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Luckily the jockey was safe and no injuries or property damages on the ground. Just wondering how the SK fire station official could inititally identify it as the ugly Warthog but I guess maybe the mangled wreckage was unidentifieable or/and he was unfamiliar with jets. Anyway US$18.8m excluding ordnance and others up in smoke.... Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynam...Fighting_Falcon From CNA: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp...1190349/1/.html US military jet crashes in S. Korea, pilot safe Posted: 21 March 2012 1520 hrs SEOUL: A US military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea Wednesday during a training mission but its pilot ejected to safety, US authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon (0300 GMT) near a US air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the US military said in a statement. "The (lone) pilot safely ejected before the plane crashed. Emergency response teams are on scene at this time," it said. There were no casualties or serious damage on the ground, a US air force spokesman said, adding details would be released later. A local fire station officer in Seocheon county near Gunsan said previously the pilot was injured and taken away by ambulance. The officer had identified the aircraft involved as an A-10 tank buster. The crash came as South Korean and US troops stage an annual joint military exercise, called Foal Eagle, from March 1 to April 30. It was unclear if the F-16 was involved in the drill. North Korea habitually fiercely denounces annual joint exercises by US and South Korean troops as a rehearsal for invasion. Seoul and Washington say they are merely defensive in nature. The United States has based troops in the South since the 1950-53 war and the force currently numbers 28,500. - AFP/ck

NEL train service between Dhoby Ghaut and HarbourFront stations disrupted Posted: 15 March 2012 0821 hrs SINGAPORE: The North East Line train service between Dhoby Ghaut and HarbourFront stations is unavailable due to a power supply problem in the tunnel at Outram Park Station. A statement from SBS Transit on Thursday says it is estimated that service at the affected stretch will not be available for about six hours. SBS Transit added that free bus services will be provided at designated bus stops at the affected stations. The free bus shuttle service has also been activated. - CNA/de

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Malaysian state energy firm Petronas said Monday net profit fell 34 percent in the third quarter and warned of challenging times ahead due to global economic uncertainty. Profit at Malaysia's biggest company dipped to 15.6 billion ringgit ($5.2 billion) in the three months to December 31, compared to 23.7 billion in the corresponding period a year before. Petronas attributed the drop to a higher base of comparison in the third quarter of 2010 due to one-off gains from the listing of two subsidiaries that amounted to 9.2 billion ringgit. Petronas said cumulative profit for the nine months to December 31 was 10.6 percent higher than the same period a year earlier, reaching 55.6 billion ringgit due mainly to higher crude oil prices and sales. Revenue for the period rose 26.9 percent to 222.80 billion ringgit. But Petronas president and CEO Shamsul Azhar Abbas warned that this year and next would be tough due to uncertainties in crude oil prices on the back of Europe's economic woes and lower expected crude production. "Europe is going into a recession. Demand from BRIC economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- is going to be weak," he told reporters, adding that "geo-political tensions in the Middle East" were also clouding the outlook. The next two years would "not be as strong as we have seen last year as the current crude oil prices won't last long," he added. Shamsul said crude oil prices were expected to hover at between $85 to $90 per barrel this year -- compared to around $110 currently -- before rebounding in 2014. Shamsul said Petronas would continue to focus on domestic exploration in deepwater areas and on re-exploration in marginal fields as it faces depleting oil and gas reserves in the country. Crude output was expected to be lower in 2012 due to depletion, he said. "Our challenge is going to be in production," he said. Petronas -- Malaysia's only Fortune 500 company -- contributes almost half of the country's budget revenues. Although the recent quarter was the third of the fiscal year, Petronas has ended the financial year on December 31 as part of an adjustment that will see its new financial year start from January 1 from now on.

Hi people. Anyone else using PPTV? Have enjoyed being able to watch the movies. But my PC seems to have slowed considerably, suspect its due to the PPTV. Any ideas?

WHILE the media often reports on price rises in essential items and foodstuffs such as rice, wheat and coffee, subsequent falls in the prices of such items are reported less diligently, affecting the country's fight against inflation. For instance, in 2010, the media rushed to report on the doubling of onion and garlic prices owing to bad weather in China and India. Housewives hoarded onions and garlic and restaurants raised their dining prices. And around this time, coffee shops increased the prices for coffee and tea citing a hike in commodity prices. Today, garlic and onion prices have crashed to prices below those publicised in 2010 because of good weather, and the increased planting brought about by the earlier jump in prices. Prices for tea and robusta coffee, the kind normally used in our daily heartland cuppa, have fallen by up to 15 per cent. However, the media has been silent on such drops in prices, and restaurants and coffee shops have not reduced their menu prices despite the lower costs. It may interest readers to know that cocoa prices had fallen by 50 per cent between March and December last year. Yet, I doubt if we shall ever see Cadbury's 250g chocolate bar again, although the cocoa price spike was given as a reason for reducing the per bar weight from 250g to 200g, while the price per bar stayed the same. Rising raw material prices are often cited as the reason for increasing the prices of end-use products. This contributes to a higher rate of inflation in Singapore. Failing to publicise falling commodity prices is detrimental to consumers' welfare, as they are not kept informed of actual market conditions and prices, and suffer higher household expenses even when the reasons for the price increases have diminished or disappeared. Reporting on commodity price trends is difficult and speculative. But one-sided reporting of just price increases - without alerting the public when prices drop - will feed into increased expectations of businesses and the acceptance of higher food costs by consumers, to their own detriment, and fuel inflation. Lim Wei Jan http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/...ory_762838.html

Slow Down Culture It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule. Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to posses a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results. Said in another words: 1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil. 2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants. 3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people. 4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies the NASA. The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, "Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot." To which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think? Imagine my face. Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week. Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness" generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or the "quality of being". French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British (True?). Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US's attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!". This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living. It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit. In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance to a tango. Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized world.

I see from the other thread (cheap racer wannabes) that many look down on cars that are lousier than your own? I admit i do too...especially when a lousier car pulls up beside me at a traffic light. And i see a young punk with tattoo, long golden fringe and smoking inside. What makes it worse if he has the guai lan ah-beng good for looking face. I will smoke them (swift, kia koup, mini, civic) when i was driving my 330ci in the past.

Poor guy did not even know his shoulder epaulettes were pinned upside down... Just curious why his course mates or anyone passing by who had served did not point it out to him. From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...pside_down.html Posted on 04 Feb 2012 Oops! Newly-commissioned SAF officer wears his shoulder ranks upside down STOMPer Xin sent in a photo of a newly-commissioned SAF officer -- only thing is, his shoulder ranks were upside down. Said the STOMPer: "I took this photo from facebook, there are lots of comments by netizens on it. "It shows a newly-commissioned SAF officer wearing his ranks upside down on his shoulders. "He and his family looks like they are from China." Although some netizens on facebook felt this was disrespectful to Singapore and that the officer should have checked, others felt it was an honest mistake and should be forgiven; with his squad mates held responsible for not alerting him: "I feel sorry for the guy. Whatever it is, local born or not, he's earned his rank. If his mum pinned the epaulettes on inverted by mistake, well it's an honest mistake. Whatever it is, she looks proud of her son so I say let them have their deserved moment without ridiculing them. "All those who trolled here probably are not officers and are just quick to comment... The rank epaulette is affixed by family members and in most cases the officer stands at attention and looks forward and does not look down at his shoulder.. Lets face it, how many people look down at their own shoulders??? "If we should blame someone it should be his squad mates around him for not realising and telling him!!!"

My guess is that the woman rode her bicycle across the zebra crossing instead of pushing it across and then the cabby suay suay knocked into her. Both were wrong but the cabby should share the bigger blame because as drivers we bo bian have to give way to pedestrians or cyclists even if we have the right of way. Unless the STOMPer was hiding something if not based on what was being described the cabby would kena jialat jialat from the authorities. And he should have sent the injured to the hospital regardless of what happened. From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...refuses_to.html Posted on 31 Jan 2012 Cabby knocks down mum on bicycle, then refuses to send her to hospital STOMPer Sharina's friend was hit by a taxi while cycling. The cabby 'made a lot of noise' when paying for her friend's injection at a nearby clinic, and refused to send the friend to NUH when the doctor recommended she go for an x-ray. The STOMPer wrote: "On Jan 26 2012, my friend was cycling along Pioneer Road North after fetching her son and was knocked down by a taxi driver at the zebra crossing. "The taxi driver did not want to take any responsibility. He only sent her to a nearby clinic and paid $64 for her injection. "He made a lot of noise when paying. He also refused to send my friend to NUH even though the clinic's doctor had recommended that my friend go for an x-ray, and my friend was unable to walk. "We told the taxi driver to send us to the nearest police station as we wanted to lodge a report. When we arrived at the Jurong Division Police Station, we were greeted by Officer Kumar who advised us to proceed to NUH and even called an ambulance for my friend. "We lodged a police report on Friday, Jan 27 2012 and we are waiting for the outcome. "I just hope that the taxi driver will be brought to justice for his carelessness."

5-room below $300K :D

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What does Tan Meng Wah for the Straits Time means? In any case, I dont see the usual disclaimer from ST saying: these are strictly the author's view. we have no part in this crap apart from printing this piece of shiit

"PAP Member of Parliament and former senior minister of state Grace Fu wrote about her feelings online. Her decision to join politics in 2006, she said, was not based on pay. "The disruption to my career was also an important consideration," she added." if not based on $$$$, then why are you making so much noise now with PAY CUTS!!!!!!?!??!?!??? SOUNDS VERY CONTRADICTING, PLEASE STEP DOWN AND CRAWL BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND SEE WHETHER THEY CAN PAY YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Another unforgivable act of hanging our flag upside down. From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...pside_down.html Posted on 07 Jan 2012 National flag at Sengkang hung upside down STOMPer Jeremy spotted an upside down national flag beside the multi-storey carpark at Block 210 Compassvale Lane. He says: "National flag upside down. "This was at Sengkang, beside the MCP of Block 210 Compassvale Lane. "Is this done by a Singapore citizen, or a non-Singaporean?"

After since the passing of new stamp duty, i havent see price drop, how long will it take to drop? 1 quarter? or 2? or is it Singapore property sibei hot till foreigner kanna charged 10% still willing to buy???

piang, too many people log in... down liaoz..

and jam the whole road! i am late by 30 min!

my windows cannot wind up or down at one of the windows, the rest is working. One of the Hi-fi workshop tested and said no power going to the motor and he didn't know more detail. I do ask him is it "fuse" but he said cannot be. so anyone know what the reason? Honda airwave.

Saw send a email to CNA saying she is not stepping down.. after so many people affected by the train breakdown for 3 occassion,that useless CEO still got the cheek to stay on..

You think they have any contingency plan for this?

Lai lai, poll

SMRT shuttle bus broke down while travelling from Bishan MRT station to Toa Payoh MRT station sibeh koyak

Chris' Tea House to stop serving tea because of harassment After being bludgeoned continously into closing down by flamers, Chris' Tea House has decided to stop its tea cafe business for the public on January 18. Mrs Christina Lim, the owner of the controversial restaurant, said the last straw came when she kept receiving "harassment" from an anonymous person calling her mobile phone. She told SoShiok.com that she has made police reports and "hopes the harassment will stop soon". She does not wish to reveal details of the harassment as police investigations are still going on. While it will stop serving tea, the charming tea house at Upper Paya Lebar will continue operating its retail front which offers chinaware, tea and other tea paraphernalia. She added: "I will be keeping the place but still thinking of other business to venture into." The tea house was the target of online flamers after her daughter called a customer "cheapskate" for making unreasonable demands and comments when he didn't spend a lot of money there, and for not understanding the practice of a "highclass" tea house. Those remarks irked the customer's supporters who gave her and her mother a relentless bashing on a few websites. Even though her daughter apologised subsequently for her remarks and Mrs Lim had explained her position on customer service and restaurant rules, online flamers continued to attack them. Some even called for a boycott of the tea house. But the tea house also had its supporters who slammed the flamers online, arguing that they should have proper etiquette when visiting the place. Actually Mrs Lim had no intention of opening her tea house to the public initially. She had bought the shophouse as an investment, and turned her tea appreciation hobby into a masssive project - a period English tea house decorated with matching furniture like wing chairs, fine porcelain and colourful tea paraphernalia. Friends fell in love with it too and suggested she opened it to the public. She followed their suggestion and also offered companies the use of the tea house as an event venue at a fee. But she also found out quite soon that it wasn't a viable business what with the small size of the place and its cheap pricing. She had told SoShiok.com that she could have kept it as a hobby and continue living a comfortable life instead of working hard to run it as a business and having to face the barrage of unkind remarks by flamers. Mrs Lim said she would keep the tea house to entertain her 'regulars', friends and associates. So it will be closed to the public, but open to her best supporters! Link