SBS Transit Ticket Inspector Forced Passenger To Alight In The Middle Of Expressway
Oct 14, 2008 Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
This is a very annoying case. Seems like their heads’ re growing bigger and bigger. What’s the purpose of making underpaid passenger alight in the middle of expressway? To show their power? (Come on, if they guy got power, he would have sitting in air-conditioned office shaking legs already……) What can we passenger do on the spot if such lousy, unprofessional thing happens to us?
SBS ticket inspector makes man alight in middle of expressway
Tags: public transport, SBS Transit, Singapore, stupid
Media Block Out On Yishun MRT Incident?
Oct 12, 2008 Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
I flipped through Straits Times just now, want to read more about the incident happened at Yishun MRT yesterday afternoon around 12PM. To my surprise, they never cover anything regarding this incident. NOTHING AT ALL. This is strange.
Then I went to Channel News Asia. I was disappointed at the fact that I could find anything there. I checked yesterday’s Wanbao and SinMing cover pager online, it is not about that as well. Not just that, AsiaOne also covered NONE. I checked Yahoo Singapore, also covered nothing about it. There is nothing on Omy.sg as well. Normally, be it suicide or not, this is considered a Dua Daiji in Singapore isn’t it? For the last few incidents, the local press could cover and follow up for a few days. But what about this time?
The only source that I read from a “media” is THIS, and THIS. Other than that, all other information is from local forums, blogs.
I can’t help smelling something fishy. Is it a media block out? If it is, I think it is a very successful one. If I didn’t visit blogs, Ping.sg and forums last night, I didn’t even know that something happened at Yishun MRT.
The sources that I got the info:
Something happened at Yishun MRT is it? - EDMW, the guys there are fast, and resourceful
Yishun MRT this morning - man jumped - Sammyboy
A eye witness’ blog - I suggest you guys copy her words out and paste them on notepad to read. There are just so freaking small to read!
Another eye witness’ input - In Mandarin
Will this post get myself into trouble?
Edited: another eye witness’ blog entry, very detailed. He too has the same question as I have.
Tags: blog, media, MRT, Ping.sg, Singapore, stupid, suicide, Yishun
One More Location To Beo ZaoGeng
Oct 11, 2008 Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Seems like many like my previous post about ZaoGeng site at CCK. I got this from STOMP. This seems like another spot for all the chikopek…
Women out there pay heed, says a STOMPer, who came across this loo at the Speaker’s Corner, and realised to his horror that it was almost see-through.
STOMPer Vassili was appalled.
He recounted:
“We were walking near Hong Lim Park (Speakers’ Corner) at about 10pm today (October 9), when my girlfriend wanted to use the toilet.
“So we went to this outdoor public toilet there and she went into the ladies toilet while I waited outside.
“I was shocked when the minute she entered one of the cubicles in the toilet, I could actually see her silhouette very clearly from outside!
“I immediately yelled from outside to tell her not to use the cubicle and she later told me she couldn’t actually see anything outside when she was inside the cubicle, which means you can only see through the cubicle from the outside.
“She was equally shocked by how this could have been possible, especially when it was a public toilet and people not might not be aware that others can see through the cubicle from the outside.
“So to warn the public, she told me to take these photos, with her in the cubicle, to send to STOMP.
“In fact, you can also see through the male toilet from the outside. The worst thing is that you can see through the cubicles in the toilets, not just the outside of the toilet, and toilet users might probably not be aware of it!
“How could they let this happen?”
What are you waiting for?
Tags: Singapore, Speakers Corner, Stomp, zaogeng
Google Street View Car Was Spotted By STOMPer Earlier Than CNET
Oct 10, 2008 Fun, Gossips, Singapore
The following was posted on STOMP on 3rd Oct:
STOMPer Neo was walking to Junction 8 when she caught sight of this tripod and camera, placed on top of a car.
She says:
“I was at Bishan street 13 at about 1pm when I saw this cute sight.
“I thought it was really interesting that the filming equipment was placed on top of the car.
“But no one was around the car when I saw this, I wonder if the driver drives around like this or what will happen if someone stole the equipment.”
Then on 4th Oct, it came this article:
Google Street View car spotted in Singapore
It is funny to read some of the comments left on STOMP, how ignorant……
Tags: CNet, Google, Google Street View, Stomp
SPH Reporter Doesn’t Know How To Read Graph?
Oct 8, 2008 Funny News, Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Something I read from EDMW looks interesting (click to enlarge):
Oct 8, 2008
Car owners drove less last year
LTA annual report shows traffic on expressways eased, cars achieved better mileageBy Christopher Tan
RISING fuel prices helped put the brakes on driving in Singapore last year, new Government data suggests.
The average car owner covered 20,840km last year, about 1 per cent less than in 2006, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Based on Singapore’s car population of about 500,000, that works out to a cumulative cutback of 116.5 million km.This came as pump prices jumped almost 50 cents a litre - or roughly one third - between January and December last year.
The numbers were contained in the LTA’s 2007 annual report, which The Straits Times received yesterday. The report also revealed that Singapore’s expressways flowed more freely than they did the year before.
Just over 97 per cent of expressways experienced average speeds of above 45kmh during the morning rush hour in January this year, up from 93 per cent in the same month last year. In the evenings, 97 per cent of expressways hit the 45kmh range, a slight improvement over the previous year.
But conditions on main roads were not as rosy, with the percentage of streets that saw speeds over 20kmh falling slightly to 97 per cent during the morning peak period and 94 per cent in the evening.
Meanwhile, Singapore drivers seem to be getting better mileage.
The average small car (with an engine of up to 1,600cc) consumed 9.6 litres per 100km last year, while big cars (above 1,600cc) used 12 litres per 100km. These were the best economy figures recorded in recent years.
The LTA’s road-building programme has been picking up speed in recent years too, according to its annual report.
Last year, 718 km of new lanes were added, the most in five years and double the length built in 2003.
Observers reckon that may explain why traffic remained relatively free-flowing despite a record 6.5 per cent increase in vehicles last year, bringing the total to more than 851,000.
A further $54 billion worth of projects are planned over the next 10 to 15 years as part of the Land Transport Master Plan - Singapore’s roadmap to a commuter-centred system that will see new MRT lines, more bus services and an expanded road network.
LTA chairman Michael Lim said the authority will engage the private sector in the ambitious roll-out.
‘We have already begun to reach out to regional companies and professionals who are keen to participate in Singapore’s land transport infrastructure expansion,’ he said, without giving details.
For the financial year ended March 2008, the LTA posted a net surplus of $37 million, down from $44 million the previous year. This was largely on the back of higher operating expenditure and a dip in government grants.
Like what the forummer said, the graph’s legend said “less than 45kmh”, but the article said “above 45kmh”. Same goes to the other paragraph. I am confused. Is it the reporter don’t know how to read graph? Or something is wrong with the graph itself?
Fiona Xie’s Private Photos
Oct 6, 2008 Celebrities, Sexy, Singapore
Saw these photos over at EDMW. I am not going to post the photos here. Instead, I have done screenshots, and leave a link here for you to go there and read. I do not know if the thread will be locked, or if the photos will be taken off. Anyway, I have saved a copy of the photos…… (Click to enlarge)
Seems like a trip to some island, with Qi YuWu. I think this is is photoshop-ed, because the heads and fingers of Fiona and YuWu look rather unnatural.
Another forummer posted this. How Fiona looks like when she was much younger.
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