Curernt affaris - organ donations

After reading the Wednesday's Straits Times article titled 'Kidney payment gets nod', I felt that the reimbursement of living kidney donors is very dangerous as it may turn into organ trading instead of organ donating. I feel that there should be caps on payments to prevent the more wealthy population from getting the upper hand in getting donors to donate organs to them. The donors need not choose between the wealthier or the less wealthy patient to donate the organ to. Instead, the patients who are in a more critical condition would be given the prirority if donated organs are available. The government could closely monitor the transaction between the donor and the receiver to ensure that both parties do not abuse this new system.

Maintaining a blog

I think that maintaining a blog is definitely much more difficult than expected at first, but having a blog can be a lot of fun. Maintaining a blog is also much harder than starting one. Regularly updating one's blog can be tedious at times, but I feel that it was overall an enriching and interesting experience. In my opinion, the main difference between a dirry and a blog is that blogs can be more interesting than diaries, and the that multimedia can be added to blogs and that is is not as personal as a diary. People can comment on it, and read it once you post it. The only downside about a blog I can think of is that I have to boot up my computer to publish/write posts. I am personally a lazy person and am sometimes too lazy to boot up my computer to check my e-mail etc. Otherwise, I think blogging is a very good platform to write your views about anything and to share them with people all around the world.