Footprint June 2010

June 2010

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ASSOCIATE EDI-TOR’S CORNER

• Footprint is back!

STUDENT NEWS - 2

• Roots and Shoots Wins Thousands

WORLD NEWS - 6

• Cheon An Incident

LIFESTYLE - 8

• Raw Eggs are healthy

Shun Yang Ch’ng

»Editor

Sylvia Kang

»Associate Editor

Bor Hung Chong

»School News Jour-nalist

Caleb Flick

»Sports Journalist

Justin Kim

»World News Journal-ist

Kevin Joh

»Lifestyle Journalist

FOOTPRINT MEMBERS

It’s almost the end of

another school year. I’m willing to

bet that there are students out there

who are so excited that they’re al-

ready dreaming of their holiday.

However, believe it or not, there are

also students out there who are cry-

ing as the holiday approaches.

Yes, it’s the end of the school

year. What does that mean? That

there won’t be school soon? Yeah, of

course. Holiday? Beaches? Sleep?

Computer Games? They’re all right.

However, the end of the school year

is also the time to say goodbye to

some of our dearest friends as they

depart SSIS for good. May that be the

senior graduates or teachers, it is

time to say goodbye.

For the senior graduates,

they’re separating to lead their indi-

vidual lives. Whether it’s the Ameri-

cas, Europe or Asia, the underlining

point here is that they’re leaving.

Soon, they will not be seeing each

other for long periods of time. It is

true, tears will be shed when they

finally depart for the second stage of

their lives, however, I am sure that

no matter what and how, they’ll al-

ways be in contact with each other:

comforting each other in times of dif-

ficulty and sharing pleasurable ex-

periences. Personally, I want to thank

all the G12s for their influence on us

G11s and general school life: sports

teams, school community, academics,

parties etc.

Along with senior graduates,

there are also a number of teachers

who are not going to be here next

year. These teachers are:

Andrea Kidd, Charles Pollard, Char-

lie Adams, Ching Fu Pang, Evelyn

Conkling, Jennifer Hughes, George

Konopik, Glen Russell, Jill Brough,

Monica Orosz, Peter Davies, Aaron

Krajeski, Richard Brough. Stephanie

Wilson and Ivy Zhu.

They have served the school very

well over the years they’ve been

here, contributing to the outstanding

education we receive. Therefore, be-

fore we leave for our holidays, why

not give these teachers a thank you

note? A card, a class dinner/lunch, a

small present or even a warm hug

always works.

Finally, let’s also not forget

the other students who are leaving

after this year. They deserve our

thanks for being part of the school

community and perhaps more im-

portantly, being our friends.

It’s almost the end of the

school year. It’s also the time to say

goodbye. However, let’s not just cry

about it. Instead, let’s THANK them

for what they’ve done for us.

Thank You.

Shun Yang Ch’ng

Time to Say Goodbye

Footprint

SPORTS NEWS - 8

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June 2010 SSIS FOOTPRINT

Associate Editor’s Corner—Sylvia Kang

Footprint makes a come back!

Hello, everyone! It’s been

ages since you last heard the

word ‘Footprint,’ right? Well,

here we are, once again but with

a brand-new crew! Last year’s

Footprint members have gradu-

ated and now new members

have taken on the challenge! Al-

low me to introduce you to the

fabulous members of Footprint!

Shun Yang Ch’ng will be

the fancy editor in chief, in

charge of the entire newspaper

(in other words, someone to

blame all the troubles on: P).

Kevin Joh will be our health advi-

sor and Caleb Flick will have all

the sports news! Bor Hung

Chong will tell us about our lives

at SSIS and Justin Kim, general

news and entertainment. As for

me, the only girl and the only

g10 (all the others are scary

g11s!), I will be the associate

editor, helping Shun Yang

Ch’ng. We hope to collaborate

(…peacefully) and hopefully,

publish the best footprint there

ever was!

Footprint will be pub-

lished once every two weeks

and every issue will be pub-

lished on DragonNet – so re-

member to check DragonNet

frequently! We won’t be pub-

lishing hard copies of the

newspaper for every student

because we want to save the

environment (who doesn’t

nowadays, right?... Roots and

shoots, Green committee, Recy-

cling Club…….)!

But as you know, our

school year is almost over

(FINALLY) but sadly. There-

fore, this will be our first and

last Footprint issue of 2009-

2010. You all crying over

there? Well, we will be back

next year so just hold on tight

and have a nice summer! (And

trust me, you will be looking at

our next Footprint before you

know it :D !!!)

Sylvia Kang


Student News—Bor Hung Chong

SSIS Roots & Shoots wins Thousands

In the first week of April,

Shun Wei Ch’ng applied for the

ACAMIS Service Award on behalf

of the SSIS Roots & Shoots team,

hoping to retrieve a substantial

amount of capital funding for the

group.

The ACAMIS Service

Award is an award given to a

group with the best proposal for

a project that will service the

community. The club that wins

the award would be granted a

total sum of USD 1,000.00

(¥6 ,831.30).

Before May 21st, Roots &

Shoots’ efforts in raising money

for the Million Tree Project had

not been satisfactory and morale

was generally low. Plans to gen-

erate awareness of environ-

mental degradation were also

not successful. Roots & Shoots

even underwent re-structuring,

hoping to improve.

However, on May 21st,

there was great news. SSIS Roots

& Shoots had miraculously won

the ACAMIS Service Award. This

was a rather shocking surprise

for every member of the group,

but it provided the group with

much needed morale.

With this fairly large sum

of money, Roots & Shoots is hop-

ing to do more. Recently, Roots &

Shoots opened up two stalls dur-

ing International Day, selling or-

ganic cotton eco-bags and getting

donations for individuals’ carbon

emission offset. The latter was a

chance for one to offset his/her

carbon footprint by paying a cer-

tain amount of money to Roots &

Shoots. This money will be used

to plant trees, which are great

carbon emission cleaners. If you

missed your opportunity to off-

set your carbon emission during

International Day or still want to

buy an organic cotton eco-bag,

just look for the Roots & Shoots

members.

The money raised by

Roots & Shoots will go to the Mil-

lion Tree Project – a project to

plant a million trees in Mongolia.

Once again, let us con-

gratulate Roots & Shoots for

winning the ACAMIS Service

Award. Also, LET’S SUPPORT

THEM AND HELP MAKE A DIF-

FERENCE TO IMPROVE THE EN-

VIRONMENT WE’RE LIVING IN.

Bor Hung Chong

With special thanks to Shun Wei

Ch’ng

At the end of a very successful year of athletics at SSIS I offer

congratulations to the many athletes who put in the hard work nec-

essary to achieve the best possible results. To the coaches, thank

you for taking the time to impart your wisdom on us, even if it does

not seem so, you have changed us forever. Starting next school

year, this sports column will aim to keep the school community in-

formed about the various sports our students are participating in.

It will include announcements from coaches about tryouts and

practices, results from sporting competitions SSIS teams have been

involved in, and information about new and upcoming sports at the

school. I will now use this opportunity to quickly address a new

sport that will be taking place next autumn: baseball.

Several weeks before exams a baseball club was established

at SSIS with the hope that a team would form and have the oppor-

tunity to compete against teams from Suzhou and Shanghai. The

club met regularly twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and

practiced drills and exercises to improve the players’ skill levels. As

the end of the school year approached and exams loomed before

the players, it became apparent that the team would not be able

learn the vast amount they needed to be able to compete against

teams who had been training for many months. As such, the base-

ball team will recommence next school

year, with practices beginning during the

first sports season. For more information

about baseball, or any other sport, you

can contact Mr. Bonar in the P.E. office

next to the gym.

Caleb Flick


Sports News—Caleb Flick

SSIS Sports

On March 26th, a South Korean navy ship

Cheon An was torn in half near Baengneong Island

located in the Yellow Sea. To date, only 40 bodies

out of 46 have been found. The ship was also sal-

vaged last month. So, who did it?

The Republic of Korea (ROK) and Democ-

ratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have not

comprised on this matter due to the continued

rejection from the North on the evidence that the

South had provided. With the steadfast intention

of South Korea to discuss this issue in the Secu-

rity Council, the North, in response, closed down

all the connections of Kaesong Industrial Park

and tourism in Mt. Geumgang from the South. But

overall, the South is unlikely to make an aggres-

sive move – an armed conflict – that is likely to

harm the economies of north Asia.

he United States has said that they “fully

support” ROK, and deployed their jets in Japan

and Guam in preparation for any unexpected at-

tack from the North. China, a formal ‘big brother’

of DPRK, expressed their neutral perspective.

South Korea’s Military Intelligence

claimed that the ‘sinking of Cheon An’ was caused

by a torpedo fired from a North Korean subma-

rine last month. It was suspected that the subma-

rine could have attempted a surprise attack on

Cheon An while hiding among Chinese fishing

boats.

There is evidence that supports the South

Korean Military Intelligence claims. However,

they are weak arguments.

Thus, before taking a revenge on DPRK,

ROK must clarify the ‘truth’ of this event to the

citizens. If ROK had presented a valid explana-

tion, none of the questions would have arisen.

Justin Kim

5-Minute-Remark: The Cheon An Incident


World News—Justin Kim

Raw Eggs


Lifestyle—Kevin Joh

While I was running a 500km race at 220km

per hour, I began to wonder how exactly I could

become healthier and more muscular – I also

wondered how I was running so fast, and why I

was running so far, but whatever. Then I remem-

bered the strange rumors about raw eggs that I

grew up hearing about.

1. Raw eggs are bad for you: they’re fat and

they increase your cholesterol

2. Raw eggs are good for you: healthy people

drink them every morning before jogging

I realized that I never did sort that out. So I

decided to do some research. After completing

my 500km, of course.

Well, it turns out that raw eggs are pretty

healthy for you.

Now let’s get this out of the way before I start.

Raw eggs can give you salmonella. If you don’t

know what that is – and if you think it’s a type of

fish – salmonella is basically a bacteria that in-

fests your digestive tract and messes up your day.

By this I mean vomiting, fever, stomach pain, nau-

sea, and/or diarrhea. In a very small number of

cases, it leads to death (usually of infants or the

elderly). That’s some pretty serious stuff right

there.

Also, a major concern of raw egg critics is that

egg whites contain avidin (a protein). Avidin as a

protein is great for muscle growth, but it binds a

vitamin called biotin, which can lead to biotin de-

ficiency in the human body.

When eggs are cooked, most of the avidin is

denatured and cannot bind biotin. Problem

solved! Who needs raw eggs?

Biotin, that’s what – and tons of it. Biotin

helps the body grow and develop, and avidin

helps the body grow muscles. So, raw egg

consumers do not need to be concerned with

biotin deficiency, unhealthiness, or being

wimpy. Cooking the egg just ruins most of

the nutritional benefits.

Mother Nature made eggs one of the very

few “perfect” sources of nutrition ever.

“Nature created an egg to be a balanced

live food – as long as you eat the biotin rich

yolk along with the white, there is no risk of a

biotin deficiency.” (John Clayton D. Hom)

Simple. What about the nutritional bene-

fits?

“Many people’s diets are deficient in high

quality proteins and fats, and eggs are one the

very best sources of these. Raw eggs have

many benefits, they contain essential nutrients

“Don’t do it!”



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for the brain, nerves, glands and hormones, they are nutritionally balanced. Raw eggs also contain an

abundance of other vital substances including protein, essential fatty acids along with niacin, ribofla-

vin, biotin, choline, vitamins A, D and E, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, manganese, iron, iodine,

copper, zinc and sulphur. Egg yolks are one of the few foods that contain vitamin D.”

Sounded good to me (besides the fact that he spelled “program” as “programme”). What about

the scary salmonella? Well salmonella occurs very rarely in chicken eggs, and actually can turn up

in almost any form of meat. As far as death goes, since I am guessing none of my readers are infants

nor elderly people, it’s not something you need to worry about. Worst case scenario, you’ll get ter-

rible stomach pains. On the bright side, you’d be able to miss school for a week or so! Also, there

isn’t a need to worry about the cholesterol, because 1. you’re young and/or healthy (presumably),

2. Two thirds of all cholesterol in the human body is produced by the kidney; cholesterol in your

diet has little to do with your actual cholesterol levels. So I decided to try this crazy diet out.

Now, I’m not going to lie to you, drinking raw eggs is like gathering all the gurgles and sneezes

of your friends into a bucket… then pouring it down your throat. It was simply nasty. And my re-

search recommended three eggs every morning in a cup. Just nasty. But I did get results. Within a

month of this gross diet, I found that I had grown a few centimeters around my biceps, and that I

could jump noticeably higher. I actually felt good about my days and pretty darn healthy. I’d hit the

gym every other day and find my bench press records improving gradually. I was profoundly

amazed.

Some pointers, though – if you plan to replicate my experience.

1. Pour all three eggs into the cup, but don’t stir them together. This could destroy/damage

some of the nutrients.

2. Don’t eat anything else for breakfast. The eggs have all the energy you’ll need for a healthy

breakfast (but you can add a bit of milk to the mixture if it helps with consumption)

3. Raw eggs don’t actually taste like anything. They just feel gross to drink.

4. Smell the eggs before you drink them. They should have almost no odor, but if they do have a

bad smell, then dump them. The eggs are probably rotten.

5. Don’t refrigerate the eggs. This makes it tougher to smell any odors.

6. You better keep working out/start working out. Or else.

To elaborate more on point 6, after a couple months of this wondrous eating, I decided that I

no longer needed to exercise so much. I was busy with school. But I kept my raw egg diet.

Within two weeks, I noticed that my weight increased, but zero improvement in my athletic

performance. In fact, there was a decrease. I could not jump as high as I could before due to my

increased weight, and I was too dang lazy to the gym anymore to even try bench pressing. It

was then I realized that I had gotten fatter. Much fatter.

“Pictured: You, with raw eggs.”

Why it didn’t occur to me before, I don’t know. Eggs contain high amounts of energy in the

form of fat, which is awesome for an athlete in training, but pretty crummy for a lazy bum who

sits at his computer and plays DotA all day (or World of Warcraft, take your pick). So if you are

going to adopt this diet as your very own, then you best be sure that you body build like a sculp-

tor, because you’ll either end up being a stud in the swimming pool, or taking up half the swim-

ming pool.

Of course, you can just eat raw eggs on a minimal level – perhaps just one every morning.

This would not lead to excessive weight gain, and would still prove to be very healthy (muscle-

head or nerd, male or female).

After I lost the crazy weight I gained, I decided not to touch the stuff for a while. Not because

I don’t believe it works, but simply because I’m too lazy to exercise. That’s why I got this job

writing articles for you to benefit from. You can thank me at all the pool parties that you attend

in the future (by inviting me to them). Kevin Joh



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