Councillor backs religion education

Posted to Monash Weekly (30/5/2011) on 30/5/2011 at 4:31 PM
Commenting on "Councillor backs religion education"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/councillor-backs-religion-education/2178527.aspx

For goodness sake, spend the time more productively to teach subjects that are more useful, beneficial, non-controversial and universal, to help build better foundation for our children's future career and life.

Curriculum based around a whole variety of different religions is going to cause more divides, conflicts and bullying at schools.

Australia is running on two-speed economy, but the world is running on two-speed academy. One look at some of the textbooks in our current schools shocks me to no end that no wonder we are falling behind some of our more academically competitive neighbours.

Commonsense tells us that no one in this world can give a balanced view in all religions, or qualified enough in all religions to deliver unbiased lessons.

It's confusing enough for the young and old to work out whether Man was created or evolved, the world was created in 7-days (in what measurement), a religion NOT a religion (Buddhism), a belief becomes a religion (Taoism), a messenger becomes God or son of God.

There will be dispute as to which messenger was the true messenger of God, or my God is powerful than someone else's God.

History can be fudged, so can Religion Education.

Musharraf: Obama is arrogant

Posted to CNN (27/5/2011) on 29/5/2011 at 1:06 AM
Commenting on “Musharraf: Obama is arrogant”
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/pakistan.musharraf.obama/index.html

I'm definitely NOT sympathetic towards any terrorists or anyone who takes human lives cold-bloodedly. The way the mission was conducted was a violation of Pakistan’s sovereign right. If that could take place in Pakistan, it can happen to any other country in the future. It defeats the purpose of having national constitution, law and order.

FIFA rocked by fresh bribery allegations

Posted to CNN (25/5/2011) on 26/5/2011 at 9:26 PM
Commenting on “FIFA rocked by fresh bribery allegations”
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/05/25/hammam.warner.fifa.blatter/index.html

After watching Qatar's presentation for hosting 2022 FIFA World Cup bid, you will agree that with or without any bribe allegation, Qatar deserves to win. Great presentation! BTW, I'm from Australia, and we got only 1 miserable vote!

Give us a break to breastfeed

Posted to Daily Mail (26/5/2011) on 26/5/2011 at 12:40 AM
Commenting on “Give us a break, new mums tell bosses”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/give-us-a-break-new-mums-tell-bosses/story-e6frf7jo-1226062952766

Imagine a female pilot takes a baby to work in the cockpit, or female police in a high speed pursuit decides to have a break to breastfeed the baby. For goodness sake, public breastfeeding and public urination are not different - sometimes one just can't wait; but that does not mean that anyone can do anything in the name of freedom of action or freedom of expression (oops)!


Posted to Daily Mail (26/5/2011) on 26/5/2011 at 9:51 AM

Don't compare breastfeeding in Dubai and Qatar, they also have 5 other breaks for religious practices, too. There is no place for breastfeeding, and personal, religious beliefs or multicultural practices in public or workplaces.

Seventeen lost pyramids pinpointed

Posted to Daily Mail (25/5/2011) on 25/5/2011 at 11:17 PM
Commenting on “Seventeen lost pyramids among thousands of buried Egyptian settlements pinpointed by infrared satellite images”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1390667/Seventeen-lost-pyramids-thousands-buried-Egyptian-settlements-pinpointed-infrared-satellite-images.html

LEGO was invented by the Egyptians!

Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the belief that when one dies, one's body decomposes, but one is reborn in another body. It is the belief that one has lived before and will live again in another body after death.

Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism believe in cycle of birth, death and rebirth, governed by karma - a moral causation.

Some people claim to recall past lives, while Church of Scientology accepts past lives and holds that all beings are truly immortal.

Advocates of past life regression (PLR) believe in reincarnation and claim that the experiences from previous lives can carry over and affect a person's current life. PLR is a process of retrieving supposed memories of alleged previous lives.

If reincarnation has been taking place throughout the millenniums, the population of this planet would have been static, probably the same number as the day it was created. Why then, the population on this planet is increasing everyday?

On the subject about people recalling their past lives, let me turn your attention to genes - the units of heredity in living organisms. The genes that exist today are those that have reproduced successfully in the past.

During reproduction, the genetic material is passed on from the parent(s) to the offspring. Genes encode the information necessary to construct the chemicals needed for the organism to function. Indeed, some offspring look and behave like their parents.

The controversial hypothesis, cellular memory, states that memories, habits, interests, and tastes may somehow be stored in all the cells of our bodies, and not only in the brain.

Is it possible that the genes in the cells also record other information like the experiences and history of one's "life"? If so, the genetic recording may be passed on from one generation to generation. Not everyone has the ability to unlock the stored information. For those who can do so, will probably be able to describe the past lives vividly.

Planking - practice makes perfect

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Posted to Herald Sun (19/5/2011) on 18/5/2011 at 10:53 PM
Commenting on "Simon Hallam in coma after accident, but police rule out planking"
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/simon-hallam-in-coma-after-planking-accident/story-e6frf7jo-1226058472796
Planking - the craze of today. It is the top item in a bucket list.

Choose the most comfortable position and the most exciting place to practise. Without practice, you won't be able to write in your will how you want to be placed in your coffin when you kick the bucket or fall from the 7th floor like the pioneer from Queensland.

Don't wait, do it now. Practice makes perfect!

56-year-old Dickinson's raunchy outfit leaves very little to the imagination

Posted to Daily Mail (15/5/2011) on 15/5/2011 at 11:11 PM (Not published)
Commenting on “Isn't it time to dress your age Janice? 56-year-old Dickinson's raunchy outfit leaves VERY little to the imagination”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1387114/Janice-Dickinson-56-raunchy-outfit-leaves-VERY-little-imagination.html

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! If she feels good to dress that way, good on her. At least she has more guts than many people! Life is too short to bitch about, let's live life to fullest!

Health, education big losers in Budget

Posted to Melbourne Leader (9/5/2011) on 13/5/2011 at 12:39 PM (Not published)
Commenting on “Health, education big losers in Budget, says Pike”
http://melbourne-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/health-education-big-losers-in-budget-says-pike/

I really wonder all those successful early pioneers, scholars and business people asked for money from the Government for school reconstruction, improved community health centre or alike.

People of today lack the concept of self-sufficiency, creativity, sense of pride and dignity. People in power should be caned for wasting public money, making false promises, dishonesty, irresponsibility and lack of integrity.

Are people spending too much time in whinging and forgetting about doing constructive and productive work, like teaching the students the basic literacy and numeracy skills in order to build a good education foundation; keeping an eye on the children so that they become more responsible in what are doing rather than waiting for the police to put them away; looking after their own health so that a narrow mirror will be good enough to reflect their image; communicating with the business people how to grow their businesses instead of causing more misery to their lives and livelihood?

VET needs funding upgrade

Posted to The Australian (4/5/2011) on 8/5/2011 at 12:12 PM
Commenting on “VET needs funding upgrade”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/vet-needs-funding-upgrade/story-e6frgcko-1226049332247>

Skills funding is going to be another humongous news on how service providers ripping-off the system. According to a source, this is already happening, with at least one provider signing off and issuing two to three thousand certificates in a year with hardly any students require attending a class, online or otherwise.

The funding model is a joke, too. Some programs are receiving both state and federal funding at the same time, which was once a cardinal sin known as double dipping.

The demise of international students coming to “study” makes some surviving service providers to become smarter by offering degree courses, in order to accommodate the so called “competent learners” to hang around longer. Hopefully the degrees, some of which are not worth the paper that is written on, will help to these desperate ones achieve their goal in getting permanent residency PR.

Computer technology creates bigger crooks in the education sector, and plagiarism is so widespread and getting more and more difficult to detect. One wonders how many “trained learners” who are deemed competent and become professional, are developing computer programs full of bugs which cost millions of dollars due to downtime or customers going to competitors; providing financial advices causing huge financial write-down of large institutions and livelihood ruin of ordinary mums and dads; building houses that crack or collapse with small earth movement, etc.

In the name of perceived cost saving and following the Jones’ trend, many service providers offer online courses. In reality online learning system is a false economy - it wastes more precious resource known as time, encourages slap-dash assessment and worst of all no one can tell who is really at the other end attending the course or doing the work!

No longer only the VCE examination solutions can be purchased from Victorian market, so the story goes, post graduate thesis are written by professional for a fee. Honest system only works well with honest people.

David Stewart would have beat the hell out of Osama bin Laden, then shot him

Posted to Herald Sun (5/5/2011) on 5/5/2011 at 9:12 AM
Commenting on "David Stewart would have beat the hell out of Osama bin Laden, then shot him"
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/cia-hints-gruesome-photo-of-dead-osama-bin-laden-could-be-released/story-e6frf7lf-1226050074126

If bin Laden's daughter witnessed her father and mother being killed unarmed, do you expect them not to take revenge? So, when is the world going to have peace? If the Pakistani's sovereign right is violated, and it seems other countries experience the same, we can be next. Military people or secret agents going round shooting civilians unintentionally are just no difference from terrorists. Shoot and kill is not the act of civilised people.

Osama bin Laden's death is not time to party

Posted to Herald Sun (4/5/2011) on 4/5/2011 at 2:38 PM (Not published by Newspaper)
Commenting on “Osama bin Laden's death is not time to party”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/this-is-not-a-time-to-party/story-e6frfhqf-1226049441564

Was it a coincidence that the President of the United States of America, British strongest ally, was not invited to the wedding of Prince William and Catherine, and that the mission to kill Bin Laden was conducted after the world’s grandest occasion? The British Monarch and the family along with millions of people around the world would be up in arms (not military one) if the death of Bin Laden were to overshadow the wedding ceremony and celebration.

How can we be sure that Bin Laden’s body is at the bottom of the sea, or presumably has been consumed by some sea creatures? This is just another mystery as intriguing as the Roswell aliens.

Presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a legal right of the accused in a criminal trial. We have never heard authenticated recordings about his admission of his masterminding the 9/11 disaster. Now that he is dead, so the world has been told, there is no way to hear his confession in person, or prove each element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.

Closer to home, David Hicks who was convicted on charges in 2001 of providing material support for terrorism but finally released on 29 December 2007 should not have been prosecuted due to political interference in the case by the Bush administration in the United States and the Howard government in Australia.

1 May 2011 is a sad day for legal and judiciary systems for countries including Australia who celebrated Osama Bin Laden’s death.