How time flies! Half of the last phase in bridging course was over. It is recess week now. Next week we will have three upcoming mid-term exams. Haven’t had enough time to summarize half of this phase, I take this chance of writing journals to make a brief review.
Every day is like a never-ending day that I never stopped doing my homework; wring lab reports, and rushing for science lectures and tutorials. Compared with science modules, I had to say English was regarded as a piece of cake after supper to me which brought me a lot of fun during the endless and tiring period.
What was really interesting most in the half phase was English debating. This is my first time to participate in the English debate. After that, I not only experienced the debating methodology but also learned a lot of debating skills and oral presentation abilities. I now understood what Archimedes said it was not a failure if you were beat with a fist, but it was really a total lose if you could not rebut him logically with sharp words. Nowadays, soft skills of expressing yourself to society are as important as hard skills of mastering Schrodinger equations.
The learning journey to Changi Museum also shocked me a lot about the dark history in Singapore. After Japanese occupation, local residents suffered a lot from extreme torture and many of them can never meet with their beloved ones. During that miserable period, there were many nameless heroes who made contributions to defend people and defeat cruel invaders. When the tour guide gave introduction to the mural entitled "Two Malarias with Cholera”, I even could imagine such a tragic but heroic scene. A spirit of uniting warmed up me. I am really impressed with these honourable heroes who even sacrificed themselves. How can such three aesthetic patients encourage each other and support each other to go through the death railway full of hardship?! How can Chinese poor people share the only left little food with the parading hungry and restless POWs to Changi Museum? How can four POWs survive in a crowded prison cell? How can four intelligent women make those rice sack cloth to convey their living message to their husbands? How can Bombardier Stanley Warren use strongest determinations to overcome surgery infections and make use of creative painting materials to draw murals encouraging patients to struggle for life?!All those moving deeds were stored in my mind to remind me of their spirit for freedom, for union, for love, for family, for responsibility, for sharing and for a whole country.
Yes, sometimes when we were faced with difficulties and wanted to give up in this busy phase and even in later life, we can always set examples of those heroes in the history who give us the most valuable life lessons and inexhaustible encouragements of perseverance.
Life goes on but we need passion, values and spirits to fill in.
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