An article that ran in Straits Times recently showed taxi drivers coming up with creative manners of getting their customers by waiving the additional 35% peak hour surcharge. This was done by advertising it over their windscreens, usually on a piece of cardboard that spells out the discount and differentiating them from the rest of ...

Heh. I am sure a lot of people will be familiar with this, especially those who have been through education in Singapore. Raise your hands if you remember having to do lots of revision books, exercises, home work and tonnes of book reviews during the holidays? There was practically no chance to play. In fact, ...

After Venerable Ming Yi’s qualifications had been publicised over last week, people have started checking up on Venerable Ming Yi’s qualifications and realised that his qualifications are not recognised in Singapore. A check with the local offices also turned up a blank. Venerable Ming Yi apparently obtained his doctorate from a Mannin University in Ireland ...

Starhub first started by blocking port 80 (or more popularly known as the HTTP port) which effectively prevent any of their subscribers from hosting web pages on their home computers. Lately, they started blocking BitTorrent ports (one wonders how many ports that are) because they felt that "many broadband network operators in the world are ...

Ridzuan and I debated over this for quite a while. I liked it short and stout while he still thinks that size does matter. Does having it longer always mean that it’s better? This seemed to be the mentality of most people and I really can’t agree with it.

I read the article slightly amused at how people will pay for something that they have not seen. I had been house-hunting recently, and I know that there’s no way I am going to pay deposit for some place that I have not seen. There’s too much risk involved - like whether there’s going to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Got this error this morning while loading straitstimes.com - is it another overloading of the website? Or has it got anything to do with my browser? The perils of using Internet nowadays - I don’t know if there’s a problem with the site or if my computer has been infected with another unidentified virus/trojan/horsey/whatever.

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 ...