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1st Anniversary

30 March 09
It's been a year since I started blogging. Don't know why I started this and I also don't know that I have been blog for 1 year. Remember the day (which is today) last year, I started with my blog title as 'My First Blog'....I can say very lao tu leh giving such a title..hahahah

In the last few days, my extended family was busy preparing for Qing Ming Festival. Many things have to be prepared.....Food, Joss paper etc....So very sorry that I'm unable to go for a swim with some of you asking me to go for a swim...Seriously quite tired to go for a swim..last 2 days, I wake up early to go for pray. When I'm back, I already dead tired. So better not go for a swim..

Coming back to the main point now..to be on title...
For the past 1 year, I found many posts that I wrote. It is either related to Singapore or the world or it related to myself...
OK...Out of many post I wrote, I had chosen some posts ...

Below are the 5 Posts Related to Singapore and the world!
1) Myanmar Cyclone
Dated: 12 May 08
2) Si Chuan Earthquake
Dated: 16 May 08
3) True Or Not
Dated: 19 May 08
4) World Finacial Crisis
Dated: 9 Mar 09
5) World Expensive Cities
Dated: 12 Mar 09

Before ending my 60th posts, I'm like to present posts that I used lots of hard work in especially videos...
1) Racial Harmony Day
Dated: 21 Jul 08
2) Total Defence Day
Dated: 15 Feb 09

That's all!
My 60th Post! :)

World Expensive Cities

12 March 2009
Based on the article 'Currency Swings Cost Singapore' on straits times on 10 March 09, it is a surprise to Singapore that it become one of the top 10 most expensive cities in the world!
6 months ago, Singapore was ranked as the 15th most expensive cities in the world. Today, Singapore become on of the top 10 cities!
Ranking of the cities is by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Rank	City	Country	Capital	2008 Rank
1	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo	6
2	Osaka			8
3	Paris	France	Paris	2
4	Copenhagen	Denmark	Copenhagen	3
5	Oslo	Norway	Oslo	1
6	Zurich	Switzerland	Zurich	7
7	Frankfurt	Germany	Berlin	4
7	Helsinki	Finland	Helsinki	4
9	Geneva	Switzerland	Zurich	12
10	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore	15
11	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	28
12	Vienna	Austria	Vienna	10
13	Dublin	Ireland	Dublin	11
14	Brussels	Belgium	Brussels	12
14	Milan	Italy	Rome	12
16	Munich	Germany	Berlin	16
17	Berlin	Germany	Berlin	17
18	Barcelona	Spain	Madrid	19
18	Noumea, New Caledonia	French	Paris	20
20	Madrid	Spain	Madrid	20
21	Caracas	Venezuela	Caracas	35
21	Lyon	France	Paris	24
23	New York	U.S.A.	Washington D.C.	39
23	Chicago
23	Los Angeles
23	Hamburg	Germany	Berlin	26
27	London	England	London	8
27	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam	27

Can't believe it either?
Based on the above data by the straits times, Singapore is ranked as the 3rd expensive cities in Asia Pacific Region....
World Financial Crisis

9 March 2009
World Financial Crisis
Nobody are able to save this unless all countries worked together...

Talking about Singapore>>
According to MM Lee, he expected that Singapore economic growth will shrink by at least 10 per cent.Due to the exportation of their goods kept falling sharply, Gross Domestic Product of Singapore will fall about 10 per cent. It is unexpected because earlier, the economist predicted that Singapore economic growth will shrink by 2.0 to 5.0 per cent. This prediction is done after knowing the economic growth of Singapore in 2008.

However, MM Lee says
"When they do recover, we'll bounce back faster than anybody else because three-and-a-quarter times our GDP is in external trade. So we just got to tough it out."
(According to the news on March 5, 2009)

My Views>>>
From what we know now is that once US, Middle East, Europe or other more developed countries recover, Singapore economy will definitely grow. However, it is a worry to other countries such as US. Since after Mr. Obama took over Mr. Bush's place, nothing much has been done to its economy...

Talking about US>>>
A more worrying thing is that US jobless rate for February 2009 reach a highest rate. This is the highest since December 1983. This figures been done by the US Labour Department.

According to BBC news,
US Labour Department has calculated that the unemployment rate has reach its highest point of 8.1% which is bout 12.5 million people losing the jobs. Between each sectors, there will people trying to work part-time than full-time. Many companies had to save their cost by reducing more and more workers.
(BBC News, 6 March 2009)

My Views>>>
Don't know what will happen if US employment rate getting higher and higher. If this is so, many countries depending on them will suffer severely. It is either the fall of a country or people leaving their homeland to other countries for a support. Can't believe it, huh? Not trying to scare you, but this can be real!

When It Will End?
Nobody Knows!
According Yahoo News on March 8, a US professor feel that this global recession will end at the end of 2010 or longer!

He says," world governments are falling behind the curve in tackling the crisis with policymakers moving in the right direction -- but (doing) too little too late."

We all sink or swim together," he said, adding there is no way policy action in emerging economic giants India and China can pull the global economy out of the slump.

The statement in BOLD is TRUE! Only Economic Giant do something, the world will be safe! In other words, if countries come together to overcome, global recession confirm will be over!!!
Interested?

2 Mar 2009
Every year, your family will receive a gong li (a type of calendar). This calendar is special in some ways. It can tell whether that particular year will be a rainy season or a dry season. This prediction i only start to know yesterday when my father's friend told us about it. This is a old prediction from our ansectors.

Picture below is a part of the 'gong li'



Do you realize one particular special thing? Of course, you don't! If you have 2008 'gong li', you will know about it! By comparison from 2008 'gong li', the man in 2009 'gong li' is wearing shoes while for 2008 'gong li', the man is barefooted!

I'm not very sure that whether wearing of shoes or barefooted meant that a particular year will be more of a rainy season than a dry season but i'll soon find out...

I think the answer for this should be...
Based on my own analysis, a man wearing shoes signifies that that year will be a dry season because wearing shoes is to protect the feet from being scorched by the heat. However, when a man is barefooted, that year will be more of a rainy season than dry season. If this is correct, that will be true!

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