Recently, there seem to be so many earthquakes in Asia.
It is good that Singaporean should be advised on what to do during the earthquake.
“Today” paper published an article aim at educating Singaporean on this action plan (Attachment #1).

After looking through the article, I remembered reading something about what the China earthquake experts advice to hide during an earthquake (Attachment #2).
If the China experts are right, then the “Today” article is probably “Not Correct”.

The topic of Singaporean vs Foreigner is getting pretty hot recently, not just in the cyber world.
I also believed most of the coffee shop topics will be revolving around it for quite some time.

Singapore Department of Statistic released the official figure that Singapore population is going to hit 5 millions (Attachment #1).
Whoa ! 5 millions, that’s a lot of people to be squeezing in a small little red dot like Singapore.
All these happened all thanks to our foreign talent.
Thank you very much hor !

A few issues that I like to “BigTalk” below..

Confusing ? Or have I finally gone Peanut ?…I mean “Nuts”.

Take a look at the two news articles below (Attachment #1 and #2).

Taken from Today (http://www.todayonline.com/index) and My Paper (http://mypaper.sg/), on the same day (24 Sep 2009).

The news headline on Singapore paper was “A multi-billion dollar deal that could help turn  Chartered Semiconductor’s fortunes around is in the works.” (See Attachment #1)

Sound pretty positive right ?
In fact it sound like it’s money drop from heaven and everyone will benefit !

I like to look at it in different angles from Singapore media.

Here is my BigTalk point of view….

“Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said health screenings are a good way to identify chronic conditions early. ” Quoted from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1001575/1/.html
(See Attachment #1, Tag #1)

I’ve got a better suggestion, why not allow Singapore citizens to use their Medisave to pay for one annual medical and dental  checkup (at subsidies rate)  per year.
And dental checkup should be included because lots of medical problem can start from dental problem.
In the long run, I think it would help to cut down lots of medical expenses by our citizens.

I assume that Singapore Government are very clever and should have considered this options.
If they are not implementing it, there must be some reasons.
I’ll do a “Big Talk” analysis on my proposal below…

More video below…

I saw an article in the “Today” (13 Aug 2009, Page 31), see attachment #1.
I think the writer is right that it is time to change our NDP balloting system.

Attachment #1: Today, 13 Aug 2009, Page 31

I would propose the following changes….

Earthquake “Hat-Trick” hit Asia today.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/448028/1/.html

One of the quake was in the India Ocean off the Andaman Island with a strength of 7.6 ! Luckily, there was no danger of tsunami.

All these quake may sound like a distance problem for people like us in Singapore.
But when I took a look at the location of the quake, I have a question.

If there was really a tsunami from the 7.6 quake near Andaman Island, how will it affect Singapore ?
Let’s take a look at the map below (Attachment #2)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/447618/1/.html

Hurray ! The worst is over !

…..Hey………tomorrow is Singapore National Day,  is it kind of coincidence ?

Attachment #1: Screen capture of Channel News Asia Website

Just look at the following article taken from “Today” on the same day.

Am I the only one who is  confused ?

Attachment #1: Today, 5 Aug 2009, Page 1

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Attachment #2: Today, 5 Aug 2009, Page B1