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There’re many non-Singaporeans in my work place, and being Singaporean, I’m often asked about many Singapore things. This Singaporean, however, isn’t very up-to-date with the touristy things in Singapore, so ...
Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
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It’s no secret, taxis are feeling threatened by the likes of Uber and GrabCar. While private-car hire services are finding new innovative ways to compete, taxis seek to revert the playing field so that they have, in a ...
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I’m guessing new Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan felt very Gung-ho when he was arrowed into this job. If he didn’t realise the challenges back then, perhaps he’s now beginning to appreciate the difficulties ...
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New Minister of Transport, Mr Khaw Boon Wan has a sticky problem on his hands. He might have been able to get by in Health and then in National Development with competent people there, but perhaps the situation in Transport ...
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A perennial problem in Singapore, you want a cab, but there are none coming by. You try to book a cab, and find that, still, none are available. Yet at the same time, an article in our Straits Times last week ponders about the ...
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I sense, and I think many others too, that something is amiss with the hepatitis C infection episode at the Singapore General Hospital. Somebody, clearly, screwed up. Then, there’s also the matter of how the infections, ...
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Since 2013, I’ve been exploring ways to get more real-time data about the haze situation in Singapore. We know how unhelpful 24-hour averages, and perhaps even 3-hour averages, are. There is better data out there, even from ...
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Back in 2013, when the haze in Singapore reached record levels, I decided I would get my own dust sensor. But before the sensor arrived, I was exploring other ways of determining the severity of the haze. How do we know the ...
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In an outrageous incident at a U.S. high school earlier this week, a Muslim teen showed his teacher a clock he had built, but ended up getting arrested because it was thought to be a bomb. Even after it was established that the ...
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It was a pretty hazy day yesterday. Even the 24-hour PSI reading, usually less pronounced than the 3-hour one, strayed into the unhealthy range for some parts of the day. Then we had a good rain this afternoon this clear the ...