Maids adding bodily fluids into food

Posted on May 23, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Maid charged with stirring menstrual blood into employer’s coffee’, 22 May 2012, article by Alvina Soh,  Channel News Asia An Indonesian domestic worker was charged on Tuesday with adding her menstrual blood into her employer’s coffee cup. 24-year-old Jumiah allegedly committed the act at a residential flat early in the morning on 31 August [...]

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Elder-care centres bring more deaths

Posted on February 4, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Woodlands residents worry elder-care centres in estate may mean more deaths’, 3 Feb 2012, article in asiaone.com Residents of two Woodlands HDB blocks are worried that building an elder-care centre at their void decks may mean more deaths in the area. Their concern comes on the heels of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) plans [...]

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PM Lee wants more Dragon babies

Posted on January 22, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From PM Lee: Singapore’s fertility rate up last year, 22 Jan 2012, article by Judith Tan/Lydia Lim, Sunday Times Singapore’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) picked up slightly last year to 1.20, up from a historic low of 1.15 in 2010. The Prime Minister announced the figure on Saturday in his Chinese New Year message, which [...]

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Dragon babies are ‘incapable of hypocricy’

Posted on January 8, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Enter the dragon babies’, article by Judith Tan, 8 Jan 2012, Sunday Times Claris Ong and Alexandra Chin, both 11 years old, are ‘Dragon babies’….The girls are outstanding by virtue of being very driven and independent – both qualities true to the nature of those born under that Chinese zodiac sign. …Since ancient times, [...]

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Alamak!Jaywalking is a taboo action

Posted on November 8, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Survey reveals S’poreans most common taboo action’, 8 Nov 2011, article by Faris Mokhtar in sg yahoo news. A recent survey by the Singapore unit of multinational U.S. toy company Hasbro found that 63 per cent of Singaporean respondents said jaywalking is a taboo action they are most guilty of. Other top taboo actions [...]

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Bedok Reservoir prayer session ‘kind of dramatised’

Posted on November 7, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Reservoir deaths and media responsibility’, 7 Nov 2011, article by Ong Dai Lin, Today With the spate of deaths at Bedok Reservoir over the past five months, the media coverage of these incidents has come under the spotlight. Some residents living near the reservoir told Today that they were concerned about copycat behaviour arising [...]

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Victoria Theatre like funeral parlour

Posted on July 23, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Old seats look like coffins’, 23 July 2011, Life!mailbag, ST (Chua Thian Yee): I would like to share my view on the use of the timber-moulded backs of the Victoria Theatre’s old wooden seats as feature walls….It looks to me like coffins stacked together. Please do not use this design and turn Victoria Theatre [...]

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Bukit Brown waist-high in lallang

Posted on June 11, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘盛港组屋景观设计看上去像坟墓　入夜后居民觉得阴森’, 11 June 2011, article in omy.sg (SM Daily) 《新明日报》日前报道，宏茂桥3道第587座组屋，出现了一个外观似坟墓的瞭望台设施，让居民心里发毛，甚至担心不吉利。 报道刊登后，住在盛港安谷连路第304B座组屋的居民也拨电通知本报，说他们的住家楼下也有像坟墓的设计。那是一个“船锚”形状的景观设计，因为该区的英文名字Anchorvale里的Anchor，就是船锚的意思。 居民庄女士（48岁，小贩）说，她住在该区5年，一开始搬去就觉得“看了不舒服”，但由于没有影响生活，所以也就没有去反应。 Translation: Residents in Anchorvale and Ang Mo Kio are getting spooked by structures in their estates resembling tombs and gravestones, hence inauspicious and portending bad luck. These are probably the same folk who would lie in coffins to erase their bad karma, [...]

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Playing dead sucks out bad karma

Posted on June 2, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Bad karma?Lying in coffin won’t help’, 2 June 2011, ST Forum and ‘Singaporeans go to ‘die’ in Thai temple’, 2 June 2011, article in insing.com translated from SM Daily. (Venerable Seck Kwang Phing ): I REFER to Monday’s report (”Dying’ to live again’). According to Buddhism, one can mitigate the influence of bad karma [...]

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MP Vikram Nair drinking blood water

Posted on May 21, 2011 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Water tank could be closed down’, 21 May 2011, article by Kimberly Spykerman, ST and ‘Maid in water tank case:MP drinks tap water to prove safety’, 20 May 2011, article in asiaone.com An Indonesian maid’s body had been found in one of the block’s rooftop water tanks on Monday. Since then, residents have been [...]

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