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What are some of the freak incidents that ever happened around you ? Like this morning how i bought a cup of coffee and the plastic cup is leaking, then i place the leaking cup into another plastic cup. skully when i drink from the coffee cup, the coffee leakout out and completely spill onto my 2 ply Feraud shirt ! Now i donno whether to go back home to change or not. Freak man. Next pls, and TGIF !

Eureka moment again... Let’s start from here, Ask her buy minced pork... come back with mee pok... I jitao peng san.. Must tell her chop chop pork...

Good evening A car hit my stationary parked car at my condo 1) reported to security and asked for visitors vehicles but they Denied as they want to protect visitors privacy - it's quite weird that I am the owner and yet I cannot know who comes to visit in my condo? 2) called the police for assistance. They also refused to help. They said its private property so it's not governed in their jurisdiction to lodge investigation It's amazing how the world has changed this days On the brighter side it's not a major damage. And the world moves on with a Scott free hit and run

Which incident created the most impact in your childhood memory? To me...the Adrian Lim case...scared the shit out of me.. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/remembering-13-most-horrifying-incidents-033000118.html Remembering the 13 Most Horrifying Incidents in Singapore that our young have forgotten Remembering Singapore's Biggest Disasters We always think Singapore is safe. And it is. I can leave my house at 3am and take a stroll around my neighbourhood and reach home at 4am - cold and shivering and feeling stupid. But, safe. With this feeling of security, it is easy to forget that Singapore once suffered its own set of disasters. We just hope that Singaporeans today who never knew about them, don't take our safety for granted. Let's stay diligent and ensure these incidents never repeat again. For history's sake, here are the 13 most horrifying incidents in Singapore that most of our young have not heard about. 1. Bukit Ho Swee Fire (25 May 1961) This fire was Singapore's largest fire in history - taking away four lives, injuring 85 and rendering 16,000 people homeless after 2,200 attap houses were destroyed. Investigations begun afterwards to pinpoint the cause of this mega fire. But yet up to today, no one has found the exact cause of this incident. 2. MacDonald House Bombing (10 March 1965) This incident resurfaced in the news recently, after Indonesia insensitively renamed a corvette warship "Usman-Harun" - after the two commando bombers. We really don't know what prompted Indonesia to make such a decision, and the resulting furore needlessly strained bilateral ties between our countries. Singapore imposed a ban of this ship entering its ports and naval bases. But what was the incident that happened in the first place? Believe it or not, Singapore was victim to this bombing due to Indonesia's unhappiness with Singapore and Malaysia's merger, which they openly opposed. This was a long time ago, in 1965. And to make their point, they sent two commandos to plant the bomb, which resulted in the death of two bank employees and over 33 injured parties. In total, 29 bombs were set off in Singapore but the MacDonald's bombing was by far the most serious. In the end, the two young Indonesia commandos, Harun Said (then 21) and Osman Mohamed Ali (then 23), were caught and hanged in 1968. 3. The Spyros Disaster (12 October 1978) At about 2pm on this day, a Greek tanker "Spyros" exploded at the Jurong shipyard. It killed 76 people in the immediate vicinity and injured hundreds more, making it Singapore's worst accident in terms of lives lost. Many workers who were on their way back to the shipyard were burnt to death while others suffered serious burns and inhalation of toxic gases. This tragic incident lead to an immediate increase of safety regulations at the shipyard. 4. The Murder of the Tan children (6 January 1979) The Geylang Bahru murder case of the Tan childcare shook Singapore. It was one of the most brutal homicides in Singapore history. Their parents had left the house at 6:35am for work. The mother phoned home at 7:10am to remind the children to wake up for school to no avail. Upon arriving home at 10am, they found the four children, aged between 5 to 10, cruelly slashed to death and had their bodies piled up in the bathroom. Police ended up questioning over 100 of the Tan family's neighbours. But till today, no suspects were identified and no weapons were ever recovered. This has to be the most chilling murders ever, but the murderer did appear to have intimate knowledge of the family. 5. The Adrian Lim murders (January/ February 1981) In 1981, police investigations into the murder of two young children, Agnes Ng Siew Heok and Ghazali bin Marzuki led to the capture of three murders: Adrian Lim, wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong. Adrian Lim practised rituals as a phoney religion medium, luring women into having sex with him in exchange for beauty or to ward off evil spirits. He manipulated them with lies and deceit and ill-practice, at one point electrocuting one of them. He was finally captured when he was found guilty of killing two children just to draw attention away from his impending rape charge. He lured the children to his home and the trio killed them slowly, drinking their blood and drowning them systematically. The trio tried to plead for insanity but were denied multiple times. They were hanged on 25 November 1988. 6. New World Hotel Disaster (15 March 1986) The six-storey New World Hotel collapsed on 15 March 1986, claiming 33 lives instantly. Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Civil Defence Force and hundreds of volunteers started the task of saving lives and removing rubble from the scene. Thankfully, 17 people were rescued. The tragedy made the nation come together as one, with many offering their help with the plight of the victims' families. There was no conclusive reason as to why the hotel spontaneously collapsed, but the most plausible explanation points to a gas leak explosion. 7. Hijack of Singapore Airlines SQ 117 Singapore Airlines Airbus flight SQ 117 was hijacked by four Pakistanis, who took control of the plane and forced it to land in Singapore. The hijackers made their demand right before their stipulated deadline, specialist Commandos charged into the plane and killed the hijackers, freeing all 118 passengers and 9 crew. None of the passengers and crew were hurt. OH YEA, GO SINGAPORE! 8. Nicoll Highway Collapse (20 April 2004) During construction for the then upcoming SMRT Circle line, a tunnel at Nicoll Highway collapsed when its supporting structure gave way. It led to the largest highway accident in Singapore history. Rescue searches for the surviving workers lasted 3 days with 4 people dead and 3 injured. The construction was subsequently halted for 8 months, with the project director fined $8,000 for negligence. 9. The Escape of Mas Selamat (27 Feburary 2008) Oh yea, this was a disaster. A PR disaster that is. For his escape should never have happened. Mas Selamt Kastari, leader of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the same organisation who tried to take down Yishun MRT Station and several foreign embassies, escaped Whitley Road Detention Centre. It was a desperate national-wide manhunt for him, as rumours of him plotting bomb targets in Singapore and Malaysia spread rapidly. He was captured after a year when he was found chilling in a Village in Johor, Malaysia. He was handed over to Singapore in September 2010. 10. The "Slayers" suicide pact (23 August 2008) b2ap3_thumbnail_slayers.jpg Ku Witaya woke up one day and found out he was able to perform trances, just as his father and grandmother before. He would perform his spiritual trances and decline cash for his services. Things took a turn and Witaya said he had a dream that him and his friends had to become slayers and save the world and the only way to do it is to die and be resurrected as one. He gathered 7 of his friends in a suicide pact and jumped first, holding hands with his best friend of the group. The other 5 backed out when they saw the scene. 11. The Wang Zhi Jian murders (18 September 2008) Wang Zhi Jian had arrived at Singapore for only 10 days when he committed the horrific Yishun murder. He stabbed his girlfriend Zhang Meng multiple times after a quarrel. When her daughter awoke from the commotion, he proceeded to stab her too. Both died from their injuries. Fearing he would be exposed, he then entered a second room to attack another mother-daughter pair. The mother Yang Jie was forced to escape through the kitchen window, falling to her death while her daughter Li Mei Lin was injured badly. He was sentenced to death after a 4-year trial. 12. The Ferrari road accident (12 May 2012) On Saturday morning, China national Ma Chi was speeding in his Ferrari and beating a red light at Victoria Street when he crashed, causing a terrible collision with a taxi and motorcycle. Ma Chi, the taxi driver Cheng Teck Hock and his passenger Shigemi Ito died in the crash. Two others were injured. The footage of the accident uploaded above added to strong anti-foreigner sentiments in Singapore, as we were experiencing a massive foreigner influx in recent years. 13. The Little India riots (8 December 2013) On 8 December 2013, a riot involving over 400 South Asian foreign workers erupted after a bus knocked down and killed an Indian national at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road. An ambulance was set ablaze and rioters hurled whatever they could find around while several police cars were overturned and burnt. This resulted in 18 injuries and over 30 arrests for rioting. This was Singapore's first major riot in over 20 years and you can read a summary of the Little India Riots curated from social media here. Remembering Singapore's past We live in a safe country yes, but we should never take our nation's peace for granted. So many events from the past have shown us that these horrifying incidents are not so far away after all. But, we have the capability to come together as one in times of disaster and distress. So why not in happiness and prosperity too? Here's a goodbye to all the horrifying incidents of the past. Lets look forward to Singapore's future successes ahead.

I was waiting for a parking lot. There was a car waiting as well, about 5 cars away. He was there much earlier. Then, the car beside me drive out and before I could start shift my car to park in, the other waiting car (5 cars length away), horn at me, drive closer, roll down the window and shouted at me: I waited for very long. Sound familiar? I encountered such incident 3 times already since beginning of the year. What about you and how is your response?

Posted for your dreary Monday entertainment. More signs that Singaporeans are mentally unwell.

Any bros wish to share as per thread title? I will start on the strange incident part. Many many moons back me and a bunch of clowns were serving in one of the platoons in Falcon Coy at Tekong Camp 1 for our . Folks that era would know that the double beds of each bunk were arranged in 1 rows on each side, with sections 1 & 3 on one side (separated by a gap) while 2 & 4 were on on the other side. I was in section 1 then. And bros serving their "time" in Camp 1 would know that behind Falcon Coy was the SOC cum bayonet fighting ground. On one particular cold & early morning around 3 plus, I awoke to hear some blokes marching and shouting some unintelligible commands. Thinking some overzealous DIs were takaning petrified recruits, I went straight back to bed. "Poor SOBs," I muttered... Next morning I happened to raise this incident and some of my section 1 buddies concurred that some poor b******s were kena tortured. Now the interesting part. Sections 2 & 3 claimed they slept like a log and heard absolutely nothing while section 4 mates claimed they heard the same strange marching cum commands. Whatever it was we never did find out if there was any explanation to that strange encounter. Oh BTW, it was a Friday morning which means the previous night was Thursday... [sweatdrop]

7th May incidents, some serious, some light.......... I am not sure this is classified 'serious' or 'light'....... please help me decide, and share your experience or what you see... about 720am on 7th, me and my family members (those who are required to vote) took a 20mins stroll to the polling station.... we planned to be early birds (hey, maybe got small prize of free drinks for E Birds?!) and get it done with and go for a relak breakfast at the kopitiam. lo and behold, by the time we reached the school gate (polling station), a short queue was already formed (KNN, why some ppl must be more kiasu than us?) nevermind, queue lor..... while queueing, an bearded Indian walked past, half chanting half murmuring "XXX, XXX....".......... i gave him my mid finger but he was too engrossed with himself to notice.... still got 15mins+ to go, so i started to count..... not bad, i was #18 in the queue... HUAT AHH!!! so far so good, nothing really worth mentioning.... fast forward: it's 8am........ the voting started.... all went well, as I was registering and my name / face being checked, i turned around and had eye contacts with the nearby ZZZ party polling agent........ i quickly showed him thumb up..... i went to the booth, but forgot to check if there were any hidden cameras recording from above what I crossed.... the booth was not really that 'private'... in 3 mins, all was done........... i walked with my family members towards the kopitiam, by then sibei bud tor yiao liao...... while eating prata and drinking kopi-0, we chatted.... what i found out thru the chats really made me happy.... why?? for years, one family member is a die hard ____ supporkter, since i know she wont change her mind no matter what, i gave up explaining to her what the alternative means both long and short term..... ie i have given up on her... this time I presumed she voted the same, then i popped the question: did you cross neatly within the box and not all over the place? (she's known to be messy with her pen...) she said "Crossed?? ............ i just ticked the same as last GE, to show my loyalty....." whahahhahahaha ............. ........ ...... i didnt have to convince her, she 'volunteered' to void her vote and there went one vote for her party.... her loss is my gain ............... thank you, thank you............

TWO youths were sentenced to the Reformative Training Centre on Wednesday for stabbing another in his back. Sean Lim Zhi Han, 18, and Alfrey Koh Chan Hoe, 17, had earlier admitted to causing hurt to student Vincent Koh, 17, with knives at Elias Mall Shopping Centre on April 8. A Community Court heard that the victim had stepped out of a LAN gaming shop for a smoke at the mall when he saw Lim and Koh approaching him from across the road. Lim accused the victim of staring at them. There was an exchange, and the victim fled, pursued by Lim and Koh. They attacked the victim after he had tripped and fallen. Despite the pain, the victim picked himself up and ran. He saw the duo chasing him with a foldable knife each. Further investigation showed that Lim was angry with the victim's friend, known as Gordon, for apparently posting some bad remarks at him on the Internet. After buying the weapons at Causeway Point, Lim and Koh went to the gaming shop at Pasir Ris, to cause hurt to Gordon or his friends. The victim was warded for six days for four stab wounds on the back and another on the right upper arm. Both could have been jailed for up to seven years or fined or caned or received any combined punishment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AN ALTERCATION in the grounds of MacPherson Secondary School in July turned bloody when two feuding sides met in a basketball court near the school to settle the matter. Knives were drawn and Liu Zheng Tao, 17, did not come out well: He had to be treated for deep cuts to his head, hand and back. A friend with him was also slashed. The pair were believed to have been unarmed. Yesterday, two teenagers from the group that attacked them - Mohamad Fazlie Azmi, 17, and Muhammad Farid Abdullah, 16 - were sentenced to reformative training for the fracas. Probation was recommended for the pair, but police prosecutor Sheik Allaudeen argued that it was too light a punishment, given that the duo had used 'unjustified, mindless violence'. District Judge Ng Peng Hong agreed, noting that in light of the recent spate of violence among youths, the courts had to send a strong message that such acts would not be condoned.

hi all, been driving to JB quite brainlessly without much knowledge of insurance and remedy actions etc. cos am planning a longer trip up north to Cameron highlands over CNY, tot it will be good for me to know the things to do for the following scenarios 1) Accident in msia I assume take photos, take both party particulars etc? but i understand it's difficult to seek claim from a msian car rite? 2) car breakdown in msia is there a trusted local tow service?

Boy, 10, drowns in condo pool http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,141319,00.html? 2 Jun 2007 - Anna Lim Pei Er, 6, drowned in Rasa Sentosa resort's swimming pool. 14 Apr 2007 - Madam Wei Li, 35, a Chinese national, drowned in Changi Court swimming pool. 1 Dec 2006 - Mr Arndt Starke, 39, a German national, drowned in the spa pool at Goldenhill Park condo in Mei Hwan Drive. 26 Jun 2005 - Chua Siew Ling, 12, drowned at Hillington Green condominium's pool. 26 Jun 2002 - Mr Zhang Yuhua, 22, drowned at Parkview Condo's pool.

Being a new driver and not familiar with the workshop costs of repairs, in events of accidents (those that need not be reported to police), are there be rough guidelines on the amount of monetary compensation that the guilty party would have to pay, without having to claim from insurance? Below are some scenarios I can think of, please kindly provide an estimation of the compensation costs: 1) front/rear bumper collapses/ damaged 2) mini dents on the vehicle body (be it front, rear, sides) 3) major dents on the vehicle body (be it front, rear, sides) 4) front/rear lights cover and lights damaged 5) sports rim damaged/dented 6) scratches on vehicle body (other vehicle body paint got stuck to own vehicle body) 7) scratches on vehicle body (own vehicle body paint got stuck to other vehicle body) During such incidents, other than taking pictures with the phone, taking down the vehicle number, and driver