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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Read it here! http://www.divaasia.com/article/12289

This was rather upsetting to hear. This is definitely not the first time I have witnessed such things happening. I have heard of similar cases before and even bought novels about child abuse. Sexual Child abuse is something I condemn. The child is still young and innocent. Worse still, it was the father who was doing such things to her. The worst part is that since she does not know much and is afraid of her father's harsh scolding, she might not be able to retaliate in any way at all. The worst part is that when she grows up, bad memories follows imagine the trauma she feels in her future intimate situations. She might never let another man to get near to her.

I feel that there should be more organizations around the world preventing child abuse in any way at all from happening. Children are young and innocent. They should be taught, pampered and loved. They should not have to do such obscene acts at a young age. I sincerely hope that the government will harshly deal with such people who mistreat children. After all, it is, in its own right, wrong in terms of moral.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Read it here!http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110121-259618.html

Now this is something I didn't expect to happen. The government is planning to increase the pay for maids! Apparantly the government thinks that this will allow only serious and long-term hirers to want to recruit an indonesian maid. Perhaps it is due to the increase in the number of rape and abuse cases that have happened in this country. Then again, if that is the case, I doubt it would make an impact.

For me, I am certainly pleased that the wages for indonesian maids are increased. However, I hope that this does not cause the people who hire these maids to force them to abide by outrageous rules or sign ridiculous contracts that trick them into lowering their pay.

Regardless, both sides should work together and not cause the other side to be disadvantaged. I know of maids who do not do their jobs properly and end up losing sight of children or causing accidents at home. I hope that the training for maids is more strict as well. I they want to be able to earn that extra amount of money, they should prove that they are worthy of it!

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Read it here! http://edvantage.com.sg/edvantage/features/people/532380/Overcoming_deaths_in_her_family.html

This article was first published in The New Paper.

This is a tragedy. For a secondary 5 girl who was going to have her major examination, the " levels, her father and brother had passed away. She fought through her grief of losing both her father and brother during her exam period to obtain good results. She strive and suppressed her expectations she had set for herself, she did well. Although to many of us, a L1R4 of 23 is not a big deal but it means a lot to her. Just imagine that you were in her shoes. She had dreams, of entering to a business diploma at NYP just like her deceased brother.

This particular article moved my heart and made me want to meet her in person to commend her for her fortitude and spirit of never giving up. Despite having been through two funerals, she has not been overcome with emotion. Instead, she tries to live up to expectations and studies harder. I overheard one of my friends calling her delusional for trying to reach her brother's goal. I hope she truly wants to go to that polytechnic, not for her brother but for herself. With that said, I shall stop typing here. Good night people and do learn from her enduring character. It might lead to your own success one day!

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