rant alert.

im sure uve read in the news recently bout the dude who fell onto the mrt tracks and died... his family was sad (of coz) and the papers highlighted their plight plus the fact that they are very poor... so the donations poured in at his wake and they hit $500,000.

ok problem i have with this is that, as far as the man's actions prior to his death show, it appears that he committed suicide... im not going to judge him by that and say omg wats wrong with him, he should treasure life and wat he did was wrong... im not going to 2nd-guess a dead man and try to speculate on why he suicided... this is something we'll nvr noe but as far as im concerned, i think it was a suicide lar.

the point is wtf are singaporeans thinkin by donating this much money to his family... like wat kind of msg are we putting across here... if im jobless, and ive got my wife and 5 kids to feed, but im running out of money, wat do i do? i jump in front of a car... no wait, i jump in front of a train (for the added publicity) and with my sacrifice, my children and wife will lead a good life. huh???

the wife says yes, she will put most of the money in a fixed deposit and pay off her debts and most of it will go to the children's education... wow great, considering most pple do have debts to pay off every month... $500,000 is a lot of money. wat is stopping them fr leavin the country with the money now?

the ultimate pt i want to make is why are singaporeans giving their money like this to this family? there are many families like this one around... like, who doesnt need extra money lar... my solution would be instead of the money being directly given to the family, maybe it should have been given to the MCYS or watever organisation that gives hand-outs... this way, u noe the money will not be inappropriately used and u also share ur wealth among all those who need it.

ok end rant. just peeved when reading the papers.

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yea as u can see fr the tagboard, this cousin of mine has been pestering me to link her blog... but im too lazy to edit the html on the sidebar so i shall just put it here. go ahead and click on it... but be prepared, its exactly wat ud expect fr a 17 yr old =)... some dude in perth tried to pick her up by tellin her shes a 'pretty asian girl' but i think the guy just forgot his medicine that day.

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yea last nite went back to hall for mini merlion (mini coz i was driving) session and at the same time celebrate soozy bday... nice soozy treated us with chicken nuggets X 100 fr uncle vincent... so nice!! happy bday!! he still owes us a hockey treat thou.

then the janet did a very un-janet thing and went to ask some freshie an awkward question... awkward not for her lar, but awkward for me. -_-' i guess it was something that i would say haha but it was just very diao coming fr her lor. (ok i admit i mentioned this only so that she feels bad.)

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anyway the youtube offering i have is this... 'dream a dream' fr charlotte church (when she was decent) and billy gilman (a cute kid)... charman might want to give this a miss lol.