I've decided to keep this blog alive. =) lol.

Went to register for my IC today at the immigration centre with my mum, which was quite far. Not the first time there but quite a cool place. I must look weird since students are suppose to be in school at 9am in the morning. So reach there and went to look at the address, it says 8th floor. I was like wth I'm sure. We took the lift to 8th floor and realized that it was only for authorized access. So my mum check the paper again and found out that we read the wrong thing. =.=. Waste our time. So in the end went back to 3rd floor. Fast sia no one there. Jus sat down on the counter when someone called me. I turned to my left and saw Peisu. Cool sia, didnt expect to meet someone at the immigration centre. Must be because this is the last day and his birthday is on April too, in fact 2 days earlier than me. Then after that, recognized another RI boy, though I dunno him. lol this day off for people to register for their IC sia.

Then in the afternoon for a meeting for the organizing commitee. Need to discuss on the camp. Then stupid Wayne Chan keep whacking me whack until I fall off the bench..........He so fat, how to expect me to retaliate. Opps I mean big size.

At night, was eating dinner at home with my family when the topic of food came up. We were trying to find a kind of food which only my father eats but not the rest of us. Finally we found out, that it was celery. Guess wad my father said.

Of course only I eat celery, I'm the only one who got salary wad. LOL funny sia make us all laugh. I also found out that my mother eats yellow pepper 0.o . Then my sister go ask wad is yellow pepper, say she only heard before yellow pineapple. I was like dotzzz, arent all pineapples yellow.

Chionging hw now =( so many things to do. Lucky got 4 days holiday if not even worse.

Cant believe I updated it 2 days in a row.



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Samson

8:24 PM

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http://news.asiaone.com/a1news/20070405_story12_1.html

The recent increases in the pay of ministers’ have sparked debates and concerns from the people. The ministers’ salaries are expected to go up by up to 33% while the prime ministers’ pay has been increased to a mind-boggling figure of 3.1 million. Even as senior mentor Lee Kuan Yew highlights the importance of such a pay rise, there are many people in the nation with opposing viewpoints. While there are those who believe that this increase in pay would allow the ministers’ to do a good job and lead Singapore, there are those who think otherwise and feel that this would only increase the income gap in Singapore.

In my opinion, I feel that this increase of pay for the ministers would allow Singapore to progress well. Even though the prime minister in Singapore is earning many times more than other ministers around the world, this pay rise is necessary as Singapore is a small country and needs to preserve its talents and ensure that the government remains uncorrupt. This would also allow Singapore to attract the talented people to serve our country and have good leaders. People might cite other countries as examples on ministers’ having low salaries but Singapore government is different as it is a paranoid government. It is a government which listens to the people and ensures their needs are fulfilled. They are committed to improving Singapore. However, to ensure that this trend continues, we need to attract talented people to Singapore.

However, on the other hand, this increase in pay might have more disadvantages than advantages. Firstly, with this increase in pay, the total yearly income of the ministers’ becomes 46 million. Although this might only account for 0.22% of Singapore yearly income, it is important to know that this amount is very huge to many people in Singapore as they would not be able to earn this amount even in their whole lifetime. Also, this increase in pay would come from the taxes people pay and this might increase the income gap in Singapore further. Secondly, does high pay equate to a good government? While senior mentor Lee Kuan Yew has given examples of countries which are not doing so well because of the low pay of ministers, there has been no proof that high pay would result in a good government. For instance, the NKF saga has shown that high pay does not keep people uncorrupt.

On the contrary, we must learn to empathize with our government. They are the ones who are leading the country and working hard to ensure that Singapore remains strong. Many people do not understand the difficulty ministers have to go through the ensure that the public’s needs are fulfilled.

In conclusion, although the pay increase does have its disadvantages, I believe that it is important to do so as Singapore is a small country and needs good and uncorrupt leaders to ensure that we continue to progress. As long as this pay rise does that, I don’t see what’s wrong with paying the ministers more.

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Samson

1:38 PM

Yo, I finally decided to update my blog. lol. After around 1 month plus of no updates, I have decided to do so since there is a four day holiday.

Anyway, today was quite boring but fun. I noe its contradicting but who cares. So went for some ptm thingy. First thing woke up in the morning, found out it was raining, wth so suai. Took 53 to school for ptm. argg thought can sleep until later then found out got ptm zzzzz. Anyway, upon reaching Bishan, it was still raining heavily. So used my umbrella. Reach school liao then dump my super wet umbrella into the conpoutment on the side of my bag. After that met KC and we starting chatting. Talking crap as usual. Then after that I saw a puddle of water under my bag, thought I suai suai put wrong place, then realized that it was the water from my umbrella. My whole bag was like soaking wet. Heng never put anything exept water bottle

Was suppose to do some ushering thingy at the LT1 but found out that it starts at 10 -.-. So went up stairs with Jaren and Wei Shen. Jaren is gd at talking with parents sia, talk for like 20 min outside with the 1st parent that came. Daniel nothing to do come our class stone.

After that went to do the ushering at LT1 which was very boring. Stone, stone and more stoning. We were suppose to give out handouts and pens to the parents that came. Got so bored that we went to arrange the pens into a circle and made stupid shapes with it. Took a picture but lazy to put here. Bored until starting folding paper aeroplanes. After the 1st round of the talk was over, decided to go inside to listen since nothing better to do. LOL, then later we found out that we were not suppose to be inside, and I told Gan to go in.......cause something like would embarrass the parents.

Finally, after ages its finally 1pm finally can zao. Went to eat lunch with Patrick and KC at KFC. Gan's parents were very kind and offered us a ride to J8. Thx. So we reached there in a mere 3 min? Went home after that go practise piano again

I just realized how hard diploma for piano is. I'm like getting owned. The pieces are like how hard and somemore have to do some research on the composer. zzzz so sian. Hw already so much liao then now need to do piano hw. The only bright side was the I'm still taking grade 6 theory so thats not so bad.

3 more days of holiday to look forward to, gonna watch Spiderman 3 on tues. Hope would be able to finish more hw and projects. Time to sleep. zzzzzzz

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Samson

11:25 PM