A photo emerged online on the Instagram story of an Ah Lian, showing a toddler being given an illegal vape to bite on.

She captioned the photo: “What police”

Under section 16(2A) of the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Act (TCASA), it is illegal to possess, purchase and use vaporisers in Singapore as of 1 February 2018.

Persons found guilty of this offence can be fined up to $2,000.

My father is a hawker and I graduated from the University of Melbourne, one of the most expensive schools in Australia, with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.

The idea that hawkers do not make a lot of money is just empirically false. Hawkers make great money. Some of them make even more than many high-paying white-collar professionals. I mean, if you worked as a Big-Four auditor, sure you may have “prestige” and a clean air-conditioned working environment, but…

(a) don’t even pretend that you make a lot of money
(b) don’t even pretend that you don’t work as hard as a hawker.

My elder sister works as an auditor at for PWC after completing her degree and she’s been an auditor for 8 years now and she’s still working well past midnight, every day during the peak periods.

The whole glamour of prancing about on Shenton Way hides a darker reality that while you may look like you’re in the upper rungs of society, the numbers really say otherwise.

There are many one-man businesses that do not need a degree that makes far more than a salaried worker does. I’m not saying every business succeeds. In fact, the majority of them don’t. What I’m saying is there are die-hard industries where businesses have a very low failure rate that pays their owners good money. People refuse to go into these businesses because of the misguided perception that they are not profitable.

An economics major will tell you this is the exact reason why some hawkers can afford to send their children to university overseas to study for a degree.

I started my first relationship when I was in poly. Despite multiple warnings from my seniors, I ignored the most detrimental factor for my relationship-National Service. I had overlooked all the repercussions of having a bf that is lagging 2 years behind in life.

The harsh realities of the outside world forced me to change into an independent woman. In order to pay my tuition fees, I had to work as a part-time financial advisor and started selling insurance. My job enabled me to learn the importance of financial planning.

To guys out there, you can forget about ROM if you cannot afford to pay the HDB loan & car loan. I was naive to believe that my bf and I can work out a future together. In the past, I tried to persuade my bf to sign up for investment saving plans.

Instead of appreciating my foresight, he accused me of being more and more materialistic. If he can afford to spend his money on drinking with his rotten army mates, why can’t he spare a thought for our future? We began to argue over and over again, trying to prove who was having a harder time in life. I don’t see the point in complaining about National Service because it is every single male’s duty to defend our country.

Can it be harder than the stress that I’m trying to cope with in university? Moreover, his choice of a university course is atrocious beyond words… My jaws literally dropped when he told me that he wants to pursue an engineering degree.

Forgive me for being honest, engineering is a job with low recognition and it has lowest mean salary compared to other sectors. If one intends to become an engineer, he should just start working in a garage instead of coming into the university. I had to take the most painful decision and kill this relationship earlier before we are reduced to strangers on the street.

I took few months to completely recover from the heartbreak until recently I was able to put everything behind me and start a new relationship. When my ex saw my Instagram video of me travelling in my bf’s BMW, he sent a derogatory message to me. In his text, he accused me of leaving him so that I can enjoy my life with a new rich bf.

Don’t simply place the materialistic label on women when they leave you! If you take a short while to reflect on your life direction, you will discover that you are actually pretty childish.

A childish guy will never ever provide the sense of security needed by a woman.

A worried parent shut his concerns on Facebook after his son make a classmate pregnant.

Here is the story 

My son just started at a local Polytechnic this year and within 6 months of enrollment,  I received a call from a parent of his classmate.

The woman on the phone said that she is the mother of so-and-so and claimed that my son had made her daughter pregnant.  Initially, I thought it was a scam call and did not think much about it and I hang up the phone. But my phone was continuously ringing and I had to call the school to confirm the school said that they have no knowledge of this incident nor did they reveal my mobile number.

I question my son about this phone call and he said that it was complete nonsense and probably a scam the next day a woman came to our house and said that she’s the parent that called yesterday, she was not alone she came with a younger girl which I assumed is the daughter as she looks about my son’s age

I asked my son if he recognize her and he ran into his room to hide (which is tell me the answer). I open the door and let them in and the woman gave me a letter from a doctor stating that her daughter is pregnant. Thankfully my wife is not around or he will be a lot of trouble.

I called my son out of the room and he finally admitted that he did the deed he tried to explain himself saying that it was an accident.

Before taking any further actions I told the woman that we need to make sure that my son is the father of the child but even before that we need to decide if we are keeping the child as a paternity test before giving birth is dangerous for the mother and the child.  And since her daughter is of legal age to make the decision she should be part of the decision making. However, the woman insisted that she will make the decision I told her it’s either a joint decision or she can get out of my house and I’ll take it that it has nothing to do with me or my son.

The woman angrily leave the house dragging her daughter alone but her daughter had tears in her eyes while looking at my son while he is looking at the floor.  I told my son as a man sometimes you have to take responsibility and of course, I told him being a father is tired and it’s not cheap, I told him even now we took a loan for your school fees and we are still paying for it.

The moment one is born the parents have to be not only service loans but also Hospital fees, we have to continue paying until a child can grow up to be a man. I hope he learned something today.

To all the parents out there, if your child has done something terrible make sure that your child is taught about responsibility and that’s the only way they can grow up to be a good adult and a good parent in the future.

As of 27 September 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health has detected a total of 1,647 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.

With 1,280 in the community, 362 in the migrant worker dormitories and 5 imported cases.

2 more cases have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection. 

Case 74761 was an 80-year-old female Singaporean

Case 88258 A 74-year-old male Singaporean

Both of them had been vaccinated against COVID-19, but had various underlying medical conditions.

In total, 80 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.

A netizen posted a photo online stating that he saw a big group of teenagers gathering in an estate at Boon Lay Drive.

Here is what the netizen said:

Bunch of teenagers age around 12 to 15 of them gathering at Blk 176 boon lay drive playground.

2 of the biggest teenagers I circle in orange was sharing one e-cigarettes vapour like nobody business.

just wondering their parents know about this?

Now my question is they buy e cigerrets from who? Which platform?

This is very serious issue, I hope that authorities take this matter seriously.

 Seeking advice to help my husband

I am a 33 years old working mum of 2 sons, 4 and 2 years old. My husband is 30 this year but he is very lazy.

I met my husband through a common friend 5 years back when he just returned from studies in the UK. We hit off pretty well as he’s witty and humorous plus he secured a very good career in an MNC company and decent family. I’m comfortable with him taking the lead and planning for everything so I usually don’t have any inputs for his decision despite him always asking me for it.

I got my legs swept off by him and agreed to marry him after 1.5 years of relationship. But things start to change much after marriage. He became very lazy whenever I asked him to do stuffs. Like when I asked him many times to get a driving license, he said that he never actually needed one as he has someone to chauffeur him around and taking PHV or cab is cheaper than owning a car in Singapore unlike UK. I was pretty upset when he said that as a car would be convenient for checkups for my gynae visits and meeting up with my friends. 

He does not help out much in housework except for washing of clothes, windows cleaning and fans as there are much more things to do apart from these. He will usually lounge around or sneak off to go for exercise once he is completed with those chores while I need to look after the kids. I told him there are many other chores to do but he always said that he will do later but never did.

His working hours are pretty hectic as he will usually reached office by 8.30am and will only reached home by 8pm. As I finished work earlier, I will usually picked up my kids from childcare and buy dinner, which is quite tiring when my cab doesn’t arrived on time or when the food delivery doesn’t come early and need to tend to hungry kids. Travelling can be pretty tiring even via taxis. I always tell him to cab home but he likes to travel by MRT as it helps to save cost. Cabbing home can reduce an hr of travelling time which he can help me to tend to kids when i’m tired and he’s earning a high 6 digit figure per annual, I can’t figure out why he is so petty on money when I’m only earning  1/3 of his salary. Although he pays for all the cab rides and food but I just want him to share the load of actual parenting. I felt so overwhelm by the fatigue that I actually quit my job to take care of the kids when my 2nd kid was born. I told my husband that he should spent more time to take care of the household but he often use work or a need to exercise as an excuse. I don’t understand why he needs to choose the timing to go for exercise. For weekdays, he has free time from 11pm onwards, but he can choose to go straight after work. For weekends, it’s even worse, he can opt for timing like 1 to 3pm where the kids are usually sleeping or 10pm onwards but he choose timing like 6am in the morning or 5pm in the evening when the kids are awake or going to be awake.

Things start to have a strange turn of events when he mentioned that he wants to quit his job and spend time. I felt very happy and relieve when he said that. But the downside is that, he told me that I may have to look for a job as he could have difficulty finding a job that has work life balance and decent salary. I was happy and disappointed at the same time, but I guess that’s life. So I agreed and he quit his job and he’s taking care of the kids at home while I went back to the workforce after 2 years of being a housewife. Things are doing great for me as the workplace is good and the pay is much higher than my previous job, but not for my husband. He has difficulty finding a manager entry level job as he is over qualified, having armed with an Imperial College degree and INSEAD MBA, he has difficulty finding a job that support work life balance and decent salary when he is willing to take up to a 75% pay cut. Despite being at home, I find that the status of the house cleanlines is not up to my standard when I can find small peck of dust on the window grill when I do my spot check and he still has the tired feel when he doesn’t even need to work. I don’t understand why can’t he take care of the house when I’m earning the dough. When confronted, he said that he is making pretty good money while being a day trader and suggested that we should get a maid to do the menial work while both of us earn the money but I don’t like strangers to stay with us. I also urged him to be more active on job hunting as we have expenses to pay for. I need his contributions for my parent housing loan and our utility and my cab expenses. Luckily our 5 room is fully paid thanks to his investment. He’s pretty lazy as his day trading can fetch about 5k for good months and 3k for bad month and has a emergency savings for 10 years without working, but it can be embarrasing for a guy to be unemployed for long time.

I asked my friends for advise but their responds are pretty mixed and I’m also dried up for solutions, which is why I would like to sought for more options to get my husband to help out more.