Dear TRS,

I am writing in to you to let the public know about what i saw earlier this morning.

I was queuing up for my drinks at a coffeeshop at Shenton way's Shenton House. While i am queuing up, i saw  auxillary police, i think working under NEA, catching people for smoking under a covered walkway.

I understand that with new NEA rules, it is an offence to smoke under covered walkway, however there'a ashtrays there for smokers and a lot of people smoke there too.

That's beside the point.

What i saw is an elderly man, that is being stop by the officers and asking for his NRIC, the elderly man in a cleaner uniform and he is very old, probably in his 60s or 70s. I did not see him holding on to any cigarette and he seems traumatised and scared by them.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for being there and giving me support in this domestic violence that me and my son experience yesterday. A lot of u might be wondering what exactly happen.

This is the story...
(Pls share it after you have read. Let others know what kind of barbaric people this bunch of people are...)

My husband and I are undergoing separation. We have been living apart for more than 6 months. Yesterday, at around 10.30am, my MIL open the door of my matrimonial flat and came in with my husband. She came towards me and wanted to carry my 15 months son. My son refused and cling onto me. She grabbed my hands (tts y I suffered bruises at my wrist) and pull my hand away from my son and insisted carrying my son. My son refused to be carried by her. When she grab my hand, I shouted at her to let go of my hand. I tried to fling her hand away from mine but she kept grabbing my hand. I walked away from her towards the storeroom to get bubble gun to play with my son. When I came out of the storeroom, she grab my hand again. I verbally warn her that if she continues, I'm gg to call the police. She actually said ok go ahead and call the police. I called the police.

While waiting for the police to arrive, she shouted to my husband to call my FIL who is downstairs to come up. When my FIL came in, he dashed towards me and shouted "I'm gg to bring my grandson home to play, wat can u do?" I told him he has no rights to do so. He proceeded to pulling my son's arm. I told him to stop it but he refused. My son was crying in pain. My FIL proceeded to pushing me to the ground with my son in my arm. Both my MIL and FIL cornered me. They started pulling my hair, kicked me in the abdomen, hitting me all this while with my son in my arms. I had to use my body to shield my boy.

Dear The Real Singapore,

I am writing as a victim of MyRepublic 1Gbps subscriber and hope there are some fellow Singaporean are facing the same issue as me.

I have signed up MyRepublic for almost a year now, recently for the past few months, especially at night from 9pm - 11pm, my connection speed is slow or sometime I can't do speedtest. I have lodge complaint a couple of times, and in the end they did send someone down twice.

Let me explain the first case, so when the guy came down and he tested on his laptop, my connection speed is fine, than he say must be my PC's problem, I did not set my PC to MAXIMUM POWER USAGE, thus causes the internet speed is slow. Fine, I listen to him and adjust my PC to MAX, and it came alive again. I thought is really my PC issue, so I acknowledge it. After the guy left, the same problem arise than I call them up again, I ask my friend who is using the same PC and router and same service provider. He told me he did not face the same issue and don't need to set my PC to the MAX also can achieve best result. So now is what? I felt like being cheated by the technician and he is trying to con me like an idiot.

So I call the hotline again, I explain to them this situation, I told them i did not adjust any setting ever since the last technician came, than now they ask me did I upgrade my router software? I said I didn't do it and so I download the upgrade the software,  and it works OK for a few days. Now the problem arise. I was so fed up, I call them up and they said will ask the technician down to my place and check.

In the end, the technician came down last Saturday to check on the devices, he used his own laptop and something to check on my ONT, there is nothing wrong, so I ask him why I can't connect or have internet at night? He can't answer, he said will feedback to his backend team and they will resolve my issue.

Today, i received message via Facebook, he taught me a few thing to make sure I got connection, below is his conversation:

MR: We'll do a controlled test. Under the router page, use traffic manager, and limit the QOS speed to 100,000kbps
MR: We're focusing on performance now, not maximum speed. This QOS will prevent any device in the network from hogging the bandwidth.
MR: There is a very rare chance that a faulty device can block traffic. Limiting the QOS to 100,000 kbps (100Mbps) will confirm this.
Me: so what you need me to do? (That was during office hour where I am still working)
MR: once you're home, access your router by typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser from there there's a button called traffic manager. set the QOS limit to 100,000 kbps
MR: This will prevent any faulty device from exceeding 100Mbps if it does hog traffic

So once I reached home and settled down, I followed his method and do

Me: So after I have done the QOS? (Plus a screenshot of the PC)
Me: So what is the next step?
Me: Why my speed so slow? (

I did a speedtest and my result for download is ONLY 222.32Mbps

MR: Did you set QoS to 200Mbps? Do surf and see if performance improves
MR: If it does, then there's a chance one device in your network is taking up your network bandwidth. QoS will prevent it from taking anything more than the limit which you set at 200Mbps

Fine, I change again, now my download speed is ONLY 210.27Mbps

[Letter sent to MPs Lee Li Lian and Lina Chiam]

An appeal for a flat in Buangkok Sq / Edgeview

Dear Mdms,

I am writing to you as I have no other alternatives after repeated rejections from HDB to my MP Lawrence Wong’s petitions.

Some of the replies were also extremely rudely worded and I was shocked by Mr Wong’s apathy too.

The crux of the problem lies with my wedlock son and the HDB saying that my blood relation sister does not form a proper family nucleus with myself. They said they could only reconsider if my mother (who lives with my bro in a small flat) passes away. I feel this is cursing us.

Dear TRS, 

I am shocked with the level of care at KK hospital and want to share what happened to my wife.

Day 1. 09/03

My wife was refer to kkh O&G, and was send to kkh delivery suite on 09/03 at 10.15pm. Due to heartbeat 140bpm and high fever (39.4). 3 doctors visited my wife at the delivery suite, 3.5 hours no medication given to my wife for her fever only wet tissue to place on forehead until 12.45am medication give to my wife (this may cause my wife life or my baby life). Heartbeat 120bmp doctor said my wife is able to discharge! We insist to be warded, finally 1 of the doctor found out something not right with my wife and she agree to let her warded and she was warded on 1.30am.

Doctors report for that night,

1) 3 doctors visited my wife but only 2 doctor wrote on the report. The doctor who mention that my wife can discharge while her heartbeat rate is 120bpm did not write any report!

2) Medication was given on 10.30pm ( Not Ture )

3) We refuse to be Warded ( Not Ture )

Day 2 10/03

In the morning, my wife on high fever, doctor mention to my wife "lucky you did not discharge last night"

Afternoon when i reach, i ask the junior doctor for update. His reply was blood infraction and still under observation.

Night time doctor update me that my wife was given antibiotics and need observation for 24hours.

Remarks: Night time high fever

Day 3 11/03

Morning update from junior doctor: no fever, under observation, antibiotics given and need to be observe for the next 5 days. My question: is my wife so serious to be under 5 days observation? What wrong with my wife? His reply: not sure still diagnosing.. i request to let my wife discharge since she has no fever at that time and normal heartbeat. he can't make the decision, so i request to speak to senior doctor who can make the decision. that was on 11.30am.

Afternoon 2.30pm i speak to him again, answer given was no from senior doctor for my wife to discharge. i request to speak to senior doctor.

3.30pm i request to speak to senior doctor from him again.

5.30pm i raise my voice at him. i really very piss off at that moment, due to no answer given from him and i have been waiting to speak to a senior doctor since 11.30am!! My question : why she is able to discharge on day 1 when her heartbeat is 120bmp and now everything back to normal but cannot discharge?? no answer given from him. i just want a answer and what cause her to have fever, what so difficult??

5.45pm finally the 2nd senior doctor came, she updated me.. finally i got what i want to know. My wife is having urinary tract infection (尿道感染) that cause her fever. she also mention that they are not specially for infection and they request tan tock seng specially to come and take a look on my wife situation on the next day.

Remarks: Night time high fever

Day 4 12/03

Morning tan tock seng specially came, my wife was diagnose with kidney infection (肾感染)!!! And tan tock seng specially told my wife that he is here for 2 reason.
reason 1: to check on her situation
reason 2: to mark sure kkh did the right things...

To me this is no joke!!! kidney infection (肾感染) will this cause kidney failure??

Afternoon when i reach, i went to kkh business office, request to speaker to service quality team.

My Questions for service quality team.

1) 3 doctors visited my wife,When only 2 doctors wrote on the report 

2) What if the report miss out is important or may cause someone life or even 2 life???

3) Why doctor allow my wife to discharge when her heartbeat is 120bmp?

4) Why day 1 blood infection, day 2 urinary tract infection and day 3 kidney infection.

5) Why didn't TTS specially call in since day 1 when she is having blood infection. 

6) Is the doctors in kkh doing experiment on my wife?

7) should pay so much for the bill? it seen like doctors is doing experiment.

8) why am i receiving different update from different doctor?

9) is my wife suffering from kidney infection since day 1 or due to late treatment? 

I also request from service quality team, no more treatment by junior or trainee doctors for my wife!
It will take 2 weeks for the service quality team to investigate
When i reach the ward i question the 2nd senior doctor, day 3 is urinary tract infection why today become kidney infection (肾感染) what next?? How come now become kidney infection (肾感染)!! her reply: urinary tract infection (尿道感染) and kidney infection (肾感染) is the same!!! And she expect my to accept it!!!

how to accept it??? to me a non medical person urinary tract (尿道) and kidney (肾) how can it be the same??? i raise my voice at her to demand a high ranking doctor explain to me.
15min later 2 high ranking senior doctor came with a nurse manager, they explain to me the cause of the kidney infection (肾感染). It was cause be the urinary tract infection (尿道感染) due to my wife body did't show a sign of urinary tract infection (尿道感染), that's why it take longer time to diagnose as compare to others. so the infection travel up to kidney (肾). They also update me on the treatment plan which they had consult KKT Specially. i also inform the that i dun't want any junior or trainee doctors to treatment my wife.

Day 5 13/03

Afternoon update from nurse manager: blood test for blood taken on day 2 11/03 result show that new infection start to grow on my wife blood. will be giving my wife 2nd type of antibiotics.

Day 6 14/03

Morning update from nurse manager: KKT Specially ask to remove the 2nd type of antibiotic. Laboratory lab from kkh also confirm that the blood test result Credibility is not high!!! KKT Specially also mention that he did not want any junior doctor to update him only senior doctor do so... i really dun't know what is going on!!!
Afternoon Nurse manager and 3 senior attend to my wife due to they realise something wrong with her right hand which was on drips at the moment as it is swollen badly and it may cause infection. As far as their concern, they recommend her to change the drips to left hand. but before the can do so, they will need to consult the doctor. The doctor came, she press on the swollen hand and ask her is the any pain. My wife dun't feel any pain and the doctor told the senior nurses that she dun't need a change because there wasn't any pain.. they nurses look so surprise to me, they then ask the doctor to write a black n white for them to file in.

I mean the word hate is a bit strong but it is really not easy for a person to stay in Punggol after spending most of his life staying in Tampines where we have everything.

So I've shifted to Punggol (not so)recently. New neighbourhood, nice neighbours, nice waterway and fresher air too but not everything is a bed of roses in Punggol.

I mean the word hate is a bit strong but it is really not easy for a person to stay in Punggol after spending most of his life staying in Tampines where we have everything.

So I've shifted to Punggol (not so)recently. New neighbourhood, nice neighbours, nice waterway and fresher air too but not everything is a bed of roses in Punggol.

Dear TRS,

Please Share!!

Wanted to share this video (taken between Bishan and Ang Mo Kio) I took earlier today at peak hours coming back from work.

See the video here: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=959638330748001

This pervert is pushing his dick back and forth to this poor lady's back side.

Before I saw him doing this to this girl, I felt he tried to do it to me but I am so sensitive and notice someone bumped my butt and I glanced around.

When I glance my eyebrow's raised as there is enough space to move so don't know why he bumped my butt so I just move a bit away and was facing the opposite direction but because of his armpit odor I moved another step away from him and this time I have to turn and face the door side as I am going down to the next station which is Ang Mo Kio.

Then I notice this pervert is pushing back and forth his pants area to this girl's butt and the girl didn't mind it as I think she thought it is so crowded behind her.

Dear TRS,

As everyone should know by now, there was many fake reports on social media about Lee Kuan Yew's death this afternoon.

I was also fooled by the doctored screenshot for a while. Actually, I was fooled by the screenshot which had been uploaded by Former NMP Calvin Cheng. He uploaded it to his public page and earlier changed his profile picture to black.

As a former NMP, he has quite some authority and can influence the public to a certain extent so his sharing of this also makes the situation worse.

Worse still, it is highly hypocritical as he has always been criticising alternative news site for the falsehoods that they share. He is actually no better! 

Before about 8pm, he changed his profile picture to black:

Then he uploaded the fake screenshot:

Another netizen also noticed it and critcised him for it too:

Most recently, he even posted a photo of a Singapore flag flying at half mast saying that it was standing vigil over LKY, even after the screenshot was already clarified to be fake!

He posted so many death-related updates one after another on his public page which has quite a following. He certainly fooled me for a while I am sure there were many other who also got confused because of him.

This Calvin Cheng has always brainlessly attacked alternative websites and blamed them for hate and lies and drawn ridiculous connections before too:

Many will be like me so very pissed off by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Singapore Police Force (SPF) for their recent refusal to grant the license to the Future Music Festival event and the subsequent cancellation of the event.  

For whatever reason MHA and SPF hold for their refusal, it remains exclusive only to themselves, for their rejection can only be seen as their incapability, incapacity, inertness and inaction to exercise their roles and responsibilities.

This refusal to grant license to the Future Music Festival is disastrous. It is even worse than censorsorship. It is an annihilation of what is already a sad state of our local music scene. They had just cut out the future of our music endeavour.

While SPF proudly display in their website (www.spf.gov.sg) their “shared vision” of what not “Courage”, “Loyalty”, “Integrity”, “Fairness”, we tell them they can sleep on it:

“Courage- we are willing to risk our lives...”: While action encourages confidence and courage, Inaction breeds doubts and fear. There is really no attempt to conquer fear or to build courage, or to put themselves into the test, but only to cower. 

“Loyalty- we are loyal to the nation, to the Home Team, to the SPF community and to our own beliefs and ideals”: Indeed, a submission to inaction, loyal to their own kind of ideals – stay in their comfort cove, don’t sweat.

“Integrity”- “we never forsake our ethics in order to attain our objective. Our actions are guided by our principle… “: Their principle may very well be ‘Hear nothing, See nothing, Say nothing.’ 

“Fairness- We are fair in the dealings with people…”: The Hong Lim Park saga and the interrogation of the activists has certainly cast doubts on any fair handling by SPF.

Now, even MHA (www.mha.gov.sg) has their “Core Values“ : “Honour- we will always carry out our mission with honour- guided by the values of bravery, impartiality, integrity and the moral courage to do the right thing even in the face of personal danger and adversity…” : Perhaps “to do the right thing” is to do nothing. 

Given this kind of mentality in the part of the SPF and MHA, we ask: How are they going to gain operational ground experience? How are they going to test their preparedness and readiness? How are they going to face more difficult challenges? How are they to face more severe adversity? 

<Pic Credit: Screenshot from Video>

A dog was left in a car for over 40 minutes in the sun with all the windows closed.

The car, a Honda Civic with registration number SFU9347J, was parked in an outdoor carpark at Holland Village.

A passer-by noticed the dog inside the car and alerted police to the incident as he was concerned that the dog might suffocate to death.

Sharing a video of the incident, he explained that the afternoon sun was still up and the windows were all closed. 

After calling the police, they arrived within 10 minutes but they had to search for the owner of the car and they only tracked him down 40minutes later.

See the video here: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=960692677309233&set=vb.416856241692...

Dear TRS,

Writing this as a warning to all future couples who are looking for a bridal studio package. Bridal concept is the worst studio ever. With just 3 months to our wedding and three days before our photoshoot day, bridal concept literally cancelled our package with them and literally chased us away leaving us all stranded after we pointed out to them their shortcomings! I can't imagine any bridal studio doing such a thing to any couples.

Me and my Fiancée signed up for a wedding package with bridal concept at an exhibition at expo. When we signed up for the package, the salesgirl promised us so many different services to be included in our package and even showed us an array of suits and gowns from the catalogue which we could use for our photo shoot and on our wedding day. However, when we went for our fitting, we were taken aback to see that we were given only about 2-3 suits for the groom to select from. When we expressed our discontent, all they did was to mix and match the Blazers with the vests and pants from all different suits which made the groom look more like a clown. They even charged us extra for a night shoot or to have an assistant to accompany us for the photoshoot day which was all already promised to us beforehand. Their choice of wedding gowns were extremely limited and all the white gowns looked so faded like it was worn many times and unwashed.

To: feedback[at]transitlink.com.sg; crc[at]sbstransit.com.sg; feedback[at]lta.gov.sg;
Subject: Integrityof EZ Link system

Good day

I had written in more several months ago to SBS transit to ask about the incident  on 18/11/14 that I had been charge new trip instead of transfer when connecting bus/MRT. Affected Me and my 2 children card.

My 2 children card tap upon exit were not captured and they were charged full price for the last trip. SBS call me to enquire for more details which I had provided. And i had not heard from them since.

0n 22/12/14, 

I had done transfer within the travel transfer limit of 45 mins and with 2 hour for total journey. Transfer rebate was not recorded.

on 27/12/14

Dear all,

I will like to share my disappointment with Starhub and how it totally disregarded the law in Singapore.  I recontracted my mobile services at the starhub shop in vivo city and purchased a new phone (Samsung Note 4). Three days later, I started to use the phone and tried to migrate my contacts. Shortly into my task, I noticed that the right half of the display is faulty. Immediately I went down to the same starhub shop I purchased the phone from (@ vivo city). After a one and a half hours of wait, I was shocked by the service personnel saying that they will not bear any responsibility for the phone and refered me to samsung. I requested to see the manager and while waiting, I started to google about the lemon law in singapore.

The manager arrived shortly and told me that they can do nothing about the phone and that I have to go to the samsung service centre. He said that I checked the phone during collection and it was fine at that point, hence starhub has delivered on its sales. I quoted the lemon law at this point in time and they insisted that it is no longer their responsibility. Here i quote a passage from the FAQ for the lemon law:

More Clarity on Burden of Proof and Rights Period: Under the Lemon Law, if a defect is detected within 6 months, it is presumed that the defect existed at the time of sale or delivery and the lemon law provisions apply, unless the seller can prove otherwise.

My new phone is not even 1 week old and they refused to take any responsibility for it. They insisted that I have checked the phone before collection. Dear all, how are we supposed to check for ALL functions within our time there? Perhaps everyone buying the phone should stay there for 2-3 hours and test their phone thoroughly. I called CASE about this issue and they said I need to go to the service centre to find out what is wrong first. That statement is a direct contrast to the quote above. Let me quote another passage:

Dear TRS,

I signed up on the Do Not Call Registry because I am sick of spam messages but it has not fully helped.

I received SMS'es from employment agencies and I do not have any affiliations or subscriptions with them. I replied with "un" and i have been greeted with more SMS'es. I even called the company to voice my displeasure and was greeted by a foreign operator stating that they are within the safe boundaries of PDPC and not listed within the DNC Registra.

Yeah.. she was kinda cocky about it as well... She probably already knew her rights.

Apparently, employment and recruitment spam does not fall into the DNC registra and it's all legal and good.

"As the DNC provisions focus on telemarketing messages targeted at consumers, certain types of messages (such as messages offering you employment) are excluded." Page Here: https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/individuals/complaints-and-reviews/lodge-a-complaint-of-a-do-not-call-registry-offence/excluded-and-exempted-messages

PAP should cease wasting tax dollars on its propaganda because it is no longer effective in the internet age.

This is also an insult to citizens and will invite even more ridicule. Unless PAP doesn’t mind becoming a laughing stock.

How ineffective is propaganda? Just listen the the nonsensical factual errors spouted by our taxpayer-funded President Tony Tan about Lee Kuan Yew.

He began his speech by claiming “….Yesterday, we lost the founding father of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.”

According to Wikipedia, the “founding of modern Singapore” was between “1819 – 1826”, at least 196 years ago. Lee Kuan Yew was only 91 when he died so Lee couldn’t have qualified to be even the founding father of modern Singapore.

Source

Going a little further back, “the written history of Singapore dates back to the third century”, some 1800 years ago. Is Lee a reincarnation then? Why was Tony Tan so certain about Lee being the founding father of Singapore?

Whichever way one looks at his statement, Lee is not, and never will, be the founding father of Singapore. Perhaps PAP considering editing our school history books?

Tony: “Mr Lee Kuan Yew dedicated his entire life to Singapore.” Lee was able to ‘dedicate’ his entire life because the PAP had instilled fear in citizens by imprisoning and bankrupting political opponents, constantly gerrymandered and implemented the GRC system, abused the civil service and grassroots, etc to perpetuate its power. Without the GRC system, who would have voted for those PAP clowns which helped PAP to remain in power? Serving the people was only incidental.

This can be confirmed by Lee who once said, “If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless”. Lee’s objective has always been to instill fear in order to gain total control. That gave meaning to his life. By pricing ‘dedication’ at million$, it appears to be more of a rip off. What do you think?

Tony: “He rallied colleagues, built up a capable civil service and led the founding generation of Singaporeans to achieve this vision.” But from our experience of PAP-created issues, we know that Tony was trying to take us for a ride. It was true during the first couple of decades with competent men assisting Lee but certainly not with clowns during the past 3 decades. Questions for Tony Tan:

– The majority of Singaporeans are not able to retire despite having a ‘capable’ civil service tweaking our CPF for decades. Was this Lee’s vision?
– Ordinary citizens, mostly dual income families, require 25 to 30 years to pay off their last HDB mortgage installment. Another one of Lee’s vision?
– The civil service is devoid of any idea to generate economic growth other than by increasing foreign labour/foreigner population. Did Lee contribute to building up such a ‘capable’ civil service?
– Three decades ago, the PAP told Singaporeans our HDB flats were our assets. Was it Lee’s vision that most citizens would have to sell our assets to fund our retirement?
– Almost 55,000 Singaporeans have to eke out a living as cleaners and thousands more as security guards in our ‘wealthy’ country. Was this Lee’s vision?

But we certainly know what a ‘capable’ civil service has done ie profit from citizens from public housing, public healthcare, COE, GST, fees, etc. Did Lee have any part in building up such a ‘capable’ civil service?

Regarding housing where the government had advised that they are building more BTO flats so that Singaporeans have a place to call their own. Sadly this is not the case for me a born and breed Singaporean! 

I am 34yrs old married and a mother of two kids a girl age 13 (born out of wedlock when I was not married yet) and a son age 4 whose father is my husband. I have never bought a house before and had never taken any concessionary HLE with HDB. However, I still can't buy a simple 3-rm flat for my kids to call HOME, talk about being a Singaporean in now a modern country!

I got married in 2006 when my daughter was only 4yrs old. As my husband had previously taken HLE twice because on both occasions, he bought 2 flats with his mother, I could not purchase any flat with him unless I take a bank loan and buy from "open market". I am unable to do so as it's expensive to buy a flat from open market and I need to put a upfront deposit to the bank which I do not have. My husband at that time in the 1980s and 1990s had no choice but to buy a flat because his father and step-father had passed away and his siblings were young and dependent on him including his mother, his elder siblings at that time were all married and having their own family. Hence, he had to buy a flat with his mum and later downgraded to a smaller flat. Therefore, he bought and took up concessionary HLE from HDB twice. Due to this I am unable to buy a flat with him which is totally unfair rules here because I had never bought a flat before, furthermore the last flat which my husband sold was more than 15years ago and he did not get a single cent from the sale proceeds as his mother took all to settle her debts. And because of this I have no choice but to rent a HDB flat.

Currently am living in a 1-rm rental flat and have been living there for almost 10yrs, previously was not able to get a 2-rm rental flat as I did not have a family nucleus. With the birth of my son in 2011 I am now on wait list for a 2-rm rental flat. However, I am still saddened by the fact that I am a Singaporean born and breed here but yet I am unable to buy a flat for my children who at times ask me why their friends have bigger house and why is ours so small. I feel depressed that I am unable to buy a simple 3-rm flat for my kids and when I look around at all the BTO flats that are built I begin to wonder if those flats have majority of Singaporeans or PRs living in it. 

Living in these rental flats which were built many years probably some 30 to 40 years ago really is not a suitable place for kids to call their home, everything in the houses are peeling off, low ceiling, cramped space, uneven walls, toilet no window so no ventilation and flat infested with bed bugs no matter how much we clean and/or fumigate. And many other pest at times. I have desperately been to HDB seen my MP numerous times but yet I am unable to purchase a new flat. And I gave up as traveling up and down these places and getting the same answer NO.

Dear TRS,

Today, I made my way down to Parliament House to pay my respects to Mr Lee Kuan Yew and received a bottle of free water from people who were handing them out. 

I am thankful for the kindness which people are showing for those queuing up but I am worried if some companies are using this as a convenient way to clear old stock. 

The bottled water that I received was best before October last year. It even had white marker to try and cover up the expiry date; this means that they are well aware that the product is old!

To all Singaporeans, please do be careful. My freebie water is probably fine even if it is a bit old but there are also people giving out snacks and food.

Dear TRS,

I refer to your article "17YR OLD S'POREAN ACTOR REJOICES OVER THE DEATH OF LEE KUAN YEW"

A PAP grassroots leader who is a Christian has responded to the video in your article.

He felt offended because Amos Yee, the 17 year old in the video made an offhand remark about Jesus. 

This made the grassroots leader so mad that he posted on his facebook page, threatening to slice off Amos Yee's penis as punishment for the blasphemy:

Don't you think a PAP grassroots leader who has won a long service award should know better than to make such unprofessional comments? 

Saw this on the hardwarezone forum with all these pictures. 

Transitioning: First of all, thanks for allowing us to interview you online and can you provide us with some background information about yourself?

Bala: 33 year old Male -  born Singaporean. Jobless. Masters degree holder with 17 years working experience in total. 7 years Managerial experience in Accounts,IT,HR, Facility Management and Administration.

Transitioning: What was  your last occupation and you have told me that you were unemployed for a few months, can you tell us more about this and  also  your job search experience?

Bala: Accounts & Admin Manager. Unemployed for the 6th month. Got retrenched to cut cost.

Applied almost more than 500 jobs to various sites. None replied. Even went to MSF (previously CDC), but no use. Most of the PSD jobs I applied, I qualify above their requirement so I get rejected.

Transitioning: You have told me that you are currently jobless for more than six months, what did you do in order to survive? Did you also approach the CDC for assistance?

Bala: I applied for financial assistance which gives me $250 per month with an EZ link top of $50. I have pawned all my gold.

Past 2 months I have been paying partial bills and currently halted bank loans which has just been increasing the interest.

I have stopped going out. Most of the times I borrow $20-$50 from my girlfriend.

Transitioning: Did you attend any interviews  during the past few  months  and why do you think you are unsuccessful so far?

Bala: In the 6 months, I have attended 2 interviews only, but had lots of phone interviews.

Transitioning: Tell us abit more about what you have learnt from your jobless experience and how it has impacted your family.

Bala: This isn’t the first time I have been unemployed. I have learnt that as an Indian born in Singapore we have no respect and I hate to see all the foreigners sitting in on our jobs.

My house is currently supported by my 61 year old parent. I have no words to describe the current situation.

Transitioning: What do you think you could have done to shorten the unemployment period?

Bala:  I tried part time jobs, made calls, applied for tuition etc but however, after seeing my qualifications, I was given the reason “overqualified”. The government should see to the hiring situation here.

Transitioning: Do you think that Singapore is now a more difficult place to make a living?

Bala: Yes I do agree without thinking twice. First it is expensive, then there is an influx in foreigners. My list of unhappiness is extremely long…

Transitioning: What do you think the government can do to alleviate the current employment situation?

Bala: Send job applications to a government hire. MOM should stop taking in the foreigners to take up the jobs.

There is a long list of unemployed Singaporeans. Hire them first.

During calls to banks or telecom companies, staff who answer are now practically all foreigners.

Can’t understand what they say. Private companies should also come under the government. Hire people like me.

In my past company, 95% of the staff are foreigners and I totally understand how easy it is to hire them.

First ask MOM to go and check the bank statement of S Pass holders and see if the companies are really paying the stated amount.

I have many ideas but it cannot be emulated if I’m not in any authoritative post.