Sunday, May 3, 2009
Bibliography
Wel, amazingly, I did not refer to my textbook at all. Special thanks has to go to wikipedia on which I did most of my research on, and some additional information was taken from the suggested website, http://infopedia.nl.sg. Thanks a lot for reading my assignment by the way.
Hey guys (again),
Bear with me please. I just realised how much Mr Tan Kah Kee has impacted our lives after doing this assignment. Without him, we obviously won't have this school to study in. Also, I feel that since he has invested such a large amount of his fortune into giving us the oppurtunity to study, I feel that we should seize this oppurtunity and make full use of it. Finally, I learnt that we should remember when we are successful who has contributed to our success and of course, try to repay their contribution, like what Mr Tan Kah Kee did. He repayed society that had helped him become successful by donating the money he had earned back to the society and that I feel is the attitude that all of us should have, instead of being selfish and keeping the money all to ourselves.
Thanks for bearing with me once again:)
Bear with me please. I just realised how much Mr Tan Kah Kee has impacted our lives after doing this assignment. Without him, we obviously won't have this school to study in. Also, I feel that since he has invested such a large amount of his fortune into giving us the oppurtunity to study, I feel that we should seize this oppurtunity and make full use of it. Finally, I learnt that we should remember when we are successful who has contributed to our success and of course, try to repay their contribution, like what Mr Tan Kah Kee did. He repayed society that had helped him become successful by donating the money he had earned back to the society and that I feel is the attitude that all of us should have, instead of being selfish and keeping the money all to ourselves.
Thanks for bearing with me once again:)
My suggestion for the monument
Hey guys,
Erm, I am having some problems uploading my drawing due to some formatting problems, but I shall continue to introduce the monument I have in mind anyway. After long thought, I decided to make something like a school logo for the monument for Tan Kah Kee. And the logo represents a "school" called Tan Kah Kee school as I realised that none of the schools were named after him and therefore to respect and honour him we could make this "school" named after him.
At the side of the logo, there are three important chinese values that Mr Tan Kah Kee rates very highly. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, the school logo is actually a basic arrow with some modifications to it. And of course, it is pointing upwards, which means to keep trying to improve. And that is similar to the last value written at the bottom, which is in hanyu pinyin" ji ji xiang shang". Also, above the schoo logo, there is a book which represents Mr Tan Kah Kee's devotion to education.
I suppose that this monument could indeed be placed in the Singapore museum, or probably could be placed in one of the schools founded by Mr Tan Kah Kee. But I feel that a person like him should be regarded highly and respected and therefore should be placed in an area where many people would visit and of course, the best place then would be the Singapore museum. And, really sorry, I can't get the formatting problem resolved, shall ask Ms Yeo what to do from here tomorrow. Thanks and my reflections will be in the next post.
Erm, I am having some problems uploading my drawing due to some formatting problems, but I shall continue to introduce the monument I have in mind anyway. After long thought, I decided to make something like a school logo for the monument for Tan Kah Kee. And the logo represents a "school" called Tan Kah Kee school as I realised that none of the schools were named after him and therefore to respect and honour him we could make this "school" named after him.
At the side of the logo, there are three important chinese values that Mr Tan Kah Kee rates very highly. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, the school logo is actually a basic arrow with some modifications to it. And of course, it is pointing upwards, which means to keep trying to improve. And that is similar to the last value written at the bottom, which is in hanyu pinyin" ji ji xiang shang". Also, above the schoo logo, there is a book which represents Mr Tan Kah Kee's devotion to education.
I suppose that this monument could indeed be placed in the Singapore museum, or probably could be placed in one of the schools founded by Mr Tan Kah Kee. But I feel that a person like him should be regarded highly and respected and therefore should be placed in an area where many people would visit and of course, the best place then would be the Singapore museum. And, really sorry, I can't get the formatting problem resolved, shall ask Ms Yeo what to do from here tomorrow. Thanks and my reflections will be in the next post.
Friday, May 1, 2009
How Tan Kah Kee made an impact on Singapore
Hey all,
Now, what exactly did Tan Kah Kee contribute to Singapore's society? Besides his seccessful buisness ventures, he brought education to a higher level, resulting in Singapore creating more talents for the workforce. By donating most of his fortune to schools, he allowed the younger generation to have more chances to study, something he strongly believed in.
Firstly, Mr Tan Kah Kee practically set aside all the money he earned to building schools. The money he donated help built many schools, such as Singapore ChineseHigh School, Tao Nan, Ai Tong and Chung Fook Girls' School. This really selfless act is very rarely seen. During the great depression, he even continued to finance the various schools he had supported despite the fact that his company was suffering from major losses. This shows his commitment to education and that he was willing to sacrifice a lot to give the younger generation a chance to study.
Secondly, he was also a social activists. He helped recruit some Chinese to assist the British during the World War II, and that increased the resistance Singapore could put up against the Japanese and so on.
So, in conclusion, Tan Kah Kee was a really selfless person who devoted his whole life to education and sacrificed a lot for his belief. It is because of him that more students could get a chance to study and improve themselves, and later go on to make contributions to Singapore too. Therefore, the students that study in the schools set up by Tan Kah Kee( such as me) , we would have to thank Tan Kah Kee for giving us the oppurtunity to study in a great school.
Jeremy signing off
bye:)
Now, what exactly did Tan Kah Kee contribute to Singapore's society? Besides his seccessful buisness ventures, he brought education to a higher level, resulting in Singapore creating more talents for the workforce. By donating most of his fortune to schools, he allowed the younger generation to have more chances to study, something he strongly believed in.
Firstly, Mr Tan Kah Kee practically set aside all the money he earned to building schools. The money he donated help built many schools, such as Singapore ChineseHigh School, Tao Nan, Ai Tong and Chung Fook Girls' School. This really selfless act is very rarely seen. During the great depression, he even continued to finance the various schools he had supported despite the fact that his company was suffering from major losses. This shows his commitment to education and that he was willing to sacrifice a lot to give the younger generation a chance to study.
Secondly, he was also a social activists. He helped recruit some Chinese to assist the British during the World War II, and that increased the resistance Singapore could put up against the Japanese and so on.
So, in conclusion, Tan Kah Kee was a really selfless person who devoted his whole life to education and sacrificed a lot for his belief. It is because of him that more students could get a chance to study and improve themselves, and later go on to make contributions to Singapore too. Therefore, the students that study in the schools set up by Tan Kah Kee( such as me) , we would have to thank Tan Kah Kee for giving us the oppurtunity to study in a great school.
Jeremy signing off
bye:)
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