This occured me suddenly. It was all because of Anna's plea; saving her from MSN virus misery. I told her to call the hotlines available i.e. the social service hotline. But DO YOU know the VARIOUS social service hotlines? well. i don't. I think neither do you. The only hotline i recognise would be the NKF donation hotlines, the one that they will hold like bi-annually. So its like every day. when i switch on the telly i see the hotline number steadily appearing in front of me. ----- > partially why i don't watch channel 8 shows, another reason would be its always talking about the same thing the serials stretches to a 2 part- hundred over epidsodes but can be summarized into 30. OKay i'm digressing. okay back to the hotlines thingy. Yea. the other hotline i will prolly recognise are the ones that they publish in the newpaper daily. i wonder why i need to buy the newpaper when half of the paper is filled with advertisements that does not interest me unless i'm an ah lian who wants the latest techno ring tone for my latest polyphonic nokia or some perverse uncle who wants some sick chinese girl picture on their nokia mobiles. The govt didn't try their best on promoting these hotlines. they WILL only promote hotlines is when there's some tradegy. i.e. some student from some school who will be taking his or her o levels, or psle committed suicide by jumping off the building. Or some depression fella did something perverse. Or some un wed mother does infanticide. Then at the bottom of the newspaper report, they will prolly place the hotline number. Is this what the govt should do? promote when only things happen? shouldn't it be the effort of the govt to make their hotlines known? Yes i;m a disgrunted Singaporean, but hello, why are we paying taxes for? Where the money goes to?