Friday, May 29, 2009
Expressive or Abusive
Does the blogging sound unfamiliar for you? Could not be right?
Now you are reading on a blog too. Have said that for the pass few slides , I’ll be focusing in the area on health, mental and social being when blogging.
Here is one question to focus on. Does the blog influence your way of thinking? If is yes, good or bad?
Pro (advantages)
1) Many people having a blog as a diary a way of leaving your memories in content of words.
2) Many would say is a practice for their English composition.
3) It is a place to let one frustrate his anger in words.
4) It could be a place to spread information quickly.
Many many more~
Disadvantages (con)
1)The writer of a blog may violate another person’s privacy or use undesirable language to frustrate his anger. Frequently, it may lead to undesirable dispute.
2) Wrong message conveyed as wrong words may be used.
3)Personal information leak out.
4)One’s feelings may be hurt. If this persists, this may result in cyber bully.
5)The writer may be withdrawing from his friends and only express his true self via blog. Eventually, he might be introvert and his mental health may not be stable if he’s a victim of cyber bully once.
Blog is a way to keep your friends updated about you and your friends. However, when one starts to misuse it, like backstabbing another on a blog, it becomes poison. Think before you write. Don’t write mainly based on your emotionsWallabe posted at 6:23 PM | 0 comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Buses for the handicaps Does the buses provide more travel means for handicapped people?
The wheelchair accessible buses (WABs) are equipped with wheelchair ramps to enable easy access for passengers in wheelchairs. A specially-designated area, with a special backrest, low position handrails and a push button for signalling the intention to alight, has been installed to make commuting on public transport more comfortable for passengers in wheelchairs.
These features are being introduced on all new SBS Transit buses, in line with the recommendations by the Committee on Ageing Issues last Wednesday to make all new public buses low-floor, step-free for easy boarding and alighting and wheelchair-accessible. (Comfortdelgro, 2006.)
I came across this article some days ago; it is about this disabled man who wanted to take a WAB bus from Gleneagles Hospital to Dhoby Ghaut. He regretted it saying it was a big mistake, getting his care giver to push him to Orchard MRT would have been faster and cooler.
He said that he waited an hour plus for a service ‘WAB’ bus and that four service 7 non-WAB buses came within that hour. He felt it was ironic because during that hour, the four non-WAB service buses were using ‘WAB’ buses.
On the surface, it may seems to help the disabled greatly, however, its only to a small extent. How about the mute and the deaf? Does WAB helps them too?
Also, WAB do not come on a regular basis. As mention above in paragraph two, the poor man has to wait an hour in the hot sun just to get on a slightly more accessible bus to him. This is so unfair to him and the other handicap people.
I think it still can be made better, in a sense improving the facilities so that more disabled people will choose to take buses instead of the expensive taxi to get from one place to another.Wallabe posted at 8:42 PM | 0 comments
Saturday, May 9, 2009
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Air Conditioner VS Fan Well, I will go straight to the point since it obvious what are the pros of air conditioner and fan.
Air condition, many houses are installed with them and few are not switching them on now, in the scorching weather lately.
Although the environmentalist have been calling out to the whole world to cut down the CO2 emission, not many response to their calls due to the scorching weather and habits. Many people knows that switching on the air conditioner is not very environmental friendly as they uses high amount of electricity and releases harmful gases as well.
However, the reason why these people continue using air conditional is because of habits, routine and dependent on them. Some children are growing in the environment whereby air conditioner is always there for them. Hence, it becomes an expensive habit and they are not used to places whereby there's no air-conditioner.
For routine, teens, espcially poly and university, are slowly getting used to the routine that their lecture rooms/halls are equipped with air-conditioner. Hence, it becomes a norm/part of life for them to be surrounded by the comforts of air-conditioners.
Since children and teens have been growing in environment in air-conditioners, eventually, it becomes a habit. Thus, asking them to use fan and you will see their reaction like this" What the shell?! Are you kidding me?!"
It's true that we can get the cooling sensation now from the air conditioner, but in the long run, the weather will get even hotter and our future generation is going to suffer because of our expensive habits.
Thus, think before using air conditioner; Save the earth, reduce suffering for the future generations, use FANS.
Wallabe posted at 7:11 PM | 0 comments
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Emergency Mail Or Enslaved Mail
E-mail has been widely used in today’s world. It is usually used to maintain core social networks, particularly when alters live at a distance.
E-mail is beneficial because it aids to provide a way to exchange information between two of more people with no set-up costs and that is generally far less expensive than physical meetings or phone calls.
Users can also decide when and how much time they will spend dealing with any associated information.
However, e-mail can lead to some well-known problems.
Loss of Content - which means that the context is lost forever, there is no way to get the text back.
Information overload - E-mail is a push technology — the sender controls who receives the information. Convenient availability of mailing list and the use of "copy all" can lead to people receiving unwanted or irrelevant information of no use to them.
Inconsistency - Emails can duplicate information. This can be a problem when a large team is working on documents and information while not in constant contact with the other members of their team for business unit.
In addition, because of the very low cost of sending email, spammers can send hundreds of millions of email each day over and inexpensive Internet connection.
Despite these disadvantages, e-mail has become the most widely used medium of communication within the business world. Hence, letters are losing their value as people acquire fast and efficient mails instead.Wallabe posted at 5:03 PM | 0 comments
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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Download – Receive and Save?
What comes to your mind when you first thought of a movie?
Are you willing to spend at least $6 to a maximum cost of $10 for a movie ticket?
Are you willing to spend your precious time amid the crowd to queue up for those tickets?
Or do you simply switch on your computer system and download the desired movie?
I probably think that most of us here today will choose to download movies and/or songs and not to spend money on such short term entertainment.
Have you ever wondered whether it was safe to open a file attached to an e-mail sent by your friend or to get your favourite screensaver from the Web, or download music or video files?
Let me now share with you people the advantages and disadvantages of downloading.
The few advantages are that it is convenient. Yep, convenient!
As long as you have an internet connection, you can start your downloading process anywhere by a means of a computer system or a device which can access “Wi-Fi”. It also saves time.
Downloading the items that you want is faster and much more efficient than going out to purchase those things personally. It is also fool-proofed! It is easy to download and not complicated at all!
Sure! Downloading movies and audio files online have its conveniences and advantages. However we must remember that it is illegal! That’s right it’s illegal!
Most of the websites if not all websites that provide free downloads are illegal.
Secondly there is a risk of having computer viruses creep into your systems unknowingly. You may not know that the various downloads will contain virus, viruses known as Trojan horse, Worm and other Spywares.
There is also the issue of copying Copyrighted materials, intrusion of piracy is on the line and if you are not careful, you may be sued over this.
If we really love the movies and the actors in it, we should then continue to support them by going down to the movies and paying to watch them as they will then earn more and there may even be a sequel to the movie should viewership ratings hit a high.
Remember you have the choice to download or to take the right path down the road. But bear in mind that you need to bear the consequences should you really decide to download movies or audio files online.
Remember, what are you really burning?Wallabe posted at 9:56 AM | 0 comments
Friday, May 1, 2009
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Internet part B: Hey PEOPLE, glad you are still here. GUESS WHAT?! I will be touching on internet part B, a continuous from part A; However, not on the same topics.
Starting from CHATROOMS, the most common chat rooms-msn??And what else?? I am not too sure.
There is too many, no in fact too much to be sure. Pros of chat room??
Easy way to talk to people, its free, convenient etc etc.
OBVIOUSLY, I am not here to tell you more on the pros. Thus moving on to cons. If you guys haven’t notice, chat rooms can be pretty DANGEROUS. In what sense? Sometimes you do not even know the person you are talking too.
It’s true. It happens to me most of the time. Reason- people like to use all sorts of nicknames when they create their account. It is also highly accessible thus it is easy to get hold of other people accounts too.
You get what I mean?
Most of the time the people I add into my account are the people I think I can’t figure out who they are. THEREFORE, I appreciate people who use their own names to create their accounts.
FACEBOOK anyone?? Who doesn’t know facebook?? Facebook is just like tagged, Friendster, neopets etc. It is just another website for you to interact with your friends, strangers internationally. Some people get obsess with it, probably because of the games. I admit. I was a victim.
FUN?? Not really, but thrilling.
Having the DESIRE to move from stage to stage, beating high scores, breaking records, winning trophies.
Doing all this lame stuff aimlessly.
Why don’t meet up with friends, have a gathering outside, eat out, chat, isn’t it much healthier? You get what I mean?
Cyber bullies. Sounds familiar to you? Was a victim before? Bullies sounds like a big and powerful word to you, actually they are just COWARDS. Cyber bullies send e-mails or instant messages containing insults or threats directly to a person. They may also spread HATEFUL comments about a person through e-mail, instant messaging or postings on Web sites and online diaries.
How to stop them? HONESTLY, I don’t know how. Only encouragement is to not to take it to heart. Let it not hurtyou-because they don’t mean anything. Main motives of cyber bullies, vent their anger, that’s it.
LOVE,
Beryl:DWallabe posted at 7:34 PM | 0 comments
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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A place with many different books.
Have you been to the library before? Then you might have encountered many times that you simply couldn’t find the book that you have been looking for, am I right?Therefore, today we’ll be discussing about the pros and cons about using library or Internet to search for information.
With the Internet, I’m sure life is so much simpler! But years ago, when Internet is not available, how did the people then search for the information that they want? Through books in library? So why is it that people nowadays don’t go to the library?
Let’s list down the advantages and disadvantages…Advantages1) Internet is so much faster than searching through shelves and shelves of books.
2) The problem of Copyrighting is not so serious in a library as compared to the internet. Seldom do u have someone who photocopies the whole book but you can definitely see people copying the whole webpage.
3) Library is good as not all information can be found on Internet. Eg. Novels
Disadvantages
1) There are many reference numbers for us to search for in the library, so many that we often give up searching for a particular book.2) We might not be able understand how to read the reference numbers.3) There might be a lot of time wastage just to search for that book.4) Not every library has that particular book that you are looking for.5) Books might not be available everytime you look for it. Other people might have borrowed it before you, causing a hassle to search in other libraries.
So with this, there is no clear stand whether Internet ofLibrary is better. But if you want to search for history or knowledge’s, Wikipedia is a good source.If you love to read books, the library will probably be a good place to go. Do cherish all the resources available for you now! (:Wallabe posted at 10:49 AM | 0 comments
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