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I came across this article which I must definitely share with you guys as I'm very interested to know your thoughts on this. For your convenience, I have copied the excerpts from the article here:

"Imagine a database that allows you and everyone you know to be ranked, classified and reviewed by someone you've dated, worked with or befriended, without their consent.

Welcome to Peeple, described by the founders as a "positivity app." When it launches in November, Peeple will allow users to rate and search human beings in the same way we rank and file restaurants, hotels, and car services on scores of other apps.

But critics fear that it will devolve into a virtual "Burn Book", a la Mean Girls, that will allow gossip and shaming to thrive. Users will be able to add virtually anyone to the service, and people are unable to opt out of having reviews posted about them, adding to concerns over the invasive nature of the app.

When the app launches in November, users will be able to review friends, coworkers, dates and pretty much anyone else, using a one- to five-star rating scale. The app, founded by Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, will be available only on iOS devices in November. It's already had thousands sign up to be beta testers, according to a post on the Peeple Facebook page. The company’s shares currently put its value at $7.6 million, according to the Washington Post.

In order to post a review, users have to be 21 or older with an active Facebook account. Reviews must be made under a person's own name, and a user must indicate how they know the person they will review in one of three categories: Personal, professional or romantic.

Anyone who has access to someone's cellphone number can start a new profile for them on the site. The person will receive a text informing them who started their profile and "that they should check out what you said about them on our app." The FAQ's make no mention of how the site will check on the validity of the number provided. Once someone is added, anyone on Peeple can weigh in on his or her merits as a person."

Question 1: Although it says users have to be 21 or older with an active Facebook account in order to be able to post a review, now honestly, we all know people can easily fake their birth age in order to be old enough to have an FB account right?

Question 2: I would hate it if someone I know added me into this app without my consent. As if surrendering my personal mobile phone number to an app is not scary and violating my privacy enough, what will happen to my contact details being added to this app then?

Question 3: Now what if people slanders you and post lies about you? You know, you may have accidentally annoyed someone, or someone just can't stand you and decided to give you a taste of some bitter envy medicine and cooked up some stories about you...

"Peeple's founders assert that they have systems in place to combat bullying on the site. Users will be able to "report any bullying in the comments you receive and we will be able to remove the comment and remove the user who violated our terms and conditions." Essentially, the ability to remove content deemed as "bullying" is left up to the site operators' discretion."

Now even though users can report any bullying in comments and those comments and/or users can be removed, the damage would've been done and too late, no? In this day of modern technology where everything happens in split seconds and goes by when you just blink... screenshots taken and reposted to other social medias and made to go viral, what use if the comments were removed then?

I personally think this app is a bad bad idea. Of course some of you have said that if done properly it might be good to have another channel to check out the reputation of such and such person etc, but seriously, is that even possible nowadays? There are people out there who just have nothing but nasty stuff to say about every single thing. No matter how, there is just a way they can find to point out negative stuff about things. Imagine the damage this will inflict to innocent unknowing people? Imagine people who made mistakes and learned from their lessons and have vowed to turn a new leaf and would like to move on with their life and then all of a sudden being brought back to their past and then constantly reminded of their past history?

What do you think?

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I have been sharing some of my favorite angpow pieces on an angpow collectors group in Facebook and some members have been telling me to continue sharing my memorable stories and so I thought, why not write it down, that way, our kiddos can read about it when they grow up next time, eh?

For those of you who are not familiar or never heard of the words 'Angpow' (also known as 'ang pau', 'ang pao', 'angpau'), here is a quick definition:

Angpow = Red Packet (filled with cash inside) given during festivals

I have previously shared another kopitiam angpow story but for today's angpow story, it comes from this piece of lovely angpow:

Looking at this angpow, of course it reminded me of my childhood memories during my kampung holiday time. Every morning, I will wake up at 7-ish and followed my late mum, walked about 5 mins to the pasar pagi (morning market) and we will meet up with my late popo at this kopitiam for breakfast.

I always have the fishball noodle soup while my mum will have her curry noodles with a glass of kopi ping (iced coffee) which I only learned to like this recent few years. On rare occassions I would get to order 2 long slices of steam white bread with butter (not a kaya fan then)

The fishball noodle soup is heavenly. I can never find anything that taste as good as that noodle ever since and still not giving up finding the alternative.

Back to this angpow, looking at the uncle pouring out the hot coffee reminded me of course of my beloved popo. My late popo's breakfast will be a cup of hot coffee with her kuey teow noodle soup. I was always amazed at how my late popo can just drink up her hot coffee from that small cup with that small plastic spoon. She stirred few rounds and brings up the cup and slowly sips and savors the coffee.

From time to time whenever I think back of my kampung days, I can always think back of the memories of walking along the paths towards the pasar pagi, then to the kopitiam and sitting at our usual corner table right behind the noodle stall. The smell, the sight of pasar pagi all around, the sound of people buying and selling... aaahhhhh... money can't buy all these memories....

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I had recently started to teach our 4 year old girl how to write number 1. She has been nagging me to include her whenever she sees her 6.5 year old big brother doing his kindy schoolwork.

I am not a big fan of buying workbooks as I feel it is wasting money to just have our kiddos to scribble and write on it. Of course you can always make a photocopy or laminate the worksheets but I was too lazy for that and also some worksheets found in the workbooks that I have seen are just too simple or too advance for her age, so I ended up scouring through the Internet and customizing some or at least, looked for some that is as close as it can be to meet my expectations.

Anyway, I gave her the 1st worksheet on 17th Sept 2015. I started off by explaining to her number 1 and how to write the number 1. Her grip is not there yet, as you can see from the pictures, she grasped the whole pencil instead but I wouldn't worry much about this at her age now.

The first worksheet was a combination of few samples I've seen online. It shows the number 1, how to write it out with some dotted lines to guide her. I also added in a clip art on how to show the number 1 with our fingers, followed by the word 'ONE' and 'one' in both uppercase and lowercase. The last portion was for her to practise writing number 1 again based on the number of objects shown.

I gave her the 2nd worksheet on 23rd Sept 2015. This worksheet was taken from the Mathseed website. The objective is for her to identify which picture has 1 object and to draw the line to link the correct object count to the number 1. The second portion was for her to identify which picture has 1 object and to circle the correct count. I'm happy to see our 4 year old girl able to circle better this time round and she didn't even wait for me to finish explaining to her which fruits has 1 count only.

And since she is able to finish the above worksheet fast, I gave her another one. This time is for letter A/a recognition. This is her 2nd lesson as I have previously taught her to write the letter a (upper and lowercase) I got this worksheet from preschoolmom website. What she did in this worksheet is to practise writing the letter A and a following the guided dotted lines. Then to color in and draw the object that starts with the letter a (in this sample is alligator) At the bottom left, she was able to circle the letter A/a that she can find in the box without my help at all. The bottom practise is to just fill the missing letter, which is A.

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