Sarah's Reflection ( 5 )

今天的CID课，我们分成小组上网查看唐朝是黄金时代的主要因素。我的组负责查看唐朝的艺术与文化，我们发现他们有不同艺术例如淘气，绘画，雕像。而这些艺术品能在丝绸之路贸易，就能让中国变得更繁荣。唐朝有许多著名诗人，我们最熟悉的诗人是李白。如今，他的《静夜思》似乎每个人都能朗朗上口。

“ 床前明月光，

  疑是地下霜。

  举头望明月，

  低头思故乡。”

我学到了要成为黄金时代有很多因素，例如艺术和文化，教育，科技，等…

建国总理李光耀先生在 2015年3月23日逝世，享年91岁。他在住院期间，许多国民送上了卡片，鲜花祝他早日康复。但是很不幸的，他在星期一凌晨三点十八分与世长辞。那天早上收到这个消息，我突然感触颇多。我感到很难过，因为新加坡失去了一位在建国时期为国家做出巨大贡献的国父。我也感到非常遗憾他不能与我们在国庆日当天一同庆新加坡独立50年。在这一周里，学校安排一系列的活动和课让我们了解他的成就和精神。过去一周，我获益不浅，也更进一步认识这位伟人。之前，我把我们干净的水，种族和谐的社会，清洁的环境，四通八达的交通都当做理所当然，可是这些是他的心血。新加坡能有今天他功不可没。我觉得新加坡正在黄金时段。我们晚辈应该带珍惜我们前辈的功劳，还要感谢李光耀先生这位伟大的国父对新加坡无私的奉献。建国总理李光耀先生，您安息吧。

Remembering LKY [ZIQIU'S BLOGWORK]

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT ABOUT TANG DYNASTY'S GOLDEN ERA? 
[art & culture] 

• Paintings, e.g. landscape paintings and mountain-water paintings are not to reproduce exactly the appearance of nature but rather to grasp an EMOTION//ATMOSPHERE so as to catch the "rhythm" of nature. 
• Pottery was exported to Arabia where it was highly priced. Chinese pottery during the Tang dynasty made significant advances. 
• For poetry, its art flourished during the Tang dynasty. Poetry became an integral part of the Chinese culture. People who wished to pass the state/imperial exams had to study poetry. 

WHAT MAKES THE TANG DYNASTY THE GOLDEN ERA? 

These productions can be traded as they are valued by many other countries. There is a lot of interaction between the Chinese and people of other cultures. The Tang people were prosperous and content. The arts flourished during this era.

WHAT I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT MR LEE KUAN YEW

He has led Singapore from a third-world fishing village to a cosmopolitan metropolis, an economy hub buzzing with activity everyday all thanks to his leadership. He has made Singaporeans prosperous and thanks to Mr Lee Kuan Yew's bilingual programme and racial equality mindset, we have become appreciative of the arts and cultures of other people, allowing the arts to flourish in Singapore.

HOW CAN SINGAPORE BE SEEN AT ITS OWN VERSION OF THE "GOLDEN AGE"?

• People are content with their lives. 
• Different arts and cultures flourish in Singapore and we Singaporeans appreciate and embrace them. 
• Singapore is flourishing in prosperity. 
• There is racial equality. 
• We are a first-world metropolis. 

THANK YOU FOR READING! (: 

CID reflection 4

This is how my group grouped all the paper cut- outs into different categories. We sorted them into four categories -Economic, Overseas relationship, environmental, and country growth.

         China has made successful joint ventures in China such as Suzhou industrial park, Sino- Singapore Tian Jin Eco-City and capital land malls. This marks how fast China is as a developing country. China has became a country that has powers and ranks 2nd in terms of GDP. By opening up their country for trade, it allows them to trade with other countries goods that they make. It also allows more foreign investors to enter the country freely. This allowed China to earn profit and this is the point of time where China was getting stronger and stronger. However, China had a population of 1.4 billion people, thus despite being a strong and independent country, the China citizen have very low pays due to the over population in China. Due to this factor, the income gap between the rich and poor is widening and this causes unequal opportunities among the peoples starting from young. For example, a child in a rich family can get all the schooling that he or she needs. However, a child in the poor family will be struggling to pay school fees or even trying to earn money to help the family. Overall, China had become one of the top few countries and it may pose threat to Singapore.
        Local talents in Singapore might go to China as their companies have asked if they wanted to go to China for business talks. Obviously, as the pay we receive will increase, people will be going to China as the products there are also affordable to us. Singapore will be losing local talents have all immigrated to China, thus, this might be a possible threat to Singapore.

Zi Qiu's Reflection

ZIQIU'S REFLECTION :D: 


After last week's activity, where we were told to classify different situations into either Opportunities, Threats or None, I have definitely learnt a lot! I am also very amazed by China's accomplishments over the past years. China has seen an unprecedented economic growth over the last two decades.

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China has a huge population of 1.4 million people. This is an opportunity, as Singapore can hire people there who do not have jobs to work in Singapore, as foreign talent or workers. 

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China also has a great land mass. This means a lot more space for office buildings, residential areas, infrastructure, etc. Hence, there is more free space for economic activities to be conducted, boosting China's economy. This is a threat, as more people will go to China where there is huge sufficient space to work and build factories etc, and thus, Singapore will lose business opportunities. 

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China is endowed with natural resources, like coal, natural gas and steel. This can be an opportunity as we can buy these natural resources from them. 

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China's corporate tax rate is one of the lowest tax rates in the world. This will attract foreign investors to come to invest. This can be both a threat and an opportunity. We can go to China and invest in their businesses. As a threat, more investors will choose to go to China for investing rather than Singapore. This will cause our economy to suffer. 

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Chinese exports are relatively cheaper as well. Less countries are importing from countries like USA and even Americans are importing from China. This will be a threat to Singapore, as we may lose business opportunities, resulting in economy downfall. 

Thank you for reading! =) 

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Sarah's Reflection ( 4 )

Even though I missed this lesson for competition, I still understood what Ms Huang taught through my group members. They were given small rectangular paper and they need to identify it under environment, global, position, social and economy. After pasting each paper under its correct heading, they then label it under Opportunity, Threat and None. After looking through the sheet of paper, I was amazed by China's accomplish. For example, under the social category, "Mandarin has become the most popular foreign language for students in many countries." This is an opportunity as more student have the chance to learnt mandarin leading to more common language between one another and communication will be easier in future. From the position category, "China is the largest and fastest developing economy." This is a threat as China will be overtake USA economy in a few more years to come. I think the lesson was interesting as from this category activity, I better understand and learnt that more of China's accomplish. In daily lesson, I will not learn this knowledge about China, only CID lesson and this is what makes CID lesson unique and enjoyable. 

Shin Young's Reflection ( 3 )

The econmic growth recorded in China last year has been the lowest among all the years. It has also been recorded that the economic growth is becoming lower and lower over the years. Lower China growth will have a an adverse on its trade partners especially in Asia. Many products are made in china. Hence, many countries depends on China to make products as China manufacture products in a cheaper price. 
For example, the Suzhou Industrial Park in China is a park made by China and Singapore when Chinese delegations visited Singapore in the 1980s. The Chinese visitors were eager to learn modern management methods, while Singapore was also planning Economic Regionalisation, which focused on overseas investment. In 1992, the idea of developing a modern industrial township with Singapore experience was broached. Through many processes, the Suzhou Industrial Park was developed.