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Wednesday, August 3

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we bloggies are a bunch of unstoppable force which is proliferating and mushrooming as we speak. referring to the straits times' report on petition power in the digital life section today, blogging is one of the many mediums singaporeans these days choose to communicate. other methods include sms and online petition. we make our stand and allow people who actually visit the website comment on it, like a little forum.

the internet, to me, is the greatest invention in the last decade. i think it came out in 1997, cant really remember. (someone pls tell me) it brings people together, connects web viewers from one end of the world to the other. what i find interesting, is the fact that internet is still free, thou i believe they get paid by internet service providers who actually earn quite alot because there are so many of us who are actually hooked onto the web every single day. well, from what i understand, they actually laid cables underground throughout the world right? so basically the whole world is connected by these huge cables which run underground.

the virtual world is a vast land unbounded by any government. we are free to own a little piece of it for free, but if you want a piece of it forever, (like buying freehold apartments) you actually pay for your little area. this is so intriguing because it happened in the real world, and the pioneers actually want the same thing to happen to internet. however, as internet gets more coverage over the world, more people actually find so many services on it they actually can forget about going to the supermarket or malls for their shopping, paying bills can just be as easy as one click away. of course, the more downside of internet might be the hackers who usually loomed around, ready to pounce any minute. somehow, the security on the net is always able to take them in hand at the quickest time possible. lets just safely indulge onto this huge web for the rest of our lives..

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the government decided to ban smoking on places like coffee shops and hawker centres by july 2006. its a good move for non-smokers. it doesnt really make any difference to me, my smoker friends obviously dont like that stupid idea. but my doubt now would be asking what the government's motives are.

1. to start to restrict smoking areas and eventually ban smoking in singapore so as to eradicate the sale of tabacco here?
2. to force the smokers to quit?
3. encourage more people to smoke in the process to remove this ban
4. to create a greener and cleaner environment so that passive smokers dont get sick and die

actually all the possible reasons i proposed point to one direction. but that is going to cause more problems in the midst of it. like what they mentioned in the papers on monday, business in hawker centres will be greatly affected. and steps like hiking the prices of cigarettes would only be futile. people always find alternatives themselves.

why then do they want to make the dateline till july next year? why not jan 06?

- so that smokers got more time to kick that habit they have been hanging on for years?
- or because they want people to start planning for days without cigarettes?
- for smokers to start a clan where they can sit down and smoke all day?

this debate remains open. lets just sit down and see what happens next.

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