CSR101

To NCSS, Singapore Power and the bunch of people at the Spinelli opposite HarbourFront discussing their obviously shitty from the start and gonna get more shitty CSR project with Eunice Olsen [yar I'm sure kids would love to get to know our parliamentary system]:

Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up':

"Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
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Pixar has an automated telephone answering system, Orum-Moore said, and unless she had a name of a specific person she wanted to speak to, she could not get through. Orum-Moore guessed a name and the computer system transferred her to someone who could help, she said.

Pixar officials listened to Colby’s story and agreed to send someone to Colby’s house the next day with a DVD of "Up," Orum-Moore recalled.

She immediately called Lisa Curtin, who told Colby.

“Do you think you can hang on?” Colby’s mother said.

“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.
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At about 12:30 p.m. the Pixar employee came to the Curtins’ home with the DVD.
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Colby died with her mom and dad nearby at 9:20 p.m."

That's how you do CSR, folks.

save the world

I have a list of things I would like to accomplish. It's a respectable list, don't plan on doing everything on it of course, just managing one on it would be damn fulfilling liao and I'm not a greedy person and without ado, here's the list:

1] Eternal world peace
2] Help Thio Su Mien's troubled soul see Reason
3] Rid NCSS of stupidity [this is worth 2 items]
4] Write a good commencement speech

What is a good commencement speech? The ones I had so far involve going forth into the world and achieving great economic value, being a useful member of society, giving back to the community, and last but not least, vote for the PAP. The irony is, anyone who'd gotten a competent Baccalaureate education should find them complete and utter bullshit.

So what is a good commencement speech? The following commencement speech which comes from the University of Portland. Excerpt:

'...Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful...'

It's a great speech.

Read it.