Tag: singapore
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Car-centric cities
Having been fortunate enough to have seen quite a few parts of the world, and having been in Singapore for 6 years now — I’ve been able to start comparing places and looking at the “where next” question. With Ila on the way, both as a parent and if I were a kid still —…
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A Wes Anderson-ish Singapore
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Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
[…] [migrant workers] labor and their identities are clearly commodified, something which is, at times, heartbreakingly visible. In a country that’s notoriously obsessed with safety, where jaywalking and failing to wear a seatbelt can be punished with jail time, migrant workers can be transported on the expressways in the back of goods vehicles. Calls for…
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#PGHomeStories | Yeri Tiete & Shan Wong’s Home Refinancing Journey
Shan and I recorded this a few months ago for PropertyGuru. Didn’t know it was also on YouTube (they were mostly using it in ads and on facebook/Instagram). Keeping it here as archive. 🙂
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Singapore Metro
For the Metro nerds among us…
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Talent drain?
“City of London Faces Brexit Talent Drain“. I guess that was not unexpected. This could level the playing fields a bit for other big capitals like Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and maybe even Brussels. […] a report by several City organizations said that Brexit was making it harder and more expensive to hire foreign staff. International…
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Covid-19 communication
How Singapore went from clear, simple and stable communication surrounding Covid, to total chaos — losing people’s interest and understanding. To the point, there’s now Covid bingo. I quote, in case they one day decide to delete it all: Insanity.
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Continuous Sidewalks
Living in Singapore — a city extremely unfriendly towards bicycles and pedestrians (to the point they banned e-scooters because they had to blame someone for the accidents, and it couldn’t be the cars) I started paying attention to urban design in Europe and started noticing the little things I wouldn’t pay attention before. Having just…
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Hong Kong housing
Video from 2018. Since then, we’ve seen the riots (revolution?) in HKG. Suddenly, the HDBs in Singapore make a lot more sense, and we should credit the SG Housing Board for their solution (sure, HDBs are not perfect, but compared to those cages…).
