Zhen Hao-平凡中的不平凡

 This is a picture that I took during RV60 the actual day itself. The music room became the place where I practice my rv60 moves.during the actual day itself , I saw everyone eating London chocolate roll and chatting together.the seniors and the juniors mixed around very freely and talked about many things.At first, I thought choir is not needed for RV60 as there is no place where I think we are needed. But in the end, we still performed at the mass display during RV60 and also the finale.I also thought that our movement were very stupid at first but the I realised that we also contributed to the full performance with our actions.After RV60, back at the music room, I also realised that I was very fortunate to have a holding room that has a air conditioner as it is very hot while performing and we can relax in the music room after we had finished performing.we can also enjoy the ice cream that the school had provided for us.i have realised that RV60 is a very meaningful activity that celebrated our school's heritage and we are part of the one big RV family.

P.S. You can see Jia hao's face very clearly in this picture😂😂😂

Yun Tat:平凡中的不平凡

 MY CCA IS WUSHU🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊

   This was a photo I took during Rv 60 this year during the actual day. The hostel canteen was different from the usually quiet and empty place. During this day, the hostel canteen is filled with Rv students from all types of ccas: volleyball,  wushu,  netball and so on all participating in one big part of the Rv 60 performance, the wushu performance.  All the student's dawned in their Rv 60 shirts and the taiji and dunpaidaos costume and all makeups on everyones faces. Looking at groups of frends sitting in circles on the floor of the hostel canteen and laughing at each other makeups, playing some games to pass the time and chatting with each other, I felt that everyone have gone through alot during this few months. Even though  training for this event may be tough, boring to some people,  but it gained us so much things, new friendship, bonds strengthened,  more experience in wushu. Finally 3 months of training have paid off, standing in the sun,  praticing our taiji moves, cancelling some lessons to attend  training early, complaining along the way, finally it's the big day. Looking at the big balloon with Rv 60 printed on it, flying in the air, all the wushu people stood at their positions behind the stage and prepared for the big show.  I could tell everyone were nervous as this was the day and the ministry of education was  there too. However, my senior walked around and gave high fives to everyone and said "加油" to everybody. We ran out to our positions and performed what we learned this past few months and put up an excellent performance.  This event certainly left a very deep memory in my mind, I become closer to my seniors and wushu mates as well as my classmates.I've became more mindful of my time management as during the training period, we had not alot of time to finish our work. Most importantly, I've became more prouder as an rvian and loved my cca alot more!!!!!

I love my cca!💚💙💚💙

Phoebe: RV60 Reflections

Here is a picture of me with the other performers on the left side of the formations(audience's POV), taken during our RV60 Preview. :))

For our school's 60th anniversary celebrations, I felt really honoured to be chosen to perform with 52 other drummers, mostly those of the same year as me. This has been a great experience for me as I have learnt many qualities through drumming with our external instructor Mr Ong. 

One of which he has talked to us about is the story of 周星驰.

He told us that the famous actor simply started out small, and has learnt to observe throughout his experience. This has slowly led to his success, from being just an anonymous person to someone extraordinary, in which an actor has found potential in him. He did not have any outstanding talents, but his willingness to learn, observe and try was something not many people could do. 

Similarly, as we started out from simply having little foundation from our music module, we learn from others' strengths and to improve from others' weaknesses, causing us to make great progress and impressing the teachers.

I must admit that despite the mistakes we made during our actual performance, we still had fun and we endured tough times together. This probably applies to not only us, but to all who have participated in this grand performance. The pride we had in showing what we have done and accomplished to the alumni was indescribable, and I hope the alumni had enjoyed our performance thoroughly as well. 

I hope that as we grow, we will stay strong and learn resilience to face all obstacles in our way.

平凡中的不平凡-Eunice

CID Photo Activity:

This was a photo I took during March of last year. It shows our nation's and school flag flying at half mast, as our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed on. This was very different from the usual singing of the national anthem, with both flags flying high. There was a deep sense of forlornness in the air as students and staff alike grieved for Mr Lee. I found that it was very extraordinary from my regular school life to see the different way that the national anthem was held. I don't want to think about this, but will I ever get to see a flag flying at half mast again? I may not be schooling anymore when that time comes. I chose this picture because I could tell the difference with the school, the usual hustle and bustle of the school is replaced by quiet sadness. However, it was this time that reminded me of how fortunate I am to live in Singapore, as well as to educate us, the younger generation, of how much the pioneers of Singapore had managed to build Singapore to be such a beautiful, busy city it is now. Besides this, there are also many things that the school did which is different from my regular school life, such as setting up booths to show us students about the great things that Mr Lee did, and also during lesson time, my teachers would take some time to tell us how they felt about this incident. I remember that I could tell our year mistress was very upset over this, everyone's sprit was pretty much broken. However, this encouraged us to pick ourselves up from where we fell, and strive for the better, and in this case, making Singapore a better nation together.

平凡中的不平凡:Phoebe

这是我们在排练我们六十周年的庆典表演。看到同伴在辛辛苦苦地训练着的我，顿时有了启发，便拍下了这个情景... 

I was deeply inspired by our school spirit. It seems ordinary to anybody, since other schools have their own school spirit as well. However, as an RVian, this was more than just showing teamwork.
We cherish our moments together as one big RV family, even with the teachers, principal, vice principals and non-teaching staffs.

Our recent RV60 performance has shown our spirit.

"Why did we even have to perform?It's just another anniversary, no big deal..." was probably on many of our minds. But however, we learnt to not complainas we realised how important our history was. It wasn't about how many things have changed since the past. But it was the students who have changed for the better,and has not changed in spirit, even as time goes by.

I was part of the 24 Festive Drums performance and I was very honoured. Festive Drums was quite a new experience for the school, but our fast progress by learning most of our performance parts was quite a surprise to not only the principals and teachers, but also to us. We knew how to coordinate with each other well. Teamwork. Even our external instructor Mr Ong was quite satisfied. "We had little foundation and yet we could master the drums as if we were professionals who had years of practice." The hard practices were usually finished off by a debrief in which Mr Ong would always emphasise on the spirit we had together. "This performance is showcasing your spirit" he once said.

I unfortunately did not have a chance to perform in the finale with my other peers as we had 53 performers but for the second formation of drums there were only 40 drums, which meant some us could not perform. But as I watched my peers perform from the grandstand during one of the rehearsals, I knew we were that good during our opening performance.
On the actual day after the performance we all knew there could be improvements. Humility. But despite this, as we ate the popsicles the school gave us, we knew we did a good job.....

"立化的精神永远不会改变，而我们也会永远保留着立化情在我们的心中。"

那是我所得到的启发。


祝立化生日快乐！

平凡中的不平凡-林静文

我的课外活动是戏剧。

戏剧在别人眼里，就只是演戏，只需要天分就可以了。但是你们不知道的事还多着呢。戏剧讲究的不是天分，而是你的努力。戏剧不单单是演戏，而是需要配合剧本，舞台设计，服装设计，灯光影响设计以及道具设计。大家都以为戏剧就只是上台表演一下，但不为人知的事，就为了舞台上的一瞬间，我们花了整整7-8个月的时间准备。从编辑剧本开始，到舞台设计，都需要队员的亲力亲为，我们还需要选拔角色加上排练一整场戏，非常的辛苦。

无论有多辛苦，我都热爱戏剧，❤️我这个大家庭，爱这个我们一起流过汗水，一起狂欢，一起说那些不可告人的秘密，一起被骂，被罚的地方。这让我想起《青春彼岸》这首歌的歌词：那些曾有过的狂欢，那些曾青涩的伤感.....

无论这个地方是个别人觉得有多平凡的地方。

这里是立化中学的drama studio,我的天堂💓💗💕

Our thoughts on the Kevin Carter picture

After looking at the picture, we were told that the photographer, Kevin Carter, had killed himself. The controversy is: Is it worth it to take his life because of a picture, that he did not step up to help the baby? Many have been telling him to help the baby, while others feel that since it is a third world country, he may get infected by unknown diseases carried by the baby. In our opinion, we feel that there is more to what Kevin decides to do. He was just obeying orders when he was told not to do anything to the baby. Try to place yourself in his shoes, if he went up to help the baby, the baby will be saved, but his parents might be very worried when they cannot find the baby when they return, and what if he gets transmitted? He will not be able to go back to his homeland as he would carry the disease with him and may even cause an epidemic. Therefore, as he is taking the picture, we feel that there is not a need for him to take his life. Although the child died, but his suicide might not mean that he is guilty. It might just have meant that he could not take the stress from the public.

Another perspective is that we feel that it is quite an interesting way of showing the current condition of third world countries to others, the child is very unfortunate as it is abandoned at a horrible environment. However we feel that the instruction to not help these people after taking a photo of them, which is something we think is quite rude when you do not ask their permission, is not displaying empathy.  While they try to encourage others to have empathy to help, they do not have empathy themselves if they do not step up and help themselves. We think the photographer is very irresponsible as he comes in just to take a photo and just left without providing any help to the baby. We feel that this is quite an irony that should be changed. 

Self intro-Zhen Hao

Hi my name is Zhen Hao from 2J. I live at Bukit Timah and I am from Pei Hwa Presbyterian primary school . My favourite subject is Geography because I can get very high marks for the subject. My favourite pastime is to sleep as I am always deprived of sleep every morning

Self intro:Yun Tat

Hi I am yuntat from 2J. I am from jurong West primary school and I'm from wushu CCA.My favourite subject is science as it interest me the most and we can conduct experiments and see the things for ourselves, its learning by doing it and this type of method to study Is my favourite My favourite past time is gaming as I feel that it help me relieve stress the best. 

Self intro:Phoebe

Hello! I'm Phoebe from 2J and this is my self introduction!

I love reading fictional stories and staying at home to relax as well. I am very interested in the arts as well, and being in the CLDDS Drama CCA allows me to gain exposure to how performances work behind-the-scenes. Music is something that I love the most compared to the other arts. I always have my phone and my earphones with me and I listen to many different genres to match how I'm feeling.
I am a sensitive ENFP-T who likes to get to know more people and I can be quite an introvert person when I am alone. My friends and juniors tell me that I am a very caring or 'sisterly' person as I often care for them and look out for them whenever I see them. They tell me that I am kind and that I cheer them up when they are down. I usually open up to people around me as time goes by.
In primary school, I was very enthusiastic when it comes to my CCA, Girls' Brigade. I participated in many activities and camps and even learnt how to play the Fife,a type of flute played in UG. Till now, I still go back to my primary school to help out in the camps as I love bonding with people through games and activities.

Self intro-Eunice

My name is Eunice Teo and I'm from class 2J. Let me tell you a little more about myself. My favorite subject in school is Science as I think we live in a scientific world, and science can be used to prove many things, it also has been used to uncover many mysteries. My least favorite subject is history as I feel it can be very mundane and boring at times. Anyways, let's talk about what I like to do outside of school. I do appreciate school holidays as I get to spend more time with my friends and family. One fun fact about me is that I don't enjoy watching movies, probably because I don't like the darkness of the theatre. Embarking on to CID 2, I suppose most students would look forward to the OELP trip, but I think otherwise. Well, I don't especially enjoy traveling and being apart from my family, I understand my friends and teachers will be there, but I still feel uncertain about going overseas. However, I still hope CID 2 will bring lots of fun for me and my class.

Self-intro:Jingwen

Hi!
My name is Lin Jingwen and im from 2J'16.
My primary school is Woodlands Primary sch and my primary school cca is art club and chinese cultural club.
My favourite pass time activity is playing badminton and catching up drama.