Nicholas M Ong

Now it all make sense. I was on the road this morning and had taken the Stevens Road exit as usual from the PIE. As I headed down the exit passing Whitley Road, I can't help but notice the number of military personnel (Guardsmen & Gurkhars) and Special Operations Command personnel from the Singapore Police Force cordoning an area from St. Joseph Institute. I had initially thought maybe ...

Did you hear? We won! Singapore is the official host of the very first Youth Olympic Games and we beat Moscow to the bid! Singapore Daily has more write up on it. GST goes up. Ok, that one goes to the gahmen so I better shut up. ERP goes up. Ok, another gahmen one so again, better not speak up. Taxi fares, SMRT and whatever... All are ...

For those of you who are thinking, just how lucky we Singaporeans are, I thought I reminded you folks about something. In December 2007, the Singapore Government announced 2 rounds of pay raise for government ministers. As my grandfather, grandmother and I sure many other grandparents of Singaporeans always said... "you think the gahmen so good die give you money... don't be stupid lah... one hand give ...

No where near the USD146 billion stimulus approved in the U.S. recently, the Singapore government is not to be outdone. If you where watching Channel News Asia (CNA) last evening, you would have notice the 'Special Budget Report". Broadly, depending on their income scale and type of housing, Singaporeans will get between SGD100 to SGD600 from the package. Unfortunately, for me, there where some gray areas. It's either ...

Looks like Singaporeans are just about getting hit in every direction with reasons for hikes. Just slightly more than a month ago, taxi fares took a hike with ComfortDelGro leading the pack. The hikes went up to as high as 49% more then previously charged on the cab meters. With the price of crude oil skyrocketing from USD50 per barrel to USD100 per barrel in the last 18 ...

How is everyone's Wednesday? Mine has been wet and busy so far. I would have loved to blog about how I finally managed to get an iTunes Store account and am now at another roadblock to buying episodes of Prison Break 3 for USD 1.99 each. Dolphin, where you at? Give me a shout if you have clues. I need a U.S. based bank account and my Virtual ...

Singaporeans ushered in the New Year in a big way the way we know best, the 'Ugly Singaporean Way'. If there is something about Singaporeans, it's how ' kaisu' we can be and selfish at the same time. In simple words, I refer to it as 'same shit different day'. At each major public event like the National Day Parade, Annual fireworks display, New Year Countdown, Chinese Lunar ...

It's the New Year Eve afternoon here in Singapore and 2007 has proved to be an interesting year. The sub-prime mortgage mess in the U.S. caused many investors and financial institutions to take a big hit. One such institution is none other than Swiss banking giant UBS AG. The bank said on last Friday it had dropped plans to acquire a mutual fund management business in India from ...

Ok, so I'm headed off for a break finally. Tomorrow is Hari Raya and following that, a long weekend leading to Christmas. Man, I can't wait for that and honestly, I really didn't feel like getting out of bed this morning but what da heck lah... I doubt that I will be posting here during the holidays so I'm going to leave you folks with this piece... I know ...

I woke up late again today. You know how is it like to go out late on Sunday and reaching home even later and realising that you have stuff to prepare for the next day? If Santa asked me for a wish, I'd wished that there will only be one day in a week. Sunday! Then we all live on thin air! Anyway, I got out of the house ...