SingPost is charging $10 for collecting the passport.
A registered post for sending something like a passport into your hand is no more than $3.
So basically SingPost is overcharging for this service.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thai Girl should get compensated
Source:
- Thai teen’s family sues SMRT for S$3.4 million
- Thai girl receives S$250,000 donation from S’pore Red Cross
I've read some of the comments from readers on the Thai family suing SMRT. Some are pretty amusing. Just from reading the comments, you can tell who has knowledge of the law, and who are arguing based on their common sense.
So the question really is if SMRT was negligible?
I think so. It's SMRT's property so it's their duty to keep their passengers safe.
Of course, the girl's actions have to be taken into account as well - I'm guessing no one in the right mind will jump onto a track. Well, the video evidence will come in handy.
SMRT has been slow to install those platform gates. I've always been wondering about past suicide cases of people who flung themselves onto the track. SMRT could have installed those gates to make it difficult for people to jump onto the track. It's not as if they don't have the money.
After many years, they finally started putting up the gates, but it seems that they didn't do so at Ang Mo Kio station.
The principle of law is to restore value - to restore the victim into the condition he/she was previously in. If there's one thing I can remember about law - back when I was studying business law in NTU as a course - it's about the very basic principle of law.
SMRT only offered $5000.
The family is only suing for damages amounting to the replacement limbs. They would have sued for real legs if they could.
I think the case will be settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
35 seconds too late for election
Related stories:
- 35 seconds (theonlinecitizen.com)
- GE: Team planning contest in Tanjong Pagar GRC did not meet deadline (channelnews
- Walkover in Tanjong Pagar GRC (channelnewsasia)
To quote LKY:
It's a feeble effort to show that they wanted to contest. But everybody knows, you want to contest, you go before 12 o'clock!
Clearly, this incident has illustrated the fact that not everybody knows. Either that or some people are not too smart to know, don't have the common sense to know, or for whatever reason.
There's no difference between 1 second late, 35 seconds late or 1 day late. It's still late. In that 1 second, you could have missed your flight, failed your IPPT, lost the 100-metre dash to your opponent, etc. This is the elections we're talking about, not about waiting for your friend for dinner.
I cannot understand why the opposition would want to put themselves in a position to submit the papers late.
There's absolutely no excuse at all for submitting the papers late, short of an act of god - such as a freaking tsunami were to hit Singapore - or even if there is an act of god.
There are rules and regulation. Know them and use them to your advantage.
In this case, nothing is as important as meeting the deadline.
I want to sympathize with the opposition but I can't.
Monday, April 25, 2011
How some Singaporeans are going to vote in the 2011 elections
This is how some Singaporeans are going to vote in the coming 2011 elections.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Singapore Budget 2011
Budget 2011: More than S$13b in benefits for S'poreans
"If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." - Lord Kelvin
I'm not really interesting in whatever is given out in this budget. What I'm interested is what they say are their goals and whether they can achieve them in the future.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Are HDB flats too expensive?
Are HDB flats too expensive?
The best way to measure is probably to count the number of years it takes to finish paying for the flat (which depreciates to nothing at the end of the 99-year lease).
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