<Facebook post by Gilbert Goh>

This needy family from a 3-room flat at Sengkang faces a black-out after the reserve of her Pay U reaches zero value. There is a $3 reserve value on every Pay U meter which can probably last a day or two before it touches zero value and everything goes off after that.

First her lights, fridge and electrical appliances gave way followed lastly by the fan. Stillness fills her house ominously from then on.

The poor really struggles with our high cost of living and one can imagine how many families surviving from hand to mouth – trying to live as normally as possible.

Some can go without proper water supply for months as they find it tough to catch up with our high cost of living as they play catch-up with the various utilities’ payment.

Others simply live in the dark when their Pay U touches zero wondering how they can find any meaningful sense going on living like this.

When the poor is being denied of basic living resources like water, power and housing just because they can’t find the means to pay for them, its degrading, inhumane and merciless. No one in our country should live like this…not when we have almost 700 billion dollars of reserves in our coffers.

Many of those who struggle are also sick and unable to find any viable work as they try their best to cope with paying their bills on time. Moreover, those who are sick have to find additional ways to cope with the hospital treatment cost. Some simply giving up living by not seeking after treatment and let nature takes its course.

Those who are sick and seeking hospital treatment will tell you that Medifund is a myth and after a while the hospital MSW will ignore all your cries for help as there are simply too many cases to handle and manage.

The particular person facing the black-out is a single woman suffering from stage 2 breast cancer and life is hard since she knew about her condition. Her mum passed away recently and at the same time she lost her job as well.

Living her life day by day now and tormented with all kinds of bills from everyone possible, its not difficult to imagine why she questions the purpose of her existence. From having a $15,000 HDB mortgage default to owing the different hospitals several thousands, one can feel her stress as she struggles to stay afloat and alive.

Her cleaning contract comes in on and off and her treatment schedule interferes alot with the work flow. She barely earns less than $500/month working part-time.

If the three Presidential candidates has no serious agenda yet, they should probably look into actively supporting those who are really needy and struggling once elected.

The welfare system has broken down long ago and could not provide any viable sustainable solution to the poor people anymore.

As for the particular woman fighting to live another day, its a black-out moment and terrifying for her too as she lives alone at home in the dark.

We are indeed a rich country but filled with poor people all around us.

Poor People’s Campaign – a ground-up community initiative to improve the living condition of the poor among us.

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“Don’t don’t don’t go up to 6th floor.

i’ve been in stagmont for almost 2 years now. that floor is…… spooky. i’ve been there once myself, but it was during the day. one of my friends who went up during guard duty at night saw a picture of a small girl leaning against the wall with 2 green candles burning in front of it. And its not just the 6th floor too….. the generator store in the accom block… beware. and the MPH too. i’ve personally experienced a door opening and closing itself in the MPH once.

Other hot spots:

football field at night. avoid.

once i crossed the field at 9pm, twice, to return my office key. when i was returning back to my office, a dog to my left, started howling just as i was directly alongside the dog.
then, it followed me, barking at something behind me, all the way from one end of the field to the other. i didn’t dare look back, and simply walked as fast as i could.

2 SIG publication store.

our key to this room mysteriously found its way into the room. the funny thing is, as this room is used to store sensitive materials, we have a metal gate, which can only be locked by the key. when my sgt couldn’t find the key, in desperation he removed the gate from its hinges, and slightly damaged the gate. went in, he found the key behind a row of steel cabinets. no way the key could have gotten in there and the gate still remain locked.

cookhouse.

the alarm at the muslim cookhouse often rings suddenly by itself in the wee hours of the morning, about 2-4am. normally u would expect the alarm to be responded to, but the DOs, BOSs, Guard Comd and 2ICs all seem to have been briefed one way or another to ignore it and avoid investigating.

SI admin block, the store where they keep the bedsheets.

another friend on guard duty found the store lights on once, and heard scuffling sounds inside, they went in to investigate, and caught…. nobody! when they left the store, they heard footsteps following behind them. his prowling buddy turned around, screamed and fainted. as for my friend, well being bossom buddy that he is, he took off at top speed, without his buddy who fainted. Luckily the other guy was unharmed. apparently he’d seen a pair of glowing red eyes behind them.

SI admin block 2nd floor, corridor outside the Admin Br office.

on duty once, while in the office, at about 8 to 9pm, i heard female footsteps(sounds like someone in high heels walking) 4 times that night.”

Hi everyone pls take note when taking bus or mrt ride. I kenna deducted bus/mrt fare from my uob credit card. When calling customer service staff, he can’t tell me which bus or mrt station for the fare deduction. I told him I didn’t use my credit card for any bus mrt ride. He say this trans is from my uob paywave.

If I didn’t use it, I have to report to police. I say in the first place I didn’t even consent uob to activate my card for use in any transport ride. I tell him I want to opt out. He not very helpful say it is much easier if I do it myself over at the mrt machine. Kudo him. Now if my wallet got ezlink card and uob card.

It is possible that both my cards get deducted for my bus mrt ride. He can’t answer my question. Kudo him again. So u all better be careful if your debit or credit card are together with ezlink in same wallet.

I lost my phone in KL. I couldn’t call the driver obviously because my phone was in his car. I had to rush to the hotel, and in room on my computer, then went to reception. That was the only way to contact the driver via my account which lists the last car I took.

Then realised that I needed to borrow the hotel receptionist’s phone so that there is a number to ring back. Uber then linked the driver’s phone with the new number I gave as a ‘pair thru’. After which during the communication, the driver indicated that he found the phone by the floor in front and that he will drive back to my hotel after he drops his next passenger off. He refused any monetary compensation instead just askinng me to rate him 5 stars. I was so so grateful at his honesty.

But I didn’t give him 5 stars in the end. I gave him 6.

S’porean daredevils doing parkour stunts on top of East Point Shopping Mall’s glass roof.

What are they trying to achieve? permanent brain damage?

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