Several weeks earlier, I read a story in <Chicken Soup>, which inspired me a lot.

 

One frigid night, ten schoolboys played at the railway track, where the train might come at any time. The youngest among them, by the name of Jack, foresaw their potential danger and he turned to his friends, claiming that the train was on its way and they should shift to another deserted railway track as soon as possible. It was a fabulous idea actually, but no one listened to him. They thought he was too circumspect and dubbed him Coward. Jack was pretty downcast, and he went to the deserted railway himself. To everyone’s surprise, the train came sever minutes later.

 

The railway where the group of schoolboys was was too far way from where Jack was. So it is impossible to get them out of there before the train came. Nether can other methods be used to save the children’s lives. Nonetheless, one method can still be used, that is, you sacrifice Jack by sending signals to the train-driver so that the train would ran at the deserted railway track instead of the one where nine boys were playing. By doing so, you would save nine lives. However, Jack will definitely die as there was no way he could escape. So, my question is, would you do it? What you save the nine children by sacrificing one?

 

The answer, for good or for bad, should be “No”. Jack oversaw the possible danger and had already warned the others not to play at the railway track. Whilst it was the boys who did not listen to advices and eventually resulted in their tragedy. They ought to pay their bills, although it was really an expensive one. They are responsible for their silly decisions. This introduces you our topic of today – responsibility.

 

Life is full of choices. Being responsible means being in charge of our choices and, thus, our lives. It means being accountable for what we do and who we are. It also means recognizing that our actions matter and we are morally on the hook for the consequences. Our capacity to reason and our freedom to choose make us morally autonomous and, therefore, answerable for whether we honor or degrade the ethical principles that give life meaning and purpose.

 

Therefore, we must exercise self-control, restraining passions and appetites such as lust, hatred, gluttony, greed and fear, for the sake of longer-team vision and better judgment. Only by doing so, we will be able to realize that we are as we choose to be, every day. 

I failed this common test.

Firstly, My Bio results is abysmal. It's kind of near the border line. I believed no one had done as bad as me. It was so depressing! I studies realy hard for Bio! I memorized every single word the text-book said. But I had also realized that I did not pay much attention in the class. This was really a bad habit. So I'd recently decided to adopted Boxer (The horse in the Book <Animal Farm>)'s personal motto as mine - I will work harder!

 

Secondly, I did not do well in Chem. For the second question, I lost a total of 8 marks, which really pissed me off. If only I got one of them right... Oh, the air was heavy with the smell of my blood...

 

And I did not do well in both A maths and E maths... For A maths it's only 33/50. I believed someone in C2 had got full marks. To fail math was really shameful.

 

However, I knew as clearly as everyone else the futility of complaining. I will work hard!~

 

By the way, August the 27th is the Chinese Halloween... Enjoy yourself!

Tomorrow is 9th of Augest, Singapore's 42nd birthday.   Happy birthday, Singapore.

 

This morning we had the national day celebration. I mean, the Singapore national day celebration. I knew clearly as everyone else that today was not my day. Yet I still felt ecstatic for my friends and as well as for Singapore. Christina wept. I used to treat her as if she was a pampered child, I was wrong. She had her thoughts. She had a sense of patriotism which I guessed I had long lost. Yet I did not agree with the way she behaved. It was Singapore's national day, nonetheless. The Singapore Government offered us money, study opportunities and other stuffs which were even beyond our imagination several years ago. I sort of felt that if we did not appreciate them we were taking advantanges from them. And I don't like taking advantages from anyone else. So, Julie and I screamed and laughed joyfully today and we had a blissful time. By the way, I looooooooooooved the songs they sang. They reminded me of China, though we never sang songs in our national day -- we got holidays. People says different cultural backgrounds yield different customs. If so, the Singaporean cultural background is certainly one of the best kinds.

 

Happy birthday, Singapura! 

Acknowledgement

 

We had accomplished our 6-day Microsoft Summer Trip.

First I’d like to thank Microsoft Corporation to provide us this wonderful opportunity to work with students of various cultural backgrounds and seek for solutions regarding the famous issue – Global Warming.

Secondly, I’d like to say thank you to our teacher-in-charge, Miss Ho, whose kindness and helpfulness had made this trip successful. Miss Ho gave us plenty of constructive suggestions during the trip and we learnt a lot of physics-related knowledge from her. That’s really very kind of her.

Thirdly, I’d like to give my love to Si Hua（思华）, whose ever-presenting smile and thoughtful heart had become the most powerful pump to our group and leads us to success.

Last but not least, I’d like to thank all my group members, including our teacher-in-charge Miss Ho, our Captain Zi Xian, and our intelligent group members Yi Tong, Ying Zheng, Bo Wei, and Kelvin. Their elite and productivity had made a different in our “Scientific Presentation”, which was highly praised by the judges. The third prize we received, we are still proud of ourselves.

 

TBC