Chinatown Food Street has closed for good after 20 years, the latest business victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.


Opened in 2001 as part of the Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) efforts to revitalise Chinatown, it boasted a cluster of popular hawker food carts along a 100m stretch of Smith Street that was closed to vehicular traffic.

.....The iconic food street switched off its lights for the last time last Friday (Oct 22) with just two stalls left standing.

More at https://tinyurl.com/bc56whxm

If you stepped back and take a closer look at your directives, you will see just how confusing and conflicting your ardent plans for Covid are. This all came from the almighty edicts.


\"live your live as normal as you can, do not be paralysed by fear\"..\"98% of Covid cases have no or very mild symptoms\" . But now its still 2 people at eateries and at the hawkers, despite rules to bar the unvaxxed from eating in. it's pathetic to see families celebrating budget Children's Day or birthdays of their kids over 2 tables at the hawkers..and no mingling. That is not normal, and we have close to 85% vaxxed status now. imagine, that same family live and stay together, yet cannot be seen together outside. Let 8 ppl back in will ya.

\"No need for hawkers to check on customers status\" (on tv last night), saying they won;t have the time and may not know how to properly check because of their age and digital inabilities. But today, a Minister contradicts it on your newspaper.

Yes, people have a choice to be vaxxed or not, but they don;'t have the right to harm those who are, they have choices too. Keep them away till this blows over. The majority will thank them. You rules of can enter malls or hawkers but cannot, but only if, or when and how...is really messy.


More at https://tinyurl.com/3h7vapxa

https://www.prolificskins.com/forum/announcements-broadcasts/great-deals-promotions-new-openings-thread/p-2 (scroll down to view offer)

According to the voluminous rants posted on the Ministry of Education's Facebook page this year's PSLE Maths exam (recently held on 1 October) was an utter abomination; numerous parents recounted how their kids teared up on the spot or pummeled their desks out of severe frustration because of the inexplicably tough questions encountered, then there were those who shared that some candidates literally \"begged\" for a time extension so they could complete their papers. Even more lamented how they had to assiduously prop up crushed spirits and inconsolable souls during the immediate aftermath of the exam itself, in certain cases to no avail. Did the education ministry go overboard, or were folks just making a mountain out of a molehill? Have a gander at the screenshots provided below, and decide accordingly. Regardless, here's hoping the remaining papers wouldn't end up being as eventful as this.



https://www.domainofexperts.com/2021/10/this-years-psle-maths-exam-has-left.html

\"Does Health Minister Ong Ye Kung know his wager is my mother's life?\"


My 90 year mum experienced difficulties in breathing on Tuesday morning last week and in view of her advanced age, I took her to the SGH’s A&E department immediately.

As she had a slight fever (37.4 degree centigrade), she was put into the isolation ward for observation.

There was a shortage of beds in the general ward and she found herself confined to the isolation ward for three nights even though she was virus-free.

While she was thus confined, the Government announced that it was banning visitors from hospital until next month.

This meant that even when she came out of the isolation ward, I would be unable to see her as the hospital is being turned into a giant isolation ward.

The confinement turned out to be a nightmare for her and caused her illness to deteriorate sharply.

When I sent her to the A&E department, she was clear-headed and complained that she didn’t see the need to see a doctor because she was fine.

I was even able to drive her to the hospital without activating an ambulance.

The night before, she was still eating perfectly and watching TV.

Because she had previously suffered two strokes, she is wheel-chair bound and unable to move her hands.

This handicap, together with her advanced age, makes it impossible for her to handle gadgets like the mobile phone.


As a result, I was unable to keep in touch with her while she was in the isolation ward and I could only rely on my conversations with the nurses to ascertain her condition.

On the third morning of her confinement, I managed to get a nurse to take my iPad into the ward so that I could do a video call with my mum.

When I saw her on video, I was shocked by the deterioration in her condition in just three days.

She was incoherent and she couldn’t recognise me at all. Worse, she appeared very frail.

The next day, she was put into the “dangerously ill list” and I was finally able to visit her.

More at https://tinyurl.com/yy5j7r2f

As Singapore's vaccination rate grows steadily and the economy gradually reopens — a slew of Covid-19 restrictions were eased in early August allowing people to dine in and other businesses like gyms and fitness studios to operate again — one can say that a sense of normalcy has returned.




For most people in Singapore, that is.



Singapore's entertainment industry is still in shambles, and for the many family karaoke operators here, the indefinite nightmare brought about by the pandemic is far from over.



In their last bid to fight for survival, several KTV operators crafted an appeal letter to request for a reopening on September 15, which they sent to their Members of Parliament (MPs), these include the Multi-Ministry Taskforce co-chairs Gan Kim Yong, Lawrence Wong, and Ong Ye Kung.



.............Family KTV operators like Frank Per, owner of Sing My Song Family Karaoke at Paya Lebar Quarter, said they were at their wits' end.



I met Per on Aug. 30 at Choa Chu Kang, where he was queuing to meet the Finance Minister and MP for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Lawrence Wong at his Meet-the-People session (MPS).


Per had prepared a detailed letter of appeal addressed to Wong, a copy of which he handed to me, listing out his predicament as a family KTV operator.



As 80 per cent of Singapore's population has been vaccinated, Per and other operators have taken it as a good sign and time for them to make an appeal.



All Per wanted was some clarification on whether family KTVs will be allowed to reopen in the next three months, or at the very least, an update on the direction Singapore's entertainment industry can head towards.


More at https://www.prolificskins.com/forum/announcements-broadcasts/teo-heng-might-have-to-close-half-of-its-14-ktv-outlets

As Singapore's vaccination rate grows steadily and the economy gradually reopens — a slew of Covid-19 restrictions were eased in early August allowing people to dine in and other businesses like gyms and fitness studios to operate again — one can say that a sense of normalcy has returned.




For most people in Singapore, that is.



Singapore's entertainment industry is still in shambles, and for the many family karaoke operators here, the indefinite nightmare brought about by the pandemic is far from over.



In their last bid to fight for survival, several KTV operators crafted an appeal letter to request for a reopening on September 15, which they sent to their Members of Parliament (MPs), these include the Multi-Ministry Taskforce co-chairs Gan Kim Yong, Lawrence Wong, and Ong Ye Kung.



.............Family KTV operators like Frank Per, owner of Sing My Song Family Karaoke at Paya Lebar Quarter, said they were at their wits' end.



I met Per on Aug. 30 at Choa Chu Kang, where he was queuing to meet the Finance Minister and MP for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Lawrence Wong at his Meet-the-People session (MPS).


Per had prepared a detailed letter of appeal addressed to Wong, a copy of which he handed to me, listing out his predicament as a family KTV operator.



As 80 per cent of Singapore's population has been vaccinated, Per and other operators have taken it as a good sign and time for them to make an appeal.



All Per wanted was some clarification on whether family KTVs will be allowed to reopen in the next three months, or at the very least, an update on the direction Singapore's entertainment industry can head towards.


More at https://bit.Iy/3nl05Aw

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We were fully aware that it would be rough and rustic but for $300 a night just for the room no other perks or add-ons, it’s not too much to ask for an acceptable level of hygiene, no? I mean, they are marketing themselves as a “luxury experience” and for comparison, you can get a room, albeit the most basic, at the posh and historic Fullerton Hotel for around that price.

So it came as a bit of a shock that the tent was barely presentable and very poorly maintained. The outside is covered in green mold/ slime and other unsightly stains that in daylight, look like something out of a grisly crime scene.

.........Aside from being so squalid that the surfaces are literally brown and black in places, the toilets also stank sharply of pee that has been stewing forever. Upon feedback, the “director” haughtily retorted that we should be thankful it’s not clogged or covered in used nappies like as if that’s the gold standard for “luxury” service.



A lot more at https://www.prolificskins.com/forum/announcements-broadcasts/amdl-wasted-300-bucks-on-an-unacceptably-filthy-experience-in-the-wild-courtesy-of-glamping-society-1