Friday, January 09, 2009

This article is from Today, Thursday January 09, 2009, it's a letter written in by Ho Kong Loon. The length of the it sets it apart from neighbouring articles which are lengthy and rather irrelevant to my environment. As they say, do not judge a book by it's cover; the article is flooded with alien words like - honchos, plethora and laxity. Like what's honchos? A cousin of poncho? Plethora sounds like a name, of a girl or a plant, I don't know. And laxity seems like a synonym for fats! Actually, honcho is a leader, plethora is abundance and and laxity is the state of being lax, not fat.
Is school in the 50s 'lots of fun, play, peer interaction' (as stated in the article)? I thought I heard all about psycho teachers whacking and smacking? Okay, maybe that's a little extreme... But even so, times have changed. Even if class in the 50s is indeed all fun and play, it isn't the 50s now right? It's the 20th Century, people think differently of the laminated 80 gsm paper now. And that wretched paper is most likely going to direct your working life. It's rather amazing that the humble part of a tree can have such an impact on our lives and more often than not people succumb to the power of that paper and it is definitely possible to take charge of our own lives instead of letting the dead thing lord us. But of course, it'll be a lot of hard work - that goes without saying.

And in today's edition of Today, a former Television Corporation of Singapore journalist Subana Hall replied to the previous article. It's at page 26, Voices section.

Let's end this midnight post with a cute picture I thought wouldn't be possible in Singapore.

This is an interesting photo from The Straits Times, Friday, January 09 2009, Home Section page C30. It's a woman trying to roll a giant foam orange back to the pavement.

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