About two years ago, I wrote about Mediocre Engineering, Failed Management, in reference to SMRT’ s breakdowns. I was wrong. While it’s clear their management has been a failure, it’s beginning to emerge that ...
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Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
I’m completely disappointed about the stunt pulled by the four public transport operators to offer free travel to national servicemen on 30 June. It may have seemed like a good move on their part to commemorate 50 years of ...
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I read with interest a letter to the Straits Times forum page today. A Ms Maddy Lim Kah Hoe complained about sub-standard work from IT firms in building her websites. I can fully understand and appreciate the problems she faced. ...
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SMRT begun “signalling checks” of their brand new signally system this month, during weekdays, and including during peak hours. Not surprisingly, numerous disruptions occured, leaving commuters upset and wondering if ...
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One of the little knick knacks I picked up recently is this wedge-shaped piece of silicon designed to prop up a notebook off the desk. You could either use it so that your notebook’s keyboard would be angled upward a ...
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Our highly acclaimed world class Changi Airport met with a mishap last evening. There was a fire at Terminal 2, which triggered a full evacuation of the terminal, closure of the terminal for about nine hours, and affected some ...
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You’ve probably heard by now, Hougang MRT Station was closed temporarily yesterday because of an unattended piece of luggage. The police were called in, and after the bag was found to be “non-dangerous”, the ...
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SMRT announced that all trains traveling on the North-South Line will pause for 10 minutes around 11pm on Tuesday 28th March. This is when they will be switching over to commence trial on a new signalling system that allows ...
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I don’t usually want to overly promote any particular product, shopping site, or other commercial offering, lest this blog becomes too much like an advertising site. But I looked at Lazada’s birthday sale and it does ...
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Cybersecurity is really hot in Singapore these days. The news is flooded with all sorts of things that Singapore is doing, including what the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is doing or will be doing. The latest exciting ...
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