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29-Oct-2010 12:02
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Any BANK withOUT nOrmalised Interest Rate wIll nOt recOver. When Interest Rate is NEAR-ZERO, ecOnOmy is sIck and eXtremely FRAGILE, bank is at hIghest rIsk Of DEFAULT. STAY CLEAR OF NEAR-ZERO INTEREST RATE BANKS |
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26-Oct-2010 15:37
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Toilet cleaning is too heavy a chore for senior citizen. This job should be left to the younger person like those of maid's age.
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26-Oct-2010 13:23
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AGE has multi-dimensions Chronological Age [Age of calendar] Physiological Age [Age of body] Mental Age [Age of mind] Spiritual Age [Age of Spirit] Challenge Age [Age of Challenge] Happiness Age [Age of Happiness] Health Age [Age of Health] Wealth Age [Age of Wealth] FEAR Age [Age of FEAR] Street Age [Age of Wisdom] DON'T worry about AGE ATTITUDE determines ALTITUDE ACTION determines ACTUALIZATION JUST DO IT FEARLESS
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pharoah88
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25-Oct-2010 18:25
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General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently. Please follow his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you have to love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. In a portion of an ABC radio interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military Headquarters. young boys when they visit your base? teaching children? & theory before they even touch a firearm. when it returned, this interview was over!!! |
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21-Oct-2010 16:55
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Elderly and exploited Low-wage workers often subjected to unreasonable rules Letter from Arthur Lim I READ with sympathy the letter from Ms Jessie Chong about her father’s experience upon landing a job as a cleaner (“Clean up treatment of cleaners”, Oct 19). I am not surprised such treatment exists and could be commonplace, especially for senior citizens employed in the cleaning industry. I have met some elderly cleaners, working for a pittance, who told me that they are expected to remain standing throughout their work hours, even if their assigned areas are spotlessly clean. I once asked one such cleaner: “The toilet is so well maintained and there is nothing more to clean. Why don’t you just take a seat and rest for a while, and get up to clean the area when the need arises?” His answer: “No, I can’t because if the supervisor sees me I’ll be fined $50.” When asked, he told me he was paid about $800 a month. Imagine, if he sat down 16 times in the course of a month, he wouldn’t be paid a cent. What right does the cleaning company have to impose such a penalty? Of course, everyone likes a clean toilet but expecting a cleaner to stand still like a robot is clearly thoughtless exploitation. The authorities encourage the elderly to work into their golden years but more can be done to address such abuse. There must be legislation in place to ensure employers do not have the right to arbitrarily impose financial penalties. If such penalties are imposed there should be a limit to the fine, based on the monthly salary. Many employers get away with such rules because many of their workers do not know the legality of such practices, thereby opening the door to abuse. The authorities should take the lead to ensure such abuse is not condoned and act on it rigorously when a complaint is made about a company. |
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20-Oct-2010 16:07
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APPLE SONY HP products mOre EXPENSIVE in SINGAPORE than PRICES in AMERICA |
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pharoah88
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20-Oct-2010 13:38
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SOME parents are apparently very unhappy over the fact that some pupils were given a seeming advantage in the recent English paper of the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). A Straits Times article published three years ago was adapted for use as the comprehension cloze passage — a report which a few schools and tuition centres had recently used in their English language revision exercises.Little Red Dot, My Paper, The Straits Times or Today. While I do not know the exact questions that came out in the paper, I am pretty sure they could not have been exactly the same as those set by the schools and tuition centres. So, as I see it, the pupils who had used the passage for revision only had the advantage of knowing that the genre they were being tested in was that of a newspaper report. It is unlikely that any of them would have memorised the exact text of the article. I have been the head of the English department at both primary and secondary level for more than 20 years in the course of my teaching career. It has always been my practice to get my students to read newspapers from as early as Primary 3, be it I got my students to keep a folder of newspaper cuttings and from this stockpile of reports set them exercises ranging from vocabulary tests to comprehension. Of course, I used the reports for cloze passages, too. I’m sure many teachers are doing the same, rather than relying on just worksheets and workbooks. I see this episode as a challenge to teachers, tutors and parents, in particular, to move away from the “worksheets and assessment books” mentality and cultivate in children the more rewarding pursuit of reading the news. [MOE has nO better sOUrces for Examination QuestIOns ? ? ? ?] The schools and tuition centres which happened to use the article in question as a cloze passage should be applauded for their initiative. It is never too late to get students interested in reading the news and it always pays to do so. One word of advice, though: — do not force them to do so, but instead get them started by reading the bits they are interested in, before discussing the reports with them. There’s no better way to teach life lessons and social skills to our youth than through newspapers.
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pharoah88
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18-Oct-2010 14:04
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German multiculturalism has failed: Angela Merkel POTSDAM Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Ms Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims. “This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,” Ms Merkel said. The Chancellor faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who do not show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics. She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labour market. Ms Merkel tried to accommodate both sides of the debate, talking tough on integration but also telling Germans that they must accept that mosques have become part of their landscape. She said on Saturday that the education of unemployed Germans should take priority over recruiting workers from abroad, while noting Germany could not get by without skilled foreign workers. In a weekend newspaper interview, her Labour Minister, Ms Ursula von der Leyen, raised the possibility of lowering barriers to entry for some foreign workers in order to fight the lack of skilled workers in Europe’s largest economy. However, Mr Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU’s sister party, last week rejected any relaxation of immigration laws and said there was no room in Germany for more people from “alien cultures”. The debate over foreigners in Germany has shifted since former central banker Thilo Sarrazin published a book accusing Muslim immigrants of lowering the intelligence of German society. Mr Sarrazin was censured for his views. — Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp.REUTER |
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pharoah88
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16-Oct-2010 21:06
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Tiger accuses AirAsia boss of racism Conrad Raj editor-at-large
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The spat erupted after Mr Fernandes, in an interview with
Noting that Thai AirAsia was run by a Thai management team, the AirAsia chief told the newspaper:
“We’re Asians, not a bunch of white guys running the airline”,
referring to the management team at Tiger, which is helmed by Mr Tony Davis, who is the airline’s president and group CEO.
Responding to his comment, Tiger Airways said yesterday: “We are disappointed and surprised to read reports that the head of AirAsia has passed racial remarks against Tiger Airways.”
“While we understand that we are intensifying the level of competition with our expansion across Asia, resorting to racial slurs is unbecoming and unnecessary.”
The Singapore-based airline added: “Tiger Airways is proud of our employees’ contributions regardless of their race or cultural background. Positions are determined by merit alone.
“In any case, we happen to have a great racial and cultural diversity across our board, management and the rest of the organisation.”
Mr Fernandes also described Tiger Airways, in which Singapore Airlines owns a stake, as an “odd” choice for a business ally for Thai as it was not making “much” money. The Singapore-based airline, he said, was also facing a pilot shortage. “They have not yet been able to solve their problems, so what are they going to teach the Thais?”
In its reply, which was sent to the media on Friday, Tiger Airways said: “Tiger Airways will continue to compete against all airlines in Asia and Australia. Together with Thai Airways, we will create a management team that is well qualified to lead Thai Tiger Airways, and repeat the success of Tiger Airways Singapore and Tiger Airways Australia.”
When contacted by
“I believe that Tiger’s management does not have a clear understanding of the Asian market,” he added.
[Western management does not even understand their own finances and economics at home] |
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pharoah88
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09-Oct-2010 16:57
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Think Well. Be Well.Oct 7th, 2010 by ignatius |
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pharoah88
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09-Oct-2010 16:53
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09-Oct-2010 16:49
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Oct 3rd, 2010 by fasswebmaster In an article that appeared in the Straits Times, a RI student says that the quality of teaching matters more than rankings. He cites A/P Brian Farrell’s module on modern European history as an example of where he found the quality of teaching and discussions excellent. http://blog.nus.edu.sg/fassnews/2010/10/03/choosing-a-school-is-not-just-about-rankings-straits-times-27-sep/ |
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pharoah88
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09-Oct-2010 14:04
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09-Oct-2010 13:55
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Oct 9, 2010Varsities should act on cyber bullyingONLINE (and offline) bullying has already been festering in our tertiary institutions ("What if online pranks go out of line here"?; Oct 2), except that such cases have all been kept away from the media's radar, perhaps because there have been no fatalities linked to them yet. Do these institutions have appropriate policies and procedures in place to help such victims? Students who are bullied often have no idea where to seek redress. Victims are too terrified to approach faculty members as they are worried that they might be perceived as making "petty" complaints. The victims dare not confide in their peers as well because the bullies usually control powerful informal cliques in schools. In short, they suffer in silence. If local tertiary institutions have a set of procedures in place, they should publicise them and let victims know where to seek refuge. At the same time, faculty members need to be advised on the appropriate course of action to take. Schools should also put the victims' welfare as the first priority and not be overly concerned about the institutions' reputations. Schools tend to tread too cautiously and instead of focusing on the bullying, spend more time on seeing if the news has leaked out to the public. The focus should be removing the victim from harm and working out plans to help the victim cope. Finally, the law should evolve to deter cyber bullies and real-life bullies. In Singapore, the police are powerless to act unless the bullying results in a criminal offence. Whether the problem in Singapore will deteriorate to the level of tragic incidents like suicide remains to be seen, but why should we wait till that happens? Bullying can kill; schools should not wait for misfortune to befall our loved ones before starting to address the problem. He Yanying (Ms) |
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niuyear
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08-Oct-2010 17:15
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I am thickening my skin now by asking : can G13 cheong to $2.20? can SGX cheong to $10, can Capitaland cheong to 4.50 Answer: YES!!
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08-Oct-2010 11:54
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THINK MADONNA If there’s a person who best embodies reinvention in this world, I would say it’s Madonna, the singer. Remember her from the 1980s, writhing on the floor singing Like a Virgin?We recently saw her as a very fit 50-year-old singing So, think Madonna, and you’ll find the road to realising your goals a lot smoother. You’d notice I have avoided referring to “the road to success”. The truth is nothing can guarantee success. And no matter what you do, failure will find you now and again. But don’t despair. In failure, I always believe we learn things that success doesn’t teach. If I had a penny for everything that hasn’t worked out in my life, I would have been a very rich man of Bill Gates’ proportion. But I do feel enriched for having lived through adversities, and bounced back — wiser, braver and stronger. While you’ve been listening to me over the last few minutes, with rapt attention I hope, you’ve just been a witness to a small manifestation of a bounce-back. A rebound not from a business or professional set back, but of a more personal nature. I have just lost my father a week ago, and was contemplating cancelling this engagement. Speaking to over 300 people today while grieving isn’t exactly on my favourites list. But a little voice inside my head says: Get back on your feet and do what you have to do. And here I am ... wiser for having learned much about myself and people around me through this dark patch. Amid the tears and sadness, I now better appreciate the meaning of family bonds. I am also touched by how far some friends will go for you. I am truly blessed to have such angels watching over me. Concluding, besides wishing you a fruitful journey reinventing yourself, I hope you would share my good fortune to have angels guide you by the light of their halos. These angels could already be in your midst — people you’ve slogged through term projects with ... who’ve shared your joy and pain ... who’ve made you a better person. Give them a hug, a pat on the shoulder ... But you must remember a pair of angels has been watching over your shoulders since you were born. Never mind if they have a tendency to nag, or had you grounded when you were younger. I believe many are in the audience today. They are immensely proud of you and rightly so. Do remember that if not for them, you wouldn’t be here. I’ll like you to please give the parents in the audience a round of applause. And do remember to give them an extra big hug after this. On that note, thank you and remember to think Madonna. 4 minutes with Justin Timberlake. He, for the record, was only three years old when she had her first No 1 single. She’s still on top of her game three decades on and numerous reincarnations later. |
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08-Oct-2010 11:45
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PERSONAL LESSONS: KEEP ASKING, THICKEN YOUR SKIN, KEEP AN OPEN MIND Reinvention was at a personal level too, for me. I had morphed from a civil servant to journalist. Within journalism, I had crossed the Rubicon — from print to broadcast. From journalism, I went into business, which was my first love and remains so. Then just over a year ago, I was given the additional task of growing my company’s interactive media business, which takes care of such popular websites as www.channelnewsasia.com, xinmsn.com, and mobile applications.Desiderata:
“… and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story”. None of these changes was easy, as there were new skills to be learned. I remember vividly the butterflies in my stomach as I made my TV debut in the 1990s. The cross to business should have been a breeze, since I am trained in economics and accounting. But applying them to real business situations was easier said than done. Often too, new colleagues bombarded me with unfamiliar technical terms, which on hindsight, were not always necessary to get the job done. I guess some people do resort to erecting jargonistic walls to defend their turf. But I quickly learned that no matter how technical a subject, I can always turn to a good friend who is tireless and never complains about the most mundane of questions. His name? Google. I think you know him too. Now that I have let the cat out of the bag on how I sit through meetings with engineers and appear intelligent, what other tips can I share with you from my Poseidonlike shape-shifting? I can think of three. First, be extremely inquisitive. Keep asking. Second, be very thick-skinned, for you will be laughed at, or have doors slammed in your face. The third tip is keeping an open mind. I find it’s a virtue that’s worked for me, encapsulated in Max Ehrmann’s |
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08-Oct-2010 11:38
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MEDIACORP: EMBRACING THE ‘PRETTY YOUNG THING’ [PYT] Professionally, I should be able to speak with some authority, as few organisations appreciate change better than MediaCorp. Until recently, we were largely focused on traditional media. Radio is over 74 years old and TV slightly younger, at 47 years. The two have ruled the airwaves for decades, capturing the imagination and undivided attention of Singaporeans in their living rooms. Then, with the digital wave, a Pretty Young Thing called “new media” arrived at our doorstep. So besotted is the world with it, clicking and surfing away, that predictions of the death of “old media” like TV and newspapers, came faster than the birth of new websites. To those of a certain vintage, a sense of deja vu, perhaps? Cassandras have in the past foretold Radio’s demise when the goggle box came along. They thought that video would kill the radio star. But they were wrong. In fact, our MediaCorp radio stations have just seen their best year yet in terms of financial performance. The reason is that the Grand Ole Dame has been botox-ing and yoga-ing herself to stay attractive. In the ’80s, there were few radio stations and each was all things to all men. But when we sensed the market changing, we started narrow-casting; we started having radio stations catering to different segments, like youths and adult contemporary. The ’90s was also when radio started putting on a “face”. It’s a paradigm shift for us. Our DJs became recognisable as we took our shows outdoors. That was also when we elicited more call-ins, bringing listeners closer. Fast forward to the present day, and you can now follow our radio stations even on your phones, with mobile apps that boast features like song titles and social networking. Television hasn’t been standing idle. There are now TV events like You are able to vote on live television to affect the outcomes. And as you watch, you are able to chat online, raving and ranting about this or that contestant with other like-minded viewers. We know the market is shifting and if we do nothing, we will perish. Also, TV isn’t what you watch on a TV set only. It is available online too. If you visit Far from seeing the online world as stealing audiences from our telecast, we have come to embrace the Pretty Young Thing as friend, not enemy. This change in mindset has enabled us to reach people who would never have sampled our programmes. Suffice to say that in the world of business, never say never. We think we have refreshed the morning reading habit too. The free MediaCorp publication Therein lies hope for those of you in a small business or planning one. If you find your niche, you will thrive, no matter how crowded the market, no matter how mighty the incumbents. Singapore Idol, where viewing becomes a shared experience.xinmsn.com, a lifestyle portal jointly developed by MediaCorp and Microsoft, you will find “catch-up TV”, which allows you to watch shows you have missed. Free of charge. At your own time. Some of our online offerings even come with enhancements, such as behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast.Today may be tabloid-sized but it is not like the tabloids you see in other metropolises associated with lurid, vulgar sensationalism. We have offered readers a serious alternative, gaining popularity when most broadsheets are stagnating or declining. That’s reinvention for you, even for the oldest media form! |
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08-Oct-2010 11:29
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Remember to think Madonna She is still on top of her game after three decades — and therein lies the life lesson of reinvention Shaun Seow MediaCorp’s Deputy CEO Shaun Seow spoke on the importance of reinventing oneself in a speech to the 365 graduands from the School of Arts and Social Science, School of Business and The Open University, United Kingdom, at the SIM University Convocation yesterday. I am very honoured to have this opportunity to speak to you, but was initially hesitant when asked by Dr Brian Lee, your head of programme, Communication School of Arts and Social Sciences. I doubted that I was indeed a good choice. I was wondering if Graduating Class 2010 could have done better with one of our nubile MediaCorp celebrities. I am sure that would have guaranteed rapt attention. Alas, that wasn’t Brian’s choice and here I am. Those who are truly disappointed may want to do something drastic, like un-friend Brian from Facebook, or start an online petition on “Let’s have more interesting speakers at future convocations”. Or you could do the next best thing. Imagine I am Fann Wong or Dai Yang Tian on this rostrum, and you should be able to stay awake for the next 15 minutes. This way, your sanity and my dignity will be intact. Seriously, I was hesitant accepting the very kind invitation as I know most of you graduating today are working adults. Many of you have taken up to five years to complete the degree, thanks to this very forward looking university allowing students to pursue studies at their own pace. So my quandary was and remains: What to say to warhorses among you with ample work experience? You certainly don’t need a starter kit on how to land your first job or manage your boss from hell. Bereft of new wisdom, I have decided to pick on a theme that I am sure will resonate with you: The need to reinvent. Many of you are here in the audience because you have done exactly that. You’ve come to these hallowed university halls to upgrade yourself. I say: Very good, keep it up. Then, take what I have to say as vindication if you will. And allow me to draw on my professional and personal experiences to tell the story of how we have to keep staying relevant in life. |
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08-Oct-2010 11:19
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Teacher allegedly sold sex-enhancement drugs JOHOR BARU The teacher was said to have been selling sex-enhancement drugs, gels and pills, the paper said. “The investigation was completed last month and the report has been sent to the Education Ministry,” Johor Education Department director Sufaat Tumin said. He added that further action would be taken against the teacher based on the severity of the offence. “It is important for all teachers to adhere to the rules and set a good example for students,” he said. The teacher’s side business was exposed a couple of weeks ago when a parent discovered the sex-enhancement drug brochures among his son’s books. Mr Sufaat insisted that the case was an isolated incident, and that there were few disciplinary problems among the state’s 48,000 educators. — A teacher at a secondary school in Skudai, Johor, who distributed brochures for sex-enhancement drugs at his school, has been transferred to another secondary school in the area, the Star reported yesterday. |
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