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In the new breed of universities like New College, students form a contract with a professor on his study methods within a type of discipline. For a student to graduate from New College, seven typical contracts, study projects and a thesis paper must be completed. New College doesn't have letter or point averages to grade the students; instead they use `narrative evaluations' and remarks by the instructor. This way, there are no worries for grades or competing with other students. Their study methods allow students to gain interest in a subject, allow them to be responsible and find out which subject they are interested in. To schools like New College, academic and skills like research are more important than anything else. Employers prefer workers that have well-rounded knowledge and skills instead of only having knowledge in specific fields. Therefore, they prefer undergraduate programmes having more skills like critical thinking, reasoning after analyzing, writing and oral communication skills as well as the skill to apply the things learnt to solve problems in real life.




My Favourite Book


My favourite book is written by Anthony Horowitz and it’s a series about a boy named Alex Rider who became a spy at age fourteen. Personally I don’t really like books and I find them boring, but this book has enticed me as soon as I started reading it. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you became a spy for your country?

I did. Just imagine, being a spy and saving your country. It would be so amazing. IN this series, Alex Rider doesn’t want to be a spy as he feels that being a spy has caused him a great deal of trouble in both school life and reality.

But even though he didn’t want to be a spy for his country, he contradicts himself. He was always looking for trouble even when trouble doesn’t look for him. For example, he stopped a group of kidnappers even though the kidnappers weren’t after him. He tried to stop himself and ignored the kidnappers. But maybe it’s just his sense of justice. Maybe he was born to be a spy and to stop these criminals.

If you really want to know more about Alex Rider and his adventures, start reading Anthony Horowitz series and believe me, you’ll always be wondering what’ll happen next.




My Favourite Food


In Singapore, there are many types of different delicacies. There are Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and French and so on. But basically, my favourite comes from all of them. Food is just something we take in to fill our stomachs. Therefore, we shouldn’t be so picky about what we eat. The most basic type of food we eat is usually noodles, rice, chicken, duck and fish.

My favourite is still Japanese food. There are different types of food that involves a wide range of different animals. A few of my favourite Japanese food are the kappa maki, tempura udon and the soft shell crab hand roll. I enjoy eating soft shell crab as when you put it into your mouth and crunch onto it; you can feel the crab break into small pieces and the sumptuous juice drips into your mouth. Even though the kappa maki is dry, the taste of the combinations of the Japanese rice and cucumber is just unbelievable.

Some other types of my favourite food is the wanton noodles at rivervalley. They have different types of wantons. The fried wanton is so nice that one bowl is never enough for me. Another great stall is the bak ku teh stall previously behind tiong bahru. I always drink the soup and eat at least 5 bowls of rice. And don’t worry, the price of food at all these stalls are cheap.









My first day at my first secondary school, Kent Ridge Secondary, started with warm welcomes from unfamiliar faces who turned out to be the student councilors of the school. They directed me to the school hall which was filled with more and more unfamiliar faces. I was lead to my class, 1e3, where I sat down behind two boys who kept chattering away. They interacted with me by asking me my name and introducing themselves. Their names were Aditya and Ahmad Faiz and they were from Jin Tai Primary which was just beside Kent Ridge Secondary.

The day started with a long and boring speech from Ms Chamb, our principal. Right after the long speech, a group of councilors brought us to our classes. The classroom was neat and tidy, and our form teacher, Ms Karina Heng, talked to us about appointing a class chair-person. During the talk by Ms Heng, I made three new friends, Johan, Shi Hao and Shao Wen. As Johan was a huge guy, I was quite afraid of him at first until I found out that he was very friendly.

I still remember when I first stood beside him, it was like standing beside an overgrown gorilla. The other two boys, Shi Hao and Shao Wen were quite tall too. The councilors brought us around the school premises for a quick school tour. The tour was quite boring as I had nothing to do until, Shao wen got to meet Shi Hao. Shi Hao tricked Shao Wen by saying his name was Kelvin. I giggled as soon as I heard their conversation.

Only during the ice-breakers, which was after the tour, did Shao Wen find out Shi Hao’s real name as we had to introduce ourselves. I continued to laugh at Shao Wen as he continued to hit Shi Hao. The ice-Breakers introduced us to many other friends and the ice-breakers were enjoyable.

After school had ended, we had a lame mass dance which not really many people including me wanted to dance. But we joined in unwillingly and then started to get the hang of the dance and found it interesting. Therefore, Johan and I dreamed of being a councilor as we will be able to join in more of these kind of fun activities.