappily married wage salve who always blames his wife for the fact that he missed out on a promising sports career, for he decided to marry her and raise their baby. At the frustrating point, miracle happened! Mike turns out to be what he looked like when he was SEVENTEEN! He goes to school with his children, reenters the basketball team and trys to help his children with the identity of Mark. Things move on just like 20 years ago, the big game comes. At the critical moment, he still decides to choose his family and goes back to the 37-year-old Mike O’Donnell at last.

   This is the plot of the movie Seventeen Again. I was deeply touched, not only because of the attempts Mike has done to his children, but also the same decision that he makes at last. When years go by, everything can change. Handsome and charming look can turn to out-of-shape and weather beaten appearance, glory days can turn to unsuccessful career, harmonious family can turn to unbridgeable generation gap and divorce, but love is the thing that will never fade away. No matter how you look, what you are, love will always be there. Sometimes, we may regret the decision of love, we may wonder if we made the right decision, we may think of what life will be with another choice. At that moment, we close our eyes to what love has brought to us. But just as what has happened in the film, only when everything has slipped out of Mike’s hands does he realize that the most important thing to him is not how successful the days can be but staying with the one he loves, staying with his family. Without love, everything becomes meaningless. So he decides to run after his wife just like he did 20 years ago, but this time, I think, he will never regret his choice of love. So open our eyes to find love, even love always hidden in the deep. Do not think of what we have spent, because love worth everything.

“You are the best decision I ever made, I just forgot… But I am never going to forget again. I thought I wanted a second chance at life, but now I know I just want a second chance with you.”

                                                                                                         -----Mike O’Donnell

Blog 2) "Mr Seto"-"Zhu Zikun"-"Spread God's Love"-"Theme: Love"

     Since we arrived at Changi Airport in December last year, we have shared lots of time with our SM3 befrienders. Delightfully, the past two months have seen the friendship between befrienders and us growing increasingly deep. I still remember the time when they accompanied us to do the medical check-up, scrambled to translate hepatitis B into Chinese, and took the extra time to bring us to Funan. Moreover, they also organized quite a lot of funny or meaningful activities for us, such as the kite-making competition, the BBQ camp, the talent show, the Christmas celebration on the ship LOGOS HOPE, etc. Benefiting from these activities, we got to know more about each other and developed our friendship. Every time when I recall the precious memories, a warm feeling flows through all my parts.
     However, the warmth does not stop there. A few days ago, when looking through my Facebook, I came across the page of the befrienders' Facebook group, where I was deeply touched by their generous love. From their posts, I learned that they had been preparing for our arrival since July last year, when we SM3 students had not been selected. What is more, before befriending us, the befrienders-to-be held weekly prayers particularly for us. They prayed that we could come to Singapore safely and have a good time here.
     Indeed, they are spreading God's love to us. We are very grateful for the small acts of love that were demonstrated by them. Therefore, let's spread the love together and make the world filled with God's love!

Blog 2-"Mr Seto"-"Ping Sibo"-"My attitude toward love"

Several days after the Valentine's day of 2012,I still want to share something of my own about love.

Countless fictions and dramas which describe love were created even since the human beings appeared.So people,especially the young, are crazy about who they love.They always miss the other part of their own

But with time goes by, love neither play an important role in someone's hearts nor bring enthusiasm and energy to their lives anymore.They even cannot feel the existence of love.So they do not behave like before and start to lead wateriness lives with their "lovers".Most of them cannot bear and even divorce from each other.Maybe seeing a person's face for such a long time is too boring.

So why do this happen?An recent experiment from professors in The State University of New York shows that falling in love with someone is just like taking drugs.And this feeling will become weak after getting use to it.Mostly I suppose that the actuation and the lack of responsibility lead to an unsuccessful marriage.Anyway, marriage is a lifetime occasion.We should always think twice before we make any decisions.After all,breaking up in marriage do huge damage to many people especially their kids,which can cause new social problem like minor crimes.

As far as I am concerned,the true principle about love is not being together and asking for special demands every day but a kind of responsibility.Although sometimes it may seems boring and meaningless,it must be the main trend of the human beings.Only in that way can we make the society on track.Love is a lifelong topic.Just go with the flow and wait .Then one day the real love that we have been searching for so long will come to knock the door.Just be patient.

Blog2-Ms Pamela-Hu Yiyao(Scarlett)-Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

                                               Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Recently, I read a book about different opinions between men and women, which is interesting and meaningful. I think knowing some of the different opinions is helpful in our daily life. So, today, I would like to share some differences with you.

First,how can a girl ask for support or help in a correct way? When a man hears a demanding tone, no matter how nicely you phrase your requests, all he hears is that you are complaining that he is not giving enough. Then his tendency is not to give you more. Instead of that, he will give less until you appreciate what he is already given. So, when asking a man for support, assume that he does not have to be convinced.

Second, for boys, I would like to share with you about the language contents and emotions. Men and women seldom mean the same things even when they use the same words. For example, when a woman says "I fell like you never listen.", she does not expect the words never be taken literally. Using the word never is just a way of expressing the frustration she is telling at the moment. So, not only do men and women communicate differently, but they think, feel, perceive, react, love, need and appreciate differently. They almost seem to be from different planets.

I hope this expanded understanding of our differences can help you avoid misunderstanding and resolve much of the frustration in dealing with the different sex. So, next time when you have trouble with your opposite sexual partner, or even classmates, please remember that your partner is as different from you as someone from another planet. Then you can relax and cooperate with the differences instead of resisting or trying to change them.

Blog 2 - "Mr Seto" - "Chen Chi" - "A Meaningful Valentine’s Day"

A Meaningful Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day, which drives the whole world nuts every year, is meaningful to many people. For lovers, they can show how deeply they love their partners this day. For businessmen, it is an exciting day when they can get huge benefits by selling roses, chocalates, movie tickets together with popcorn and even condoms. For me, I think that it is the first February 14^th which I spent in a meaningful way. It is because I had a meaningful night with Kai Ko.

Kai Ko, also called Chen-tung Ko, is a bankable actor and singer now because of his starring in the top earning film You Are the Apple of My Eye, which grossed over $2.93 million (How amazing!) in Singapore. He came to Singapore to advertise for his album Be Yourself and had a dating with his fans on the night of Valentine’s Day. I was so lucky to have a chance to “date” with Kai Ko at a romantic night.

It was of great fun and romance during the dating. We had some exciting games together and Kai Ko sang his songs to everybody. Here even “came out” a male fan. “Kai, after I heard your songs, I thought that you were so charming. After I saw you at Bugis Junction last Sunday, I thought that you were so fashionable and full of manliness. After I met you tonight, I thought I had been in love with you. Kai Ko,I love you!” He expressed his love in public,which needs much courage. All in all, I was very pleased when I was at K Union (where the dating was held, at Cathay cineplexes near Somerset MRT Station) .

This is also my first Valentine’s Day I spent in Singapore. It makes this day a special one. The hot weather makes my heart feel hot. It also allows me to wear fewer clothes. The fewer clothes people wear, the closer two hearts can get. Maybe my theory seems strange, but it does make sense.

Although I am still alone, I hope that next Valentine’s Day (if possible) would be more meaningful.

"Ms Pamela/Mr Seto"-"Ping Sibo"-the Two Protests"-Theme Two:School and Education"

I protest cuts in education.As we all know,education is the most important event in the world.A country that value their citizens' education can develop well and have a high influence in the world.We must educate our descendant better so that our civilization can inherit generation by generation.Someone who cut in education may not realize its importance.

I also protest tax increases.Because there are too many people who become poorer and poorer in the world.Someone who cannot even eat full and wear warm.We cannot ask for more tax from them.However,there are too many people get richer and richer as well.Some little tax increase that does not have any influence on the rich may deal the poor even to dead.So the government should have tax increase on the rich and tax decrease on the poor.

                                                                                                                                     Ping Sibo

Blog 2-"Ms Lim"-"Zhang Yaowen ( Sophie ) "-"Love is not in the diatance"

Love is a choice. But to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Erich Fromm said that, “Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits to be himself, to retain his integrity.”However, love is not in the distance, everyone can find love in a smile or a helping hand, in a thoughtful gesture or a kind word. It is all around, as long as one looking for it.

Unfortunately, we have all made mistakes that diminish us and those we love. But there is redemption if we try to learn from those mistakes and grow.

Always give love, look for the love around me, in nature, in others, in myself, and believe in the love of family, friends, and humankind, I can find the power in life along with the joy, happiness, patience, as well as  understanding, and I can be the happiest in the whole world!

blog 2 : Mrs.Pamela - li xinyan (Effy) - love knows no boundaries

      I read about a real love story one year ago, which happened between an American professor and a Chinese student.The professor had developed a interest in Chinese classic literature,especially poems since his childhood. He devoted much of his lifetime to studying Chinese culture and became a professor in department of Chinese in Harvard University. a female Chinese student from Peking University went to Harvard as an exchange student.
     The professor was impressed by her talent and personality. He wrote her a letter, asking whether she prefer a passionate love like fire,such as that between Romio and Juliet, or a peaceful soft love like water,such as that between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Then the girl replied that she wouldn't seek for any kind of love deliberately, and all she want was the one coming naturally, arranged by destiny. The professor seemed to hear the echo of his own heart. He knew from then on that she was the right one for him.
      Two years later, the Chinese student married the professor in America, despite he was tens of years older than her.
      I could always feel a warm feeling running through my heart whenever I recall the story. It shows me love knows no boundaries. True love comes regardless of age, race, nation, or geography

A Love Story

Due to the carelessness of doctors, Susan became sightless in an operation when she was 33 years old. And she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger and frustration. All she had to rely on was her husband, Mark.

   Mark was an officer in the army and loved Susan deeply. He watched Susan sink into despair and was determined to help her gain the strength and confidence to become independent again.

   After Susan recover from sick, she decided to come back to work. But she was frightened to take buses to company, so Mark volunteered to drive her to work every day, even though they worked at opposite ends of the city.

   But after a few days, Mark found that the arrangement could not work. He did not have time driving Susan to work and home and she was going to have to start taking the bus again. Susan was horrified at the idea of taking bus again. “I cannot make it. I am blind!”, she responded bitterly. “I feel like you are abandoning me.”

   Mark felt heartbroken to hear these words, but he knew that Susan had to learn to take the bus herself. So he decided to take buses with her at first few weeks. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt her new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could watch out for her, and save her a seat.

  Finally, Susan thought she was ready for taking the bus on her own. For the first time, Susan said goodbye to Mark and went the separate ways. She threw her arms around Mark and her eyes filled with tears before she left. “I love you, Mark”, Susan said. “I love you, too. Have a good day”, Mark tapped on her head.

  Then, Susan got used to it gradually, going to work all by herself and she had never felt better.

One day in the morning, Susan took the bus as usual. As she was getting down the bus, the driver said, “Hey, I sure do envy you.” Susan was not sure if the driver was speaking to her or not. After all, who would ever envy a blind woman? Then she asked the driver, “Why do you say that?”

  The driver answered, "You know, every morning for the past few weeks, a good-looking gentleman in a military uniform had been standing across the corner watching you to make sure you crossed the street safely and entered your office building. Then he blew you a kiss and walked away. You know that you are a lucky lady."

  Tears of happiness poured down Susan's cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn't need to see to believe - the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness。

Blog2-"Ms Ivy Chan"-"Zhou Shaowen"-"Thoughts about The Blind Side"

    This weekend, I watched a movie named The Blind Side. The plot is not complex, but it is full filled with love.
    The movie is based on the true story of Michael Jerome Oher, who is a football star in National Football League. Oher is a black. He suffered a lot in his childhood. Not only had his parents divorced, but he became homeless as well. He experienced the pain of losing love from parents even when he was only a child. Fortunately, he was adopted by an orphanage. After a few months, Tuohys came to the orphanage to adopt a child. Mrs Tuohy finally chose Oher for his polite manner and strong body. However, he was nearly lost himself when he first lived in the new home. New neighbours, new school, new classmates, and also new English accent: almost everything is new for him. He could not adapt to these in a short time. To make things worse, he was often treated coldly by his classmates. Even at home, he was discriminated by Tuohy’s daughter. But Mrs Tuohy helped him like a mother. She encouraged him every time when he felt depressed. When she perceived that the daughter was not friendly with him, she persuaded her daughter to be kind to him. With the love from Mrs Tuohy, Oher eventually overcame all the obstacles, and made great progress in football. In the end, he succeeded to be a football star.

    In my opinion, Oher's success is to great extent due to Mrs Tuohy's love. Without her love, Oher would not overcome all the problems and would be left at the bottom of the society. Love can create miracles. If every one gives some love to others, there will be a wonderful world.

Blog2-"Mrs Pamela"-"Song Zhuokun (Kevin)"-"My feelings after watching Titanic"

My feelings after watching Titanic

  Valentine's Day has just passed by. Staying alone in my adopted country, I watched a classic movie named Titanic. After watching it, I have moved a lot not only for the actors' excellent acting, but also the true meaning of love it has revealed.

"He saved me in every way that a person can be saved.", said old Rose at the beginning of the movie, which made me ponder a lot. Facing the icy water, Jack left Rose the last chance of living, and drowned in the sea forever. Not only did Jack save Rose's life, but also helped her understand the true meaning of love. Rose deeply knew that the permanent love is built up on the reliance of two spirits instead of the infatuation of physical bodies. Facing Jack's death, Rose chose to keep on living firmly because of the courage and faith Jack had given. As the theme song says, "You are here, there is nothing I fear." Because their souls had already combined together, nothing in the world was worth to be feared anymore. Although Jack was dead, he would stay alive in Rose's heart forever. "You have never left me", I believe it is just the true meaning of love.

Love is the best gift of god. And the permanent love is based on the merging of two hearts as well as the reliance of two souls, isn't it?

Blog2-"Ms ivy chan"-“zhang chenwei”-"my feeling in valentine's day "

Today is valentine’s day, a holy and beautiful day for most lovers. But not for me. In fact, I still feel love is far away from me. As a obedient student for almost 13 years (at least I think so), I can hardly tell the difference between a lover and the best female (or male)friend, let alone know the taste of love when a boy and a girl fell in love with each other. But I can still remember what my teacher told me about love several months ago ,“ a healthy love means passion, duty and sincerity”，which taught me how to distinguish true love. And what I learned from my classmate yesterday “lovers’ love will change into family’s love soon or later”, which shows love does not mean romantic all the time, but also can be realistic. Both of the two sentences inspire me a lot. But whatever love is, I am looking forward to meeting my lover with who we can understand and support each other.

Blog 2- Wang Xiao (Vicky)-Mrs.Ivy Chan-Valentine’s Day for secrets

                                 Valentine’s Day for secrets

    In my memory of the Valentine’s Day, it is a day for secrets.

   My mother is a crazy flower lover, and the ideal house in her mind is the one where flowers can be found almost everywhere.  And my father extremely loves wines, especially red wines. However, my family was not rich at that time, so both of them were very mean to themselves and seldom bought their favorite for themselves.

     It was the Valentine’s Day when I was nine years old. In the early morning, when my mother was going to market, my father asked me in privately, ”Sweetheart, would you like go out with me to get something for your mother?” Drove by my curiosity, I replied without any hesitation, “Sure, daddy.” “But there is a condition that you can’t mention anything to your mother, and keep it a secret between you and me, OK?” my father said seriously. “OK, I promise!” Then my father drove me to a beautiful flower shop, and this was the first time I came to a flower shop. It seemed like a heaven, and I totally understood why my mother loved flowers so much. I was watching and talking with each different kind of flowers, while my father was selecting flowers. After a careful selection, my father decided to buy red roses. But he was a little confused that how many should he buy. So he turned to me for help. “My baby, how many roses do you like?” my father asked. Thinking for a while, I answered “Nine, ha-ha, because I am nine years old now!” My father burst into laughter, and finally I held nine roses back home. When we were back home, my mother still didn’t come back. My father felt confused again because he couldn’t find a nice place to hide his roses. Finally, he put them in my table drawer.

   Later, my mother was back, and began to prepare the lunch for us. I was a little bored, so I ran to the kitchen to help my mother wash some vegetables and fruits. And I realized that the lunch for today was much better than any day else. So I asked my mother whether today was someone’s birthday. She responded happily that it was a secret. A few minutes later, my mother asked my father to buy some salt for her. Seeing my father going out, my mother took out a pretty nice red wine. Then she asked to hide it in my table drawer and told me not to tell anything to my father. “My baby, it’s a secret between you and me!” she said with a bright smile in face. Of course, I nodded my head.

   When it was time to have lunch, my father advised to pause for a while, and told my mother that there was a surprise for her. Then he asked me to take out the roses to my mother. I still remembered how excited and touched my mother is, and she held the flowers with the brightest smile. “I also get something for you, baby, could you bring it to your father?” my mom looked at me. So I ran to the table drawer again, and took the red wine out. When seeing the gift, my father was so surprised that he couldn’t say anything. They stared at each other, as if I was invisible. Ha-ha…

   Since then, I keep it in mind that the Valentine’s Day is for lovers to keep secrets between each other and wait for a certain time in the day with patience to surprise each other.

   How sweet the Valentine’s Day is!

 

Blog2-"Mr.Seto"-"Dong Fangzhou"-"Unforgettable Experiences"

It is so amazing that I have been in Singapore for two months already! There have been so many unforgettable experiences since I first arrived in this fantastic country. However, the befrienders from VCF inevitably created the most exciting part. With the help of all the befrienders, I managed to get familiar with the amenities around my hostel, which ensured that my life in the utterly new environment going through smoothly. They also brought us to NUS and introduced to us all the faculties and schools in the Kent Ridge campus. If it were not for their generous help, I would never have been accustomed to the new school so quickly. Then, a week after we sm3 students started the bridging course, we excitedly saw the befrienders again in the orientation camp. This time we played all kinds of games together, one of which is the kite flying competition! I could never forget that moment when our group's kite got the first place in the game! (We got a $20 voucher for the Swensens Restaurant as a prize:)) Furthermore, a "bridge" between the befrienders and Chinese students has been built throughout all these activities! I am longing for meeting them again in the English Speaking Corner that will be held later on!