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Really enjoy watching his video. Our MDA already quite jialat, but over there, the chinese got it more worst with censorship. Special appearance by Steven Lim at the end, :D

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/grieved-when-baby-born-blind-visually-impaired-world-possibility-15002458 Read the article this morning. Super mum and super dad! Amazing parents and child. Hope they can be an inspiration for everyone. Value your loved.

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Received this news from friend and would like to share with you all ...... In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don't have. Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say, "I want to be slim." Skinny people say," I want to be fatter." Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have. Half Man - Half Price Store ~ The Story of Peng Shuilin PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province , China. In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half. His lower body and legs were beyond repair. Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth. He survived against all odds. Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade. Considering Peng's plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing devised an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body, with two bionic legs attached. It took careful consideration, skilled measurement and technical expertise. Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitation Centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a re-sized walking frame. RGO is a recipicating gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket. There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backwards. Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist and the leg without the weight on it advances, while the other one stays still, giving a highly inefficient way of ambulation. Peng so satisfying to 'walk' again after ten years with half a body! Hospital vice-president Lin Liu said: "We've just given him a checkup; he is fitter than most men his age." Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store. The inspirational 37-year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees. At just 2ft 7ins tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lectures on recovery from disability. His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain. "He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down." You have a whole body. You have feet. Now you have met a man who has no feet. His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity. Next time you want to complain about something trivial. Remember Peng Shulin instead.

I just happen to look through this series of pictures in Somalia...... I thank God for what I have in SG. Shouldn't complain about this and that...... imagine your kid ends up looking like this? What worse can it gets? http://sg.news.yahoo.com/photos/somali-chi...%253B_ylv%253D3

From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...isturb_her.html Aggressive dad shouts at woman complaining about his son in restaurant A man became aggressive and 'looked like he was about to punch' a woman complaining about his son, said STOMPer bystander. The woman was ranting at the parents of a boy who had apparently disturbed her meal at Bukit Panjang Plaza. The STOMPer was having lunch when the incident happened on Saturday (Jul 23). He sent in a video and said: "Ugly Singaporeans. "This happened during lunch time, about 1pm and the whole incident lasted for about 15 minutes. "It seems that a 7-year-old boy was hitting the wall behind the woman in blue when the woman got mad and started ranting at his parents. "She raised her voice, complaining his parents did not teach him properly. She also became quite aggressive during the course of her rant. "The man in a sleeveless top and his wife (woman in black) are the parents of the little boy. "The man looked like he was about to punch the woman in blue, but he didn't. He was just trying to defend his son, who stood there and cried the whole time while the woman ranted about his behaviour and pointed at him. "I am not sure if she had actually scolded him directly before ranting at his parents. "The video was taken at the middle of their argument. Later, a security guard came and told them to take it elsewhere. "The woman in blue and the man in white with her walked away, but the woman kept shouting back at the parents of the boy as she left. "Some members of the public tried to break up the argument, but to no avail. "The woman in blue was just being unreasonable by going on and on and on, telling the parents to teach their children properly. "I felt she blew up a small matter. It was not wrong of her to tell the parents to discipline their son, but she didn't need to scream."

Saw a post from the complaining of FT below. Earn 5k at the age of 25. I wonder how many of us graduate here can get 5k a mth after we graduate in 6 yrs ago. Pls share your thought. http://forums.salary.sg/income-jobs/1192-6-2k-not-enough-two.html 6.2k not enough for two? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: I came to Singapore at age 25 earning 5K a month in 2005. The money was more than enough for a bachelor sharing a 5 room HDB apt with 2 other bachelor friends whom I knew from India. I always had enough to go out for parties at CQ, trips with friends, the odd date now and then(unfortunately few and far between) and yet save 2.5 k a month. Of course rent and cost of living were low. Difference between my life in India and Singapore, were that I had more money to spend, but in India at 25% of the salary I could afford to get someone to cook for me, someone else to clean the house and do the laundry and a third person to wash my car once a week. Fast forward to 2011, I make just under 6.2k. I'm married and my wife is unemployed. I am still renting an HDB, but the smallest possible configuration. Taking a PR was the biggest mistake. Company reduced my salary by the amount they need to contribute. On top of that employee contribution from my salary. Now I barely save 1K a month, that too by penny pinching to an extraordinary degree. Barely going out. Travel only by bus/MRT. No cabs for personal purposes. Eating out means at the food court. Only 1 trip a year and that too back home to visit our parents. My college friends in India (in the IT industry) earn roughly around 3.5k to 4k in SGD terms. They live in posh apartments which they own(still have to pay the mortgage). Have servants, can afford to take vacations to places like Phuket, Bali, Egypt, Dubai and are basically enjoying life. So my new year resolution is to leave Singapore by the middle of this year and try to get a job in India to chase the Indian dream. My singapore dream has turned sour in the last 3 years. So the point was.... 5.5 K is not enough for an Indian family living an upper middle class life in India. 3K SGD will go a long way in India. Its only just above penury in singapore.

I highly encourage all bros and sis to KPKB. Cuts down on blood pressure.................. Today dammmnnn hot! Stuck in a coffeeshop while waiting for my car to be polished ........... $20 only so cannot expect too much. Over and out.

I see more and more complaint threads about how our standard of living is deteriorating , costs going ballastic, inefficient policies, lousy MIW etc etc But I somehow think all these people are already part of the 33.3% leh........ The majority is still either: Silent Bo Chap Or simply think these complaint threads are started by those who cannot keep up, the quitters and the "people who should just shut the fcuk up cos they cannot think of a better solution" .................. True or not?

Some 'too free'....'don't know what to do'... Stomper named psp1000 posted pictures and complaint about a man walking his husky in Punggol...saying how come this man can keep a husky as pet!..when farking HDB rules say cannot! Now the poor guy will probably lose his beloved husky just becos of such 'bo liao' ppl. Real bartxxds living in the heartlands... HDBs rules are for morons...which just as well highlight why there are many unpleasant ppl who reside in it! Why ppl just can't leave others who do no harm to them, alone? http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singapor...nt.jsp?id=24445

Got this email from a colleague, really wakes me up