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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

I really like swimming, i usually think alot while swimming, and when resting at the side, soaking in the sunshine. Having been back in Singapore for quite some time now, I've really noticed alot of stuffs.

I've noticed how certain things happen around our little island, and it'll hog the newspaper headlines for a few days, till something "big" happen again and the previous incident will be forgotten. First it was the "phantom workers", then came the news of Newton Circus overcharging our tourists, then it was some serious food poisoning that killed a few people and now the NEA renewing their hygiene practices and the labeling of the cleanliness of the stalls, and after the fading news of charity corruption, now we have the all-righteous Ren Ci under scrutiny. I really don't get it, people who run charities, what are charities? It's a form of Not-For-Profit Organisation. Cos with charities, the money comes from the general public, the money used to run the facilities and fund the basic salary of the staff, all comes from the public, even a tinniest portion might come from some poor kid deciding to starve himself for a day to give his/her allowance to that tin can. How can ANYONE at all, use the money obtained for any kind of personal use at all, NKF was like that, now Ren Ci. Who still has confidence and trust to drop that spare change into a donation box now you tell me.

I've been reading the papers alot nowadays, and my oh my do Singaporeans like to complain, they complain about every single thing under the sky that doesn't feel right for them. Recently i saw in one of the mini entries written into the papers, stating that if the MRT decides that food and drinks are STRICTLY prohibited on trains and platforms, where do we see MRT stations filled with food and beverage stalls that makes the purchasing of such items come at such ease. Now what will we have for ourselves if the MRT stations are barren, when we come back from a long day at work or school and we just want something to munch on, and there is no shop in sight. Complain again?

Something a friend of mine told me the other day that really made sense. Cos my dad was "complaining" about some newly paved road, that they should make it wider, if not in future when there is a jam, they might decide to reconstruct the road to make it wider thus causing more jam and wastes money. My friend told me, WHAT IF the road was made wide enough, and there is not much traffic there, then people will start complaining that government resources were wasted in constructing something that was not fully utilized. By fixing the problem when there is a complaint, it means that suggestions are taken into considerations and changes will be made to ease the problem. Wow, how true is that?

Have a think about all that i've written here. I've been thinking too much lately, May is coming and having mixed emotions about it. It's time.