Snippets of Singapore's Life
Sharing some sights of Singapore as the game feels very monotonous to me. To start off, this is a Peking opera I watch over the weekend. The stunt work of the Monkey King was impressive. http...
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This is the logo of our National Day Parade (NDP) on 9 Aug. It will be our 55th birthday. This year the celebration will be scaled down without physical gathering of audience. Previously, it would be held in a stadium or a field with ticketed audience
https://i.imgur.com/EcyCHF7.jpg
Today I just collected a NDP goodie bag. Each household is given one. Previously only ticketed audience of the NDP are given a goodie bag. With this goodie bag, I would have so many reusable masks. But I am still using my first free mask. It is the thickest and quite warm. Other items given is a thermometer and hand sanitizer. Some temp tattoos and stickers. I also opted to receive a free flag. Our corridors has two pre drilled hook for residents to hang the flags during the NDP period.
The Singapore flag has the following meaning
Red stands for universal brotherhood and equality of man. White symbolises pervading and everlasting purity and virtue.
The crescent moon represents a young nation on the ascendant, and the five stars depict Singapore's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
https://i.imgur.com/ZcKMkSw.jpg
This is the design of my goodie bag. There are multiple designs by Primary 5 students and disabled artists. Mine was done by a cerebral palsy artist. I think it reminded me of Mr. Hanky of South park. I think my precinct got such a design as my MP is quite a junior one.
https://i.imgur.com/eK4HFL5.jpg
My friend received this better designed bag. He has a senior MP serving the precinct. This design was also used for the news reporting.
https://i.imgur.com/NFUL1UJ.jpg
Another design from another friend.
https://i.imgur.com/VSJlE9q.jpg
In every Saturday mornings in Jul, I was awoken up by roaring jets doing their rehearsals for the NDP. This year, they will fly the jets all over the island. These are F15SG. The defence ministry has also purchased 4 F-35B, the one that could take off vertically and will have an option to get 8 more. Guess they will be evaluating the purchase before deciding whether to do a bulk purchase to replace the ageing F16. The F-35B has not been delivered yet. With so much money spent battling the Covid-19, I got a feeling they will not exercise the option to buy 8 more.
https://i.imgur.com/5lKolq1.jpg
State flag flown by Chinook and accompanied by 2 Apaches.
https://i.imgur.com/VsHsRMI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MjyBEC7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NzPTHHE.jpg
Meanwhile, our National library board removed a children's book from the libraries for review after a parent posted a complaint in social media. She said that the book is racist. Some Netizens have researched and claimed that the author is an educator from China. Looks like the movement from the west has influenced our small island.
A 50 year old Malay man was sentenced to 32 years in jail and 24 strokes of caning for sexual assaults on two 14 year old girls by luring them into his flats by threats. But due to his certified spine medical conditions, he will get one more year in lieu of caning. The man has sexual offences on four teenagers and was jailed 4.5 years previously. The man created disturbance in two court sessions by urinating and defecating and smearing on the glass panels in the dock.
https://i.imgur.com/CC2dUYm.jpg
Three teenagers, consisting of an 18 year old boy, a 16 and 13 year old girls, openly vaped in the MRT and posted a video clip of their act in social media. Vaping is illegal here and also smoking is not allowed in MRT. They were identified and the boy was fined 500 SGD. The 16 year old girl was fined 200 SGD and given a conditional warning. The 13 year old was given a conditional warning. Conditional warnings require them to complete a community rehabilitative programme and to stay crime-free for a period of 12 months. Should they re-offend during the 12-month period, they can be prosecuted in court.
Personally I feel they should be punished more.
https://i.imgur.com/bKzpclB.jpg
A Chinese dentistry university student tried to strangle his ex girlfriend until she blacked out and used his thumb to press on her eye until it resulted in blur vision and took five months to heal.
The perp was given a short detention order for 12 days which means to spend 12 days in prison. He was also given a day reporting order for five months, whereby offenders have to report to a centre for monitoring and counselling as well as undergo rehabilitation. He also needs to complete 80 hours of community service over a year.
Community-based sentences are non-jail sentences introduced in 2010, which give the courts more options in sentencing criminals for minor offences so that the punishment fits the offence better. Offenders will retain no criminal records for the offence if the sentence is successfully completed.
Some people in the community were not happy with the sentencing. This is not the first time a seemingly educated perp was given a slap on the wrist because they were still deemed to be useful citizens in future. The Law Minister has spoken and said they would review the bearings of education on sentencing and that the Judge is not at fault, but rather, this is a policy matter.
https://i.imgur.com/KwA8leb.jpg
In Dec 2018, there was an altercation between a Chinese British National cycling on the road and a Chinese lorry driver. The cyclist occupied the middle of the road and was being horned by the lorry, he proceeded to smash the side mirror of the lorry. Lorry driver reacted by swerving the lorry to side of the cyclist and causing him to fall and rolled over the grass patch. Further altercations occurred between driver and cyclist, accumulating in cyclist smashing the handphone of the lorry driver.
Generally in this case, most people sided with the lorry driver and was unhappy with the cyclist.
Cyclist was fined S$2,800 in April 2018 for mischief and for not cycling in an orderly and careful manner as required under traffic regulations. Netizens created a petition to appeal on the sentencing of the lorry driver.
The appeal of the Lorry driver was eventually rejected and he was sentenced to 7 weeks jail, given a fine of $500, and suspended from driving for two years.
Generally, road users dislike these hot tempered cyclists on our roads and holding up traffic. They generally tend to be professional and many are expatriates.
A video of the altercation can be seen here
https://youtu.be/aQtWvwdgICg
https://i.imgur.com/YC4jTT4.jpg
Back in UK, someone is very angry with Dyson for setting up a plant in Singapore, assuming that we are in China and have human rights issue like child labour.
https://i.imgur.com/z5q2VZx.jpg
The Longnan fruit is in season at moment. Longnan means dragon eyes. Sweet and succulent. Some people mistook lychee and Longnan for the same thing but they are different
This is the logo of our National Day Parade (NDP) on 9 Aug. It will be our 55th birthday. This year the celebration will be scaled down without physical gathering of audience. Previously, it would be held in a stadium or a field with ticketed audience
https://i.imgur.com/EcyCHF7.jpg
Today I just collected a NDP goodie bag. Each household is given one. Previously only ticketed audience of the NDP are given a goodie bag. With this goodie bag, I would have so many reusable masks. But I am still using my first free mask. It is the thickest and quite warm. Other items given is a thermometer and hand sanitizer. Some temp tattoos and stickers. I also opted to receive a free flag. Our corridors has two pre drilled hook for residents to hang the flags during the NDP period.
The Singapore flag has the following meaning
Red stands for universal brotherhood and equality of man. White symbolises pervading and everlasting purity and virtue.
The crescent moon represents a young nation on the ascendant, and the five stars depict Singapore's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
https://i.imgur.com/ZcKMkSw.jpg
This is the design of my goodie bag. There are multiple designs by Primary 5 students and disabled artists. Mine was done by a cerebral palsy artist. I think it reminded me of Mr. Hanky of South park. I think my precinct got such a design as my MP is quite a junior one.
https://i.imgur.com/eK4HFL5.jpg
My friend received this better designed bag. He has a senior MP serving the precinct. This design was also used for the news reporting.
https://i.imgur.com/NFUL1UJ.jpg
Another design from another friend.
https://i.imgur.com/VSJlE9q.jpg
In every Saturday mornings in Jul, I was awoken up by roaring jets doing their rehearsals for the NDP. This year, they will fly the jets all over the island. These are F15SG. The defence ministry has also purchased 4 F-35B, the one that could take off vertically and will have an option to get 8 more. Guess they will be evaluating the purchase before deciding whether to do a bulk purchase to replace the ageing F16. The F-35B has not been delivered yet. With so much money spent battling the Covid-19, I got a feeling they will not exercise the option to buy 8 more.
https://i.imgur.com/5lKolq1.jpg
State flag flown by Chinook and accompanied by 2 Apaches.
https://i.imgur.com/VsHsRMI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MjyBEC7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NzPTHHE.jpg
Meanwhile, our National library board removed a children's book from the libraries for review after a parent posted a complaint in social media. She said that the book is racist. Some Netizens have researched and claimed that the author is an educator from China. Looks like the movement from the west has influenced our small island.
A 50 year old Malay man was sentenced to 32 years in jail and 24 strokes of caning for sexual assaults on two 14 year old girls by luring them into his flats by threats. But due to his certified spine medical conditions, he will get one more year in lieu of caning. The man has sexual offences on four teenagers and was jailed 4.5 years previously. The man created disturbance in two court sessions by urinating and defecating and smearing on the glass panels in the dock.
https://i.imgur.com/CC2dUYm.jpg
Three teenagers, consisting of an 18 year old boy, a 16 and 13 year old girls, openly vaped in the MRT and posted a video clip of their act in social media. Vaping is illegal here and also smoking is not allowed in MRT. They were identified and the boy was fined 500 SGD. The 16 year old girl was fined 200 SGD and given a conditional warning. The 13 year old was given a conditional warning. Conditional warnings require them to complete a community rehabilitative programme and to stay crime-free for a period of 12 months. Should they re-offend during the 12-month period, they can be prosecuted in court.
Personally I feel they should be punished more.
https://i.imgur.com/bKzpclB.jpg
A Chinese dentistry university student tried to strangle his ex girlfriend until she blacked out and used his thumb to press on her eye until it resulted in blur vision and took five months to heal.
The perp was given a short detention order for 12 days which means to spend 12 days in prison. He was also given a day reporting order for five months, whereby offenders have to report to a centre for monitoring and counselling as well as undergo rehabilitation. He also needs to complete 80 hours of community service over a year.
Community-based sentences are non-jail sentences introduced in 2010, which give the courts more options in sentencing criminals for minor offences so that the punishment fits the offence better. Offenders will retain no criminal records for the offence if the sentence is successfully completed.
Some people in the community were not happy with the sentencing. This is not the first time a seemingly educated perp was given a slap on the wrist because they were still deemed to be useful citizens in future. The Law Minister has spoken and said they would review the bearings of education on sentencing and that the Judge is not at fault, but rather, this is a policy matter.
https://i.imgur.com/KwA8leb.jpg
In Dec 2018, there was an altercation between a Chinese British National cycling on the road and a Chinese lorry driver. The cyclist occupied the middle of the road and was being horned by the lorry, he proceeded to smash the side mirror of the lorry. Lorry driver reacted by swerving the lorry to side of the cyclist and causing him to fall and rolled over the grass patch. Further altercations occurred between driver and cyclist, accumulating in cyclist smashing the handphone of the lorry driver.
Generally in this case, most people sided with the lorry driver and was unhappy with the cyclist.
Cyclist was fined S$2,800 in April 2018 for mischief and for not cycling in an orderly and careful manner as required under traffic regulations. Netizens created a petition to appeal on the sentencing of the lorry driver.
The appeal of the Lorry driver was eventually rejected and he was sentenced to 7 weeks jail, given a fine of $500, and suspended from driving for two years.
Generally, road users dislike these hot tempered cyclists on our roads and holding up traffic. They generally tend to be professional and many are expatriates.
A video of the altercation can be seen here
https://youtu.be/aQtWvwdgICg
https://i.imgur.com/YC4jTT4.jpg
Back in UK, someone is very angry with Dyson for setting up a plant in Singapore, assuming that we are in China and have human rights issue like child labour.
https://i.imgur.com/z5q2VZx.jpg
The Longnan fruit is in season at moment. Longnan means dragon eyes. Sweet and succulent. Some people mistook lychee and Longnan for the same thing but they are different
