A netizen has reached out to us after seeing a recent post of ours on our page regarding a guy using the tamil word “pundei” in the wrong context.

Here is his story

”Hi guys, I read your post about a guy who used the word “pundei” in the wrong context when speaking to his girlfriend’s mother and I would like to share something similar that happened to me.

I am married to a Vietnamese girl for a few years and there was this incident few years ago whereby I was supposed to go back to Ho Chi Minh City with her to visit her family.

Wanting to impress them and to break the ice, I asked a guy friend of mine who learnt his Vietnamese from the KTV here and is fluent in Vietnamese to teach me a few lines in Vietnamese.

He taught me “lam tinh kong sai bao” and said that it means “hello, good morning” in Vietnamese.

Innocently, I flew to Vietnam with the little Vietnamese that I know with my wife.

As it was late when we arrived, we headed to bed once we reached her maiden home.

I woke up the next morning and saw my two sister in laws in the hallway.

Wanting to impress them with the little Vietnamese that I learnt, I waved and smiled at them and said “lam tinh kong sai bao”.

Upon hearing that, their faces changed and both of them gave me a slap before they made a fuss and woke my wife up to complain.

My wife then confronted me and pinched my ear and asked me where did I learn it from and if I knew what I was saying.

I told her the whole story of how I learnt this phrase and she told me that it actually means “sex without condom”.

I went to google the meaning and was so embarrassed and apologised profusely to my two sisters in laws though I really would not mind “lam tinh kong sai bao” with them.

After that incident, I was banned from meeting my friend ever again.”

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Awareness post – sharing my recent unfortunate experiences for Carousell unhappy purchase recently.

Honestly, there is nothing much U can do when u buy on this platform. Just went thru a big hassle with a Seller who sold me a “defective” piano or maybe “made faulty by movers due to alignments.”

I was also not able to claim the moving insurance from the mover I got to move my $4800 piano purchase. Tested at Seller house ok leh but after move by movers back home strings are broken, keys falling off.

Complain to Carousell also can’t help as responsible leaves the Seller once our movers take over the stuff we buy. Seller said moving fault probably and consumer to consumer private sale, no lemon law or torts to protect buyers.

Buy at risk if want cheaper deal In the end, I paid for the repair and restringing of the piano which came up to $590.

The chapter is closed with me the buyer at the losing end. Make a police report no use. Must come out $ fight the civil case, waste time and emotionally stressed. Think twice before buying on carousell

A YP shared a story criticising the Marsiling Yew Tee Town Council’s decision to remove the skatepark equipment due to feedback from the residents about Safe Distancing Measures being broken and the barricaded nettings being damaged.

He then called the Town Council “dumb f**ks” who constructed the park near HDB.

He himself also inadvertently admitted to breaching the safe-distancing measures because “it’s been too long that you guys closed since February”,

He added that they had no choice but to break the law because they waited “for so long for the park to reopen”, so it is now “not our taichi to do it by left”.

He then defended himself, saying that “This is the reason why we skaters skate in the fking streets people.”

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38-year-old Nurhuda Othman abused her maid and was jailed for 9 weeks. She performed a number of abusive actions against her maid such as pushing an iron board against the victim which landed on the victim’s toe.

She also punched the maid in the eye socket and her arm.

Her ex-colleagues at an airline company spoke to us that she was never a kind person, she would often behave in a racist manner and give briefings in Malay language and then asked the other races if they understood her briefing.

She also spends most of her working hours “pumping milk” in the toilet but it can last for hours as if she is waiting for the milk to curdle and become cheese.

She will begin her sentence on 6 September 2021.

Syahrel Mohamad, 36-years-old, was reportedly not happy with his younger sister for owing him $150, he then shared her medical information about her depression treatment from IMH on Instagram.

He also broke into her letter box to steal $100 worth of grocery vouchers.

Syahrel pleaded guilty on 25 August to 7 charges, which included:

• intentionally causing distress,
• criminal intimidation,
• committing a rash act to endanger human life,
• voluntarily causing hurt,
• theft and
• failing to report for bail.

He was sentenced to 8 months and 12 weeks imprisonment, as well as being fined $2,500.

What happened?

On 18 December 2020, Syahrel broke open his sister’s unit’s letterbox and stole her grocery vouchers worth about $100.

He then gave $30 of the vouchers to his fiancee, who didn’t know they were stolen, and the remainder to random people in the vicinity.

His sister then realised the vouchers were stolen about a fortnight later, and she was told by a helpline operator upon inquiring that they were delivered and redeemed.

She then made a police report on the same day.

Syahrel then returned to the letter box to steal more things on 19 December, when he found her IMH bill.

He posted the details of the letter online, which contained her personal details and information, captioning it “gile rupe nye… hahahahaha”.

His sister felt upset and distressed upon finding out her information was posted online and made public.

Syahrel also threated his own mother, who was a widow.

He threatened her to intimidate her into returning the $500 that he gave her, in Novemeber 2020.

He threatened to slash her head with a parang and send people to splash paint at her house.

He also threatened to hurt another sister’s family if she didn’t return the $510 he gave them to invest.

Syahrel also had a argument with a man, and he then padlocked the man’s bicycle on 16 December.

The man fell down and injured his leg while trying to ride his e-bicycle but didn’t seek treatment.