In this post, topics/contents would be divided into 3 portion:

• With regards to my reason in believing that returning to school as scheduled is better than the other options.
• CIP duty and CCK NLB.
• House Visit at LCL's.

To explain my stand better to every one out there who have same sentiments as 'xoxo' (whoever he/she is), this portion of my post would further support my stand with clearer explanations.

We could easily have those people who have come back from other countries to be quarantine. Further more, schools can carry out daily temperature checks to ensure students are cleared of H1N1. The government is able to trace the cases of H1N1 outbreaks and prevent it from spreading. Being responsible citizens, it is our responsibility to take care of our health and if symptoms of H1N1 arises, we should take the necessary precautions and visit a doctor.

If everyone is responsible, why would there be a need to close schools. Of course, one can argue that we S'poreans are mostly irresponsible, as seen from the repeated cases of people returning from infected countries running around in public even though symptoms have been showed.

So should we be seen as a group of irresponsible citizens or should we do and act like a responsible citizen of our motherly nation? Why do have to depend on the government to plan out such a major operation to close all schools just to prevent the spread when the citizens health is our own responsibility.

Do we as S'poreans really need that kind of treatment.

To end my case, we should all be responsible and not be overly reliant of our government. By reopening schools as scheduled, the nation would also not be thrown into chaos. Let me ask you, even if schools are closed, would everyone stay in their homes and not go out in public? Unless this is possible, closing of schools, to me, seems so insignificant and meaningless to be carried out. It all once again, boils down to each and everyone responsibility.

Refering to 'xoxo', Japan's government did not take appropriate measures to counter the increasing number of infections, there were major flaws in it's guidelines.

Under the revised guidelines, the government basically allows every medical institution in the country to see new-flu patients and for people with mild symptoms to recuperate at home.

The government will also stop counting all individual infections and focus instead more on early detection of group infections.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/19/content_11567604.htm

So but of course its situation would not be kept under controlled. But if S'pore was to learn from their experiences, we can easily turn the situation in our favour.

CIP DUTY at CCK NLB.
Doing it with Derrick had made things a lot more interesting and fun. Did roving again but Derrick's company made it a lot different and relaxing. We chat while doing roving, whispering of course. We practically talked about everything and anything we could come up with. I did the job a lot more better in such an environment too. Derrick and I were pushing the duty on whom should inform those offenders, end up I did most of it.

After an hour or so I did E-Kiosk duty, rendering help to anyone who might need it. It was this group of girls. around my age, who was using the E-Kiosk. They couldn't figure it out why they couldn't finish the transaction with their EZ-Link card. Then after which only did I came over and saw did I know what was actually happening. They didn't read the announcement on the paper staring right in front of them that the new EZ-Link cards does not work at the E-Kiosk. It's no surprise now that why S'poreans are known to have a poor reading culture when they don't even read a short notice that was staring right in front of them, even though there was pictures on it too.

I had quite a lot of fun doing CIP with Derrick and now I'm down with 1 more hour of CIP to do to complete my 8 hours of CIP to be done this year. Might just drop down at Bukit Timah library to do CIP with Derrick, Zhi Ting, KT and Leonard this Thursday.


House Visit at LCL's
It was an interesting visit and we actually encountered quite a lot of problems while trying to get the laptop started up. We couldn't even start the windows in the beginning as the system seems to disallow us to type in the password. No either why. However, at the end of it all when we were done, we couldn't see any problem with the laptop, and we could type in the password. Hopefully it doesn't go faulty again, only then Derrick wouldn't be called up by LCL again.

There was something wrong with wireless connection too. In the end, we chose to connect the laptop to the modem via ethernet cable instead. Saved the time from trying to get over the problem with the wireless connection. It just didn't seem to work out right you see, so might as well bypass it if it was worth it. LCL would have to call up the Service Provider (Singtel) to cancel off the wireless plan to a normal one. She is paying $4 extra each month for the wireless modem and now that she ain't using wireless, might as well change it to a normal one. Hopefully it works out right for her.

She made us pomelo drink that she said she bought it from Korea I think. It was pretty much just that there were atachi in it. I don't like atachi at all, had always hate it, so in the end I gave Derrick all of them.

Below are two videos that Der and I took while we were eating at LJS after we have done our CIP duties at CCK NLB and before heading for LCL's condo.