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And this is enough to rile you up? You must be bored living here. No, I do not have to give directions down to the last street. Taxi drivers prefer passengers to direct them to avoid disputes. And unless the driver is a newly licensed one, telling them the main route (BKE, PIE etc) is usually suffic...

In which case it is in my interest to know the directions beforehand to avoid paying excessive taxi fare.

QED.

I don't understand what's so difficult about giving directions. I work at the boondocks and some drivers are not quite sure how to get there. Very often giving general directions is sufficient (rattle off a series of road names).

We got a bolshy cabbie the other week - asked him to drop one person off on Stamford Rd and he wouldn't do it, said he wasn't allowed to do that and drove down to the cab rank at Funan. I'm not sure if it's true or not that they can't do that but the person we were dropping off works near there and...

Are you looking for a new RS125? If you're looking for 2nd hand, I'd say try the private sellers on bike forums first. Dealers charge more and the "warranty" they give is quite useless. If you must buy through a dealer, they try someone more reputable like Looi Motor. I go to Jalan Bt Merah to chang...

The $5 is likely a monthly subscription charge for international roaming. It's to enable you to make and receive calls when you are overseas. To receive calls in Singapore from overseas, there is no additional charge involved. There is this thing about making international calls from different phone...

Really indeed.

Thank you for your generalisation that Singaporeans are penny-pinching people.

When entertaining it is considered ungracious to not have enough food. So hosts tend to over rather than underprepare food. We have no qualms about taking leftovers; in fact when we have office lunches, the caterers normally prepare styrofoam boxes for us to pack the leftovers, since "we've paid for...

Wedding dinners / void deck parties are only celebratory and do not have legal standing whatsoever. You can hold whatever party you wish as long as no JP is involved and it will not be legal. However if you have a JP or authorised religious person (priest/pastor etc) conducting a ceremony which invo...

That's why I suggested the OP speak to his ID.

I mean he wanted to DIY "sanding" the concrete wall didn't he...

You can plaster over the walls. Speak to your ID about it. It should be a simpler job compared to "sanding" the concrete walls!

However if you're talking about ceiling spalling (falling plaster from the ceiling) then good luck to you because it is a very difficult problem to solve!

Back to the original question. Has anyone visited Pinnacle@Duxton? It is a 50 storey HDB flat. No pool, no gym but residents get to use a personal sky park. Great view and very close to CBD. Not in the East Coast but near MRT. A friend of mine lives there. A standard of interiors (judging from his ...

The work pass is not automatically granted to you. You must find a job on your own and then apply for the passes.

Edit: source https://tgonline.moe.gov.sg/tgis/files/SOA-FAQ.pdf (Q15)