Do you give up your seat to the elderly?

If your answer is 'no', then I guess it's time to do so. Inconsiderate commuters, beware!

Distance Fares: Do you benefit?

I think I'm getting all the days of the week mixed up, but it doesn't matter. Just ignore the "unday" in the banner above. Only recently, in fact just three days ago on Saturday, the Land Transport Authority rolled out the Distance Fares scheme as an improvement to the current system.

Save the Earth

Do your part to save the Earth! Come on, it'll only take one hour. The World Wildlife Fund provides a chance for all to do your part to save the Earth with the yearly initiative: "Earth Hour".

This Saturday, 27 March 2010, is when Earth Hour will take place. From 8.30pm to 9.30pm, majority of the lights will be put out and here, you can do your part by switching off all the lights to show your support. During this time, millions of families around the world are participating too!

To show their support for Earth Hour, Fish & Co. is offering $1 Fish & Chips (usual price: $13.90++) if you watch their Earth Day Rap video and send it to 10 friends! For more information, visit this page.

Lots of electricity is consumed throughout the year. If this huge amount of consumption goes on, the Earth would soon run out of natural resources. Take this chance to help the Earth. Is one hour too much to ask? I know I'll support this event as it is very meaningful. In fact, this one hour's effect will not be much. We should keep this in mind throughout the year and determine in order to save the Earth. The Earth's ours.

For more information, visit the official Earth Hour website here.

Beat the bak kwa queue

Chinese New Year is here and everyone are rushing to purchase their festive goodies at the last minute. They look at the queues at these outlets in dismay and then purchase the goodies at market price after a long wait of three hours or more. We also have the smarter ones, who not only get to have a quick purchase, they even get a discount! That's where everyone will be flocking to after the news hit the papers.

I'm sure no one can resist the temptation of a slice of red and juicy bak kwa! Yet, the adults are starting to complain: Chinese New Year is one that will empty their pockets, for not only do they distribute a generous amount of cash to the children in red packets, they also purchase new clothing, decorations and goodies!

If you were kept up-to-date, you would have targeted your purchases at the factory outlets in the Woodlands area! That's right, not only will you be able to purchase your goodies quick, you even get a 5 to 10 percent off selected products. These sales are usually spreaded through the word of mouth and the main customers live nearby. Definitely, by participating in the factory sales, you get to avoid to crowd at their main retail stores at malls and in the heartlands!

While most of the bak kwa stores are holding factory sales, some feel that it is a waste of manpower. Customers also find purchasing bak kwa more convenient in shopping malls, while others think that they can also snatch deals from other companies as the factories are lined up in a straight line.

Whichever way you choose, it doesn't matter as long as you get to purchase it. In your opinion, which way is better?

The pig that ran away

The wolf that dropped into the cauldron was never a real wolf! In fact, it was a Santa-sheep-in-wolf-clothing coming down from the chimney to deliver presents to the good ones. Just as the pig in the brick house was about to celebrate the death of the "wolf", the real wolf suddenly barged in! Turns out that the wolf finally realised that the fastest way in a brick house was through the door and not through huffing-and-puffing. The wolf then, with little effort, gobbled up the last little pig and completed his stomach collection of the Three Little Pigs.

That's where the pig from McDonalds went. By now, everyone should have known about the case of the missing pig at McDonalds to some degree. Just in case you don't, here's a short summary of the incident.

McDonalds outlets in Singapore are selling Doraemon zodiac lucky charms for $2 each with every purchase of a set meal, in which proceeds will go to charity. However, the collectors of these charms with stumped when they saw the whole set:

Where did the pig go? Instead, it has been replaced by Cupid. For several days, there were much speculation and discussion from Singaporeans. One clever forumer even suggested that Cupid sounds like "cute pig" and thus can be considered as one of the 12 zodiac signs. Fortunately, McDonalds explained few days in that this move was done in order not to offend the Muslims and thus replaced it with the Cupid, reasoning that Valentine's Day also falls in February.

For several weeks, there has been much objection to this move. Collectors said that due to this change, they are unable to collect the whole set of zodiac Doraemon charms and thus make their collection incomplete. Muslims have also voiced out that they do not mind as this is not a food, but merely a soft toy and this is not non-halal. Some people have pointed out that this disrespects the Chinese zodiac, which has been around for many centuries.

Alas, McDonalds finally decides to rescue the pig from the wolf's tummy! McDonalds apologises for the action and states that the Pig will be available in mid April.


I guess that's good news to the collectors. What are your takes on this?