According to a video published by local “WWE SuperStar” Kurt Tay. He stated that a man was injured after falling from height at ChinaTown Point earlier today (Jan 9).
He said that the man has been sending to the hospital. The status of the man is currently not known.
“Just now got accident happened, the worker fall from the top ceiling, as you can see there is a big hole on top, broken and fall to the ground floor”
A netizen shared a passive-aggressive post telling Singaporeans not to judge Vietnamese people, saying that the rich Vietnamese would never come to Singapore.
“A lot of Singaporeans tend to generalize how Vietnamese are like based on the ladies you usually see in SG (mail-ordered brides, some may say).
But think about it for a moment. By “buying” a bride, you are selecting a very specific portion of the population. Usually they are from poor background in the countryside.
Educated, middle-class and above ladies from Hanoi or HCM city would never come to Singapore like that.
In fact, rich people in Vietnam would never come to Singapore.
They usually prefer the US or Australia. Because money is not what they need, it’s the kind of Western democracy and suburban lifestyle (big car, big house, etc.) they look for, which Singapore does not have.
So next time you judge a whole people by those you see here, ask yourself whether your sample is representative.”
A 61-year-old man was convicted of two molestation charges on 6 January, after molesting his daughter who was then about 5 or 6 years old in 2009 (she is now 18-years-old).
The identities of the parties involved cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the identity of the victim.
Sometime in 2009, the girl was eating in the living room of the family home when her father called her into a bedroom, her mother wasn’t home at the time.
The man was wearing only a towel around his waist and sitting down at his table, using his computer.
he then asked the victim to sit on his right thigh and he then grabbed her left hand and put it on his private parts.
The prosecutors said that the girl let him do whatever he wanted to do because he is her father, and that the girl recalled feeling scared because she didn’t know what he was doing.
The father then touched the girl’s private parts before she left the room and when her mother returned home later, the girl didn’t tell her about what happened because her father told her not to.
The truth finally came to light about a month later and the girl’s mother told her never to let anyone touch her there again, and she asked her why she didn’t tell her about the incident earlier.
The mother told the girl that there was no hard, concrete evidence so there was “no point” in making a police report.
The father was then confronted by the mother about the incident, but the girl didn’t say anything because she didn’t want to get involved in their argument.
The victim’s parents later divorced and the man then moved out.
The girl watched a YouTube video about assault when she was an upper primary student and realised that her father had committed a wrongdoing, but she didn’t know what to do and didn’t make a police report.
The girl also started having panic attacks in school some time in 2018 whenever there are a lot of boys and she grew to dislike being around boys.
She later revealed to a school counsellor about her father’s actions when she asked her about the triggers for her attacks.
The man is expected to begin his mitigation and face sentencing in February.
Sometimes when you lend money to people who don’t know them long enough it can turn out to be a scam.
According to the video, the man owns a Maserati and claims that he does not have money to return.
The older man then said let’s go to the bank now, yet the man said that he has no money in the bank.
He said that he had no money to return because his friend took his money, but his the one that borrow the money what. What does it have to do with his friend?
The video has since gone viral on Tik Tok
According to the information published along with the Facebook post, the victim only knew him for less than two months before he started asking for money.
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the 96-year-old former prime minister of Malaysia, was hospitalised again on 7 January after previously being hospitalised on 16 December.
His latest stay at the hospital marks his second hospitalisation in less than a month.
He was hospitalised 2 days ago for an elective medical procedure (no details were released about the surgery)
Mahathir is fully awake and recuperating well, according to an update on his Facebook.
The statement released by Malaysia’s National Heart Institute, Institut Jantung Negara, said that the procedure was carried out by a team of doctors and went uneventfully and as planned.
He is expected to be discharged within the next few days.
Source: Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad Facebook
A video emerged online showing a group of youths gathering at a carpark as part of what appears to be “settlement talks” between two girls.
The youths were seen congregating in a group of about 12 to 13 people, as they urged the two girls to “spar”.
One of the girls was seen extending her hand out to the other girl for a handshake, which was rejected, and the two then started exchanging blows with each other soon after.
The girl in jeans was seen grabbing the other girl by the shirt and dragging her, as she tried to kick her and punched her in the face.
She then dragged the girl down onto the ground before punching her again in the face and kicking her while she was down.
The group of youths were seen cheering as the fracas unfolded and escalated before them, and they were also seen not wearing their masks, with one of the boys seen openly vaping as well.
It is unclear who the youths are or where the incident happened.
First-time offenders who breach safe distancing measures are fined $300.
For non-compliance with safe management measures under the COVID-19 offenders may be jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.
If they are caught by the Police for not wearing a mask or not wearing a mask properly they can be charged under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020.
Penalties include a fine of up to SGD$10,000 and jail for up to six months.
According to Chapter 224 of the Penal Code, anyone who disturbs public peace by fighting in public is guilty of committing an affray.
Upon conviction, offenders could face a jail term of up to one year and/or a fine of up to $5,000.
According to Chapter 321 of the Penal Code, anyone who performs an act that causes hurt to a person is guilty of Voluntarily Causing Hurt.
Upon conviction, offenders could face a jail term of up to 3 years and/or a fine of up to $5,000.
Under section 16(2A) of the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Act (TCASA), it is illegal to possess, purchase and use vaporizers in Singapore as of 1 February 2018.
Persons found guilty of this offense can be fined up to $2,000.
A video emerged online showing two men and a woman fighting at the side of a road, presumably as part of a scintillating love triangle.
The incident was captured by a netizen who was nearby at the time.
One of the men could be seen reaching out to the other man, who then pushed his hand away and the two then started gesticulating at each other.
A lot of pushing and shoving was seen in the video, with the woman being dragged and held back by one of the men.
According to Chapter 224 of the Penal Code, anyone who disturbs public peace by fighting in public is guilty of committing an affray.
Upon conviction, offenders could face a jail term of up to one year and/or a fine of up to $5,000.
Today, we were supposed to be married. But our wedding venue cancelled on us 4 days ago. The reason? They tried to raise the price by 37% last-minute and got defensive after we didn’t just roll over and accept – as we’d been doing through 5 months of their shenanigans.
We’re still hurting and in shock, but we’d like to share our story as a warning to all couples looking to tie the knot. Because unethical businesses exist and you deserve to know. Hopefully, you’ll be able to protect yourselves better.
So why did we pick this venue to begin with? We’d looked at a variety of spaces, mostly established hotels, but ultimately picked this cafe for sentimental reasons. It’d have been a somewhat unconventional choice of venue, but the fiancee and I had one of our first (and many subsequent) dates there 2+ years ago, so it held a lot of meaning for us. We also liked the food (European fare) and knew the waiting staff, so we felt comfortable in this familiarity. But while we might have been familiar with the waiting staff, we’d never met the owner, and his priorities were far more selfish. This brings us to
𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐍 #𝟏: 𝐓𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.
It can be easy to romanticize your own wedding. But to a business, the harsh truth is that your big day is ultimately a money-making opportunity. While there are many wonderful people in the industry who genuinely want to celebrate with you by supporting you with their services, this is often secondary to their business objectives. And this is usually fine. Unless their business objectives are at your expense.
The cafe we picked was owned by Bob (not his real name). From the very beginning, we had doubts over Bob. The first time we were supposed to meet, he stood us up. He kept the fiancee and me waiting at the cafe for more than 2 hours, ignoring our WhatsApp messages and calls. We eventually paid and left. When we later met Bob, we recognised him as having been present the whole 2 hours we were there – he just never bothered to come over!
Bob also wouldn’t remember our event date or timing; he mistook our lunchtime reception for a dinner just one week from the wedding. He ignored most of our WhatsApp messages, and even had the gall to scold us when we tried to confirm a meeting with him after his no-show. So it was quite in character when he finally came to us less than a week before our big day, declaring that we’d need to pay 37% more.
Maybe we looked like easy prey. Just a week before that, he set us back several hundred dollars in equipment rental after backtracking on earlier promises. During our discussions, we were repeatedly assured that we’d be able to use the venue’s projector and screen, as well as their AV system and mics. But when we went down to actually test the equipment 2 weeks before the wedding, we discovered: (1) we couldn’t use their sound system with the projector due to compatibility issues, meaning that none of our videos would’ve had sound, (2) the projector wasn’t powerful enough to beam anything onto the screen during daytime, and (3) there were no mics.
At this point, you must be wondering why we stuck with Bob despite his unprofessionalism. We make no excuses. It really just is terribly hard to abandon something when you want it so much, especially when it’s almost within reach. And so we downplayed all of the red flags, even when things began looking like an impossible game of Minesweeper.
𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐍 #𝟐: 𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
One of the first big red flags we missed was a strange tension between Bob and his staff. We only began noticing this around two months before the wedding, after one of his team quit abruptly. We initially paid this little attention, not wanting to involve ourselves in their internal politics. But in hindsight, this should have been a major warning sign that all was not right. Teamwork makes the dream work, after all, and if the people supporting you aren’t 100% focused, you risk things slipping through cracks.
For us, their internal issues had the knock-on effect of us having to have separate meetings with the cafe staff. Since they had issues communicating and sharing information with each other, we also had to repeat ourselves and verify each time that our previous discussions were valid. Super inefficient and frustrating.
To compensate for their lack of teamwork, we had to do the cafe’s work for them. For instance, because they couldn’t provide us with a floor plan, we had to manage the positioning of all of the tables, physically going down to count their furniture and measuring the space with a tape measure to ensure the setup adhered to COVID-19 regulations. We also needed to assign one of our guests to be a Food I/C – to ensure that everybody got their food on the day – which should have been the role of the restaurant manager!
Since they were hardly involved in the wedding preparation, it was easy for them to cancel on us. After all, it was us who had the most to lose, having done most of the work. That said, our saving grace in this whole ordeal was
𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐍 #𝟑: 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥.
You never want to be caught in a “he said, she said” type of a situation. Following our venue’s cancellation, we went back to our WhatsApp chat logs and email inboxes, and are so thankful that we left written records of our discussions. This meant that when Bob tried to gaslight us by claiming we’d never confirmed that we wanted to host our wedding at his cafe, we had plenty of written examples to fall back on. Also, if we do take our case to the State Courts, for instance, we’ll have more than just our words to support our case.
One thing we could have done better was to have chased harder on the down payment. While we’d gotten and accepted the quotation way back last August, we were brushed off every time we asked about whether we needed to make a down payment. This made it easier for Bob to cancel on us because he believed that we needed a signed contract to hold an agreement up in court. Fun fact, a text message or email can be binding enough as long as the parties involved agree to the terms.
Besides being a factor in dispute resolution, it’s good practice to share an agenda/discussion topics before every meeting, and to share a recap and next steps after. Any venue or wedding partner worth their salt should do this. However, ours didn’t, and we had to pick up the slack for them. Looking back, we’re relieved we did. Now, we have one source of truth and one that we can share with you.
In closing, we’d like to extend our deepest appreciation to our family and friends. While this entire experience has been immeasurably painful, our heart cockles are warmed to know that we’re surrounded by wonderful human beings.
To our vendor partners, our sincerest apologies for having to cancel on you. We are touched by how understanding you have been and we cannot wait to pick up from where we left off once we get our wedding plans back on track.
And yes, it will not be long before we once more attempt to #MakeMarryWithMars with you. But for now, we plan to take some time to rest and recharge. Here’s to a better rest of the year.
Summary:
-Sibeh a lot of red flags along the way.
-Couple still played along, believing that end result might not be so bad la.
-Straw that broke the camel’s back was price increase.
So now blame everything on owner/cafe mgt when they themselves rolled over like dogs?
You are forced to physically measure the venue yourself and count furniture, not big enough of a warning sign meh? Pity that backbone transplants are not a thing.
Sounds like user problem leh.
Please feel free to criticize should you feel the summary is not fair.
The weekend is the time to relax and sleep as much as you want. But some people use the time to what YP refers to it as “rounding”.
The video was filmed at a housing estate along ECP. Numerous cars were seen seeing though on 8 Jan 2022 at about 2.44 AM.
It is unusual to have so many cars driving in a bunch in the middle of the night.
The cars could be heard revving their engines and stepping on gas pedals macham the petrol sibei cheap.
Residents in the area could hear the noise from inside their houses.
Typically, cars would make this kind of noises if they have a modified exhaust system which forces more compression of the air coming out of the vehicle.
Those who are convicted of an illegal modification can be fined up to S$2,000 or three month jails
Repeat offenders can be fined up to S$5,000 or jailed up to six months.
A video emerged online showing a woman walking around an MRT cabin and talking very loudly, giving a stern lecture to the commuters inside the train.
It is unclear what exactly she was saying or what she was talking about, although we were able to make out the following phrases:
It is unclear who the woman is, where the incident happened, or what sparked off the unintelligible rant.
First-time offenders who breach safe distancing measures are fined $300.
For non-compliance with safe management measures under the COVID-19 offenders may be jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.
If they are caught by the Police for not wearing a mask or not wearing a mask properly they can be charged under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020.
Penalties include a fine of up to SGD$10,000 and jailed for up to six months.
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