Corporate Social Responsibility

I just saw a re-cap of yesterday's broadcasted news on TV and majority was reporting on the Deadly Cyclone that hitted Mynamar Yangon and the Cruelty Earthquake that shook China Sichuan so suddenly and badly that hundreds of thousands of people are dying and the dead number will still be increasing. And it really make my heart ache whenever I saw more people died and children left homeless and become orphan over one night, who they are just like ordinary people like you and me.

Yangon, Myanmar - Deadly Cyclone that caused more than thousand deads

It seems to me that these 2 heartbreaking news is a wake-up call from Mother Earth to urge everyone in this world to stop fighting, stop all the terrorist "shit" (pardon me) & stop talking about individual religion, politic & selfish benefits and just get united as one world and help out those who are desperately in priority need NOW!

Sichuan, China - epicenter for recent huge Earthquake

When my aching heart is just pounding stronger for these needy suffers, then my curiousity creeps onto my mind when the news flashed more and more businesses such as local bakery chain, Breadtalk tried to raise fund for these 2 disasterous areas by coming up with new "Panda" themed bread to sell out to consumers and use the profit earned to donate. Then it suddenly struck to me that maybe...just may some companies tried to show their HUGE Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) through this kind of act...and seriously I am very skeptical if these companies are really trying to help here...

Panda - a symbol of China's protected animal

Don't get me wrong, I mean it's good if these companies are really to help but back of my mind, I think otherwise... I felt they maybe trying to use this opportunity to create awareness & even profits for their own brand or products! Although it seems to be a win-win situation for both the companies as well as for the countries that needed helped but in my opinion, if someone or some companies are really out there to just help, then I don't think there's even a need to sell their products in order just to raise or donate fund which basically is through the consumers' money...

Anyway, maybe I am just too skeptical but that's just my own point of view. I mean there's still good organizations out there like the Red Cross or Myanmar Cyclone that is fully concentrated on just collecting public's funding and donation and remit & send over to China and Myanmar. So don;t get me wrong...but do you feel like I feel especially towards companies which just use CSR which may conflict with profit like Breadtalk for instance?

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Western Media Impact on China Olympic & its growth

Recently, I've been research on one of my project on China's Reaction Towards Olympic Protest and after been going through news coverage and blogs on this issue, I've found out how social media has impacted the way we view information.

Extracted from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/newspix/2008/03/17/latest-news-pics-mar-17-22-89520-20354503/

Traditionally, if you are to ask me to follow up on a current issue such as the Olympic Protest, that been debating around, I will probably feel that news articles and reports are the best way to get the "real" info. But after getting info not only from the usual news channel, but blogs and other online social media, I have deferred views.

From http://www.anti-cnn.com/, I found out how "distorted and biased" news coverage can be. It also provide us "truth" to a certain extents that tried to bring out the justice of such irresponsible news coverage by reputable channel such as US cable news network like CNN & BBC.

Extracted from http://www.anti-cnn.com/. For full content and coverage, go to http://www.anti-cnn.com/.

I think part of the root of these problematic news coverage can provide, are boiled down from the misperception of these previously reliable sources (such as CNN) has on the whole issue, which in return, articulate "biased" and even "distortion" views by the way they projected the issue to the public. These, as a result, caused huge resentment especially in the Chinese community as like most citizens, everyone still have a sense of pride about their own countries.

As such, there's 1 clear question that we should take away from the Olympic protest, that is, how reliable are news coverage? Are there people out there still blindly following these news as the "truth to light" or there might be something that we still do not know or have not been told to us?

So, what's your take? For me, it really changes the way I collect "true" info from news coverage...

Food Allergy!!!

Oh my god.... been sleeping since last night after dinner till now....Guess my food allergy + the jab + medicines had caused me too drowsy to wake up!

Oh yes...I'm having Food Allergy... Main cause?! I'm not too sure, think it must be the Mini Abalone that I had last night's dinner... yes yes yesh! I'm allergy to seafood...I mean not all seafood but just some shelled types like Scallop & Escargot!!

Yes,I'm missing out all the good food delicacy but what can i do??!! It's not up to be to decide (I think my body does) since till recent years that my body starts to develop resistance to these shelled food which happens to one of my favorite foods....

So what happen next? Blocked nose + asthmatic breathing + swollen eyes + itchy skins

Oh talking about swollen eyes... I took a pic of my "Panda-tic" eyes just now and let you know what I mean by I will not simply go out and show the world my "Panda-tic" eyes even you pay me a million dollars!!

As most people who knows me, you may have notice my double-eyelids are gone with these "Panda-tic" eyes...and look at how swollen my eyelids are...and guess what? I tried puttng 2 coins on top of it & it just simply won't drop off! (Amazing right?) But these isn't the worst! Last night is worse than this....because last night my eyes are so swollen that my eyes can barely open wide...and the widest that I tried to open was like a thin line...no jokes man!

Anyway, talking about allergy...someone told me before that allergy usually occurs suddenly and more frequently when one gets older, especially when you are being introduced to a totally new food that your body had not tried before or not as frequent. Till this extent I sort of believe it, because I didn't had this kind of allergy till a few years ago... It's kind of sad as some of these food that I am allergied to, are my favourites like escargots and scallops. So, each time if I am going to eat the dish of food that may contain the food that I am allergied to, I will have to asked and double confirmed if the person prepared that dish had added it. If he/she does, then I wil have to forgo that dish..

It's kind of irony right? Especially when you are attending a banquet and everyone is asking you to eat after the food been served to you and as a kind of courtesy, you should at least touch the food for a second...while someone that goes to the banquet with knows that you can't eat them due to your food allergy, asked you not to even touch the food!

Check out what I have found on Food allergy....on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcjz7fvyOCc

So, back to food allergy.... are you allergic to any food? And do you feel like I did? If so, how does it affect you?