Monday, June 30, 2008
organ trading s 14(2) of the human organ transplant act states that any person who enters into a contract for the sale of organs shall be guilty of an offense, liable upon conviction to a fine up to 10k, imprisonment up to a year or both. which is exactly the charge that the chairman of ck tang is facing now. my initial reaction to organ trading is that of revulsion. why should the rich, who are already privileged in so many other ways, be able to receive organs at the expense of poor folk? allowing organ trading only leaves the poor to be exploited, for they are the ones who would be selling their organs and incurring the risk of infection from the operation, just so they can earn some money to live a better life. leaving things to the mechanics of market forces, we would soon see a majority of people from third world nations having only one kidney. but perhaps i’m being too biased against the wealthy. i’ve never hid my distaste for the haughty rich, some who have done nothing in their lives to be proud of. some not even worthy of their wealth ‘cos they inherited it and never did a day of honest work. i'm left-leaning. but when things are looked at from another angle, perhaps a market for organs isn’t such an evil after all. such a market would only benefit all parties – the economic theory of contract posits that a successful transaction leaves both sides happier. the donee gets his transplant; the donor gets his money. what is needed of course, is for the authorities to regulate such a market. the donor would get a fixed price for his kidney, say, 20k, be informed of all the risks. the kidney goes into a pool where the transplant is made for the first suitable patient in queue. rich dun get to jump queue. rich pays 200k for the transplant, while the poor pays 0. everybody’s happier. no?
Sunday, June 29, 2008
sun, sand, sea went to sentosa with cell yesterday and did not sustain any sun burn! yay! and yar it also means that i din get a tan la.. but then one cannot have the best of both worlds. xp anyway it's just great to go to the beach once in a while. sea breeze, warm sand beneath bare feet, hot bods (not mine).. haha.. no place better to have fun in the sun. and yea new frens. jr's fren jane looks and speaks like yilin lo. i wonder if they are related. or maybe its just a scientific phenomenom that there are 'fixed' types of ppl. ppl who look alike usually sound alike too. and just watched kungfu panda with dearie just now =) yep we're abit lag la. but nevertheless its a nice movie. definitely worth watching if u haven't caught it yet (wat?! u've been living under a rock ar? xp) daytona, bowling, air puck. delai 3, dearie 0. muahahaha
Monday, June 23, 2008
yep You're right. some statements are mere truisms. of course He is right. it's a situation where "if"s and "but"s don't really get you anywhere. haha
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
just got an email: "All current NUS students are entitled to unlimited free admission to the following National Museums: Asian Civilisations Museum, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and the new Peranakan Museum." maybe i shld go visit these places, u know, get some culture into me. and yeah i'm on the dean's list again this year! haha. along with the entire no-life clique of kho qinyao, jono, justin & vikram. kho qinyao & jono managed to overthrow lord zhong and usurp his place. and there's rotation at the top where justin takes vikram's place.
Monday, June 16, 2008
singapore land area: 707 sq km total population: 4,589,000 citizens and pr: 3,583,000 total employment: 2,730,800 foreign workers: 900,800 average monthly earnings: $3,773 hours worked: 46.3/week (excluding lunch break) mobile phone subscribers per 1000 ppl: 1225 (?!) the average singaporean actually lives rather comfortably. i mean, $3773 a month is a pretty decent amount to live on. but gosh we have to work 46.3 hrs a week?! on a 5-day-wk basis this means more than 9 hrs a day.. gah.. and yea supposedly 1 out of 3 workers in singapore are not citizens or pr. u can't really blame some singaporeans for thinking that foreign workers are taking away jobs from locals, since the employment growth for foreign workers stands at 19.1%, while the rate for locals stands at 5.2%. but i guess the foreigners are largely taking jobs that singaporeans dun want, like construction and engineering. darn i think sg is really getting low-tech. we need more engineers! and why do so many ppl need more than 1 mobile line? we have more mobile phone subscriptions than ppl?! source
Thursday, June 12, 2008
bored at work its been 4 days and i've done a grand total of 1 research thus far.. zzz.. and so i've been surfing the net and day-dreaming a lot. and rite now i'm thinking of the new 3G iphone. its defo gonna be my new phone =p
Monday, June 09, 2008
new week, new internship, new experience ok r&t was completely different from a&g. i spent the first 3 hours today sitting in the board room waiting to be given a desk. and later i spent the entire day surfing the net. hahaha. which was fine by me since i was still tired out by my ict last week and was actually not prepared to start this internship so soon. so it was good that i had nothing to do. my boss seemed to be swamped by work and had no time to entertain me, and so i was left alone in a corner of the office to do whatever i wanted. yay =) also met some other fellow interns while in the boardroom. quite a few unfamiliar faces since several of them were from smu. wa lao yr 1 oso do internship. and i also saw rebecca, my junior-turned-senior. haha she still looked the same. so good that she doesn't need to do ns. if i didn't have ns i'll have graduated by now.. and i'll have a 3 yr as opposed to a 1 yr advantage over those smu smuggers. ah well.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
ict 1 over gosh i can't believe i'm saying this, but i actually felt a little sad during the last day of ict. miraculously, even on this little island, i've never gotten to meet my platoon mates much after we orded. and so when we met again on monday it was like reliving old times all over again. complaining about training (which was still xiong), complaining about the administration (which was still screwed up), being slack commanders, rolling in mud, doing mortar drills, wearing the same uniform over and over again, cleaning rifles and stores till the wee hours of the morning etc... gosh i hated this lifestyle. but it has become such an unforgettable part of my life that i cannot help but feel a sense of loss when we parted ways yesterday, back to our respective lives outside army. till the nxt ict, which we all will be hoping to siam again. haha
About Me
wants:
olympus fe-4000
(no more new gadgets for the moment!)
wolf hall, by hilary mantel
what the dog saw, by malcolm gladwell
my laptop fan to be quiet
to go cycling
europe tour
holidays with family
to be a lawyer
to enjoy my final yr more
others to be happy
to be a better person
...i'm all about wants! haha!
Monday, June 30, 2008
organ trading s 14(2) of the human organ transplant act states that any person who enters into a contract for the sale of organs shall be guilty of an offense, liable upon conviction to a fine up to 10k, imprisonment up to a year or both. which is exactly the charge that the chairman of ck tang is facing now. my initial reaction to organ trading is that of revulsion. why should the rich, who are already privileged in so many other ways, be able to receive organs at the expense of poor folk? allowing organ trading only leaves the poor to be exploited, for they are the ones who would be selling their organs and incurring the risk of infection from the operation, just so they can earn some money to live a better life. leaving things to the mechanics of market forces, we would soon see a majority of people from third world nations having only one kidney. but perhaps i’m being too biased against the wealthy. i’ve never hid my distaste for the haughty rich, some who have done nothing in their lives to be proud of. some not even worthy of their wealth ‘cos they inherited it and never did a day of honest work. i'm left-leaning. but when things are looked at from another angle, perhaps a market for organs isn’t such an evil after all. such a market would only benefit all parties – the economic theory of contract posits that a successful transaction leaves both sides happier. the donee gets his transplant; the donor gets his money. what is needed of course, is for the authorities to regulate such a market. the donor would get a fixed price for his kidney, say, 20k, be informed of all the risks. the kidney goes into a pool where the transplant is made for the first suitable patient in queue. rich dun get to jump queue. rich pays 200k for the transplant, while the poor pays 0. everybody’s happier. no?
Sunday, June 29, 2008
sun, sand, sea went to sentosa with cell yesterday and did not sustain any sun burn! yay! and yar it also means that i din get a tan la.. but then one cannot have the best of both worlds. xp anyway it's just great to go to the beach once in a while. sea breeze, warm sand beneath bare feet, hot bods (not mine).. haha.. no place better to have fun in the sun. and yea new frens. jr's fren jane looks and speaks like yilin lo. i wonder if they are related. or maybe its just a scientific phenomenom that there are 'fixed' types of ppl. ppl who look alike usually sound alike too. and just watched kungfu panda with dearie just now =) yep we're abit lag la. but nevertheless its a nice movie. definitely worth watching if u haven't caught it yet (wat?! u've been living under a rock ar? xp) daytona, bowling, air puck. delai 3, dearie 0. muahahaha
Monday, June 23, 2008
yep You're right. some statements are mere truisms. of course He is right. it's a situation where "if"s and "but"s don't really get you anywhere. haha
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
just got an email: "All current NUS students are entitled to unlimited free admission to the following National Museums: Asian Civilisations Museum, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and the new Peranakan Museum." maybe i shld go visit these places, u know, get some culture into me. and yeah i'm on the dean's list again this year! haha. along with the entire no-life clique of kho qinyao, jono, justin & vikram. kho qinyao & jono managed to overthrow lord zhong and usurp his place. and there's rotation at the top where justin takes vikram's place.
Monday, June 16, 2008
singapore land area: 707 sq km total population: 4,589,000 citizens and pr: 3,583,000 total employment: 2,730,800 foreign workers: 900,800 average monthly earnings: $3,773 hours worked: 46.3/week (excluding lunch break) mobile phone subscribers per 1000 ppl: 1225 (?!) the average singaporean actually lives rather comfortably. i mean, $3773 a month is a pretty decent amount to live on. but gosh we have to work 46.3 hrs a week?! on a 5-day-wk basis this means more than 9 hrs a day.. gah.. and yea supposedly 1 out of 3 workers in singapore are not citizens or pr. u can't really blame some singaporeans for thinking that foreign workers are taking away jobs from locals, since the employment growth for foreign workers stands at 19.1%, while the rate for locals stands at 5.2%. but i guess the foreigners are largely taking jobs that singaporeans dun want, like construction and engineering. darn i think sg is really getting low-tech. we need more engineers! and why do so many ppl need more than 1 mobile line? we have more mobile phone subscriptions than ppl?! source
Thursday, June 12, 2008
bored at work its been 4 days and i've done a grand total of 1 research thus far.. zzz.. and so i've been surfing the net and day-dreaming a lot. and rite now i'm thinking of the new 3G iphone. its defo gonna be my new phone =p
Monday, June 09, 2008
new week, new internship, new experience ok r&t was completely different from a&g. i spent the first 3 hours today sitting in the board room waiting to be given a desk. and later i spent the entire day surfing the net. hahaha. which was fine by me since i was still tired out by my ict last week and was actually not prepared to start this internship so soon. so it was good that i had nothing to do. my boss seemed to be swamped by work and had no time to entertain me, and so i was left alone in a corner of the office to do whatever i wanted. yay =) also met some other fellow interns while in the boardroom. quite a few unfamiliar faces since several of them were from smu. wa lao yr 1 oso do internship. and i also saw rebecca, my junior-turned-senior. haha she still looked the same. so good that she doesn't need to do ns. if i didn't have ns i'll have graduated by now.. and i'll have a 3 yr as opposed to a 1 yr advantage over those smu smuggers. ah well.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
ict 1 over gosh i can't believe i'm saying this, but i actually felt a little sad during the last day of ict. miraculously, even on this little island, i've never gotten to meet my platoon mates much after we orded. and so when we met again on monday it was like reliving old times all over again. complaining about training (which was still xiong), complaining about the administration (which was still screwed up), being slack commanders, rolling in mud, doing mortar drills, wearing the same uniform over and over again, cleaning rifles and stores till the wee hours of the morning etc... gosh i hated this lifestyle. but it has become such an unforgettable part of my life that i cannot help but feel a sense of loss when we parted ways yesterday, back to our respective lives outside army. till the nxt ict, which we all will be hoping to siam again. haha
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