Current affairs (2009 budget)

As Finance Minister Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam unveiled recently on a $20.5 billion package of measures. For saving jobs, $5.1 billion has been used. The Government will give all employers money for every worker on their CPF payrole. Besides that, more subsidies will be given to training and the Government will also step up recruitment. $2.6 billion will go to helping families, families will get cash in the form of GST credits and rebates has also incresed. $8.4 billion will go to help companies ti cope with their individual financial problems. $4.4 billion will increse expenditure on public infrastructure and rejuvenate Singapore's neighbourhood. Besides that, it will spend more on education and healthcare and green transport and clean energy. I hope that all of these plans will help Singapore with its current crisis in both long term and short term. So most of us need not stress so much on the economic crisis and look forward to a better future. But will all of these budget packages work? Only time will time.

Current affairs (president of the USA)

As everyone it the world knows, President Barack Obama have already swore in his position as the new 'president of the world'. The whole world also has high expectations of him to bail the world out of its current economic crisis, to provide more stable jobs, taking care of wars and others internal and external problems. Based on an interview with the president, when he was asked what was his greayest moral failure inhis life, he replied,"When his father wasn't home, he experimented with drugs and he drank in his teenage years. And he traced this to a certain selfishness on his own part." Quoted by the president: "We see evil all the time. We see evil, sadly, on the streets of our cities. And it has to be confronted." and "It is so important for us, when we are criticising other countries about the rule of the law, to make sure we are abiding by it. In time the world will see whether he has carried out his promises.

Current affairs (silver workforce)

People may think that older workers are useless or maybe slow. However, old people have more experience than younger workers so we do not need to go for a lot of training courses. Most old people do not work for money but either for more experience or spending their time away. In fact, old people are generally more patient and friendly than younger people. In comparision, working is much more meaningful than begging in the streets so let us get a job to spend our after retirement life in quality.(Writing as a view point of an elder worker)

Archery???

This morning, i went to one of the coffee shops near my house for breakfast. After my breakfast, my aunts went to the nearby wet market to buy some groceries for their dinner. My mother and i went to a hardware shop, intending to buy a new mop. Something caught my attention it was a bow and some arrows (which was fake, how obvious). Because it was cheap and my mother wanted to try it too, we bought it. At a nearby field, i 'fired' a few shots. But my mother had difficulty starting, but eventually she manged to shoot a few arrows. Soon even my aunts were facsinated and they took turns trying. Archery is difficlt at first but it will be easy soon. It also trains your concentration, patience,stability, accuracy. Also it is very fun to play with. Hope i can try the real bow and arrows soon again.