A Worst Nightmare

Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese drama-horror movie about a elementary school student who had fallen into the water tank on the roof of the building while trying to retrieve her red bag.

In real life on Monday morning 16 May 2011, residents of a Woodlands Estate HDB block found their tap water yellowish and unnaturally foamy.

The cause: a dead woman's body had been found in one of the eight water storage tanks atop their 15-storey block. The dead woman was identified to be a 30-year-old Indonesian maid who worked in the block. A 27-year-old Bangladeshi maintenance worker has been arrested in connection with her death.




So what are the reactions of the affected residents when the nightmare unfolded.




A retiree who lives on the 11th storey said, "This is so disgusting. My whole family finished a big pot of green bean soup I cooked this morning."

Another resident, a 33-year-old housewife said she used the water to cook noodles for her seven-year-old daughter at 7.30am. "I think I'm going to take my daughter to the doctor," she said.

A housewife age 35, threw away a pot of freshly-made soup after she heard about the body. "This is just too scary," she said.

typical water tanks

Residents or otherwise, used these words to express the situation.

Eeewww, digusting. It's gross and upsetting too. This is just awful. The disgust is too overwhelming! Yuckssssssss.

Fast & Furious Too

No we are not talking about the movie which is in the cinemas now.

This is money scams, now presented more creatively with big household brands as the baits.



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Still One Born Per Minute

An Indonesian village girl cheated a Singaporean man of $140,000, which she used for her school fees and daily expenses, before fleeing back to her country.

Mr Huang 50, said he got to know Ah Shan 26, an Indonesian lady from Kalimantan, Indonesia, through a matchmaking company.

He admitted that he was drawn to her beauty and had intended to marry her. He sponsored her visa and assisted in her applications for hairdressing and English courses, and even sent money to her family in Indonesia at her request.

He also gave her a household allowance even before they got married. At the same time, he saved up $23,000 to be used for buying a home once they got married.

However, on 21 March, she fled to Indonesia when he left for work.

He said bitterly, “Ah Shan knew nothing when she came to Singapore. I paid for her hairdressing and English lessons so she could learn some skills.”

Human, Plainly

A loan officer from OCBC Bank was charged in court on Thursday, May 12 2011 with conspiring with property agents to deceive the bank into giving housing loans worth more than S$61 million. She faced 189 counts of deceiving the bank between 2004 and 2006 by submiting false income tax or Central Provident Fund statements to secure loans for applicants who did not meet income requirements.


In 2004 a finance manager at Asia Pacific Breweries forged documents to swindle banks out of S$117 million over four years to feed his gambling addiction. He was sentenced to 42 years in jail, the longest jail term meted out for the largest case in commercial fraud in Singapore to date.


For nine months in 2005, a 38 year old clerk managed to siphon half a million dollars by taking advantage of her position and began depositing crossed cheques all of which had been signed by the company's managing director into her personal bank account. For that she was jailed for four years and three months.




A 47 year old lawyer disappeared in June 2006 with $11.3 million of his clients' money. He tried to abscond with cash, gold and diamonds but failed to get away with a big chunk of the loot. He is currently on Interpol's wanted list.


A clerk who worked for SIA for nearly 25 years was jailed 24 years for taking nearly $35 million over a period of 13 years between 1987 and 2000. The fraud was to prepare phantom pay allowances for the airline's cabin crew which he then banked into his own bank account. Had he quit while he was ahead, his crime may never have been discovered.





Seagate's Singapore senior human resource staffing administrator was jailed for seven months for helping a recruitment agency to clinch the contract to source foreign workers for Seagate Technology International in 2007. For this help the HR officer received $140,000 in cash.


A 40 year old director at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) Technology and Infrastructure Department deceived the SLA into paying monies to his seven sole proprietorships by using fake invoices without delivering any work to the agency. The amount pilfered was also huge – $12 million over a two-year period starting from Jan 2008. The case is in pre-trial conference stage.


A 46 year old monk who was the CEO of a charity-run hospital was charged in court with 10 counts, including forgery, misappropriation of funds and conspiracy to give false information to the Commissioner of Charities. The monk was sentenced to 10 months in jail but had his sentence cut by four months on appeal in the High Court.

Minimum Wage

Hong Kong's minimum wage is HK$28 an hour.

Taiwanese does not have minimum wage, but a basic wage of NT$17,880 per month.

South Korea's minimum wage is 4,110 won per hour.

Japan's minimum wage depends on the industry and the region. It ranges from 642 yen per hour to 821 per hour.

In Malaysia, wage is determined largely through market forces.

There is no minimum wage in Singapore.

Minimum wage in Thailand is on a province by province basis and range from 151 baht to 203 baht per day

The Philippines' minimum wage ranges from 178 pesos a day to 404 pesos a day depending on regions.

Sri Lanka's minimum wage is 6,750 rupees per month.

The Indonesian minimum wage varies from 1,100,000 rupiah per month in to 500,000 rupiah per month and is established by provincial and district authorities.

Vietnam's minimum wage varies from 1,000,000 dong in the urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; 900,000 dong in the suburban districts of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and 800,000 dong per month elsewhere.

The Australian minimum wage is A$570.00 per week.

The New Zealand minimum wage is NZ$12.75 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$10.20 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 or in training.

Wireless

Wireless. Every kind of gadgets are going wireless.

It began with the telephone.



Then rock bands go wireless. No more tripping on cables on stage.

guitar transmitter

note the cable-free stage

Of course singers are not going to miss the technology boat.





And of course the internet.