Task No.4 - Reading Task… (29/1/07)

Burglar beat alarm in less than 30 sec

This article is interesting to me. The alarming part that interests me is that the Cisco alarm system is actually easy to tamper with. Within a window of time – 30 seconds, the perpetrator is able to stop the sensors from alarming Cisco. This makes me wonder in the reliability of some of the alarm systems. Not to say that there is no perfect way things work, but the “unreliable” Cisco alarm system actually took away more than $1 million worth antiques from the shop. We also can conclude that the burglar may be an insider of either the Cisco Company or the antique shop. Thus, I personally think that everyone who works with or in Cisco or the antique shop can be a suspect, making the suspecting range wider. This amazing deduction will not prevent from other heists to happen as everyone has to continue their work in the company Cisco and the antique shop. This incident wakes us up from the idea of full security system and to depend on ourselves rather than others. Trust is another important factor in the society as the looks can be very deceiving. It is hard to find a person who is actually trustworthy in every aspects and has integrity in his moral character to be thriving in this business world. I want to end with a sentence, “The real society is cruel and harsh.”

Reading Task... (15/1/07)

NUS don collapses in meeting with student, dies in hopsital

After reading this article, I felt shock as the Lecturer has no heart problems till that day in the afternoon. This is much unexpected as the Lecturer was fit and healthy after conducting a few tests. He is a popular and dedicated lecturer in NUS when the heart attack invades him. I seriously think that the world is abit unfair as a death happened on such a nice and cheerful guy who is good in every aspect.
Thus this article is very controversial and disconcerted. This article interests me in a way that there are comments in it and I can tell how this lecturer is like from the sincere comments. Each comment mentions about one aspect in his life and from there I can conclude that Lecturer Ananda Rajah is an important person in NUS and in his family and friends. I would also like to find out more about this Lecturer as the sub-heading shows biasness on world society. This is one of the heart-warming but sad articles that I have read after reading the whole newspaper.
This grabs much attention from me as this is the front page of the HOME section. Thus I would like to declare that this article is newsworthy.


R.I.P. Lecturer Ananada Rajah.