Healthy Habits for Girls

I used to hate the gym. Really despise it. I’ve always been too self-conscious and nervous to be in an environment where everyone was fitter and more experienced than me. I knew that my fitness wasn’t at its peak anymore since I stopped playing basketball, football and boxing regularly, so I knew it was time for a change. Motivated by[…]

Photos from Service

Below are two photos at different moments during my Local Service, Migrant Workers Centre. The first one depicts our group presenting a pitch to Mr. Rick Hannah regarding the idea of a photo exhibition set up at school displaying photos taken by migrant workers  working in the UWCSEA community themselves. The objective of this project is to create awareness and[…]

Digital Arts

Examples of some work I have created in my Digital Arts Creativity for CAS. These are two examples of Photoshop drawn artworks. I am fairly inexperienced with Photoshop and thus joined this creativity to learn new skills which I think will be extremely useful for me to use when creating artwork for my University Application Portfolio for the Art schools[…]

Fresh Start: Muay Thai @ The Jungle

I’ve recently joined a new Muay Thai fitness gym, The Jungle at Boat Quay. I wanted a change in gym because my old one was not suited to the type of individual attention and class-style I was looking for in order to build on my previous CAS experience. The new gym is more modern and approaches the discipline with a[…]

New Creativity: Digital Arts Club

It’s now come to Season 3 of CAS choices, and I selected Digital Arts Club from the choices given. This to me is a really important choice as it will teach me new skills using computers and technology to create art that I have previously had limited experience with. All I know are Photoshop basics, which I would love to[…]

Reflecting on Reflecting (???)

Whenever teachers encourage me to “reflect on what you took away from this experience”, my first response tends to be an eye roll. Maybe a snicker. The idea that writing about things I learned in this format made me think of a diary… of my school life. I didn’t see the point. But I am starting, slowly, to understand its[…]

Beyond Snapshots: Exhibit A

Some examples of photos taken in my Creativity for CAS, “HS Beyond Snapshots: ‘Capturing’ not ‘Taking’ Images”. Displayed are three of the areas/skills in photography that we have explored the past couple of weeks – Birds Eye View/Worms Eye View, Detail and Composition. I find myself really enjoying this activity because I am a very creative person and photography has[…]

Empowerment – Daraja Academy GC

I’ve always been a feminist. Many people in today’s society view feminism as either a one-sided issue or as a movement that has become completely irrelevant. But feminism, a movement for equality between men and women, is a movement still very much alive. It is important to advocate for feminism because the stigma that surrounds it is enough to prove[…]

Initiative – Healthserve Migrant Workers

Healthserve Migrant Workers is the service I chose for my CAS. Having had a rough journey last year, the service had been completely re-designed this year, and all the planning has been left entirely up to us. The students. An exciting opportunity, but much easier said than done. Coordinating with and organising, even getting to simply listen in one place[…]