Fri, 3 Apr 2009
Shared Items for Fri, 3 Apr 2009
- The 10 Highest Paid Politicians In The World
- An Online petition to the Singapore PM to investigate the death of Indonesian student David Hartanto Widjaja
- Hong Kong Civil service reveals pay scales of ALL its administrative officers
- Suicides in the SAF: Family of deceased doctor’s public call for inquiry opens a Pandora’s box for MINDEF
- Why the obsession with happy endings?
- Conversation clock
- Consider the crab
- The Brothel In Singapore: Karin’s True Story Of Slavery
- $500 Deposit To Open POSB Account Is Too High
- Singapore Airlines Implements Shorter Work Months
- Fermirotica
- Kids say the darnedest things #1
“An unbreakable bond is not only unreasonable, it is a form of modern slavery which denies the worker’s basic human right to seek a suitable employment befitting his knowledge and skills. Will anybody sign a contract which is ‘unbreakable’?”
We’re always being warned not to expect happy endings to the ecological, economic and political crises that beset the world, and yet when times are grim, these happy endings abound in the stories we seek out.
“Experts in various fields have suggested a variety of applications, including marriage counseling”. – I would go as far as to suggest it to be used in teaching, so that teachers themselves become aware of when they’re talking/lecturing too much, which is usually correlated with an over-emphasis on teacher-centred learning.
The online petition to investigate the death of the student is damn silly. All the conspiracy theories. Blah.
There is no such thign as unbreakable bond. It’s only fair: the company pays for your studies, and you work for them. If you don’t like working for them, then just pay the bond.
The crab story is pretty old, I think. I remember reading that if you put a lobster–not a crab, but still–in boiling water, its scream, too high pitch for human ears, can be heard thousand miles away.
Karin’s story is depressing.
Re: conspiracy theories – why the reluctance to believe in an alternate ending?
David Foster Wallace wrote an essay on the lobster here.