CNY? We're OPEN for business

The Straits Times - 28 Jan 2006, Saturday

CHINESE new year is now a few hours away... The celebration in school on friday was very fun and entertaining! As i chanced upon this article, i began to remember the precious and amiacable memories of the past chinese new yr celebrations in the different home visitations! The season and festival is not only to recieve red packets, hongbaos but also a precious time of fellowship and bonding between long- distance relatives and friends to catch up with. The reunion dinner is also another tradition that is worth remembering. It is during this gathering where the family eats and shares about themselves over the past year experiences.

This newspaper article writes about how many shops and food stalls have decided to open for business during chinese new year holidays to earn more profit and pacify their regular patrons.
I agree that it makes perfect sense to open for business during this busy period of festive season. People, mostly chinese are usually on the road on the first few days of chinese new year and will definitely look around for open food oulets. However, when they venture in search for food, most food stalls are closed for the holidays and it is really very disappointing. This few days are the best time to attract customers to their food stalls because the people are willing to pay more for the regular food and there is usually more patronisers at this time. I hope it will be much easy to find open food stalls and shops during the chinese new year holidays.

Snowstorm leaves Singaporeans stranded at Narita airport

Straits Times, tuesday Jan 24 2006

OVER 200 people have been affected, nearly for two days. Some people had their flights delayed for a few hours but others, a longer period of time. I feel extremely sympathetic towards these people who were stranded. I personally would also be very upset and frustrated if my schedule and plans were affected as a result of the unexpected natural disaster. From my point of view, it isn't wrong to feel indignant towards the airport for causing disruption in your program but it unnecessary to react so strongly by shouting and slamming the information counters in response to your dissatifaction of the airport's services. It was unexpected that the snow storm would arrive and it was inevitable that public transportation be ceased as a result of the bad weather.

I feel that the services of the Narita airport should be reevaluated to improve the standards of the airport and satisfy the requirements of the passengers. I believe it would have been much better and less chaotic if the airline staff filled in the passengers with information of the situation. It would also have been much better if the Narita airport staff had improtu plans for the provision of sufficient food and blanklets for their passengers. If there is no immediate effect in improving these services, Tokyo, Narita Airport faces the risk of deterring people from visiting Japan.

Re: longan's blog

Hi hi,
in response to eunice's article.

Yes it is truly touching that the love between a lost daughter and mother can be so strong. It reminds me of the similar incident shown in i think true courage about a chinese girl who was adopted in a malay family. When doctors and teachers saw the girl's birth certificate, they would always realise that the girl was a chinese but surprisingly in a malay family. This girl grew up to be a mother of her own and never ever knew her backgrd. Until one day, this girl's daughter came across her birth certificate and saw that this girl had an identical twin! Woah did this girl search high and low for her sister and mother. Finally after 4 yrs i think have they reunited and now both sisters are trying to learn each other's language: malay and chinese to communicate!

WHAT'S NEXT? Innovation (TIME)

November 14, 2005
How Apple does it...

STOP and look at Apple for a second. Isn't it uniquely popular? It has been around long enough and has a high enough profile that it is easy to forget. Apple makes it's own hardware (iBooks and iMacs), and it also makes the operating system (iTunes, iMovie)... This company has given us three of the signature technological innovations of the past 30 years: Apple II, the Macintosh and the iPod. What's next?!




The different types of iPods:
--> 4 G
--> 5 G
--> mini
--> hp
--> U2
--> photo
--> nano
--> shuffle

Personally, i had never taken any interest in iPods before. Believe it or not? =p When iPods were firstly introduced, many people went crazily frantic just to be the first few to get hold of one type or another. On the contrary, since i saw that this new high-tech product was being popularly demanded, i felt more deterred from buying it. Well, think about it: what is so cool about having something everybody already has? Similar to the logic: If everyone is special, no one is special. Of course i personally felt that the ipod is interesting, special and cute since it is a creative tool newly created. However one of the most important factors that prevented me from buying an ipod was it's high cost. Haha... everyone who is reading this, please don't say i'm an economics freak 'cos i ain't one k? Ipods are normal goods because when peoples' income ­­increases, the demand increases. =p

Practically everyone in this school currently owns an iPod. Agree? (of course excluding some people). I feel that it reflects that many of us here are rather well to do and able to afford the lastest tech stuff. But we must not forget that there are less fortunate people in Singapore. I have learnt that we must treasure what we have: our family, house, and the opportunity to study. Learn the best virtue: the joy of sharing. Posessing an iPod is not what we deserve, instead it is a privilege. We must consider some factors before buying an object: 1. Do i really really need it? 2. Is the cost going to affect my weekly/monthly savings? Or will it affect my parents into working even harder and get more tired and weary?

Looking back to the history of the revolution of the apple company:

Then: Apple II
The first large-scale-productioncomputer, created in 1977 and sporting an 8-bit architecture, was a favourite in hip '80s households

Macintosh
The original Mac, called the 128K, debuted in 1984 and was the first mainstream personal computer with a graphical user interface

iPod
With its sleek, seamless design, the company's first portable audion player, released in 2001, instantly became the ultimate icon of the digital-music age

Now: The new iPod
The fifth generation device can handle video as well as music and photos. With up to 60GB of memory, it's still 30% thinner than its predecessor

iMac G5
The slimmest desktop on the market, it combines flat-panel monitor, computer and camera in an elegant 5.08 - cm body. Plus it has a nifty remote control

What do you think will be the next most popularly demanded high-tech, coolest innovation ?

My 2005 Dec holiday

My 2005 Dec holiday


Lotte world fun fun fun....



Me and my folks at lotte world adventure sitting
the merry- go - round!


Yongpyong ski resort! (Korea) cool?

The first blog ever i have

The first blog ever i have

woah. WOAH!

This thingy quite cool... having a blog... for general paper.

Thank God it is rather successful so far!

Let's pray and hope that the rest of the gp lesson is going to be fun.

Love,
me =p