Stories you might’ve missed, Feb 8
Maid wants to tag along for employer’s family holiday, but too expensive for employer to afford, asks what they can do to convince her
Newly arrived domestic helpers from Indonesia wait for their transportation to a maid agency after going through medical check in Singapore on March 6, 2012. Singapore's decision to grant a mandatory weekly day off for foreign maids was welcomed by social workers and human rights groups, but some employers were unhappy. AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)[/caption]
Woman from Kovan tells Tan Chuan-Jin ‘I met you even before you were born!’
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SINGAPORE — Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin recently shared a nostalgic moment on social media after a resident told him she had “met” him while he was still in his mother’s womb. Mr Tan took to Facebook on Monday (Feb 6) to share a unique moment he had with a resident, beginning his post with a statement one doesn’t hear every day from Singaporean residents. “I met you even before you were born!”
He shared that the resident was from Kovan. “A resident from Kovan came to see me at MPS on some concerns,” he shared. “Turned out that she was my mum’s student and ‘met’ me while I was still a baby bump in mum’s tummy when she was teaching in Willow Avenue Secondary School!”
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‘How is this $5?’ — Customer asks after receiving kuey teow goreng with no egg or mutton
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SINGAPORE — A disappointed diner took to social media to post a picture and video of kuey teow goreng she ordered from a coffee shop, writing for the price she paid, she got “absolutely nothing.”
“How is this $5? absolutely nothing in this kuey teow goreng. i requested for mutton and one sunny side up egg and this is what i got,” wrote Ms Puteri Nur Natasha in a post on the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE Facebook page on Tuesday (Feb 7).
Read more here...KF Seetoh on plastic bag charge in supermarkets: ‘Just ban plastic bags & styrofoam… not everything can be cured by punishing the wallet’
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SINGAPORE — In response to a Bill in Parliament to make a plastic bag charge at supermarkets compulsory, food guru KF Seetoh wrote, “Just ban plastic bags and styrofoam will ya.”
The Makansutra founder added in a Facebook post on Tuesday (Feb 7), “Why suggest charging people for such things at supermarts at the expense of our climate and a younger generation’s future environment. so many places, and less squeaky pristine nations and cities have already done so.”
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Toa Payoh resident says upstairs neighbour pours urine from bedroom window every morning between 5 to 6 am
Photo: FB screengrab/ COMPLAINT SINGAPORE[/caption]
SINGAPORE — A man took to social media to complain about one of his neighbours at Toa Payoh, whom he claims pours urine from his bedroom window in the early hours each morning. The neighbour allegedly also throws “cigarette butts, kotex, tissue papers, and food waste,” wrote Mr Valiant Khong on the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE Facebook page on Tuesday (Feb 8).
He said in this post that little children live around the vicinity and expressed concerns over hygiene and health issues. “Singapore, my homeland, our 1st world country in the world, should stop all these culprits from committing the same offences,” he added. “Our government, when our founding father was around, authorities are harsh on high rise littering. But what happen now???? I urged our Authorities to do something,” Mr Khong wrote.