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Happy Ramadan to all Muslims. A netizen recently published a public service announcement calling for Singaporeans to be more patient when ordering food delivery. In the month of fasting, it is natural to expect delayed deliveries as Muslim riders have to break fast too.

A large number of delivery riders are Muslims and barely have time to break fast. Some of them break fast on the roads so that they can deliver the food on time, so Singaporeans should not be too demanding or insensitive towards their needs.

"Most food delivery providers are adopting a new scheme where the rider's salary is based on the number of orders they can deliver during their shift so please don't assume that if your order is late, the riders are taking their time. Also do note that the restaurants and foodcourts that you are ordering from also has customers dining in and they will always unfortunately be the shop's first priority."

There is, however, a good method to ensure that your food arrives on time. The netizen suggested for people to make their orders by 6.15pm so that the delivery riders have time. Otherwise, people can opt for alternative methods such as food pick-ups at various restaurants that offer the service. 

"As much as you want your food to be delivered as fast as possible us riders want to do the same so do take your own initiative to help the riders who in turn will help you.

At the end of the day we are just out here making money for ourselves and some for their families so we hope Singaporeans can make our lives just a bit easier and we will be eternally grateful for it."

LTA has revealed that plans are in the works for private hire operators to obtain a Street Hail Service Operator Licence (SSOL), which basically means companies such as Grab and Go-Jek can offer street hailing services if they obtain the licence.

Currently, private hire drivers can only do a booking based pick up system, meaning their drivers can only pick passengers up with prior bookings. Only taxi companies can do both street hailing services and booking services. In fact, most of a taxi's daily business comes from street hails, accounting for as much as 70% of the 650,000 taxi trips a day. 

In an already saturated market for taxi drivers, it seems like they will have more competion from the private hire operators, as once they have the licence to do so, this will eat up more of the pie on which taxi drviers use to survive. 

The taxi and private hire driver market is going to change once again.

Tampines Secondary School have given further updates of their two students who were caught on a video that has since gone viral online of them fighting. Both of the students were not injured in the fight, it was revealed. The school also revealed that the fight involved no animosity, and that it was arranged for fun between the students.

The fight, which allegedly took place in the toilet of the school itself, has got many people talking, not because of a violent nature of the fight, but the lack of violence or animosity towards the fight. Since it transpired that both the boys were not hurt, netizens agreed that this was some sort of an arranged fight, and that there was no animosity invovled, as revealed by the school subsequently.

In fact, at the end of the fight, both of the students actually hugged each other. With about 8 other students watching the fight, this could have been an arranged sparring match between both to copy the movie Fight Club. 

The student should be advised that following plot lines in movies is never a good idea. 

Tampines Secondary School has said that it was aware of a video during the rounds on social media, purpotedly showing two students fighting in a toilet, believed to be in the school itself.

The school said that they were looking into the video and that the two students have also been identified. Both the students are working with the school to aid in the investigations. The 48 seconds video first appeared on Monday on the Reddit platform, which shows the two boys punching and wrestling with each other. what gave them away was one of the boys wearing a red shirt that says 'Team Sirius'. Sirius happens to be one of the four houses in the School, and they wear a red t-shirt similar to the boy. 

In the video, the other boy was shirtless, and while the fighting were going on, 8 other boys were observing the fight. Eventually, the shirtless boy backed the other boy into a corner, and they stopped fighting when the onlookers told them to stop. The two boys then hugged each other.

It was not known if the boys were engaging in some sort of fight club scenario. 

Before you can even ask what else in Singapore can go up, it was announced that two ERP gantries, one located at CTE, and another at KPE, will have its rates increased starting today, 6 May.

LTA has announced that the rates will increase at these two locations to ease the traffic congestion there during peak period. The first gantry, located in the direction of the CBD on the CTE at Braddell Road will have to pay $2 instead of $1 between the time of 8:30am to 9:00am. The second gantry is located at the KPE near Defu flyover, heading towards central Singapore. The rate for this particular gantry will now be $4 instead of $3, and from the same timing of 8:30am to 9:00am. 

So, once again, prices are going up. You can be sure this will not be the last revision of ERP rates. 

NTU is now the latest university in Singapore to be hit by a peeping tom surge in hits residents' halls, as a third reported peeping tom incident was reported to have taken place in just three weeks.

In the latest incident, a Whatsapp message circulating among students said that the latest incident took place on the night of May 1 at the women's toilet on the third storey of Hall 4 in Block 22. It was understood that no police report was made, but NTU is providing support to the victim since the incident. The incident came to light when a red stool was seen near the toilet. It was believed the pervert used the red stool to peep into the toilet. The culprit is still not caught.

Those latest incident follows an earlier incident where 22 year old male student was reported to the police for filming a 20 year old female student showering in the residences, and another 19 year old man who was also reported to the police for taking photos of a anothe man in the showers in Hall 3. 

Just what makes the peeping Tom a current craze among students in our top two local universities?