Book Review- Pooh and the Philosophers (In which it is shown that all of Western Philosophy is merely a preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh)

On Ms Yee's request, 4J's to do a short book review. (: Well, nobody's done so, so I'll start the ball rolling since I'm currently reading "Pooh and the Philosophers (In which it is shown that all of Western Philosophy is merely a preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh)" By John Tyerman Williams.

It is an extremely mind boggling book- I didn't choose it on deliberation, my dad did for me. But it is very interesting because it exposed me to many secular perceptions, and it brought quite a bit of twist to the original Winnie-the-Pooh story I knew.

However, I must say that I disagree at some of the author's allegories that make a few of the connections seem a little too forced. For an example when the author expounded about the purpose of the blue balloon used by Winnie-the-Pooh to get to the honey, was interpreted as a symbolization of earth.

"The shape of the balloon makes the elementary symbolism obvious enough, while the picture of the balloon floating in the air is as near to the earth floating in space as the imaginative limits of the parable allow. Nevertheless, this picture prompts some questions. It even raises what the shallow-minded may consider difficulties."

Throughout the whole book, I received a feeling of condemnation whenever I thought otherwise of the author's theories.

In any case, some theories and ideas were agreeable, like for an example, when the author explained about the use of the Useful Pot given to Eeyore as a birthday present, and the perception of Christopher Robin as a person whom is satisfied with his mind's own narrow limits and its equally narrow world. One time is when Winnie-the-Pooh asked him what the North Pole is, and he answered carelessly, although not being quite sure of the answer himself.

In all, the book is educational on philosophy, explaining many of the terms with simple examples from the Hundred Acre Wood. But being part of the 'superficial and blinded generation', I really do wonder if Milne (author of Winnie-the-Pooh) did intend every single philosophical meaning to every word.

I took me a bit of time to understand the book, but do read the book if you like philosophy, Winnie-the-Pooh and new Winnie-the-Pooh twists. (:


-Rachel

Bio notes!!!!

There are 15 pages in total! (:


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yups! that's all for bio! :D

Other pics

MIB :D


MIBII :D

:)bio rep

The Thing That You've All Been Waiting For.

Greetings Little Friends!

The moment you've been waiting for is arriving- 4J class outing on the 12th of June 2009!

We will be meeting at Cityhall Mrt at 5pm, and then we'll take a leisure stroll to Suntec for dinner. The place where we will be having our dinner is called Just Noodles, (And as you can see, you cannot order rice.) with just 10 Singapore dollars, you can have your pick of your main course. Also, for all those gluttonous little friends out there, the 10 Singaporean dollars comes with freeflow of ice-cream and drinks.

Unfortunately, we will not be accompanied by some of our little friends, it's impossible to get a perfect date where everyone is available, so, my apologies, little friends.

Also, there will be a second outing on the last week of the school holidays. Basically it's just a mugging session that I think is appropriate for the 99.9999% mugging population in our class.

For more details, please check your email or dhsmail.

Have a nice holiday everyone and don't miss me, you'll be seeing me soon. -Rachel♥

RECENT UPDATES

GOOD EVENING I BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS.

CHECK YOUR DHS MAIL, THERE'S MATHS ASSG FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

chem homework list also posted on dhs mail. it includes a chem article critique.

AND I'M SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THERE IS MATH TEST ON INTEGRATION AND APPLICATIONS ON FIRST WEEK OF TERM THREE.

yes i'm cassandra. my deepest condolences to you. (i hope this update helps)

june holiday homework list

its never too early to post a homework list (:
i cannot remember details, so i need someone to help out. jiaying said she would post the homework list up soon, but i dont see it -.-
so here goes:

holiday homework (based on memory):
chinese writing (x2)
chinese newspaper cutting (x2)
chinese exam paper (optional?)
chinese spelling
chem ten year series (tys) (x2)
chem (topic: atmosphere) self learn
maths (moodle)
physics take home quiz
physics textbook questions (what page, what question?)
physics tys (answers on moodle)
ACE UN project
geog ws (moodle)
LA journal
LA creative product

bio proj
bio exam papers (optional?)

tests:
chem test t3w2 (energy changes + something else)
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CASSANDRA OUT.

Stuff we gotta do this weekend:

HW:
math assg 1 and 2
HCL cheng yu ws
Bio ws
Maths ex on kinematics(notes)

Tests:
ASC
gong han(yan jiang ci)
Bio(plant reproduction adn cell division?)

Projects:
Geog river thingo

YEPP! tt's all! oh! should i post the pics we took on the movie day thingy last year? HAHA! XD it's uber late i know... but ... yeah xD

HOLIDAY HW!!!!

CREDITS TO CHELS :DDDD

hey peeps,
sorry fer da late post, but yeah... was playing with kiddos these few days, so was abit busy :D
but here's ur march hols hw! :D
Homework:
1) Bio WS (abstract)
2) Jianbao 1
3) Chem WS x 3
4) Chem Poster(by 31st march)
5) Assg 6 math
6) L.A individual report
7) Math revision ws x 4
8) Physics Journal and assignment booklet
9) Bio ws on eyeball x 2
10) Bio prac ws
11) Research on Triboelectric waves

Projects:
1) L.A
2) CME [youth olympics]
3) ACE
4) HCL [food stuff]

Tests:
1) maths trigo test on T2W1 D4
2) math emath on T2W2D9
3) biotest on nervous and endocrine system on T2W1
4) chem test on T2W2 [metal periodic table & mole concept!]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDX
enjoy ur hols..... :(

:)jiaying

HW TIME! :D

Hi all! I wonder If anyone reads this blog=.= haha. okok. so the counter is at 4366 now. hehe :D so we can all see if anyone really comes :D
anyways,we have tons of hw this week =( JIAYOUS ALL! >.<"""""
So here it is...

HCL:
- gong han (by: mon? [not sure])

L.A:
- summary (if it is not done yet)
- project(hand up essay on campaign after march hols-if i'm not wrong)[but not so soon, so can slack] :D
- Look at the poster with da lady and answer the questions on the other piece of paper (don't need to write down i guess? I think* just think about it and discuss in class)

Math:
- Assg 4 (by: mon)

Geog:
- assg by monday

Bio:
- ws no. 1B (nervous system)
- ws no. 1( The endocrine system)
- ws no. 1 (the nervous and endocrine system)
(not very sure when hand in sorry :X)

Chem:
- Redox reaction supp ex
- periodic table supp ex
- and some other ws which i haf lost :(

yepp! that's all folks! >.<""""""""""""""
super alot yeah :S zzzz jiayous all! :)
anyways, I bet everyone must love mr koh now =X he's like the only teacher who didn't give us a homework=.= right? (or did i miss out his hw=.=) eeks.
anyways, enjoy your weekends! :)

Homework(last minute posting)

Geog ws
Geog Assg (friday due)

Hcl compre
HCL mo xie x 1

Math Assg x 2

Ace project x 1
Ace test x 1

LA compre (she'll go through? O_O)

JIAYOUS ALL :(

:( wjy

:D

Something to wake this blog!
It's a new year! :D and it's February 14 :D
Happy friendship day to all Jingies :D
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:D Hope ya'll all have had a great day (doing HCL hw too :D)
yep! and jy fer chem test next week :D (test on: redox, ABS, QA not sure if anything else is included) yepp
and fer physics test on week 10 :D oh! and all da pop quizzes coming our way :D JIAYOUS!

Homework for the weekend:
--> HCL speech(written)
--> HCL newspaper thingy
--> nthe else (?)

(OHOH! and should we change our name=.= like to... jam or anything? haha! :P)
:) JY =.=

Homework

Yo all :D decided to awaken this blog once again with homework :D
1) Maths assg ( due on mon and wed)
2) L.A compre summary
3) L.A crossword puzzle
4) L.A read some page( last page of ws)
5)study chinese idioms(test next week)

Yepp!!!! that's all... some further stuff are chem project and some of the tests... but that's still pretty far so... haha. can slack :D
yepyep! that's all folks!

:) Jiaying

maths hols hmwk :D

for those that STILL dont know which set you're doing (:
hand in your maths hmwk on 2nd jan, friday. ty

fifteen october

(Kening, sumei, jolene) :D

CONGRATULATIONS! THE EOYS ARE OVER! NOT TO MENTION TWO CLASS OUTINGS ARE OVER TOO!:X

But I hope they were fun;)

So sorry for the late photos, I was very tired (&LAZY&SLEAZY) these few days;)

Anyway, the JINGIES had TWO class outings on wednesday and on thursday!They were successes!(: (In my opinion:D)

Wednesday was fun, we arranged to meet@6pm at East Coast Park Area C, Pit 31:)

Heloooo!

Yeah Baby! (Isabei, Bin Bin & Siyin!) (2 sideliners on the left: Charmaine and Kening) ;)

AH YES! Our little pretty angel! :O Download this as your wallpaper if you like;) (chelsia AKA chelsai)

What's your story? Gossipmongers and the ultimatum aunty Isabei! (in blue)

Friends! (chesai and kening!)

Am I papparazzi? (Siyin) :)

COOK IT UP!

Looks delectible! (Siyin, Jiahui, sumei)

EOYs!!!!! =D

Hey all =DDDD We have finished our second paper =D yeah. JIAYOUS fer da rest of the paper =DDD 6 more!!!!! >.< JY!!!! =D

Jia Ying =D

HELLO EXAMS! :D

Hey jingies, exams are ROUND THE CORNER! :O zomg, it's only FIVE days away to LA paper! Heyhos, time really flies right? :D i mean, we're already approaching the END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR! :O sigh.

anyway, good luck to one and all for the coming exams. mug hard, but rest well too okay? ;D i'm sure we can all make the mark because we're the jingies! :D and jingies are imbaaaaaaaa (yea esp. people like the goddess and shuhan. lol)

OH, and if you need to de-stress, here're some instructions on how to destress effectively :D

okok, that was just a joke. :D everyone jiayou for exams! chiongggg ah!

-emilyY

Mid-autumn festival

Hey all! hope all of ya haf had a fun time tis mid-autumn festival, singing aloud with fellow classsmates. =)) esp. songs of my nian dai :D XDDDDD yeahs~~~ It rawks can? esp. jacky cheung =)
yeps. That pic that u see is our new look for our notice board. too bad ramooz and rachel couldn't see it first hand but yeahs. It's da effort of some of us jingies=))
So here are the peeps who contributed alot!
Mooncake main-producer-->khong sala
assistant--> Cassy=)
"illegal worker"-->belly
and other workers from peripheries--> Jolene and taoqin
Lollipops--> I duno who??? haha. It was alr there when i came back. hmm.. ya'll are so evil to use shu qi's b'day gift... tsk tsk. sorry shuqi!!!! >.<" :P
Moon--> Zi yan
Stars--> I duno who, but i know the star above the N is shen's =)
structure of words--> sala khong
(Ugly) words + background--> ME :D
yeps. hehe. quite funy. cos there were sum mistakes here and there in the midst of moon-cake production anf writing the letters yeah. but luckily it still looks ok right? :P haha. yeahs~ whoots!!!! decorating notice board is soooo fun =)) (at least better than mugging -.-- like... coughs*chlorine**coughscoughs* =)) XDDDD
yeps. whee~~~ ohoh!!! and grace help us clean up da HUGE mess. ty grace =))
that's all folks =) enjoy ur mid-autumn festival and rmb to play wif candles and lanterns =)
and eat moncake, and drink green tea and.... :D

:)jia ying

Holiday Homework

Hi all=)
Due to the large responses, I'll post da hw on the class blog =)

1)chem:
-E learning->speed of reaction
->online quiz
->hardcopy worksheet(speed of reaction)
-chem pop quiz (3qs) before real test
-Chem test( friday day 5) on mole concept
-Mole concept qs VI- VII
-quote from rachel sms: chem remedial on chem bonding, acids bases and salts, moe concept etc. on 1st sept ( monday- whole day) and 3rd sept (wed- 9-12) This is excluding speed of reaction.If you are interested, pls sms miss tiong at XXXXXXXX [state who you are, what time, which day, and for how long]

2)bio: 3 ws on plant nutrition( I think onli nid to do 2) and past year questions
3)Maths:
-online assignemnts ( optional)
-assg he gave us( i think have right)
4) projects:
-chem mini assignment (the 2 groups left)
-L.A creative task
5)others:
-for people gg on trip to the australian sku pay $300 on tuesday when school reopens as deposit

yay^^ that's all ba. hope ya'll enjoy ur hols :D:D:D
Jywong=))
ohoh! and who wna study tgt on monday? we can go sum library den do work tgt :D:D:D <3333

HAPPY Teachers' Day

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY.

YES! Indeed it was a HAPPY Teachers' Day for the everyone, teachers and students alike! Of course it was the happiest for the FOLKS in 3J(:

A huge appreciative hug to all teachers who have ENCOURAGED, GUIDED, TAUGHT and LOVED 3J for the past 8 months++, we really appreciate all your efforts and sacrifices!:D

YAY! Today's teachers' day was a huge success thanks to everyone in 3J!

I concluded that it was so because ChelSAI said that it was the best teachers' day celebration she had for the past 3 years!

YAY!

Yep, thank you 3J for everything! No matter if it's just the obligation to write the note for our Diva, or it's the effort to dress up RETROSTYLE, OR, it's the kindness of your nature to bake cookies (those who brought food! ) to contribute and make this day a funfilled one for everyone...

THANKYOU:D

We are just so Happy together!(:
-rage♥

Nothing of much importance:D

Haha! :D You know what? I was wondering during chem lesson today (when ms tiong was talking about balancing mole or sth la...) that how much we been true as a class. It's like all of a sudden we become best of frens when it was like just yesterday that we did not know a shit about each other at all. I know, this all sounds very emo! But isn't it just amazing how one year flies past and it's going to be the end of the year! We have been thru almost everything from interclass to level camp(: So treasure this friendship for it will be with u 4eva. (:

HAIRSPRAY!!!

Hey all!
( For those who duno wad this film is about, it's actually about 2 high school girls, who loves this 4pm show. And one day, the plump gal get to go for the auditions, but sadly she failed. But somehow, she got in at the end, (veh complicating), den she went for this party which is to tell the dancers that there'll be no more "negro day" [ a day where R&B songs and dances are broadcasted instead]. Then she went to protest {alongside with the african americans} and ended up almost being caught by police. She finally barged into the competition with a few tactics and I think she won Miss (I-duno-wad). Yea. [she fell in love wif tis guy [played by zac efron] before she got into the show. Den he fell in love with her. den blah blah. =))I love to wrte in white :X
Ok. so this is the poster =))
http://www.pleasedancewithme.com/ClipArtHairSprayHomeLg.gif

ya'll can take a look at it and see how ya'll wna dress up=)) yay^^ and JY fer da 2 tests this week =))

:)Jia Ying