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After i made all i used water color to color the end of it and next i glue all of them onto the flower stick and add some white thing i bought. After that i use a green flower tape and tape in at the end so its not so ugly

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I followed this turtorial in total i made 6 petals. Each petal i use 4 pipe cleaners i fold all of them in half and twisted them together to form one petal

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This semester i will learn how to make pipe cleaner flowers

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Went to Marina Bay Sands with a friend from Malaysia. We went around Marina Bay Sands and took nice photos and videos

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I learnt how to play marc de marco no other heart ukelele fingersstyle based on a tutorial off tiktok. it was hard getting it at first, that's why it took me 2hiyrs worth of sil to perfect it

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i learnt how to play strategy twice by ear

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i learnt how to make cheese from scratch 🥹

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From this experience, I find that chess requires a lot of planning. Moreover, when playing chess u got to see the board than what's on the surface which makes it truly hard. Although I won, it probably because this bot is under new to players hence the moves make were not so thought out.

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International chess (also called standard or classical chess) is played on an 8×8 board with 64 squares. Each player starts with 16 pieces.

Objective

Win by checkmating your opponent's king. Checkmate means:

The king is under attack (in check).

The king has no legal move to escape.

No other piece can block or capture the attacking piece.

How the pieces move

♙ Pawn

Moves 1 square forward.

On its first move, it may move 2 squares forward.

Captures 1 square diagonally forward.

Cannot move backward.

♖ Rook

Moves any number of squares horizontally or vertically.

♘ Knight

Moves in an L-shape:

3 squares in one direction, then 2 square perpendicular.

The only piece that can jump over other pieces.

♗ Bishop

Moves any number of squares diagonally.

♕ Queen

Combines the rook and bishop.

Moves any number of squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

♔ King

Moves 1 square in any direction.

Cannot move into check.

Piece Values (rough guide)

Pawn = 1

Knight = 3

Bishop = 3

Rook = 5

Queen = 9

King = Priceless (can't be traded)

Special Moves

1. Castling

The only move where two pieces move at once.

Kingside Castling (Short)

King moves 2 squares toward the rook, rook jumps to the square beside the king.

Queenside Castling (Long)

King moves 2 squares toward the queenside rook, rook jumps next to the king.

You can castle only if:

King has never moved.

Chosen rook has never moved.

No pieces are between them.

King is not currently in check.

King does not move through or end on a square under attack.

2. En Passant

This is the trickiest rule.

Example:

Your pawn is on e5.

Opponent moves a pawn from d7 to d5 (2 squares).

Your pawn may capture it as if it had moved only one square.

Your pawn moves to d6, and the opponent's pawn is removed.

Important:

You must do it immediately on the next move.

If you don't, the opportunity disappears forever.

3. Pawn Promotion

When a pawn reaches the last rank:

White reaches rank 8.

Black reaches rank 1.

It must be promoted to:

Queen (most common)

Rook

Bishop

Knight

You are not limited by captured pieces—you could even have two queens.

Check vs Checkmate

Check

Your king is under attack.

You must:

Move the king.

Block the attack.

Capture the attacking piece.

Checkmate

None of those options work.
You lose.

Stalemate

It's your turn, you have no legal moves, but your king isn't in check.

Result: Draw.

Draw Rules

A game is also a draw if:

Both players agree.

Threefold repetition: the same position occurs three times.

Fifty-move rule: 50 consecutive moves by each player without any pawn move or capture.

Insufficient material (for example, king vs. king, or king and bishop vs. king).

Illegal Moves

You cannot:

Move into check.

Leave your king in check.

Capture your own pieces.

Move through pieces (except the knight).

Castle while in check or through check.

Basic Opening Principles

For your first 10 moves:

1. Control the center (e4, d4, e5, d5).

2. Develop knights before bishops (generally).

3. Castle early to protect your king.

4. Avoid moving the same piece repeatedly without a good reason.

5. Bring out your queen later rather than too early.

Chess Notation

The board uses files (columns) a–h and ranks (rows) 1–8.

Examples:

e4 = pawn moves to e4.

Nf3 = knight to f3.

Bxc4 = bishop captures on c4.

O-O = kingside castling.

O-O-O = queenside castling.

e8=Q = pawn promotes to a queen.

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Photography part 2 Nature

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I took this photo as the car was passing by. It was challenging because the car was moving quickly, so I had to time the shot carefully to get a clear image.

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I made beehoon

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I made spaghetti for dinner

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Went to gardens by the bay and have taken lots of pictures. Going to spend the next few days stitching them together into a video

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i used chatgpt to help me simplify my code by deleting unnecessary lines of code and adding a feature to tell the player if their guess is even or odd. I am currently trying to write a line of code manually that will allow people to have a high score

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As for now, i will just be sticking to baking and as you see i try to film the steps of me baking the brownies. I would say like this is me trying to attempt it again like making it better and yeah honestly it was nicer. Ok the ending was not how it was supposed to go ❌❌❌ i already took a few bites and i realised i dont have a final pic of it. Btw yes it look burnt or wtvr but like im sooo sure i left it in the oven longer than it should but it taste good so im not mad.?.

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For Sem 2, I plan to learn how to solve a 3x3 Rubik's Cube using the beginner method

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i tried streching clips but i dotn think it streched a lot ill try again with a tutorial🫩

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I crocheted

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I will get ingredients to make a burger

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Here’s the actual animation itself separate from the bts part

Made with Toonsquid

12fps, 267 frames, 9 layers excluding audio

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For semester 2 im going to try animating more often

For this SIL I spent 5 hours on animation and 1 hour on showing the behind the scenes (editing) so a total of 6 hours went into this

I’m really proud of this because I haven’t finished an animation in a year 💔💔😭

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Walking to different angle was quite challenging 

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Made two more (the red one for my mom)

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For this semester, I chose to do song production and song remixing since I only know how to produce music but have never tried remixing a song

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I will be trying video editing, first vid shd be abt how I prepare my uniform for parades

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this time i learnt how to use the different filters available on ibispaint like colour burn to change the colour of the image if I don’t want to do it myself

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i did photoshop (?) the speed paint here didn’t show the entire process because i used another app (Picsart) for the first half but it didn’t half speed paint so… i learnt how to use picsart and how to express my idea that i wanted clearly as well as layering multiple different photos for the background to give it a nice look that doesn’t look very empty/boring

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I will learn new math topic

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For this semester, I'm going to try out photo taking and video editing. I will be goign to marina bay to try to learn to take pictures.

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Idea:Make a vlog or do something with torchlight

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Building the RC Car: 4 hours

Filming: 2 hours

Editing: 2 hours( had to learn how to use capcut)

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went to vietnam and saw my baby kuku grown up

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here is the dubai chewy cookie.

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edited this photo and made the lighting better to make to food look appetising and appealing.

Wanted to do vlogging but I was helping my mum with work so I was busy during the june holidays.

Wanted to bake but did not want to spent money on ingredients but manage to go to my friend house and make dubai chewy as is expensive to get it but didnt film it as my phone got taken for sneaking out to lepak but I got pics.

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One of the challenges I had faced while making the code was finding out how python worked in the first place. I also would have made typos which can be detrimental to the function of the code, as well as finding out how to make all 9 possibilities of the game to not make the code look like a mess of long gibberish. I managed to overcome this challenge by searching up tutorials online, as well as using AI to help with generating parts of the code I had a hard time with. Through this experience, I have learnt to anticipate and adapt to mistakes made, as well as how to use super basic functions of python.

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My self-proposed SIL is making a simple Rock Paper Scissors game using the online Python website and code. How it works is that the program stores the three game options, which are 'rock", "paper" and "scissors". It then uses a continuous loop to repeatedly prompt the user for an input, as well as utilizing a random generator when it's the computer's turn to pick an option, and applying conditional logic to determine the winner.

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uhm I didn’t really finish this but it took about I think 2h 40min (for what’s shown here) (I have time stamps) I learnt how to do the null effect in the beginning and how to do like the draw in effect thingy.. yeah !

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During my first game with a bot I struggled to recognise the characters and I thought that the organisation of the pieces was the same as English chess however I was very wrong and that led me to lose the game, there were other parts of the game that my research had not shown with the Gold General not to be able to move backwards diagonally but it can move diagonally forward. The bishop unlike chess can only move 3 squares instead of any number of squares this had led to my defeat against an easy bot 😭😭.

Through this experience I've realised that shogi is not an easy game and I have to learn more about it before I can be confident to try to play. Through this I have reflected and will go research more on this fascinating game.

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Shogi also known as the " General's game"

is the most popular chess game in japan. It ancestry was from Chinese chess ( xiangqi) and the Indian chess game Chaturanga ( not so sure whT it is.

The Heian period: ( 794 to 1185 )

During this time many variants of all sorts of shogi were created and emerging in japan some of these variants include chu shogi and dai shogi and these variants were usually played on large boards different from the now modern 9×9 square board.

Muromachi period ( 1336 to 1573 )

During this periods most of the variants had died off and the rules of shogi became standardised by four major shogi houses who set the ground work for now modern shogi, they were the Honinbo house, Hayashi, Inoue and Yasui house. These houses all had the support of the shogunate.

Now:

Through many centuries the game has become institutionalised, with title systems and formal ranking systems being formed.

With this I have taken a deeper perspective into this strategy game that have existed for many centuries, this strategy game really makes you think like a general controlling an army which makes me fascinated and interested 😯.

Next SIL I will try actually playing a game of Shogi!

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Firstly the most important peice your King

(Gyoku)

Similar to chess the king can only move one square in any direction, to win the game you must checkmate this piece.

Second in the hierarchy is the Rook (Hisha)

It can move any number of squares vertically or horizontally but never diagonally. However unlike chess this peice can promote into another peice also known as the Dragon King allowing it to additionally move 1 square diagonally.

Next is the Bishop(Kaku)

Just like chess it can move any number of squares diagonally but it promotes to Dragon Horse and gains the ability to step 1 square orthogonally( like a + movement )

Next we have the Gold General (Kin)

Its movement is very weird as it can only move 1 square orthogonally then move one square diagonally forward, this piece does not promote.

Next is the Silver General(Gin)

It can only move 1 square diagonally or 1 square straight forward this peice will promote to a piece like the Gold General .

Next is the Knight(Keima)

This peice is similar to the Knight in chess as it moves in an L-shape movement with 2 squares forward then 1 square to the side. However it promotes to a Gold General like piece.

Next is the Lance (Kyosha)

This piece moves any number of squares but only straight forward which I find quite umm useless but maybe it can help out in a way.. it promotes to also a Gold General like peice.

Finally is the pawn (Fuhyo) the lowest ranking of all the peices

It can only move and capture one square straight forward, it promotes to a Gold General like piece.

In conclusion all the pieces have their part to play in this mind boggling game but I still think the lance piece is not very good, one other thing is most of the pieces promote to a Gold General like piece so I'm guessing that is equivalent to a queen in chess. Next SIL I will be covering the history and the creation of Shogi.

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Learning how to play shogi ( Introduction)

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Learning how to play shogi ( Introduction)

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What I know:

Shogi I think is like a strategy game similar to chess? I've only seen it like in anime but other than that I dont know much.

After research:

After researching for abit my guess was kinda correct being it is similar to chess with a special condition with that being the peices can be 'reused' . When a piece gets taken and it is your turn you can choose not to move any of your pieces and instead add your enemies piece that you have taken and place it on the board as your own piece, this for me really adds a new dimension to the game compared to chess. Also like chess the peices can also be promoted. The board itself is a 9×9 square. The promotion zone is 3 rows furthest away from you.

In conclusion shogi is a very complicated and challenging game forcing your brain to really think, next SIL I will be learning about the peices and the hierarchy of them.

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I made a simple number guessing game using python programming for my sil to play it you the code will generate a random number and you need to enter a number and it will tell you if the number is too high or too low

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nagumo and gojo in one😀 i tried more texts and used more clips to try match the sound somehow

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This is my third try. I still thought inside wasnt as soft so i search tiktok and its ask me to try to add cake flour into like my flour mixture so its bread flour and cake flour. As cake flour lowers overall protein content of the dough. This reduces fluten formation, giving the rolls a delicate and pillowy bread. When making the dough, the dough was really wet but i havent found out why. Hence it was really hard to make the shape and form it. Although it looks nicer then the previous one it took me really long cause it was sticky. However, the texture was lowk better but still not that soft compared to korea. So i will research on the possibilities that lead to like why the dough very wet and sticky

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This one is my second attempt. As during my first attempt the inside wasnt as soft as the one i tried in korea hence i did some research and it said that i can try to add bread improver as accelerate fermentation, strengthen the gluten structure, and improve the final baked loaf. Hence, i went to red man and bought it. I also bought some Japanese yeast. At first it overpoofed alot as i added the same amount of yeast needed from the recipe and still added bread improver. This causes the dough to ovenproof. Hence i redid it and lessen the amount of yeast and bread improver. In the end, its still not as soft and only improve abit and some on top burnt

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i changed my edit since my original one was too laggy and i couldnt use the app properly. i learnt about editting styles since i tried different types of edits with different apps

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i learnt how to play a song i heard on social media by ear and i realised that it takes a lot of time and effort to master and memorise a song when playing it by ear. it was harder since i didn’t have any piano scores to refer to

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I needed to make a video for a physics project demostrating a experiment about static electricity. I learnt how to edit the videos by combining the steps together and adding subtitles and a background song

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I learnt and help make a serve carnival game for the class

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I previously baked this so i decided to do it again. It’s just a cupcake with strawberries with a bit of powdered sugar since non of my family members like icing.

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I also created a working speed arithmetic test

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Make sweet corn for my sibling (Wanted to take vid but they mess it up)

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I ran out of ingredients so I put whats left on the cake

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I ran out of yarn so I baked mini cakes but I burnt it abit

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I crocheted Nailong I forgot to take video

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I created phone holder from toilet roll.

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I created a number guessing game

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I drew cappuccino assassino

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I drew the big triple T, Tung Tung Tung Sahur

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So basically, Will the main character, is very shy and live with his grandparents after his mom left him. He everyday daydream that he is brave and powerful and is scared to face reality. In school, he got no friend at all and always get bullied by Woody a rugby player. Later in the story, his grandfather becomes sick and die. This forces Will to stop daydreaming and face reality.

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I painted a duck.

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I explored car photography by taking pictures of different cars that I saw around my neighborhoods and during outings. I chose this activity because I have an interest in cars and photography. Through this experience, I learnt how lighting, angles, and timing can affect the quality of a photo. I also became more observant of details such as car designs, colors, and reflections. This activity helped me improve my creativity and photography skills while doing something I enjoy.

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I explored gaming and learnt more about teamwork, communication, and strategy through online games. I chose this activity because gaming is one of my interests and it also helps me relax during my free time. While playing, I learnt how to cooperate with teammates, make quick decisions, and stay calm under pressure. I also improved my problem-solving skills and reaction time. Overall, this activity taught me important skills while allowing me to enjoy something I like doing.

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In the process of making the video

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i learnt how to play the famous tiktok song from a tiktok music sheet

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i learnt how to play the winner takes it all by ear

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Made a miniature bag with strings

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I learnt how to do the text warp thing

2hours means 2BL sessions… :3 (the previous one took 3h)

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I learnt how to create the text thingy idk how to explain it 😢😢

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Went to Sentosa to catch the fireworks show.

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Woke up early to catch the sunset and cycled from Sembawang to woodlands and back to Sembawang.

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I made a spaghetti noodles and sauce

I used some prego sauce, onions,broccoli, carrots and minced meat to make the sauce

Boiled the noodles

Then I ate it

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im half done

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Morning at Sentosa

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Complete rifle and tools, Disassembled rifle

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Sanding down the drill rifle, Painted Handguard, Painted stock

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When I was painting the base stock, I didn't let the paint dry completely, giving it a 'tacky' texture and when I tried to flip it over to the other side to paint it, the newspaper tore and stuck to the stock, so I had to repaint that area.

Trigger guard screw broke so am waiting for a replacement.