For those who travel using Bukit Batok MRT station, I am sure you have noticed a shop located next to NTUC fairprice supermarket sells Chicken Rice at $1.50.
Getting a plate of such rice or noodles at $2 is already considered cheap in today's standard, let alone this $1.50.
Business can be quite good during the peak hours as I have seen queues forming in front of the shop.
I would say the portion is unsufficient for a big eater. You can add egg or fried bean curd etc for your rice.
If you happen to be around Bukit Batok MRT station, do try its chicken rice!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Old Piano has Found a New Owner (part 1)
My old piano finally has found a new owner, Ms A! This piano has been a white elephant for so many years and I feel so bad for her.
Ms A has been patient and accommodating to my hectic work schedule. A tuner was arranged to check the piano's condition. Surprisingly, the piano is still in optimal condition, despite sitting in the living room day and night, doing absolutely nothing.
The next step would be to arrange the movers to come to move the piano to Ms A's home.
I hope this piano will be put into good use soon.
Ms A has been patient and accommodating to my hectic work schedule. A tuner was arranged to check the piano's condition. Surprisingly, the piano is still in optimal condition, despite sitting in the living room day and night, doing absolutely nothing.
The next step would be to arrange the movers to come to move the piano to Ms A's home.
I hope this piano will be put into good use soon.
Moving House
On Friday, I helped R to move his house. It was an experience to see all things being packed into big boxes with labels such as books, clothes, kitchen items, photo albums, ... etc.
R engaged the service from Zion Emmanual Moving Company. At 10.30am, the movers dressed in bright red t-shirt arrived. Some movers carried the big boxes, others started dismantling the bed, big dinning table and wrapping up the rosewood chairs and table. There were at least 8 workers with a "supervisor" who gave orders to the rest.
We took at least 1.5 hours to load all the items into the truck. We discarded a big tv, a big fridge, a bed and a computer table. We paid $120 for the workers to dispose these items. What an irony, pay $120 just to get rid of 4 items!
After the movers have left, I started sweeping and mopping the whole house. It was really a big mess, with much dust collected under the fridge and bed.
It was a fun day!
R engaged the service from Zion Emmanual Moving Company. At 10.30am, the movers dressed in bright red t-shirt arrived. Some movers carried the big boxes, others started dismantling the bed, big dinning table and wrapping up the rosewood chairs and table. There were at least 8 workers with a "supervisor" who gave orders to the rest.
We took at least 1.5 hours to load all the items into the truck. We discarded a big tv, a big fridge, a bed and a computer table. We paid $120 for the workers to dispose these items. What an irony, pay $120 just to get rid of 4 items!
After the movers have left, I started sweeping and mopping the whole house. It was really a big mess, with much dust collected under the fridge and bed.
It was a fun day!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
How Time Flies
Today is Thursday and this means my one week's leave is almost over soon.
On Wednesday, I did not manage to meet Doris because her water pipe in the kitchen burst. She has to meet a plumber instead of me. I can imagine how messy her kitchen is when the pipe burst.
I have been taking a heavy breakfast and then a heavy lunch for the past few days. Since there is nothing much to do after sending Isa to school in the early morning, SP and I went for a simply breakfast in the nearest food centre or coffeeshop.
Things are getting more and more pricey. A plate of bee hoon plus a piece of fish cake easily costs $1.20. If I add a cup of hot drink, it can easily exceed $2 just for a simple breakfast.
Ok, be prepared to return to office to work harder so that I can continue to have an income to sustain the current living standard.
On Wednesday, I did not manage to meet Doris because her water pipe in the kitchen burst. She has to meet a plumber instead of me. I can imagine how messy her kitchen is when the pipe burst.
I have been taking a heavy breakfast and then a heavy lunch for the past few days. Since there is nothing much to do after sending Isa to school in the early morning, SP and I went for a simply breakfast in the nearest food centre or coffeeshop.
Things are getting more and more pricey. A plate of bee hoon plus a piece of fish cake easily costs $1.20. If I add a cup of hot drink, it can easily exceed $2 just for a simple breakfast.
Ok, be prepared to return to office to work harder so that I can continue to have an income to sustain the current living standard.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Hep B Vaccination (part 1)
WAIT, WAit, wait,.... at Bukit Batok Polyclinic.
In the morning, I reached Bukit Batok Polyclinic to get a queue number from the Self Service Ticketing Machine. I proceeded to the Registration, waited for my queue number to be called before making my payment to see the doctor.
I got the room number whom my doctor would be in. It was another round of waiting. Luckily, today was Tuesday and there seemed not many patients waiting to see the doctor.
After seeing the doctor who has advised me to do a Hep B screening first before the vacinnation, I went to the General Lab to wait for my queue number again. There were many people waiting at the General Lab. Many senior citizens came here for their routine blood test etc. It was quite a long wait and I was glad I had my story book to read. My queue number was finally called. I was told to wait till the Lab called my number. Ridiculous!
Right, the Lab finally called my number and I went into the small congested room with Lab staff and patients. I was worried if there would be a mixed-up with so many blood samples on the working table. I stated my intention clearly. No mistake and some blood was taken from my right arm. It was quite a few seconds to collect my blood sample. I thought I could leave the polyclinic after that.
The nurse advised me to proceed to Counter 6 to make payment for my screening ($20.40).
The result will be known in 2 -3 weeks. I will know if I am immune or need Hep B vaccination.
Watch out for Hep B Vaccination (part 2).
In the morning, I reached Bukit Batok Polyclinic to get a queue number from the Self Service Ticketing Machine. I proceeded to the Registration, waited for my queue number to be called before making my payment to see the doctor.
I got the room number whom my doctor would be in. It was another round of waiting. Luckily, today was Tuesday and there seemed not many patients waiting to see the doctor.
After seeing the doctor who has advised me to do a Hep B screening first before the vacinnation, I went to the General Lab to wait for my queue number again. There were many people waiting at the General Lab. Many senior citizens came here for their routine blood test etc. It was quite a long wait and I was glad I had my story book to read. My queue number was finally called. I was told to wait till the Lab called my number. Ridiculous!
Right, the Lab finally called my number and I went into the small congested room with Lab staff and patients. I was worried if there would be a mixed-up with so many blood samples on the working table. I stated my intention clearly. No mistake and some blood was taken from my right arm. It was quite a few seconds to collect my blood sample. I thought I could leave the polyclinic after that.
The nurse advised me to proceed to Counter 6 to make payment for my screening ($20.40).
The result will be known in 2 -3 weeks. I will know if I am immune or need Hep B vaccination.
Watch out for Hep B Vaccination (part 2).
Monday, February 23, 2009
Laughter and tears as Jade weds
Jade Goody has married Jack Tweed in a "beautiful, moving" ceremony, her publicist Max Clifford said.
The ex-Big Brother contestant, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, managed to stand up for most of the service at at the Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire, at midday on Sunday.
She and Tweed, 21, will spend what may be their only night together as man and wife at the hotel.
Mr Clifford said the bride kept her husband-to-be waiting for 45 minutes before tying the knot and managed to stand for all but the last five minutes of the service, which was conducted by bishop Jonathan Blake.
There was a last-minute scare on Saturday night when Jade felt unwell after "overdoing it" as she oversaw the final arrangements for the wedding.
Mr Clifford said: "It was a beautiful service which lasted about 45 minutes. It was lovely. The chapel was absolutely beautiful. I imagine there must have been close to 200 people there."
He said Jade had sat with her two sons on her lap towards the end of the ceremony.
The couple received a standing ovation from guests after exchanging vows, he added.
"It was just a very, very heart-rending, happy ceremony with lots of tears, lots of smiles and lots of laughter.
Ministry of Justice officials relaxed the terms of Tweed's curfew so he can spend his wedding night with his new bride.
But it may be their only night together as he must stay at his parents' house to satisfy probation requirements.
He was released from prison in January on licence after being given an 18-month jail term for attacking a teenage boy with a golf club.
Goody struck a deal with a magazine which will have exclusive access to the wedding pictures.
Her wedding preparations have also been filmed by a TV crew in a combined deal reportedly worth almost £1 million.
She has said she wants to secure the future of her sons Bobby, five, and Freddy, four, after her death.
Goody, originally from Bermondsey, southeast London, was first diagnosed with cervical cancer in August. Last week she learned the cancer had spread to her bowel, liver and groin.
(source: uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090222/tuk-laughter-and-tears-as-jade-weds-dba1618_2.html )Sunday, February 22, 2009
Some Interesting Kenyan Proverbs
I am reading a story book and found some interesting Kenyan proverbs which I would like to share with you:
(1) A goat that is loose does not listen to the voice of the shepherd.
(2) Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time.
(3) Regular work tires a woman but totally wrecks a man.
(4) We must add wisdom to knowledge.
(5) Every burning conflicts eventually settles into charcoal.
(1) A goat that is loose does not listen to the voice of the shepherd.
(2) Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time.
(3) Regular work tires a woman but totally wrecks a man.
(4) We must add wisdom to knowledge.
(5) Every burning conflicts eventually settles into charcoal.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
On Leave for A Week
Finally it is my turn to take a week's leave from work. I vaguely recalled my last leave was in December when the office managed to get a relief to cover my work for that few days. However, I have nothing planned ahead for that few days. In the end, that few days were spent sleeping and reading at home.
For the coming break from work which I have been longing for quite some time, I decided to do quite a few things during this short week.
I intend to go for Hep A & B screening before getting its vaccination. I called Bukit Batok polyclinic but no making of an appointment is needed. Hep A virus mainly comes from uncooked shell fish such as cockles or contaminated water. Hep B virus can cause liver cancer and this type of virus can spread from shared needles or syringes, blood or body fluids, ... etc.
Next, I will be meeting Doris one of the mornings for a good chit-chat. We have not been able to catch up with one another for a long time. She has left teaching so that she can spend more time at home with her two lovely kids. I do agree that working mums have lesser and lesser time spent on their families. I envy her for making such a bold decision by leaving her high-pay job to become a full-time housewife.
Then, R will be moving his nest to City Square. I have agreed to help oversee the movers moving his belongings over. He has quite a lot to move. I wonder how his packing getting on. I hope he does not need my help for his unpacking as I myself, is quite an untidy person.
Of course, not forgetting to read a few story books and take 40 winks during my week.
Let us see how this short break will turn out.
For the coming break from work which I have been longing for quite some time, I decided to do quite a few things during this short week.
I intend to go for Hep A & B screening before getting its vaccination. I called Bukit Batok polyclinic but no making of an appointment is needed. Hep A virus mainly comes from uncooked shell fish such as cockles or contaminated water. Hep B virus can cause liver cancer and this type of virus can spread from shared needles or syringes, blood or body fluids, ... etc.
Next, I will be meeting Doris one of the mornings for a good chit-chat. We have not been able to catch up with one another for a long time. She has left teaching so that she can spend more time at home with her two lovely kids. I do agree that working mums have lesser and lesser time spent on their families. I envy her for making such a bold decision by leaving her high-pay job to become a full-time housewife.
Then, R will be moving his nest to City Square. I have agreed to help oversee the movers moving his belongings over. He has quite a lot to move. I wonder how his packing getting on. I hope he does not need my help for his unpacking as I myself, is quite an untidy person.
Of course, not forgetting to read a few story books and take 40 winks during my week.
Let us see how this short break will turn out.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Reality TV: Fighting cancer
LONDON - A BRASH British reality show star whose ups and downs captivated the nation is approaching her death the same way she has lived - on television.
Dying of cervical cancer that has spread to her liver and bowels, 27-year-old Jade Goody sees no reason to turn the cameras off now.
Her first foray into the spotlight was in 2002, when she lost at strip poker on Britain's version of 'Big Brother.' She went on to write her autobiography, star in fitness videos, release a perfume and appear on 'Celebrity Big Brother,' where she was accused of racism and bullying a Bollywood star, Shilpa Shetty.
To make amends, she went to India last summer to star in its version of 'Big Brother.' It was there - in a shocking diagnosis captured on television - that she found out about her cancer.
Bald and pale from chemotherapy, pictures of Goody have since been daily fodder in the British press. She says the publicity and profits made from selling her story will help her sons, 4-year-old Freddie and 5-year-old Bobby Jack, and raise awareness of cervical cancer.
On Thursday, a television show documented the weeks before she learned she only has months to live. On Sunday, the cameras will roll at her wedding to 21-year-old boyfriend, Jack Tweed - wearing an electronic monitor and recently released from prison after serving time for assault.
Goody will take her vows in a designer dress donated by Harrods owner, Mohamed Al Fayed.
While neither are scheduled to air in the US, video clips of her wedding shopping spree and cancer battle - including one where she breaks into sobs as she stares at her balding head in her bathroom mirror - have been widely viewed on YouTube. Photos of the nuptials are to be printed in OK! magazine, which along with television deals are believed to have earned Goody $1.4 million. Her actual death is not expected to be televised or photographed, her publicist said.
'People will say I'm doing this for money,' Goody told the Sun tabloid earlier this month. 'And they're right. I am, but not to buy flash cars or big houses. It's for my sons' future.' Some have said Goody should spend time with her family rather than staying in the spotlight. But most have also praised her commitment to her sons and her effort to draw attention to the need for regular Pap smears, which can catch cervical cancer in its early, treatable stages.
'I may have questioned the wisdom of Jade treating the media as confidantes in her final days,' wrote Allison Pearson in the conservative Daily Mail. 'But I have nothing but respect for her decision to accumulate enough money for the boys to enjoy the very best education.' The media, who are now so firmly in Goody's corner, were not always so kind. She was ridiculed for being vulgar, uneducated and crass; even after her cancer diagnosis, it was suggested she was capitalizing on her illness to regain the public's affection.
From the beginning, Goody's tortured childhood provided kindling for reality TV. She grew up in a tough part of London, the daughter of drug users. Her father, who served time in prison, died from a drug overdose.
With her in-your-face attitude and willingness to share the tawdriest details of her life, the buxom brunette both fascinated and repelled Britain. Her lack of education sometimes made her an object of ridicule, such as when she asked where the English region of East Anglia - less than a two-hour drive from London - is located, and pronounced it 'East Angular.' 'Jade was the one who proved that you don't need to have talent to be someone in Britain today. She's famous for just being herself.' said her publicist Max Clifford.
There was admiration, even from the prime minister, for Goody's sheer determination to make a better life for herself. 'It's very sad and indeed tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease of cancer and it's very sad indeed that the treatment that has been given has not been successful,' Gordon Brown said on Wednesday at his monthly news conference.
'I think everyone has their own ways of dealing with these problems and her determination to help her family is something that we've got to applaud,' he said. 'I wish her well and I wish her family well and I think the whole country will be worried and anxious about her health.' The Guardian newspaper - which appeals to the left-leaning intelligentsia - weighed in on Goody's decision to publicize her impending death, praising her for confronting her mortality.
'The ostentatious rituals of mourning and public graveyards of earlier eras are not part of modern life,' it said in an editorial. 'Today, mortality is as finite as before, but has somehow been marginalized.' In Bermondsey, the neighborhood near London Bridge where Goody grew up, residents still consider her one of their own. Nearly all support her choice to stay in the spotlight.
'She's like one of us. We all feel for her. It's not fair,' said 40-year-old Janine Stacy, a special education teacher. 'It's totally her choice.' Mr Clifford said that Goody may consider doing other deals after the wedding. 'We are in discussions to do a final documentary... She's very keen to do it, providing she's well enough,' he said. -- AP
(source: www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_340758.html )
Dying of cervical cancer that has spread to her liver and bowels, 27-year-old Jade Goody sees no reason to turn the cameras off now.
Her first foray into the spotlight was in 2002, when she lost at strip poker on Britain's version of 'Big Brother.' She went on to write her autobiography, star in fitness videos, release a perfume and appear on 'Celebrity Big Brother,' where she was accused of racism and bullying a Bollywood star, Shilpa Shetty.
To make amends, she went to India last summer to star in its version of 'Big Brother.' It was there - in a shocking diagnosis captured on television - that she found out about her cancer.
Bald and pale from chemotherapy, pictures of Goody have since been daily fodder in the British press. She says the publicity and profits made from selling her story will help her sons, 4-year-old Freddie and 5-year-old Bobby Jack, and raise awareness of cervical cancer.
On Thursday, a television show documented the weeks before she learned she only has months to live. On Sunday, the cameras will roll at her wedding to 21-year-old boyfriend, Jack Tweed - wearing an electronic monitor and recently released from prison after serving time for assault.
Goody will take her vows in a designer dress donated by Harrods owner, Mohamed Al Fayed.
While neither are scheduled to air in the US, video clips of her wedding shopping spree and cancer battle - including one where she breaks into sobs as she stares at her balding head in her bathroom mirror - have been widely viewed on YouTube. Photos of the nuptials are to be printed in OK! magazine, which along with television deals are believed to have earned Goody $1.4 million. Her actual death is not expected to be televised or photographed, her publicist said.
'People will say I'm doing this for money,' Goody told the Sun tabloid earlier this month. 'And they're right. I am, but not to buy flash cars or big houses. It's for my sons' future.' Some have said Goody should spend time with her family rather than staying in the spotlight. But most have also praised her commitment to her sons and her effort to draw attention to the need for regular Pap smears, which can catch cervical cancer in its early, treatable stages.
'I may have questioned the wisdom of Jade treating the media as confidantes in her final days,' wrote Allison Pearson in the conservative Daily Mail. 'But I have nothing but respect for her decision to accumulate enough money for the boys to enjoy the very best education.' The media, who are now so firmly in Goody's corner, were not always so kind. She was ridiculed for being vulgar, uneducated and crass; even after her cancer diagnosis, it was suggested she was capitalizing on her illness to regain the public's affection.
From the beginning, Goody's tortured childhood provided kindling for reality TV. She grew up in a tough part of London, the daughter of drug users. Her father, who served time in prison, died from a drug overdose.
With her in-your-face attitude and willingness to share the tawdriest details of her life, the buxom brunette both fascinated and repelled Britain. Her lack of education sometimes made her an object of ridicule, such as when she asked where the English region of East Anglia - less than a two-hour drive from London - is located, and pronounced it 'East Angular.' 'Jade was the one who proved that you don't need to have talent to be someone in Britain today. She's famous for just being herself.' said her publicist Max Clifford.
There was admiration, even from the prime minister, for Goody's sheer determination to make a better life for herself. 'It's very sad and indeed tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease of cancer and it's very sad indeed that the treatment that has been given has not been successful,' Gordon Brown said on Wednesday at his monthly news conference.
'I think everyone has their own ways of dealing with these problems and her determination to help her family is something that we've got to applaud,' he said. 'I wish her well and I wish her family well and I think the whole country will be worried and anxious about her health.' The Guardian newspaper - which appeals to the left-leaning intelligentsia - weighed in on Goody's decision to publicize her impending death, praising her for confronting her mortality.
'The ostentatious rituals of mourning and public graveyards of earlier eras are not part of modern life,' it said in an editorial. 'Today, mortality is as finite as before, but has somehow been marginalized.' In Bermondsey, the neighborhood near London Bridge where Goody grew up, residents still consider her one of their own. Nearly all support her choice to stay in the spotlight.
'She's like one of us. We all feel for her. It's not fair,' said 40-year-old Janine Stacy, a special education teacher. 'It's totally her choice.' Mr Clifford said that Goody may consider doing other deals after the wedding. 'We are in discussions to do a final documentary... She's very keen to do it, providing she's well enough,' he said. -- AP
(source: www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_340758.html )
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Cancer-striken mum prepares GBP 1m for her boys
Getting media attention and from Prime Minister Gordon Brown is Jade Goody, who was found to have cervical cancer last year. Recently, the doctors told her that she has only a few months to live because the cancer cells have spread.
She is totally devastated because she is just 27 years old and has 2 young boys, both 5 and 4 years old.
She intends to wed her boy-friend this weekend.
Mass media has secured the rights to film her wedding ceremony. She has used coverage of her illness ro raise money for her two sons before she dies.
For more info, read
uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/jade-goody.html
She is totally devastated because she is just 27 years old and has 2 young boys, both 5 and 4 years old.
She intends to wed her boy-friend this weekend.
Mass media has secured the rights to film her wedding ceremony. She has used coverage of her illness ro raise money for her two sons before she dies.
For more info, read
uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/jade-goody.html
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Hazy Days
The hazy days started a bit too early this year. I recalled hazy periods usually start around June onwards when the surface winds turned southwesterlies and the dry season begins in Indonesia. The dry season is also the time for land clearing before planting starts. The easiest, cheapest and most convenient method to clear land would be to burn.
Thick smoke resulted from the burning, coupled with the winds from the right direction, carry the minute smoke particles across the sea to the neighbouring countries.
This has been going on for decades and nothing much can be done.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Little Guilin ?
This is Bukit Batok Nature Park located at Bukit Batok East Ave 2. It is quite a scenic and quiet place right in the heart of busy roads.
A School Prefect
This morning, Isa put on her new shirt and tie before going to her school. We felt very proud of her being chosen as a prefect after several rounds of screening and selection. I did not have a chance to be a prefect at all during my school days. I always envy students who wear a prefect tie.
Friday, February 13, 2009
The Love Story of Sam and Bob
Friends,
source: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141662/Australians-comfort-badly-burned-koalas-best-friends-surviving-bushfires.html
We know that the southern part of Australia is suffering from wildfire and many people and animals were killed.
Here is a touching story:
source: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141662/Australians-comfort-badly-burned-koalas-best-friends-surviving-bushfires.html
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Lousy Tuesday
Yesterday (10 Feb 2009) was a hectic day for both Isa and myself. The school lesson ended at 4.30pm due to Integrated Supplementary/Remedial lesson (ISR). By the time she returned and taken her dinner, it was closed to 6.30pm.
Mdm Goh gave 8 pages of Vocab & Grammar worksheets and a few papes of Maths problems in an assessment book. Mdm Lee gave a few pages of Chinese writing. In addition, there is Spelling for both English and Chinese to learn.
At 10pm, Isa still had a little bit to touch up for her Art work. We agreed that we would leave it the next day because a lot of work has been done for the day.
How to make learning more interesting, challenging and less stressful?
Mdm Goh gave 8 pages of Vocab & Grammar worksheets and a few papes of Maths problems in an assessment book. Mdm Lee gave a few pages of Chinese writing. In addition, there is Spelling for both English and Chinese to learn.
At 10pm, Isa still had a little bit to touch up for her Art work. We agreed that we would leave it the next day because a lot of work has been done for the day.
How to make learning more interesting, challenging and less stressful?
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Bulk purchases in NTUC Fairprice Supermarket
I was at Jurong East NTUC Fairprice supermarket just before 8am on 7 Feb 2008. Just before it opened, I saw a trio of adults waiting eagerly at the entrance of the supemarket.
At 8am, this trio rushed in. In this supermarket, some vegetables such as lady-fingers, brinjals, cucumbers are pre-packed and sold at $0.95 per packet. These items are really value for money in this difficult time. The trio went to the corner which sold such items. They filled their shopping baskets with these items. They simply grabbed these packets and dumped them into their shopping baskets. In a short while, they were carrying a few baskets of such items, walking happily towards the cashiers. They chit-chat along their way with the Fairprice staff.
I do not know the trio's reasons for buying such valued vegetables in bulk. I would like to ask if such behaviour is allowed because there were not many packets of such vegetables left since they almost emptied them.
At 8am, this trio rushed in. In this supermarket, some vegetables such as lady-fingers, brinjals, cucumbers are pre-packed and sold at $0.95 per packet. These items are really value for money in this difficult time. The trio went to the corner which sold such items. They filled their shopping baskets with these items. They simply grabbed these packets and dumped them into their shopping baskets. In a short while, they were carrying a few baskets of such items, walking happily towards the cashiers. They chit-chat along their way with the Fairprice staff.
I do not know the trio's reasons for buying such valued vegetables in bulk. I would like to ask if such behaviour is allowed because there were not many packets of such vegetables left since they almost emptied them.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Paid first-class but received economy class coach service to Genting
I refer to an article in ST Forum 31 Jan 2009 "Express coaches: Paying a premium for cramped rides".
I had a bad experience with WTS Travel too. WTS Travel is an active member of NATAS and a CaseTrust-NATAS Accredited Agent. My group of 14 friends paid for "first-class" coach service to Genting but we received an "economy-class" coach service in Dec 2009.
After several written complaints to WTS Travel, a compensation $15 per passenger was offered. But this was totally unacceptable. WTS Travel refused to reply any further.
As consumers even with the contract in hand, nobody including NATAS seems to be able to offer us any help, advice and solutions. May I ask if taking such agents to CASE or Small Claims Tribunal Courts the only way to end our miseries.
We often see such cases reported in ST Forum. Would NATAS suggest ways to safe-guard the interest of consumers?
Another woman helping herself with other's money
I read with disgust on the case "Ex-club managed jailed" reported on ST Breakingnews 30 Jan 2009. This is another case of "helping" herself with money that did not belong to her at all. One of her charges included forgery which reminded me various such cases.
One of the recent most "spectacular" case was a woman helping herself with more than 800k reported in early January.
Common among these women; they lead a lavish lifestyle, spent well beyond their means, incurred huge credit card bills and these bills just went out of control in no time. As a result, they started thinking how to dip into company funds or funds that did not belong to them at all etc.
They are not uneducated and in fact, they are smart enough to forge signatures on cheques, transfer monies from various sources to their own bank accounts etc. Their methods worked well enough to deceive companies, banks and various authorities. By the time their crimes have been discovered, severe damages have been done to the victims.
May I suggest Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) work hand in hand, to examine loopholes present in the current system which has resulted so many forgery cases during the past few months?
Monday, February 02, 2009
A Special Prayer
Today (2nd Feb 2009), I would like to say a special prayer.
I thank Lord that our prayers have been answered and that our wish has been granted. My family is so happy.
We continue to trust and pray hard for good health for everybody.
Amen.
I thank Lord that our prayers have been answered and that our wish has been granted. My family is so happy.
We continue to trust and pray hard for good health for everybody.
Amen.
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