aww yea we survived week 8 and totally forgot about my quote in the diary.
"it is the bright burning flame that resides within us that makes us strive for the best and only the best." yes I know it is damn corny but its supposed to be in the diary so...?

Okay i was just posting a note on fb. never mind. thanks to calvin for destroying our fun class blog and yet put something rather useful to us up here.

Here comes a status update for the week:
TUESDAY 3 MARCH 2009 (i think there are girls coming!)
RIPB 2009 PREFECTORIAL BOARD PREFECTS' INVESTITURE (chiraag is the AV for that day!)
Watch us sing and dance to a LIVE BAND after the solemn stuff in the beginning! And us in our blazers!

Homework!
Maths WS 5 (on changing subject of formula)
Geography WS (remember the cartoon?)
HCL Mock Paper and Idioms Worksheet
Preparations for Presentations

Upcoming tests!
MT CCT 1 on Week 10 Monday (muggable)
History SEQ (2nd lesson of the week right? someone confirm) (study calvin's stuff!)
ERP (when is this?) (read for goodness sake. i have about 300 pages to go!)
Philosophy Fallacies (Friday)
Science Quiz (Friday, last lesson of Science)

I think that's all. Cheers to a long list of stuffs.

Have fun this weekend and complete all your work. I spent about 15 minutes of MY precious time writing this (:

Smiles and cheers and wobbles!
Benjamin (:

The history SEQ will be about the founding of Singapore. You will need to know

1. Reasons for the founding of Singapore
2. Definition of the term "founder"
3. Raffles, Crawfurd and Farquar

Reasons for the founding of Singapore

1. To combat piracy (Not in textbook). Pirates were commonplace back then, and often a trade ship would get intercepted by pirates and cause traders to lose a lot of revenue. Singapore was placed at the perfect spot to combat piracy, it being close to the pirates' base of operations and Singapore could harbor several man-o-wars at a time, making it easy to send these warships to do battle with the pirates and protect the trade line. Also, the British could bribe the pirates to attack Dutch ships instead of British ships, in order to try to break Dutch monopoly and to reduce Dutch trade output slightly.
2. The Industrial Revolution (Not in textbook). The Industrial Revolution caused British to develop many new inventions, such as the steam engine, more efficient ways to produce hydrochloric acid (hydrochloric acid was expensive back then due to how expensive it was to produce) and the cotton spinning machine. This caused the British to rely on trade more than ever to get her raw materials such as cotton and ore, and also to improve her output by selling what they produced.
3. Pressure on the government (Not in textbook). The Industrial revolution put immerse pressure on the government to find a port in the tip of the Malay Archipelago so that British traders could avoid the hefty tax imposed on the British, which was growing by the day as British output started to increase greatly and constantly. Also, the prime minister of Britain at that time was already infamous, having passed the corn laws at that time which restricted the import of corn till the price of corn increased to an acceptable level due to the glut of corn in Britain, which caused Lord Liverpool, then prime minister of Britain at that time to become infamous. Also, Lord Liverpool had restricted certain things in Britain like freedom of speech and required something such as Singapore, which would generate money for the traders to gain support.
4. Defense (Not in textbook). Britain fully understood of the importance of her colony, India. Britain also saw herself as the guardian of the world, after she left relatively unscathed from the Napoleon wars (The majority of Napoleon's army had been worn out by the invasion of Russia and could not launch a proper offensive against Britain). National pride was at an all time high and as Britain was miles away from Asia, the best way to have a base of operations for the defense of Asia would be a port in Asia. Singapore was used as a defense against any imminent threat, due to her location.
   
5. Rise of India and China trade. India was one of Britain's most important colonies and was generating Britain tons of money. Tea, cotton, porcelain (slowly falling out of favor) and spices were what the British needed from both China and India. However, due to the Dutch having trade monopoly in the area, the British could not traverse to India and China without paying exorbitant taxes, thus increasing the need for a port in the area.
6. Location, deep water etc. Singapore was perfect for a port, having all the necessities of a port, being in the perfect position for trade and having deep waters for ships to enter.
7. Dutch competition. The Dutch was a fierce competitor with Britain for trade. Having trade monopoly over the Malay Archipelago, the British had to break the Dutch monopoly by having a port in the middle of this area to wrestle control over the area from the Dutch.

Definition of the word "founder"
Here are some suggested answers

• A person who discovers a place
• A person who nurtures a place through its critical stages
• A person who establishes a place and made it a dominant place

Raffles

• A man with great vision
• Came out with the ideas for a free port and racial harmony (town plan)
• Exploited the Sultan, getting near total control over Singapore for payment, Singapore generated a lot more money than payment
• Foresaw the fact that opium and gambling were evil
• Did not do much in the development of Singapore, left Singapore after signing the treaty
• Died in 1826, which disallowed him from helping Singapore
• Did not leave Farquar any funds for development of Singapore

Farquar

• Succeeded in attracting people to Singapore and generating a trade volume for Singapore despite having no funds
• Installed a police force and cleared Singapore of many pests
• Was limited by circumstances, could not do anything else due to lack of funds, was forced to sell contracts for gambling and trade of opium
• Was a pragmatist, compared to Raffles being a visionary person, led to conflict
• Police force was ineffective in upholding law
• Looked after Singapore partially for personal gain (wanted to be considered founder of Singapore, argued later on after his dismissal)
• Allowed the trade of opium and gambling with licenses
  

Crawfurd

• Influenced the Anglo Dutch treaty of 1824 (wikipedia it)
• Was committed to Singapore
• Actions limited by British High command
• Did not instill much change

I am accepting any essay questions, send it to my email: juventus.rocks@gmail.com and I will post a completed essay here ASAP. Send any questions to my email as well.

Hey guys, this is your History rep here. I will try to post watever i can to help you all mug for any incoming tests and *ahem* pass, so check here often. Also, I do not have all the time in the world, so sometimes you have to put in effort and not just rely on me.

Your SEQ is NEXT WEEK. It will be 40 minutes, and will be 15 marks. It will NOT be added to your term 1 marks, it will be part of your term 2 marks, so there's no way to redeem yourself if you screw up your SBQ (like me :'( ), so do your best. Passing mark is 9 marks, try to hit 10 cus 10 looks nicer than 9.

uh 2M, as your DI member in residence, i'd like to make a formal appeal for all ur recycled materials.
no we are not trying to recycle, but we need a lot of stuff for this.
seeing as u hv to DI people in ur class, any help would be appreciated much.
uhm what we need is that if u or ur family or ur cca happen to buy a tv/a stereo/a com/a car or anything that comes in a reasonably large and sturdy cardboard box, can u pass it to me or darren? at least make sure it isnt like beaten up or super dirty or smth. yea thx. styrofoam also can
THANKS A LOT 2M XD
Mockingbird
DI team leader (explains a lot)

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heyy. first time posting here. feels kinda screwed up but anyway.

just a reminder to the (not-supposed-to-be-but-anyway-someone-chose-you) monitor, that we haven't got the class tee done and you could kindly prove your credentials maybe by doing something? dun want to also okayy. expected anyway. so there.

and i think our class is a bit the screwed up ah? so i think we have to do alittle the something, and i mean coz like our class now got some level rep who supposed to control the level, so perhaps show that he can control the class first can.

then still got the contract. those involved know what it is abt and kindly adhere to it. terima kasih.

nothing more from me. i invite the level rep to say something. pak, please.

Your assitant monitor

Sorry, ****ing bored. =/ wanted to have a feel of writing a post.

benedict :D

spread the blog and put it into ur links if u hv one pls. thx!
Mockingbird

Heyoh guys.

This posting part is still dead apart from Anty and my post, but the Cbox is rather hyped up. Erm, anyway cos I have the exact same cbox that i subscribed in my own blog so the same text is appearing there, but in my blog you can't input text so I don't bother deleting it until i throw the my current blogskin away cos it only works on my comp. Yea?

Okay, guys who are checking this blog out, please go complete your AsknLearn Surveys, at the same time also complete the poll on yahoo eGroups.

Here's stuff to take note for the weeks ahead.

1. Ongoing projects/Assignments
   English Handout/PPT for TKAM
   Geography Written Assignment
   Poems for TKAM
   
   
2. Upcoming tests
   Maths CCT (Thurs 26 Feb)
   Japanese CCT 1 (Tuesday 24 Feb)
   TKAM reading test
   Philosophy - Fallacies!
   SEQ History (Week 9)
   ERP Reading Assignment (Week 9)
   
   
3. Homeworks
   HCL - Composition
   CLE - Worksheet
   CS as always
   
   
4. Upcoming Events
   Staff Training days (CCAs, Third Languages still ongoing)
   RIPB Prefects' Investiture 2009 (Week 9)

YAY! I don't think I'll be as free to keep doing this on a weekly basis though. Those who are free please make an effort to do this for the sake of the class! If I missed out anything important, please also add on! Thankee (:

Benjamin (:

Hi peoples!

Just posting for the fun of it.

I slept for 13 hours and slacked the whole day today! XD

This class blog is gonna be kool.

anty~

Hello people.

Changed the skin had some problems with the text but please ignore. some techno savvy guy please help to edit the skin (:

Benji (:

hello people.

after randoming around facebook i found that 2P has a class blog. so i decided to start one while doing my english project! wahaha.

anyway i'll be posting up details in our eGroup soon. check it out.

Benjamin (: