Mr ONE: Evann, pls share your thoughts about your India trip and how you see yourself as a Singaporean after your HK and India trips.
Evann: During this India trip, like what I share to the study hall students, it really made me step out of my comfort zone as a Singaporean and allowed me to instill discipline in my daily routine. As a Singaporean, we will somehow always take things for granted. Like the school we go to, and start complaining about every single things that come into our way. But during this cultural exchange to Hong Kong and India, the students there literally grab every single opportunities that come in their way, and always without fail treasure whatever they have now with them. I guess as Singaporeans we have to also learn to grab each opportunity given to us.

Ruibaya: The India trip was a really special trip for me. This is so that I have learnt about life and being independent. Taking things for granted. People there(young or old) work to get their needs satisfied and in Singapore we are no even satisfied with our wants and ask for more. We should also learn to be more considerate and think wisely and not complain about everything. The people there do not get excellent facilities like Singaporeans and they have no problems with that. So we should feel bless that we do not get mosquito bites and clean water to drink.

Results of House T-Shirt Voting

79% of Hua Yians have chosen Design 2 as their preferred House T-Shirt.

NRIC Presentation Ceremony on 17 October 2008

There will be an NRIC Presentation Ceremony on 17 October 2008. The following NRIC recipients are to report to the ONE Advocates on duty at the back of the hall at 0710hrs:

Chen Min 3E3
Yong Jun Yu Rachel 3T1
Ong Xin Yan Charmaine 3E3
Lim Chee Kim 3N2
Mohammad Shafarridhwan B Razali 3T1
Yeo Wei Lun 3E3
Tan Lee Mei 3E5
Teh Jia Jia 3N2
Oh Jia Wen 3E4
Chng Jia Hui 3E2
Ratna Kartika Sari Bte Abdul Latip 3E2
Dawn Chan Chuanmei 3E3
Teo Si Jie 3E5
Michelle Lian Yi Xiu 3E4
Teo Dong Hui 3N1
Koh Yu Xin 3E1
Thng Jing Wen 3E3
Nur Hidayah Bte Amran 3T1
See Dar Ren 3E5
Nurtania Shahira Bte Azman 3N2
Kua Yi Min Evelyn 3E1
Liu Shisong 3E4
Teo Huey Yun 3E2

Once again, another Ramadhan has gone by;
Hereby, wishing everyone Selamat Hari Raya Adilfitri !
Have a great/awesome Raya people!

New House T-Shirt

Dear Huayians,

You have chosen new names for the Houses. They are Altius, Citius, Ditius and Fortius. As a result, we will need to change our House T-shirts as well. You are greatly encouraged to design your House T-shirts. Submit your design/s by 20 October 2008.

This is your chance to design and wear something cool for yourself!!! You will also leave your legacy in the school. Do participate!!!

Thanks

Photos of our NE events in 2008

NRIC Presentation Ceremony

Please be informed that the next NRIC Presentation Ceremony will be held on 19 September 2008. The following students are expected to report at 0710hrs at the NE Gallery. Please be punctual.

1 Hwee Kit Leong 3E3
2 S Gayathri 3N2
3 Lim Zhi Hui 3E1
4 Yong Kai Ting Cheryl 3E1
5 Goh Chew Suet Joey 3E4
6 Yap Meng Kiat 3E1
7 Edwina Ng Chi Xian 3N2
8 Ling Wesley 3E1
9 Tan Peng Hian 3E4
10 Lee Wee Ting 3E5
11 Ong Chin Keong 3E3
12 Giam Ju Yew 3E5
13 Tan Qiu Ru Jessica 3E5
14 Kim Tai Ann Lynn 3E2
15 Teo Huey Yun 3E2
16 Nelson Tan Wen Bin 3E3
17 Lau Yue Xiu Rebacca 3N2
18 Peh Ching Hao 3E5
19 Bernard Chung Wei Hao 3T1
20 Tiew Chieu Lin 3E1
21 Chan Hoi Ki 2E4
22 Lim Hui Ning 3E1
23 Zhou Ren Da Jovan 3T1
24 Chai Zhuan Yi 3N2
25 Lim Tow Xiang 3N2

Happy National Day! :D
I have also added a National Day 2008 Song onto this blog!
Celebrate the Singapore Spirit as ONE !
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Ambassador training at Hong Kah Sec School

Hello everyone! Here are some pictures taken at the ambassador's training on the 1st July 2008. 6 ONE Advocates were chosen to attend the training at Hong Kah Secondary School. There they were taught Bloom's taxonomy and had to create questions based on their themed boards.

At Hong Kah Secondary School

Dave and Khidir taking part in the Evolution Game

Reading the thematic boards before coming up with questions.

Our Advocates hard at work, coming up with questions.

Our group was chosen to present our ideas.

All the hard work by our ONE Advocates of course.

HELLO!
WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!
those who need a haircut quickly get one!

on the 30 june
the 5thhyssSC together with most of the students hosting the study hall study.
went to changi airport to welcome them with a banner and cheers!
after that together with their buddies went to the choice retreat allowing them to rest there.

and today the study hall student came to huayi sec excitedly.
as some of them came to singapore the first time.
and so i hope you guys will be able to communicate well with them too.

after school..
5 ONE Advocates together with Miss Leyana went to Hong Kah Sec for some W4 cluster program.
Bukit View Sec, Yuan Ching Sec, Hong Kah Sec and Jurongville Sec participated too.
As for the photos taken will be uploading them the next time =D
As for what we learn today is actually what the teachers are doing.
Which is how to set questions.
Not only those easy questions but also the tough ones.

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This competition is organized for the Secondary 2 students to commemorate Racial Harmony Day. The competition is expected to end by 18th July 2008, in conjunction with the celebration of Racial Harmony Day.


Objectives:
· Bonding with different races (Racial Interaction)
· Learn different cultures from different racial groups
· Raise the awareness that everyone of us can play a part in having a stronger social cohesion


Date of competition:
The competition will be held tentatively on 10th July 2008, 2:30PM to 5:30PM


Games played:
GIRLS; Captain’s ball - Each class would have 5 players and one reserve. Each game will last for 10 minutes. The game will be held at the quadrangle. After the game, students would have to answer a 5 question short quiz about the different racial groups.


BOYS; Soccer - Each class would have 5 players and one reserve. Each game will last for 10 minutes, and it will be held at the field. Each game would only be half-field, and cones will be used to mark goal posts. After the game, students would have to answer a 5 question short quiz about the different racial groups.


Requirements for participating groups:
1. Work in groups of 6 per class (one group for soccer, one group for captain’s ball)
2. Groups must consist of people from different races, and also heritages
3. Each member who turns up would be awarded one point each, if not up to requirement, points would be deducted.
4. Each group has to collect $150 in total for the Donation card; Groups that collect more than $200 or more will earn 1 pt for every $50 collected.


Attire:
1)P.E. attire
2)Class t-shirt
3)P.E. shorts
4)Soccer boots are ALLOWED



How to register?
if you and your team mates have decided to join this memorable event, you can sent in your team particulars via email to one-at-hyss@gmail.com .


P/S: If you have any furthur enquiries, you can feel free to give your comment on our blog's tagboard.



Happy Holidays! :D

DO YOU KNOW THAT?

The founder of Singapore was Sir Stamford Raffles; Singapore was founded in 1819

ministries

Besides the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, do you know that we also have the following ministries?

Community Development, Youth and Sports, Ministry of (MCYS)
Defence, Ministry of (MINDEF)
Finance, Ministry of (MOF)
Foreign Affairs, Ministry of (MFA)
Home Affairs, Ministry of (MHA)
Information, Communications and the Arts, Ministry of (MICA)
Law, Ministry of (MinLaw)
Manpower, Ministry of (MOM)
National Development, Ministry of (MND)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
The Environment and Water Resources, Ministry of the (MEWR)
Trade and Industry, Ministry of (MTI)
Transport, Ministry of (MOT)

All of these ministries are involved in ensuring the smooth running of the nation, from its defence against military attacks (MINDEF) to ensuring supply of resources to the people (MEWR) and of course, to ensuring law and order (MHA).

The Little Red Dot

Every morning, we at Hua Yi sing the National Anthem and recite the pledge. We focus our attention on the National Flag as this solemn ceremony takes place everyday. Everyone knows how the Singapore flag looks like but do you know what the colours, the crescent and the stars mean?

The Singapore flag was first unveiled on 3rd December 1959. Upon independence in 1965, it was adopted as the National Flag. The colour red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of man, while the white symbolises the everlasting purity and virtue. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the rise and the five stars represent the nation's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. 

Singapore is also a democratic nation. This means that the government is chosen by the people. Singaporeans do this every 5 years when they vote for their governing party. One of these party is the People's Action Party which was founded in 1959. Some founding members of the PAP are Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the late Mr S. Rajaratnam. Mr Rajaratnam was also responsible for drafting the Singapore pledge. 

With that, I hope you have all learnt a little bit more on our very own little Red Dot. 

Do you know that;

The ministry responsible for Social defence is the Ministry of Community Development, youth and sports.

Reflection on CampTeen

Hello, has been a long time since I've updated on anything.

Last year, I went for CampTeen in Pulua Ubin. It was a four day three night camp. On the first day, went to Braddell at OnePeople.sg during the early morning. There were several other students, all from different schools. The facilitators started us off with some ice-breakers before going on to some presentations on racial harmony. The first day was focused on the theme of Racial Harmony, so after the presentations, we went to Chinatown for the afternoon. We visited several religious places around the area, and had lunch in a mosque. It was quite a new experience, and it was something that is not very familiar for me. I've learned a lot from the first day, as it tells us the importance of maintaining fairness between the different races in Singapore. It also tells us of the threats to racial harmony, such as terrorism, and one notable speech made by the one in charge of the mosque: it is that we should never assume that although somebody from a certain religion commits a sin, we should assume that all of them are bad people. This is entirely a WRONG concept.

During the evening, we finally sailed to Pulua Ubin and stayed out Outbound Singapore. The day ended with reflections and some discussion on what we can do to prevent discrimination of others. For the next three days, we started working on our projects concerning the promotion of the Youth Olympic Games. There were four groups: Culture, Sports, Sports OA (My Group), Arts. Well, what does OA stand for? It actually means Other Abled. This is a much more better term to used for those who are handicapped, compared to disabled. We had to come up with games in which we can have people understand what the other abled are going through, as well as seeing how capable the other abled are. From this project, I learned a lot about not looking down on those who are handicapped, as they might actually be more talented than most people. So, on the 30th December last year, we held the carnival at Youth Park. It was quite a fun day with all the activities going around and people visiting our stall. Well, this is what happened for the camp I went to last year, and I hope that you may get a chance of going this year.

Do you know that?
The 5 stars on our National flag represent democracy,

peace, progress, justice and equality.

Do you know [:

The First chief minister of Singapore was Mr David Marshall

all the best for the upcoming papers Huayians!

Do you know that?

The british were unwilling to involve the local
people in Singapore to fight the Japanese because
they doubted the loyalty and capabilities of the local people.

Do You Know that ?

Our National Anthem was sung the first time in 1959, during ‘ Nationality week ’

yay! our school annual sports day is nearing :D * excited *
be punctual & see you there!

Good Evening! :D

DO YOU KNOW THAT?

The British were unwilling to involve the local people
in Singapore to fight the Japanese because they doubted
the loyalty and capabilities of the local people.

Do you know that ?

Do you know that..

The five aspect of Total defence are Physchological Defence, Social defence, Economic defence, Civil defence and Military defence.

NYAA-NEXUS project grant [2]

Hello World!

The winning banner has already been put up on the
left side of the blog. You may click on the banner to find
out more about the NYAA – NEXUS project grant.

Have a great weekend! (:

NYAA-NEXUS project grant

Hello everyone!!

From the comments posted, I'm here to announce the winning banner. It is Banner 1!!

Now, this banner was not done without a purpose. This is Hua Yi's effort in publicising NYAA - NEXUS project grant. Here, participants who want to take part in the project may apply for a grant to fund for their projects which aim to create dialogue or showcase Singaporeans' unique way of life. Projects can be anything from creating songs or games. To find out more, click here.

The theme for this year is 'Things that Make us Singaporeans - Celebrating the Singapore Spirit'. Hence, the upper secondary ONE Advocates were asked to create banners to help publicise the prject. We selected the best ones, and from your votes, the winning banner is Banner 1.

We will put up the banner throughout the duration of the project grant and you may continue to visit the site to find out more by clicking on the banner!

Banner for Nexus Project Grant

1.

2.

Vote for the banner (1 or 2) which we will use for the Nexus Project Grant!
Leave your votes in comments!

Sec 4 Advocates and Heritagers!

Please be reminded that your photo collage of your trip to Singapore Discovery Centre for the Total Defence Day is due tomorrow.

Email them to one.at.hyss@gmail.com

Thank you for your hard work! :)

SINGAPORE TO HOST FIRST EVER YOUTH OLYMPICS!!!

I'm sure by now most of you already know that Singapore has won the right to host the first ever Youth Olympics to be held in 2010! The news was announced earlier this evening by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Youth Olympics strive to be a platform for young people to learn the benefits of sports, the integrity of competition, the Olympic values and the spirit of sportsmanship. Youths between the ages of 14 to 18 will be taking part in this world-wide multi-disciplinary sporting event.

Singapore is budgeting $82 million dollars for this event! Now do you realise the magnitude of this?? This is definitely a HUGE step forward for our tiny and yet striving island.

Yay Singapore!!

Banner and Links

If you have noticed, new links have been updated on the navigation bar. Go ahead and surf the sites.

Soon, the banners for the NEXUS project grant done by the upper secondary ONE Advocates and Heritagers will be put up here. Students get to vote for the best banner and the creator of the best banner will win a prize. So look out for those and keep checking this blog. :)

Love Monopoly?

The popular Monopoly board game by Parker Brothers will be coming up with the World Edition! So if you want to see Singapore as one of the cities in the board game, do your part and vote for it!. Click here to go over to the website and vote now!

NEmation 2008!

NEmation is here again! Take a look at the creative animated clips that youths such as yourselves have done for the competition. Vote for your favourite clips and stand to win prizes!

Here's a clip done by CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School.

Click on the link to view more clips and remember to vote your favourite!

Total Defence Day cum NRIC Presentation Ceremony

On 15 Feb 2008, we will be commemorating Total Defence Day as well as having our monthly NRIC Presentation Ceremony. The following students are expected to be the participants on that day:

Yeo Mei Qi
Siti Zulaiha Binte Rashid
Kong Huiqi Jolene
Belveder Lai
Yuko Miyahara
Tan Si Hui
Ng Jian Zhang
Chin Shu Hui Marilyn
Ong Lee Peng
Sarah Hoe Yen Lin
Siti Nur Amalina Binti Mohammed Hashim
Darren Ng Wei Hong
Joei Ong Yi Lin
Aristo Chan
Nigel Lim Ming Hong
Nurul Atiqah Binte Ahmad
Lim Hui Chuen
Goh Zhen Yi, Panphila
Koh Jia Sheng
Aisyah Binte Omar
Chan Wenhui
Beh Shi Li
Neo Kai Xiang
Felicia Chua Jia En
Benazi Lim Yu Jin

The above-mentioned students are to report to the ONE Advocates on duty at 0710 hrs sharp.

1st NRIC Presentation Ceremony 2008

The 1st NRIC Presentation Ceremony for 2008 was held on 18 January. The response from the NRIC recipients was over-whelming. They came early, put on their best and participated enthusiastically during the ceremony. The ceremony was started by Mrs Lisa Kwok who gave a brief but very meaningful presentation on the significance of being a Singaporean. The UG cadets from NCC, NPCC, Girl Guides and Red Cros were smart in their respective uniform. They were ably-led by Staff Sergeant Amirul Hafidz (NCC) of 4E5. He will be going to New Zealand to particate in the Thunder Warrior exercise there. The school band played excellently. The pioneer ONE Advocates did exceedingly well to get the registration system going very smoothly. As a result, the school responded positively by singing the National Anthem with gusto and reciting the pledge with pride. Kudos to all. The next ceremony will be held on 15 February 2008.


Here are some of the photos...

Exciting Times Ahead!

Hello everyone and welcome back to school! It's been an extremely exciting first day hasn't it? Anyway, I'd like to thank my lovely ONE Advocates for keeping things running for the past one year. Well done, guys! Great job, indeed. :)

Anyway, I have some great news for you out there. The NE family is looking out for new ONE Advocates and One Heritagers members. We need 1 One Advocate per class and 3 One Heritagers. What's the difference you may ask? Well, One Advocates are in charge of organising NE events at the school level while One Heritagers will be conducting events at the class level. One Advocates is a recognised student leadership body in Hua Yi, just like our Student Council. So at the end of the year, you get CCA points for your commitment. As for One Heritagers, you will accumulate CIP hours for your contributions. :)

So if you're interested in joining our little NE family consisting of Mr Amran, Mrs Kwok, Mrs Selina Wong and myself, Miss Leyana, as well as One Advocates of 2007 such as Evann, Alan, Melvin, Ghaz and many more, please do tell your form teachers of your interest. We can't wait to meet all the new members.

Also, something to look forward to in 2008:

-A more interactive blog which communicates with the pillars in school as well as the NE gallery. Keep a lookout for that one.

- A new round of Quotes of the Day!

- ONE at HYSS Blogskin contest! The winner's blogskin will be used for the entire academic year of 2008!

And of course, all the exciting commemorative events. :)

We hope to see more fresh faces soon!