Finally! We are back to using Hawker Centre!

 

OK, I'm not into precision at 2 decimal places when it comes to numbers, but when it comes to words...

LOL!

Quite a few years back, I was lamenting at this blog on the use of Market and Food Centre when naming our hawker centres!?

I mean why use a word so "generic" and "bland"?

I suspect someone deep down has a complex... Hawker so shameful meh? Why deny our heritage? 

Finally!

Someone got the memo it seems.

You can't on one hand talk about keeping our Hawker Culture alive, and on the other hand, deny our shared heritage...

Thumbs up to whoever decided to bring back the use of Hawker Centre!

I hope it doesn't stop at our Margaret Drive Hawker Centre. Wink.

I Don't Feel The Pain Of Inflation Anymore?

 

SF Fed President Mary Daly: "I Don't Feel the Pain of Inflation Anymore."

I know, I know.

I'm on the Earn More camp, but even I cringed upon reading what that SF Fed President said too!

How can she make my humble "I have enough" sound so arrogant and so insensitive!?

Those of you older ones may remember this similar incidence in Singapore during the 2009 GFC:

Tan Yong Soon Rapped By His Boss For Insensitivity

Who knows?

Maybe one day FIRE will be out-of-fashion, and it gets replaced by WHEN can we reach our INFLATION PAIN FREE stage?

How much in dollars? 

Well, as a start, it would be around SGD $450K annual income - doesn't matter whether its active or passive.

If passive, even better of course!

You know why there's a bit of schadenfreude from the general public when cryptos crashed?

That's because of those insensitive crypto "millionaire" influencers who mocked those who didn't follow them, "Have fun being poor!"

Wait.

I'm looking into the mirror now.

There's a reason why the general public also cannot stand the FIRE community too. Wink.

Intermittent Slowness? Remember Ponding?

 

You smart; others not stupid.

The problem is you "think" you smart...

Look, there is a time for euphemisms, and there's a time for telling it like it is.

Land owners and alpha shepherds have no need to hide behind sugar-coated words. 

The wise ones often encourage straight talking from their underlings. 

If we punish messengers of bad news, then no one will tell us the truth!

Until its too late...

You can see how communist China behaved during the first SARs outbreak and this Wuhan virus pandemic.

 

I don't think Singapore is anywhere near that bad.

Unfortunately, it seems the lessons from the "ponding" incident have been forgotten...

Service recovery anyone?

Any old fogeys here remember the big fumble by Coca Cola during 1985?

Management replaced Coke with "New Coke"; the public revolted.

The red-faced management was forced to bring back the original formula back within months.

Paradoxically, this quick about-face actually helped boost Coke's credibility!?

Accountability really helps when you own up to it!

The recovery was so "brilliant" that some even "suspect" Coke engineered the whole thing to increase sales!!!

I hope when big daddy looked into this incident, they would "encourage" their own vested interest to tell it like it is.

Like how they "encouraged" and "educated" their civil servants many years back.

"If its a flood, say its a flood. What's with the ponding? Who's kidding who?"

I'm not vested in DBS.

But I'm very vested as a Singaporean citizen and consumer.

We can do better.

First World Overhead Pedestrian Bridges

Got to give credit when credit is due.



A few years back, big daddy installed lifts to the overhead pedestrian bridges near the Singapore General Hospital and Queenstown Polyclinic.

That made it a lot elderly and wheelchair friendly to those who use public transport to attend their medical appointments. 

Thumbs up!

I thought that's that. 

I mean those who had installed private lifts in their own multi-storey landed properties would know how expensive installing lifts are. 



Was pleasantly surprised to notice on roads from Jalan Bukit Merah, Queensway, Alexandra Road (towards Ganges Ave stretch), big daddy is currently installing lifts to most overhead pedestrian bridges!?

Of course this is not new. All our MRT stations have lifts. But imagine if we install lifts to most of our overhead pedestrin bridges island wide?

Now that's first world infrastructure or what!?



Compared to our friends in other countries - they pay tax, we pay tax same same - but over here, we get to enjoy the "fruits" of our contributions!

I'm grateful as I'm part of the rapidly aging generation.