Term 3 Week 2 (Blogging Assignment) An article entitled 'The Religion of Water' was published in The Straits Times on 7 July 2011. In the article, i

Water is a necessity for all living things, especially human beings. We need water in order to survive and without it, there would not be a single living thing on Earth.

If we treat water as a human right, then everybody, including the poor, will have access to water. However, of water is treated as a human right, then only the rich or the average class people will have access, and the poor will have to suffer as they will only get to have a little amount of water.

However, I think that water should be treated as a commodity. Although, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, there is only a little clean water, while the rest are not suitable for drinking. Furthermore, many people nowadays are wasting water. For example, many of us often take our time to shower and also do not reuse water by for example, using the water used to wash rice to water the plants. We might think that this will only save a little water, but if the whole world does this, then a lot of water will be saved.

However, when water is cheap and everyone has ample water, we will start wasting it. Hence, if water is treated as a commodity, then everyone will learn to reuse it as the poor, who will only have a little access to it, will try their best to save water. The average and the rich class will try to save a little of it as the price of water goes up. Hence, our precious resource, water can then be saved as everyone will do their part to save water in fear that they will not have enough water.

Term 3 Week 1 (Blogging Assignment) Veteran labour leader Halimah Yacob recently called for the legislation of weekly days off for maids working in

In my opinion, I think that maids should be given weekly days off.

Maids are also human beings like us and human beings need rest in order to continue with our tasks. If we do not give our maids weekly days off, they will not be able to relieve stress and rest, which will result in the efficiency of their work suffering. Hence, it is not right to think that the maid will be able to do more things for us if we do not give them weekly days off, because after they have taken a break, they will be refreshed and all ready to serve us better. In this way, they will become more efficient as they will not feel that their work is boring, and this will even reduce the chances of them wanting to run away from their employers’ homes.

Also, if we give our maids weekly days off, then many of them would most probably go to shopping malls to buy the things that they like and also expensive food, to reward themselves for their hard work during the weekdays. In doing so, they would spend some money, which can help to improve Singapore’s economy. You might think that this is just one maid spending just a little sum of money, which will only help to improve the economy a little, but if everybody in Singapore does the same, then this will help to improve the economy tremendously as there are many maids in Singapore.

Hence, we can conclude that there will be many advantages not only for us, but also for the whole country if we give our maids just weekly days off. If we can help our country just by doing something so simple, then why not?