In this engagement, I attended the online forum of the Institute of Policy Studies which discussed the ‘Policy Responses and Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.’ The first panellist Mr Jeremy Lim talked about the conditions the migrant workers were put at in height of the pandemic, and also what had let the infection numbers rise […]
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What lockdown has taught me about
Lockdown has bought me to explore new sides of myself-and thinking what I actually want to do. First of all, I found out that I wasn’t too bad at self-entertaining myself, and I actually had a lot of things that I wanted to do–for example cook, read books, explore more music, and so on. One […]
EE Initial Reflection
My EE will be based on the impact of participation of women in the 2016 peace process in Colombia. War and conflict as a very significant political issue which involves many actors-quite often negatively, and I was always interested in how they could end through peace processes. Upon this, I came across gender and war […]
Engagement #1
My first engagement was an interview with Ms Christine Exco, one of the volunteers in Transient Workers Count Too(TWC2). TWC2 is an organisation that supports migrant workers in Singapore and promotes equal treatment to them. I did a phone interview with Christine, in which I asked her questions based on my prior research. One of […]
Engagement activity intial reflection
The IB Global politics course that I take allows us to actively engage in a political issue and deepen our understandings of it. For my engagement activity, I chose my political issue as the migrant workers in Singapore, and what kind of challenges they face. I have two reasons I decided to base my engagements […]
CAS Reflection #9
Why is equality such an important issue? Equality is such an important issue because first of all when inequality occurs, people that are discriminated face grate injustice and are unable to access to many things. This leads to people feeling very dissatisfied and irritated in the situations they are facing. Moreover, because inequality means some […]
CAS reflection #7
What impact have my actions had on this global issue? My local service is a service which aims to make changes to the intellectually disabled people by having weekly sessions of dancing. Intellectually disabled people have more difficulty living than other people do, because of the structure of society. In Singapore, this issue is not […]
Session with Hanna Alkaf
The author of ‘The Weight of Our Sky’, Hanna Alkaf came to our school to give us a talk on representation, especially with mental illness. As well as how her works were impactful, her talk had was also very interesting and insightful. Although I had learnt to pay attention to how characters are represented in […]
CAS Reflection #6 100 days of IB
The IB has been a big and special thing in me since I have started it. In the beginning, everything was very new and interesting including how the lessons go, and the type of homework we had to do. Eventually, I started to notice changes in me in the way I think and perceive things. […]