Medical bills for some patients can be slashed greatly by switching their drugs from branded to generic drugs. Just for example, the generic drug for cholesterol-lowering cost just 5% (at 10 cents per pill for generic Simvastatin) of the branded version (at $2 per pill for branded Zocor). Wow! That is a savings of 95% ...

There was this case, then came news of molesters and serial molesters being arrested, and now there’s another. Just barely a week after it was reported that a serial molester got nabbed, another case surfaced again. The molester admitted laying on top of his maid and kissing her all over her body. Before he could ...

Pay rises have hit an all time high of almost 11 percent, however, employees should check the reality of their pay increment. With the recent soaring of prices of items that are directly or indirectly affected by oil prices, what you are getting may not be real increments but more of to cushion the impact.Interestingly, ...

Writer Camelli Tang wrote about how disdain the level of service at Changi Airport was while relating an incident that she encountered at the airport. Apparently, there was a sick passenger on board and she was helping and there was no one around to ask her if she needed assistance. She had to provide her ...

In the course of developing software for companies, it is a common, although unadmitted practise to leave backdoors in the applications so that they would be able to bypass certain steps in the process of development. For obvious reasons, I can’t say what is being done, however, one system engineer decided to take a step ...

The Singapor Armed Forces (SAF) has suspended training for 3 days starting from today following the death of 2 NSF personnel on 2 unrelated incidents. This includes the Standard Obstacle Course (SOC), field camps, road marches and other strenuous physical training. I am not sure if this includes 5BX.While measures had always been taken to ...

I am surprised on how quickly the police admitted that the SOPs were not followed in the recent escape attempt by the 2 detainees, although I won’t know if they will take 4 hours to report the incident if they did manage to escape successfully. Then again, it’s easy to just blame the police officer ...

Disclaimer: If you are reading this from ping.sg, the title *is misleading*! This post is really about a photo studio named “Naughty  by nature” and how they apparently coerced …

Property prices have finally come down and this probably marks some signs of slowing down - not too good for those who bought or invested the properties earlier on (although I’d think that it’s probably be less heartaching for genuine buyers), but probably good news for people who are shopping around. Rental rates will probably ...

Yes, a friend and myself were there when the protest took place. It was quite an eye opener considering that none of us have ever seen a real life demonstration - at least not in spanking clean Singapore. There were actually a few distinct groups of people - the elderly ladies, the *ahem* rainbow people ...