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Twitter user Madhu (@H0NEYBIX) shared a series of Instastory screen captures to share about her own experience of being stereotyped by a fellow Singaporean. She thought she was being nice in helping the lady to do a survey. However at the end of it, the lady started telling her to buy skin lightening creams.

The lady then mentioned that it was rare for a Singaporean Indian to live in a condominium. The lady also went on to talk about India being a bad country despite them both being Singaporeans.

You can see her tweets here below:

Madhu has also contacted the company and they have apologized for the incident.

This shows that stereotypes are still very much alive in Singapore. Is there anything more we can do to help lessen the stereotypes in Singapore? Shouldn't we all live in harmony?

A lady lost her mobile phone and has an idea of who took it but she's not complaining. Instead, she has message for the thief.

According to the owner, she carelessly left the Huawei Nova 3i phone at a cubicle in the female toilet located on the fourth floor of J Cube. 

There was only one lady who came into the cubicle after her. The owner suspects that this lady is the one who took the phone and later switched it off.

The owner is angry at herself for her carelessness, but not at the suspected thief. She won't even report this to the police.

Her only plea to the thief is that she does not do "bad things" to the photos and memories kept in the SD card. 

She wants to leave you with this advise - don't be too trusting as people are not as honest as you think.

A netizen complained that Singpost left his parcel at his door while he was overseas. What's going to happen if someone steals the parcel?

"I was overseas when the parcel was delivered to me & placed at the door step. So, it seems like SingPost is very rich, to compensate receivers who had their parcels stolen, which was placed like my parcel shown in the photo.

According to my previous encounter, normal parcels like this, they will put inside the 24-hours kiosks. However, for this, they couldn't even be bothered to bring back. What the HECK is going on with SingPost????"

A video of an elderly grandmother and her domestic helper became viral recently. In the video taken by a member of the public at the Geylang Bahru Market and Food Centre, the main can be seen to be physically mistreating the grandmother.

The granddaughter has now revealed that the old lady is a dementia patient who is unable to recall anything or enyone except for the maid.

She is also unable to carry out daily essential tasks on her own.

For the granddaughter, the video was heartbreaking. 

The maid in the video was just one in a series of domestic helpers that the family hired since the long-term maid retired due to old age. She was also the third one since the grandmother's dementia took a turn for the worse.

The grandaughter lamented that  "It sucks because I want to be [giving] like my grandmother, but seeing how she was treated like shit by a stranger, it tells me that people don't actually treat you nice just because you are a nice person."

Miss Irah, an online-business entrepreneur, recently shared a tormenting GrabPay incident. Read for this may happen to you too!

"This will be a long post.. U may read if u wish to know more what happen about my Grabpay incident which happen to me today. I would like to share and alert other seller... Ignore if u wish to ya..

What happen today really unexpected. This morning a customer ordered some foods from me so after liasing with her she paid me full amount of $110 to me via GRABPAY CREDIT and send me a screenprint/proof of payment which than i did not received any payment after checking my bank transaction.."   

Money not received is a problem. But here comes a bigger one..

So cut story short i asked her to call Grabfood/Grabpay hotline to verify with them. After she check with them (GrabHotline) they told her that payment already wen thru my Grab Account. I did not have any account with Grab Company and i did not registered my company with them but transaction wen thru my mobile no. I dont know how on earth this happen.. So customer called me up asking me to call Grab company to rectify the issue which i think its not my end who need to rectify the issues but no choice i agreed to it and call up Grab company to liase with them. So i call and spoke to Mr Adi from Grab and settle the issue. According to Mr Adi i have an account with them.. So i told him I DID NOT OPEN UP ANY ACCOUNT WITH THEM AND THRU OUT MY 4 YEARS IN THIS HOMEBASED BUSINESS THIS THING NEVER HAPPEN BEFORE AND HOW DID THE ACCOUNT BEING CREATED WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE? Mr Adi claimed that account was being AUTO CREATED... I REPEAT AUTO CREATED FOR ME!!!!

Walaowei. Grab can auto create account eh?? #AUTOCREATED.

I than ask Mr Adi to refund customer the $110 which i have not received and call customer to explain further regards to the refund procedure as again it is NOT MY PART OR EVEN MY DUTY TO DO SO.

And she specifically told the Grab officer this,

I already told Mr Adi to BLOCK MY ACCOUNT... IF I KNOW WHO CREATED THE ACCOUNT USING MY MOBILE NO I WILL MAKE A POLICE REPORT AND PURSUE THE MATTER FURTHER. Cos i know u can withdrawl the cash out using other bank acc by transfering the credit from GRABCREDIT to other bank acc...

In good faith, Miss Irah wants to advice those who in the same line of business. Hope that this can be a sharing lesson for all.

I would like to alert seller to take note on this.. If this could happen to me it is possible to happen to others as well.. To all buyers/customers please only pay ur orders as what being stated in ur order invoice... Common payment mode as for now is PAYNOW, PAYLAH AND DIRECT BANK TRANSFER... NO SUCH THING AS PAYLATER, GRABPAY OR GRABCREDIT.... So please make a habit to read up ur invoice carefully ya. 

Social Media Strategist, Levan Wee, shared pictures of an email to a old secondary school teacher of his. Years ago, this particular secondary school teacher made a comment to Wee that made him remember the teacher for life. 

Wee has albinism, mainly characterized in humans by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Due to this condition, the teacher in question made a remark which showed that he was looking down on Wee. The incident stuck with Wee all his life and he decided to make the best out of his life to prove the teacher wrong. You can read the email here:

It's great to see that he did not let that comment bring him down, but instead, making him live his life to his fullest potential.

That teacher might have not been the best, but at the end of the day, but it still encouraged him to do more with his life.