Normally, after I have dropped my wife to work in Ang Mo Kio around 7.15 a.m., I travelled via various highways in Singapore in a bid to find the fastest and easiest route to NIE, which is located in NTU vicinity near Jalan Bahar. I like to travel via PIE but the traffic congestion + ERP in CTE always made me think twice about going by that route.

Rather than paying $2 for ERP, I would prefer travelling up north first via SLE and then exit at the BKE(PIE) exit before turning in to KJE.

However, if you noticed, I would normally reach the SLE expressway around 7.30 a.m. and by the time I reached the exit to BKE(PIE), traffic congestion will tail-back all the way towards the Woodlands Ave 2 exit. It was not till early last year that I discovered a new route courtesy of one of my NIE course-mates.

This route will take you from SLE and bring you out of the traffic congestion over there and magically bring you to Jalan Bahar.

Oklah, I was exaggerating a bit but I am serious on avoiding the congestion. Let me tell you now how you can achieve this magic of going to Jalan Bahar from SLE but avoid the traffic congestion at the BKE (PIE) exit, the Mandai Road exit and also the KJE traffic congestion.

The best thing is, the journey to NIE using this new route from SLE will only be maximum 30 min !!! (because that was the time that I needed while driving my Picanto so if you are driving a bigger car than mine, +- 7 min).

Here’s how.

1) At the end of the Seletar Expressway (that is SLE, for the uninitiated), you will see three exits. The extreme left will be the BKE (PIE) exit, the extreme right will be the exit towards Johor. The middle exit will lead you towards Singapore Turf Club. TAKE the middle exit.

2) At the end of this road, you will come across a 4-way junction. Go straight and enter Kranji Road. You will make a pass beside Kranji Reclamation Plant and the KTM (Malaysian rail) junction. Keep going straight till you reach a T-junction. This is KRANJI LOOP.

3) Turn left on this road and follow its path. Do not make any turns. As you drive along this road, you will soon reach Kranji Reservoir Park and the Kranji Tidal gates. Take a breather while looking at the magnificent sight. Again, continue straight ahead along this road.

4) From here, it gets slightly complicated. If you are not confident in driving along this roads, just drive straight without making any turns and you will reach Lim Chu Kang Road.

5) Turn left at this T-junction and start to pick up speed as this stretch of road will lead you past the SAF camp and cemeteries before reaching Jalan Bahar and finally, the turn to NTU after passing the Civil Defence Academy.

That’s it. 5 simple steps to divert the horrendous traffic. Time reduction to almost half of the usual travelling time. May you all have a safe journey ahead !!

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The downside when you lend money to friends is that, since we do not charge interests, the borrower tend to accumulate and stall when it comes to payback or even raised up the question on friendship when queried upon. More often than not, those who lend the money would think twice about asking it back, especially if it involves a small amount.

Research have shown that the easiest way to lose a friend is when you do either of these 2 things:

1) Lending them money;

2) Sell them a car.

They further mentioned that if you plan on lending money to your friends, don’t ever think of getting it back for the value of friendship is often broken when pit against monetary issues. Sometimes, friendship values more than money. The principle of lending money to a friend in need was probably the reason why we give it away in the first place.

You have to decide whether you want to maintain a friendship or get the money back. A friend would have made small payments, at least, and talked about what they could do, keeping whatever commitment they had made. A pretend friend makes excuses for a year.

The following is a quote taken from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 1 scene 3

I guess there is probably a reason as to such statements being made. It is so easy for a borrower to forget what they owe and for a lender to remember what is being owed thus tearing friendships and relations apart.

It is embarassing to hunt your money back. Sometimes, it makes you realise that you need to evaluate your friendship and set to find out who your true friends really are.

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10 years ago, with the same amount, I could only get this.

Its an IOMEGA Zip Drive that can only supply a capacity of only 250 MB.

1 TB = 1000 GB

1 GB = 1000 MB

So, 1 TB = 1000 000 MB ( One million MB)

How technology have evolved till this far really surprises me.

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This incident was not the reason that I wanted to blog. Actually, throughout the whole situation, I heard occasional banging on the wall or on some objects done by one of the Malay teenager who was presumably upset and mad that the argument is being blown out of proportion and had to vent his frustrations through such methods.

A few hours later, I was going to my parent’s house and realised who was the victim of his frustrations.

*Click on the pictures for a detail view

For your information, this is the storage door belonging to the particular block that was being damaged by the Malay teenager out of his anger. According to the Singapore Government’s statutes website, any person who commits any act of vandalism or attempts to do any such act or causes any such act to be done shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, and shall also, subject to section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code, be punished with caning with not less than 3 strokes and not more than 8 strokes.

The following is a video that I manage to capture with regards to yesterday’s incident. Towards the end of the video, you will be able to hear the sound of the bangings made by the teenager on the public property.

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