Morning Digest, Oct 29
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Morning Digest, Oct 29

Nick Karean
By Nick Karean
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ICA officer raises awareness on scams, but netizens focus on his $8K watch: ‘Are civil servants too free & overpaid?’

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A video of an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer entertaining a scam call to raise public awareness struck a different cord on netizens, who wondered if civil servants were too free and overpaid to afford expensive watches. “The day has come,” wrote ICA in a post on Oct 25, featuring ASP Kelvin responding to a scam call from a scammer claiming to be from ICA. ASP Kelvin entertained the scammer’s modus operandi for nearly a minute before asking if he could meet the person behind the line. Read more here...
 

33yo guy with girlfriend for 3 years pays for her meals, dates, transport to work, even her school fees; yet she berates him for being useless

  [caption id="attachment_455065" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Photo: wavebreakmedia_micro/ Freepik (for illustration purposes only)[/caption] A 33-year-old man who felt that he was stuck in an awful relationship and just wanted a place to rant took to social media to complain about his situation. In an anonymous Facebook post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the man wrote that he had been with his girlfriend for three years. He added that over the years, his girlfriend’s sense of entitlement has grown and her independence dipped. Read more here...

Jamus Lim shares photo-video slideshow of Anchorvale hiking tour to Jeju, hopes friendship born during the trip will remain strong

 
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 “Our time on earth is frequently about the connections we make,” wrote Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim as he shared photos and short video clips of the recent Anchorvale hiking tour to Jeju Island over Facebook and Instagram.

The trip to Korea ended last Friday (Oct 23), but the Sengkang GRC Member of Parliament says he hopes that the friendships that were made while on the trip will remain strong.

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Singaporean man slaps, molests & masturbates in front of female colleagues

 

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A 32-year-old Singaporean man has been sentenced to six months and six weeks in jail after he molested and slapped two young female colleagues on different occasions, and even masturbated in front of one of the young women. Both victims are 21 years old and cannot be named due to court-mandated gag orders to protect their identities. Read more here...
 

‘Where’s the effort?’ — Netizens ask after SG Mister International candidate wears national costume of shorts, boots and crumpled flag

 
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Although some people may think that beauty pageants belong in the past, there are still many who compete and follow them avidly, for contests that involve both women and men. One upcoming pageant is the Mister International competition, scheduled for Oct 30 (Sunday) in Manila, Philippines.

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The national costumes of some of the candidates were recently featured on the competition’s official Instagram page, and Mister Singapore’s costume raised more than a few eyebrows. Mister Singapore, Sean Nicholas Sutiono, can be seen in black army shorts and shoes, holding the flag of Singapore behind him.

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