Well, this topic is mostly the lyric of the songs i like lor, if u like it also then feel free to copy. also let me know some that u like lah, this one is 丁香花

I listened to this song only once when i was in Fuzhou during the winter lunch. I fell in love liao. Only today Chan helped me to get the lyric. Thanks Chan and also Yong Yong in Chongqing :)).

丁香花你说你最爱丁香花

因为你的名字就是它

多么忧郁的花,

多愁善感的人啊,

当花儿枯萎的时候,

当画面定格的时候,

多么娇嫩的花,

却躲不过风吹雨打,

飘啊摇啊的一生,

多少美丽编织的梦啊

就这样匆匆你走啦,

留给我一生牵挂

那坟前开满鲜花是你多么渴望的美啊,

你看那漫山遍野,你还觉得孤单吗?

你听那有人在唱那首你最爱的歌谣啊,

尘世间多少繁芜,从此不必再牵挂.

院子里栽满丁香花,开满紫色美丽的鲜花,

我在这里陪着她,一生一世保护她

Again, they changed the date for the Engliosh Camp ...

I met E this morning that they are considering to go to Hong Kong for during the summer holidays. Who cares ? i don't own any hotel in Penang nor i am in the business line. Wherever they want to go, they go. He told me it is because of the Disneyland. Oh, here they came up with 9000 bahts for a 3 days Disneyland tour. Good bargain.

The English camp for the MEP pupils have changed  again to 19 this month. Shit, the date is for the elephant festival in Surin lah.Once a year.

Well, this is part of the life in Thailand. Xiao Gu said that i complained about China and now complian about Thailand. Sp the two countries management are not too far away, in fact, very similiar.

Hahaha, i forgot the class time table and i was happily having coffee at Uncle Ooi's shop and when i went back to school....

The P 6/3 boy Apisit, a boy who likes challenging materials and never give up. He says he is not Chinese blood, but his face look like the lang Qia ah pek, don't know lor.he was the first one to question me for my absence. I did not understand his Thai language.

Anne came down on the stairs and also asked me why not going into the class. I told her i was going then. She told me the class was over and then i realised that i missed the class.

I told the class that i was going to makeup for them during the lunch break. But later felt that if i could give them the worksheet two, they don't have to stay there tomorrow.

Fine, will try when the sun comes out.

美国处处与共产党为敌，与新中国为敌。造成了现在的两岸分治的情况，甚至还存在着

　　两岸分裂的可能。真可谓罪大恶极。但从中国发展的实际进程和效果来讲，确实有必要

　　在以下的一些方面感谢美国：

　　1. 首先要感谢美国扔下两颗原子弹，杀死日本的几十万平民迫使日本无条件投降，使 得中国提早获得抗战的胜利。

　　2. 感谢美国使得我国的最大敌人俄罗斯处于休克状态。是美国的经济及民主战导致了 苏联的分裂和俄罗斯实力的大幅下降。短时间内消除了我国北方的严重威胁。

　　3. 美国与中国直接和间接的打了朝鲜和越南战争，给新中国机会证明自己是一个有实 力的大国。从这一点来讲要感谢美国。自此以后中国就不是随意让人凌辱欺负的国家了。

　　4. 感谢美国发动97金融风暴和98俄罗斯金融危机，使得中国及时的明白经济必须自主 ，不能照搬外国的理论和模式。也让大家明白掠夺除了军事占领外还可以通过经济手段 来进行。

　　5. 感谢美国的技术封锁。如果美国象支持日本与韩国一样的支持中国，中国现在还会 像日本与韩国一样没有核武器也没有什么神六。是美国的封锁与威胁使得中国发展出了自有的先进技术。

　　6. 美国在中国经济转型大力发展急需能源的时候，制造了石油的高价位状况。这方面 中国也需要感谢美国，因为它使得中国政府清楚明白节能以及能源供应意义，并会在以后的规划与建设中特别注意。还是需要感谢美国。

　　7. 在揭批“四人帮”后，只注意经济效益，使得中国人的理想迷失，民心涣散。是美 国挑动日本来激化中日矛盾，由此而使得中国人的民心重聚一起。这点上要特别感谢美 国。

　　8. 美国为了破坏中国的建设，引诱贪官出逃，并给予贪官移民与居留的保护。贪官的 大量出逃使得中国政府明白腐败的严重性，并相应的制定和改进了反腐措施，使得社会 正朝着有序，廉正的方向走。新加坡和香港是我们学习的榜样。这点也得感谢美国。

　　9. 要感谢美国对中国的计算机技术封锁，它使得中国被迫开发自主的芯片和操作程序 ，无意中也使得美国的计算机定时炸弹计划（美国的核心技术可以让计算机随时停止操

　　作，并可以通过计算机窃取机密）泡汤了。现在又听说平白无故的美国要给中国的什么 微机处理器，中国要千万小心。

　　10. 美国的贸易保护政策使得中国政府明白，原来中国的出口商品大多是低附加值的。 这促使政府改变政策，以后会重视和扶持高附加值的商品生产。这一点说起来也应该感 谢美国。

　　11. 美国所掀起的什么“中国威胁论”，也是我们要感谢的地方。中国威胁论无形中使 得世界明白中国的力量，一个连美国都感到威胁的力量当然是值得重视的。加之现在的

　　美国独断专行，什么伊拉克战争、京都协议、反导协议等等都让世界的其他的国家明显 的感受到了美国的威胁。两种因素的叠加使得中国的国际影响力无形中大为增加。这也 要特别感谢美国。

　　以上的种种虽然是美国针对中国的恶意行为，可却无意中帮助了中国。难道这是天 意？美国所导演的两岸竞争会不会也是这样到时让美国人大失所望？两岸的竞争说不准 就会成为两岸经济发展的动力。

　　要特别强调和感谢的一点是美国的现状和演化模式，充分的说明美国的发展模式完 全不适合中国。看看以前和现在的美国，他们无时不刻的为了大资本家的利益服务。为 了攫取最大的利润，国家成为的资本家的工具，什么战争、杀人、放火、掠夺，最终导 致强大的美国草木皆兵，窘境连连，衰亡之势毕现。现在世界上的大部分人都明白了美 国的发展模式并非良好。感谢美国的演示！

　　辛一山

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环球化步伐日渐加快，任何年龄层工人都必须做好准备，把握每个培训的机会。

http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp051103_504.html

人到中年不中用？

　　社会普遍存在“人到中年容易被裁”的印象，人力部最近发表的数据似乎和这个印象吻合，去年有33.3%被裁退的工人介于40岁至49岁，到今年第二季更提高到34.4%，是所有年龄层比例最高的。

　　不单如此，50岁以上被裁工人的比例也提高了，从去年的26.7%增加到今年的30.9%。相对的，其他年龄层则有下降趋势。

　　在亚历山大医院任职的安占玛（54岁）只有小学程度，在1998年被建屋发展局裁退时只有47岁。

　　她在建屋局的花圃当了20年园丁。由于是单亲母亲，要抚养两个孩子，她被裁后在酒店业当了两年的洗碗工人。

　　她说：“我觉得很多年长者被裁退，并不是因为年纪大，而是没有技能。由于我的教育程度很低，无法胜任建屋局其他工作，唯一的选择是做劳力工作。”

　　2000年，她在人力部协助下加入医院，在医院的德士站协助病人上下车。后来，她掌握简单的电脑知识，能为公众查询基本的病人资料。

　　积极的她还报读了英语课程，提升英文书写能力，以担任更好的工作，赚取更高的薪金。

　　“虽然这么说，我还是觉得年纪大和没有技能的人，总是跟不上社会的步伐，自己真的还得加快脚步才行。”　

裁员人数急速减少

年长工人应感乐观

　　教育部兼人力部政务部长颜金勇说，很多被裁减的工作都是低技能工作，公司重组时，这些工作不是外包，就是自动化，受影响的以年长工人最多。因为公司重组而被裁者，每五人中有三个介于40岁至49岁。

　　去年，制造业工人被裁退的几率最高，尤其是生产部工人，当中有很多是年长工人，这也造成大部分被裁退者是年长者的原因。　　　　　

　　颜金勇目前领导探讨年长工人就业问题劳资政委员会。他说：“由于经济强劲增长，过去两年被裁退的人急速减少，从每1000人的16人减少到9.7人，这是亚洲金融风暴七年来最低的一次。

　　他认为这是值得鼓舞的现象，年长工人应该感到乐观。　　

　　年长工人就业问题劳资政委员会已成立两个工作小组：一个检讨雇佣行为及工资架构，研究如何让年长工人更有竞争力；另一个注重改变雇主和年长工人的观念。

　　委员会也成立8个行业小组，研究如何通过重新改造工作和调整雇佣行为，为年长工人制造更多就业机会。

　针对较多年长工人被裁退趋势，工会认为鼓励工人接受培训是最积极和实际的对策。　　

　　金属工业工友联合会秘书长陈再坤说：“我们在几年前就开始鼓励工友接受培训，当时还很不容易说服他们，现在他们已开始认同培训的重要性。”

　　他说，较多年长工人被裁退是无法避免的，人力部的数据并不令他惊讶。

　　虽然无法提供获培训的人数，陈再坤却强调培训并不是年长工人的专利，环球化步伐日渐加快，任何年龄层工人都必须做好准备，把握每个培训的机会。

　　金属工业工友联合会有2万1000名会员，大约三分之一介于40岁至49岁。

How do I encourage students to be active/interested?

Motivating Students

• How do I encourage students to be active/interested?
• How do I deal with apathetic students?
• How do I get my students to prepare for class?
• How do I motivate students who are not interested in the subject?
• How do I deal with groups who are not functioning well together?
• How do I get students over anxiety about the course?
• How can I recognize different learning abilities and work with them individually?
• How do I create assignments that are challenging but not overwhelming?
• How can I make sure my students have done the reading?
• How will I know if my students are learning?
• How do I inspire students who are only taking my course because the "have to?"
• How can teachers promote excellence and rigor in an encouraging environment?
• To what extent should I care if the class likes or dislikes my teaching style?
• Should class be fun?
• How do I empower students in the classroom?
• http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/motivatingstudents/motivating.html

New teachers will find this the most challenging aspect of their jobs. Students arrive at the classroom, may or may not be prepared with necessary items, and will expect to be taught.
But, without motivation, learning is an elusive goal.

Last updated Friday, 18 January 2002 14:30
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This article's focus is motivation and learning for your child. Read and education yourself.

A person, especially a student in school, needs to become interested and needs a purpose or a motive to learn effectively. The teacher has a responsibility to every student in his class to motivate each one to learn. This can be very difficult and yet the teacher has such a wonderful opportunity to motivate and promote learning.

For a person to learn there has to be a need to learn and sometimes the student doesn't appreciate this need as it needs to be a conscious need. A teacher needs to understand a student's needs and bring each one to an awareness of this need. When he brings this awareness to the student then he can guide the student and hold his interest in the subject he is teaching. There has to be a recognition of need from the student.

There are two kinds of interest, the positive and the negative. When a student has positive interest in learning he is getting value because it is something he wants to obtain. Now if he is only having negative interest he may still learn a small portion of what is being taught but not to the extent of positive interest. The student needs to have a desire all his own to learn and not an outside pressure wanting him to learn. He will strive to learn if his interest is positive.

If the student already has an interest in the subject a wise teacher can make use of these interests. He can work towards achieving holding this motivation for learning. Before a teacher can hold his student's interest he needs to have an understanding of how interests are obtained, and how purposes develop in individuals that cause an appetite for learning. A person's daily life, his character and his personality determine his drive for learning. This interest can lead him to move to action and want to acquire knowledge. He needs a desire or an urge. He also needs an inner drive for the power of knowledge and learning. He also needs the desire to be active, if he is lazy he will not have desire and urge. He needs to desire new experiences and to learn. The desire to achieve needs to be in connection with the desire to be active. For a person to succeed a student needs to make progress and want this progress to continue.

A student also needs to have the desire for approval from his parents, from his teachers and his peers. He need to have the desire for a feeling of accomplishment as this causes him to seek more and more knowledge. He needs to feel

proud about accomplishment.

I have not mentioned all of the desires that lead to motivation and learning but only a few of the primary desires that will be helpful to this process. Motivation and learning go together for achievement.

Many Chinese young students would stay up till dawn to spot the star and hoping to be named after the person who discovers it.

These stars are named...

The Star Online > Lifefocus

Monday October 31, 2005

How stars are named

By D.J. BATZER

Until the first General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1922, the naming or numbering of stars was up to the individual. Since then the IAU has imposed some sort of order on the process. It was also at that meeting that the 88 constellations in use today were agreed upon. 

Occasionally one sees advertisements in certain magazines offering to name a star after a person, for a fee of course. Such naming has no official weight at all and is merely a way of getting money out of the vain. 

People have been naming stars for at least 5,000 years. It was inevitable that the brighter stars would have stories woven around them and that patterns should be seen in the random distribution of the stars in the sky. 

There is no official list of star names and, as astronomy writer Michael Covington has pointed out, some stars have quite a ridiculous number of identifications. Sirius, for example, has 54 and has been included in many sky surveys. It is commonly known as Alpha Canis Majoris. The brightest star in a constellation is called Alpha; the second brightest, Beta; the third, Gamma; and so on – using the Greek alphabet, a system first used by German lawyer Johannes Bayer in the 18th century, although there are a number of exceptions. For example, Omega Centauri is a globular star cluster of about a million stars, but early observers thought it was one star! 

Many star names come from Arabic, often distorted due to mistranslation or printing errors. The bright star Betelgeuse – sometimes pronounced “Beetlejuice” – in the right “shoulder” of Orion, is a transcription of “Ban al-Jawza”, which is a miscopying of “Yad al-Jawza” (Hand of al-Jawza) or possibly “Ibt al-Jawza” (Armpit of al-Jawza) or “Bait al-Qaws” (The Archer’s Quiver). “Al-jawza” could mean “the Giant” or even, according to Covington, “the White Bellied Sheep”.  

A population of infant stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud that have yet to be named.

Albireo, the well-known binary in Cygnus is probably a misprint of Ab Ireo (from Ireo) in a 1515 addition of Ptolemy’s Almagest. The trouble is that we don’t know what “Ireo” means.  

The well-known star Procyon (before the Dog) is so called from Greek because it rises just before the Dog star, which is another name for Sirius Capelia (Goat star) which is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga (the Charioteer) and the furthest north of the first magnitude stars. 

Arcturus, the fourth brightest star, in the constellation Bootes (pronounced Boh-oh-tees) means the Guardian of the Bear. The star Cor Caroli, from the Latin for “the Heart of Charles” in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs) was so named by Edmund Halley in honour of King Charles II on his restoration on May 29, 1660. 

The brightest star in the constellation Eridanus is named Achernar, which comes from the Arabic for “the star at the end of the river”. Eridanus is the mythical river into which Phaethon fell after he lost control of the sun, which he boastfully claimed he could steer across the sky, and was struck down by Zeus. 

The constellation of Gemini (the Twins) is named after the inseparable twins Castor and Polydeuces; the latter is called Pollux, which is the Latin form of the name. Castor is a six-star system, two binaries in mutual orbit with a third binary in orbit around the other two. 

The brightest star in the constellation Hercules is Ras Algethi, which is derived from the Arabic Ras al Jathiyy, meaning “the Head of the Kneeler” although the star was also known as Al Kaib al Ra’i, which comes from the Arabic for “the Shepherd’s Dog”. 

The brightest star in the constellation Leo, Alpha Leonis is usually called Regulus “the Little King” and less commonly called Cor Leonis “the Lion’s Heart”, although both are from Latin. The second brightest star in Leo is Denebola, mentioned above, which comes from the Arabic Al Dhanab al Asad, “the Lion’s Tail”. The third brightest star in Leo is Al Geiba, which is probably a mistranscription of Al Jabbah, “the Lion’s Mane”. 

Vega in the constellation Lyra (the Harp) is the brightest star in the “Summer Triangle”, the other two stars being Deneb and Altair. The name is derived, surprisingly, from the Arabic Al Nasr al Waki, “the Swooping Eagle”.

Why the foreign workers are barred if the Singaporeans can afford to pay and hired them?

Govt to crack down on illegals but S'poreans must do the jobs By Ken Kwek The Straits Times Publication Date : 2005-10-31 The Government will do its best to discourage an over-reliance on foreign workers, including cracking down on employers who hire illegal ones. It will also enhance the value of jobs considered "unglamorous", provided Singaporeans are willing to change their mindsets and take up such positions. This was the message from Raymond Lim, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, and Hawazi Daipi, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Education and Manpower), at a dialogue with more than 300 Nee Soon residents Sunday. Nee Soon MP Ong Ah Heng and Sin Boon Ann, an MP for Tampines GRC, were also on the panel fielding questions from residents after a three-hour visit to the constituency by Lim. Concern about the employment situation in Singapore dominated the discussion, with five out of over 12 questions raised touching on this. Jonathan Lim, a member of Yishun Central Residents Committee, said: "I went to a restaurant recently where most of the waiters were from Malaysia or China. Why don't employers hire more Singaporeans?" Panelist Oh Cheng San, chairman of Nee Soon Citizens Consultative Committee who owns a restaurant, gave the employers' point of view. He said in Mandarin: "It's become harder to employ Singaporeans because many are unwilling to work at the weekend, which is a critical requirement in the services industry." For their part, Singaporeans should not be afraid of "getting their hands a little dirty", said Lim, who is also Second Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs. "No matter what level you start at, you have to get some experience at the front line, because only then will you know what customers want and how services can be improved," he said. He added that the Government was looking at ways to create a scale of progression in the services sector. A national skills certification initiative to boost training in the services sector was announced last week. "For graduates, you'll have a different entry level, perhaps start at trainee level. But the idea is that, wherever you begin, there's a scale of progression. For a waiter, you can rise to captain and maybe even start your own restaurant some day," he said. On helping older and less qualified workers, Hawazi said that both employers and workers had a part to play to boost the job prospects of Singaporeans. He cited the cleaning industry, in which many companies were illegally hiring Bangladeshi workers in excess of the 30 per cent quota on foreign cleaners. "The Government will take action against such companies. But, at the same time, Singaporeans must learn to do jobs that they previously shunned or considered unglamorous," he said. Lim also said the Government would come up with incentives to discourage employers from discriminating against older and less educated workers.