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Imagine a living space fully equipped with sleeping lofts, a shower, kitchen, lounge area, and picture-perfect outdoor scenery to boot, at half or even a third of the size of your regular house. Add a trailer with wheels for those with wanderlust, and your tiny house is complete. In case you're wondering, here's what a tiny house looks like! The birth of 'tiny living' Unbeknown to many, tiny houses have stuck around for centuries. The movement that popularised the concept of living in tiny homes started, interestingly, only in the early 2000s. The 'tiny living' wave emerged when the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis caused several American homeowners to lose their property. Many took to tiny houses to put a roof over their heads and avoid being slaves to exorbitant housing mortgages. Today, the Tiny House Movement has swept the United States and gained traction in New Zealand, Australia, parts of Europe, and even Asia. Rather than serving utilitarian objectives, tiny houses are now a coveted way of life. Scour through YouTube, and you can easily find channel after channel dedicated to featuring tiny houses around the world and the alternative lifestyles they offer their owners. An obsession with tiny houses Living in Singapore has made me an advocate of the Tiny House Movement. The reason? The city dweller in me yearns for uncurated greenery and horizons that stretch endlessly into the distance. And perhaps the grass is truly (and literally) greener on the other side, I would love to experience a downsized life away from the daily hustle and bustle. But most importantly, tiny homes allow me to deviate from the typical prefabricated homes we get in Singapore: Design my home, from scratch One of the best things about tiny houses is that they are entirely customisable. From the materials and building blocks used to construct my tiny house to positioning my sleeping loft and carving out a cosy nook for my library – it's all my call. Interior design's a solution for built homes, but it can get costly. It also means that I have little or no say over how I would like my home to be unless I'm willing to fork out a hefty sum for refurbishment. With a tiny house, I get to decide the most minute detail at its inception. Live anywhere, any time The mobility of tiny houses has unlocked many more living spots previously hard to imagine for its owners. As long as it's legally permissible, I can anchor my tiny house on farmland or in a backyard and move right next to a serene lake whenever I wish. This idea is appealing because tiny homeowners get to keep the things they value in close proximity and construct a lifestyle around them without investing in a fixed asset. Being family-oriented, I relish the possibility of parking right up the family home. That way, I can keep my loved ones close by even while maintaining some degree of personal space that's independent of each other. Tiny living in Singapore..? Sadly, I'm fully aware that what attracts me about tiny houses will not work out (on large-scale) in the context of Singapore. We grew up learning that our land's a scarce resource to make sense of the towering skyscrapers we see whenever we lift our heads up. It is one of the reasons for our unaffordable property prices – in 2022, we were ranked sixth amongst the top 10 cities where ultra-prime residential properties were transacted. Tiny houses may cost a fraction of the price tag on a regularly-sized home in other corners of the world, but this relative affordability isn't true here. If we had to secure a piece of land to park our tiny home, that would already cost the average wageman their entire life savings and more. Well, though it seems what weaved my dream of having a cute little space to call mine remains a dream, I hope it will one day materialise. For now, I shall indulge in my favourite doses of tiny houses – Living Big in a Tiny House – and continue dreaming big on living tiny~ – Denise Photos from: Adobe Stock

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One step forward. Escooter to be banned in footpath. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/e-scooters-banned-footpaths-fines-jail-pcn-bicycles-12060932

With the end of the Circuit Breaker measures, more people have resumed working, creating more traffic on our roads. But that has not stop this rider from riding recklessly on his Personal Mobility Device (PMD) in Sembawang. As reported by SG Road Vigilante, the rider can be seen overtaking a car that is moving away from the traffic lights before keeping up to speed with it. In fact, the video which was shot on the 4th of June, showed the rider overtaking a motorcycle in the next lane. Judging from the 20 seconds plus clip, we reckon he could have been doing twice the legal speed limit of PMDs (25km/h). Naturally, netizens were quick to slam him... Should we be tolerating this? Watch the video of the PMD rider here! 101385818_2673239402892083_8980883442018037830_n.mp4

Good news or bad news? Your views? Cyclists and users of personal mobility devices (PMDs) such as e-scooters will soon have to adhere to a lower speed limit when travelling on footpaths, after the Government accepted an advisory panel’s recommendations. Starting early 2019, the current 15kmh speed limit on footpaths for PMDs and bicycles will be brought down to 10kmh. The lower speed will give PMD users, cyclists and pedestrians enough time to react to each other in unforeseen circumstances, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) said on Tuesday (Sep 4). “All riders must continue to give way to pedestrians and slow down when approaching crowded areas or blind spots. Riders should also exercise caution when overtaking other path users,” the ministry said in a press release. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/e-scooters-bicycles-speed-limit-footpaths-cut-to-10kmh-pmds-10682204

Wifey is having this problem where she feels very uncomfortable in the presence of people who are very rich. She feels very out of place and is affecting her mentally. Yet can't avoid these situations. Those people got those 狗眼 who look down on people. I told her to ignore those people but not helping much. What to do?

In this country where the well-disciplined and well-mannered people have braved and survived the recent earthquakes, expect big and colourful signboards at the top of buildings and shopping malls, sidewalk ramen stalls bursting with people in their working suits, electric scooters, rows of bicycles lined up on sidewalks everywhere and cool kids with their funky dressing that may be deemed as an ah beng back in Singapore. It is very different from the old-world aura of impatient, inconsiderate and intolerable behaviour that has cast a dark and rusty shadow on our country. For the first two days in Tokyo, we stayed in Shinjuku, a happening suburb 30 minutes away from Tokyo Big Sight where the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show (TMS) 2011 was held. Every single one of them was cocooned in their

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http://www.autospectator.com/modules/news/...hp?storyid=1191 It seems that SAAB is extremely committed to Ethanol as a bridging solution to the gasoline crisis before the advent of bio-hyrogen fuel. In fact, the 9-3 hybrid car has just been unveiled at the Stockholm Motor show: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/03/saab_unveils_e1.html "Combining a 260 hp (191 kW) 2.0-litre turbo BioPower engine and two electric motors totalling 53 kW, the BioPower Hybrid Concept can briefly generate torque values three times greater than its gasoline-only equivalent. The new modular hybrid system features a maintenance-free, 300-volt Li-ion battery pack designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle, a 38kW rear-mounted electric motor, a 15 kW integrated starter/generator (ISG) and all-wheel-drive with electric power transmission to the rear wheels. The all-aluminum 2.0-liter BioPower engine is modified to run on pure E100 ethanol fuel, giving zero fossil CO2 exhaust emissions, and operates in tandem with the electrical power system. This system offers fuel-saving stop/start functionality, torque boosting electric power assistance on demand, an electric-only