Soldiers please come home safely

Name:        CHAN, Sin Fong

Subject:     Soldiers please come home safely!

Visit Time: 25/05/2006 11:39 AM

Remark:

I'm deeply saddened by all the wars going on around us! Today 25/5/06, our Australian soldiers are sent to East Timor help to curb the civil unrest in the country.

Far too many people in the world, using their principles, believes, and power to justify their lives to be more valuable than others. Why can't everyone's mind set be changed to accommodate love to come into his/her heart, and let peace be the guiding principle?

I sincerely hope that all our soldiers on tours of duty abroad will come home safely to their love ones.

Budget and economy 2006/07

Name:        CHAN, Sin Fong

Subject:     Budget and Economy 2006/07

Visit Time: 9/05/2006 1:39 AM

Remark:

Let commonsense prevail! Anyone with a gramme of grey matter in his/her head would have guessed that the Australian economy is not as robust and strong as many gurus have predicted.

Ask the many underemployed who want to work and do not find additional hours of employment, or the students cum retrenched workers in the TAFE colleges who have no choice but to study again; the rosy pictures are rosy no more.

The first home buyer grant and rebate offered by the State and Federal governments help many to achieve owning their homes sooner, but also created a pool of dreamers who want to own a "house" beyond their reach.

Home ownership is not a necessity - just because one has to live in a house everyday does not mean that he / she needs to own one. Analogously, it does not imply that the same person who eats a variety of food needs to own a grocery shop or a supermarket.

I have spoken to many of my students about the timing of the real estate industry downturn, and the coming of "the recession we do not accept to have". Despite what the treasurer says, and what the Reserved Bank do in the future months, the house prices in Victoria will take a dive. Unemployment rate will continue to climb, leading to big rise in bankruptcy, suicide rate, marriage breakup, burglary and thefts.

History is going to repeat itself - one of the banks is going to be punished heavily for being too generous in lending money to many who can't afford home ownership or property investment.

Tighten your seat belt Australians, we are facing a hard landing!

Take responsibility about your fat children

Name:        CHAN, Sin Fong

Subject:     Take responsibility about your fat children

Visit Time: 5/05/2006 1:01 AM

Remark:

I'm a tax payer who is getting sick of fixing problems of people who keep blaming the society, the mass media, everyone except themselves about making their children taking drugs, speeding on the roads and killing innocent people, making them fat, etc.

In most cases, parents do have more contact hours with their children than outsiders. Why can't they look after the well being of their children better? Don't they know how to use the switch on the power point? Its a matter of turning off the TV if the parents of the fat children don't want the children to know about the Golden Arch, or the old man trying to entice the kids to eat the chook?

Probably there are a lot of readers or audience out there, just like me, would like to spend their money on themselves rather than fixing problems of irresponsible people who keep blaming others for their misbehaviour and arrogance.

If they do not fix their own problems, don't expect others to fix the problems for them - well, definitely from not me!