It seems that the malls are the focus of many people after a netizen spotted large cracks on the building recently. Seng Kang’s Riverdale mall opened in the year 2000 and it was refurbished in 2017.
Earlier today a power outage occurred in a mall, a woman said that it lasted for about an hour.
Netizens worried
Straits Times enquired The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and they reported yesterday that the building has since been ordered for repair after photos of cracks on the building went viral.
Hw was meeting some old friends from his primary school to catch up, and they taught him a new word: “Pundei”.
They told him that it meant “Good evening, good afternoon, good morning”.
He then went to his girlfriend’s house and greeted her mother with “Pundei”.
Here is the story:
“After PSLE, my parents sent me overseas to study in Australia.
By the time I returned to Singapore, 10 years had passed, I graduated and worked there for a while before coming back.
I met my Singaporean girlfriend while studying and when I returned to Singapore, she asked me to visit her mother with her whom she has not seen in a long time.
I agreed, but I asked her to meet some of my friends first because I wanted to introduce her to them.
We met for dinner and had a really good time getting to know each other, and one of them told me to say “pundei” to her mother when I see her.
I asked what does it mean, and they told me it was a greeting used to address elders respectfully.
So when I met my gf’s mother at her house for dinner, I shook her hand and said:
“Hello auntie, pundei!”
She appeared horrified and my girlfriend hurriedly chimed in and explained that I was still learning the local lingo to her mother.
After the visit, she told me that Pundei was a vulgarity and my friends had a good laugh at me.
A netizen shared a story about how he took the wrong medicine and ended up with an erection in public that lasted more than 8 hours.
Here is the story:
“This happened a few years ago.
I was spicing things up in the bedroom trying to satisfy my wife in the bed, so I bought some illegal s*x enhancement pills to make myself last longer.
Usually for these pills, 1 tablet is enough to take my wife into heaven.
However, one day, I was having a fever but I had to head into town to run some errands for my clients.
So I took what I thought my paracetamol, but it was actually the s*x drug.
Worst part is, for paracetamol I always take 2 at one go.
So now all of a sudden I’m having a raging erection that won’t go down, in the middle of a crowded street.
So to hide it, I saw down on a bench and leaned forward, pretending to use my phone.
I must’ve sat there for an hour and it was still hard after sitting down for so long.
So I just called my friend for help and he drove down from his house, with a huge backpack that I could use to cover my crotch.
And I then went into “hiding” at his house while waiting for my d*ck to go down.
I had a freaking erection for about 8 hours…
Moral of the story, check your medicine before eating them, most of them look alike.”
A netizen has posted on Social media to share his plight.
He is a contract worker and has claimed that his company has terminated him for poor attendance.
He was hospitalised and quarantined for 18 days which he was not paid, and the government has forbade him to work for and extra 7 days.
He wants to know if he is entitled to any compensation apart from the quarantine allowance as he has no idea when he will get it.
He is a sole breadwinner, with bills unpaid and hands all tied up. It is not that he does not want to work, but is not allowed to.
He has recently borrowed S$50 from a friend to get by.
Read his story below for more details.
Here is his story
“need help or advice
im a contract worker go work get paid never go work no pay
one of my colleuges i was working wirh contracted positive for covid 19 on the 31st of july , company sent me and all the workers for swab test on 2nd of august , i was tested negative , on the 6th i started having fever n flu , didnt go see doctor took panadol , on the 8th i started feeling breathless n lost my sense of taste n smell so i went dorectly to ng teng fong hospital , was tested positive for covid
i believe(assume) i contracted covid from my workplace but i dont know for sure , i was in hospital and discharged on 25th of august im still covid positive but not infectious letter given my ministry of health and im told to not go work untill 31st august , but i can go down n go shop to buy food and essentials , im not on stay home notice or quarantine
today i get a msg from my company i have been terminated for poor attendence , cant blame them , after all im just a contract worker not a company staff so im not entitled for any benefits or mc claim or hospital leave claim ,
so i was hospitalised(islolated/quarantied) for 18 days which i dont get paid , and another 7 days the government has forbidden me from going to work , am i entitled for kind of compensation? yes i know and i already applied for the quarantine allowance but i have no idea when i will get it , a week from now , a month from now , nobody knows , im a sole breadwinner , i know i am not entitles to any form of compensation but is this fair to me? if at least they didnt stop me from working i can do some temp jobs to earn some money to survive , now my hands are tied up , bills unpaid , starting to struggle , forgive me just felt i need to get this off my chest
p.s managed to borrow 50 bucks from a friend to survive for now , on the 1st sept i will start work at new contract job , the government is helping but wats the point of giving me money 1 mth later when i ddont have financial issues , now is when i have the problem , and my company , cant blame them but at least a goodwill amount? “
A man shared his cultural struggles after he has problems with his Thai wife for deciding the best methods to teach their children.
Here is the story:
My wife keep give our pri school girl social media and forces her to dance and records videos and put it on Tik Tok. At first, I did not say much as I thought this is a woman thing.
But my daughter’s grades started to be very poor, I told my wife who is from Thailand about it and she ignores what I say and continues pushing our daughter to dance and record videos. My daughter has reached a point she is more excited at the amount of views on the video than her grades.
The joke is, I work in the IT sector and I know how money is made on social platforms. My daughter has like 50 followers after doing it for a year and most of them are my wife’s friends, which is very very bad and have not make a cent so far.
I told my other friends about it and they said: “Siam bu damn bo liao one keep do this kind of thing rather than earn money or educate themself”
I finally got into a quarrel with my wife telling her to stop letting our daughter go over her head with social media attention. She disagrees saying that it is fun. I shouted at her
“you want her to be uneducated same as you, then next time work disco same as you? You training her to dance like how you dance when you work in a disco. Or you want her to be like a normal girl growing up.
You want her to be like you? only seek attention on social media then don’t spend time earning money but doing all this nonsense.
I told her you are training her to be an attention-seeking w***re like you, the toilet no paper post-social media, the weather is rain post-social media, you put too much fish sauce in your food also social media. You are like a caveman that just discovered fire.”
Contractors that pulled out of five HDB BTO projects citing financial difficulties were revealed to be involved in other government projects with NEA and LTA.
The notable projects are a new crematorium complex in Mandai and also a bus depot in Woodlands.
NEA said that Greatearth Construction, who is the main contractor for the new crematorium complex in Mandai, was expected to complete the project by end 2022.
NEA said that they will further evaluate available options to mitigate the damages caused by the delay.
Meanwhile, LTA said that Greatearth Corporation and Gamuda Berhad Singapore were awarded the contract for Gali Batu Bus Depot in November 2019.
LTA is currently discussing with Gamuda on how to ensure the project continues to run smoothly with minimal impact on the completion timeframe.
Currently, 15% of the project has been completed and full completion is estimated to be around 2024.
JTC also has two projects awarded to joint ventures involving Greatearth Construction in 2019 and 2020.
These projects are involving the construction of a key development and infrastructure works in the Bulim area and one of the precincts in the up and coming Jurong Innovation District.
However, JTC does not foresee any delays to the ongoing works as the partners in the joint ventures have agreed to take charge and fulfill the completion commitments according to the contract.
According to the Ministry of Health(MOH), As of 26 August 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed and verified that there are 112 cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection and 4 imported cases.
Bus Interchange
Cluster
New Cases
Total6
Bangkit 257 Coffee House (257 Bangkit Road)(new cluster)
2
3
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange staff(new cluster)
7
25
Punggol Bus Interchange staff(new cluster)
7
11
MOH is investigating two separate workplace clusters amongst individuals who work in Punggol Bus Interchange and Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.
A total of 11 cases are currently linked to Punggol Bus Interchange, comprising 10 staff working in the Interchange and 1 household contact of a staff.
25 cases are currently linked to Toa Payoh Bus Interchange, all of whom are staff working in the Interchange. All staff of both Interchanges will be tested for COVID-19, and all close contacts of the cases will be placed on quarantine.
Bugis Junction
MOH reports another 40 cases linked to Bugis junction, the cluster now has 104 cases. It is one of the biggest clusters reported recently.
