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Social Actors.... who bother now? 2008-01-31 10:15:00 We were discussing Evning Goffman’s Dramaturge concept in perceiving people as “social actors” in their social relationship. The lecturer asked us to give an example of such “acting” strategy under a university student scenario.“A university student wants to stay at campus for more freedom, while his parents concern about his state of being. In order to negotiate what he wants and what he is expected to be, he has to “act” like ….”I have long alienated from university life, but was interested to hear what other students to say. One of our teammates said “at university halls, there are too much sex going on.” Apparently, the lecturer was shocked, much embarrassed too, she didn’t think that had much to do with “acting strategy”.“But, they don’t even act, they just lie to their parents, and their parents don’t know.” he insisted.Privately, I asked that students “Is that allowed in university hall? Is there any authority to interfere?” He told ...

Ann Oakley's Quote 2008-01-12 07:44:00 Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ...

The discussion with sociology professor 2008-01-11 04:31:00 I am taking "culture, self and identity" for this term. I expect this course to be one of most interesting courses in sociology.The first lecture was on "culture". The professor defined "culture" into two types:Culture (big C) and culture with a small c.Then he went on explaining why the human beings as a unique biological specie though with diversified culture, yet share the common Culture (big c), in which each individual needs and relies on for survival and social development.I asked him "What is difference then the big Culture from human nature?"He said "in fact they are the same. however I am hesitated to use human nature as it has moral implication."He then gave the detailed explanation by using evolution theory. The process of which the apes evolved into human beings has the significant effort in determining human beings as biological cultural creatures.After lecturing, I asked him since evolution theory is not universally accepted, there are some other explanation such as in ...

Thank you, Samantha van Norman 2007-12-30 06:33:00 It was after Christmas. My husband brought children for a walk. I stayed at home. They took my digital camera along. They went to river walk and then went to Greatworld city mall for some snack.There were still some Christmas decoration left behind, one particular area was for children to play. My daughter, who held camera, immediately immersed into play. She forgot the camera totally.Only by the time they returned home did she realize she had forgotten the camera at play area. I was very upset, it was my birthday present from my husband and I am really getting used to it. Further more, I blamed my husband to let my daughter holding the camera.My husband returned to the shopping mall, and I and my daughter went after him.Needless to say, I scolded my daughter for being so careless.When we reached the place. The camera was no where to be found. "someone must take it." I said resentfully.My husband went to Information counter to report the loss. But I was really feeling little hop ...

Appeal to all bloggrers 2007-12-23 20:56:00 Some have argued that “since Blog is a private place, one can write whatever he/she likes.” This statement is false and with qualification.First of all, “Is blog a private place?” Blog provides a platform for individuals self expression, that can be a very constructive and innovative, but it is by no means “private”. The statistics plainly shows how many visitors hit a blog. Blog has become a New Media challenging the traditional moral and political regime. It has also exposed the mass the great perilous danger of evil. Therefore, we need to exercise due care and caution. As a blog, we owe the mass a moral duty of what we write and post here.Secondly, though we are now in the time of individualism. Without prejudice of one’s freedom of expression and writing, every social being is subject to the moral and legal rules and regulation in any given societies. No one lives on island. One should take responsible of his /her actions of public consequences. While law exercises ...

Be aware of such blogs 2007-12-18 23:11:00 I was greatly disturbed as I came across one of popular blogs called “private garden” written by a woman, in which she claims that she does not care what others think “it was only for herself.” To my horror and disgust, she described the multiple accounts in detail of her sex experiences with many men.Sex and love, by nature, is holy upon God and man. It is God’s gift for men to treasure and enjoy. it has become, in her pen, the unruly desire by which she is consuming and be consumed. What a sad state for a woman.Unlike other pornography sites, it has an innocent blog look as many others, but the contents are as filthy as any pornography sites. Though she claims “private garden” but in fact it publicly pours poisons to many innocent souls.Be aware of such blogs!That is perhaps one of worst evil of Internet communication brought into our society and our daily life. Blog has become a popular way for people to communicate and a new media, some could be constructive, infor ...

“THINK FAMILY. TALK FAMILY” FORUM 2007-12-17 01:46:00 "Think Family. Talk Family" Forum is scheduled to be aired on Channel News Asia over the following 3 weeks i.e. from 21 Dec 07 till 9 Jan 2008. Thanks to Family Development Group(FDG), Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and National Family Council to make this Forum a success. The two-hour plus forum will be divided into three 30-min episodes. Each episode comprises two different topics culled from the panel discussion. The 1st episode is scheduled to be aired at 7.30 pm (prime-time) on Friday, 21 Dec with 3 repeat telecasts on Sat (12.30 pm), Sun (12.30 am) and Wed (5.30 pm). The 2nd episode will be shown on 28s Dec and the 3rd episode on 4 Jan 2008 with repeats. Kindly refer to the following table for the broadcasting schedule. Episode Initial Broadcast Repeat Broadcast Repeat Broadcast Repeat Broadcast TimeFri, 7.30 pm Sat, 12:30 pm Sun, 12.30am Wed, 5.30 pm1 21 Dec 22 Dec23 Dec 26 Dec 2 28 Dec 29 Dec 30 Dec 2 Jan 2008 3 4 Jan 2008 5 Jan 2008 ...

Home 2007-12-15 03:18:00 It looks likely that we will have to move from our home of seven years. Seven years ago, when our daughter was just born, we moved here Horizon Tower, I well remembered that after tiresome moving, we vowed that we should not move again till our children grow up. Now our four children will have to miss their familiar neighbourhood and their friends. It will be a new chapter for our children and our family. Nonetheless, we have to look ahead and move on and put behind all the behind. What we will treasure and miss most is that the relationship with our neighbours. Many will find in fact Horizon Tower is a nice place to stay. ...

HORIZON TOWERS SAGA 2007-12-10 01:01:00 Weekend • December 8, 2007Tan Hui Lenghuileng@mediacorp.com.sgTHE applicants' prayer is granted.And with those words, the Strata Titles Board (STB) declared on Friday that the highly-contested en bloc sale of Horizon Towers will go through despite objections from its minority owners.STB deputy president Philip Chan took less than 10 minutes to announce the board's final ruling and the reasons for approving the sale application this time round, after rejecting it in August on a technicality."The board's decision is as follows, the applicants' (majority owners) prayer is granted … the board is of the opinion that the respondents (the minority owners) have not made out their respective cases as a matter of fact," he told about 90 people, including 70 condo owners, who had packed the room at the STB office in Maxwell Road.A palpable sense of subdued relief could be detected in the room after he finished talking. Amid the silence, a lone woman clapped.A few condo owners looked dejec ...

Finally, Horizon Towers en bloc sale gets go-ahead 2007-12-10 00:45:00 Dec 8, 2007Strata Titles Board rejects objections from minority owners, who have a month to appealBy Joyce TeoAFTER months of sometimes bitter wrangling, the collective sale of Horizon Towers looks set to go ahead.The latest chapter of the saga drew to a close yesterday when the Strata Titles Board (STB) granted an order for the $500 million sale to proceed.This is in time for the sale of the 99-year leasehold Leonie Hill estate to be wrapped up before a Dec 11 deadline.The buyers are Hotel Properties (HPL) and partners Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Qatar Investment Authority.The minority owners objecting to the sale have one month to appeal against the decision. They have yet to indicate if they will do so.The Horizon Towers saga started earlier this year because several owners were unhappy with the sale price given that prices had surged by the time the HPL-led consortium bought the site at the $500 million reserve price.The buyers, who had earlier filed a lawsuit against the majori ...

This mum doesn't believe in keeping kids happy 2007-12-10 00:42:00 I REFER to the article, 'Most S'pore kids are happy: Study' (ST, Nov 30).In the study, children were asked if they felt happy often and whether they had fun. As the majority indicated that they were happy, the study concluded that our children are generally emotionally healthy. A comment was also made that working mothers can now rest easy.I find this disturbing because it implies that our main task as parents is to ensure that our children are happy. As a mother of two, I know it does not take much work to make my children happy. All I need to do is turn on the TV and give them their favourite snacks and require them to do absolutely no work at all.I contend that as a mother, it is not my job to make my children feel happy but rather my job is to keep them unhappy.They are unhappy when I limit their intake of sugary foods and TV time because they are bad for them. They are unhappy when I do not allow them to have their way all the time or buy them whatever toy they want.They are un ...

The latest research on working women. 2007-11-27 11:01:00 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women"In the span of the past decade, full-time work outside the home has lost some of its appeal to mothers. This trend holds both for mothers who have such jobs and those who don't.Among working mothers with minor children (ages 17 and under), just one-in-five (21%) say full-time work is the ideal situation for them, down from the 32% who said this back in 1997, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Fully six-in-ten (up from 48% in 1997) of today's working mothers say part-time work would be their ideal, and another one-in-five (19%) say she would prefer not working at all outside the home. ....Meantime, even as mothers have grown less enamored with full-time work, a new division of opinion has opened up between working moms and at-home moms on the question of whether it's good or bad for society that more mothers are working outside the home.A decade ago, nearly identical pluralities of both groups (38% among at-home moms; 39% amon ...

With longer lifespans, women can have kids first, careers later: MP 2007-11-21 22:42:00 Nov 12, 2007By Lynn LeeAS PEOPLE live longer and retire later, women should consider putting their careers on hold to have children first, said a woman MP.They will have plenty of time to focus on their jobs later, said Mrs Josephine Teo, an MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.Mrs Teo, who has a son aged nine and twin daughters aged seven, was responding to concerns raised at a dialogue with PAP leaders over the low birth rate, despite national efforts to boost it.The efforts have ranged from cash to tax incentives, including a parenthood package worth $575million in 2005.But the increase in the birth rate has been small: There were 400 more babies in 2005 than the year before.Last year, 36,200 babies were registered, 700 more than those born the year before.Mrs Teo urged young couples to relook the conventional approach of putting career before children, as lifespans stretch.'If we think of...85 and beyond being a likelihood, what is the hurry to do the things that can be done later?'I woul ...

How to get housewives, retirees back to work? New fund may help 2007-11-21 22:35:00 Nov 15, 2007Firms can tap $3 million fund for initiatives aimed at pool of 600,000 potential workersBy Keith LinEVERY hour, two security officers patrol the Tradehub 21 industrial park in Boon Lay Way - on bicycles.But this could change soon. Their bosses want to introduce golf buggies as a way of attracting more older workers to join the company.KH Security Agency sees it as the solution to the uphill task of getting workers.Yesterday, eyes lit up when news broke of a new fund that promises to give companies up to $100,000 to implement flexible or part-time measures at the workplace.The $3 million government fund, called the Flexi-Works! scheme, was launched yesterday and is aimed at coaxing housewives and retirees to work again.It received loud cheers from companies like KH Security. Said its operations manager Gary Harris: 'This is timely given the dire manpower shortage facing our industry, especially after strict rules were introduced following the Sept 11 attacks on who we can h ...

What is fair and objective report? 2007-11-10 01:23:00 It was the second day of STB resumed Horizon Tower Hearing, here is the report from Business Times:Horizon Towers sale could be timed out by tribunal decision STB says it is not bound to rule by sale completion date; lawsuit looms By MICHELLE QUAH (SINGAPORE) The Strata Titles Board (STB) tribunal has delivered a startling decision that could spell the end of the en bloc sale of Horizon Towers. The ruling could in turn resurrect the $1 billion lawsuit filed by the buyers against the sellers.Tribunal chairman Philip Chan announced yesterday that the board was under no legal obligation to rule on whether to approve the collective sale on or before Dec 11, the sale completion date.This means, if the tribunal chooses to make a decision only after Dec 11, the sale agreement between the buyers and the sellers will lapse - and the en bloc sale will collapse.The decision took many observers by surprise since a ruling after the sale completion deadline would effectively render the role of the t ...