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It is reported that the number of cases of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) has surged again, to a new high of 1,466 cases last week. That means an average of 200 new cases per day. This surprising increase in the number of cases, reflects either, an increase in the virulent of the strain, ...
Do you see what I saw? Is it rubbish? Is it unattended article? What is it? Hmm….Now, lets take a closer look. It is large 3 sacks of postal letters left lying around unattended. There can well be many confidential letters, such as credit cards sent by various banks. What is SingPost doing?!
I inherited my first laptop pretty early, around ten years ago. It had a 486 intel chip at that time. At that time, pagers were still the in thing, while handphones were called da-ge-da, as they were huge like bricks. And, being the early days of laptop, laptops were really expensive. I fear losing ...
The recent ST Forum article, How Republic Polytechnic handled a student’s deferment application, shows the extremely poor management personnels attitude toward students, who give them non-regular paperwork.The buck does not stop here. We do no wrong.Article obtained from Straits Times Online Forum, 19 April 2008How Republic Polytechnic handled a student’s …
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. ...
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 ...
Tomorrow, or rather today, is 15-Apr-2008, which is the last day for e-filing. So, I spent more than an hour trying to log into the Iras e-filing website. It is too busy, and when I was almost about to give up, I finally got logged in.Alas. I do not need to e-file. “You are ...
The price of rice in friendly supermarket has increase by around 10% recently, while export price of Thai rice has doubled based on last year’s price. The general mass feeling is to buy more rice, as the feeling is that rice price will only increase. No matter how much rice our minister shows us in ...
I always remember a quote, “It takes a village to raise a child”. In a distance past, the society exists as villages, in which everyone knows each other, and every adult takes the share responsibility of teaching values, cultures and correcting any child of any wrong doings.Fast forward to the society at current time.We have ...
Yesterday (Sat), while waiting for queue number, I end up watching a show that runs from 7pm to 9pm. The story was that the Prince was in love with this girl and wanted to marry the girl. However, the Empress objected due to political reasons, as a Master Bai, offered to weaken the fief in ...
The day before, I walked passed someone watching this you-tube movie. The storyline was that there was a marriage ceremony going on. The ex-wife of the groom came by and rack chaos. This person who was watching the movie then commented that the hosts should gang up together and whack the ex-wife till she can ...
It’s Yebber’s 1st anniversary! Happy Birthday to Yebber! Thank you Claudia for extending the special special invitation to me. The celebration is held at the Mint Museum of Toys. I reached, just after 7pm. Not the earliest batch, nor the latest batch. But, sigh, the counters were closed, and I was directed to level ...
This year, my birthday happens to fall on the first day of a long holiday, the recent Good Friday. So, I was thinking of having just a dinner with a group of friends. I mean, it is Good Friday, how is it possible to get any Chalet at short notice? A week before Good Friday, ...
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 ...
According to ST, “NTU offers bond-free PhD scholarships in research“, this new scholarship (Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship) is opened to all students of all nationalities.However, there has always been another scholarship that currently goes by the name of “Research Scholarship” that has always been bond-free, and is opened to all …
According to ST, “BOSTON - PEOPLE who got old, stale blood during surgery were 30 per cent more likely to die than people who got fresh blood, US researchers reported on Wednesday. Two weeks seemed the be the cutoff, with older blood causing more complications, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.” ...
This is going to be one of the rare personal post. It is my wishes, ah hm, my birthday wishes. What would this author with an occasional mischievous streak wants? I will not ask for the sky, just ah hm, the moon and the stars. Actually, if you have not gotten anything for me, ...
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 ...
The bus transport system does really needs to deliver what it is supposed to deliver. Generally for most of the buses, they come roughly within the stated duration in the information board. However, almost every public member to take buses, will experience the huge abnormality in the stated timing, and the delivered timing. Here, we ...
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