News Blogpost

Recently, I read in the newspapers about a lawyer who almost got conned by a con artist. The lawyer sold most of his assets, including his properties and cars to find out that the deal was all a scam. I feel that con artists are really formidable they are even able to talk a lawyer into a seemingly unrealistic deal. A lawyer may be smart but is still vulnerable to scams.

Letter to editor of The Straits Times

Dear Editor of The Straits Times,

In accordance to the recent Japan earthquake and the tsunami, I feel that Japan has done a very good job in response to the earthquake and tsunami. The authorities were acting very fast to rescue the vistims after the situation was calm, the earthquake was gone and the waves have stopped crashing in.

From the fact that Japan was shocked by the happening of the magnitude 9 earthquake, as they never expected it to be as strong as 9 magnitudes. We as Singaporeans can learn that a disaster may strike any time, even if there have never been a natural disaster in Singapore, that does not mean there would not be one happening soon or in the far future.

However hard we deny, we still have no way to cover up the fact that we are a very small country. So if we may encounter the same situation, handling it would not be easy. Firstly, our citizens if struck by a earthquake would have very little or no space to escape it. We are surrounded by water, so if a tsunami strikes, it would be almost impossible to escape.

Singaporeans should never become complacent of the fact that we are protected by the shores our neighbouring countries as anything might happen when we least expected it.

Thank You.

Yours Sincerely,
Yeo Eng Chow

What is Literature?

To me, literature is a form of writing essays or explaining thoughts into deep details. Informally, literature means to me as a very difficult to write essay, a thing I would be scared of. Literature in life may be a way for writers to express their thoughts, may be a way to relief their stress. The thoughts which they may not have the courage to express in front of others, can be expressed privately by writing. Stress, writers can write about their problems and at the same time analyse it so that they would have a calm mind to solve it. Literature would be a personal essay in which writers may feel free to write about their experiences in life and at the same time think of other ways to make it more enriching.

Reflections on CIP Activity

On the 12th of March went with fellow CCA-mates to Ren Ci community hospital to visit elderlies and to spend time with them. We started off with a briefing by the hospital staff; she told us the precautions to take note of and if anything happens what we should do. After that we proceeded to the 12th and 13th levels of the hospital building to visit the elderlies. Some were lively, with constant smiles on their faces and chatting with one another while some were staring to the front as if thinking of something. But when we approached them they seemed to welcome us very much, with smiles. At first it was difficult to communicate with the elderlies as most of them spoke dialects which I did not know how to speak. We showed them magic tricks which made them happy. Some of the more active elderlies were very curious to know the trick behind the magic, so we taught them. Some of them shared many interesting stories with us which described how they were when they were young or experiences that they thought were interesting. Overall I felt that the CIP trip was very meaningful as we could make the elderlies happy.

Measures to Racism

I do not think that enough has been done to combat racism. Although most people nowadays do not show racism acts, many still have racist thoughts. These thoughts may not be very strong, just very simple things may cause these thoughts. For example, many people in Singapore feel that Indians are "Dirty", Indian food stores, Indian people. When they see Indian construction workers, some immature Singaporeans would laugh at them, this is also a form of racism. Therefore, I feel that there is not enough done to combat racism.

I feel that racism can be dealt with in Singapore by allowing different races to have more interaction with each other. Although most Singaporeans can already accept other races' culture, this acceptance does not run throughout. There are still a part of a race that is not accepted by some of other race. So if we allow all of one race to interact with all of another race, this problem of a small part not being accepted may be reduced.