1. Balloon
   
2. 'Charity' Money - Integrity
   
3. 'Charity' Money - Cause vs. Creative Fundraising
   
4. Consequence
   
5. Family Bond(yin shui shi yuan)
   
6. Human vs. Animal-Mt Huang Shan
   
7. Man-made Cattle
   
8. I want to be a doctor
   
9. "Jing Ying"
   
10. Story of Xinglin
    
11. The Reality of Giving
    
12. Betrayal-Hindrance to Growth
    

On 27 January 2004, I received the following email message :

We are a group of undergraduates pursuing our degrees (School of Economics and Social Sciences) in the Singapore Management University. As a project for one of our courses, we wish to get ourselves involved as volunteers for particular community service work.

As such, we hope that we could join you in CancerStory to extend help to cancer patients by raising awareness towards your site which offers support to them. We find your web site extremely helpful and informative, and which therefore, we believe would be of great usefulness to cancer patients. However, we believe that CancerStory could help even more people onto the path of healing, if it is able to reach out to a wider group of cancer patients and their families. Therefore, we wish that you could allow us to help in bringing CancerStory closer to the many patients out there, so that help would be more accessible for them.

We are really keen on volunteering our service for this purpose and this cause. Therefore, I sincerely appeal to you to grant us our request. We look forward to a favourable reply from you. Thank you for your kind attention.

I spoke with this student and expressed my thanks to this team of students for wanting to help CancerStory.com by printing and distributing flyers at some cancer institutions. I told her about the resistance that CancerStory.com is facing from some cancer institutions, hence their strategy will not work. If their project is results-oriented, then it may not be appropriate for them to work on CancerStory.com's publicity. I told her to rethink her proposal and the project was finally dropped.

For any student who is keen to help CancerStory.com raise publicity on a school project basis, please note that the "marketing strategy" of getting local cancer institutions to give a helping hand is not feasible. If you think that I lack confidence and resourcefulness, then I will be most willing to hear your views and watch you put them into action. I can be contacted at lsh@cancerstory.com

In the past, some members of the public had given their views liberally without any form of action to back their words up. Such behaviour complies with what is commonly known among Singaporeans as "NATO" (No action, talk only).

Being a straight-talking person, I will always give spontaneous answers that are often not diplomatically delivered and may displease some.

If you are curious to know why some medical institutions do not support the cause of CancerStory.com, please click here to read my tough challenge.