STTD is a novel which depicts the emotions of the characters in it i quite feel the part where Kwai betrays Dawan a bit sad as siblings should not betray each other except for mine they should respect each other... add me MSN my email is redthunder_456@hotmail.com

hahaha. owells. i managed to get into the class blog.

since everyone asked me to blog, i shall blog. ((:
whee!~ oh yeahh. i guess i can talk crap here. wakaka.
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okay. i finished the book already. it's really sad but i guess that's it's also damn nice at the same time larhhs. ((: whoo!~ i think that it's really a pleasure to read this book. damn nice. owells.
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eerr...basically...i tink tat te book is veri touchin...sobb!n...i feel tat te last part where kwai,te bro, waved to his sis 4 te last time even though he is sort of "jealous"of her ...diao. aniwae acc is diane_heng@hotmail.com ..plz add mi(unless u had!!!)

I have just finished reading the book and felt really touched by the ending. There were three scenes in the story that made me almost cry. First part was when the brother was sitting on the bridge, refusing to send Dawan off on her departure date. When he said 'if u come back, we couldn't ever sit on the bridge and just watch the dawn like we used to anymore. You've changed that, you've gone and changed all that already', I felt I really understood what he meant. He was not complaining to Dawan or trying to not let her go, but he was scared, scared of the loneliness, scared of the distance between his sister and himself. Can you imagine a boy at age of 13 has to face a separation from his 12 year old sister who used to be his best friend? And no one knows how long this separation is going to last. He was simply unprepared. The second scene I was tremendously touched was the farewell Dawan's grandmother gave to her. Unlike all the other characters in the book, this grandmother has tremendous heroin spirit just like Dawan herself. Grandmother taught Dawan an important lesson - Dawan has to go to the City School because only then she could realise her potential and live her life to the fullest. Just like a lotus bud, with proper sunlight and good wather, 'it'll unfold'. Even when Dawan was unsure whether she should have the 'change', the grandmother assured her 'there is a beautiful pattern to all this change'. Of course Dawan will change. She will have to change to survive in a city world but even then she could still come back to her hometown to be the girl she used to be. Yes, she will never behave the same way, but that is way of life. We are changing and maturing everyday so she has to face the changes. The last part that strike my heart was when Dawan was disppointed that Kwai would not come and send her off. Sunddenly as her bus was running fast to leave the village, she saw Kwai standing on the bridge, streching both arms 'in a gesture meant both to embrace her and to send her off'. He cares for her! The close bond between them was highlighted here which further convey a sense of saddness as the reader knows that these two kids would not see each other for long time. Minfong Ho has highlighted the problem of gender ineqality in the villages in Southeast Asia. Also, the phonomenon of leaving the village to enter cities is addressed. Indeed, many young people from Southeast Asia came to Singapore to pursue studies is a reality. Although the book never says explicitly which 'city school' it referred to, reader could infer from there. Again, the economic and social development of a country like Singapore is heigntened in the novel. Knowledge from a city country can help people change the backward nature of their hometown; Education in a city country will change many people's life from bad to good. Is it really true? How many people really change the society after accomplishing the education in a big city? Maybe what is changed is their own individual family? But that youthful passion of changing the 'lives of people in their village' was hardly realised or persisted in the end? What a sad truth! Shall we rekindle that passion once again? Or was it a message Minfong Ho was trying to convey? This remains a question to the reader's imagination.


xiia0arI(:[arel]

we are the 1e-ians ♥

Mayfl0wer Sec0ndary Scho0l
1 endeavour f0rever!!
stars.
let it shine!
friends forever.
♥ we rock!
ms ng. ms ng.
solid teacher seiis.
maths. geog.
form teacher.
so kind. no scold.
hahas. rmb. all our
times together.
bad good, we are all behind each other.

the class.

we are the mayflower-ian.
frm 1ENDEAVOUR.
we care
-love
-share
-look after
-help one another
-teach one another(:
we come in a class of 38 students, a mixture of 21 girls and 17 boys..ndd beloved MS NG ><
though we will be streaming to diff.classes next year, but we will be forever together. UNITED AS ONE
so dont ue dare to bully any one of us, cuz the rest of the 39 will help ndd take revenge.
WE LOVE MS NG!
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US.

our members

1; wai teng(unicorn)
2; cheuk yee(pegasus)
3; vivian(unicorn)
4; isabelle(phoenix)
5; felicia ng(griffin)
6; shi en(pegasus)
7; gladys(griffin)
8; diane(griffin)
9; jasmine(unicorn)
10; felicia khor(pegasus)
11; vanessa(phoenix)
12; ethel(pegasus)
13; priscilla(unicorn)
14; jaslyn(pegasus)
16; wen xi(pegasus)
17; wen hsuen(unicorn)
18; yi lin(unicorn)
19; ariel(pegasus)
20; venus(unicorn)
21; hui ling(pegasus)
22; audrey(griffin)
23; chee han(phoenix)
24; chuan yi(phoenix)
25; cheng khong(griffin)
26; yang jie(phoenix)
27; darren(griffin)
28; werner(unicorn)
29; kenneth(unicorn)
30; nicholas(unicorn)
31; lucas(griffin)
32; royston(unicorn)
33; esmond(pegasus
34; de hui(pegasus)
35; wee kiat(pegasus)
36; kang cheng(griffin)
37; arel(pegasus)
38; joel(griffin)

Jobs.

class comm.
:chairperson-arel
:vice-audrey
:secretary-venus
:treasurer-chee han
:IT-de hui,cheng khong, kenneth
subj reps.
:maths-jaslyn
:english-wee kiat, royston
:geog-hui ling
:art-nicholas
:chinese-esmond
:home econs-wen xi
:d&t-
:literature-werner
:science-??
:history-wee kiat, cheng khong
:music-??
:p.e.-??

Teachers.

maths- ms ng.
english- ms teo
geography- ms cheng
art- ms phua
home econs- ms sim.
design&tech- mr khng.
science- mr chew.
music- mr lam.
p.e.- ms leong Luncinda.
literature- mrs thomas.
chinese- mdm lee.
higher chinese- mdm chen.
history- mr edwin ho.
woahhs. variety of gurl teachers- MS! so sad.. must faster marry horr.
get a lao gong!

Birthdays.

January.
-NIL-
Febuary.
1 – Darren
3– Kang Cheng
14– Joel
22 – Felicia Ng
March.
15 – Jaslyn
29 – Cheuk Yee
April.
13 – Wai Teng
20 – Priscilla
22 – Stephanie; Kenneth
May.
27 - Vanessa
June.
2 - Cheng Khong
7 - Lucas
July.
3 – Ariel
8 – Hui Ling
12 – Ethel
13 – De Hui
28 – Arel
August.
4 – Royston
12 – Yi Lin
18 – Venus
24 – Nicholas
September.
18 – Isabelle
21 – Chuanyi
29 – Yang Jie
30 – Chee Han
October.
2 – Audrey
3 – Diane
16 – Gladys
November.
5 – Felicia
6 – Wen Xi
14 – Shi En
17 – Esmond
21 – Wee Kiat
December.
6 - Jasmine
20 - Vivian
31 - Werner

Wishes.

arel : good luck for results k?(: wen hsuen : get into the same class again next year(:

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