April 7, 2006
April 4, 2006
The Tale of two bus stops based on Today on 11 March 2006
POTONG Pasir residents are somewhat used to getting double of everything — with their incumbent Member of Parliament Chiam See Tong and his People's Action Party challenger, Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, both serving their needs.
But two bus stops within 3m of each other in front of their block is probably not what the residents of Block 120, Potong Pasir Avenue 1 would have expected.
Last December, the Potong Pasir Town Council built a drop-off bay to cater to the 5,000 students of St Andrew's Village.
Mr Chiam had hoped that when bus service number 142 was extended into the vicinity, the drop-off bay that his Town Council had spent $60,000 on could be used as a public bus stop.
But the Land Transport Authority (LTA) rejected Mr Chiam's proposal. It built a new bus stop, running parallel to the drop-off bay, this month.
Now, Mr Chiam wants the LTA to tear down the bus stop and convert the drop-off bay into a bus stop, citing his concern for the school children's safety. He said: "The two lanes are narrow. The buses would create a huge blind spot. Moreover, many vehicles come out of the car park, located before the bus bay, and zoom into these lanes. This would be so dangerous to the children who dash across the road."
An LTA spokesman told Today that the drop-off point was also used by shopowners to load and unload goods and said that, given the current usage of the drop-off point, "introducing a bus service ... will cause operational disruptions, inconvenience and confusion".
The LTA also said that the bay is too narrow and that it was cheaper to build a new bus stop than to widen the existing bay as "extensive works" have to be carried out. The LTA spokesman further said that the road and traffic conditions made it unlikely for cars to travel quickly in that area, and thus it was unlikely the bus stop would pose a safety threat to students.
"We have also assured him that we will monitor the situation once the bus shelter is in operation to see what improvements need be made," the spokesman added.
On Wednesday, Mr Chiam had raised his concerns in Parliament. In response, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Manpower Hawazi Daipi said that the Ministry of Education takes students' safety very seriously and he would forward Mr Chiam's concern to the LTA again.
Mr Sekerchristopher, a 35-year-old resident, noted: "It's a nice idea actually to have both the bus stop and the drop-off bay. But it would be quite dangerous for the students. It's better to situate the bus stop at where the drop-off bay is."
Reported by
Loh Chee Kong
TODAY
cheekong@newstoday.com.sg
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Above is the report by a today journalist lor... see and comment on ur own la...
But two bus stops within 3m of each other in front of their block is probably not what the residents of Block 120, Potong Pasir Avenue 1 would have expected.
Last December, the Potong Pasir Town Council built a drop-off bay to cater to the 5,000 students of St Andrew's Village.
Mr Chiam had hoped that when bus service number 142 was extended into the vicinity, the drop-off bay that his Town Council had spent $60,000 on could be used as a public bus stop.
But the Land Transport Authority (LTA) rejected Mr Chiam's proposal. It built a new bus stop, running parallel to the drop-off bay, this month.
Now, Mr Chiam wants the LTA to tear down the bus stop and convert the drop-off bay into a bus stop, citing his concern for the school children's safety. He said: "The two lanes are narrow. The buses would create a huge blind spot. Moreover, many vehicles come out of the car park, located before the bus bay, and zoom into these lanes. This would be so dangerous to the children who dash across the road."
An LTA spokesman told Today that the drop-off point was also used by shopowners to load and unload goods and said that, given the current usage of the drop-off point, "introducing a bus service ... will cause operational disruptions, inconvenience and confusion".
The LTA also said that the bay is too narrow and that it was cheaper to build a new bus stop than to widen the existing bay as "extensive works" have to be carried out. The LTA spokesman further said that the road and traffic conditions made it unlikely for cars to travel quickly in that area, and thus it was unlikely the bus stop would pose a safety threat to students.
"We have also assured him that we will monitor the situation once the bus shelter is in operation to see what improvements need be made," the spokesman added.
On Wednesday, Mr Chiam had raised his concerns in Parliament. In response, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Manpower Hawazi Daipi said that the Ministry of Education takes students' safety very seriously and he would forward Mr Chiam's concern to the LTA again.
Mr Sekerchristopher, a 35-year-old resident, noted: "It's a nice idea actually to have both the bus stop and the drop-off bay. But it would be quite dangerous for the students. It's better to situate the bus stop at where the drop-off bay is."
Reported by
Loh Chee Kong
TODAY
cheekong@newstoday.com.sg
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Above is the report by a today journalist lor... see and comment on ur own la...
April 3, 2006
Jokes... need to de-stress now.... pre exam jitters... die die.... must seek numbifying liquids.....
Die la.... now damn pessimistic abt it... juz how the heck did i spend my time... !@$@#$%$@%$#@(%@$&%@&$%&@... BTH
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Plan For Future:
Teacher asks children, what do u wish 2 do in future?
Ram: I want 2 be a pilot.
Vinod: I want 2 be a doctor.
Deepa: I want 2 be a good mother.
Ashok: I want 2 help Deepa.
______________________________________________________________
Exams:
Exams are like GIRL FRIENDS;
1,Too Many Questions.
2,Difficult to Understand.
3,More Explanation is Needed.
4,Result is always FAIL!
______________________________________________________________
Liar
A man is dying of Cancer.
His son asked him, "Dad, why do you keep telling people dat u are dying of AIDS?"
Answer: "So when I'm dead no one will dare touch your mom
___________________________________________________________________
Delivered
Sardar sent a SMS to his pregnant wife. Two seconds later a report came
to his phone and he started dancing. The report said, "DELIVERED".
_____________________________________________________________________
Three Feelings
What's the difference between stress, tension and panic?
Stress is when wife is pregnant,
Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant, and
Panic is when both are pregnant.
-_-''
Die la.... now damn pessimistic abt it... juz how the heck did i spend my time... !@$@#$%$@%$#@(%@$&%@&$%&@... BTH
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Plan For Future:
Teacher asks children, what do u wish 2 do in future?
Ram: I want 2 be a pilot.
Vinod: I want 2 be a doctor.
Deepa: I want 2 be a good mother.
Ashok: I want 2 help Deepa.
______________________________________________________________
Exams:
Exams are like GIRL FRIENDS;
1,Too Many Questions.
2,Difficult to Understand.
3,More Explanation is Needed.
4,Result is always FAIL!
______________________________________________________________
Liar
A man is dying of Cancer.
His son asked him, "Dad, why do you keep telling people dat u are dying of AIDS?"
Answer: "So when I'm dead no one will dare touch your mom
___________________________________________________________________
Delivered
Sardar sent a SMS to his pregnant wife. Two seconds later a report came
to his phone and he started dancing. The report said, "DELIVERED".
_____________________________________________________________________
Three Feelings
What's the difference between stress, tension and panic?
Stress is when wife is pregnant,
Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant, and
Panic is when both are pregnant.
-_-''
We talk as Christians about the resurrection of Christ, but do we really stop to think of its significance? i mena really stop and ponder and tink and mull over it leh....
I think that too often we make matters of our faith little more than just matter-of-fact, this-is-what-I-believe details but we don't stop to think about the real impact a.k.a "the big picture,"
Let's use an illustration from Matthew 7:24-27 (and also found in Luke 6 coz my bible footnote says so):
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
Jesus is making the point that you can't trust an unstable foundation to keep a building from collapsing. But the flip side of this coin is that if the foundation is rock-solid and won't budge, you can trust it in any situation and can build upon it.
Now enter the so-called case against the resurrection of Jesus.
Skeptics have been saying all kinds of things for nearly 2,000 years: The guards at Jesus' tomb fell asleep and that the disciples stole the body; Jesus only passed out from a loss of blood and was revived in the coolness of the tomb and escaped back into Jerusalem; that Jesus' post-resurrection appearances were merely group hallucinations; and numerous other claims that just don't hold up under scrutiny. (What's the ancient Greek word for "nonsense"?) If the disciples stole Jesus' body, how do you explain their totally changed behavior? If they knew Jesus didn't really rise from the dead, why were they willing to endure so much suffering for a lie? Why would a bunch of fear-stricken individuals who abandoned Jesus at His arrest be willing to face death just days later unless they had seen something which was worth betting their very lives on--unless it was something with the impact and significance of the resurrection--namely the resurrection itself?
Nothing else really makes sense.
At the very least, the changed lives of the disciples then and believers ever since prove that something has happened that can't be explained by human reasoning or wisdom.
Anyone dares to bet it's anything besides the resurrection? The resurrection cannot be refuted by any means.. its real.. though i dun have much time here to blog abt it.. but if u really wanna go into the extent of it, i will set apart my time for u..
I'd like to suggest that at some point between now and Easter that each of us would read 1 Corinthians 15:19, "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
What's the flip-side of this coin?
That if we can bet our lives on the reality of Christ's resurrection--and we can--then we have more hope than anyone else, a hope that cannot be taken from us because the One we put our hope in has already proven that nothing and nobody can overcome Him and steal our hope.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is just denying the evidence. But denying the evidence doesn't make it go away.
R our lives reflecting this hope? If not, why not?
Are we staying focused on our hope in Christ?
For that matter, if God can raise Jesus from the dead, isn't everything else also lies in His hands? If He can take charge of the main pivotal event in human history--the really big things--can't He even take care of everything else in our lives that aren't nearly as big? Are we holding onto Him as our hope? If not, is what we're holding onto going to last?
Nothing else will last , my fren.. not the latest gadget, not the latest PSP nor Xbox360 nor PDAfone nor laptop... nothing else will last
Take time to check out the evidence God has given us about His love.
Take time to bask in His love and to give it back as freely as He gives it to us. Check out the evidence of the reality of our hope in Christ.
Never let go of it.
But spread it to others like their lives depend on it.
Because they really do.
I think that too often we make matters of our faith little more than just matter-of-fact, this-is-what-I-believe details but we don't stop to think about the real impact a.k.a "the big picture,"
Let's use an illustration from Matthew 7:24-27 (and also found in Luke 6 coz my bible footnote says so):
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
Jesus is making the point that you can't trust an unstable foundation to keep a building from collapsing. But the flip side of this coin is that if the foundation is rock-solid and won't budge, you can trust it in any situation and can build upon it.
Now enter the so-called case against the resurrection of Jesus.
Skeptics have been saying all kinds of things for nearly 2,000 years: The guards at Jesus' tomb fell asleep and that the disciples stole the body; Jesus only passed out from a loss of blood and was revived in the coolness of the tomb and escaped back into Jerusalem; that Jesus' post-resurrection appearances were merely group hallucinations; and numerous other claims that just don't hold up under scrutiny. (What's the ancient Greek word for "nonsense"?) If the disciples stole Jesus' body, how do you explain their totally changed behavior? If they knew Jesus didn't really rise from the dead, why were they willing to endure so much suffering for a lie? Why would a bunch of fear-stricken individuals who abandoned Jesus at His arrest be willing to face death just days later unless they had seen something which was worth betting their very lives on--unless it was something with the impact and significance of the resurrection--namely the resurrection itself?
Nothing else really makes sense.
At the very least, the changed lives of the disciples then and believers ever since prove that something has happened that can't be explained by human reasoning or wisdom.
Anyone dares to bet it's anything besides the resurrection? The resurrection cannot be refuted by any means.. its real.. though i dun have much time here to blog abt it.. but if u really wanna go into the extent of it, i will set apart my time for u..
I'd like to suggest that at some point between now and Easter that each of us would read 1 Corinthians 15:19, "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
What's the flip-side of this coin?
That if we can bet our lives on the reality of Christ's resurrection--and we can--then we have more hope than anyone else, a hope that cannot be taken from us because the One we put our hope in has already proven that nothing and nobody can overcome Him and steal our hope.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is just denying the evidence. But denying the evidence doesn't make it go away.
R our lives reflecting this hope? If not, why not?
Are we staying focused on our hope in Christ?
For that matter, if God can raise Jesus from the dead, isn't everything else also lies in His hands? If He can take charge of the main pivotal event in human history--the really big things--can't He even take care of everything else in our lives that aren't nearly as big? Are we holding onto Him as our hope? If not, is what we're holding onto going to last?
Nothing else will last , my fren.. not the latest gadget, not the latest PSP nor Xbox360 nor PDAfone nor laptop... nothing else will last
Take time to check out the evidence God has given us about His love.
Take time to bask in His love and to give it back as freely as He gives it to us. Check out the evidence of the reality of our hope in Christ.
Never let go of it.
But spread it to others like their lives depend on it.
Because they really do.
April 2, 2006
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