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http://thekoreancarblog.com/2013/12/06/kia-launch-first-time-ever-diesel-k3-in-south-korea/ KIA K3 diesel launched in South Korea in Dec 2013. I wondered when is it coming to Singapore? Will it ever come to Singapore? 126 hp and 279 Nm of torque is extremely impressive

Charges based on distance travelled...

New roads in the Marina South area will be opened on Sep 28, giving motorists using the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) "a more direct connection" to the city centre: LTA.http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/new-roads-connecting-mce/1362778.html

How come new roc looks like old roc? But sounds like VW is developing a new 7-spd DSG for the new model. http://www.carbuyer.com.sg/test-drives/329-vw-scirocco-review-ready-to-roc-again

the people at komoco said that if people are willing to pay the price of camry for a hyundai lexus, they may consider bringing in the hyundai genesis. t

Planning to have a budget & short getaway during this coming CNY. Any recommendation? Prefer island/resort type. Just want to relax and rot haha :) Planning a 3D2N type

http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...ory_143011.html $2.5b for such a short expressway!!! Interesting.. and part of it will be under the seabed.. And also announced part of KPE will be open on 26 Oct this year!! Hurray!! Hopefully less jams with the opening of KPE.

Swee...check this up and coming iOS 7 ! http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/

With the Haji coming next month, millions of muslim will vist Saudi, how are WHO going to control it? http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp...1228229/1/.html GENEVA: The UN health agency said on Wednesday it knew of no more cases in the Gulf of a mystery illness from the same virus family as the deadly SARS but was advising Saudi Arabia ahead of the upcoming Hajj pilgrimage. "WHO is working closely with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as in previous years, to support the country's health measures for all visitors participating in the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca next month," the World Health Organization said in a statement. The Geneva-based agency earlier confirmed that the illness was in the coronavirus family and had caused the death of a Saudi national. It has also left a Qatari man seriously ill in a London hospital after he was transferred there from Doha earlier this month, the WHO said, adding that he had previously been in Saudi Arabia. The two cases occurred three months apart in June and September, said the WHO, stressing that the illness is not Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome which swept out of China in 2003, killing more than 800 people worldwide. What sets the new virus apart from SARS, the agency added, is that it causes rapid kidney failure. Meanwhile, pilgrims have already begun to arrive in the Saudi kingdom for the ritual that represents the world's largest annual gathering. Last year, nearly three million Muslim pilgrims performed the Hajj, which represents one of the five pillars of Islam and must be performed at least once in a lifetime by all Muslims who are able to do so. Saudi health authorities have downplayed the chances of an outbreak of the mystery illness, adding that there were no changes on travel conditions for pilgrims. Meanwhile, a Danish hospital said on Wednesday it had isolated five people with symptoms of a viral respiratory illness pending the result of tests. Odense University hospital said those admitted were a family of four where the father had been to Saudi Arabia, and an unrelated person who had been to Qatar. Two of the patients were children under five. SARS swept out of China in 2003, killing more than 800 people worldwide.

yahoo news : Ukrainian woman dies during 'lovemaking on railway tracks' A Ukrainian couple's inability to rein in their passion for each other ended in tragedy when a woman was killed by a locomotive and her partner had his legs torn off during pre-dawn love-making on a railway track, police said Sunday. The accident took place in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia early Saturday. "Returning from our friends', my girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track," a police statement quoted the 41-year-old man as saying. A police spokesman separately told AFP Sunday that the pair was believed to have been drunk. The woman died on the spot while the man was hospitalised with his legs torn off below the knee. Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation. link: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-woman-d...-043330884.html When the urge comes, nothing can stop it .............

http://www.carbodydesign.com/news/2005-07-...-fiat-stilo.php After the Fiat and GM divorce, the Italian industry is planning to create a network of subsidiaries and sub-contractors. In this perspective, the new Fiat Stilo, which will be presented by the end of 2005 and will go on sale within 2006, should be produced in partnership with the Austrian contractor Magna Steyr, that will engineer the design of some parts. This is the first time the automaker has hired a non-Italian contractor to develop a new model. This choice was taken to reduce the development times, as Sergio Marchionne (Fiat) said. In the meantime the current prototype did not convince Fiat vertices, so a new design is likely to be introduced for official presentation. This prototype of the 2007 Fiat Stilo, designed by Centro Stile Fiat under the direction of Flavio Manzoni, did not convince Fiat managers and could be modified (Source: autoblog.nl) Topless panda , FIAT500 etc....are here : http://www.mitoalfaromeo.com/gruppofiat/futuro.html

went to service my car last sat and was told that i need to replace my drive shaft... Before this servicing i noticed whenever i do turning (i find the bends quite sharp for me) at first lane (after MBS towards AYE) i will heard a loud sound coming from undercarriage. the technician told me could be due to this drive shaft... But after changing the drive shaft, both sides. I still encounter this issue. Any idea what other possible causes?

MCM Singapore Meet 18th May 2013

Really looking forward to this movie :)

From AsiaOne: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...401-412692.html Coming home to a 'messier' Singapore By Tracy Quek Singapolitics Monday, Apr 01, 2013 After almost a decade abroad as foreign correspondents for this paper, my husband and I returned home earlier this month. In our first weeks back, we wandered around the neighbourhoods we had grown up in, revisited our old hangouts and ventured into less familiar localities. On the whole, we found the general lay of the land not too different from our memories of it. There were changes, of course. New developments had sprung up where vacant lots once were. Food prices had shot up. Malls and trains were certainly more crowded than we remembered. The number of foreigners working and living in the heartland had also grown. I was amused to find young Western expatriates shopping at NTUC FairPrice, getting a trim at one of those express haircut salons, and dining at kopitiams in suburban malls among ordinary Singaporeans. I recalled seeing fewer of them in the heartland in the past. Over many welcome home meals with friends, some asked partly in jest but also seriously, if we were already regretting coming back. They did not have to spell it out for us. We had kept up with happenings back in Singapore while in China and later the United States even as we worked to understand and analyse the broad political, societal and economic changes unfolding in the two world powers. On the job, we covered natural disasters and protests, witnessed abject poverty as well as environmental degradation, wrote about the social impact of near economic meltdowns, and mused about the limits of democratic as well as authoritarian political systems. Compared with the newspaper headlines out of China and the US over the past decade, the ones out of Singapore were tamer. I, for one, was glad for it; it meant stability at home and that our families and friends were safe and secure. But over the past two or three years, in particular, things started to change. From transport to housing policies, we read about how things were not running as smoothly as before. Online, people were unrestrained in expressing anger and dissatisfaction, especially with how government officials had handled problems. Some of the vitriol stunned me. I was used to reading all sorts of extreme anti-establishment online commentary in the US, but I was taken aback by the intensity of bitterness and resentment among some Singaporeans towards the ruling party, individual office holders and the mainstream press. Over a farewell lunch with some Washington, DC-based Asia analysts, we wondered aloud about the increasing political and social messiness we were observing at home. One of them chuckled and said: "This is what countries go through all the time, you guys are finally normal!" We had a good laugh but it set me thinking. The US is a vast country with more than 200 years of history and evolution. It has been through and is still going through war and political upheaval the likes of which a less resilient nation might not have survived. Americans are used to the messiness of democracy and a democratic political system. They value the cacophony of views for they believe that is what makes American society so vibrant, innovative and unique. But what is normal for the US and other mature democracies is relatively new for Singapore. The question is whether this new normal will work out in Singapore's favour, and if all segments of society will be able to come together to harness this messiness in a productive way. A more personal question is how I, as a recent returnee to Singapore and as someone who has seen up close the merits and demerits of "messiness" elsewhere, can be sensitive to the new realities. I have no answers at the moment. It would not be fair to venture any before we properly reconnect with home after such a long time away. But one observation I can make now is that having the opportunity to live in two countries with very different political and economic systems has irrevocably changed how I view Singapore. I guess you could call it perspective. Our problems may have become more complex and, certainly, various missteps and blunders have been made, resulting in an erosion of trust and confidence among Singaporeans. But it also strikes me that we are still in a far better and stronger position than many other countries to fix problems and find a new equilibrium for the times. For one thing, Singapore is not as financially hamstrung as the US government and is able to tackle infrastructure problems quickly. In Washington, DC, ageing roads are filled with potholes and broken escalators take 10 months to fix because of budget and other constraints. Coming home at this stage of Singapore's evolution, there will be many emotions to sort out and new discoveries to be made. I stand at the beginning of my own homecoming cautiously optimistic that the journey will be enlightening and meaningful, and that it will lead to a deeper sense of rootedness. At this time, I find these words of the late US senator Robert F. Kennedy especially apt. "Like it or not we live in interesting times," he said in 1966, during a trip to South Africa when he spoke out against apartheid. "They are times of danger and uncertainty but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort." The context may be different but the spirit of his exhortation rings true for me. [email protected]

Another 'White Paper' protest coming on "Labour Day" ...... Yahoo report: Next White Paper protest set for May 1: organiser By Justin Ong | Yahoo! Newsroom

compare the wages 1 to 1, no many people want to work over here

from Yahoo : Earth Safe from Asteroid's Close Flyby Next Week By Mike Wall | SPACE.com

Hi guys. Need advice. Driving an Edix. Wife accidentally damage side mirror by hitting it trying to squeez in between car and pillar. Now its not working anymore. But got this buzzing sound coming from the side mirror like a motorised sound running and turning. Where can i get it fixed? Got lobang anyone?

Guess what? TAS is bringing the show to SG! For the 1st time in its illustrious 30-year history, Tokyo Auto Salon will be coming to the shores of Singapore. With the full support of the Tokyo Auto Salon Association (TASA) of Japan, Singapore

Jurasic Park 3 trailer Watch out for it in 2013, a re-make of the movie in 3D coming soon. Its been 20 years since I watch the movie and will watch again when screening in Singapore. Just wonder how it feel when TRex face appear right in front of you ..... link: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/jurasic-par...-171802381.html

Hi all, just received a letter of notice from LTA. Other than dekitting whatever that is not allowed under LTA regulations, any particular stuff to take note of when sending my car in for inspection? Also how long will the whole thing take, a full day? First timer here, so pls bear with me Seems like the STA @ Boon Lay has closed down, real inconvenience for drivers like us who stay in the west

got any insider news of the cars coming in 2013 ? think got quite a number of diesel cars

To fans going for the coming MY vs SG match....take caution, the other side could get rowdy..... Just got this from my FB page.. http://www.facebook.com/demimalaysia kinda like a nationalistic pro-islamic anti-semitic group from Malaysia....not sure how influential are they....just take note and take caution... It's very sad that a football match, some about sports and sportmanship has be fabricated and politicized into mob mentality and hate for someone/group's political agenda.