This marks my second blog. The first was a tame means to pass time and it served it's purpose well. I'll keep the randomness of my posts, I believe that worked well, but I intend to spread the scope a bit.
If there is anything in the blog that offends you, please alert me immediately, and I will endeavor to have you blocked. Thanks.
So looking thru the local papers I'm seeing a QC throwing himself at the mercy of his peers. All because he was willing to bare it all in the pursuit of justice. My first response was, what's the big deal, lawyers are known worldwide as the scum of the earth, but to hear that this incident was still getting precious media time was shocking.
Why aren't the legal eagles placing emphasis on the hundreds if not thousands of people with moneys tied up by lawyers in land sales, the most obvious abuse (but certainly not the only one) these guys perpetrate?
Schupes, in fact, the system might be better off if more people skinned their tail at the inequalities that pervade our society.
Why is it that we can't get anywhere and conduct a simple transaction and return in our lunch hour? It's damn impossible these days with the traffic. All hours of the day, the roads are cramped.
I took two hours to get from warrens to Sheraton to garrison and back. Why? Cause on the south coast I got into a line of traffic that simply wasn't moving. I had to turn back and fight the traffic that was crawling, the better option apparently.
I think we need special half days to conduct business, or later opening hours, or maybe even 24hour opening, or online payments of bills.
So I stumbled across this documentary about education reform in the US and i found it extremely interesting because it 1. highlights that the problems we have in Bim aren't isolated to Bim and 2. there are people who have semed to make some progress with the problem.
They've highlighted some key things
Great teachers are key
An enabling environment is essential
We must all act
Wonder how hard it would be to get similar program going in Bim. I think our education system is screwed for a simple reason, we shooting in the wrong direction. I'm not convinced that gaining an 'education' for higher pay without making a higher contribution can be maintained, yet its the mantra of the current student or prospect. Education needs to be viewed as a tool to advance some cause otherwise it will just be another cliche in our monotonous lives.
Secondly, we need to accept the fact that education is no longer restricted to the classroom. With the technology that teems around us, we need to start using it for more than Angry Birds and Facebook. No longer are we bound to libraries, university and college campuses; in order to access the information we need. Online tutorials in Youtube, lectures on Podcasts, books and scholarly material on Google Scholar. But some people with all there iPads, Blackberry and Android smartphones, netbooks, etc can't even seem to open the onboard dictionary.
Anyway, here is the trailer. Full movie is available on Netflix [not sure where else but i sure you can dig around and find it].
Feel free to explain why my thoughts are whack ...
Firstly, let me put this post into context. The 'Catch of the day' is intended to share some of the best items I've found on the internet with my blog. It was born out of a [bad] habit i had of emailing masses of info to people but never was quite sure if they were interested in it or not. Nevertheless, here it goes ...
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12 Basic Shortcuts That Will Make You An Excel Guru And Add Hours To Your Life
So I've been standing on the edge far a while so I am taking the plunge finally. This is just a first post to assist in the config but if you're reading this, it means step 1 is complete.
