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Author Archives: Alvin T.
Going Round In Circles
The Circle Line (CC-Line/ Orange Line) is the newest fully operational line for train services. However, it being the spanking new line, has made headlines for all the wrong reasons – Failing repeatedly, is the cause for much angst & frustration for the dwellers of this island city Continue reading
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Tagged breakdown, buy out, cc line, circle line, delays, desmond kuek, disruption, fail, mrt, outage, penny wise, pound foolish, service, service disruption, singapore, smrt, temasek
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Gas! Gas! Gas!
Once again, the haze is back, and this time, with a vengeance. Word has it that there were satellite imaging of larger scale arson & deforestation, with a lot more hot spots across Indonesia, as opposed to past years. Needless … Continue reading
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Tagged annual, arson, business, carbon emission, CEO, commerce, culprits, deforestation, desert, development, dollars and cents, economy, el-nino, environment, escalating, facilities, forest fire, forestry, global warming, globalization, hazard, haze, health, indonesia, indonesia government, kalimantan, land acquisition, light a match, MNC, multinational companies, N95, N95 mask, NEA, penalties, PM2.5, PSI, regional, scape goat, SGhaze, singapore, solution, sumatra, trans territory, unhealthy, untouched
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Speculation Escalation of the Impending General Election
It has been some months since I last made my entry, notably, the latest being an entry dedicated towards a man who some affectionately refer to as a founding father of modern Singapore. His era is past, while the island … Continue reading
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Tagged 1965, 1965-2015, 2015, 50, 50 years, 99 year lease, air flown, blue collar, BTO, built to order, bus fleet, by-product, cabinet, carriageways, catamarans, climate change, commodity, commuting, costly, crops, dignified employment, dispensable, displaced workers, employment, enlarge, environment, environment engineering, expendable, fertilize, food and water supply, ge2015, general election, HDB, higher prices, hire and fire, home owners, home ownership, housing debt, housing loan, imports, infrastructure, jetties, jobs, land scarce, limitation, livelihood, malaysia, minister, ministers, ministries, ministry, mrt breakdown, national day, ndp 2015, ndp party, ndp party zones, overhead, parliament, policies, policy, policy makers, potable water, professions, public housing, recycle, reduce, refinance, regional, reservoir, reuse, roof over the head, salaries, salary, scarcity, sg50, singapore, skills, skills upgrading, stagnant wages, subterranean, supply and demand, supply vs demand, time taking, traffic congestion, traffic control, traffic lights, transportation, unreliable, up-cycle, vessels, wages, walk in selection, waste management, water, water catchment, water desalination, water source, waterway, wharfs, white collar, widen, yield
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Keep Talking~ Keep Talking
To all my followers & readers, I’ve to apologize for my long hiatus in lieu of my swarmed schedule, but I trust that you’ve had some good insights on my food & journeying blogs, that I’ve been updating a little … Continue reading
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Tagged canvasinglight, countries, developing, disaster relief, electricity, energy conservation, energy consumption, hack, high voltage, lighter, regeneration, solution, spark, tips, tricks, underdeveloped
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Is There Time For U-TURN?
In primary school science, we learn that dark colors attract heat, light colors reflect heat. At the rate that things are going, the ice caps melt a lot faster, producing a lot more water in the ocean, reducing shorelines, and … Continue reading
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Tagged antartic, arctic, black, climate change, dark, effects of global warming, el-nino, environment, freak weather, global warming, global warming effects, greenhouse, heat wave, ice caps, icebergs, light, manmade, north pole, physics, primary school science, reflect heat, south pole, white, white roof
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Temperature Rising like El Niño
It’s already 2014 and we’re no stranger to nature’s phenomenon called El Niño. The major shifts of climate patterns leave everyone in the limbo, and to expect the unexpected. Over the centuries of human defiling nature & taking things for … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, algae, carbon emission, climate change, climate patterns, coral bleeching, crops, diminishing, drought, economics, el-nino, exponential, food supplies, freak weather, Freak weather patterns, global warming, greenhouse, greenhouse gasses, heat, humid, humidity, ice caps, icebergs, inflation, jobless, melting, methane, ozone, permafrost, temperature, water level, weather, weather pattern
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Canvasing Light 
Downtown Line 3 or Downtime Line 3?
… in recent weeks, we’ve seen splashed across mainstream media & social media, the embarrassing situation of service downtime for some stretches of the spanking new Downtown Line 3, during their recent open house.
And then, over the weekend, we read there was a case of train fault, and they had to take that particular train back to the service depot… Continue reading →
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