Love and Love Alone

Introduction:

India’s emphasis on next-gen transportation has undoubtedly taken on legs under the incumbent administration, but the ‘Global Electric Mobility Project Plan (NEMMP) 2020’ was launched in 2013 in reality under the previous Congress-led administration. That further puts the concerted efforts for green mobility and electric cars across the aisle in perspective. The country has since been willing to embrace a 360-degree approach to transform into an EV nation.

In December 2019, India’s rank deteriorated from 14th position in 2017 to 5th in 2018 in the global vulnerability ladder in the Climate Risk Index 2020 published by the environmental think tank, Germanwatch. This provides it all the more rationale for India to make electric cars and buses a mission in countering fossil fuel dependence.

Although the initial movement was seen towards electrification of two-wheelers and three-wheelers, the greater need is for public electric transport and vehicles. Given the current difficulties…

In the face of an unrelenting pandemic that continues to ravage the world, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to predict that urban mobility will change dramatically.

Concerns about hygiene and social distance are at an all-time high, especially in India’s densely populated metropolises. The concept of shared mobility and public transportation has been especially tarnished by the second wave. Uber and Ola, for example, are fighting back, with the former offering 9,000 free online medical consultations to drivers and their families. Uber also announced a decision to vaccinate 1,50,000 of its drivers in the next six months. Even automobile brands like Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors have extended their warranty and service packages for newly purchased vehicles, ensuring that car ownership does not feel like a burden during lockdowns.

The need for personal transportation is obviously greater than it has ever been. However, economic uncertainty, as it was last…

This was writtenyears ago when I heard of the passing of one who used to be very dear to me. I had meant to give the original version to her family but I didn’t feel it was the right time. I rewrote it today as a letter to that person, hoping she is looking down on me with love., and I think she is, as I dreamt of her last night.

I have one favorite memory of you.

Sometimes, late at night, it’s one that still comes back as clear as the day it was made, and I feel like a child all over again.

On my ninth birthday, you took me shopping. I don’t remember if there were any others with us that day- that is fuzzy to me now- but I remember because it was one of those rare days I felt especially close to you. Those days…

轉自：工業傷亡權益會

今天（5月14日）在上水又發生一宗地盤工人暈倒不治的懷疑猝死個案！

#工業傷亡權益會由今年初至今已跟進了至少15宗工作期間懷疑猝死的個案，其中建造業佔了7宗。在這些死亡個案中，有人可能因長時間工作捱垮身體、有人可能因工作負荷過大誘發心血管疾病。過往，亦有不少建造業工友在烈日下工作，難耐高溫，中暑身亡。這些在勞工處的紀錄中都列為「非因意外死亡」。

遺憾的是，現時這類非因意外死亡的個案不受《僱員補償條例》保障，工人在工作期間喪生，家人卻得不到合理補償維持生活。

我們一直要求政府將上述死亡個案納入《僱員補償條例》的保障範圍，例如工人在工作期間中暑死亡、因長工時和工作壓力而「過勞死」等，家屬應獲得賠償。在我們的紀錄中，懷疑猝死的個案較多出現在高工時、高工作負荷的行業，例如建造業、運輸及貨倉業、保安行業等，正顯示了這些工人的死亡和其工作有緊密關係！如政府還不盡快修例，實是對這些生命的逝去和其家庭的痛苦難辭其咎。

現時每年發生逾百宗非因意外死亡的個案，均不被視為因工致死而不獲賠償，當中的確也有些是與工作關係不大，但有僱主反映希望為這類事故投保，奈何坊間沒有合適的保險用以賠償工作中非因意外身亡的工人。如這方面能成事，對身亡工人的家庭就能有多一重的保障。

#過勞死#中暑#長工時
#工作壓力
#僱員補償
#職業死亡

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Then Reuben spoke to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring Benjamin back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you.” Genesis 42:37 (AMP)

Today’s devotion is all about speaking without considering what the consequences. While speaking boldly in front of people may feel powerful and influential, the content of what we give life to through our utterance far outweighs the temporal feeling which is motivated by a haughty spirit. Peter, thee disciple of Jesus Christ could boldly testify the soundness of this through his denial of Christ Jesus.

The bible is packed with scripture verses warning us about using our tongue wisely because most often than not we could hardly fulfil our vows to each other not to mention to the Lord and we lack. The consequences which follow, we lack to character to take…

The Souls of Children Died in the Wine Garden (Draft 1)

It was a year when
the snide videos
proved the teachers
hated the parents

It was a year of ominous noise,
a year of doom dust and ash,
a smell of sulfur when crows
pecked at eggs and left them

Coming from the ground, far under,
were odd humming and rumbling sounds

those evil sounds were underground like
a swarm of crashing freight trains deep below
like gigantic humming birds as big
flapping their wings like manic dinosaurs
and like angry moose fighting with the Devil

It was a year of strangeness
and a year of hope.

But there were two omens. One was

the cicadas came twice in one year —
once in Spring and once in Fall

the other was that
the rare biting incidents in pre-school
became numerous in the upper grades.

Well actually, more than…