Video of the S'pore mountain bike championships at the highest fear-rating and most technical-rating trail in S'pore... the Kent Ridge trail.... I've not been there yet but I'll try to go there by this week.... tempting....scary....brrrrrrr....
Monday, July 31, 2006
New Paper report on China girls
According to the New Paper (Sunday 30 July 2006), '51800 student passes were issued in the past year to foreign students, majority from China, Indonesia and M'sia'. it was also mentioned that S'poreans are finding 'China girls becoming a social problem' and even 'destroying the moral fabric of S'pore society'!
Scary figure the 51800. Although it only represents 1.295% of our total population and not all from China, think of the fathers, mothers, grandmas and granddads who come with many of these students too who are not in the figure. While working at various supermarkets around the island, I noticed that it seems that more of these chinese immigrants live in the west, probably nearer to the major tertiary institutions like universities and polys. At one particular supermarket in the west part of the island, it seems that half of the customers that I see are chinese immigrants, students, families, workers all! If you have time, try standing in a supermarket for 30mins and observe for yourself!
Yes I admit that they do kick local students butts at our schools (no sissy kick, sorta Roberto Carlos kinda kick heh!). Yes they're taking up jobs that S'poreans don't want aka like 'foreign talent', and yes also competing for jobs with S'poreans too.... Yes I also admit that not all of them are 'destroying the moral fabric of S'pore society', but I have to notice that chinese immigrants are bringing a 'new dimension' to S'porean society.
Like how their Falungong members make their prescence felt, Mrt stations, town centres, I've even seen them at the Big Walk, music ablazing! Or the way they talk ever so loudly on the Mrt or in the shopping mall. And the way most of them dress 'quite differently' from the average local. But I do feel S'poreans can learn from them at least one thing. I noticed that chinese immigrants are the only ones now who still go for family evening walks in the parks.... we locals only care to walk with thousands-others in air-con, mozzie-free shopping malls with the occasional MacRitchie trek seeming like an Indiana Jones adventure....
But one thing I feel, 'foreign talent' that they are, they're too many of them already. They speak a to-us-hard-to-comprehend Mandarin, different dialects, mostly poor English, have different names for things, different habits and behavior as a whole. Too many of them in our society, I believe, will affect their integration into our society, just like adding the right amount of MSG would make a fish-ball soup taste better while adding too much would make it taste way salty.
(The above text is purely my own thoughts, with nothing against anybody.)
Scary figure the 51800. Although it only represents 1.295% of our total population and not all from China, think of the fathers, mothers, grandmas and granddads who come with many of these students too who are not in the figure. While working at various supermarkets around the island, I noticed that it seems that more of these chinese immigrants live in the west, probably nearer to the major tertiary institutions like universities and polys. At one particular supermarket in the west part of the island, it seems that half of the customers that I see are chinese immigrants, students, families, workers all! If you have time, try standing in a supermarket for 30mins and observe for yourself!
Yes I admit that they do kick local students butts at our schools (no sissy kick, sorta Roberto Carlos kinda kick heh!). Yes they're taking up jobs that S'poreans don't want aka like 'foreign talent', and yes also competing for jobs with S'poreans too.... Yes I also admit that not all of them are 'destroying the moral fabric of S'pore society', but I have to notice that chinese immigrants are bringing a 'new dimension' to S'porean society.
Like how their Falungong members make their prescence felt, Mrt stations, town centres, I've even seen them at the Big Walk, music ablazing! Or the way they talk ever so loudly on the Mrt or in the shopping mall. And the way most of them dress 'quite differently' from the average local. But I do feel S'poreans can learn from them at least one thing. I noticed that chinese immigrants are the only ones now who still go for family evening walks in the parks.... we locals only care to walk with thousands-others in air-con, mozzie-free shopping malls with the occasional MacRitchie trek seeming like an Indiana Jones adventure....
But one thing I feel, 'foreign talent' that they are, they're too many of them already. They speak a to-us-hard-to-comprehend Mandarin, different dialects, mostly poor English, have different names for things, different habits and behavior as a whole. Too many of them in our society, I believe, will affect their integration into our society, just like adding the right amount of MSG would make a fish-ball soup taste better while adding too much would make it taste way salty.
(The above text is purely my own thoughts, with nothing against anybody.)
Friday, July 28, 2006
MacRitchie Treetop Trail
Didn't really see anything special on the trail, although we spotted this HUGE bees nest on one of the tree tops.... it was nice and windy on the bridge though.... good for a post-breakfast-mid-morning-pre-lunch siesta!
No hope if you're afraid of heights, bees or the strange guy with the orange backpack on the bridge.... the authorities insist on one way traffic on the bridge.... NO turning back!
Unidentified Filming Olympus spotted at the Treetop Bridge heh....
Skink: A type of lizard....
Past tense?.... Skunk buahaha!
This friend of mine said she suffers from constipation.... nothing strange.... excepts that she takes more greens in 2 days than I do in a week.... she's vegetarian! Fibre for good bowels???
No hope if you're afraid of heights, bees or the strange guy with the orange backpack on the bridge.... the authorities insist on one way traffic on the bridge.... NO turning back!
Unidentified Filming Olympus spotted at the Treetop Bridge heh....
Skink: A type of lizard....
Past tense?.... Skunk buahaha!
This friend of mine said she suffers from constipation.... nothing strange.... excepts that she takes more greens in 2 days than I do in a week.... she's vegetarian! Fibre for good bowels???
Thursday, July 27, 2006
ZPop
Beautiful, beautiful pic of Fish Leong at the Zpop 2006....
photo courtesy of Mas.... Thanks Mas!
To view this 'live' cost me S$148 plus S$2 SISTIC charge (heck not say want to say....even buy straight from the counter also must pay...for the counter aunty's afternoon tea ah?) for an easier-to-pay-up-grand-total of S$150.... luckily it goes to charity so not so bad.... *ouch*
First post....
First day of Seventh Month just passed couple days ago, noticed that fewer and fewer people are making offerings.... used to see the whole circumference of HDB blocks surrounded by candles and joss-sticks.... now I only see isolated candles.... hungry ghosts are going to get hungrier still with every passing year....
The hamster in my home undergoing Navy SEAL training.... doing the 'swing trainer' aka monkey bars.... heard from her she's training for the Ossim IronRat triathelon next month heh.... 10km run on the excercise wheel plus 10km run on the excercise wheel plus 10km run on the excercise wheel all for the first prize of an Ossim iRun excercise wheel!!! Applications at all lonkangs near you! Go for it gal!
The hamster in my home undergoing Navy SEAL training.... doing the 'swing trainer' aka monkey bars.... heard from her she's training for the Ossim IronRat triathelon next month heh.... 10km run on the excercise wheel plus 10km run on the excercise wheel plus 10km run on the excercise wheel all for the first prize of an Ossim iRun excercise wheel!!! Applications at all lonkangs near you! Go for it gal!
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