Hi, I was having dinner today 2 April at 73 Toa Payoh Lorong 4 with my cousin at around 7.30 pm – 8 pm and I had an unpleasant experience with one of the cleaners.

It’s a short white hair female. As we were finishing up our Tze Char about to go to the toilet as it was urgent she approached us and shouted at us and say we must take our plate back in a rude manner. She assume we were leaving.

So I asked her why the group before us sitting at the table on our right which I noticed was made up of only adults didn’t have to clear their table? She replied me because they ordered curry fish heads and we only ordered 2 dishes. So I paused for a while and then she showed anger and said never mind and went to clear our table.

I would like to know if there are such guidelines or did the cleaner make up as such. Is it that because the group ordered more expensive stuff like curry fish head and we ordered only 2 dishes we have to take the empty dishes back ourselves?

We can understand if she is a short-handed bit at least she could ask nicely and we could consider.

My cousin attends church there and we regularly patronise from the Tze Char shop. We have church friends who eat together and we have return our cutlery in the past. I feel really disappointed with her attitude

(Feedback sent to supervisor at the hiring poster page)

Chan Fan Kheow, 61-years-old, pleaded guilty on 5 April to one count of acting rashly and endangering the safety of others.

He was practicing shooting metal ball bearings from a slingshot at plastic bottles, at a multi-storey carpark in Hougang – he missed his targets and broke the glass windows of flats nearby.

One more count of possessing an offensive weapon will be considered during his sentencing on 13 April.

What happened?

Chan saw listings of slingshots online and bought 7 of them, along with a few packets of metal ball bearings/pellets from November 2019 to January 2020, from Taobao.

He began playing with it, aiming and shooting at target boards that he made himself in his home, but then proceeded to take his target practice to a carpark rooftop located at Block 933 Hougang Avenue 9.

He placed a few plastic bottles on the floor and ledge of the roof, aiming and shooting at them in the direction towards Block 923.

On Christmas day 2019, he had missed his target while shooting and a metal ball bearing then hit the glass window of a nearby unit at Block 923, it hit the window with such impact then the glass cracked with a small puncture hole in it.

The resident of that unit found a glass shard in the living room as well as a hole in his living room window, before making a police report.

On 12 January 2020, Chan once again missed his target and the metal ball bearing then hit a bedroom window of another unit in the same block.

The window ended up having a hole in it, about the size of a 5 cent coin, and the resident of that unit then lodged a police report as well.

The total damage done to both residents’ windows cost about $310, and Chan has since made full restitution.

Nine metal ball bearings were found in the vicinity of Block 923 by the police on 13 January, and CCTV footage from the area showed Chan fishing a slingshot out of his pocket while he was waiting for a life.

He was then arrested on 16 January 2020.

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said yesterday (5 April) that travelers who are entering Singapore through the land checkpoints from Malaysia, do not need to show a physical copy of their certificate of vaccination.

They said that as long as they have submitted their SG arrival card, their records will be validated backend with MOH.

This comes in the wake of a Whatsapp message circulating about a traveler who claimed that those entering Singapore needed to show a physical copy of their vaccination records.

ICA reiterated that Singaporeans, PRs and long term pass holders who had their vaccinations here, do not need to show a physical copy of their cert.

Foreign visitors and residents who got vaccinated overseas are also not required to show a physical copy of their cert to ICA officers, provided they have successfully uploaded their digital vaccination certs during the submission of their SG Arrival Card.

ICA added that under the current Vaccinated Travel Framework, incoming travellers who recovered from Covid don’t need to provide a recovery memo, “as SG Arrival Card submissions are automatically reflected in our immigration clearance system, travellers need not show proof of their submission to ICA officers.”

They further added that “ICA would like to remind travellers to prepare all necessary documents, such as valid travel documents and submitting SG Arrival Card within three days of arrival before arriving at the checkpoints”.

The scammers are not just evil criminals but also annoying and disgusting cockroaches that try to disrupt the lives of normal people.

They come in many shapes and sizes, sometimes the scammers say they are Police while other times they are from the bank or telcos.

A netizen received a call from a +62 number which is a number from Indonesia and the female caller claimed that she is from the Singapore High Court and wanted to retrieve personal information from the victim.

Scammers typically used the scare technique by pretending to be someone of authority, victims who are afraid of trouble would often give in and cooperate.

Here is an account of the victim’s encounter:

I received a phone call from +62173076878, stating that the call was made from High Court, and there was a document for me. Then the message requested me to press 2.

After I press 2. it transferred me to a very good speaking English lady like Singaporean or Malaysian Chinese. She requested I provide a reference number. I informed her that I do not have any reference number.

She then requested my IC number to help her check her records. I informed her that I would not release any information even if she was calling from the high court. Then, she stated that my call was transferred to her by an operator.

I told her to get her facts first before speaking with me. She then hung up phone.