Singapore Insights

I was shocked when I read the article on today’s Straits Times. A housewife was fined for eating a sweet on the train. There was no mention of littering like throwing the wrapper on the floor, and neither was she muching on messy items like a burger. For god’s sake, its just a sweet ain’t [...]

Facebook has officially announced that they have hit 250mil users. Friendster, another social networking site that started out much earlier has only about 90million users to date. That’s less than half of what Facebook has. I think most of the people that are reading this would have a facebook acount. I’d say out of all [...]

This year’s NDP 2009 is going to be something special. I’ve read on the papers that on 9th of August 2009, at 8.22pm, Singapore’s national pledge will be broadcasted islandwide. Be it on national radio, shopping centres of restaurants. Wherever you are, high chances is that you’ll get to listen to the pledge. The best [...]

We all should know by know that Potong Pasir and Hougang will be among those to have lift upgrading program being carried out. Something that has never happened to those opposition districts in the entire Singapore history. You can read about the full story here In addition to that I’m sure most Singaporeans have also [...]

Microsoft is looking to launch a free version of the popular Office software. The objective is to rival Googl’e web documents that has attracted many users since its introduction. The free version of Microsoft Office, is said to come with aa word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and note-taking software. All these should come with the same [...]

Today’s article on Straits Times caught my attention. It was entitled “Look Whos Staring?”, with a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama caught checking out a sexy young lady. According to the report, the young lady wearing a bare-back dress, is 17-year old Mayara Tavares. She’s a social activist from Brazil and was attending the [...]

The Ice Age franchise is a series of hilarious and heart-warming films. And true to the name, Ice Age 3 is fantastic. Remember to make a date with all your loved ones and small ones, and run to the big screens, hopefully showing it on 3D. Many sequels of movies are just hoping the original [...]

After all the hype, I have to admit that I’m also very tempted to purchase the new iPhone 3G S from Singtel. New features such as tethering, 3mega-pixel camera, and a landscape keyboard option has definitely been attracting many iPhone users, both new and existing ones. As expected, the Singapore kiasu culture has surfaced again. [...]