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and why do I say that? Prices of oil have hit the roof with historic heights. US $93 per barrel and it might just cross the US $100 dollar mark if the tension in the Middle East are not resolved. Adding salt to the wound of car owners, LTA announced the 3rd round of increase for ERP this year last night. With the new increase, you can see that some gantry have hit the $5 mark.

Before going on, let us ask ourselves this.

Does this effectively decrease the number of cars on the road?

No it does not. In fact with the drop of COE, there are more cars on the road than before.

If it does not decrease the number of cars on the road then why does LTA keep increasing the ERP? This just doesn’t make any sense to me.

On one hand, LTA allows more car ownership on the other hand, they keep increasing the ERP to decrease the cars on the road. Aren’t they slapping their own face by doing so?

Maybe it’s not that bad after all. The roads would be less congested during peak hours with all the beautiful cars all parked nicely in their respective carparks in HDB because it cost more right now to drive that piece of scrape metal on the road.

Besides ERP, the price of petrol have once again increased. There is no surprise here. Petrol comes from crude oil so if the price of crude oil increase, how can the price of petrol stay the same?

How many times did the price of petrol increase this year? I lost count. Guess my ten little fingers just weren’t enough to keep track. I did a search and this site came up. Petrolwatch.com.sg have a updated list of petrol prices in Singapore.

With all these price hikes, would I still drive my scrape metal on the car?

Nah! I think my scrape metal would join the other scrape metal at the HDB parking for now.

is the IN thing right now. I meant how many artist/actor/actress had actually broke the law, done jail time and gone back to their career, more famous than before?

I was grabbing a cup of hot tea from kopitiam when I heard those uncles having their tea break talking about this. Their conversation was in Hokkien though. For the sake of readability, I translate it into English.

Uncle 1,”You know hor, Christopher Lee going to star in another TV drama.”

Uncle 2,”Christopher Lee? Who is that?”

Uncle 1,”You know the one got jail for drink driving one lah.”

Uncle 2,”That one lar? He still can be actor meh?”

Uncle 2 might not have known who is Christopher Lee but once you mentioned the actor that had done time behind bars instantly recall his memory. Christopher Lee was not remembered for his roles in the local production rather he was known for doing time behind bars.

The latest to join the long list after Christopher Lee is Ex TV  host Benedict Goh. He was being sentenced to 3 weeks jail and banned from driving for 4 years after pleading guilty to  drink driving and colliding into a stationary car.

The difference between the 2? Christopher Lee committed a hit-and-run while Benedict Goh collided into a stationary car. Maybe that was the explanation why Christopher Lee got a longer jail term.

Besides the 2 above, there was the bad boy, Nicholas Tse, who crashed his Ferrari F360 Modena in central Hongkong. He claimed that his driver was responsible for the crash but investigations showed otherwise. Nicholas Tse was sentenced to 240 hours of community service for obstruction of justice.

 Nicholas Tse had another accident in November where he crashed his Audi in Lantau. He was banned from driving for 6 months and fined HK$4000 dollars for reckless driving. Because of these crashes, the crash site for his Ferrari on Red Cotton Drive in Central is popularly known as “Nicholas Curve” by locals.

Should I do time in order to be famous in blogsphere? Nah! I better work my way the blogsphere through hard work and tears. For those who want instant success, maybe you can try it out!

I could not believe my eyes as this scene unfold in front of me. I had heard and read about the ugly side of Singaporeans when they took public transport but this was really unbelievable!

I was on the NorthEast line heading towards Chinatown station to switch to the EastWest line when this happened. A father with his 2 children decided to occupy the whole row of seats on the train so that they could lay down and have a quick nap. The father was sitting in the center while his 2 children lay across the seats. How convenient. I got this photo from Stomp. The child was seated this way.

It’s way too ridiculous. Though it was not the peak hours yet but there were other passengers who paid the same fare and was standing in front of them! Even though the children were sleepy, it was wrong for them to do that. The children might not understand this but surely the father knew better.

An elderly passenger board the train after a few stops and stood by the side, waiting for the father to wake the children. This never happened. The father simply ignored his existence and pretend to make an “important” call to his business partner. This was totally unforgivable. What kind of teaching was he passing on to his 2 children?

I decided to give up my seat to this poor man while staring at the goons. I deeply regretted not snapping his photo and send it to stomp. After all, there was a section dedicated to this ugly commuters in Singapore. This might be happening on the train everyday as no one even raised an eyebrow to reprimand the father’s action.

There were many inconsiderate commuters in Singapore. Take the picture on the right for example. Would you approached the lady and request her to remove the bags from the seats?

Most Singaporeans would just mind their own business in this case. And this commuters just got away with their inconsiderate deeds. I didn’t notice this at all while travelling on the MRT in Bangkok.

In fact, the Thais gave up their seats to those that needed it more. Why wasn’t this happening in Singapore? Was it because the teachers never touch on moral education or the values taught by the parents were all wrong?

We even have to run campaigns to educate commuters to stand on the left while using the escalator. To further insult ourselves, yellow lines and boxes were drawn to educated the commuters where to stand while waiting for the trains.

When will we ever behave like a first class citizen?

I was reading The Keropok – Singapore Daily Photo and decided to share this in reference to this entry. That photo of the green chess board was taken in Bishan Park if you needed to find it.

This was taken while on holiday at Hard Rock Hotel, Bali. Yes you guess it. Life Size Chess Pieces! In order to move those pieces, you had to physically shift them as the game progressed. A mental and physical game with this chess pieces.

I knew nothing about chess and how the game was supposed to be played. There was too many can do and must do. Guess I would need to read up Chess for Dummies!

Shozu! Shozu! I heard my friend screaming over his phone. What’s the excitement all about? Fancy getting excited over a dog? That was what I thought at first.

Nah, Shozu is the new service that Starhub launch in September. What actually is this service all about? A quick search on Starhub’s website and this is what I had gathered.

Imagine taking photos or videos with your mobile phone and transferring them instantly on-the-go with a single click to your account on a popular Web or social-networking destination like YouTube or Flickr, all for a low monthly flat fee without worrying about data charges.

StarHub is the first in Asia and Singapore to fulfill the desires of mobile bloggers, social networkers and citizen journalists here through a partnership with ShoZu, a provider of one-click media exchange services between mobile phones and Web 2.0/social networking sites.

StarHub’s new ShoZu Access service provides media-sharing enthusiasts the easiest way to upload their photos or videos directly from their camera phones, the moment they are taken, directly to their accounts on 25 popular Web destinations*. Users can even send their media to any email address and to multiple destinations at once!

The innovative direct-to-Web service allows users to pre-program their accounts on these sites and upload photos and videos to them on-the-go with a single click directly from their mobile phones, thus eliminating the hassle and delay of first needing to transfer their media to a PC.

I like the part on the flat monthly fee and without the need to worry about data charges. Now I can start to take more photos and videos with my camera phone and upload to Youtube or Flickr in real time! Isn’t that great?

This granny not only can sing, act and blog. Now she even have her own music video! To label her as granny, in my opinion is an insult! I mean how many of the senior citizens are as cool and hip like her? Most of the ones I know are just waiting for God to call them back.

Instead of resting at home to enjoy life, she chose to appear on the Big Screen, blogs and now even have her own music video. How cool can that be? I think by now you know who am I talking about. She is none other than Lao Zha Bor.

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Isn’t it interesting?