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<\/p>\nIt’s amazing how irresponsible and negligent some people – possibly parents – can be. It’s not too rare at Suria KLCC to find a person with a baby in a stroller to use the escalator to move from one floor to the next. Hear this: using the escalator while pushing a stroller with a baby in it is dangerous. It might not be dangerous to you but to the baby, it is absolutely.<\/p>\n
I’ve observed so many times a person struggling to balance a stroller with a baby in it while they’re on an escalator. It doesn’t take much for the person handling the stroller on an escalator to accidentally let go of the stoller and hence, jepordizing the safety of the baby.<\/p>\n
Parents sometimes prefer to save time by riding on the escalator at the expense of the baby’s safety. I do feel that this is an unacceptable trade-off between time and safety.<\/p>\n
A safer alternative would be the elevator. I urge everybody to ulitize an elevator in place of the escalator whenever you need to move between floors with a baby in a stroller. At the very least, please carry the baby on your person if you insist on using the escalator. You may fold the stroller and hold it with one hand though it will better if you hold the baby with both hands.<\/p>\n
So far thankfully, I haven’t witnessed any accident that involved a baby in a stroller falling off the escalator. I’ve no desire to watch one.<\/p>\n
Please think of the baby people.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>p\/s – leader of the opposition Lim Kit Siang<\/a>, laments the exclusion of Universiti Malaya from Newsweek’s top 100 global universities<\/a>. For me, I consider rankings as overrated and inaccurate – this includes the US News’ list. While rankings may differentiate the top tier from the other tiers, it does nothing to differentiate schools within that top tier. For instance, in the Newsweek’s list, is #1 Harvard really better than #10 Columbia? Is #11 Michigan (Go Blue!) better than #34 London School of Economics?<\/p>\n Is #34 National University of Singapore better than #66 Vanderbilt, #52 Universiteit Utrecht or #56 Brown? C’mon.<\/p>\n Trivia: could you find Ohio State University in the ranking?<\/p>\n