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Category Archives: Commentary
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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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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