-Mr Bill Britt, another school dropout millionaire
”If you can’t see the goodness in the WORST person IN THE WORLD, you do not see Christ”
-Mother Teresa, on her death bed
Friday, July 31, 2009
Interesting Quotes I quoted
"The ‘A’ students teach and govern. The ‘B’ students get the J.O.B.(Journey Of the Broke) and work for the ‘C’ students. The ‘D’ students build industries and the ‘F’ students change the world."
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Meritocrazy VS Democracy
There's this passage i read yesterday about this issue of meritocracy against democracy which i feel strongly of sharing because it shows to a great extend the issue of elitism. Part of the lesson about this passage was on a question "The irony between meritocracy and democracy". Meritocracy is a system in which the talented, the ones who excel are rewarded in terms of wealth or status.(its crazy because it makes every study till they drop) On the other hand, democracy is a governance system where people are equal(e.g. in opportunities) and is linked with egalitarian. Therefore, is it possible to call a state that is both meritocratic and democratic without any contradiction?In my point of view, i guess its no, at least not demonstrating both ideology to the full extent.
Meritocracy is one of my country's stepping stone towards today's powerful development. However, meritocracy came along with some other debatable social issues. One of such would be elitism. Undeniably my country does exist elitism from our banding education system to WSM's incident. The main objective of meritocracy in my society is to discover the talented elites so as to provide them with additional opportunities to extend their knowledge with wider coverage of exposure in both academic and non-academic aspects. This is to prepare them as future leaders(political, economic, professionals) to drive this country because my society's only resources is human being. With such ideology, it shaped my country to be one which has strong focus on academic and placing alot of importance on the paper of degree. Often enough we are able to see how meritocracy is able to widen the gap of inequality in my country. As mentioned those identified elite talents will then continue in a route that will be only for the few percent in my country. They will carry on in top schools and institute and might also continue their studies abroad in top ranking universities in US or UK. After which these people will or may return to their homeland and either participate in politic or in business activity(either which they will still be in the same category such as the old boys' club).For these people, they'll will have the same hang-out place, similar restaurants they visit, same golf course they show their talent(especially the one along thomson road) etc. With such cluster, people of the same group will tends to meet people of the same category, marry the same kind, give birth and let the inequality gap widens. At the same time although the middle and low-income family's children still hold a chance of performing well and "promote" to the elite level, they are already in disadvantage in terms of not having the affluent to be able to attend extra lessons to excel their academic performances, learn musical instruments to improve their attribute and banded into the common academic group which further lower their opportunities to show their very own and individual talent. Worse still with the banding system, the lower bands group are more vulnerable to discrimination and those who cannot make it in life. Therefore, being a state known also as democratic, is this system really offers everyone a chance an opportunity?Or instead with its meritocracy system it has brought out elite that bring vast improvement to the country at the expense of other commoners?
So does meritocracy contradicts democracy?
Meritocracy is one of my country's stepping stone towards today's powerful development. However, meritocracy came along with some other debatable social issues. One of such would be elitism. Undeniably my country does exist elitism from our banding education system to WSM's incident. The main objective of meritocracy in my society is to discover the talented elites so as to provide them with additional opportunities to extend their knowledge with wider coverage of exposure in both academic and non-academic aspects. This is to prepare them as future leaders(political, economic, professionals) to drive this country because my society's only resources is human being. With such ideology, it shaped my country to be one which has strong focus on academic and placing alot of importance on the paper of degree. Often enough we are able to see how meritocracy is able to widen the gap of inequality in my country. As mentioned those identified elite talents will then continue in a route that will be only for the few percent in my country. They will carry on in top schools and institute and might also continue their studies abroad in top ranking universities in US or UK. After which these people will or may return to their homeland and either participate in politic or in business activity(either which they will still be in the same category such as the old boys' club).For these people, they'll will have the same hang-out place, similar restaurants they visit, same golf course they show their talent(especially the one along thomson road) etc. With such cluster, people of the same group will tends to meet people of the same category, marry the same kind, give birth and let the inequality gap widens. At the same time although the middle and low-income family's children still hold a chance of performing well and "promote" to the elite level, they are already in disadvantage in terms of not having the affluent to be able to attend extra lessons to excel their academic performances, learn musical instruments to improve their attribute and banded into the common academic group which further lower their opportunities to show their very own and individual talent. Worse still with the banding system, the lower bands group are more vulnerable to discrimination and those who cannot make it in life. Therefore, being a state known also as democratic, is this system really offers everyone a chance an opportunity?Or instead with its meritocracy system it has brought out elite that bring vast improvement to the country at the expense of other commoners?
So does meritocracy contradicts democracy?
Saturday, July 25, 2009
SomeOne Please Save Me From Everything that this guy is wearing!!!!
Its the Alibaba again!!! im really in need to get one of this!
This guy is definitely a hardcore shoe addict, his shoes are simply the nicest the most outstanding and most attractive. For god sake, this pair of jeans is like those egyptian mummy, i cannot stand its nicenicenice!!!!
Hi people wanna guess the price of this CD player?OMGOMG its 29500 pounds!!!!im definitely not being materialistic here by saying this player must a damn good one.But if some producer(such as Metronome Technologie Kalista) are selling it at this price, at least you should expect something of that price.Im never gonna believe how worth it it is until i've tried.Seems like im never gonna believe!haha
Monday, July 20, 2009
HOT HOT HOT WARM WARM WARM!
Look at the difference in feels like and measure temp.!!Its 9.38 in the night, should the weather be cooling and mild with slow moving air under the stars awaiting for wednesday's eclipse?but guess what its HOT!it has been a "trend" in Singapore now that the temperature doesn't really capture the "temperature" maybe because the hotness might just be due to something else, or a mixture of alot of things else. Mayb we should invent a hotnessmeter, something more accurate.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Can Our World Still Works Base on Trust?
Selfishness, cons, mistrust, betrayal have all manifest our human lifes. Apparently it is all these fucking human behaviour that made human being losing trust with one another.Would you ever dare to reveal your personal information to some hi-bye friends? you'll most probably not because you never know what they can do with those information. Sadly and truly, thats what everyone cityman thinks about. Are these human nature or effects of modern lifes?I guess i would go with effects on human lifes by the revolution of modern life because i use to listen to my grandmother talking about her life in the past. Definitely everyone was poor, at least most, but they seems to be bonded very strongly, maybe this is because of the small villages they live in and the lack of communication devices so as they only have the neighbours to chat with and thus building strong relationship and trust. In the past people might not have heard of a lock because either it has not been invented or they are too poor to afford or most likely they do not need one. People trust each other in the past certainly more than now. It may be the greed that has change human but nevertheless greed has also play a strong part in our economy and contributing to the higher income level that we are receving now. I think life is fair, when you are awarded with something, something would be taken. therefore, maybe because of the material benefits we are given, we have lose our values, our trust among one another which i think will never ever be able to bought by money or substituted with materials, its just a shame to human beings.
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