On 9 Sep 2021, ICA officers at Tanjong Pagar Scanning Station foiled an attempt to smuggle in duty-unpaid cigarettes.
The cigarettes were concealed in an inbound container. ICA officers had spotted anomalies in the scanned images of the consignment declared as “ventilation fan” and directed the container for further checks.
Over 5,898 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were discovered hidden within the ventilation fans.The case was referred to Singapore Customs for investigations.
ICA is Singapore’s first and last line of defence. ICA will continue to conduct security checks to detect and deter smuggling attempts, to keep Singapore safe.
The Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 74-year-old Mdm Wong Chue Lin Maureen Priscilla, who was last seen in the vicinity of Blk 4 Tanjong Pagar Plaza on 9 September 2021 at about 3.00 pm.
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.
I am having an upsetting issue with my marriage and I wish just to have a discussion with helpful commenters here. I am married to a woman whose older brother has inherited their parents’ business.
Let’s just say he makes a shitload of money and I don’t know how much he earns. He lives in a landed detached near Nanyang Primary School. It’s worth mentioning that that company is split 90/10 between my brother-in-law and his mother. My father-in-law is dead, never met the guy.
My wife got a 3-bed condo from her dad. We live in it now. My wife is a housewife. She became a housewife ever since we had our first child. Now we have 2 children, aged 5 and 2. I don’t make a lot of money (I’m a civil servant), and my wife is uniquely high maintenance.
Although I would be lying if I didn’t also say that she has changed a lot since we met in uni. In those days, she would walk into ION, spend a couple of thousand dollars in a few hours, and call it “therapeutic.” I made it very clear to her when we were dating, repeatedly I might add, that I am low SES and she was the one who agreed to still go out with me, eventually agreeing to marry me. Recently, because of the stress of raising my two children, she has started to ask for significantly more money to spend.
She started going back to cafes with her friends at Orchard, something she has stopped doing for a long time, and she has started buying branded stuff. The cost of raising children has also been more expensive than I had predicted. But to be completely honest, if I reduce my savings to negligible numbers, I can support both my wife’s lifestyle and all the household expenses. I don’t make a lot but I think I am comfortably middle-income.
The thing is I want to save up for retirement. I think it is my responsibility to save up for retirement because I do not believe in asking anything from my children. So for a few months, I have told my wife that I have not enough money to give her apart from what I usually give her. We didn’t use to fight. But we have fought more in the past 6 months than our entire history together combined. I think 2-3 months ago, she started having money to spend all of a sudden.
She could buy all her branded stuff, go to cafes etc. A few weeks ago, we went to Takashimaya and my son saw this $500 toy that he really wanted. I obviously told him no. I didn’t have the budget for it. He threw a tantrum and I held my ground, as I have always done. Without hesitation, my wife just came over and told him “daddy doesn’t have money, mummy buy for you.” I got so angry I just drove home, leaving them all behind.
Two days ago, I finally found out my wife has been getting money from my brother-in-law. I found out by accident because she left her iBanking session active when she was cooking. In that past 5 months alone, my brother-in-law sent her $20,000 a month. Ok, let’s just get something straight here. I don’t have a good relationship with my BIL. He is really smart and really rich. Because I always feel very insecure about how smart I am, I always try to sound smart during family dinners. But he frankly just knows so much about so many things once he starts talking everyone just listens to him explain shit. It is frustrating and I really don’t like being around him.
So I can’t talk to him about leaving my family business to me because I’m sure he would just say it’s his money and he can give it to whomever he wants. I talked to my wife about the money she’s been receiving, and how we should review our household finances and she was adamant in saying that the money her brother sent to her is “her brother’s money,” earmarked for “her to spend” and I’m not allowed to have a discussion on how it constitutes an increase in our household income. I’m not angry at the money that she’s been getting. I’m just upset that I get the sense that my wife has lost all respect for the kind of money I make, the type of work that I do, and the person I am.
For example, she’d suggest a place to have dinner, like a really expensive place, and I stopped being able to use the excuse that we cannot afford it because she’d say it’s her treat.
I feel like nobody respects me in the family and I don’t even know what to feel anymore.
hi guys, F22 here. I have gotten together with my boyfriend in University and it has been going pretty well. He cares for me and will go out of his way to buy me simple treats whenever I am feeling stressed due to my workload and commitments.
Boy, he loves to have sex with me and I don’t mind his enthusiasm as I find it pretty cute and think of it as a time for bonding . His sex drive is pretty high( maybe about 3 times a week) and I try my best to accommodate him as long as I am able to finish my school tasks first.
Sometimes when we are out on a date, he would ask for a quick one and we will just get the deed done in the toilet of a mall, it’s quite thrilling and we would be often starred at by strangers outside the handicap toilet when we are leaving. I have found out that he has a folder of obscene materials stored in his phone and it consists of leaks/video of women from school and I don’t know what to feel about it…
I mean, I do understand that men have their tendencies and needs to satisfy. But I don’t really like to mentally picture my bf pccto other women. I have mentioned it to him casually and I have told him to record our acts together and pccto it instead. I even sent him multiple videos of myself dressed like a little slut while pccand calling for his name but he would always delete my videos and tell me to stop doing it as he doesn’t want our videos to be leaked/ hacked. Do you guys have any words of advice for me ?
I just want to feel loved by him fully and the thought of him jerking off to other women tend to upset me quite a bit
