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f**king horrible service from Car Lite Singapore Pte Ltd. Made a booking Mitsubishi Lancer Ex from 10/02/2023 - 12/02/2023, reach earlier prior to booking time to my shock car was so badly damaged, bumper falling off and external all scratches. No choice cancelled this booking and was stuck at the carpark for 1.5 hour plus with Evan and his friend just to see if I can book another replacement vehicle. Ended up called there customer service to complain and was told the only available car was either a van or Mazada 3. It was already so late no choice I had to just rebook and make do with this Mazada 3 which was also so cui. Bumper also coming off and so many scratches. Returned the car on 12/02/2023 way earlier to my end trip booking timing, but untill now my intitial deposit of $100 for the vehicle and my wallet balance still isn't refunded to me because they charging us for damages?! But it isn't even caused by me. P.S Just look at their website photos, car all looks so nice but in actual when you borrow the car is totally different.

Recently theres a guy who complain a certain airline for not supportive enough to let hia family to sit together on a flight back to sg. And he blame the airline for making him queue and thus got his poor kid's fever to worsen. He seems to like to blame and blame... Anyway just wondering is this a norm of our new generations or perhaps its just me who thinks this guy is full of self entitlement and is just about me and me and me ah

Interesting article: http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/why-everyone-mean-and-stupid-and-getting-worse

I have read in an Australia report that the new Jazz is LESS economical than the old Jazz due to heavier weight. Just wondering if those who own both Jazz models find this true? The old one hits 14-15km/l easy on auto. Latest one I have read is abt 13km/l or worse. "Further, the higher revs (which you need because the new model also put on 45 kilograms, making the Jazz the heaviest among its peers) tend to blunt fuel economy. The previous Jazz was a fuel miser but the consumption of the new model has lost this advantage and consumption is now on par with its peers. We averaged about 10 L/100 km around town, and about 7 L/100 km on the open road." http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleD...mparisonID=1609 Hope to hear fm you.... :)

what do you think?? 1. as a business owner, you should take all the criticism and improve on it. 2. as a so-call social media consultant (wtf do these people do?), should watch what they write (words used) even if they have negative feedback.

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The PSLE system has been around for quite a while and many of us went through this gruelling stage in the early part of our lives to determine where we are heading in our minor-league rat race. So any tinkering or modification to it must be handled with extreme care after a rigorous and comprehensive review by experts. From ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-...-worse-20121122 PSLE: Don't change for the worse Published on Nov 22, 2012 I AM not certain what the advocates for changes to the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) want, or what the decision to stop naming the top scorers means ("MOE stops naming top students"; yesterday). The system has worked well, and offers a fair and transparent way to allow the most academically inclined pupils to have their pick of secondary schools. The message is clear: To qualify for the school of your choice, you must work for it. Fight for your place if you believe that the school you want is relevant to your ambition and can provide the education you desire. Work harder if the school has a higher cut-off point, or ease up if it has a lower cut-off. Parents must learn to accept that perhaps their children are destined for other paths to success, and help them realise their potential. It is not a recent development that renowned schools like Raffles Institution, Hwa Chong Institution, Anglo-Chinese School and National Junior College have dominated scholarship lists, and produced outstanding graduates in top universities like Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. Demand for places in these schools will certainly outstrip supply; these schools have the pick of the best candidates who will benefit the most from their programmes. To enable children to get into their desired schools through a relaxation of the criteria is a travesty of meritocracy, akin to telling Cambridge and Harvard not to offer places to the brightest, and multinational corporations not to select the best. Have our children become so sheltered that their parents are not prepared to let them fight and compete for something worth their while? How long can we shield our children from the harsh realities of life? The sooner they learn to accept life's simple truths, the better for them. Resilience, adaptability and competitiveness are hallmarks of success. These are the qualities that will stand our children in good stead as they progress in life, and not to have what they want handed to them with less effort. The Government should not swing to the other extreme and possibly dumb down the education system, as Britain has found to its cost. In Singapore's case, the damage might be irreparable. Ang Peng Seong

have you guys heard about this yet? Korean guy hopes all Japanese ppl dead by Massive Earthquake http://blog.livedoor.jp/ninzya5/archives/51678163.html

anyone can give advise as i am thinking of buying golf GTI thanks

http://biggeekdad.com/2011/10/golfer-without-hands/ be encourage yes you can

I totally agree after reading this story http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...125-312611.html

Worst movie recently - Black swan Best horror - The Ring Most gross - Battle Royale Most thinking - Memento Best alien show in recent years - Clover field

Women worse at parking than men You can now stop squabbling over whether women park cars better than men. According to a German study, women are slower and less accurate than men at parking, confirming the suspicions of many male motorists out there. According to the study, female drivers take an average of 20 seconds longer than male drivers to park their cars. Even so, their cars are more likely to be crooked than not, Telegraph reported. 65 people were asked to park an Audi A6 family saloon in a standard parking lot. Drivers' manoeuvres, including head-on, reverse and paralle parking, were timed and rated for accuracy according to how far they kept the vehicle from the edges of the bay. Researchers had expected the women volunteers to be slower in parking, Telegraph reported. But they were surprised that the "cautious approach" did not produce a tidier result. Dr Claudi Wolf from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, who led the study, said that the research confirmed previous findings that men have better spatial awareness and coordination than women. Men also take more risks behind the wheel, she added. She said: "These prejudices exist and as a scientist I decided the find out if they are true or based on myth," she told the Mail. "I don't think that feminism or the cause of women is in any way set back by these findings," the researcher qualified. "It only proves what previous studies about the spatial differences between men and women have shown." "Besides, it is not as if there was a massive failing by women. It is just about parking - not the triumph of men over women."

For your inspiration, in case need it. http://www.automechanicschools.net/blog/40...#0_undefined,0_

All forms of discrimination are bad. But which form is the least accepted in our society discriminate against gender, fat people, skin colour, religion, nationality, smelly people, poor people etc...

Hi guys, Most of us driving will encounter taxi everyday. which companies have the worse fleet of drivers around. for me personally i feel now the red is the worse.

ok.. say ur gf left you for someone else. Which is worse for you? 1. She left for another guy. 2. She left to be with a girl. (turned les)

Within 3months... Kana fine $150 n 6 demerit points for speeding @ 91km/h in a van on PIE. Then had an accident 100% fault. Then $200 fine + 6 demerit points for the accident. Haiz... Things couldn't get any better... $ flying away freely... Pui. Blame who but myself... Well u know some days r good... Some days r bad.... Some days pass without u knowing.... Somedays are full of regret.... Somedays are just... Well.... Makes u feel really terrible n sian... Today... After a terrible morning... And also afternoon.... I was making a u-turn n couldn't make it so had to reverse... I did the turn slowly but still failed. Guess my 'slowness' pissed the car behind... So when I stopped to reverse the car behind honk many times... Like that agressive type of honking telling me what an idiot I am... So I reversed a little n made my turn n went on my way slowly... I was already so pai say... So just forget it lah... But when the proton satria neo passed me, STARE at me... So I honk 3times back... I in my lane he in his lane... WAH... He buay song... Cut into my lane n stopped... Got out of his car n walked to me... While I wind down my window... Then he shout at me "why? Horn what?"... Then I ask back "u stare what?... Just now u honk wat?" he say he honk to warn me I reverse into him. I said u honk so aggressively before I reverse. Juz tap I will know I not blind. He say he honk is to warn me and I honk him why? Not happy is it?.... So I said u stare at me that's why I honk u... U stare f--k? Then he ask me why cannot stare ah f--k... So I said I cannot honk ah? I honk u ah? Then he repeat u not happy is it?So I damn fed up liao I wore both my shoes and got out of my car n walk towards him and ask him "now what u want? U want to fight here like an idiot is it?".... By then already got on lookers n I so malu sia.... Then he point to the police station n ask me want to go there anot? Knn??? I said u the one stop me like u some gangster n now u ask me go police station... U damn malu sia.... (btw he's a malay in his forties I guess... I'm a chinese... Hence I guess tats why I said the malu n sia here n there...) So I walked back to my car... Cause got abit of jam we caused... And we parted ways like so no problem... Bloody embarrassing encounter.... Was hopping won't kanna stomp or you tube.... Then while driving to my next destination... Felt really terrible. The kind of terrible like i've disappointed my mum type. Like don't what she did to have such a son. I can imagine how she would react if she was at the scene. I don't wanna picture it to much.... Haiz haiz haiz.... What a shitty day....

having your new car being knocked by a reversing car ? answer on next post ...

Auto gearboxes has advanced a lot since its beginning. Some in fact have same or even better fuel efficiency ratings then their manual counterparts. But when put to practical use, auto gearboxes always have worse fuel efficiencies den the manual counterpart. Why? I feel its the driver. Driving a manual forces the driver to look further ahead, brake less, anticipate lights better because of the troublesome need to change gear if they do not pay attention. Auto drivers don't really has this extra incentive to keep a lookout for situations like these and thus step on the accelerator and brakes more often. Watcha think?

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...parked_car.html i think that guy really wrong place wrong time

Hi all, I understand most of the bros and sistas here have wend down to various Brands to Test Drives and Enquire bout cars. so Which brands you feel have the worse SE. for me the hyundai SE give me the least desire services that i have encounter.

haa...read a report on mypaper...from a Germany study... what do you guys think?but i did see some ladies that can control their vehicles very well... http://myepaper.mypaper.sg/ebook/web_php/S...oom_In_Page.htm BOCHUM, GERMANY YOU can now stop squabbling over whether women park cars better than men. According to a German study, women are slower and less accurate than men at parking, confirming the suspicions of many male motorists out there. The study said female drivers take an average of 20 seconds longer than male drivers to park their cars. Even so, their cars are more likely to be crooked than not, Britain

Woman treats Tampines man 'worse than a dog' Neighbours sickened by public abuse, but victim puts up with woman because 'I love her to death' Woman chases him down corridor with cane Makes him kneel in front of block and shout apologies Makes him sleep bare-bodied on corridor floor By Vivien Chan September 13, 2009 HE HAS been chased down the corridor by a woman wielding a cane, forced to smack his own mouth and pull his ears, and go down on his knees to beg for forgiveness. FLEES: A reporter saw the man, who was bleeding slightly from the head, crying at the stairwell during a visit last week. When approached, he ran down the stairs. --PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO These punishments were meted out in public, in full view of others. But he's not a naughty boy being disciplined by his stern mother. He's a man in his 30s, and she is the woman he lives with. It could not be confirmed if the couple, who live in a four-storey block on Tampines Street 23, are married. Residents in the block told The New Paper that the woman, who is attractive and appears to be in her 40s, had been verbally and physically abusing the man for almost two years. When we visited the couple's fourth-storey flat on Monday evening, no one came to the door. We knocked repeatedly over a two-hour period, and did not see anyone go in or out, though there was footwear outside the door. A Chinese New Year decoration that read 'siao kou chang kai' ('always laughing happily' in Mandarin) hung outside the door. But going by the neighbours' accounts, that is not what the occupants do inside. Or outside, for that matter. Neighbours claimed they have seen the woman standing in the corridor and screaming down at the man, as he knelt on the grass patch below shouting apologies. But they were not sure what he was saying sorry for. At other times, he would be locked out of the flat and forced to spend the night bare-bodied on the concrete floor of the corridor. --TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: KUA CHEE SIONG Sometimes, he would sit, bare-bodied and bare-footed, at the stairwell sobbing loudly to himself. 'Slash marks and bruises', both fresh and old, cover his body, the neighbours said. They described the couple to be of average build. Recently, someone took a video of the man being chased by the woman with a cane along the corridor, and called the police, Lianhe Wanbao reported. A police spokesman confirmed they received a call at 8.10am on 31 Aug and officers advised the couple to keep the peace. When a Lianhe Wanbao reporter visited the block last week, he saw the man, who was bleeding slightly from the head, crying at the stairwell. When the reporter approached him, he ran down the stairs and disappeared. A shopkeeper on the ground floor, who declined to be named, told The New Paper he is 'sick' of seeing the man being made to kneel on the grass patch. 'The incidents started in November 2007, but recently, they have become louder and longer,' he said in Mandarin. He recalled a recent night when the woman disturbed the neighbours by chiding the man at the top of her voice from 2am to 5am. The woman has lived at the block for more than 15 years, the shopkeeper said, but the man moved in with her only two to three years ago. Kick him down stairs Once, he said, he even saw the woman kick the man down the stairs. 'He rolled down one flight of stairs and hit the ground floor,' the shopkeeper said. He has also overheard the woman accusing the man of visiting prostitutes, though the man denied it. He said many people have told off the woman for her actions but she would argue that the man was 'useless'. He has also advised the man to leave her. 'But he would tell me he 'ai si ta' ('loves her to death' in Mandarin),' he said. 'But he can never explain why.' He claimed the woman was married twice before, and has a child from each marriage. Her son from her second marriage, who is in upper primary school, lives with her and the man. The man, who appears to be unemployed, looks after the boy, the shopkeeper said. 'He takes the boy to school and accompanies him back sometimes,' he said. 'I once heard the boy telling the man in Mandarin as they walked by my shop, 'I don't approve of Mummy doing this. I don't like it'.' Despite the public humiliation, the man is apparently protective of the woman. When the police were called in, the shopkeeper overheard him telling them that he 'fell by himself and it was nobody's fault'. 'If I were him, I would have left her long ago. This kind of man has no backbone,' he said. Other shopkeepers at the block agreed with him. But some neighbours pitied the man and felt the woman was 'too much'. Said Mrs Zan, 31, whose mother lives on the third storey: 'I've seen her throw files and documents down and the man has to go to get them, bare-bodied and bare-footed. 'When I stay over sometimes, I'd hear them quarrelling in Mandarin at 2 or 3am. The woman would be screaming and sometimes I would hear the word 'divorce'.' Ms Wani, 21, a sales assistant who lives on the second storey, said the long-haired woman usually wears heavy make-up and looks 'very pretty and sexy'. 'She wears revealing clothes, mostly dresses,' she added. When he is not bare-bodied, the man, who speaks 'good English', is usually clad in long-sleeved shirts and trousers, and sometimes a formal jacket. Ms Wani said the woman does not speak to neighbours. And while the man is friendly, he appears embarrassed. Once, Ms Wani recalled, she was returning home around midnight when she witnessed one of the couple's spats at the grass patch. 'He was kneeling and crying, while she was scolding and slapping him,' she said. 'A Chinese couple who was passing by tried in vain to stop the woman. 'She's too much. I don't know how any man can take that. He's being treated worse than a dog. 'Sometimes, I hear him telling the stallholders at the coffee shop that she does not give him food, and I've seen him sleep downstairs on the floor outside the coffee shop.' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abused men scared of being called henpecked HE WAS in a car with his wife, who was driving. Suddenly, annoyed with something he said, she reached over and punched him. She then stopped the car, took off her slipper and slapped his face with it. Like the man in Tampines, John (not his real name) was verbally, emotionally and physically abused. He suffered in silence as he 'loved' her too much, and put up with the abuse for nine years before seeking help. Three years ago, he turned up with a black eye to meet social workers, and they referred him to a shelter for abused husbands in Singapore. John's story was related to The New Paper by the shelter's founder and counsellor, who spoke on condition that he and his shelter are not named. He said this is for the safety of his shelter's residents. After they were named in an earlier news report, he said, some enraged wives turned up at the shelter to look for their husbands. He said John and his wife ran a fish stall at a wet market. Whenever John counted money wrongly, his wife would slap him, hit his head with the money bucket and shout vulgarities at him in Hokkien in front of stallholders and customers. But why did John put up with it for so long? 'His wife threatened to leave with their 6-year-old daughter if he made it public,' said the shelter founder. And like most of the cases he has handled, abused men keep mum because of a lack of family support. He said: 'They are usually very embarrassed and would rather keep quiet about it. When they tell family members, they are advised to 'stand up and be a man', ridiculed or laughed at for being hen-pecked. 'They face even more humiliation.' He said his shelter, which can accommodate 15 men, is full. Close to 200 men have sought refuge there since it was set up in 2003. Most men go there only as a last resort, and only two cases did not end up in divorce. John's was one of them. He reconciled with his wife after his three-week stay at the shelter. 'By the end of his second week, he was already missing his wife. I don't know how they are now,' said the counsellor. The men usually stay for three weeks to three months. 'We have male volunteers who were in similar situations before to listen to and help them,' he said. He said he has been seeing more young men recently. 'Usually in their mid-30s, with the wife holding a high position in the workplace. The man is less qualified. 'The wife can abuse the husband over anything. It could be due to work stress or things at home not being done. Prior to violence, the couple usually has misunderstandings.' He said men face a harder time admitting to being victims of abuse as it is still a 'social taboo' to 'bear the bad name of being a hen-pecked weakling'. 'Society needs to be educated, that saying such words to them is of no help at all,' he said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sg men so weakly?

according to western doctors, there's no such thing. but the chinese sinseh say better avoid chickens. who is right?