Reflection [Raphaela(5)]

Through the past lessons I have learnt how to use just one word to summarize things with just using one word. I have also learnt some presentation skills and also learning that the saying a picture speaks a thousands words is true and makes me wonder if what I'm interpreting from the the pictures are correct. I have also learnt observation skills in the last lessons  and that observing our surrounding is very important as we might not be able to see some things without looking carefully. For example, during the first lesson we were asked to match someone in the class to the description that fits this person. It was very hard for many of us as we did not observe these people we could only complete the excercise by asking around if any of them fits the description. This make me think about how I can improve on my observation skills and I realized that I can improve my observation skills but just making use of my five senses. I can use my five senses to take in my surrounding I can do so anytime and anywhere. 

 

Chinese New Year Reflection [Raphaela:)]

 

I chose the color orange as it represents happiness and Chinese New Year is a festival where you finally get to meet the relatives you are not able to meet for a long time and also a time where you get eat lots of goodies and be carefree...it is a festival that make people happy:) 

 This is a picture from Chinese New Year and this picture represents happiness shared with my family and relative, which corresponds to they choice of color that I chose:)Anyway happy Chinese New Year:) 

Group Pic with the poster :D

Poster is on a horror movie

Reflection -Sinyee

In light of the recent CID lessons, I think we've have gained quite a lot of worldly knowledge on a range of topics from preparation for our Overseas learning journey to poverty in singapore and understanding the history of a photograph. In a lesson, we were shown two comparative pictures, a well-dressed mother and her child in arms; a man with a placard asking for a job. When presented with one hundred dollars and asked to make a choice between giving the mother and the man, many cast their votes to the mother, with piety in their hearts. I asked, can we split the hundred dollars? Can we give the mother half and the man half? The answer I got was a simple no. Even though in reality, that is possible, in a scenario where you could not half the money, who would you give the cash to? Someone suggested buying daily nessecities and distributing it to the two. I thought, this is a feasible plan. However, when it came to my decision, I would give it in it's entirety to the man. My reasoning is that the women and her baby are clad in warm looking clothes and the baby looks well-fed, they might be phonies, or fraudsters. The man is asking for a job, so I assume that he wishes to be self reliant. As the saying goes,' give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish and you'll feed him for a lifetime.' Without prior knowledge of the background, that was my reasoning at the moment. 

Turns out, the women and her baby are part of a syndicate in India. The man geniunely is a beggar who met with misfortune. He needed financial aid to get back on track. So to say, althought the women and her baby are not entirely innocent, they are pitiful. Part of their donations , perhaps most of it will be returned to the syndicate. This made me view the pictures in a different light. 

The lesson impacted me greatly, although a picture speaks a thousand words, are we interpreting the words correctly? This allowed me a deeper insight on pictures and the meaning behind them.

-sinyee

Reflection - Mei Ling 12

From the past three lessons, I have learnt that observation skills is indeed very important. We should pay attention to our surroundings and not just go around blindly and not learning anything. For example for the exercise where we were supposed to find a person in our class which fits the description, it was very hard for me to find someone who fits the description as I did not really observe well enough to notice what are my friends habits, hobbies for example. I then realize that we had to pay attention more, in order to find out more and learn more to know what is going on. We must also have a reason for why we say so as we cannot just assume that he or she really does it that way or has a habit of doing that for example. We can use our five senses to pay attentions on by seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting and sensing. For example, we can walk around somewhere and we can look around to see what others are doing and we can also listen to all the different kinds of noise and the environment it is like. This is what I have learnt from the lessons.

Chinese New Year (Mei Ling,12)

I chose the color red as it best represents  

Chinese new year as a whole. everywhere you turn, you will sight a streak of red during this festive period. Red is the color of chinese new year and red is our feelings for it. I chose red as it is bold and daring, just as chinese new year is.

This vibrant flower in the sky , is my symbol for chinese new year. Every year fireworks light up the night sky and the explosive spunds resonate throughout the neighbourhood. 

This is an image from chinese new year. It corresponds with my chinese new year color-red.  It also gives a peek at the festive feelings at chinese new year, with the throngs of people gathered to celebrate chinese new year.

Chinese New Year- Carissa Lim (01)

The colour that I have chosen is red. 

I chose red as during Chinese New Year, everyone will be decorating their houses with red decorations and red is considered an auspicious colour during Chinese New Year. The symbol that I have chosen is 福.

It means prosperity and if you flip it around, in Chinese, it means prosperity has arrived. Hence many people usually put the symbol 福 upside down. The picture that I have chosen is this. 

I chose this picture as it shows the festive season during Chinese New Year where everywhere is filled with many red decorations and it is also very crowded with people shopping for Chinese New Year goodies. There are also many decorations being put up for sale. 

These are what I chose to depict Chinese New Year as a festive season. 😄

-Carissa Lim (01)