Why did the chicken cross the road?

This is a common trick question that is often used as a joke. Today we see a real chicken cross the road. An uncommon sight

Here is the video:

Let’s face it, the only reason Yale-NUS students are sour about the dissolution of their university is probably because they think the word “Yale” somehow makes them atas and exclusive. At the end of the day, these people still earn NUS degrees and if they’re not happy with the nomenclature, it doesn’t matter how much they try to mansplain, we all know why.

Yale-NUS has been an abomination from the start. No Ivy League university has ever tried to taint their reputation by selling out their brand in such a way. When they do so it is almost always set up as a dual-degree program where students are awarded two separate degrees from two separate institutions. Such as Harvard and Berklee, or Columbia and Science Po. As naff as dual degree programs are, they do not constitute a sell out because their cohorts are usually very small, and students would have gotten into either university.

Yale-NUS students would not have gotten into Yale, as much as they would have you believe otherwise.

It’s not as if their degrees are all suddenly being classified as unaccredited. You lose nothing other than kopitiam bragging rights, which honestly I’m sure Yale-NUS alums will still do.

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When I got married to my husband he wasn’t that clear on what he was doing job wise he just told me he was a product developer.

He was only earning about $3k a month while I was earning $8.5k as an associate at a good law firm.

I regretted this because one guy who liked me ,who came form a rich and we’ll connected family who ran their family business in china was earning about $70k a month.

I felt that if I went with him instead of my husband I would have a better life I could stay in a GCB drive a Porsche and have all the nice stuff that I wanted .he even promised hell fast track me to partner status in his uncle’s law firm if I just dated him.

And instead, I was stuck in the laned house with my husband and his family. driving his dad’s old Mercedes

But I chose my husband, who over the year since we got married did not communicate with me much he just spent the days outside not telling me where and what he was doing

One day he came back a got me a set of Graff earrings. And told me how much he loves me.

He then said he was working on a business, that he had kept from me since before we were dating.

He’d worked hard for his business with his friend who’s a girl.

When did I ask him do he even make any money?

He replied $160k a month.

And that’s why I stayed with him.

I feel so guilty that I am only attracted to guys with money and connections. I even went down on my boss once after a party.

How do I improve my marriage,I also suspect my husband has something going on with his girl bestie.

Please help me

OCBC posted on Facebook on how they managed to stop a scam after a woman met a prince charming on Facebook.

Here is what they posted on Facebook:

This 57-year-old female customer was relentless. She visited the OCBC Choa Chu Kang branch three times on 14, 15 and 17 June 2021 to try to remit EUR6,600 (about SGD$10,500) to her ‘boyfriend’, saying it was to help him with his ‘pipe repairing machine for his business’. She said she had met this guy ‘a few years ago’ but only started really talking to him on Facebook after her husband passed away a few months ago.

Our branch colleagues became suspicious when they noticed that the funds transfer was to be made to a personal bank account in Thailand, but her ‘boyfriend’ was allegedly based in the USA with his daughter. Our colleagues spent more than an hour each time trying to dissuade the customer from transferring the funds as they were convinced this was a scam. However, the customer was insistent that she wanted to help her boyfriend. Both times, on 14 and 15 June, our colleagues refused to transfer the funds for the customer and had to advise her to tell the ‘boyfriend’ not to pressure her to give him money, if he really loved her.

It was revealed to our colleagues later that the ‘boyfriend’s daughter’ even called her using WhatsApp to try to convince her to help her father out by sending him money for his business, making the customer feel very confused and sympathetic.

Our branch colleagues then reached out to the Singapore Police Force and officers from the Choa Chu Kang NPC also attempted to speak with the customer to advise her against sending the scammer monies.

On 17 June, around noon, the customer came back to the branch again and insisted on transferring the money to her ‘boyfriend’. Our colleagues, again, persuaded our customer not to. As a last resort, they agreed to have a joint video call with the customer and her ‘boyfriend’. The customer then returned to the branch at about 6.30pm to prepare for the video call (as the boyfriend indicated he was only available at ‘lunchtime’ in Italy, which is 7pm Singapore time – another tell-tale sign that something was amiss since he was supposedly based in the USA!). Together with the customer, our colleagues waited until 8pm (way past branch opening hours), but the video call did not happen as the ‘boyfriend’ was not ‘available’.

Our colleagues told the customer that the ‘boyfriend’ would only call her later that night with numerous excuses about not being available at the scheduled call time, which is exactly what happened, according to the customer, who came back to the branch once more the next day to thank our colleagues for saving her from losing her monies. Thankfully, thanks to the vigilance, patience and persistence of our colleagues, the customer did not transfer any money to the scammer!

In the picture from left: Benjamin Lai (Customer Service Manager), Winnie Chng (Branch Manager), Chen Jiali (Service Officer), Goh Swee Lee (Customer Service Manager) and Toh Poh Kim (Service Ambassador).

A video circulated on social media by many netizens said that the accident is not accidental at all.

In the 2nd second of the video the man definitely look towards his right side of the traffic before crossing the road. Even after such a light bump, the man pretended to fall onto the floor.

Netizens said

He definitely saw the car coming. Is he trying to scam insurance company?

He walked stylishly like a Korean drama character without checking the traffic

Looks like he purposely want claim insurance for his own benefit

“If I fall onto the grass, it won’t hurt so much”.

More like a scammer to me

Esther Tan Ling Ying, 24-years-old, was sentenced to 12 weeks jail earlier today for exposing others to the risk of Covid-19 infection.

She was charged with an offence under the Infectious Diseases Act on 16 August.

What happened?

Tan was in London doing her bachelor’s degree course in acting, when she followed the Singapore Government’s advisory to return last year.

She experienced flu-like symptoms while still in Britain and had lost her sense of smell as well as taste.

She didn’t see a doctor but chose to isolate herself until the day of her flight from London to Singapore.

When she landed at Changi Airport Terminal 1 on 23 March last year, she was still suffering from a blocked nose and couldn’t taste or smell.

She was then issued a SHN and an ICA officer instructed her to go home.

However, before going home, she ate at a foodcourt in Terminal 1 with her parents for about 30 minutes.

They also took the MRT to Clementi where she visited Clementi Family and Aesthetic Clinic with her mother, at Clementi Avenue 3.

Tan lied to the doctor about her travel history in order to get her hands on some medicine.

The doctor testified in court that Tan told her that she had b een in Singapore since January last year.

Tan later tested positive for the coronavirus on 30 March 2020.

Tan defended herself saying that the SHN instructions were confusing and that she didn’t think she had the virus.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addressed the increasing number of Malay households in rental flats during hig National Day Rally speech on 29 August.

He cited the Census 2020 survey, which indicated that the number of Malay households in rental flats have increased.

Lee said that there are some reasons for this trend; like say for example, there are some young married couples who are not ready to buy a flat yet but are seeking to live independently.

There are also those who have suffered sudden changes in their financial circumstances.

PM Lee also said:

“Home ownership is not merely about having a roof over your head. It is also for Singaporeans to secure a better future.

Hence we must help more households in rented flats recognise that renting is only a temporary housing solution, and to encourage them to stabilise their income so that they can move towards home ownership, and progress with the rest of society.”

Images source: Lee Hsien Loong Facebook and aware.org.sg