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Some seniors feel entitled owing to their age and frailty. As such, they believe that younger customers would not mind them going to the head of the queue to place their orders with the hawker or wet market stallholder. It has happened to me several times, and I have no issue with it since it is...

The use of cheap heat transfers is a common practice even for expensive football jerseys. Overpriced jerseys usually have cheap, low-quality heat transfers for sponsor names due to a combination of factors. Heat transfers are generally cheaper to produce than other methods like embroidery or...

A strata title confers part ownership of a condo development to the buyer; residents may come together to initiate a collective sale of the property as they possess a share of the land. HDB residents do have a strata title as they live in so-called subsided public housing which cannot be put up...

This member of a private town club is often seen putting up his feet (including shoes and slippers at times) on the sofa at the club lounge. Despite staff and other members advising him from behaving like a low class person, he persists in such uncouth behaviour.

I visited the VEP portal: https://vep.jpj.gov.my/ to create an account and provided the necessary vehicle details. Once my application was approved, I received a confirmation email, and headed off from S'pore to the designated VEP collection counter at the Road Transport Department (JPJ) in JB...

On 21 Sep 2024, a couple stole a windshield wiper at the carpark of Aeon, Bukit Indah, JB

Based on my decades in the corporate world, bosses who are insecure about their own abilities or position resort to bullying to maintain control or diminish the perceived competence of their subordinates. Such bosses see bullying as a way to assert their authority and maintain a power imbalance...

The Govt argues that its strict control over personal lives is essential for economic progress. Our leaders assert that authoritarianism ensures efficiency, labour peace, long-term planning and policy continuity. Authoritarianism has not guaranteed economic prosperity in countries like Cambodia...

There are fundamental differences between a condo and HDB flat which are neither academic nor insignificant in any way. Since buyers of HDB units have only purchased a 99-year lease, they have no share of the land where their blocks stand on and no strata title. As such, the HDB is not being...

The Government has a formidable task to convince more Singaporeans to give up their cars. The enormous cost of buying and maintaining a private vehicle has only forced marginal car owners to give up driving. Judging by our congested roads, many motorists are still loathe to giving up their set...

On Aug 19, Alina Meridian, a 30-year-old local man, became uncooperative after a female SMRT security officer asked to check his backpack. He pushed the 65-year-old woman, who injured her head when she fell backwards...

Many retirees grieve the loss of their career, feel stressed about how to fill the 8-9 hours daily that work used to occupy, experience boredom, anxiety about their loss of income, depression, loss of purpose, fear of mental decline etc. Can retirees on this forum please share your secrets...