Dash giving $5 free just for signing up their app!

Get $5 cash now, just by signing on to DASH app.


http://www.dash.com.sg/dash-for-cash.html?uniqueKey=SU5KGRDVJA391X8E

You can just click on the above link, sign up and you can get $5 cash to spend anyway you like it.

In case you have not heard of Dash, it is an app designed by Standard Chartered Bank and Singtel to have an e-Wallet in your phone. Had dinner with friends and want to split the bill? Use Dash. Want to buy a koi bubble tea? Use dash. Transfer a few dollars to a friend immediately? Just use Dash...

Beside this free $5, they are having a series of promotions for Dash.

Big fans of Bubble tea? Every 3 Koi will get u $1 cashback.

Watson shopping? Beside the discounts and sales in watson, there is an additional 10% discount on all watson purchases if you use the Dash app to pay.

This is the good deal that I had been waiting for... there are many daily products that I love to get from watson coz its so much cheaper than in other shops....

Happy Shopping!

How to Scrap your car in Singapore

UPDATE: you will also get cash on the spot, if you go through the scrap brokers (quotz). The LTA scrapyard process will net you a cheque a few weeks later.

Singapore cars are only allowed to have a 10 years COE, after which, LTA would allow you to extend 5 more years, for a pro-rated price, or you have to scrap the car.

Given that COE prices are now astronomical, probably double or triple of the original car costs... not many singaporeans would ever choose to extend the COE. Unless your car is super emo.... 

(Come to think of that, the government earns more selling that piece of paper than the car manufacturer selling a fully functional car)

When your 10 year COE is up, LTA will send you a transaction pin and allow you a few options to de-register your car.

Good news is you can get a few bucks from de-registering your car.

If you are trading in your car to an Authorised Dealer, chances are You can TRADE IN your car.
If you are not going to buy a new car, or has to deal with a Parallel Importer, you may have to DIY to deregister to scrap your car.

You can

a) scrapping your vehicle on your own with LTA

or b) sell to a broker to export your vehicle out.

Keep the transactional pin that LTA will mail you early.

• Obtain a Transaction Pin.* Please click here for more information on Transaction PIN.
• Submit an online application to authorise a submitter to de-register your vehicle at the scrap yard;
• Send the vehicle to one of the Appointed Scrap Yard Operators within 5 calendar days of your online application. Otherwise, the application will lapse and you will have to re-apply. Please note that your vehicle will remain registered until it is de-registered at the scrap yard; and
• Bring along the following:
•  (i) Duly completed de-registration application form;
• (ii) Original NRIC (Singaporean, Singapore PRs & Malaysian) or Passport (foreigner other than Malaysian) of the submitter authorised by you to de-register the car at the scrap yard; or
• (iii) Original Identification Document(s) of the vehicle owner (Click here for the list of identification documents required) if no authorised submitter is appointed online; and
• (iv) Road Tax Fees (if the road tax is outstanding at the point of vehicle de-registration).
• Land Transport Authority (LTA) will notify the last registered owner of the vehicle's de- registration, the details of any PARF/COE rebate(s) and/or arrears of road tax/late renewal fee(s), if applicable.

List Of Appointed Scrap Yard Operators

Company/Address	Contact No	Operating Hours
Hup Lee Leong Hardware Pte Ltd 26 Sungei Kadut St 3 Singapore 729153	Tel: 6363 5055 / 6367 0019	Monday to Friday: 8.30am - 5.30pm Saturday: 8.30am - 4.30pm
Kim Hock Corporation Pte Ltd 10 Benoi Road Singapore 629885	Tel: 6862 3883 / 6862 1881	Monday to Friday: 9am - 6pm Saturday : 9am - 5pm
Sky Metal Pte Ltd 7 Gul Road Singapore 629364	Tel: 6862 9109	Monday to Friday: 9.00am - 5.30pm Saturday: 9.00am - 12.30pm

For Option B, it is potentially more rewarding.

Do not wait till the last few days to export your car, the lesser days, the more rush for the secondhand dealer, and he will not offer a better price.

I used Option B, and to save troubles, I googled a lot and found
http://www.quotz.com.sg/how/scrap.php

Just key in your information, they will find the best export company that wants to take your car, Within a day, a lady from Quotz called me and quoted me a price that is higher than the LTA deregister values. From what I know, it is the best possible price.
I accepted and the dealer will call me directly.
The dealer did and I agreed to a date to send the car. However on the actual day, due to work, I did not drive to the company in the end.

And I learnt that really cannot wait till last minute. I waited till left 4-5 calendar days, and called up the dealer again. This time he refuse to take the car as it was too rushed.
Thankfully the Quotz customer service called me and offered me at another dealer, which quoted me a slightly lower price due to the rush job, and I just agreed to it...

For the new dealer, instead of driving to his company, he asked me to just drive to the open carpark opposite LTA (10 Sin Ming Drive, Singapore 575701).

When you are there, you can go LTA directly to obtain a transactional pin, on the spot, (if you forgotten yours) and with the transactional pin, you
After all, it is still a better price than LTA deregister at DIY.

So there.... happy scrapping!

http://www.quotz.com.sg/how/scrap.php

"Healthy" food contains more harmful sugar than you think - Best film ever

Sugar is the real villain.
It is so harmful to your body, but yet has escaped public attention for the past few decades. In fact, there are countries that provide subsidies to the production (for example, USA) and consumption (for example, Malaysia) of sugar.

And the interesting thing is, I have been eating healthier food, low-sugar, low salt, low fat products, especially those labelled as "HEALTHIER" choice.


And this guy, Damon Gameau, from the famed Super Size Me, the film that brought  Mcdonalds to attention, has a new film, where he eats all the "healthier" food.
And guess what?

The healthier food, makes him SICK.

Whoooa.

Taken from: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/damon-gameau-goes-super-size-on-the-sweet-stuff-in-shocking-sugar-experiment/story-fneuzkvr-1227127957935

Damon Gameau goes Super Size on the sweet stuff in shocking sugar experiment

IT’S been 10 years since Morgan Spurlock existed on just McDonald’s for a month in the groundbreaking film, Super Size Me.

Now our waistlines face a new threat, and another guinea pig has undergone some risky self-experimentation to try to make sense of it.
Australian TV actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau stars in That Sugar Film which will air in Australian cinemas in early 2015, in which he exists on “healthy” low-fat food with a high sugar content for 60 days.

The results are more shocking than anyone could have expected.

Within three weeks, the previously healthy Damon was feeling terrible all the time, lethargic and snapping at the slightest thing.
A visit to the doctor confirmed the worst — he had the beginnings of fatty liver disease.

Damon Gameau features in That Sugar Film. Source: Supplied

“I had no soft drink, chocolate, ice cream or confectionery,” Damon told Sunrise this week. “All the sugars that I was eating were found in perceived healthy foods, so low-fat yoghurts and muesli bars and cereals and fruit juices, sports drinks ... these kind of things that often parents would give their kids thinking they’re doing the right thing.”

Instead, the Underbelly actor reveals, these hidden sugars had a remarkably damaging effect on his physical and mental health.

Damon consumed 40 teaspoons a day, just slightly more than the average teenager. Source: Supplied

The father-to-be put on 10cm of visceral fat around his waist, and was informed that he was on the fast-track to obesity. He was also told his mental functioning was “unstable”.

Damon had increased his intake to 40 teaspoons of sugar a day, just slightly more than that of the average teenager worldwide. Recommended daily intake is a maximum of nine teaspoons a day, or six for women.

He now believes labelling is deliberately ambiguous, and that we need to be conscious that every four grams of sugar equals a teaspoon of sugar.

Despite keeping his calories the same, Damon said he never seemed to feel full.

Within three weeks, he had developed early signs of fatty liver disease. Source: Supplied

For breakfast, he would have low-fat yoghurt, cereal and apple juice. That contained 20 teaspoons of sugar.

“We’re not being dogmatic and saying people having to quit sugar, it’s just being aware,” he said. “Sugar’s now in 80 per cent of the processed food we’re eating. If we can remove that, that’s the first step towards making a change.”

The movie features cameos from Stephen Fry, Isabel Lucas and Brenton Thwaites, and king of food campaigners Jamie Oliver has called the film a “definite must-see”.

But will it convince people to change their habits?

Damon put on 10cm of visceral fat, but said the worst affects were on his mental health. Source: Supplied

There are now nearly six million Australians with fatty liver disease and only 6000 of those are caused by alcohol.

Type 2 diabetes is killing someone every six seconds worldwide, and Damon believes we’ve reached a point where we need to do something.

Damon with his family. Source: Supplie

The creators of That Sugar Film have secured funding to create a educational program around the movie.

Its website offers tips, recipes and a study guide for kids, and will later grow into a larger hub, where people can take part in challenges such as cutting out sugar for 10 days.

The filmmaker said he felt lethargic and bad-tempered on the diet. Source: Supplied

Damon’s final meal was a full 40 teaspoons of sugar that could be found in an ordinary child’s school lunchbox. “Sadly, it was very easy to do and fitted comfortably into the small plastic container,” he wrote on his blog documenting his experiment.

“The last meal was for all the people out there, especially parents, who are led to believe they are doing the right and healthy thing for their children. They are making an effort yet are horribly let down by the lack of integrity in marketing and packaging strategies.”


THE LAST MEAL


One apple and blackcurrant Organic Sunraysia juice (6 teaspoons)
One packet of Sesame Snaps (3 teaspoons)
Two tiny Woolworths ‘Fruit Bars’ with 4 in each (8 teaspoons)
One box of Macro Organic Sultanas (5 teaspoons)
One Kelloggs Twist Bar (4 teaspoons)
One Packet of ‘Fruit Salad Bites’ (like apricot pieces but mixed fruits, coated in sugar. (5 teaspoons)
One Apple Fruit Jelly pack (5 teaspoons)
One Jam sandwich (4 teaspoons)


SOME OF OUR WORST SUGAR OFFENDERS ... according to Gameau

Raisin toast (4 teaspoons per slice)
250ml popular liquid breakfast drink (4 teaspoons)
250ml bottle of multi-vitamin juice (6 teaspoons)
Iced tea (8 teaspoons)
Powerade (8 teaspoons of sugar)
400ml apple juice (10 teaspoons)
A serve of low fat yoghurt (11 teaspoons)
A low-fat strawberry standard size smoothie (18 teaspoons)

Bak Kut Teh- Great Bak Kut Teh stalls all over singapore!

A list of great Bak Kut Teh stalls in Singapore...

Ya Hua Bak Kut Teh
#01-01/02, Isetan Office Building, 593 Havelock Road

Morning Bah Kut Tea 早市肉骨茶
#01-72, Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street

松发 at Clarke quay
11 New Bridge Rd #01-01, 059383

Rong Cheng (Sin Ming Rd) Bak Kut Teh 榕城(新民路)肉骨茶
#01-114/117 Midview City (26 Sin Ming Ln.), 573971, Singapore

Old Street Bak Kut Teh [老街肉骨茶] @ 129 Upper Paya Lebar Road

Outram Ya Hua Rou Gu Cha Restaurant
7 Keppel Rd Singapore 089053

De Yun Bak Kut Teh
Blk 417 Yishun Ave 11, Singapore

Founder Bak Kut Teh Restaurant (Balestier)发起人肉骨茶餐馆
New Orchid Hotel, 347 Balestier Road

Ng Ah Sio Pork Ribs Soup Eating House
208 Rangoon Road, Hong Building Singapore 218453

Ng Ah Sio - Chui Huay Lim Club
Address: 190 Keng Lee Rd #01-03, Singapore 308409

Eunos MRT Bak Kut Teh 友諾正宗肉骨茶
Blk 419 Tampines Street 41 #01-80 s520419 (Tampines)
Sometimes, MP Baey eats there before his 'Meet the People' session.

Hock Kee Bak Kut Teh 

Alexandra Village Food Centre ,120 Bukit Merah Lane 1, #01-46 Singapore 150120
(opposite Queensway shopping centre) claypot one. Notch bad. Really. Herbs type (Orh Sek soup base)
Lots of good bah kut teh!! =D
Enjoy eating!

Happy All Saints' Eve! (Happy halloween)

Happy All Saints' Eve!

Wait, what? you dont know that?

Oh well.. its the same as Halloween! =)

Halloween or Hallowe'en (/ˌhæləˈwiːn, -oʊˈiːn, ˌhɑːl-/; a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"),^[6] also known as Allhalloween,^[7] All Hallows' Eve,^[8] or All Saints' Eve,^[9] is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the WesternChristian feast of All Hallows' Day.

I love halloween!

When i first started celebrating halloween, i have no idea what it means, or if there is any religious tones to it.

To me, it is just a nice day to enjoy, to have fun and eat lots of candies.

I dressed up as a vampire on our first halloween, and nope, I did not sparkle. I was a true-blue, "normal vampire.

Compared to our chinese' Lunar 7th Month Ghost Festival, Halloween is a much more fun day, we get to dress up...

have lots of candies

Play with a craving knife... and pumpkins

but the funny part of halloween that I would never understand...

How did halloween moves from "dress up scary shit" to "dress up as sluttish shit"?

halloween is weird with sluts, but no complains.

Bring back halloween with the scary shits! =D

Singapore- we constraint our choices.

One of the contradiction in my life is that I do love Singapore, and the safe, comfortable environment it has provided me, BUT yet, I cannot wait to get out of Singapore, because of its sheer limitations.

As a city, Singapore is wonderful, everything works like clockwork, efficiently and safe.

But as a country, I crave for the mountains, the valleys, the large open space, the numerous points to visit, to work, to breathe.
I am not a hardcore outdoor person, in fact, I love lazing around in my home all weekends. But the lack of a countryside.... it bums me.

And one hope I have, is that I can migrate and let my kids grow up in a large country. Something that I had made up my mind when I was in Secondary school.
You see, as a secondary three student, I love Geography. It helps that I can score well in exams (another characteristic of Singaporeans, we deprive pleasure from scoring well in academic results), but there is sooo much more in geography.

I mean, look at these clouds, aren't they the most beautiful things?

The clouds formations....

the rocks, the volcano...


And then on some points, while I gear up for O'levels Geography, I realised the uncomfortable truth. There is no career for anyone in geography, in Singapore. The only way a degree in Geography that can pay itself is via teaching careers, maybe in secondary school, or a position in university (even so, only 1 Singapore university- NUS, has a geography department). And even so, the university position is on HUMAN geography, on how space can become a place, with humans' ideals and interactions.

Physical geography does not pay in Singapore because we do not have physical space.

Even if I excel in Geography in O levels and A levels (which I did), there is simply no proper physical geography course in NUS. While I was doing my economics degree (very practical, very singaporean, sue me) I took a few modules in Geography, and there were all human geography. No surprise here, where were we going to observe the rocks or clouds?

And the 16yo Sec 4 me, thinks.. what if I want to do oceanology? What if I like to study marine life? (I kid you not, when I was aged 16, I explored other careers, I knew I did not want to live in an office for 2/3 of my life. Of course when I graduated from university, I was brainwashed and lured to the financial industry. Sue me)

And what if I want to do theoretical physics? I was studying chemistry and physics at that time, and I realise research work (which is probably boring to the max) can be something I love to explore... extremely academic works, that probably has no practical value...
I forgot who was the Education Minister at that time, or where did I get the vibes, but I realised, at the tiny age of 16yo, that all these interesting, mind boggling careers would never get fulfilled in Singapore.

And I told myself, I want my children to grow up someplace where no matter what they want to purse, no matter what their talents are, they have an university, a workshop, or somewhere that they can learn and excel.

Just saying.

What if I want to be an astronaut? Or something related to space, I don't have to go to space, I can study it, like astronomy. I can peer at the stars, do my research and live happily.

Only I can't because my country only churns out bankers and engineers.

And this is why, at my age, before I churn out my kids, I am considering abandoning my whole life here for a much more difficult, a much more tough life in some other large countries.
Would I be more tired? yes.
would i be poorer? yes.
would i be more confused? yes.

would i be happier? I have no idea.



Singapore, you are terrific, but you are just too small.

The Ocean Cleanup

I like the idea, young creative energy in cleaning up our mess.

Lets give him a help... by not littering in the first place. This small act actually reduce our impact on the environment a lot more than we think...