Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Science Centre

After such a long time... I shall be posting here. Went to science centre one day and here are some photos :)

DORY!!! :D

Taken with flash at the fish exhibit, feel somewhat bad for blinding it momentarily...





An eel.







A crab. It had it's own space. Oh and sorry with the poor quality, was just taking it for fun







A horse+donkey race exhibit in the science centre. One's supposed to arrange the gears such that it will move the fastest/slowest. Based on concept of the teeths of a gear and how they affect the number of rounds they spin.





Macro shot of the above mentioned







Visual proof of pythagorean theorem.







Ending my post here, next post shall be some more random shots. Taken with a phone camera.

Monday, March 1, 2010

E-learning homework

Ok, temporarily placing photos aside, because I have to do an e-learning task now.
Go to this website: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/results/results.cfm
And key in fzh28njk83146wq under code. That's my MI test results, and as you can see, interpersonal and intrapersonal are the highest, so I now have to do tasks on them.

Intrapersonal:
Who would you want to be friends with in the novel(To Kill a Mockingbird)? Explain.

I would like to be friends with Jem. He has a good father, Atticus, who is currently a lawyer. In the novel, Atticus acts as a model to his children. One statement made by Jem was: "Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!" This shows that his father had imposed good values on him and he feels obliged to follow Atticus footsteps regarding his moral values. Jem would be a man with great moral values and thus he would be a good influence to have. I would be able to learn what he has learn from Atticus and would be able to act like a true gentleman as well.

Jem has also experienced many tough times and he would be able to advice me if I ever meet one. One example of a tough time was when Jem had to face the unjust verdict that Tom Robinson was guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. He had thought that Tom Robinson would be found not guilty, but due to Tom Robinson's skin colour, black, which the society of Maycomb were prejudiced against, he was found guilty. Jem could not handle the truth and cried, and he was unable to fathom the verdict at that point of time, but later in the story, he knew why it happened, and was thus able to handle it.

Therefore, I would want to be friends with Jem as he has the ability and the know-how to help me in times of need.


Interpersonal:
Conduct an interview with a friend (not from HCI) or family member. Find out from their point of view on prejudice and discrimination. Either record the interview or write out the interview transcript.

This is the interview transcript between me and one of my friends. He does not wished to be known, so I cannot announce his name.
Q1)What does the word "prejudice" means to you?
It means the biasness of a group of people against another weaker group of people where the latter is "bullied", or a preconceived judgement of someone.

Q2)What about discrimination?
Discrimination is the unfair treatment and distinction between different groups of people be it by race, social class etc.
Q3) Give me an example of discrimination that you have observed around you.
Perhaps where GEPers in my school are labelled or generalized as being PROUD or SNOBBISH and are most of the time restricted to our own circle of friends (with the exception of me ).

Q4) Why do you think such discriminating acts occur?
Because of the lack of communication and interaction between the different groups of people. If the two groups of people are unable to communication(communicate), they would never be able to understand each others differences or the others' personalities, and the misunderstandings will continue to occur.

Q5) Are you prejudiced against anyone or a particular kind of person? If so, why?
I'm not exactly prejudiced towards any type of people though I tend to stay away from people with relatively bad personalities because I feel that there is a sort of communication breakdown between me and him, which is a problem too in trying to solve the issue of discrimination.

Q6) Can you elaborate on "bad personalities?"
People who are arrogant and tend to be very egoistic, for example, an attention magnet :DD

Q7) What do you think of racial discrimination?
I think that racial discrimination is unfair because it treats a certain race unjustly where the people of that certain race have even their fundamental rights being infringed upon. Racial discrimination is disgusting because the supposedly superior group feel good about themselves by being able to look down on the minority race. This is sadistic and wrong.

Q8) What do you think are the labels attached to Negroes?
Negroes are generally labelled as rude uncouth folks who bring about only bad influences to the rest of the people.

Q9) What do you think of gender discrimination then?
Gender discrimination is also wrong because it allows for a superior gender. However, today, this is inevitable because of the cultures and traditions passed down from our history so gender discrimination is wrong morally but cannot actually be concretely prevented.

Q10) Based on your answer, would you prefer to be a girl or a boy?
It depends on the society i am in. Who wouldn't like to have more rights? If I were livign in countries like China, where they kill innocent female newborns for the fact that they are female, I would like to be male. However, if I were to be born in Minicoy (women's island), I would very much like to be a girl, though I'm perfectly fine with my current gender :DD.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Genting Photos

As I have said, not much photos of me going around, but instead of the air flight. Just going to show you some "better" photos. Not going to give tags because too many photos.. maybe for those that I prefer though.







Just some photos taken, too many to upload and it takes too much time. So yeah first few photos were of take-off, and 4th photo was apparently about the airplane in a turbulence/cloud, which explains the dark scene outside. Oh and the 5th photo, one of my favourite photos :D looks so cool...
I shall end this blog post here, and look forward to a website where I shall attempt to place all my pictures in.
P.S Don't know what's wrong with layout... so temporarily I shall let it remain like this :(

Media tech Review pics

Hey guys, I know I said I was going to post about my trip, but instead, I found some photos I took last year during the Media Tech Review, where we went out to take photos. So I will now show you some of the photos.
Basically on that day, we were supposed to take pictures that showcase the theme, Irony. Each group had to submit 4 photos and this was one of the photos I took, in fact the only one. So anyway this pictures show the man standing in front of the MRT door while people were inside, and the poster on the door saying: "Wait! Let me come out first!". This showcases irony as the man is not doing so. Of course, this was all planned out.

This picture was taken using the macro mode, basically a mode that focuses on nearby objects. Close-up objects would be very detailed, as you can see from the strings of the raffia string. Oh and the background, although blur, shows people crossing the road when the light is red, hence showing irony again.




I took this photo for well, no reason. Me and my senior was just talking about how much easier compact cameras can take photos of people then the DSLR, bigger, more professional cameras. So i just held the camera and placed my hand by the side, and took this photo. This was quite clear, and therefore, somehow, proved our point that compact cameras own XD



Again, another macro photo. Just thought that the flower was somewhat interesting, so yeah, this pic was taken. Oh yes, this was taken while walking 2+ kilometres to East Coast Park, for our bbq. And we played cards there, and I learnt how to play Bridge there as well, so :)



Ok so next post will be the Genting airplane pics, and I mean it this time.

Random School photos

Ok, long time no post ans since deadline for blog checking is near, I shall post today :D
First, some photos I took in school:


Err yeah so basically a photo of the fountain that goes on and off in my school.









Blue "White"board in class, marker quality so bad.










These are just some different pictures, as the rest I have are basically of the surroundings. I shall end this post now because I don't really have much photos to show now. Anyway, next post shall be of the airplane trip during CNY when i went to Genting Highlands. No theme park photos etc there, because I didn't went, stayed in hotel room and mugged ;)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Introduction

Welcome to my blog for 2010 LA. I shall be doing a blog that will mainly contain photos. I hope that you can tell me what you like and dislike about the photos, so I can improve on my photography skills :)
To start it off, here's a photo of a car I took behind a blue screen:

This picture was taken around last year, when we were on the bus on the way to somewhere. Someone said it was nice so I decided to post it.