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The many iconic fountains of Singapore

With the opening of Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore is now home to many iconic fountains…

Update: I made it to Reddit, at r/singapore. My life is complete.

Have you taken your medicine?

When the wife is sick and you message her to remind her to take her medicine.

In a post-Little India Riots Singapore…

I think you will die of diabetes before you get drunk, eating tubs of rum and raisin. Siao one, this rule.

Singapore Budget 2018 Pro Tip

Just sayin'

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What Singapore PSLE Maths feels like to Parents sometimes

Since the Maths paper is over today, I thought I would share this.

A few more days to go before the last PSLE paper for our household…

Update: Some of the answers I received on Twitter and Facebook:

Andre: 5 balloons.

Ian: Xiao Ming's sister is now on an MRT train with an unknown speed.

Dr Ashley Tan: The correct answer is durians. Pink and purple polka-dotted durians.

Hankster: Plot twist: Xiao Ming doesn’t have a sister.

嘉荣: Xiao Ming sister is 5, one year older than xiao ming.

Working: A 5YO hand can hold 5 marbles, while 4YO can hold 4, but if he has a sixth finger then can hold 5.

So (5x2)+(4x2)+1=19.

And we also found out that xiao ming has a sixth finger.

Trong Tan: It's a trick question. Xiao Ming's parents can't afford to have another child living in their HDB flat.

Others suggested new questions:

Chan Kiat: Train A leaves the station at 10am, travelling at 90km/h. Train B leaves the station at 10.30am traveling at 90km/h. Find out where the trains are going.

Isabel: Along came bus 81 which travel at 80km/hr and it started from Tampines bus interchange at 6.50am, what time is usually news broadcast on Channel 5?

Hock Seng: What is the colour of the 21st marble?

Ha Ha Land

I don't recall watching this movie.

Stupid Headline of the Week

Duh.

(Context: Next Presidential Election to be reserved for Malay candidates: PM Lee)

#IncomeOrangeAid: The Best Is Yet To Be

Yes, I am in my old Anglo-Chinese Secondary School uniform. Yes, it is newly bought because I cannot fit in my Sec 4 one anymore. But it is for a good cause.

(I know, my shoes sure kena prefect catch one. And my hair is too long and wrong colour, so Mr Tjia or Mr Sachi, our discipline masters, sure come after me one.)

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#IncomeOrangeAid champions empowerment through education for youth in need.

We support the cause by standing together in our school uniforms.

Join us by posting an old school photo of yourself in uniform and tag 3 friends to do the same. For every photo post, Income will donate $1 to the cause. Find out more at http://www.income.com.sg/orangeaid

Post your photo with the above caption in full and remember to set your post to public!

Seen on the NEL…

When you want to congratulate Joseph Schooling but you also care about national security.


[Photo by Lionel Yeo]

Gahmen to cut off Internet from Civil Servants' computers

Our civil servants will have the Internet cut off from their computers in May next year. Because we Smart Nation.

Tuition Teacher also need Killer Looks ah?

What is this, I can't even…

Let me tell you what was MY ex-teacher mother's Killer Strategy for making me study hard when I was a kid:

She gave me her Killer Look. Also known as "If you don't study hard, I will kill you" Look.

In other news, this assessment book saw it fit to teach students that it is okay to use "revert" as "reply".

Please do the needful and expunge this erroneous use of "revert" from our lives. I beg of you.

No news like tree news

Two tree branches fall down and never hit anyone and never hit anything also can be news.

Going brown

This is true. But once you go brown, you never go back.

Not a political post

If Murali wins, I am leaving the country.
If Chee wins, I am leaving the country.
This is not a political post.
I just want to travel.

Greetings from Hong Kong!

I'll be here in Hong Kong for a few days. Just attended the IFA Global Press Conference (GPC) in Hong Kong, and the opening of Consumer Electronics China in Shenzhen.

This year, the IFA GPC was held outside of Europe for the first time ever. A few hundred of us journalists and tech bloggers got together in Hong Kong to learn about the state of consumer electronics and home appliances across the world, and to get news about the IFA, the big tech show that is held yearly in September in Berlin.

Part of the reason the IFA folks flew us to Asia was because of the launch of a new sister show in Shenzhen: CE China.

Trust me, moving so many of us from all over the world to Hong Kong for Part 1 of the conference, and then sending us to Shenzhen from Hong Kong by coach for Part 2, is no joke.

I saw a few cool things at the rather small-scale CE China (there were a few big booths by the likes of BSH and Alibaba, but also many small Shenzhen-based OEM booths). I particularly liked the smart bicycle helmet from Livall with built-in Bluetooth speakers and indicator lights. I also enjoyed playing with the Chinese Android phones that looked a lot like iPhones.

I came back to Hong Kong myself via the MTR at Lo Wu border crossing, instead of waiting for the conference coach. It was quite an adventure.

When I reached my hotel near Sai Ying Pun, I spotted this waiter in the restaurant who looked mighty familiar…

Eldershield Reservist Open Mobilisation Exercise in Progress

Please report to Chao Keng Camp immediately.

The real cause of the solar eclipse yesterday

Kim Huat apologizes for blocking the sun.

More mysteries of Singapore parking

Continuing the trends that this parking post started, Hong Kui share the above photo and Belyn submitted the photo below to me. Maybe it is for a very small motorcycle.

To park or not to park, that is the question

This parking lot has identity issues.

Update, it has been recitfied:

If GeBIZ were a Star Wars movie

A designer, Kelley Cheng, recently posted some screen grabs of a GeBIZ tender document where one of the requirements was, among other things "UNLIMITED CHANGES". In all caps too.

GeBIZ is the Singapore government website for pitching for Gahmen work and the attitude displayed in the Invitation To Quote (ITQ) document above probably isn't an isolated thing.

If GeBIZ were a Star Wars movie, these are some of the scenes I imagined in my head.

And here is a bonus image: click this.

And a bonus video: click this.