Dawn posted: " Today I am going to talk about an incident that took place while I was in tenth grade. Some mischiefs that we do when we are young, and it puts an impression for life long. I remember it was our inter-school field hockey competition and we were actually "
Today I am going to talk about an incident that took place while I was in tenth grade. Some mischiefs that we do when we are young, and it puts an impression for life long. I remember it was our inter-school field hockey competition and we were actually visiting the other school this time.
We caught the Pune Municipal Corporation public transport bus and along with the team our sports teacher Mrs. Bose was also accompanying us. Mrs. Bose told us before leaving the school ground, that if we win the game with other schools, then she is going to take us to a big expensive restaurant for lunch and everyone got excited. This was teams first trip to go out of the home ground and play otherwise, usually our school is always the host.
We reached the host's school ground and got introduced to the scorer, selector and coaches and teachers of other schools and went back to our seating area. After looking at the lists and exchanging the team players names with the main scorer and selector, our teacher came and said, girls are you ready to win? and we all roared in one chorus yeah!!!!!
Everyone took their position, I was at left center half position and we played like a team. Team was very good in passing and I was always the one who was fast in hitting the ball so as soon the ball came to me I hit it and it was a goal!!!! Everyone cheered us and we team hugged and back to work, our opponent team was not happy and they started playing foul by hitting with the hockey stick left and right. Some got the warning and some got out of the team but we did get injured. I still remember after that win when we gathered and my school teacher said to me you have been selected as I saw your name on the list, I was on ninth cloud and suddenly my teacher said where's that blood coming from, on your shoe? It was a white colored shoe and a drop of blood fell on it and I didn't realize that I was hit by that hockey stick and the blood was coming from my right hand thumb.
"Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets." ~ Roald Dahl
Immediately first-aid was arranged and everything was taken care. We were done here and were supposed to be out for lunch so everyone was happy. After a great lunch at the restaurant we headed to go back to our school and then home. As we all were excited everyone was happy and felt as if we rule the world. It's that age and the win and the appreciation, it was all that effect and we ran to sit in the bus on the last seat.
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts." ~ Nikki Giovani
We all sat and were talking loud and suddenly there was a guy who got into the bus and sat in front of us. He was big and the two-seater seat was fully taken by him and in a funny way I said, who's this elephant? I was not expecting that he would be able to hear me but the moment he turned back I, immediately apologized as suddenly I felt that's not me.
"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself." ~ Anne Lamott
It seems the guy also recognized that, because the way my face expression changed and I apologized - he said its okay but you shouldn't say that to anyone. I thanked him.
That day and till now, I have never made fun of anyone. I don't judge anyone. I have come to the understanding that everyone has their own story and we are no one to pass judgement to anyone. Let's live and let other's live. Life has so much to offer just enjoy and share your happiness if you can and move along.
"You need to give yourself permission to be human." ~ Joyce Brothers
~ Dawn
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taurusingemini posted: " How the government's proposal of urbanizing the older apartments, how they're, stating we need to, update the cities, while they're the ones, blocking the process, from the smooth transition of the city streets, getting updates here, and the problem is s"
How the government's proposal of urbanizing the older apartments, how they're, stating we need to, update the cities, while they're the ones, blocking the process, from the smooth transition of the city streets, getting updates here, and the problem is still not just, caused by those, handful of locals who refused to vacate their old homes either, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The raging fire in City in the City in Kaohsiung, brought the subject of urbanization up to the surfaces again. Actually, the biggest nail in the process of urbanization, IS, the governments, because the government didn't set up the specific rules of the game, especially, there's, NO means of integration, the most important part of the process in urbanization, how much will the integration cost? Who can manage this process of integration? It's not, specified at all.
Although, there's the given incentives of tax reduction, and discounts for those who are willing to come onboard the process of urbanization, but due to the lacking of professional personnel, the process fell through the roof, as the prices are, up for, competition; plus, when there are the separate residents who refused to comply with the urbanization processes, although the votes had gotten over the majorities, the government doesn't dare go ahead,, and tear down the residents by force, which make urbanization, an, impossibility.
The success or fail of urbanization, relied on the whether or not the integration is successful or not; the workers of the integration process are the first-lines of "defense" of the process, but, who's, qualified to work the posts? There's no written rule of qualifications of these, personnel. Practically, the developers of construction companies, the professional integration companies, the real estate developers, the real estate agents, the land office workers, the land developers, the city councilmembers, those in charge of the local neighborhoods, land owners, even the head mobsters, the gangsters, as the officials that helps with the process of development.
And, due to lack of professional training of these personnel, there's, this uneven level, some of the officials, to fight for the cases, had added some unreasonable requests, to get the landowners on their sides, to work with them, but, as everybody is fighting over the case that's available to build on, this destined the failure of this case of, urbanization process.
this is the before...
photo from online
And looking at the realtors, although there are the separate agencies that operates independently, that competed with each other, but, there's that order, and every now and then, there would be, the conflicts, the disagreements of the sales, but the rate of this is quite low, and all of this, goes to how the laws regarding managing the real estate agencies were, set up. And those who'd qualified, are allowed to act as an agent in the transactions of selling and buying of properties. But, there's no specific rules, no restrictions on the integration of the lot of land, with the tens of hundreds, and even, thousands of properties, this is also another reason, why the urbanization process is a bust.
And besides, the relators, after the deals were made, get to earn six-percent of the selling prices, but, there's no rate of pay for the city urbanization officials after several years of trying to make the deals, and they may have done all that work for, nothing. What's confusing is, that the urbanization regulations are listed in written law on paper, but, there's, NO mention of the rate of pay for the workers who'd helped mediate in the process, and that's why some stated, that the workers who'd negotiated in the procedures, are all, working voluntarily, only gives, and, with, no returns, but, is this, reasonable?
And due to, the Wenling Yuan case, even as the majority of the local residents voted to agree on the urbanization process, and the laws are set up to demolish the estates; but, because the government worried over the votes, they'd not dared, just forcefully, demolish, which allowed for the minority, to win over the majorities, and this sort of doing nothing by the government, is also, a key contributor for why the urbanization process isn't going through smoothly.
and, this is what the "after" of urbanization might look, like
with the buildings more updated, and newer, and less dangerous to live in, photo from online
I hope, that the government won't play the role of the biggest obstacle in the process of urbanizing the cities. Other than adding the needed qualification of the officials, and the costs, and, I hope that the government can enforce the laws to demolish what needed to be, demolished, otherwise, there will be, more than half of the residents here in Taiwan, that's been built up over thirty years ago, and we're afraid, that similar tragedies will just, keep on, happening repeatedly.
And so, the government, for the sake of the votes, doesn't DARE to enforce the demolishing of these, ancient places of thirty, forty plus years, and, the residents refused to move out, because if they agreed to letting up their properties, they may have a smaller place compared to what they originally owned, and, they're rather, owned that bigger piece of older properties, than to get the more updated, modernized, buildings to live in, and that, is the primary trouble about the urbanization process.
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