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I don’t normally want to criticise websites, but I’ve heard so many complaints about our National Day Parade (NDP) website and I can’t help but agree with them. It’s almost a national embarrassment that a ...
Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
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I have high regard for Dr Ng Eng Hen. So I am a little disappointed by his remark that higher aspirations of Singaporeans is one reason for the high cost of living in Singapore. He cited an example of mobile phones almost ...
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You’ve probably read it in our papers. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) say consumer products cost more in Singapore compared with other cities. They apparently ...
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I read an article on Yahoo Finance yesterday about how Standard Chartered was making a robbery victim responsible for fraudulent charges. Whatever their legal rights were, it seems very morally wrong of what the bank did. I ...
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We just observed Earth Hour late last month. This month, we have another earthly event coming up. It’s Earth Day, and it’ll be celebrated next Tuesday on 22 April 2014. Earth Day is an annual event that has been ...
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Malaysia says checking Interpol’s database of stolen passports will delay immigration clearance. Interpol rebuts, claims search results take just 0.2 seconds in recent tests. Well, of course, we know that’s not true. ...
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Earth Hour this year is on 29 March 2014. It’s observed from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, local time, wherever you are. In Singapore, it’s just about starting now. Individuals and organisations are encouraged to switch-off ...
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I know the MH370 incident is not over, so it might be premature to talk about lessons to learn from it. But so very much has happened, we can talk about learning points for a long time to come. Flight MH370 will likely be one of ...
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Since the haze reached record breaking levels in June 2013, and with Singapore’s official PSI readings always giving a rather useless rolling past average values, I decided I needed to get my own haze sensor. The sensor ...
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We’re currently sitting through a record dry spell. You may already have read about it. 27 days of dry weather starting in January before it was briefly interrupted by a little rainfall on 8th and 9th February. If you look ...