Reflection on Chingay parade- Heng Yun Tat

I feel that the chingay parade was a splendid and amazing one. It not only brings the Chinese New Year mood but also promote multinational society. The official theme for Chingay Parade 2016 is “Lights of Legacy, Brighter Singapore” As the theme suggests, Chingay 2016 will be the brightest ever with the biggest full-scale illuminated show. The theme is also inspired by the legacy of our Founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, and the values embodied by our Pioneers such as Racial Harmony and Social Cohesion, Caring Community, Resilience as a Nation, Can-Do Singapore Spirit and Uphold high moral values. All these values are what our founding father mr Lee want to inculcate in every Singaporean , to carry on his legacy . This made me interested to find out about the history of chingay parade .On 4 February 1973, the first Singapore Chingay parade was held partly as a result of the ban on firecrakers a year earlier in 1972 as a result of fire hazards. This ban was viewed unfavourably despite the safety issues involved. Some people felt that the ban would result in a much dampened festival mood for the Chinese New Year period. To address this issue, the People's association and the Singapore National pugilistic association, jointly  organised a street parade from Jalan besar  to Outram park featuring the signature floats, acrobatic acts, lion and dragon dances, stilt walkers, and the like, to bring back some cheer to the general public.The largely Chinese parade became a multi-cultural one from 1977 when Malay and Indian groups started joining in the performances, which was to mark a major precedent in the overall flavour of the parade into one which has become largely multi-cultural in character, despite the continued presence of traditional Chinese acts such as lion dances and stilt walkers to this day. After watching all these amazing performances performed by people from different races, coming together and putting up a grand performance together , I feel really proud to be a Singaporean, being able to have a multirational society , and the progress Singapore has made over these 50 years. As Singaporeans, we must uphold these values mr Lee and the pioneers embodied and promote racial harmony among each other to prevent misunderstanding of each other and confrontations from others so as to pass down mr lee's legacy.

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!💚💙💚💙

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.