Chan Fai
Singapore table tennis wins championship. Is there any glory?
Singapore had just won the table tennis championship in Moscow against the China team! Isn't Singapore team made up of china players too? Doesn't that makes it China A team versus China B team? There are different approaches to this question.
People who think that there is glory for Singapore winning the championship will agree that the Singapore-China players win the title as a Singaporean. People who disagree says that those players are bought from china, they are not matured from singapore at a young age.
In winning the championship, I believe that more people will know of Singapore and there is absolute glory for singapore. People know of how great Singapore is in for the sports of table tennis.
Even though they were bought from China, they players were trained in Singapore for a certain period of time before they had their stage in this sports. Looking from another angle, this china players was bought from china and only get training in here for a few years time only. Even though they represent Singapore, but they are still China people in the end.
Overall, I believe that there is glory for the china players and Singapore whom they nurtured the china players for a certain period of time.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Chan Fai
World Cup: How does it affect office/ school productivity?
World cup which is held once every four year is most exciting event on earth. Most football fans are willing to give up some of their sleep just to catch every matches, which is broadcast between 10pm to 4am. But does it affect productivity when they are just catching just a few hours of sleep?
They are willing to give up a day work or school by getting an MC because they could not wake up due to the late soccer match last night. This will surely affect productivity. If workers do not report to work because of the late match, the company will be short handed and it will slow down productivity. If students do not report to school, the only missing out is them.
In my opinion, if they choose to watch the late matches, they must have the responsibility to wake up the next day to report on time for their duty. Watching late night football matches should not be an excuse to not report for duty.
But the problem is even if they were to report for duty the next day, will they be feeling sleepy or fresh? Even if they came to work but feeling sleepy, it will also affect the productivity. Overall, everyone has the right to enjoy late football match. But they must also have the responsibility to report for duty the next day feeling fresh too. It is wrong to prioritize world cup before their career or studies.
World Cup: How does it affect office/ school productivity?
World cup which is held once every four year is most exciting event on earth. Most football fans are willing to give up some of their sleep just to catch every matches, which is broadcast between 10pm to 4am. But does it affect productivity when they are just catching just a few hours of sleep?
They are willing to give up a day work or school by getting an MC because they could not wake up due to the late soccer match last night. This will surely affect productivity. If workers do not report to work because of the late match, the company will be short handed and it will slow down productivity. If students do not report to school, the only missing out is them.
In my opinion, if they choose to watch the late matches, they must have the responsibility to wake up the next day to report on time for their duty. Watching late night football matches should not be an excuse to not report for duty.
But the problem is even if they were to report for duty the next day, will they be feeling sleepy or fresh? Even if they came to work but feeling sleepy, it will also affect the productivity. Overall, everyone has the right to enjoy late football match. But they must also have the responsibility to report for duty the next day feeling fresh too. It is wrong to prioritize world cup before their career or studies.
Chan Fai
World Cup: Does it promote social ills such as gambling addiction?
It happens once every four years. The excitement of the people yelling whenever a nice approach or a goal is scored by their supporting team. Also because of the world cup fever, there has been increasing people who bet who football.
Betting on football may cause gambling addiction. Non gamblers may start to bet on football and get addicted to it. If they are addicted to it, their family members and people around them will get affected the most easily. The worst scenario would be they borrowing money from illegal source andnot able to pay up after losing all.
World cup bring football fans around the world together but they also promote betting on football, gambling. However, if one were to be persistent, they will not have gambling addiction during the world cup season. Betting on a few matches is alright, but not to the extent of betting heavily on most matches until they lost everything.
In my opinion, World cup does not promote social ills such as gambling addiction. Instead, it promote the spirit of football which everybody come together to support and cheer for their favourite team. If they are persistent enough, it is impossible for world cup easily to affect them having a gambling addiction.
World Cup: Does it promote social ills such as gambling addiction?
It happens once every four years. The excitement of the people yelling whenever a nice approach or a goal is scored by their supporting team. Also because of the world cup fever, there has been increasing people who bet who football.
Betting on football may cause gambling addiction. Non gamblers may start to bet on football and get addicted to it. If they are addicted to it, their family members and people around them will get affected the most easily. The worst scenario would be they borrowing money from illegal source andnot able to pay up after losing all.
World cup bring football fans around the world together but they also promote betting on football, gambling. However, if one were to be persistent, they will not have gambling addiction during the world cup season. Betting on a few matches is alright, but not to the extent of betting heavily on most matches until they lost everything.
In my opinion, World cup does not promote social ills such as gambling addiction. Instead, it promote the spirit of football which everybody come together to support and cheer for their favourite team. If they are persistent enough, it is impossible for world cup easily to affect them having a gambling addiction.
Chan Fai
Is there Racial Harmony in Singapore?
Racial Harmony plays a important part, especially in Singapore, a multi ethnic country. Without racial harmony, there will be no tolerance and understanding between the different races and religions. If further worsen, history will repeat, riots and fights will brought up. This will take alot of time for the damage to be repair. Be it emotionally or physically.
Singapore had practice racial harmony very well. It held often held campaigns and events to promotes racial harmony and stress the importance of it. Children were also brought up learning the importance of racial harmony.
Between understanding and tolerance, understanding other religion and race play a more important part in maintaining racial harmony. Only with understanding, then it will have tolerance.
By understanding other races, we will learn about their culture. Then we will know what to prevent saying in front of them. This will maintain the peace in a multi ethnic society like Singapore.
However if people only tolerate and not understand other races, this will only cause the problem between races to increase, like a snowball. Until one day when an individual cannot take it, there will once again be riot. This is because understanding between races is not applied.
Racial harmony is indeed important for a country like Singapore. Without it, there will be riots and misunderstanding among the different races.
Is there Racial Harmony in Singapore?
Racial Harmony plays a important part, especially in Singapore, a multi ethnic country. Without racial harmony, there will be no tolerance and understanding between the different races and religions. If further worsen, history will repeat, riots and fights will brought up. This will take alot of time for the damage to be repair. Be it emotionally or physically.
Singapore had practice racial harmony very well. It held often held campaigns and events to promotes racial harmony and stress the importance of it. Children were also brought up learning the importance of racial harmony.
Between understanding and tolerance, understanding other religion and race play a more important part in maintaining racial harmony. Only with understanding, then it will have tolerance.
By understanding other races, we will learn about their culture. Then we will know what to prevent saying in front of them. This will maintain the peace in a multi ethnic society like Singapore.
However if people only tolerate and not understand other races, this will only cause the problem between races to increase, like a snowball. Until one day when an individual cannot take it, there will once again be riot. This is because understanding between races is not applied.
Racial harmony is indeed important for a country like Singapore. Without it, there will be riots and misunderstanding among the different races.
Chan fai
Ipad
A magical and revolutionary product, the Ipad. days before the Ipad is launch, people are already camping outside Apple retail store, just wanting to be the first batch of customers to own the newest product in earth. Apple new products has always become a hype amongst consumer, and certainly is the Ipad
No other company had invented something similar to the Ipad. Consumers wants to get their hands on the Ipad because it is cool and they could show it to their friends that they have the newest product. So what's with the hype about the Ipad? Isn't it just a enlarged version of the Itouch, only they included the 3G function to it?
With the price of the Ipad, people are able to get a netbook with every aspects better than the Ipad. As technology is advancing at a fast speed, people tend to always look out for the latest technology products. Even though the Ipad is somewhat a enlarged version of the Itouch, many people will still want to lay their hands on the Ipad because overall, it is a new technology.
Love it or hate it, Ipad is sold out in the first day of its launch and had sold 3 million units worldwide till now. By looking at the achievement of the Ipad, will you say that it is a new technology or just an enlarged version of the Itouch?
Ipad
A magical and revolutionary product, the Ipad. days before the Ipad is launch, people are already camping outside Apple retail store, just wanting to be the first batch of customers to own the newest product in earth. Apple new products has always become a hype amongst consumer, and certainly is the Ipad
No other company had invented something similar to the Ipad. Consumers wants to get their hands on the Ipad because it is cool and they could show it to their friends that they have the newest product. So what's with the hype about the Ipad? Isn't it just a enlarged version of the Itouch, only they included the 3G function to it?
With the price of the Ipad, people are able to get a netbook with every aspects better than the Ipad. As technology is advancing at a fast speed, people tend to always look out for the latest technology products. Even though the Ipad is somewhat a enlarged version of the Itouch, many people will still want to lay their hands on the Ipad because overall, it is a new technology.
Love it or hate it, Ipad is sold out in the first day of its launch and had sold 3 million units worldwide till now. By looking at the achievement of the Ipad, will you say that it is a new technology or just an enlarged version of the Itouch?
Chan Fai
Floods in Singapore: Who should be blame?
Singapore is once again affected badly by the flooding season. Will Orchard Road become the next Venice? Millions of dollars loses have been incurred and who should actually take up the cost and the blame? In my opinion, no one should be blame for this major flood. Forecaster did not predicted that there will be a heavy flood. I believe if they have predicted that there will be an upcoming flood, measures will be taken to prevent floods invading into shopping malls.
Since the flood had happen, the government had come up with a few solutions and measures. They modified the drainage system which can help to block the litters and the leaves and enhance faster flow of water. Some shopping malls has also came up with the sandbag idea which practically they use to prevent the flood from entering the mall. The sandbag is not only an eyesore, but they also make the shopping malls to look like an warzone.
The problem is, do all this actually reduce the consequences of the flood? Even though new drainage system is created, it is also not enough to let the water quickly flow through, which result in another flood. Even though sandbag is use, they only let the flood to be concentrated in the middle of orchard, which makes transport even more difficult. Also, when it starts to rain heavily again, people have to quickly get those heavy sandbag and place it infront of the mall which makes it too inefficient.
I believe what Singapore can do is to discuss this problem with the engineers and suggest new ways to prevenet a huge flood in the future.
Floods in Singapore: Who should be blame?
Singapore is once again affected badly by the flooding season. Will Orchard Road become the next Venice? Millions of dollars loses have been incurred and who should actually take up the cost and the blame? In my opinion, no one should be blame for this major flood. Forecaster did not predicted that there will be a heavy flood. I believe if they have predicted that there will be an upcoming flood, measures will be taken to prevent floods invading into shopping malls.
Since the flood had happen, the government had come up with a few solutions and measures. They modified the drainage system which can help to block the litters and the leaves and enhance faster flow of water. Some shopping malls has also came up with the sandbag idea which practically they use to prevent the flood from entering the mall. The sandbag is not only an eyesore, but they also make the shopping malls to look like an warzone.
The problem is, do all this actually reduce the consequences of the flood? Even though new drainage system is created, it is also not enough to let the water quickly flow through, which result in another flood. Even though sandbag is use, they only let the flood to be concentrated in the middle of orchard, which makes transport even more difficult. Also, when it starts to rain heavily again, people have to quickly get those heavy sandbag and place it infront of the mall which makes it too inefficient.
I believe what Singapore can do is to discuss this problem with the engineers and suggest new ways to prevenet a huge flood in the future.
Chan Fai
Animal abuse
Animals may suffer from abuse and cruelties; alot in fact is unintentional. Be it emotionally or physically, either way have hurt animal badly.
Abusing of animal is surely against the law and will be punish by it. I also believe that people who actually abuse animals is certainly not right in their mind. Since animals cannot speak for themselves, abuser will think that they will be able to escape from the law as nobody knows. But they are certainly wrong. SPCA officers are always patrolling around to prevent cases of animal abuse before it's too late.
Stricter laws had also been enforced to prevent the rise of animal abuse. This will make animal abuser to think twice before abusing it. The punishment is up to 12 months of imprisonment and maximum of $10,000 fine. But the problem is, is this actually enough? Abuser tend to go back to their same old way even after they have been punished.
A gracious not only made up of beautiful environment, educated citizens and latest infrastructure, there must also be empathy, kindness, humanity towards other occupants on the earth, including animals. What we can do is to educate younger generations to learn to love animals and teach them the values of humanity, tolerance, kindness and empathy. I believe when they are being teach and grow up by these values, they will certainly have humanity and empathy towards people and others occupants on this earth too.
Animal abuse
Animals may suffer from abuse and cruelties; alot in fact is unintentional. Be it emotionally or physically, either way have hurt animal badly.
Abusing of animal is surely against the law and will be punish by it. I also believe that people who actually abuse animals is certainly not right in their mind. Since animals cannot speak for themselves, abuser will think that they will be able to escape from the law as nobody knows. But they are certainly wrong. SPCA officers are always patrolling around to prevent cases of animal abuse before it's too late.
Stricter laws had also been enforced to prevent the rise of animal abuse. This will make animal abuser to think twice before abusing it. The punishment is up to 12 months of imprisonment and maximum of $10,000 fine. But the problem is, is this actually enough? Abuser tend to go back to their same old way even after they have been punished.
A gracious not only made up of beautiful environment, educated citizens and latest infrastructure, there must also be empathy, kindness, humanity towards other occupants on the earth, including animals. What we can do is to educate younger generations to learn to love animals and teach them the values of humanity, tolerance, kindness and empathy. I believe when they are being teach and grow up by these values, they will certainly have humanity and empathy towards people and others occupants on this earth too.
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