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Hello world.

Exams are just looming around the corner, and I'm still preparing for it. Very busy!
Progress.
Maths - 70%
Stats - 90%
PBF - 50% (the rest are memorising ones, just read through only though.)
Econs - 50% (I thought I already understood the whole shit, until I attended the UOL external lecturer's lesson, everything back to squareONE. No lah, just need to answer more in depth lol.)
IR - ?% (Since IR is a debatable subject, and I'm roughly done with the concepts, all there's left is the knowledge of world issues.)

3rd April was Carson's birthday. Well we gave him a surprise at his house, all thanks to Mel's idea :). Ate some cake and we had the heartiest talk among all of us since a very long time ago. It was casual, some talk of their impending marriage ie; Guoliang, some out of this world stuff, and digging out each other's stupid past and laughing about it.
You know these kind of stuffs when you do when you were young, and looking back at what you did, its just deserves a good laugh.

There has been a lot of talk and criticism of the impending pay increase of singapore's goverment officials. Namely the ministers in our cabinet holding various appointments?
Is it worth the increase?
Is it the cause of the GST hike?
A superficial scan of the issue, you know, I'm not very good at this. I'm just posting my thoughts about it. I don't want to think too deep about this.
An increase in our minister's pay.
The Good
1) An anti-corruption move. With such a huge paycheck, there would be no incentives for corruption.
2) A heavier paycheck could pressure the various ministers to be more efficient, thus pushing individual government offices to work more efficiently. Think administration time.
3) Heavier paychecks could also mean ministers have more pressure to produce results. Think results as new government policies benefitting the mass public, changes to the social, education & welfare system.
The Bad
1) A bigger income gap? Considering Singapore has one of the biggest income gap in the region.(I think so, 42% ?)
2) Not a good move considering the psychological state of people from low income bracket. Could intensify their anti-government thoughts. Vote for WP? lol.
3) As what is happening now, people ranting about what good the increase would bring to the benefit of the mass public. Is there a need to increase? If there's no improvement in efficiency I probably think there would be a mass public outcry.
I haven't read about the Parliament meetings and the government's replies to the public outcry yet. I'm lazy.

Disclaimer: I'm just a newbie typing my thoughts. Just plain bullshit analysis of the issue. Please don't take it too seriously and don't take me to court. Please :(

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Albert Vorne - Ares (Mac Zimms remix)
Andre Visor & Dark Moon - Beautiful People (Stoneface & Terminal remix)
Bedrock - Heaven Scent (Greg Downey remix)
Sasha - Xpander (Mark Norman remix)
Josh Wink - Higher State (Marco V remix)
Enmass - CQ (2007 remix)
Axel Karakasis - Liquid Lifeform
Axel Karakasis - Reset Settings
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Umek - Faithful nights
Remo feat Chelonis r' Jones - Empire
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Some old school shite

posted by zann @ 10:56 PM