Ah, what's better than heartwarming news during despairing times? After the shattering earthquake in Turkey, rescuers has located and plucked a two-week old baby girl along with her mother and grandmother. A great joy of hope for the rescue team!
"It is priceless to find someone alive and all my exhaustion is over," said Oytun Gulpinar, the leader of a team of rescuers who had arrived in Ercis after a 32-hour road journey from the western city of Izmir. "I got to hold a 16-day-old baby, which is utterly priceless," he added.
But as the death toll rises every day, things will become desperate as time is running out for the golden timeframe for people surviving under the rubbles. I wish them luck.
Another reason for not buying a car! Since Westfield has lift up the price sign in their shopping mall Chermside, many people fled to the surrounding streets and dump their cars over there, in order to avoid unreasonable fees in the mall's car park. Not only that, unions are starting petitions to fight against the change.
Residents and business owners in Kittyhawk Drive, which borders the Westfield centre, yesterday told Brisbane Times there is not a parking space to be found in the street since paid parking was introduced at the shopping centre. Hazel Aye, who has lived in the street for years, said she had wondered why it was so busy this week before she realised it was because people were avoiding paying for parking at the centre.
Although I have posted this a while ago before the fee change started on this Monday, I still can't fathom the reason why Westfield decided to charge their customers parking fees while free parking is fairly common across western countries. Won't that discourage people from shopping in the mall, and altogether brings down the revenues and profits the shops made?
D.
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