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What is the world coming to? You mean, we can get away with assaulting stranger in Singapore? I thought that Singapore is a safe place that one can walk the street after night fall.Oh, Singapore is a safe place for your goods and your car. The police will arrest the culprit on spot if the ...
As we know, VueStar Technologies being empowered by the patent holder, Ron Langford has sent letters of demand, (along with an invoice and a user license agreement) to an unknown number of Singapore companies. This news has even hit Techcrunch, Slashdot, The Inquirer (UK), Ars Technica, and ZDNet Asia, in addition to The Electric New ...
The identity of the Mona Lisa in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait, which had been eluding everyone for centuries, is finally solved. The identity of the lady in the drawing, with the famous smile, had long been speculated to be1) Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo,2) da Vinci’s lover3) ...
An Israeli tourist, getting irritated with the wolf whistling by the road workers in a small New Zealand town, stripped off, used an ATM cash machine, before getting dressed and walk away.Hmm… strange way of response. But, I guess, it works.
According to CNA, Singapore Tourism Board reported that Singapore is getting more medical tourists. Apparently, in just 2006, there was 400,000 medical tourists who visited Singapore for treatments such as health screening. This number is increasing steady at the rate of 15 to 20 percent every year.I guess, the main reason these medical tourists came ...
My eyes took a double look at the advertisement poster outside Nihon Mura (The Cathay). Sushi @ 99 cents! Being someone who often frequency Sushi Tei, this seems like a good offer. So, after finishing the XXL crisy chicken, along with my friend, I headed for Nihon Mura to feed my hungry stomach.The ordering system ...
The recent raising food price have pushed more people in Singapore search for free meals.More people join the queue for free mealsApril 13, 2008By Jamie Ee Wen Wei & Aw Cheng WeiRising food prices have prompted more people to turn up at places serving free meals.The organisers - religious and welfare groups - say they ...
The million dollar shot has been quite a while. I can still remember that it was on 13th Feb, as the next day was Valentine’s Day. (Don’t ask me who I went out with on Valentine’s Day. I am not telling. )This Slingers million dollar shot was held on the last Slinger’s game of ...
If the lady is married, she will be condemned if she don’t reproduced. It is the basic duty of the wife to produce a child in order to continue the hereditary lineage.But, if she reproduces, doom to her career. Which boss wants a pregnant staff who will take childbirth leaves and who is unable to ...
According to ST, the police has kicked off with they ring-fencing strategy to catch drink drivers. Their first blitz, of duration 3.5 hours, netted 20 drivers out of 117 tested.This first example, consists of setting up 5 roadblocks that ring around the Outram and Havelock areas’ pubs. To ensure that no drivers slip off from ...
According to ST, an unidentified 92-year-old Saudi man proposed marriage to a poor 17-year-old Egyption village girl, offering a dowry of around S$38,000 as well as gold jewellery. The girl’s very poor parents, accepted the proposed marriage.Hmm. Reading it, it reminds me of a cross between Madonna’s adoption of a Malawian boy, and the olden ...
2 new cases of Chikungunya have been detected in Teachers’ Estate of Yio Chu Kang Road. As there two persons have not been oversea recent, NEA is inspecting the area while MOH officers are screening the residents and workers.Chikungunya makes a comebackJune 8, 2008By Shuli Sudderuddin , Stacey Chia , Terence LeeMr Lau Gar Ning, ...
Art? Somehow art has always fascinated me. Today, I am taking a peep into the local art exhibits in the company of my sister-in-law. I am really fortunate to have her by my side for this tour, as she has been away in the States for the past 4 years and is currently being nurtured ...
Recently, there are plenty of reports that include scams, thefts, robberies, assaults and party drugs.We have phone scams that netted $4.6 millions from 378 victims and 241 reported case of theft and robbery against the elderly in 2007. We have car theft cases. We have teenage being slashed by group of unprovoked youths. We have ...
(1) This time the virus is found at Farrer Road, which is really far from Teachers’ Estate off Yio Chu Kang Road, and is also far from Little India.(2) This latest victim with chikungunya …
Today, I dropped by the S.A.M. machine (the SingaporePOST’s self-service automated post office) to purchase a stamp as one of my relative who visited me accidentally left a card. So, I pop by the, quoting from SingaporePost website, “convenience at the touch of your fingertips!”.Alas, S.A.M. is no longer the old trusty Sam. I conveniently ...
Recently, the current batch of the NTU student union organized a donation drive to foot his hospital bill of a PRC scholar diagnosed with leukamia. The 2-day donation drive raised a total sum of S$80,695.75 and 20 chinese yuan.This donation drive generated a certain amount of controversy. The New Paper covered the objection from some ...
Yipee! It’s racing time! Let’s go karting. Must learn drifting too. :) Recently, one of my friends introduced me to this website for the singapore go-karting club. They called …
According to ST article “Unwanted child of S’pore conservation?“, there is recent reports of fresh plans for the Capitol Theatre. The author, however is sceptical about these fresh plans, as Capitol Theatre, had been acquired by the state in 1987, that is 20 years ago, and nothing, absolutely nothing had been done to the site. ...




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