::Homework Crapbox:: (version 2013 & 2014 & 2015 & 2016)
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[Malaysia] - And the racial violence begins. When will they ever learn from Singapore?
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/this-urban-jungle/violence-in-kl-as-men-smash-gate-and-assault-members-of-public-in-lead-up-to-rally -
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Glad she successfully made it into MOE after everything she's been through, and now doing well as a teacher and having a well-deserved stable income.
Rohaishah's own post on how she (almost didn't) overcame poverty and family hardship :
http://www.domainofexperts.com/2015/09/i-studied-under-candlelight-and-spent.html
Teacher Rohaishah and her own teacher Delphine Ng
Rohaishah in an MMA workout :
https://www.facebook.com/rohaishah/videos/vb.734276871/10152585605231872
Rohaishah doing a cover of Cranberries' Zombie :
https://www.facebook.com/rohaishah/videos/vb.734276871/10153004467461872 -
Hohoho! So now Indonesia is demanding that Singapore and Malaysia pay Indonesia "at least US$10 billion" in compensation for the damages to the Indonesian economy caused by the ongoing forest fires (that generate the haze now choking Singapore and Malaysia), because some of the companies that allegedly started the fires are owned by Singapore and Malaysia (in actuality, most of the fires are started by poor Indonesian farmers who can't afford more expensive but less ecologically damaging ways of clearing the land).
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/malaysia-singapore-responsibility-fires-too-010642383.html -
[Thailand] - Secondary school students who speak out are criminally intimidated by government authorities
http://mypaper.sg/opinion/allow-thai-kids-freedom-expression-20150915 -
Philippines' democracy needs discipline like Singapore's
http://mypaper.sg/opinion/philippines-democracy-needs-discipline-singapores-20150915 -
Little girl gives her mother a 'hi' message from her discarnated great-grandmother
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/supernatural-sightings/mum-talks-to-her-little-girl-about-her-grandma-but-watch-till-the-end-to-see -
Well
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Malaysia's bomoh solves Haze problem :
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/this-urban-jungle/malaysia-bomoh-is-back-using-a-block-of-ice-to-solve-haze-issue -
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Like many other victims in Malaysia before her, she could have been abducted, gang raped, tortured and murdered.
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/this-urban-jungle/woman-in-malaysia-forced-to-jump-out-of-taxi-after-cabby-allegedly-drove-her-to -
Interesting that the public prosecutor would appeal to reduce an excessively harsh jail sentence meted out by an overzealous judge. Demonstrates that some public prosecutors do actually have an ethical sense of justice.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/prosecution-successfully/2135372.html -
[Malaysia] - They are right, the Malays need to defend themselves, but not from the Chinese. They have been under threat from Umno all along, whose greed and excesses have brought the country to its knees, and Umno can only save their skin by blaming the Chinese.
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=597331%3Aleft-behind-in-time-malays-are-right-to-be-angry-but-with-umno-not-the-chinese -
Facebook users instruct Bank Negara female scholarship holder to don tudung.
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/facebook-users-tell-bank-negara-scholarship-winner-to-don-tudung -
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[Animals] - Dog stands guard for 1 week protecting trapped dog friend
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dog-stands-guard-week-protecting-trapped-friend-170458529.html -
That's pretty sad (the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and more desperate for a way out of poverty; welcome to Humanity's planet Earth). Hopefully (for all such couples) both Singaporean hubby and Vietnamese wife will stay faithful to each other and not abuse, deceive or exploit the other (as is commonly the case, either way).
http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/viet-woman-saves-year-fly-singapore-hope-finding-husband -
US Ambassador to S’pore Kirk Wagar said a prayer, finally tried durian
http://mothership.sg/2015/09/us-ambassador-to-spore-kirk-wagar-said-a-prayer-finally-tried-durian/ -
The Singapore Government should setup an official crowd-funding system to allow Singaporeans to safely help out fellow Singaporeans.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/single-father-3-kids-unable-work-after-getting-cancer -
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve suddenly feels a lot safer after watching this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FcpYPu9M3bw -
[Malaysia] http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/abolishing-vernacular-schools-will-reduce-ethnic-strife-says-perak-mufti
This will work only if Malaysia learns from Singapore, and all schools to teach only in English. Malaysia won't succeed if they forcefully close down all Chinese and Indian schools, and force all students to learn only in Malay (at the expense of Chinese and Indian languages). Malaysia can only succeed if they follow the Singapore model, which is to be fair to all ethnic races and let the common working language be English. Of course, the Malays of Malaysia will insist that they should have official priority over Chinese and Indians, and thus all Malaysia schools should teach only in Malay, which will invariably provoke a furious feeling of being victimized in all Malaysia's Chinese and Indians, and thus Malaysia will continue to fail. The only way for Malaysia to succeed is to learn from Singapore and LKY's policy of adopting English as the 1st language, and each ethnic race's language as the 2nd language. Of course, do you really expect Malaysia's self-sabotaging ego to be willing to learn from Singapore and do this? (for their *own* sake, no less!) -
Bicycle problems in Singapore :
http://www.todayonline.com/voices/cyclists-have-right-way-too-shouldnt-be-singled-out
The problem is both pedestrians and motorists hate cyclists. Cars don't respect cyclists and treat them as a nuisance, and as such it is dangerous to cycle on roads (all cases of deaths and permanent crippling of cyclists are invariably perpetrated by cars who don't think cyclists should be on roads). On pavements, unethical and irresponsible cyclists make it a hazard for pedestrians, and so pedestrians are calling the Govt (LTA) to make cycling illegal on pavements. So cyclists are caught in between angry motorists and angry pedestrians, and the Govt has a headache they can't easily solve. With unlimited financial resources, the Govt could implement the ideal solution : make a cycling path parallel to every pavement and road. But that'll cost too much money (billions, no doubt), and the Sg Govt has always been prudent and careful with financial resources. So the angry tripartite war of pedestrians vs cyclists vs motorists will continue unabated (and in fact exacerbated) in the forseeable future.
