Facebook user Joyce Zhuang, shared how she booked a Gojek ride yesterday at 1.47pm, which was accepted by a Toyota Isis driver.
However, from 1.47pm to 2.10pm, she claimed that her driver was seen in the app either not moving or allegedly driving around aimlessly.
Here is what she said
Booked Gojek.
1.47pm to 2.10pm driver either never move, or purposely keep driving around aimlessly. Was it just to force me to cancel booking?
If you don’t want the job then just cancel it and gojek can find me another driver right? You all look at the route and see is it the driver playing punk.
Netizen’s comments
Just go to another platform and book another. This driver most likely took booking from another platform which likely pay more.
Another greedy gojek driver.. if you want to job, accept and finish it!! Don’t keep people waiting!!
Same happened to me. I call the driver and told him to cancel. He told me to cancel i say no. I play the waiting game . Finally he canceled
Yup, got the same problem on 27th Aug too. Diver didn’t move at all for 15 minutes. So no choice hv to cancel it.
South Korean actress Yoo Joo-eun died on Monday (29 August) at the age of 27, and she reportedly left behind a goodbye note to her family.
Her elder brother, shared her note on Instagram, and it was translated by Soompi:
What she said in her note
“I am sorry for leaving first. I am especially sorry to Mom, Dad, Grandma, and Oppa (older brother). My heart screams that I don’t want to live. Life without me may be empty, but please live on bravely. I will keep watch of everything. Don’t cry. You’ll be hurt.
I’m not sad at all in the slightest right now. I feel resolute and calm. I think it’s because I have thought of this for a long time.
I’ve lived such a happy life that was more than I deserved. That’s why, it is enough for me. This is enough. So please live without placing blame on anymore.
I’m not dead, so everyone, please live well. I hope many people are called to my funeral, and I want to see everyone for the first time in a while and check in on anyone who is having a hard time.
I wanted to act so badly. Perhaps it was my all, and it was a part of me. However, living that life wasn’t easy. I don’t want to do anything else. That was so hopeless. Having something you want to do is a blessing, but I realized that only wanting to do that thing is a curse.
God loves me, so he won’t send me to be damned. He will understand my feelings and care for me going forward. That’s why, everyone, don’t worry.
And to all my loving family and friends and my loves. Thank you so much for treasuring me and loving me. That was my strength and my smile. I lived with unforgettable memories until the end, so I think I’ve lived a successful life. Thank you for understanding and embracing me who was lacking and impatient. I’m sorry I can’t express it well. But you’ll still understand how I feel, right?
And to all those precious relationships I’ve made, especially the teachers, I was so grateful, and I respected you all. Thank you so much for teaching me the many things in life.
Mom, Dad, I love you. Don’t cry. Please”
Rise to fame
Yoo made her debut in the 2018 Korean drama series Big Forest, starring alongside Jung Sang-hoon, Shin Dong-yup and Choi Hee-seo.
She is best known for her performances in the drama series, Joseon Survival Period in 2019, where she starred alongside Kang Ji-hwan, Kyung Soo-jin and SOng Won-seok.
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I am a 26yo that has never started a savings account or an investing account, my parents never taught me how important it was to save money and now I want to start investing in my finances.
I just started investing about 2 weeks ago and planning to invest 200-250 each paycheck and at the same time increase my savings account, currently, I have about $250 invested with a gain of $30 making a total of $280. I’ve been thinking of enrolling in a couple of investing classes my college offers, they are about $150-$200 each, and its 3 classes in total, is it worth it to invest money in classes?
Here are what netizens think:
Also many books on personal finance: The millionaire next door, Random walk down wall street, Bachelor Pad Economics, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Psychology of Money and Your Money or your life.
Don’t pay for courses, scour Youtube and Google and Reddit you’ll find alot of free resources. MIT OpenSourceWare for example on Youtube, but is quite technical.
My perspective from a somewhat affiliated financial company training dept: Don’t bother with investment courses. Unless they are held by academic individuals and standards, being responsible for their evidence-based content and actions.
Investment trainers and coach gurus are mostly of the same ilk. The incentives of raking in IBF’s subsidies to deepen their pockets is basically the same thing as FAs posting their social media glory news. MLM without a tangible product, but all the costs and profits in 1 direction.
Free resources are abundant. In this day and age, you almost certainly never have to pay to build financial literacy.
99% scam. There’s some accredited ones like IBF but they are ‘boring’ n don’t exactly preach financial freedom
OCBC Bank is set to raise their interest rates for their 360 savings account with effect from 1 September, and customers can earn interest of up to 4.05% per year on balances of up to $100,000.
OCBC Bank’s statement
From 1 September 2022, the OCBC 360 Account will offer all customers higher interest rates for all existing bonus interest categories – Salary, Save, Wealth (Insure), Wealth (Invest) and Grow. A ‘Spend’ bonus interest category has also been added for customers who spend S$500 on the OCBC 365 credit card.
Customers earn bonus interest on individual banking transactions – for instance, crediting their salary will now earn up to 1.1% p.a., while saving S$500 more a month will earn up to 0.35% p.a. – and they do not have to “bundle” these transactions together to meet the bonus interest earning criteria. Customers who perform transactions in these bonus interest categories – Salary, Save, Wealth (Insure), Wealth (Invest) and Spend – can earn up to 4.05% p.a. bonus interest on the first S$100,000 in their bank account.
The banking criteria for the existing bonus interest categories have not changed. Simply by banking as they have always done, 7 in 10 customers will earn higher bonus interest. Salary and Save are the top two categories of bonus interest earned by customers, with 1 in 2 customers meeting both these criterium monthly. By continuing to credit a salary of at least S$1,800 to their account by GIRO and saving at least S$500 more than the previous month, customers can earn bonus interest of up to 1.5% p.a., up from 0.98% p.a. previously.
A new account balance tier has been included and the maximum account balance that customers can earn bonus interest rates on has been increased from S$75,000 to S$100,000. Since 2020, at least one in five OCBC 360 Account customers have average account balances exceeding S$75,000 and could immediately stand to earn more bonus interest.
These enhancements to the OCBC 360 Account are made even sweeter with the ‘Spend’ bonus category reinstated, enabling customers to earn even more bonus interest – up to 0.35% p.a. for this additional category – for spending at least S$500 on their OCBC 365 credit cards. One in four OCBC 360 Account customers are existing OCBC 365 cardholders, making it the most popular credit card among customers with average customer spends growing 15% year-on-year. Thus, the OCBC 360 Account benefits and rewards customers for performing banking transactions that they are already likely to do. And with 2 in 3 OCBC 360 Account customers aged between 30 and 49 years old, earning the additional bonus interest from the newly reinstated ‘Spend’ category will be relatively fuss-free since the OCBC 365 credit card offers up to 6% cashback for everyday spends including dining, groceries, transport, utilities, petrol and online travel – categories of spending that resonate well with this age segment.
These enhancements enable the OCBC 360 Account to live up to its promise of rewarding customers for their everyday saving and banking behaviours.
Ms Tan Siew Lee, Head of Wealth Management Singapore, said: “In a rising interest rate environment, we want to reward our OCBC 360 account customers for their savings and banking behaviours, and for doing more with us, to enable them to grow their wealth and savings. The OCBC 360 Account is compelling not just because of its competitive rates but the ease with which our customers can enjoy these rates – they can earn bonus interest just by going about their daily lives, with no conscious effort needed. By increasing the amount on which bonus interest can be earned and by reintroducing the ‘Spend’ bonus interest category, we are strengthening this proposition.”
She added: “The return of the ‘Spend’ bonus category also marks a tighter integration between the OCBC 360 Account and the OCBC 365 credit card. Given that these are two of our flagship products, a sizeable number of customers can immediately benefit from this enhancement. In fact, 1 in 4 OCBC 360 Account holders already have an OCBC 365 Credit Card. While these products are competitive even when standing on their own, their potential lies in how they complement each other so we must continue to find new and innovative ways to do this to benefit our customers.”
Promotion Starting 1 September 2022, customers can enjoy more cashback with the OCBC 365 card – 8% in cashback on groceries or dining when they spend at least S$80 in a single transaction on Thursdays in September (until 29 September 2022).
Annex 4 – Promotion for new-to-OCBC customers
From 1 September 2022, new customers to OCBC Bank can earn a S$150 signup bonus when they apply for an OCBC 360 Account and OCBC 365 Credit Card together, and credit their salary to their OCBC 360 Account.
Mr Lee was a former resident of Christalite Methodist Home at 51 Marsiling Drive, and he had passed away on 22 August at Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore Police Force’s statement
The Police are appealing for the next-of-kin of 80-year-old Mr Lee Ban Kok to come forward.
Mr Lee, a former resident of Christalite Methodist Home located at 51 Marsiling Drive, had passed away at Tan Tock Seng Hospital on 22 August 2022.
Anyone with information is requested to call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness. All information will be kept strictly confidential.
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE 29 August 2022 @ 10:20 PM
There are many jobs in this world, but some types of jobs are normally frowned upon because of moral values and society’s perception.
But at the end of the day, the one that makes it is definitely happier than those who are mocking. A netizen shared a story of how he observed KTV hostesses making it big in the late-night industry.
Here is what the netizen said:
I’ve been to KTV numerous times and in my observation.
I notice that the very pretty hostess tend to be having a LV or chanel bag, a rolex on their wrist,a iPhone and a sugar daddy waiting for them in a bmw sending her back to her hostel at times detour to somewhere somewhere lah.
The not so pretty one has a Burberry bag, a seiko watch, a xiaomi phone and take a mrt or taxi at times beg for a lift straight back to her hostel. This is a true fact in the KTV world
Here are what netizens think:
Is no different, The one with top marks gets headhunted and high job offers. Ppl make a big fuss when attractive people make money and have a good life. But truth is everyone is making use of their natural endowment, be it If you have a good voice, good brain, strong lungs, fast legs and make a career of it, you are no different from someone else making a living with their own gifts from nature.
If they willing to lie down, I am sure they will be owning a house and car instead of just LV bags.
if you’re going to KTV just to look at bags and watches, you got your priority wrong.
So u wanna moonlight at ktvs so doing homework to see which category u wanna aim for eh?
Shopee recently withdrew a number of job offers for positions at their headquarters in Singapore, according to Panda Daily via Tech In Asia.
As a result, two related rights-protection groups were formed, with more than 60 and 200 members respectively.
Tech In Asia reported that Shopee may have allegedly breached the offer contract for the employees who have not formally joined the company, citing claims of potential negligence by Shopee.
Speaking to Tech In Asia, Shopee said that “due to adjustments to hiring plans on some tech teams, a number of roles at Shopee are no longer available. We are working closely to support those affected.”
The affected employees have asked for compensation from Shopee for losses based on trust in the company, such as onboarding and reduction in property, transportation costs, travel and accommodation to travel to Singapore to join Shopee.
Tech In Asia said that Shopee could potentially pay employees with a month’s worth of salary, along with costs such as their flight tickets and hotel bookings.
I moved out of my parent’s house when I was 22. My sister (25), on the other Hand, Has been living with our parents up until about 2 months ago.
She has always had the upper Hand in life, our parent’s baby the absolute special one. She doesn’t cook or clean. She doesn’t give them any money. All the money she gets, she spends on things like clothes and jewellery. If she were to save up, she could have a condominium or maybe even a house by now.
Our parents are extremely loving, but they can be pretty strict when it comes to specific things.
This is where her “Moving” Out comes in.
Our parents somehow found out about my sister’s job, in short, she sells herself. Not exactly sure what kind, but she’s in the business. I didn’t even know until they found out. They were absolutely pissed. So, they kicked her out.
My sister and I have a fine relationship. We aren’t close by any means, but we’re still sisters.
She calls me up and begs me to let her stay with me until this blows over. I say fine, because like, she’s my sister. I felt bad for her.
She shows up with several bags, and even some furniture she stowed away in her boyfriend’s place. I watch in awe as I see them unloading it into my home. I tell her that I can’t and won’t be able to accept her putting all this stuff in my house. She blows me off and tells me that I won’t even notice she’s there.
She never cleans up after herself. She’s staying in my second bedroom, and I don’t even wanna know how messy it is in there. There’s always plates piled onto the coffee table in the living room, cigarette buds in my candle holders, wrappers, garbage, dirty clothes, all over the floor. I’m constantly up cleaning after her because if I ask her to clean, she says she will and just never does.
She spends forever getting ready, her showers usually take like an hour and forty-five minutes. She’s driving up my water bill, and of course, if I ask her to be more mindful about the time she spends, she says she will be but just never does.
I could continue but I think you get my point.
I eventually put my Foot down and tell her that I can’t have her here anymore unless she starts acting differently. This is when she tells me she’s pregnant, most likely to get sympathy out of me. I offer to pay for her stay at a hotel that’s not too far away, but she declines because they aren’t up to her living standards.
Up until this point, my sister has been relatively passive towards me. But while I was helping her load things into her boyfriend’s car, she tells me that I’m the worst sister ever. She hasn’t called or texted me since and I don’t know how she’s doing, or where she’s staying.
I don’t even know if I’m in the right at this point. I feel like I could have done more to help her realize what her responsibilities are. Cause, in my Mind, she’s kinda like a child. Like our parents never disciplined her or taught her anything.
I am Chinese living in London. I have been looking to relocate to South East Asia, and both Singapore and Malaysia are on top of the list.
I have spent some time in both countries, I prefer to live in Malaysia much more than in Singapore. True, Singapore is a more developed country and is perceived to be very safe.
However, if this is what I want I would stay in London, Singapore has not reached the same level of development as London yet.
My wife has worked at Goldman Sachs in Singapore for three years. We all agree Malaysia is where we would actually love to live.
1, Cost of living is much more affordable than in Singapore, this is a very big factor
2, Malaysian are much more friendly than Singaporeans
3, Pace of life is slower in Malaysia, Singapore is too hectic for me
4, Singapore is too small, and there is more to do in Malaysia and more variety
5, I can actually own a car in Malaysia, and this is almost impossible in Singapore
I am currently looking to apply for a residence permit to live in Malaysia, which is a big obstacle for me. However, both I and my wife have made up our minds to relocate to Malaysia probably in 2024.
What do Malaysian think of Singapore?
I grew up in a village in mainland China and lived there for 18 years. I know what corruption and poverty looks like FYI.
Hello, need some help with investing. I heard it’s better to invest $X amount consistently rather than time the market but I don’t know what to buy and is testing out. I have tried:
1. Endowus – 3 different aggressive portfolios. Drop from $6k to $5 after 1 year (portfolio did not even improve at all even when ETF were booming) any success story for Endowus? I feel like giving up on this platform since it’s just a straight decline since the day I bought it.
2. UOB simple invest with $1k – drop to $960 after 6 months. Does not seem to be improving but it’s a lot better than Endowus.
3. SG ETF – bought bank stocks but the growth is very slow, 2-4% is barely enough to cover inflation. worse still, now all in red as markets fall. Maybe it’s time to buy but all my moolah is stuck.
I heard young people should be more aggressive when we invest since we have time – but I don’t know what to buy and what to do…
How to buy a house and retire in SG when it’s so hard to grow money? Any tip is appreciated, thank you!
Here are what netizens think:
Buy 4D and ToTo.
Buy fix amount every month. Only assess profit after 7 years. In between if lose money also close eye and buy.
You entered at the wrong time of the market. Right now stocks are tanking because of the interest rate hikes and growth scares because of high inflation and possible slowing demand on goods and services. As a young person, you should first try to improve your skills and focus on increasing your active income. Then you’ll can accumulate more money to invest.
Try not to buy bank unit trust or managed funds. They deduct up to 10% of your funds to pay to fund managers.
