jiak lat!! week 3 over liaoz and my readings still havn’t start!! :shake: die liaoz!! can’t start! so boring! so sleepy! so sianz!

anw..i can’t even rem hw my wk went haha. it was okie i think. sun nite was bad. hai. bie ti le. dats why mon morn was quite stoned. tues went for a talk to whistle blowing! it was okie..not reallie up to my expectations but interesting to know loh. i asked a qn, and i was so proud of myself. but the speaker nv ans me properly!! evaded the whole thing and juz repeated wat he said during the presentation. like huh!? wth?!

he said whistle blowing is more common in places like the US than in Singapore. he thinks that if we could have a support system in place here, perhaps more people would come forward to blow the whistle. he recommended having an independent body that the whistle blower can report to, where there will be people who will listen to him and advise him on what to do, and there should also be financial rewards (up to 15-30% of the recovery amount) for the whistle blower. the independent body should also help shield the identity of the whistle blower until the appropriate time and the money is to help tide him over till her finds a new job.

well yea it all seems hunky dory. financial rewards, support sys, yada yada. but reallie, do u think it can reallie tk off here in SG? i think it’s the attitude of the people here that needs to be changed. true, perhaps the money and support can motivate the whistle blower. but will it be enough? the culture here, as we’re taught from young, is to keep quiet, do the right thing, mind your own business, don’t look for trouble. most people wouldn’t want to look for trouble and whistle blow cos we’re kia-si people. you could appear in the news, get ostracised, get sued, watever. dun think many ppl would wanna look for this kinda trouble. so i don’t really think the support sys would help much; we should instead start with educating our people. but oh well, the speaker didn’t understand what i mean. my dada did, and helped me to ask him again by specifically saying, “do you think we should focus on educating the people?” but he aso nv really ans. :eek1

oh wells watever. went to Ai Wo today. haha interesting concept and style of cooking, but i doubt i will go back there again. not that worth the price. it’s..kinda like stuff dat i can find at home anw.

one last rant b4 i go: sometimes some people are just so smart u feel so darn stupid. sometimes they raise such intelligent points/questions in class and the prof says, “good point/question!” or “you’re looking at the next CEO of watwatwat.” and you just feel so stupid. like hey, that point makes sense, why didn’t you think about that?! sux like crap. so when u have people like that in your class, you are scared to speak up, cos if you say something wrong, you will look and feel even stupider. haiz. :poop: