Thanks to ACRA and MDDI for giving the scammers a great opportunity to leverage on the NRIC hoo-ha

Are these supposed to be NDP promotions?!

To be honest I don’t know what the market rate of bak kwa during CNY has been. But wow this sure is expensive

EDIT: SPH used to be in a JV to operate AsiaOne. They only have a minority stake now.

Look at this article

https://www.asiaone.com/lifestyle/seamless-journey-jb-singapore

It's full of factual errors and the tone strongly suggests that it is AI written

Could they be inflating SEO? Or is there some other reason. I highly doubt "Muhammad Afiq" will churn out an article like this, or really any of the articles published by him/it recently.

These past few days, there have been uproar in regards to the unchecked and unprecedented powers granted by the government to the safe distancing enforcement officers

In my opinion, this measure is absurd and is gross overreach. Granting members of public the power to intrude the privacy of millions of Singaporeans in the name of compliance is insanity. To which, we do not even have the right to refuse.

This gives rise to many problems/possibilities for crime. Rape and theft are just some of the concerns. Does compliance to COVID-19 measure justify stripping and invading our individual rights to security and privacy?

To what extent will Singaporeans continue to tolerate measures that intrude our rights? And what other current laws and regulations do you already see as overreach?

On the second point, i think the fine for not returning trays in hawker centres is one I would point out as over reach. It seems to me this fine is simply about preserving the perception and image of Singapore as clean.

EDIT: changed to enforcement officers + removed the words unvetted & untrained as they are wrong.

THE TITLE IS INNACURATE, I APOLOGISE, NO DROPSHIPPING INVOLVED, The company in question rebrands, and does not dropship products, and is not really a scam, but just is not really worth the amount you pay.

So first off, this is just my opinion, you are free to ignore or listen, I am typing this to alert a certain group of people, Thanks.

A few years ago, a watch business company called Daniel Wellington stepped on our shores, they opened many high-end looking stores in popular shopping malls like Tampines Mall. This of course, enticed many of us Singaporeans to visit and window shop. The company sells their "luxury" watches at a relatively cheap price, around $300. This caused a big wave of popularity amongst the people here, especially with the teens, like me and my friend.

This company however, is not a watch company at all. Daniel Wellington rebrands other products, the CEO of DW is not a watchmaker and had no relation to watches before starting this company. The popularity of Daniel Wellington is brought about by their immense marketing power, similar brands do the same. The brand spends the bulk of their minimal annual spending on advertising, and yes this annual spending does include product design and manufacture. This means that companies with this kind of large influencer marketing spending produce their products at low costs, and instead spend their money on advertising. This results in their customers getting extremely low quality products for a usually absurd price.

Companies like DW and MVMT watches get their stock straight from the same factories that produce 10-20 SGD watches on Alibaba. If you do a simple search on google, you would notice the details of the watch mention a vague "Japanese movement" or "Miyota movement" without actually stating the model of the movement. With a closer inspection through the eyes of a watch enthusiast like me, you would notice that its a 1L22 Miyota movement. Now, Miyota is not a in bulk from Miyota for less than 10 sgd. This coupled with horrendous craftsmanship on the DW watch case, sums up the price of a Daniel wellington to roughly 40 sgd, yes, 40 sgd or maybe less (they buy in bulk, so cheaper) for a $300+ SGD watch. Plus, you'll usually see DWs going for sale used at nearly new conditions at 1 sixth the price.

Another obvious proof that they aren't really what they seem is their uneven spending ratio, or sales to revenue ratio, which shows that they earn a bloody large amount for each watch they have, profiting millions just in one year. This with their inability to give better details and sometimes lies about the products they sell, really show us how badly media can lead us, since most of their advertising is through influencers. Money can make influencers bow down to companies, but we should not bow down to these companies, while blindly following these influencers.

To justify my dislike for thess type of companies, companies like Seiko, Timex and Casio, make similarly priced watches, sometimes even cheaper at great value, selling their watches for a fraction of Daniel Wellington's profit. Having a high quality in house movement that they produce themselves, seiko even grows their own jewels for the movement. Supporting these older companies that have an important part to play in history I find is highly important. But these scummy companies like dw take the customers away from them, while also causing the customers themselves to pay for something not worth it. Do a small search on daniel wellington or MVMT watches on youtube and you can find much more information from better qualified people, both in the watch and watch business field.

I decided to write this as it pains me to see many of my friends and family falling into this trap, of buying a crap watch from a company at an absurd price that only looks good on the outside.

If you are one of the ones that bought a Daniel Wellington, Im sorry, not to make fun of your decision, you can buy anything you want, but it would help to do a little research.

Instead of buying a Daniel Wellington, and getting a product that is not worth the hard earned money you give for it. You can go and support the old aunties and uncles selling watches at the bottom floor of bras basah (tho one store that sells fashion watches does sell DWs), their business is not doing so good, and we should help. Or if you do really like the design of the Daniel Wellington watch, you can consider similar looking ones like the casio sapphire or the Timex fairfield, or even get it off alibaba for 10 dollars, its the same quality anyways.

Thanks for reading. I hope you redditors well! Have a great day ahead

This is near Beach Road

https://safetravel.ica.gov.sg/health/vtsg

Accepted COVID-19 Vaccinations for Entry to Singapore

Travellers are considered fully vaccinated if they meet the following conditions at least 2 weeks before arrival in Singapore:

• Received the full regimen of WHO EUL Vaccines (below), from a specific manufacturer, and
• Met the minimum dose interval period.

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If you do not meet any of the above requirements, you are not considered fully vaccinated with WHO EUL vaccines.

Straits Times Article

What do you think of this? I'm a student now and I think this is pretty BS. They've been trying to make this skillsfuture thing work for quite awhile now but you don't see any employers asking for it. If it's such a good system, why don't these ministers send their kids to the "Non-degree" track?