Monday, August 27, 2012
Are we Singaporeans really just so bochap & self centered? Boarded a packed bus this morning and due to a bus which broke down beforehand, many people were trying to squeeze up the bus. Some who couldn't board, walked to the rear to gesture for us to move in. I quickly turned around & gestured the pple standing next to me to move in.. Nobody seemed to bother. Everybody were just rooted to the ground. (I regretted not shouting aloud, or just squeezed all the way in).
After the bus reached stop, I went to the bus driver to suggest to her to open the rear door for pple to board.
The lady bus driver said if it's only a few pple, she is ok to do so. But if there were too many pple, all would stand at the staircase causing the door unable to close. She said many also didn't bother to pay the fare after that. I asked if can change the Ez card tap at the rear door to allow both entry & exit, she said not possible. And she said she was scolded badly t
his morning because of the crowd.
"顾客不可以宠的。如果我每次让顾客上来，其他不让，那会不公平。管不了这么多。＂(in brief, it would be unfair if I am the only bus driver that allow commuters to board the bus from the exit door. Cant afford to care so much)
C'mon, we can definitely be more kind & gracious than this! At least I won't give up so easily, gonna continue making a stand on this.
my friend wrote this!
Monday, August 13, 2012
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
On Aug 8th,1992: I do remembered of Dr.Mark Gobble and I were at blowhole, Fl for surfing and we surfed for three hours. At 10am, The w waves were two to three feet. I was sort of surpised that the wave got increased for five to eight feet. I caught a lot of waves... Mark got surf some too... my foot got few cuts ha.. but I got a stoked that waves... I will not never forgetten about this movement. and Mark is happy to surf right now at heaven now.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- President Barack Obama made a campaign speech on the First Coast to nearly 4,000 supporters at the Prime F. Osborn II Convention Center on Thursday afternoon.
The president addressed the economy and strengthening medicare. Tickets were free. All of the available tickets were given out on Tuesday.
Air Force One, which was carrying the President, was delayed in landing at Jacksonville International Airport due to thunder and lightning. He was supposed to land at 12:45 p.m. and was scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m. He did not speak until 2:15 p.m.
President Obama spoke about moving forward, which is the theme of his campaign. He also said that top-down economics is not the answer for America.
"This country was not built on top-down economics," he said during his speech. "This country was built from the middle class up."
Obama also spoke of where he and Republican candidate Mitt Romney differ on health care.
"He plans to roll back health care reform, forcing more than 200,000 Floridians to pay more for their prescription drugs," Obama said, speaking of Romney. "He plans to turn Medicare into a voucher program. So if that voucher isn't worth enough to buy the health insurance that's on the market, you're out of luck."
The president also talked about how he and Romney differ on taxes, saying that the middle class deserve a tax cut and the wealthy, those that make more than $250,000 a year, need to pay more.
"Like you, I believe you cannot reduce the deficit and deal with our debt without asking folks like me," Obama said. "Without asking the wealthiest Americans to give up the taxes they've been getting for the past decade.
"Now, my opponent doesn't want just to keep these tax cuts. He wants to cut those taxes by another $5 trillion, including a 25 percent tax cut for every millionaire in the country."
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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/things-consider-sending-child-tuition-classes-102823408.html
Singapore's obsession with tuition reveals deeper issues we face as a society — issues that go far beyond the pursuit …
By Daniel Wong
Singapore is a tuition nation.
Previous reports from the Department of Statistics show that households spent $820 million a year on both centre and home-based private tuition.
In addition, the number of tuition centres has increased five times over the past decade. There are now more than 500 centres in Singapore.
In comparison, there are fewer than 400 primary and secondary schools in total.
Through my work as an education excellence coach and speaker, I've had the privilege of speaking to and working with thousands of students. Through these interactions, I estimate that more than 90% of students attend some form of tuition classes.
Students continually complain about their huge struggle to complete their school and tuition homework, participate actively in their co-curricular activities, and lead a somewhat balanced life.
Most students tell me that they don't get more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep every night because there's just so much they have to do!
Clearly, there's something wrong with this picture.
In this article, I'll share my observations about how our obsession with tuition reveals deeper issues we face as a society—issues that go far beyond the pursuit of academic success.
The fear of failure starts with parents
Parents send their children for tuition classes because they fear their children getting left behind. That's a reasonable fear, because it seems like every other student attends classes outside of school.
But the bigger fear that parents have is the fear of failure, not just for their children, but for themselves, too.
It's difficult to measure your performance as a parent, so parents often subconsciously gauge their success by how their children are doing in school.
Your child is a straight-A student? Then you must be doing a wonderful job!
Your child is struggling academically? Then you're failing as a parent.
Few parents verbalize it, but these thoughts are at the core of their decision to send their children for tuition classes. At the end of the day, no parent wants to feel like a failure.
What parents really want for their children
There are other implications, too. Parents' fear of failure gets passed on to their children, who grow up thinking that the best path is the one that's free from failure, risk and disappointment.
But is that really the best path? No, that's merely the good path, yet it's also the one that parents unintentionally push their children to pursue. A lot of the time, the best path is the one that's full of uncertainty and adversity.
That's why it's generally incorrect to say that parents want what's best for their children, because they usually only want what's good.
Be curious, not competitive
Moreover, parents who are fixated on their children's academic performance instill a spirit of competition in their children. In today's Information Age, however, what's needed in order to excel is a spirit of curiosity, rather than a spirit of competition.
There's an incredible amount of information available on the internet, which means that if you want to become knowledgeable in some field, you probably could. It just requires that you have enough genuine curiosity to compel you to look up the information online.
If students are caught up trying to compete with their peers and outperform them, it's difficult to cultivate a real love for learning and discovery—the things that form the basis of a meaningful education and of long-term success in the Information Age.
Success is more about will than skill
Furthermore, if students feel like they're being forced to improve academically, there's a limit to how successful they can become. To achieve success—I'll go one step further and use the word "greatness"—in any field, you need to make a conscious decision to be great.
After all, no great pianist, athlete, engineer, doctor, mechanic, nurse or entrepreneur became that way without intentionally choosing the path of excellence.
You can't force anyone to become great. It's possible to force someone to become mediocre or even good, but greatness requires commitment.
If parents make their children go for tuition classes without also empowering them to take full responsibility for their own education, it's impossible for the children to become great students.
At the heart of it, greatness is much more a matter of will than it is of skill. Before we teach our students the skill of studying more effectively and of doing better on exams, we need to encourage them to make a deliberate choice about their education, their future and their life.
Tuition isn't a bad thing
Just to be clear, on its own, tuition isn't a horrible thing. I have no doubt that tuition classes can help children to become more disciplined, knowledgeable, hardworking and determined.
Nevertheless, if it's not done with the correct mindset, sending children for tuition classes can be dangerous.
It's possible that we're currently creating a generation of sleep-deprived, overworked, unfulfilled, and unhappy students. I fear that this generation of unhappy students is going to become a generation of unhappy workers and, later on, a generation of unhappy parents.
This is a problem we cannot ignore.
So whether you, as a parent, decide to send your children for tuition classes or not, I urge you to make that decision with the right perspective. Make sure your children understand that it's more important to finish well than it is to finish first.
The future of our country depends on it.
Daniel Wong is the author of "The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success". He is also an education excellence coach and speaker. He writes regularly about topics related to education, career and personal development at Living Large.
Singapore's obsession with tuition reveals deeper issues we face as a society — issues that go far beyond the pursuit …
By Daniel Wong
Singapore is a tuition nation.
Previous reports from the Department of Statistics show that households spent $820 million a year on both centre and home-based private tuition.
In addition, the number of tuition centres has increased five times over the past decade. There are now more than 500 centres in Singapore.
In comparison, there are fewer than 400 primary and secondary schools in total.
Through my work as an education excellence coach and speaker, I've had the privilege of speaking to and working with thousands of students. Through these interactions, I estimate that more than 90% of students attend some form of tuition classes.
Students continually complain about their huge struggle to complete their school and tuition homework, participate actively in their co-curricular activities, and lead a somewhat balanced life.
Most students tell me that they don't get more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep every night because there's just so much they have to do!
Clearly, there's something wrong with this picture.
In this article, I'll share my observations about how our obsession with tuition reveals deeper issues we face as a society—issues that go far beyond the pursuit of academic success.
The fear of failure starts with parents
Parents send their children for tuition classes because they fear their children getting left behind. That's a reasonable fear, because it seems like every other student attends classes outside of school.
But the bigger fear that parents have is the fear of failure, not just for their children, but for themselves, too.
It's difficult to measure your performance as a parent, so parents often subconsciously gauge their success by how their children are doing in school.
Your child is a straight-A student? Then you must be doing a wonderful job!
Your child is struggling academically? Then you're failing as a parent.
Few parents verbalize it, but these thoughts are at the core of their decision to send their children for tuition classes. At the end of the day, no parent wants to feel like a failure.
What parents really want for their children
There are other implications, too. Parents' fear of failure gets passed on to their children, who grow up thinking that the best path is the one that's free from failure, risk and disappointment.
But is that really the best path? No, that's merely the good path, yet it's also the one that parents unintentionally push their children to pursue. A lot of the time, the best path is the one that's full of uncertainty and adversity.
That's why it's generally incorrect to say that parents want what's best for their children, because they usually only want what's good.
Be curious, not competitive
Moreover, parents who are fixated on their children's academic performance instill a spirit of competition in their children. In today's Information Age, however, what's needed in order to excel is a spirit of curiosity, rather than a spirit of competition.
There's an incredible amount of information available on the internet, which means that if you want to become knowledgeable in some field, you probably could. It just requires that you have enough genuine curiosity to compel you to look up the information online.
If students are caught up trying to compete with their peers and outperform them, it's difficult to cultivate a real love for learning and discovery—the things that form the basis of a meaningful education and of long-term success in the Information Age.
Success is more about will than skill
Furthermore, if students feel like they're being forced to improve academically, there's a limit to how successful they can become. To achieve success—I'll go one step further and use the word "greatness"—in any field, you need to make a conscious decision to be great.
After all, no great pianist, athlete, engineer, doctor, mechanic, nurse or entrepreneur became that way without intentionally choosing the path of excellence.
You can't force anyone to become great. It's possible to force someone to become mediocre or even good, but greatness requires commitment.
If parents make their children go for tuition classes without also empowering them to take full responsibility for their own education, it's impossible for the children to become great students.
At the heart of it, greatness is much more a matter of will than it is of skill. Before we teach our students the skill of studying more effectively and of doing better on exams, we need to encourage them to make a deliberate choice about their education, their future and their life.
Tuition isn't a bad thing
Just to be clear, on its own, tuition isn't a horrible thing. I have no doubt that tuition classes can help children to become more disciplined, knowledgeable, hardworking and determined.
Nevertheless, if it's not done with the correct mindset, sending children for tuition classes can be dangerous.
It's possible that we're currently creating a generation of sleep-deprived, overworked, unfulfilled, and unhappy students. I fear that this generation of unhappy students is going to become a generation of unhappy workers and, later on, a generation of unhappy parents.
This is a problem we cannot ignore.
So whether you, as a parent, decide to send your children for tuition classes or not, I urge you to make that decision with the right perspective. Make sure your children understand that it's more important to finish well than it is to finish first.
The future of our country depends on it.
Daniel Wong is the author of "The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success". He is also an education excellence coach and speaker. He writes regularly about topics related to education, career and personal development at Living Large.
Monday, June 11, 2012
I was planning to go to surf at beach but I saw a small turtle tried to across the road, I dont wanted to see someone kill to turtle so I stopped by for help the turtle to allowed to swim at pond. When I see turtle s face. I remembered that I was 7 years old, I had a bad fight at school. My dad punished me so I had to give up for pet the turtle and putted away in ormond beach fl. Ha now I am happy that turtle is ok!
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
At 11am, I was shocking to see this roccoon at my house. My neighorhood was angry at roccoon, and tried to roccon scary. I told him "please dont make roccoon scary and it will be go away for a while" I have not seen roccoon for long time. At noon time, my mom came in and I showed her to look at roccoon thur her bed room s window. She shocked too! ha I told her The roccoon stayed there for three hours. at 4pm, I suspect This roccoon is rabbies! bcs of strange behave!
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