hmmm, juz feel that today must comment on some issues in the newspaper...

1) the shooting in America university: this is really really very sad. The rest of the people are innocent. no matter how screwed up this person is, no matter wat, he has no right to take away people's lives. and the best thing later, he shot himself. this i think is an cowardly act. yah, so he died, an easy way to run away from responsibilities. if he really wants to die, then why take other people's lives? if you say that this man shoots because he feels that the world has let him down, then i say to you, stop blaming everyone else's for your plight. you have the choice, you have the right to make good your own life. why didn't you choose to rise up from all your circumstances and make yourself to be someone to change the world? why did you choose to be morbid, dark, depressed? god, i'm cursing a dead person. forgive me.
also... where is the family???? dun the parents feel remorseful that you didn't bring up your child properly? where was the intervention when he was young?

2) the en bloc sale.... ha, when i read it, i was really laughing my head off from this family. didn't the family open up their letter boxes? and how can she claim that she dunno anything where all her neighbours moved out? dun she feel that something queer is going on when all her neighbours have left? or she wasn't even aware in the first place? well, the policy is like that, when it's stated 80% then too bad if you are the 20%. dun blame everybody for your plight. go find out yourself what is happening.

3) Treetop@ Punggol: singaporeans are always like that, whatever is new, they will all want a piece of the cake. well, it's their choice. wondered if it's a blessing or curse that i've sold my flat. i choose to take it as a blessing. I've shifted to punggol, i've lived in punggol, no regrets about it. I believe punggol will be a great town in the future with all these new developments slated in punggol. perhaps i was juz too impatient to wait for all these facilities. It would definitely take another 10 years or so to be fully developed. so since i've made the choice, no regrets.

4) salary increase: excuse me? pay increase for teachers? i'm getting mixed up signal here. i thought the pay increase is a one time payment of 0.5-0.75 months and not 1.35 months as reported. and this is based on performance. oh, now i know why 0.8-1.35 months, this is inclusive of the GROW package that they announced in Sept last year. but.... ok, i shall reserve my comments about the grow package.
i repeat it is a ONE TIME payment. and it's CPF deductible. but if you divide the one time payment over 12 months, well, i guess it is some sort of increment. so dun envy my pay increment. with pay increment, this raises people's expectation on teachers, esp parents. they would want us to justify our pay increment through our discharge of duties. so dun be too happy for my increment. i know what i'm in for and i'm prepared. must be careful to word this paragraph properly, there are lots of spies out there.
so i mean, honestly, i appreciate the government's effort to give us more money, but i also understand the increment comes with a price.

so, all in all, stop blaming other people for your plight. change, adapt, be flexible and adjust quickly and then survived them all. Outlast them all.... that's the key to surviving in the society.