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

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.

A business owner shared his views on the current market and stated that it is a no go to venture into a new business now and espcially in the retail sector.

With the uncertainty of the current pandemic, it is unclear how the market could be affected. Everytime when there is a lockdown the market crashes, marketing expenditure decreases, job security decreases and lowering cost is the utmost importanance for most businesses now.

Many businesses who are afraid of the high risk during this period dare not venture further into their business, in another words reduce or no expansion. Meaning this would affect he whole market, if everyone stop spending money it will set a chain of events which ultimately affects the economy of Singapore,

Mr Tan who is the owner of 11 companies in Singapore said that with the current situation the best option is to prepare for the worse and always be passive. The reason for doing so is to mitigate risk, with every new expansion decesion made it stretches the company’s wallet which increases risk as cash flow is lowered.

He said that even though he have ideas of expanding he must also be responsible to his employees. He might end up stretching his wallet too much that he have to let go some of his employees.

He adviced the younger generations to save more money during this rainy weather and continue to upgrade themselves and not wait for opportunity to come and then upgrade.

In his words he said: “When disaters strikes, new opporunity arises”

He added it is best to observes first and understand every variable before starting your own business and wait for the time to come.

A netizen shared a conversation with a Grab driver that he met while in his car.

The uncle shared that he likes Malay ghosts because when they haunt people, they know what they want to do, they got objectives.

The pontianak wants to kill men, the toyol wants to steal money, the orang minyak wants to play with women and the pocong wants to jump around.

So for each ghosts, people would roughly know how to handle.

But the Chinese ghosts, must go and find out whether they angry at you. Then must go and find out why they angry, find the reason.

Then sometimes they ask for more money, then must buy food burn offerings.

He then shared a story about his brother’s mother-in-law who fied, she appeared in his dreams to tell him to feed the cat.

Here is the story:

Images source: Remaja and screengrab from The Eye (2002)

5 BTO projects were furthered delay after contractors engaged by HDB failed to sustain their business during COVID-19.

Many of them face labour shortages which also affected the financial status of the company. Although the government had provided assistance to the companies they are still unable to finish the job

By right the following projects are expected to complete on the following dates:

HDB reported that the 5 projects have been suspended since 20th August 2021. HDB said that they will be working on bringing new contractors to undertake these projects.

Property Agent opinion:

Couples who are eager for their HDB will have to wait longer, this news could potentially increase the already expensive resale housing to increase in pricing even further.

Prices on resale housing have been on the rise this year and many single individuals are struggling to afford any resale houses. The delay of BTO housing could also mean that some people would have to continue staying with their parents or rent a house. Thus, adding another factor to the increase of HDB resale prices.

Property agents might be laughing at the bank but people who really need a home have to endure in other words “suck thumb”.

A man shared his experience of getting a driving license in Singapore and hopes that the license will him secure a job.

He found out that an average student has to spend close to SGD$2,000 if they were go via the route of learning it from a driving school. He stated that the fees are very high and often they have to pay for various extra useless lessons such as “simulator” to advance their lessons.

He said: “You let me play a simulator that is worse than Daytona arcade game in the 90s and expect us to learn it?”

He said that he wanted to get a class 4 license so that he can drive the lorry and secure a job, but in order to do so, he must first spend at least SGD$2,000 to get a class 3 license to wait for him to get enough driving experiences to learn class 4.

However, the point is not the waiting period to get more experience, the student must again re-register for the school and pay another fee to get registered as a student.

He said many of these schools are deliberately set the expiration date shorter so they have to pay for the fees again.

A man suspected of being dissatisfied that someone burned gold and silver paper, causing the smell of smoke to float into the house, A uncle staying in Ang Mo Kio was accused of throwing the urine bag into the bin.

The uncle was allegedly up to the same mischief on another occasion, according to the resident. The resident decided to file a police report after seeing the man do it multiple occasions.

That occurred on the first day of the seventh lunar month.

When the resident got closer to the dumpster, he observed that the plastic bag had a yellow liquid in it.

Shin Min Daily News reported that it is not the first time the same uncle did this. The man who witnesses the uncle throwing the urine bag confronted him.

The uncle said he is putting out the fire so the smoke won’t go in his house.

However, why use urine? This is simply disrespectful.

In April of this year, I ordered a sofa at ION’s Crate&Barrel, paid the full amount, and the sales staff promised to get it in August.

The waiting time of four months is already long, and I asked twice already, and they all said that I could receive it in August.

Who knew I went to ask the specific time again at the end of last month and was told to postpone it to October! I want a refund, but I don’t agree! Such a big company, without credit, overlord clauses, arrogant attitude, and ignoring customers, it is no wonder that the one opposite to 313 has been closed.

Very disappointed!

Now I only hope to receive the sofa after half a year of waiting, but I doubt it! #Crate and Barrel

Not isolated case

Bought something online, and they overcharged the amount, and under-refunded.

When I emailed in, their response was “it’s not us, it’s our payment system merchant”, and the reason for the overcharged was because of ‘cross border transaction’. I used a local credit card, and their payment system merchant was based is US.

When asked the resolution of previous cases with the same issue, they said ‘case-by-case’ basis.

Beware buying online cause they will overcharge and say they can’t resolve it.

Another one

As of 26 August 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 112 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection. 

40 of the cases are linked to the Bugis Junction cluster. Of the remaining 72 cases, 31 are linked to previous cases and have already been placed on quarantine. 17 are linked to previous cases and were detected through surveillance. 24 are currently unlinked.

In addition, there are 4 imported cases, who have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. 3 were detected upon arrival in Singapore, while 1 developed the illness during SHN or isolation. 

In total, there are 116 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore today.

MOH are still working through the details of the cases, and further updates will be shared via the MOH press release that will be issued tonight.