TraceTogether token: OMG IS IT GAHMEN WANT SPY ME?
Calm your tits ah, people. Before you all start tilting over the TraceTogether token and want to go sign simi lame and useless petition, please ah, don’t be joke and relax first ok. Vivian say liao – Sorry ah, not this Vivian 👇🏻 But this one 👇🏻 Minister Vivian Balakrishnan lah. So, right this Vivian […]
Hard truths about COVID-19 & Resilience Budget
I know many Singaporeans are very frustrated and annoyed by the whole COVID-19 situation. Some people also still very bue song with what the Gahmen is currently doing – even though Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat already said on 26 March 2020 that the Gahmen got the Resilience Budget to help […]
What is it like to work in an MNC?
MNC. A Multi-National Corporation. Highly coveted places where fresh grads long to enter… This week we speak to three local born and bred millennials – William, Andrea and Melissa – who shared about their experience of working in an MNC. Firstly, William who is 31 years of age, has been with his company for two […]
Singapore GE timing likely to be delayed due to worsening global Covid-19 situation
Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat has hinted on Wednesday, 11 Mar, that Singapore’s General Election (GE) is likely to be delayed in view of the worsening Covid-19 situation. DPM Heng said, “If you have big challenges ahead, then surely you want to be able to spend time on these challenges. Therefore the key question […]
Why do we need to pay GST?
Two weeks ago, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced in his budget speech that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) increase will not happen next year. Basically, he is indirectly telling us that if we are hoping that they will scrape the plan to increase GST, we can forget about it lah. Sibei angry leh. […]
Budget 2020: Meeting the needs of the Millennial workforce
The Budget goes beyond goodies and GST hikes! If I were to ask you what your key takeaway was from Budget 2020, what would your answer be? For me, it is: A quick recap of the Budget 2020 in case you missed it. The Government is EXTREMELY cognizant of the fact that the Covid-19 […]
Better wages for our cleaners and security guards
Yesterday, during the Budget debate in Parliament, Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Walter Theseira brought up the need for the Government to intervene and raise wages for workers such as cleaners and security guards. If anything, the Covid-19 outbreak has shown us that current market-determined salaries of workers such as cleaners and security workers no […]
Preetipls gets tangled with police for controversial video
On 29 Jul, local YouTuber Preetipls, whose real name is Preeti Nair, released a controversial video mocking a recent advertisement on an e-payment app, E-Pay. The video had garnered 48,000 views and had been shared over 600 times but, it was taken taken down subsequently. The music video disses Chinese people, claiming that they take […]
Dengue cases on the rise – more mosquitos or mutating virus?
Dengue cases hit a record high last week, spiking to 666 cases in a week – the highest recorded instances in a week was 637 in Jan 2016. As of 15 Jul, there were 7,438 recorded cases of dengue in Singapore; about five times more than the 1,481 cases in the same period in 2018, […]
Robots will soon be deployed. Will cleaning uncles and aunties be out of job soon?
Six cleaning partners will deploy robots with ‘warm’ personalities by Mar 2020, LionsBot International said during the production launch of its robots in Singapore on 17 Jul. Companies who are keen to use the robots will soon be able to rent them from LionsBot, without having to invest in ownership and maintenance. Cleaning companies and […]