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Please read the Sin Chew today, the article from 鄭丁賢‧澳洲很大，關丹很小, how precise.

“稀土提煉過程，以及廢料會釋放輻射，這是科學常識。”

Fact: processing of rare earth dispose radioactive and toxic waste.

“用簡單的邏輯來想，澳洲面積是770萬平方公里，全球排名第6，比馬來西亞大出20倍；而澳洲人口只有2千2百萬人，比大馬還少。”

Using a simple logic, Australia land size is about 7,700,000 km² ,the world 6th largest country, bigger than Malaysia 20 times;

and Australia population is only about 22,000,000, less than Malaysia.

“澳洲那麼大，很多地方人跡罕至；萊納應該輕易的找個地方設廠，萬一出事，傷害可以控制在最小的範圍。”

Australia is so big, a lot of places are not populated; Lynas can easily find a good spot to build the plant, if anything happens, casualty and damage can be easily controlled and minimized.”

“關丹這麼小，方圓30公里，人口卻有70萬人；一旦出事，居民往哪兒去？”

Kuantan is so small, within 30km² , the population is already 700,000; if anything happens, where should the people go?

“萊納棄澳洲而就關丹，還必須把澳洲開採的稀土，通過5千多公里的航線，運輸到關丹；成本增加之外，也耗時費日。澳洲人難道那麼缺乏生意頭腦？”

Australia chooses Kuantan for this rare-earth plant, still need to fly the rare-earth over 5000km to Kuantan, the transportation cost, the time consume, ain’t Australian smart enough to calculate all these huge expenses imposed to the business ?

“當然不是，而是因為澳洲把安全放在經濟利益之上。”

Certainly not, it’s because Australia put safety first, on top of $$$.

“大馬政府4部門建議萊納把稀土廢料運回澳洲，或是一廂情願；國際公約禁止廢料跨國運輸，澳洲政府也已聲明不回收稀土廢料。”

Fact: Malaysian government said will transport back the waste to Australia. No, it’s against the international law, as well as Australian government has already said “No” to take back the waste.

So, another lie from our government ?? 卖国求“私”荣  ?? We must STOP LYNAS !!

Check out this article  “9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn” from a homeschool parent @ http://zenhabits.net/kid-skills/

A summry:

1. Asking questions

2. Solving problems

3. Tackling projects

4. Finding passion

5. Independence

6. Being happy on their own

• [I like this one especially: if a child learns from an early age that he can be happy by himself, playing and reading and imagining, he has one of the most valuable skills there is. Allow your kids to be alone from an early age. Give them privacy, have times (such as the evening) when parents and kids have alone time.]

7. Compassion

8. Tolerance

9. Dealing with change

Please do read it. 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn

Have you read this ? OMG ! UM spending money sending 200 academic staff overseas who fail to complete their PHD !!!

200 is not a small number. Hiring 200 unfit person to teach in the University is not a small mistake.

Staffed with such unqualified people, whatever policy also useless. In this globalized world, the only system that will work is real meritocracy (not the one hiding behind the color of the skin).

To me, education is the passing down of knowledge to next generation (知识的传承).

I like one quote from a forum-er: When one person receives without working, another person must work without receiving …… Imagine when this happens in millions…

Finally I finished reading this wonderful book by Andrea Hirata. A book that I prefer to read quietly without being disturbed, where I could let my mind run wild with all these children, shared their laughter and tears, anger and sadness.

I cheered for them when the brilliant Mahal came out with the African dance as the performance (where these poor kids do not need any costume) and won the first trophy for the school in an inter-school competition.

I couldn’t help holding up my tears when reading the part describing how Pak Harfan never gave up and taught the kids till his last breath (he was found passed away on his desk preparing for the kids exam), and his answer “I will be more sick if I didn’t teach” when asked to rest;… and on the part where Lintang appeared after absent for 4 days, to say good bye to his fellow friends and teacher Mus, cause his father passed away, and he has to work and feed his family of 14 (4 grandparents, mother, sistersss…), that he has to give up studying and the dream to be a mathematician, that the world lost a genius to poverty …

And I also enjoy how the author teased the dirty politician, the ill attitude this society has towards the poor, and how precise he analyze/describe the characters of each ethnic groups there, soem are lazy, some are cunning…

Holding the book tight in my hands, sitting on the couch in my bedroom, looking at the girls sound asleep . ..  feeling very grateful for what we have now…

I don’t like reading sad story, but I think I will read this book again and may be again (I seldom do that to any book). .

This book was translated to English as well. They made a film out of this story in 2008 and it won a number of local and international awards.

But still I recommended reading the book instead.

If you can read Chinese/know BM, you can watch the movie online in 土豆网:　http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/YEFOVyVB3Z0