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Ways to buy an HDB flat before 35 (when you’re single)

1) Kill your parents (orphans can buy HDB flats at 21) 2) Marry someone who is terminally ill (widows can similarly buy HDB flats at 21; bonus: claim life insurance!) Otherwise, to be a homeowner, you’re going to be: 1) Really rich to buy private property. 2) Move overseas where the cost of living is [...]
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AWARE EGM

For the record: For those who think that the new exco weren’t given a chance to speak, you are WRONG. They had plenty of chances and even better microphones than the ones on the floor. When people ask them question, they only go around and around in circles, telling old grandmother stories or deferred to [...]
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AWARE website back on: Join as member now!

So you can now sign up as a member! If you care about the future direction of a major women’s advocacy group, please join now. It is not out of your means to stop a hostile takeover by a group with hidden agendas!!
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Fundies in Singapore take over Women’s Group

This is fucking disturbing. Fundamentalist agenda takes over! Unknowns knock out veterans at Aware polls Caught off-guard by big turnout, longtime members lose to fresh faces By Wong Kim Hoh SINGAPORE’S best-known women’s group, the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware), has seen a dramatic changing of the guard – which some members [...]
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The news

Sometimes, I really what is wrong with these people in government. Why do they miss all the points? It’s as though they live on some other plane of reality. Is it a problem of people who seek power? Is it the audacity of those who know they have power and wield it over others? Why [...]
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Companies whose customer service sucks.

This is happening more and more often to me too. The young woman was itemising my bread purchases at a bakery, when her colleague interrupted her to ask, in Mandarin, “What is twelve?” “Twelve… er…” said the first worker, clearly not knowing the answer. They turned to me. “How do you say twelve in English?” [...]
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Changes

I was considering how I had changed. Some things I came up with: Makeup, heels, jewellery, hair rebonding, contact lenses Previously, I was against these “girly things”. Found them to be stupid, pointless, etc. I’ve relaxed these days of course, but still use these sparingly. I still don’t want to colour my hair or tattoo [...]
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NDP Rally Drinking Game

As we all know the media acts like a broken record throughout the year rolling out the same old catch phrases like racial harmony this and foreign talent that. And it’s fairly predictable what will be mentioned in the NDP Rally (or as Chris says “how we must maintain our multi-national heritage, bridge the poor-rich [...]
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Transcript of Lees vs Chees

To sum up: Chee: [Asks a question] Singh (the lawyer): Objection! Judge: Sustained. OR Chee: [Asks a question] Judge: The question is disallowed. Tragicomedy. >_> Transcript excerpts of Lees vs Chees Transcript part ll : CSJ vs LKY Transcript part lll : CSJ vs LKY Transcript part lV : CSJ vs LKY Transcript part V [...]
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Shitty Times strikes again

I was reading this Yawning Bread essay about something the SG attorney-general said. *shakes head*
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