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Xiaxue has made her stand - she is not going to apologise (although I thought she did retract her statements). In fact, she challenged Dawn, who is currently on holiday in Sydney, to sue her. Dawn’s lawyer commented that they will not be ruling out other options - including mediation and a meeting between both ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 22, 2008 at Simply Jean
Approximately 1,000 Singaporeans give up their citizenship every year - and this is only based on data that’s derived from Singaporeans who denounced their citizenship and left Singapore is the past 3 years. I am not sure of their decision to give up the citizenship, but I suspect that it’s got something to do with ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 22, 2008 at Simply Jean
In what seems like a change of heart, Mr Khaw said that the Ministry of Health will be looking into the possibility of legalizing organ trading; with a catch. Any payment made to the donor must come from a third party. The rationale behind this idea is to distant the recipient as far away as ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 22, 2008 at Simply Jean
About 2 weeks ago, taxi companies came together to lobby for a 30 cents fuel surcharge in light of raising diesel prices. Ironically, on the first day that the surcharge was implemented, diesel price dropped, but still remained about $2 per litre. Since then prices dropped 2 more times which returned the price of diesel ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 21, 2008 at Simply Jean
Some time back, I wrote about Malaysia adopting the through-train process in immigration; which apparently is a trial that just ended. Malaysia, after realising that many people are going in without getting their passports stamped, decided to get the cards back into the menu. For some countries, some of the important information may include address, ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 21, 2008 at Simply Jean
I had not really followed the happenings between Xiaxue (who is Wendy Cheng in real life) and Dawn Yang, but I did read a little about what happened. Apparently, Wendy had defamed Dawn in one of her many people-offending posts (perhaps she believes in being straight forward), which allegedly called bluffs on some of Dawn’s ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 20, 2008 at Simply Jean
The increase has started. Fares on 11 SBS Transit premium bus services will be going up from 21st July 2008. The fare increase ranges from 30 cents to 60 cents. The affected bus services are 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 538, 539, 542, 543, 544 and 545. In addition, bus services 537, 540, 551, 575, ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 18, 2008 at Simply Jean
Today is the first day of the taxi fuel surcharge kicking in and according to preliminary reports, commuters are sticking with taxi drivers through thick and thin - although some are concerned if the surcharge will start going up in the future. Cabby Ken Chian mentioned that some commuters sounded quite resigned but I guess ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 17, 2008 at Simply Jean
Reverend Ming Yi, chief of the Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, who is a public and well-known figure in charity shows that were held for the past few years, had been charged in court for several offences concerning the hospital’s financial affairs. Amongst the charges include fraud, forgery and falsification of accounts. He allegedly ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 16, 2008 at Simply Jean
Blogger Ng E-Jay of SgPolitics.net had been charged in court for his participation in an illegal assembly outside the Parliament House on 15th March 2008. Amongst them was veteran opposition Chee Soon Juan and his sister, who was also charged for biting an officer. I read into the circumstances they were charged for and found ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 14, 2008 at Simply Jean
Even the strong enforcement of fines and demerit points are unable to keep taxi touts away - which do so probably for more money with lesser trips. I would stress the "lesser trips" factor here because judging from the report, taxi touts are banging on the opportunity to scope an unsuspecting commuter. While taxi touts ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 12, 2008 at Simply Jean
Come 17th July 2008, taxi rides is going to be more expensive. The taxi operators association have decided amongst themselves that they will be implementing a fuel surcharge to "help taxi drivers offset the cost of rising diesel cost". This effectively ups the current minimum flag down rate of $2.80 to $3.10 for normal taxis. ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 11, 2008 at Simply Jean
Finance Minister Tharman warned of a possible second round of inflation if wages are being pushed up to meet price increases. I wrote a previous post on what someone thought about matching pay increments to inflation. Of course, the reply I do was "mind boggling", but Minister Tharman highlighted the repercussions on how the "cost" ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 11, 2008 at Simply Jean
My friend and I revisited this topic today and I asked if she was for or against organ trading. Her answer was quite straight forward; she was for it - only if no lives are being sacrificed in the process because it is pointless to sacrifice a life just to save another one. Some people ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 8, 2008 at Simply Jean
Update: If you are looking for a list of the ERP gantries and the charges, you may retrieve it here. I was thinking of linking the one provided by Street Directory, which comes with pictures! But I scared kenna sued for linking… I was on the PIE towards Tuas when I noticed a familiar pair ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 7, 2008 at Simply Jean
We are not sure who nominated us for the Most Insightful Blog Ping.sg awards, but we’d like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. =) Simply Jean joined the Ping 1st Anniversary party last year after hearing about it in the forums and was a little blur on what ping.sg was all about. ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 6, 2008 at Simply Jean
Back in the old days not too long ago, people were commenting how the liberalization of diesel-vehicles would be a good alternative to petrol-powered cars given that diesel engines are way more advanced than yesteryears and that it is not as pollutive as it used to be. Lobbyers were possibly eyeing on the fact that ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 5, 2008 at Simply Jean
There had been recent rants by netizens on how our dearest foreign talents have been taking up jobs, and then settling down, and then having kids (yeah! achieve government’s goals) and finally decide that - hey, why don’t they settle down in Singapore as well. If I were the government, I may be extremely happy ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 4, 2008 at Simply Jean
2 Indonesians who were involved in the recently publicised kidney-for-sale racket had been officially charged, jailed and fined. While the news seemed a little hazy, but this has implications on sale of organs. Mr Wang Says So (yes, my fellow competitor in the OMY.SG blog awards) provided a rather in-depth personal perspective (despite him being ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 3, 2008 at Simply Jean
There’s much much speculation that Mrs Lee Kuan Yew has rested in peace and the topic was brought up over the coffee table again. In fact, the news "leaked" out as early as 26th June 2008 in some popular forums. As the last news of her being admitted was announced 3 days after it happened ...
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simplyjean Posted by simplyjean User Menu on July 3, 2008 at Simply Jean

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