CCA transfer

Recently, I have requested to transfer from my current CCA, Gymnastics, to Library Club. After much persuasion, the transfer was accepted and I reported at the library today. After receiving some warm welcome, I was briefed on what to do by some friendly seniors and was taught how to do library work such as arranging books.
However, these are just ROUTINE work as a librarian, every Friday there is a conference held where the teachers-in-charge and librarians make presentations on their plans. Such plans could be hosting an projects' exhibition or a Rubik's cube competition, which each event is assigned to a specific group of 4-5 members.
Arranging the books could be tedious to a beginner like me, hope I'll get a hang of it soon. Most importantly, being a librarian is the ability to give and contribute to the school, while building skills like leadership and teamwork. I think this CCA suits me because it is a WIN-WIN situation where you could make contributions to the school and students and also learn some values in the process.

Team Singapore Exhibition Debates

Recently, I have recently attended a debate, title says it all, it is undeniably a golden opportunity for me to experience what real and professional debating was like. The debate was held in the British debates' style, where 2 teams sat opposite to each other and the two groups took turns to make their speech to voice their own opinions.
What confused me was, the debate started with a side making their speech and suddenly the one competitor from the other panel stood up and said: "Sir" while putting his arm forward. I guessed the purpose was to object to what the speaker was saying and questioning him about his views.
Basically, this debate was to "warm up" Team Singapore to get ready for the international school debates held overseas. The opposing team, Team Alumni, are ex-competitions of such competition. Topic was - do family members have the right of deciding to end another family member who has terminal disease.
Team Alumni supported the fact, saying JOY is Quality of life, if someone's life is full of pain or misery, there is no point of living it. However the other side expressed that family member might make mistakes in decisions, living is JOY, the JOY of being alive, and "once you are dead, you will never ever come alive again".
Examples opposing this were notion were:
A California man woke up just 20 minutes before his scheduled death!
The other side said that that case was "very rare".
This intense debate when on and on, but to the students dismay, they were no results of which team was the victor. Certainly a great experience, definitely will attend more debates.

My Evaluation Sheet for a Prominent Blogger

Although I'm not a prominent blogger myself, I will share my expectations of a prominent local blogger like Mr Brown. LOL check it out if you are interested.
http://mrbrownshow.com/
A prominent blogger SHOULD:

1. Have understanding and interest in area/field of the topic he/she is blogging
2. Abide by the rules mentioned by my "Blog Policy" post
3. Understand what his/her readers love to know
4. Share opinions with his/her readers
5. Regularly update his/her blog
6. Add pictures to his/her blog
7. Respond to constructive questions by readers

That's all I could find till now. Bye.

Blog Policy

It's simple, rules as follow:

1. No defaming someone

2. No giving out any personal information that could allow him/her to be identified

3. No plagiarism

4. All writings should be, as much as possible, in good grammatical form free of excessive abbreviations and SMS shortcuts

5. Respect - treat everyone fairly and any criticisms you post must be constructive

Thank you for abiding by these rules.

Reasons for Blogging

Why am I blogging? Not because many other people blog, neither its because I'm being forced by teachers. I'm blogging because it helps me with learning in a better way than sitting in a classroom.
Blogging gives me a new experience and also an interesting way of doing reflections and sharing my views on many topics. People can also comment on your opinions and thus making blog a livelier and more sociable than a plain diary or newspaper. Most importantly, readers have the freedom of speech, which is lacking in other media components.
After looking through the notes my English teacher gave me, I've realised blogging is a potentially importantly tool of media and might replace newspapers one day. Celebrities and politicians have also started their blogging "career", not only gaining fame, but also reflect on their careers and lives.
Well I will only not do my post my English blog assignments in this blog, it will be included with my reflection on my education in school and also book reviews! Hope this blog will be successful. Wish me luck.