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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

read this article from the columns in this week's iweekly. something that I agree on.

2008年让英国人刻骨铭心。
为了拯救数家英国银行，英国人还被迫背负上更沉重的税务包袱。当年的工人党政府说，为了国家利益，必须如此。

于是，纳税人牺牲个人利益以换取大家的利益。然而，这个“大家”究竟是谁？

银行总裁投资失误被炒鱿鱼，吃的鱿鱼却是天价。天文数字的遣散费由纳税人负责；国营化后的银行动刀裁员以消减成本，还未摆脱亏损，却能气派地分派大肥花红给一小撮的银行家。

原来，“大家”就是这些少数人。把多数人的个人牺牲转移到少数人身上，变成了他们口袋里的利益。

私人企业所赚取的盈利归企业所有，亏损则由纳税人来填补。这就是让英国人反胃的将利润私有，亏损由公众买单。　

小岛国（我国）公共交通经营公司也属私人企业。纳税人掏腰包建设业务基础设施。包办了地铁站和铁路的成本外，原来还得帮忙添购交通工具。有一小撮人替大家决定，这是公众利益。替企业大省钱。

公众的小利益转换成业主私有的大盈利。

运作成本提高，利润缩水，供种牺牲，接受车资上涨。台北捷运却能做到10年不涨价的效率。

公众牺牲以填满一小撮人的口袋。私人企业牟利是天经地义的。也变成了公众义务。

赌场诞生，也为了国家利益。当铺，财务公司随之涌现。社工，警察，辅导员，医疗队也忙得团团转。赌场制造就业机会，社会付出的代价，总和起来成了业主的利润。

民主社会里，少数人替所有人决定国家利益。而国家的利益，却也许是变相的一小撮人的利益。

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Virgin trip to Universal Studio, Singapore. Wanting to go one more time for the new Transformers Ride, but ticket is too too expensive. =(

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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Babies have the purest eyes, you smile when they smile because you know their smile are real.

Sneak shot of a baby while waiting for the ferry at the Batam ferry terminal.

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Monday, March 05, 2012

taken @ cchsm lake.

this fish got so close to the edge of the lake that I was able to capture a picture of it. if you can see the tree branches in the water, that's how shallow the water is at the side so the fish was really close.

Till the next. =)

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Friday, March 02, 2012

Found a blogskin that I like. Took me awhile to edit small parts of the HTML to get what I want. I wished I knew HTML codes at times like this.

And as for point 2 of my previous 2012 resolutions, the 2 months start as of today.

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Thursday, March 01, 2012

Learnt to do some minor adjustment to the photos i took with the DSLR and i'm kinda hooked onto it. I've always been lazy to head out under the sun to take pictures, but i'm much more motivated to do so now for more photos to edit. Hopefully, i can post up one photo a day, but that's kinda too much to ask for. So shall just pace it with the amount of photos that I have on hand.

Shall start off with the favourite photo of my secondary school out of the batch:

This was taken near sunset. I love taking the lake, the main 'attraction' of my old school. Plus the reflection of the building on the lake is just beautiful.

The picture is still kinda small because of the width limitation of my blog layout. I very much love my current blogskin, simple blue background with the tulips above. But for the sake of the photos, I shall attempt to search for a new one that I might come to love. But that will be for another day. Heading out now so in the meantime, enjoy!

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