I not very good experience had about a year or two ago, being approached in am by a Tissue auntie saying she hadn’t eaten for days maybe 60 years old, asking for money to eat so she can get food to eat.
I asked how much she needs and she said whatever I can spare like $5 or 10. I was a bit confused and just handed over two $10 notes hopefully it would get her through the day. She said thanks but didn’t seem too happy, maybe expecting more, and slowly walk to the nearest coffee shop.
I walked off about 20 metres and then thought WTF happened there and turned around and saw the same lady walking back to the spot where I met here. A few hour later I see this auntie nearby smoking and drinking beer. Was very tempted to have a word to her, but decided just to leave it be and move on.
A video of a lorry catching fire on Lornie causing a minor traffic delay in the morning. But it seems like netizens were more concern about the person that took the video, a driver using his handphone and take video leh.
Good, he/she is sharing the videos but don’t take until becoming next accident leh.
A 31-year-old man was arrested after issuing loans of up to about $26,000 to other foreign nationals in Singapore. He demanded a 20% monthly interest on these loans.
The police arrested the man at a shopping center along Paya Lebar Road on Sunday after they received a tip off about the man’s activities in Tanjong Katong in August.
Unlicensed money lending has become a source of concern for Singaporeans with recent cases involving foreign domestic workers borrowing large amounts of money using their employer’s details and addresses. They are typically given access to loansharks via SMS advertising or through friends.
If found guilty, the Indian national faces jail of up to 4 years, a maximum fine of $300,000 and up to six strokes of the cane.
If you suspect anyone of being involved in unlicensed moneylender, please call the X-Ah Long hotline @ 1800-924-5664.
So I was at Yishun during the weekend to meet my friend to have the weekly Chong pang nasi lemak. My good friend of mine, as usual, will be late so I decided to go take a smoke first before chasing him again.
While i was smoking someone tap my shoulder I thought hoseh liao my friend come liao and I wan to gan him gao gao. But as I turn behind I realise to my disappointment/delight its was this cute girl with nice round eyes. I was thinking hoseh liao who is this chiobu? I know from where arh? Turn out she getting people to do survey! 🙁 wah lau eh I sibei turn off don’t want to entertain so I wave my hand and said no.
Out of the blue, she just said “please lah kor kor help me do the survey, I give you my number okay? Wah nowadays like also can? I a sucker for cute eyes plus get number wah my luck really good leh.
After doing I said thank you and she passes me her number while wave goodbye telling her that I will call her tonight! and she just smiled!
Later my friend came and I show off to him! Apparently, he told me the number is fake cos he kanna before already. I said you don’t sour grape lah! So I just called the number in front of him and the number you just dial is not in use was my answer. Sian kanna cheated liao
An angry reader who repeatedly wrote in to The Straits Times about choping seats in Singapore claimed his letters were never published. He sent us his post instead as he really wanted to get his message across – that it is fine to chop seats in Singapore, be it using “human choping” or “tissue choping”.
“My emails were ignored despite their measured phrasing, so this time I shall present my points in their original tone:
1) Long tables with rows of seats VS tables with different numbers of seats
For first-come-first-served seating, long tables with rows of seats like those in school canteens should be used instead.
A table with two seats is meant to cater to a pair/ couple; four seats to allow a family/ group of four (or six seats for a group of six and so on) to sit together.
I am not saying that 1 person should not sit at such a table, (that is like saying 1 person should never take a cab alone, which is ridiculous); what I am saying is that it is reasonable and understandable for a group of 2 people to want to sit together at a table with 2 seats, a group 4 people together at a table with 4 seats, 8 people 8 seats, etc. (would 4 people share a cab or take 2/ 3/ 4 separate cabs?)
Kindly note – the following selfish acts are totally separate topics:
1) Preventing others from taking an unoccupied seat and insisting on keeping it empty staying on to chat after having finished the meal rather than vacating promptly for (when they are) others who are waiting
2) Tissue choping and human choping are both choping
Whether you use an object or a person to tell somebody else that a seat is “taken” by your companion (who has gone to buy the food and will be back soon), it is still reserving.
Either you accept both or none at all, not one without the other.
3) Nothing rude or ungracious about tissue choping VS human choping
Japan is the epitome of excellent etiquette, yet slurping while eating noodles is not deemed rude or ungracious over there.
Singaporeans know what tissue-choping is, so the “feeling” that choping gives a rude or ungracious “impression” is merely an irrational perception stemming from a superficial desire to “appear” classy.
People who get upset just because they think they are so important that an actual human must personally inform them that the seat is taken, otherwise they will retaliate by taking or discarding the tissue, are nothing more than egoistic hypocrites.”
A netizen has submitted a Facebook post which alleges that an art work purportedly drawn by a principal of a primary school promotes homosexuality.
According to the netizen, she found the art work on the website of the Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the Arts (STAR).
She wrote: “Not sure if the Principal made the artwork. If yes, then those words in cursive handwriting are his. What was he thinking?!? I thought government stance is against promoting homosexuality? I am confused.”
The netizen has also transcribed the words in the art work for the benefit of our readers:
“It’s good to visit old friends again. the At once old yet unfamiliar feeling. It is happening so often here. The avenues are the same, the trees haven’t changed, even the smell of the place smells familiar but so much has become unrecognisable, people have come and go. One faces remain but the heart’s not the same. Adrienne was so pleased to know that I’ve paid for the framing. I’m glad I could do that for her. Barry’s getting old and burnt-out is setting in. Poor man, he shouldn’t be living alone at his age. I hope my presence at the studio was a comfort to him. I made these drawings of skulls. Hmm….? Got potential. I bought the 3 prints…. I’m so pleased. I hope they wouldn’t get smashed on their way to America. Had a wonderful conversation with Stu and Peter abt homosexuality last night. There is so much misunderstandings + fear…. Is the church ever going to (????) the people + God (????)? What is the Christian’s hope to gays? So pertinent! So pertinent!”
Health benefits of eating PORK !!!
New TASTE ! New STYLE !
Filled with PROTEIN, VITAMIN B & ZINC
The goodness in serving our 🐷 Pork Briyani in Banana Leave🍃
Banana leaves have ANTI BACTERIAL Properties that kill all the germs in the food, which makes it more healthy to consume 😊
So Lock the date now 9th September 2017
Saturday 11 am onwards to have a healthy meal ….
Do you have ever felt like your stew duck or bak tu teh has too much oil or a thick layer of lard after cooking. Netizen shares a simple yet effective way how you could remove the extra layer of oil with this simple method. Thus making your food less grease.
“Ways to THROW out fat in the food”… Put a chunk of ice just like in the picture…
Thank you very much to those giving the “TIPS”
After mother posted this online. The childcare wants to sue her for defamation despite the mother not revealing the childcare centers name.
Scalded by very hot temperature water that was refilled in her water bottle in the childcare center..
Such high-temperature water shouldn’t even be refilled in their water bottles to begin with.. Let alone to be placed within the reach of the kids..
This is truly a case of laziness, negligence and complacency.. All in the expenses of my lil peanut.. Share away, my friends..!
Update: The center management threatened to sue me for defamation due to my FB post, they even cc that email to the place I’m working in.. This has nothing to do with my job nor work..
It is personal and by them doing so, they are trying get my job affected..
On the day of this horrible incident, after seeing the doctor, I brought her straight to my mom’s house.. But she wasn’t home.. I’ve no other options but to bring her back to the center reluctantly.. Knowing she always look forward to Wed as that is when she will have her ballet lesson and having her telling me she wants to go for her ballet lesson, I left her @ the center for the ballet lesson..
When we reached the center, the management’s spoke person verbally promised to assign one person to solely take care of her till she recovers.. I fetched her from the center that early evening.. Her usual sleeping time is 8-8:30pm.. The pain was really bad, she was crying till around 11+pm then only fallen asleep but woke up shortly and cried on and off till 3am..
The following day (4th Aug) around 10+am, I saw pus forming on her wound.. I brought her to the doctor and was given oral antibiotics as infection has set in.. Once again I went to my mom’s house straight from the doctor’s, but she wasn’t in again..
Dragging myself with very worried mind, I brought her to the center again.. When we reached the center, it was near to 1pm and once again I was reassured that someone will be assigned to look after her solely.. I left her there and headed to work.. My mind can’t rest, I went back to the center about 2+pm to check on her and found that there isn’t a person assigned to solely look after her, I took her out of the center..
And brought her to my workplace which she stayed with me till I finished work.. In that email of theirs, they stated I abruptly took her out on 4th Aug-Thu evening.. Really..?! Stop lying.. There are so many witnesses who saw her when she was at work with me on 4th Aug (Thu); from 3:15pm on..
I feel very upset, devastated, patronised and lied to; witnessing the words assured by the management isn’t put into actions; after such horrible mishap had happened..
Later that evening, I sent the management’s spoke person my decision of my child’s withdrawal and asked for my money to be returned by 7th Aug ’17 via WhatsApp message.. She merely replied: “I will inform my boss yea. Thank u”
After empty assurance given by the management both the days and such can’t be bothered reply by their spoke person, I posted her mishap on my FB page; is to create awareness of such matter..
After empty assurance given by the management both the days and such can’t be bothered reply by their spoke person, I posted her mishap on my FB page; is to create awareness of such matter..
The center verbally promised to assign one person to solely take care of her till she recovers which they assured but they did not do so as I only saw the same teachers there other than the spoke person of their management; who come and go both the days.. They did pay for the medical bills and the transportations to and fro.. But their actions to restore my faith in the care of my child, weren’t as they had assured me.. Yet they reprimanded me for posting this mishap and tarnish their center’s name and even cc the email to my workplace.. Their motives and intentions for doing so; is really questionable..
I’m a single mom, there’s no other help to look after my lil peanut other than myself n a responsible childcare center when I have to work..
I painstakingly take care of her every day since birth all by myself.. Looking at her grow each day into a beautiful, bubbly little girl.. When such terrible incident happened, my heart is totally shattered..
My poor lil peanut has to go through so much pain n suffering; possibly scarred due to the scalding.. I hold back my tears every time when I clean her freshly scalded wounds.. Since 3rd Aug night, she has been crying and telling me her eye is painful and itchy.. Praying so much that her eye will not be affected from this mishap.. Like
A 55-year-old former vice principal for a school in north east Singapore has been charged in court for sexually abusing an underage boy over a period of 3 years since 2003.
In 2003, the boy, who was 14, had been touched indecently by his vice-principal in the school gym. The man and his victim then adjourned to the VP’s Woodlands flat twice in 2004 where the man performed similar acts on the boy.
In 2005 and 2006, the man has also received and performed oral sex on the boy.
Court documents do not reveal the man’s identity or even the school that the boy belonged to to protect the victim’s identity.
The VP will return to court on 4 October for the continuation of his trial.
If convicted of carnal intercourse, the man faces 10 years jail and a fine. If charged with performing an indecent act on a minor, he can be jailed up to 5 years and fined up to $10,000 per charge for first time offenders.