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6 September 2007(Saturday)...After light workout with Marvin and his friend, i walked to Yishun library to meet Zhongming there. I was appalled with the size of the library. It is so small and cramped into a town council building. In my opinion, MP for Yishun area should lobby for government spending to build a new independent library(not shared with others) which is just similar to Jurong East'. It is sensible one with much consideration on demographics factor which show that Yishun is quite big area comprising two MRT stations namely Yishun and Khatib.
After browsing books on business section, i glanced at my mobile phone. It is quite early to have dinner and so i asked him that we should walk all the way from Yishun to Woodlands. He agreed. And so we walked all the way! :D
Oh,i love walking and walking. I wish that i can hike around the world.
While walking, we already were in Sembawang area. We happened to see a kid cycling with his bicycle at fast speed zooming past us as we were crossing the road upon green man light. Apparently, i saw a taxi car move slowly, then stop and eventually move on at slow pace. Until it knock the kid who was riding the bicycle. A loud knock sound registered our ears where we are just behind the minor accident. Good thing is that taxi driver came out of his car and apologise the kid.
If you ask me, it is both faults. Kid is too gung-ho to feel adrenaline to ride bicycke at fast speed of pace. In such a sense based on our thoughts, taxi driver could be watching at us hence the reason why he drive like that. I think the kid can take out the law code: Duty of Care in this scenario. Taxi driver may have hard time to explain but 'but for' test can be applicable to prove his innocent negligence.
That is why we should not be impatient doing things fast. Not being careful, we can cause injury to ourselves as well as other people. A loss of limb will reduce your job loss and difficulty to find another job. And so don't try to think ,"WHAT FOR!Why must we care about safety/" My thumb rule is 'Safety come first, anything else come last". If you don't think so, very well, you will understand when you get older with enoughe working experience especially manual work. Last time i was like that until i understood later on when senior colleagues always remind me to be careful when doing work. Today, good handling of things will preval anything else. You don't need brutal force to do things. all you need is simple,correct and yet so smart handling of work that result effective and efficient. I remembered when i use trolley that hold beyond the capacity of 30 boxes and i tried brutal force to push over the floor where it has a small gap. Alas, it got strucked on the gap. Brutal force with muscles make you look idoit. My boss scold me not using brain and so he demonstrated. Whoops, all you need is a simple physics at work to push trolley over the gap without brutal force! At that point, i realised that i should use brain more than brutual force. Today, i always tell Zhongming to use brain more often. The more you use brain, the brain will be active all the time. The brain motor will function better enabling him to remember much more than before. The brain will be ineffective if brain is at idle all the time. That is why i am arranging a lot of acitivity to engage my brain all the time. Indeed, good handling of work with brain prevail over brutal force with muscles. Therefore, i become mature person beacuse of those experiences i picked. Thanks to my colleagues and bosses who taught me! With safety first policy, you can easily prevent any accident that is within your control! Don't kid yourself! You are not young person any more as you age.
Amazingly,if you do slowly, you will get to see interesting things like this which you don't get to see very often. I never forgot the incident few years ago back.
When i was going home late from town by train, at Jurong East MRT station, i happened to see a old man who was trying to cross the train track as the train was approaching! Bloody hell, that is one hell stunt which no reasonable person will do. The MRT driver was so shocked that he honked!He applied the brake and came out scolding at the old man. It is not a young man but old man. Where is the sense of maturity? It is good example that there are many people who are olders than us behave, thinking or talking like young people. I strongly feel that there should be equal and fair status and respect between old and young people. There is no way to let old people hogging on us just because of seniority. MY FOOT!
Finally, we reached Woodlands. It took us 2 hours to reach there by walk. Incredible! Just in time to have dinner! There are so many books i want to read!!!!
I read few threads that one same person started all three threads. He made me laugh like mad! He got PhD,MBA,degree and a lot of educational papers. By right, he should have job by now BUT he has no job today! His requirement is somewhat too high. One of his requirements is to do the research work at HOME!*shocked* You know PhD students do a lot of research on their own specialised field. You have already heard of women who have few months-few years old childrens working at home by doing computering work. But research work? I may not have heard but i do think he is quite demanding at this aspect. Furthermore, he tried to be frugal. Having no internet connection under his name, he tapped his neighbour internet connection with his neighhour's permission. So brave of him if it is really true. To see a sport show, he would go to food centre(Kopitiam) to watch there where it has a tv providing starhub cable tv channel. He claimed that the owner of kopitiam was so king that he allowed him to do so. Apparently, he also get free meal occasionally or sometimes from same kopitiam.*popped my eyes out* What made me laugh is that he and his parents has policy to not travel beyond 1km boundary within Yishun area. As for now, he is asking for donation to support his expense when he discovered that his savings can't sustain him due to inflation of price of products. *thmb down* What i am impressed is that despite of netizens scolding him badly, he still reply with a smile. He never scold back. Amazing. Such people like him should be working in customer service department. A big smile and polite reply can make big difference.
He is able person. He need to lower his expectation and work. That is what he need to do. Based on official government statistical figure, he is not within unempolyment part.
In my opinion, everybody should work to keep the Singapore economy moving along in the world like a flow of a blood in your body. For disabled people who have no hands or legs should undergo such training to do such suitable work therefore they can earn money in proper way. There is no need to beg for money on the street. In my opinion, government should take this role to support this kind of initiative. The incentive should be given in order to encourage such movement. Maybe a minor corporate tax rebate for hiring disabled people.
Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 11:02 pm
