Tag: news
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Behold The Ogress of Singapore
This video of a woman berating a cleaner has been going viral in Singapore, taped by Euphemia Lee: Love her name, btw! đ Basically the video is this crazy woman screaming shrilly at a meek older man who is a cleaner at the food court. She was angry that he had cleared her food even…
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Why Wisma banning construction workers from using toilet shows our ugly Singaporean hearts
Singapore is known to be plenty of things – we are a nation of kiasu individuals who have a crazy passion for food and shopping. This might be just my own stereotypical opinion, you can have you own. Whatever it is, I love my country. The one huge issue I have with the culture is the whole…
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5 Ways We Unknowingly Abuse Our Helpers
Hiring domestic help is common in Singapore; people from the middle/upper-middle income onwards are generally able to afford them quite comfortably. In Singapore, our domestic helpers mostly come from Indonesia and the Philippines. With a minority percentage coming from other South-east Asian countries like India and Myanmar. And although this is part of the solution…
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First Steal Utensils, Then Create Scandal On Cockroaches
Just on Boxing Day, I saw this Facebook Post on my feed. Super long – but felt it was worth the read. Long story short: Family goes to hawker for a meal. They needed more utensils, daughter goes to another stall to get them. Stall told her to put the utensils back as she didn’t buy…
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What Have You Done, City Harvest?
It has been about 3 weeks since my post on 9 Reasons Why City Harvest Church Was the Devil To Me and till this day I’m still receiving messages & emails from readers. And while some were super encouraging, with the occasional hate mail here & there… I was more drawn to those who shared with…
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Chinese Nationals; Too Rich Too Soon
Recently I saw this viral video on the Internet about a Chinese consumer displaying less-than-pleasant behaviour toward a sales assistant in a store. Here’s the video: If that doesn’t work for you, here’s the URL:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXppBMjSBu4 For the benefit of those non-Mandarin speaking, the woman was basically shouting: “You think I have no money?” Throws cash.…
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3 Beauty Must-Haves for the Haze
This nasty haze is bad for quite a number of things… General health, country relations… My lungs have so far lodged a few hundred complaints and threatened to quit a couple dozen times. My throat and eyes aren’t too happy about the situation either… But the one organ that is evidently showing its unhappiness is the…
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11 Reactions Singaporeans have to the Haze
Yes, it’s that time again. The Haze… For the benefit of those who aren’t too sure – basically every now & then for the longest time, Singapore undergoes a period of haze (basically air pollution) for a period of time because our dear neighbour, Indonesia, decided to go on a forest burning spree. And this…
Gera Shen 