Thursday, February 28, 2008

New Technology: A threat or a Promise (2)

Promise

Technology has become a promise because technology advancement improves our standard of living. The internet provides us with great convenience and efficiency which saves us all the time on traveling and lecturing. We are able to find educational websites by just a click of our fingers without having to travel all around to gather information. This is a good way for us to protect the environment as no time is needed for traveling which also means less people will get out of their houses using cars for transportation. Thus, when technology improves, our lives get to improve as well.

Threat

Technology is a threat as it creates many negative impacts on global climate. It is just like in the past when we do not have the equipments to work on; we worked on our bare hands. However, due to technology improvements, we are able to get the things we want easily and we need not care about what kind of things we will not be able to get. The fact is, since we are so reliant on technology, we tend to neglect the significance in protecting the environment.

Friday, February 22, 2008

New Technology: A threat or a promise

New technology, a threat or a promise? New technology will be more appropriate to be a promise. It is because nowadays more people are into technology and that means no more pens and papers. Personally, I think using technology is not a bad thing because we can use all the new technologies to do things we want and we can save a lot of things such as pens, papers, time and many more. We can save the environment as well, because we need not use the papers and pens anymore. That is why we can save and conserve the environment.

New technology is a promise as we can do things in a more convenient way such as no matter where we are and we are being assigned to an assignment, we are able to do it conveniently without looking much for the things that are required. We can just do our things anywhere and anytime we want it to be done. We can also multi-task when using technologies as since the new technologies are improving day by day, we are sure of completing our assignments no matter when we are assigned to it and using technologies is a good thing as it benefits both the adults and the kids.

It is such as, the adults can do their work by using the technologies and as for the kids they can do their work using technologies as well, and they can also learn new things via the new technology as nowadays there are more and more educational websites coming up and that can benefit lots and lots of kids. Their parents in a way or another do not need to coach their children so much when they do not have the time to spare, they can count on the educational discs and websites to let their children learn new things. As the time passes by, we are more into technologies rather than those things that we use in the past. That is why if new technologies are going to be up and technologies get to improve day by day, we can be benefited by it.

Nevertheless, new technologies will be a threat as well, because there are also lots of people out there who are not sure of the new technologies and they are unsure of what should be done and what can they do. This will lead them to a misunderstanding and they are very doubtful of themselves. Thus, they feel that new technologies are not that efficient because some parents may also think that although there are educational discs and websites coming up but it does not mean that their child will learn as efficiently, thus, some parents will not encourage new technologies as well. They will also think that if the new technologies are going to be up, their child will be more into the technologies and neglect the things around them. This is why some people think that having new technologies will be a threat.

Therefore, whether to be in the new technologies or not, and whether their opinions towards the new technologies are positive or negative, we should continue to upgrade ourselves no matter when is it. We should always do precautions so as we are not going to doubt ourselves as we do not need others to tell us what to do but to depend on ourselves.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Chinese New Year

Have you wondered why children and adults get so happy and excited when Chinese New Year is just round the corner? Chinese New Year is a happy occasion as it creates a better bonding for our relatives, friends and even us. It is because during Chinese New Year, it is the time for us to visit our relatives and friends. Chinese New Year has a total of 15 days. Personally, I think that Chinese New Year is the day for us to enjoy and relax.

Chinese New Year have some customs such as when a person goes to another person’s house, firstly, the guests will need to wish the relative or friend “Happy New Year.” If there are unmarried people or kids, they will get red packet when they greet their elders. They will also hold oranges in both hands and hand it over to the elders. This is a form of respect, and whenever elders that will be giving the red packet will be giving some form of blessings to the person who gets the red packets. Some businessman will also hire lion troupes to their companies so as to let their companies “prosper” their business in time to come as they think that the lions are animals that will bring them prosperity and wealthy.

That is why, this is the day for us to celebrate and have fun. The Chinese also believes in “Shou Sui” which means the kids will sleep late or rather stay awake till midnight, in order to let their parents live longer. The Chinese have also a few beliefs such as on the first day of Chinese New Year, married women are not allowed to return to their parents’ place. They can only do so on the second day. On the seventh day, the Chinese will celebrate “Ren Ri” which means everyone’s birthday. On that day, they will also “Lao Yu Sheng” which means when they lift up the food, they will say things that will let them feel good and what they wants to achieve for the new year. During Chinese New Year, the Chinese also believes in bad luck. They are not allowed to say things such as “dying” or “breaking”. It is because it means bad luck and they believe bad luck will befall upon them.

However, there are also some people who will not celebrate Chinese New Year as some of them do not believe in these customs and beliefs. Instead, they think that it is a waste of time and they should not waste money and time in this occasion. Moreover, they will not celebrate Chinese New Year due to some other reasons such as they do not follow the Chinese’s doings and they have feud with one another.

Chinese New Year is a happy occasion for both the adults and children. Thus, we should forget the unhappiness and continue this joyous occasion no matter where we are as it will be the 15 days that we will be together hand in hand and treasure one another. Furthermore, 15 days is not that long thus, we should carry out this activity in a pro-active way. Therefore, we should start now, doing our part in treasuring the people around us and celebrate this wonderful and joyous occasion as a whole.

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Your Views on Chong Boon School Rules

Have you wondered why there are school rules in school? What is their importance and why we should abide to it day by day? Talking about rules, Chong Boon rules are quite reasonable. It is because if a school does not have the rules required, the school will be in a disaster. A school has hundreds of people, if all of us break the rules, the life of the school cannot be carried on. The school rules are for us to follow and not break. We have to do things in a clearer mind and not do things in a messy manner. Thus, I feel that having school rules is not a problem.

Firstly, Chong Boon School rules are reasonable as school is a place for us to learn and not break rules. Chong Boon has rules such as truancy, late coming, behaviour, attire or appearance and more. They are rules that are important as if a person is late or play truant all the time, the student will be taking up the classmates’ time and neglecting his or her own studies. Furthermore, if a student carries behaviour or attitude problem all the time or dressing in an ugly manner, the person is humiliating his or herself and embarrassing the school. Thus, carrying out necessary punishment is also a good way for us to learn.

On the other hand, teachers can also control the class better as a class without both school rules or class rules will be in a mess as well. Teachers are there to educate us, and if we waste the time meant for the rules instead of studies, we will be wasting both the teachers and our time. We have to keep in mind of how the teachers had helped us in education and we should repay them by studying well and listening in class attentively or whenever they talk to us.

Unfortunately, some people will think that having school rules is just a waste of time as it does not create an impact on anything. It is just school rules that we have to abide and the rules might not be essential to them. Some of them will just continue to break the rules and does not care for the people around them and in fact, do more bad things in the form of attracting attention. They feel that they are happier to break the rules rather than abiding the rules as when they break the rules it shows that they look more “cool”.

Nonetheless, since school rules are there, we have to abide to it. We should follow rules and do the things that are according to the rules. Chong Boon rules or rather other rules are for our own good. Thus, I think that we should follow according to the rules to everywhere we go. We have to ourselves follow the rules first and we can then tell others how they can do so as it builds in one’s responsibility too. This is a form of respect as well; it is because if you yourself do not respect others, how do u expect others to respect you? We should be responsible and respectful to others and not bring harm to ourselves and people around us.

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