It is pretty obvious to anyone who has stepped outside into the sunlight recently that Singapore is in the midst of some very uncomfortable hot weather.

The sweltering weather has since set a new record as temperatures reached 37°C at Ang Mo Kio on Saturday (13 May).

The 37°C is the highest recorded temperature in Singapore for the last 40 years, with the last highest recorded temperature (also 37°C) being equalled on 17 April 1983.

Additionally, several locations across Singapore also recorded temperatures that exceeded 36°C on Saturday, with the previous high of 36.7°C being recorded last year at Admiralty.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) added that the warm and dry conditions are expected to continue, although short rain showers are expected in the coming week which may help to lower the temperatures.

The National Environment Agency (NEA)’s statement on Facebook

Several locations across the island recorded temperatures exceeding 36°C today (13 May 2023).

The highest temperature of 37.0°C, the year’s warmest so far, was recorded at Ang Mo Kio. This is the highest daily maximum temperature for the month of May, exceeding the previous May high of 36.7°C recorded at Admiralty just last year.

It also ties with the all-time record of 37.0°C for highest daily maximum temperature, last recorded at Tengah on 17 Apr 1983. Singapore’s temperature records started in 1929.

The current warm and dry conditions are expected to continue tomorrow (14 May 2023). Short-duration showers are expected next week which may help to moderate the warm temperatures.

Netizens’ comments

1. Can you start providing official readings of heat index, or “feels like” reading. This is more accurate and let’s us know how to take precaution against heat injury
2. With more flats and building increasing and absorbing the heat. No wonder the temperature keeps rising.
3. Looks like going to 40 degree c soon
4. Not hot potato but hot tomato liao.

Two Singaporean brothers aged 36 and 40, were detained by the Melaka police for allegedly assaulting and ill-treating 6 boys at a religious school in Malaysia, according to The Star as reported by Mothership.

The police chief of Melaka, DCP Datuk Zainol Samah said on 12 May that the older brother is the principal of two tahfiz centres in the Tanjung Minyak and Alor Gajah area and had performed despicable obscene acts on three teenage boys.

He added that the younger brother, on the other hand, was a warden of the schools and had allegedly physically assaulted three other boys.

Police reports against the brothers were lodged on 11 May from between 6.30 pm and 9.13 pm, and the victims were said to be between the ages of 13 to 15.

The victims said that they were allegedly slapped, whipped and assaulted by the 36-year-old younger brother, as well as being forced to perform explicit obscene acts by the elder brother.

They said that the elder brother had taken them to a condominium in Klebang to perform the explicit and obscene acts, added the police chief.

The two Singaporean brothers are currently being investigated by the police under the obscene offences against children act, and the elder brother also has outstanding criminal records of two other similar offences.

They had appeared in court yesterday (13 May) to be remanded.

Other similar offences

Earlier this year, it was reported that a primary school teacher had kissed a 12-year-old student and slept with her when she turned 15.

The 49-year-old man who worked as a primary school teacher in Singapore was charged with assaulting his student from 2006 to 2009 when the victim was still underage.

He felt faint during court proceedings and vomited before his trial on 9 March, and the hearing was then postponed.

He was reportedly diagnosed previously with anxiety disorder and had what appeared to be an epileptic attack in court on Thursday.

The hearing was then adjourned to the next day, but he once again vomited and fell onto the ground, and the court proceedings were then adjourned again to 21 March.

The man started allegedly assaulting his student when she was 12 years old, and his alleged crimes came to light in 2017. He is currently facing 7 charges under the Children and Young Persons Act, which he pleaded not guilty to.

The victim is now 28 years old, and her identity cannot be revealed because of a court order.

The man was the primary school girl’s mother tongue teacher at the time and met her when she was only 12 years old. He was married at the time with 2 young daughters.

In 2007, while he was in his car with the then-12-year-old girl, he allegedly kissed her on the lips.

In the years that followed, the man allegedly touched the girl on her chest and her private parts, as well as allegedly asked the girl to perform explicit acts on him.

In November 2010, when the girl was 15 years old, they allegedly had intercourse.

The victim then told her older sister about it years later and her sister then reported the incident to the police, and the man was then arrested at the primary school on 28 June 2017.

The police also seized his phone and retrieved messages of correspondence between the man and the victim.

A video emerged online showing a man bungee jumping off a cliff and almost pulling the instructor (who was not wearing a safety cord) down the cliff with him after presumably having second thoughts at the last minute.

The incident took place at a bungee jumping centre Go Bungy Nepal located in Pokhara, Nepal, during one of the jumps from an altitude of about 101m high.

The owner of Go Bungy Nepal, Santosh Bhattarai, was seen in the video guiding the humper towards the edge of the cliff, while counting down to let him go from the edge.

Just as Santosh releases his grip and lets the man go, the man was seen trying to grab onto his arm and almost pulling him down the cliff as well.

It is worth noting that Santosh didn’t appear to be hooked onto any safety ropes, and had he been pulled down the cliff, it very likely would have resulted in his death.

Santosh managed to pull his hand away from the jumper before the latter falls off the cliff, as he shouted at the jumper not to do that again.

The video has since garnered more than 20 million views across social media and almost 1 million likes, as well as drawing varying responses from the public.

Some of them blamed the jumper while others sided with him, saying that it is natural instinct to grab onto someone when falling and that the instructor should have been hooked onto a safety rope.

Netizens’ comments

1. instructor should have harness for safety, especially if they trying to scare guy jumping, what do you expect
2. We all gotta understand he was scared that’s why he did what he did he was not ready to go down
3. since you hesitated, the fella thought it wasn’t the right time to jump. eff around and you will find out
4. Instructor should also be hook on safety just in case

@gobungynepal Don’t do that ⚠️ #gobungynepal #gobungynepalpokhara #fyp #adventure #tiktok #gobungyfamily #goviral #bunjeepokhara #bunjeenepal #adventuretime ♬ original sound – Go Bungy Nepal

Facebook user said that he visited his sister’s condomunium unit and parked his car at the condo’s carpark, only to later find out that his car had been wheel clamped.

When asked about it, the security guard said that the wrong unit number was recorded and they clamped his car for “trespassing”.

Here is what he said

On Sat 13th May, I came to visit my sister who lives in INZ RESIDENCE at Chua Chu Kang Ave 5 for a family gathering. We reached approximately 1900 hrs, where we told the guard we are visiting her unit. After registration, we proceed to our family gathering at the BBQ pit.

As the environment was rather noisy and warm, I was unable to hear or feel my phone vibrate while preparing food for BBQ. At 21:18, I checked my phone and noticed I had 18 missed calls from a number 69081072, so I called back and learnt that my vehicle was wheel clamped.

So we approached INZ RESIDENCE security. I was told that we had breached their security protocol for giving the wrong unit number, where the MA decided to wheel clamp my vehicle for tresspassing. Despite my brother in law who came with me to clarify that we were genuine visitors, I had to pay $107 to release the wheel clamp because the security guard recorded the wrong unit number and deemed that we were misusing their parking system.

1. At the security registration, My wife was on the passenger side, and I clearly heard her reported the unit number where my sister lives. It was INZ RESIDENCE security personnel who made the wrong report.

2. We did not give our name or contact no. Yet the security personnel was able to record my name and call me. Which means INZ RESIDENCE security already has my name and contact in their records, and would know that my sister’s unit number is the only one I would visit.

3. My brother in law came with me to the security guardhouse to clarify that we are not tresspassers but genuine visitors to the estate who followed the rules and parked at their designated visitor lot. But the security personnel refused to call to their MA for permission to release the wheelclamp.

Conclusion is, I had to pay $107 because INZ RESIDENCE security made a mistake by recording the wrong unit number. I did call back at 21:18, and went to the guard house with my brother in law to testify that we were not tresspassers, there is no need for wheelclamp. And even if they wheelclamp, there must be protocol to resolve misunderstandings like these.

It is either this condo has ridiculous by laws that are unreasonably strict, or security guards are riding on the strict by laws to punish whomever they dislike or less prefer. There is injustice in our condo management system and our government should step in with protocols to protect residents and visitors from such dictatorship style private regulations.

Update 01: [ I Normally don’t really check the parking slip issued by condo security coz I never had any issues with it. Admit I took that for granted and I should check in the future. The unit no #06-04 in my photos is the wrong unit no. I did not disclose my sister’s unit no for privacy issue.Hope this clarifies.]

Update 02: [ In the photo of the receipt, you can check the reason for Wheel clamp is not for parking at resident’s lots, but stated “Unidentified Unit Num”. Just to answer those who suspect that I parked at resident’s lot, got wheelclamped and become unhappy about it. No, I parked at designated Visitor’s Lot as instructed]