Wildlife outlive their welcome

 Wildlife were well received when they first appeared on the island. The novelty was welcome as their rarity became a centre for attention. Wildlife are so cute, so cuddly, could have carried them up for a hug or a kiss. 

But wildlife are wildlife and would behave in their normal wildlife ways. You cannot take the wildness of wildlife away. Not many wildlife can be domesticated.  When few in numbers, they behaved well, afraid of human beans.  When their number grows, they gained confidence, and when hungry, would attack human beans.

This is exactly what is happening in Singapore. The love affair with wildlife is now being tested. When they are far away or when they behaved timidly, they were adored. But once they turned wild, once the human beans are bitten or attacked by the wildlife, the reaction would be the same. For those who have yet to be hurt by the wildlife, the affection would still be there and would like want to share their space with wildlife. Only when they are seriously bitten would they wake up from their foolish idea, wildlife would always be wildlife and when you least expect it, they would turn on you, repay your loving kindness with pain and hurt.

Beware, daft Singaporeans, wildlife is not your familiar chicken or pets. Under the docile facade of timidness lies a wildness beyond your imagination.

It is only a matter of time before the daft will start to ask to cull the wildlife. But when their numbers are too big, the problem of culling or getting rid of them would similarly be just as big.

For those yet to be bitten by wildlife, they can continue their love affairs with wildlife. But you have been warned. At the very least, be selective and be careful and not to embrace all wildlife like cuddly little harmless pets.

DBS India responsible for all the crimes, frauds and mismanagement committed by LVB?

 Did the Indian govt ordered DBS India to save LVB and DBS India cannot say no? DBS India is a Singapore bank, owned by the Singapore govt. Is DBS India being ordered by the India govt to do national service, to save LVB and carry all its debt, pay for all its debt, be responsible for all its crimes, frauds, mismanagement and with unlimited liability? Unlimited liability? This cannot be right?

There are many fundamental questions that Singaporeans would want to know as the mounting lawsuits against DBS India is anything but puzzling. No one, no company, not even an idiot, would take over another company without knowing the debt it has to pay, and without setting conditions for the takeover to limit its liabilities. If the liabilities are not limited, looks like this is the case, the claims could even bankrupt DBS India and may also affect DBS and the Singapore govt. This is basic in any takeover of a failing company. Even Ah Seng with little education would know this if he is going to take over a kopitiam or a whore house.

And the crimes and frauds committed by the LVB management cannot be the responsibility of the taking over company, in this case DBS India. This must be a key condition to set or else the takeover must not proceed. Is this the case?

Why are all these provisions and conditions not set in the first place? If they were, why is DB India even have to defend itself in courts over all the spurious claims? At the moment it seems that DBS India is going to court to defend all the crimes and frauds of LVB management. How could this be the case? What if they committed rape or murder? Also the responsibility of DBS India?

Why are the Indian govt and Singapore govt keeping mum about this sordid saga, not saying a word to defend DBS India and to absolve it from all these liabilities and responsibilities that it did not commit in the first place? If the Indian govt is not going to protect DBS India from all the claims, then DBS India must be able to walk out of the deal and take back whatever hundreds of millions it had put into the deal.

What is going on?

Looks like no dares to ask this in Parliament. So either it is another case of all is fine or so bad that asking it would be stirring the hornet's nest and get bitten.

Syria condemns American air strikes - So what?

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said U.S. air strikes against Iranian-backed militias in the east of the country on Friday were a cowardly act and urged President Joe Biden not to follow "the law of the jungle"....

"Syria condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly U.S. attack on areas in Deir al-Zor near the Syrian-Iraqi border," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"It (the Biden administration) is supposed to stick to international legitimacy, not to the law of the jungle as (did) the previous administration."

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned the U.S. strikes, calling them "illegal aggression" and a violation of human rights and international law.

"You can't act with impunity. Be careful," Biden told reporters in Texas when asked what message he was sending Iran with the strikes.

The above reuters report is a reflection of the pathetic fate of the Arab states in general and Syria in particular. All the condemnations are useless if you are weak and afraid or unable to hit back. Where were all the SAMs, why nothing was fired to take down the bombers? Or the SAMs were so useless and missed all their targets? Why no anti aircraft weapons to defend their positions?

The bottom line, if Syria, Iran or Arab countries dare not strike back, the Americans would keep hitting them like Biden said, with impunity. And the Russians were in Syria. If the Syrians or Iranians dare not, or did not have the capability to bring down the bombers, why were the Russians not doing anything? The Russians also afraid of the Americans?

The ridiculous situation in Syria is that the Americans and the Russians had an agreement not to strike at each other but only at the Syrians, the Arabs and the Iranians, while protecting their turf in Syria. If Syria wants to be safe, it has to get the Russians to agree to declare the whole of Syria a no fly zone and any aircraft not authorised to be there would be shot down. Only then can Syria and its forces be safe from American and Israeli air strikes.

If they just relied on their mouths and words to yell at the Americans, it would be a waster of time and very silly and unproductive. The Americans would strike the with impunity as and when they like it. The only language the evil Americans understood is force, to hit back hard at the Americans if the Syrians want the Americans to stop their air strikes.

 

PS. Posted earlier but appeared below.

CCA, the one thing Singaporeans bestest over third world students

7 Reasons Why It's Worth Investing In Your Child's CCA
By Priyanka Elhence, 27 July 2020 10195
 

What is a CCA?

Co-curricular activities (CCA), also known as extra-curricular activities, are an important part of a child’s holistic development and growth. Research and scientific studies have repeatedly shown that if children are to develop into well-rounded individuals, then CCA has to be regarded as being just as important as academics. Through CCA, students can discover their interests and talents, develop their character, learn how to appreciate values, and pick up important soft skills such as leadership to prepare them for future challenges in life.

Benefits of CCAs on your child

1. Better time management and other essential life skills  Other essential life skills that CCAs help children develop include:

- Leadership
- Communication & public speaking
- Event planning
- Teamwork and relationship building
- Goal setting
- Prioritisation
- Problem solving
- Analytical thinking

2. Improves self-esteem
3. Teaches the importance of commitment
4. Broadens their experiences & views
5. Provides opportunities for social networking  

6. Develops children into being more well-rounded individuals  

7. Gives kids a fun way to beat stress

Investing in CCAs is important as it can help children connect to different communities, form different groups of friends, and build relationships that go way beyond the classroom, giving them a good social circle, while keeping them mentally and emotionally healthy. 

 

The above is from a INCOME insurance promotion. This CCA thing is probably the only thing that Singaporean students could be better than third world students. This is a privilege that only rich countries and rich parents could afford to pay to give their children better education in being developed in all aspects of their growing up and development. With this kind of extra education, there is no way our students would be worse off than third world students, at least on paper, theoretically speaking.  The more you put in, if good stuff, the better will be the student.

The only shortcoming in this push and force feeding to our young is that every child has only 24 hours a day. Take away sleep and rest time, take away time for food and travelling, all will have only X hours left. If our students are going to be fed with their school works, home works, tuition and all the CCAs, something must give. Not many children are super fit or super gifted to be able to do so much within a fixed time available.

The third world students would probably be spared with such CCAs.  Their parents could not afford to pay for them. So their X time would only be for school works. They are likely not going to have tuition.  Most of them could not afford tuition too.

This may be the reason why our super trained students, jammed with school works and tuition and CCA could not compete with third world students that only have to care about their school works. They do not need to have all the CCAs to be the all rounded and well educated student that ended up with many becoming half past six as they just could not cope with so many things within a fixed X hours.

So you can see why all the third world students are stealing our lunches, better qualified for jobs that our half past six in everything students, with a bag full of papers and certificates but good for nothing and ended up doing part time jobs or food delivery boys and girls.

Do I make sense? Too much of the good stuff but unable to digest would end up as diarrhoea, just go in and out of the system, nothing much retained.

The aspiration of young Singaporeans? What is the message?

SINGAPORE: I recall feeling something was amiss when I drove for Uber. This was back in 2016.

Initially, I couldn’t pin down what that was. A few days in, I realised that something was work stress.
 

Since no work could be carried forward as a private hire driver, I didn’t think about work after switching off my driving app.

There was no company’s P&L to worry about over the weekend, no dreaded performance conversations to have next week and most importantly, no pointless meetings that achieved little.

Having been extremely stressed out over a past business venture, that lack of work stress was most welcoming. With no hamster wheel to keep running on, I could actually stop and smell the roses.    

That was my first taste of independence and freedom as a gig economy worker, something that I reminiscence about quite fondly.

The above is written by a reporter, Adrian Tan in CNA.

Is this is what our reporters are good at writing? This is what the readers are being told as something good or desirable for Singaporeans. No stress, can smell the roses. Tough work is not good. Let the foreign talents take care of them, and Singaporeans can relac, become grab drivers or delivery men and enjoy life.

No need to buy HDB flats, no mortgages to pay, so senang, no debt.

What is the message?