I am nuetral against this statement. Maybe because I have no preference for either of them. Each living have a different aspect of life. Thus, I am nuetral.
Let me first stand my point that countryside life is no better than city life.
Let me state why.
1)Lack of technology
Can u imagine a world without internet? I guess many would dread this kind of life. However, in villages, this type of life actually exist. Internet had become the dominant part of lifes. For example, in a future school like Hwa Chong Institution, we need to check the Summary Message Board everyday to check messages everyday. Without it, we would not be informed of important messages or events. Let me narrate a situation. In the event of a recent flu outbreak, there would be no news reaching the people living in the village. Thus, the disease might spread to them.
2)Lack of communication
In a city, there are lots of communications like the internet, newspaper and the most basic of all, phones. However, the country does not have that. It would be very difficult to contact a person that have lost and thus, leads to a bad point about city lives.
3)Lack of resources
Now, we get to eat food conveniently by going to a hawker centre of a restaurant. Could you imagine if we have to wake up very early to hunt for animals and even eat them raw. This is caused by a lack of resources. It can result in malnutrition or maybe food poisoning as the citizens may not be used to eating food raw. Medical care is also inadequate and thus result in a low life expectancy.
Next, let me stand why city life is also not better than country life.
Let me state why.
1)Lack of human relationships
In the city, people are rushing to work or for anything. The tempo of life is high. Thus, people may not have the chance to pause for a while and talk to each other. However, it is a different case for the country. People usually have a slower tempo of life and thus, able to stop and talk to each other. This strengthen the relationships and one doesn't need to worry about nobody to offer help when they are in trouble. People in city had also become boastful and had become more self-centered, unlike the villagers who are more selfless and still are kind and helpful.
2)Tempo of life
Have you ever wondered what is the meaning of life? For me, life is about unwinding after a term of hard work. However, in modern days like now, have you ever think of whether you would have the time to rest and ponder about life's really small details? I guess most people would say no. This is no good news. Let me cite a scenerio. A man is a doctor. He earns lots of money everyday but he still have a lot of them after years and years. Finally, it came to a day when he died and the money had come into no use. Isn't that pathetic? People had the wrong mindset about money being the first priority when the actual fact that the first priority should be happiness. In the village, this point is vivid, no question. However, in a city, this life theory began to fade away.
Even though I am neutral towards this statement, I still would choose to live in the city rather than in the country if i have a choice to change because of the need to adapt.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sex education- boon or bane
As sexuality become a srutiny in schools, what most parents said to be lacking is the information about such programmes. "Many of the 20 parents interviewed by the strait times yesterday said that they had no idea what went on during sexuality education classes in school" sadi the strait tiems. I was surprised at this statistic.
This statistics shows only two things. One, the students think it is just a trivial matter and did not inform their parents in detail.
Two, this shows the mindsets of parents. One perception is that they are not interested in whatever talk the school is going and do not care as much. Thus, they do not ask for information from their child.
Fortunately, Minister Ng Eng Hen had promised that schools will inform parents of the framework and topics covered in the sexuality talk, and also post such information on the respective websites.
However, the issue of opting out was raised by the parents. Last year, less than 1 per cent of parents said no to letting their children go for such classes. This can be caused by willingness of parents to go for such classes or the lack of information that they can actually opt out.
Personally, I feel that there is a weak link between two; parents and teachers. Based on a interview done by the strait times, experts said that these two groups are not fully equipped to pass on the right information and values to children.
I think most parents are simply embarrassed to discuss the issue with their children. What is worse is that many simply push their responsiblity, and tell their children to get their answers from their teachers instead. Thus, I think teachers need more training to overcome the awkwardness of talking sex in class.
In my opinion, parents are uncomfortable talking about sex because they were not taught by their parents not to talk about it. They also do not have a superficial meaning of sex education. They think sex is about making babies, but actually it is"an emotional, physical adn psycological thing.
Parents like mine may argue that we might be just to young to understand sex and this could pollute our minds. However, I disagreed, supporting it with the idiom that "prevention is better than cure'. Would you rather have your children to be in trouble for sex or to be awkward about telling them about it?
I end this post with a statement. Sex education is essential.
This statistics shows only two things. One, the students think it is just a trivial matter and did not inform their parents in detail.
Two, this shows the mindsets of parents. One perception is that they are not interested in whatever talk the school is going and do not care as much. Thus, they do not ask for information from their child.
Fortunately, Minister Ng Eng Hen had promised that schools will inform parents of the framework and topics covered in the sexuality talk, and also post such information on the respective websites.
However, the issue of opting out was raised by the parents. Last year, less than 1 per cent of parents said no to letting their children go for such classes. This can be caused by willingness of parents to go for such classes or the lack of information that they can actually opt out.
Personally, I feel that there is a weak link between two; parents and teachers. Based on a interview done by the strait times, experts said that these two groups are not fully equipped to pass on the right information and values to children.
I think most parents are simply embarrassed to discuss the issue with their children. What is worse is that many simply push their responsiblity, and tell their children to get their answers from their teachers instead. Thus, I think teachers need more training to overcome the awkwardness of talking sex in class.
In my opinion, parents are uncomfortable talking about sex because they were not taught by their parents not to talk about it. They also do not have a superficial meaning of sex education. They think sex is about making babies, but actually it is"an emotional, physical adn psycological thing.
Parents like mine may argue that we might be just to young to understand sex and this could pollute our minds. However, I disagreed, supporting it with the idiom that "prevention is better than cure'. Would you rather have your children to be in trouble for sex or to be awkward about telling them about it?
I end this post with a statement. Sex education is essential.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Mas Selemat Capture
The escaped criminal, Mas Selamat, had been captured. He had been caught on April 1 but the Malaysia policeman did not know his indentity and thus, resulting him in being indentified and captured now.
To recall, Mas Selamat escaped during february last year. He was one of the most dangerous man in Singapore as he was a JI member and had planned to attack Singapore before he was captured. He escaped when he faked a toilet break, and slipped out through a window.
It was definitely horrifying to see that Singapore, a country known for his security,
had such a hiccup that became so serious. I think the Singapore officials need to reinforce the securities. It also became a wonder how Singapore have another hiccup by allowing Mas Selamat to go to Malaysia unnoticed. This matter needs to be addressed.
Here are several areas I think our security can improve.
1) The most important mistake that the police make is to let Mas Selamat slipped off just like that. A question? Why did they made the windows in the first place? They might say it is for air refreshment. I personally think that they can change the height of the window so that it would not be as easy to climb out of the windows. They also can change the size of the window as it is suprising that one could actually slip through the windows and escape.
2) The other mistake that results in why it taken so long for Mas Selamat to be capture is the lack of borderlines security. I read in the Straits Times that they are several ways of escaping. One of them is actually from the Sewbawang beach to Stulang which was suprisingly just 1.1km away. Quoted from Strait times Prime 5, someone actually said,"Although they are boats guarding the coastline, one may easily swim through when they are caught sleeping". This make me awestruck.
This is serious. I think the they need to be aware of what is happening especially that they know that a criminal has just escaped. I think there needs to be more and shorter shift so that the guardmen would be more aware and not be tired, thus not doing their job.
I hope the security of Singapore can be better.
Please feel free to leave comments.
To recall, Mas Selamat escaped during february last year. He was one of the most dangerous man in Singapore as he was a JI member and had planned to attack Singapore before he was captured. He escaped when he faked a toilet break, and slipped out through a window.
It was definitely horrifying to see that Singapore, a country known for his security,
had such a hiccup that became so serious. I think the Singapore officials need to reinforce the securities. It also became a wonder how Singapore have another hiccup by allowing Mas Selamat to go to Malaysia unnoticed. This matter needs to be addressed.
Here are several areas I think our security can improve.
1) The most important mistake that the police make is to let Mas Selamat slipped off just like that. A question? Why did they made the windows in the first place? They might say it is for air refreshment. I personally think that they can change the height of the window so that it would not be as easy to climb out of the windows. They also can change the size of the window as it is suprising that one could actually slip through the windows and escape.
2) The other mistake that results in why it taken so long for Mas Selamat to be capture is the lack of borderlines security. I read in the Straits Times that they are several ways of escaping. One of them is actually from the Sewbawang beach to Stulang which was suprisingly just 1.1km away. Quoted from Strait times Prime 5, someone actually said,"Although they are boats guarding the coastline, one may easily swim through when they are caught sleeping". This make me awestruck.
This is serious. I think the they need to be aware of what is happening especially that they know that a criminal has just escaped. I think there needs to be more and shorter shift so that the guardmen would be more aware and not be tired, thus not doing their job.
I hope the security of Singapore can be better.
Please feel free to leave comments.
Food Poisoning- A question of the quality of hawker centres
Recently, most of you should have know that there was a controversy of food poisoning in Geylang when many people are found to be sick and even dead after eating rojak from the particular stall.
This is simply appalling. This not only tarnish our hawker centre's reputation, it also affects the tourism. Think about the consequences. Because of one that could not be bothered for the hygiene for his stall, it resulted in death. The direct impact was already a serious one.
I suggest that NEA make it a law that stalls should put up their hygiene grade of the most updated one. Most people have a habit of taking a look at the hygiene grade and decided whether to order food. However, most stalls had played "cheat" and used their old grade instead. This causes two innocent lives to be taken away.
In my opinion, the stallholder must be severely punished of his acts that resulted in such a havoc and a inconvenience for his fellow stallholders. This deterred locals and tourists away from eating at this hawker centre. A twenty year time behind the bars and a heavy fine should do the job.
I also suggest that the goverment introduce a policy for 75% of a food court stalls to have at least a b grade or else be forced to close. NEA would allow half year for stalls to improve on their hygiene before they would check again. In other words, chances would be given. This could 'inspire' them to maintain clean in fear of closure. They would also help one another.
Back to the consequences, this may also affect Singapore's economy as there are lesser revenue for tourism which is caused by the tarnish of bad reputation for the hawker centres. They could link the Newton Food Centre Case with this one together and thus have the wrong perception that food in Singapore is expensive and dirty in Singapore.
Please feel free to leave comments.
This is simply appalling. This not only tarnish our hawker centre's reputation, it also affects the tourism. Think about the consequences. Because of one that could not be bothered for the hygiene for his stall, it resulted in death. The direct impact was already a serious one.
I suggest that NEA make it a law that stalls should put up their hygiene grade of the most updated one. Most people have a habit of taking a look at the hygiene grade and decided whether to order food. However, most stalls had played "cheat" and used their old grade instead. This causes two innocent lives to be taken away.
In my opinion, the stallholder must be severely punished of his acts that resulted in such a havoc and a inconvenience for his fellow stallholders. This deterred locals and tourists away from eating at this hawker centre. A twenty year time behind the bars and a heavy fine should do the job.
I also suggest that the goverment introduce a policy for 75% of a food court stalls to have at least a b grade or else be forced to close. NEA would allow half year for stalls to improve on their hygiene before they would check again. In other words, chances would be given. This could 'inspire' them to maintain clean in fear of closure. They would also help one another.
Back to the consequences, this may also affect Singapore's economy as there are lesser revenue for tourism which is caused by the tarnish of bad reputation for the hawker centres. They could link the Newton Food Centre Case with this one together and thus have the wrong perception that food in Singapore is expensive and dirty in Singapore.
Please feel free to leave comments.
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