In the video, the onlookers commented that the person walking on top of the bridge attempting suicide looks young.
Police were alerted to the of the incident at around 5 pm yesterday.
SCDF managed to climb up and dragged down by SCDF and taken to KTPH.
https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeUncensored/videos/659650324381121/
On the 8th of June, I was flying back via Singapore Airlines (SQ 516) to Calcutta with my parents (both senior citizens) and younger sister from Brisbane. We had a layover in Singapore and after six hours of being in transit, we were ready to board our flight that was scheduled to take off at 9.10pm Singapore time. We were put on a bus that would take us to our aircraft. With very few seats available and all taken, the majority of us were standing. The driver started the bus, moved it by half an inch, and then got off the bus.
He repeated this four times. Everytime we thought we were going to leave, he got off. It was about 30 minutes we had been trapped inside with no explanation, no reasons.
My 73 year-old father and many other senior citizens and toddlers were extremely uncomfortable and physically exhausted just standing there in oblivion. Some of us frantically knocked on the door and windows and the driver of the bus shrugged from the outside as if to say “I have no idea what’s going on, don’t yell at me” until one lady from the ground staff (who was earlier anxiously ushering everyone onto the bus as if we were school children or an uneducated lot) came to the bus to ask us to calm down. Some of us, including me, lost our cool at her and yelled at her until she let us off the bus and wait at the terminal. 20 minutes later we were asked to board the aircraft.
It was now 9.30pm. Upon boarding, we were told that the airconditioning in the aircraft was not working and it would be fixed within fifteen minutes. Every five minutes the captain kept giving us live updates on the PA system — “the engineer is on his way”, “the engineer is here and it will be fixed soon”, “please bear with us, the temperature will increase for ten minutes before it starts cooling”.
Everyone waited patiently until we realised this wasn’t going to get fixed anytime soon. Half an hour had passed with zero ventilation in an aircraft full of passengers. An airhostess at some point told me the aircraft hasn’t been in use for a long time and so the airconditioning was not working. A pregnant lady had gotten so sick she was getting hot flashes and no amount of water splashing helped. Two other women were profusely throwing up in the back of the plane. Everyone was sweating. It was 31 degrees in Singapore and very humid. When we confronted the cabin crew, they had no answers, rudely shut us up, threatened to call the cops to arrest us, and said “we are in the same situation as you are, don’t ask us, we don’t know anything”. If we won’t ask them then who are we supposed to ask? They were not letting us deboard the plane and they weren’t being able to immediately fix the airconditioning problem and they weren’t able to give us any answers.
Passengers were using the safety card to fan themselves. Two doctors (a senior citizen couple who had to board the aircraft from another wing in wheelchairs) from my apartment building in Calcutta were on the same plane. When I went to them asking for help for people throwing up, I saw that the gentleman had gotten so sick he had to take off all his clothes and sit in a mere vest. Like us, they were traveling from Australia where it’s anywhere between 6 and 9 degrees right now. The airline didn’t let anybody go. We were being treated like prisoners, being asked to sit in our seats and wear our seatbelts. They told us if we were going to offload ourselves then we wouldn’t be allowed back in and they would put us on another plane which was two days later and they wouldn’t compensate us for any of it. The airline did NOTHING to make us comfortable.
They refused us cold water and drinks until much later when we gathered around the pantry demanding for fizz drinks to feel better. My dad, who has a major dehydration problem, felt suffocated and claustrophobic. The pilot kept announcing that they we are about to fly “soon” but nothing happened. Three times the ground police came to our aircraft to understand the problem and did nothing about it despite people crying for help. It seemed like they were just called in to distract us. Later, when the pilot announced they were ready to go, the airconditioning had still not started. Everyone was nervous. When I raised the concern with a ground security police officer, he told me that I shouldn’t be on this plane and that I should immediately get off. People were concerned that what was a “minor problem” took THREE HOURS to fix and very few had confidence we would land safely. In a situation like this, we expected the cabin crew to help us understand the problem and reassure us that it was fixed and safe to fly.
As someone generally very afraid and anxious of flying, I raised the safety concern with a male cabin crew, and a lady cabin staff (also the head) overheard as he was explaining to me what had happened, and nastily asked him to ignore everything I was asking or saying. When I told her how can you ask your staff to ignore a passenger, her response was that she didn’t have time for this! Our plane took off at around midnight-12.30am Singapore time. We were supposed to reach Calcutta at 10.30pm Calcutta time and we landed at 2am. We were on that plan for three hours with zero ventilation in super humid weather, with no way to get out, with a bunch of extremely rude cabin crew, and absolutely nobody helping to make the situation better. This was a traumatic experience not only for me and my senior citizen parents but for everyone on that plane. I strongly believe that this outright racist and dehumanising behaviour was meted out to us because we are Indians and the superiority complex was beyond evident.
https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeUncensored/videos/658781527801334/
Singapore Airlines took no responsibility and the captain issued a basic verbal apology over the PA system. To some passengers they handed out universal adapters (!!??!!) as a token of I’m not sure what. We take premium airlines because we have faith in their services and that our journey will be nothing less than comfortable.
Singapore Airlines went out of its way to make the experience horrifying for us. They should not have let us board the plane in the first place if they knew there was a problem, which they evidently did when our bus was delayed and we were thrown back into the terminal. I wonder if they would have behaved the same way with passengers in an aircraft flying to New York or London. Well, you know the answer.
A passenger on the aircraft mentioned that if they delay boarding of passengers, the airline is charged a heavy penalty and that is why we were forced into the sauna of a plane! Is this true? To people reading this and those with knowledge about this, I want to know if and how I can take this up legally and whether I can claim a full reimbursement?
Appreciate any and all kind of help and support. Please share widely. Thank you!
https://www.facebook.com/chandni.doulatramani/videos/10160431698370023/
A 59-year-old resident of Toa Payoh who is visually handicapped, who has kidney failure and who have been declared medically unfit to work has had his request for long-term financial assistance rejected by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).
All because he receives a $620 monthly payout from his own CPF Account, which is higher than the prevailing rate of Public Assistance which is $500 for an individual.
What is the policy rationale behind this?
For short term to medium term assistance, an individual who earns less than $650 a month qualifies for assistance.
The resident cannot work because of his medical condition and finds the $620 a month he gets from his own CPF a real stretch. Who wouldn’t?
The rental of his one room Toa Payoh flat is paid for by a temple and he has one meal a day delivered over to his squalid home by a well wisher, while his dialysis treatment is covered by Ministry of Health and National Kidney Foundation subsidies.
Samaritans also help him sporadically with groceries and appeals with agencies.
The 59-year old does not have any children, or family members whom he can rely on. He lost contact with his only brother decades ago.
The MSF needs to explain its rationale for using the prevailing Public Assistance rate for rejecting someone like the resident above, who is visually handicapped and who cannot earn any other income because of his medical condition.
Our citizens need to lead dignified lives.
Source: Joe Raymond
https://www.facebook.com/JoseRaymondThomas/posts/2168165580084765
Image source: Whatsapp
A 45-Year-old married man and his family were suspected to have been involved in a disputes related to money in block 62 of New Changi Road, the man in the locked house refused to allow police officers to enter, and at one point even threatened “whoever goes into my house will be chopped with an axe “.
The incident lasted 10 hours and finally ended at around 3am this morning, 10 heavily armed riot police entered the house and managed to arrest to man.
It was understood that when the police officers advised him to open the door, he exclaimed ” who enter inside the house, I used an axe to chop people!” and threatened to hurt myself with the axe.
He even wrecked his rental car because of sleeping pill.
A graffiti depicting the supreme leader and Trump making out at a housing estate in Tiong Bahru.
The background has a comfort blue taxi 100% its in Singapore.
No one is clear who drew the grafitti or if its even real.
Passerbys gave the “WTF” face after seeing the image on the wall.
Hi,
I chance upon this video uploaded by someone on Facebook of an E-F***** riding down Geylang like his father owned the road. To be honest I don’t really care if this rider ends up getting hit by a vehicle because it seems like he is looking forward to his funeral.
What trouble me the most is that the drivers get into trouble for no good reason just because the riders decide it is alright to ride in such manner.
They are everywhere! People said it is fair as long riders ride properly but the difference between LICENSED drivers and E-F******* is that drivers go through Theory, practical TP test so everyone would at least have basic knowledge on how will other drivers react or behave on the road.
https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeUncensored/videos/657547364591417/
Video Source: Clarence Cheang
The difference is E riders typically ride whatever and whenever they want there is no such thing as right of way for them.
Please ban them all. If you agree with me please SHARE this post and make it go viral. Normally, only after a post goes viral then relevant authorities will take action.
Share and watch out for “them”
The Trump-Kim circus, I mean summit, is in town and the top question on locals’ minds: “why is Singapore paying $20M for this?”
Here’s my take:
1. The US can’t pay because a nuclear yet cash-poor North Korea sees it as insulting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/776055ce-9745-439e-9ee4-c0…
2. The US hinted to Singapore to pay, source: Singapore defense minister quoted in WaPo link above. This is key because it means US “owes” us a favor even if it’s just a small logistical detail.
3. Safeguarding Singapore’s FTA (Free Trade Agreement) partner status with an infamously anti-free-trade Trump: priceless. Trump just left all his G7 “allies” in Canada threatening a trade war. Last thing Singapore should do is stay on the sidelines and wait for Trump to call us out for “unfair” trade deals. Singapore has to step up and be counted. Paying $20M helps? Imagine how many more jobs or companies may suffer if trade margins get jeopardized.
Source: https://ustr.gov/countries…/southeast-asia-pacific/singapore
4. Ace-ing the tightrope walk of US-China geopolitics: China nearly kicked us out of One Belt One Road (OBOR) last year and our traditional ally USA has adopted an inward-looking policy under Trump. This is a fantastic opportunity to remind both world powers of our geopolitical presence and our unique role in international diplomacy as a middleman. Both China and US are among our top trade partners and maintaining a good relationship is key to our longer-term economic fortunes.
5. Burnish Singapore’s global brand of neutrality as “friend to all, enemy to none”: Singapore was picked as the host because it has the rare status of having good relations with hermit kingdom North Korea and the USA. China is a staunch ally of North Korea and while some in Beijing might be kicking their heels at missing out on a historic summit, they will be heartened to know they are only one arms-length away from a neutral 3rd party. See more on Singapore’s “first principles” of foreign policy here: https://www.straitstimes.com/…/five-core-principles-of-sing…
6. For my fellow Singapore citizens that are unhappy with us picking up the $20M tab, let’s have some perspective. Assume a hypothetical family makes $10,000 a year, what are they willing to spend 0.03% of it on? That’s $3…
Singapore’s 2017 budget is S$69B/ US$53B. Assuming $20M is USD, 0.03% is how much this summit costs the Singapore government, and its citizens. I cannot think of better ways to spend 0.03% of my annual income. If you are the Singapore Prime Minister in charge of short term and long term planning,how would you spend it better?
Source of budget figures: https://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/…/bud…/RevenueExpenditure
In short: $20M is a fantastically small price to pay for punching above our small country size and making a lasting impact on the global table where the major powers of US, China dine on. Forget North Korea, this isn’t really a summit for them as much as it is for securing Singapore’s political and economic relevance.
P.s. if you are still really unhappy and want to devote this meager $20M to reducing taxes or helping the needy, try reading this even more frivolous expense, and justification, for space exploration and why any nation should still do it: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html…
Source: Bjorn Lee
https://www.facebook.com/bjornlee/posts/10103942222431443
Hi,
need some advise. My boy just attended CC for a week, he started on 1st June. Today he had an accident in school and we had to bring him to KKH AnE to have them stitch up the wound. Attached pic (he had 4 stitches on his forehead).
Doctor told me that there will definitely be a scar on his forehead. Is there any action that I can take against the school?
PS. I was informed by the principal that it was purely an accident. They are not sure what he saw at the window that got him excited and he started dashing across and banged his head against the window ledge. The teacher couldn’t stop it in time as it happened too suddenly.
Dear all,
Appealing for URGENT help.
My daughter, Le’Shane Chong, has gone missing since 1pm today, 10 June 2018 Sunday. She was last seen leaving our residence in Choa Chu Kang, wearing white tee and black shorts, at 1pm for tuition at 2.15pm (Location of tuition: Hillview) but I was later informed by her tutor that she did not turn up for lesson at all.
She is 16 years old, slightly tan, stands at 160cm, slim. She has long black hair.
She has switched off her mobile phone since and is currently out of reach. A police report has already been made.
Please refer below for a recent photo of her. Greatly appreciate any kind soul who happens to see her or knows of her whereabouts, to contact me immediately at 91120333.
Please help to spread the word.
Thank you very much!
Update 11/06/18 1310hrs:
I just checked the cupboard, she wore a black based dress with black and white off shoulder straps, NOT white tee and black shorts. Sorry for the confusion.
IO called. Le’Shane did not use her ezlink card at all. Which also means, with only $7 cash with her, she can only travel anywhere on foot. People staying around Bukit Panjang, CCK, Yew Tee, Teck Whye, Bukit Gombak, Bukit Batok, Hillview area, please please help me keep a lookout.
Appreciate all help rendered thus far! Please help to share my post and please do not hesitate to call me if there are any updates.
MILLION MILLION THANKS TO ALL KIND SOULS OUT THERE. God bless!
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