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Here's a story of an irresponsible gym instructor. 

Just last month, a man visited the Push, Pull, Give gym in Tiong Bahru and for a beginner's calisthenics workout. 

Calisthenics: A form of exercising comprising various gross motor movements

There, a young trainer made him go through a series of demanding workouts. At the second set of negative pull-ups, the man felt a sudden loss of strength but persisted through the second half of the session as it involved exercises for a different muscle group. 

At the end of the session, he was exhausted and dehydrated and thought he would be fine the next day. However, that wasn't all. 

"After just three hours of sleep that night, I woke with a start because my arms were on fire! My forearms and biceps hurt so much that I could not straighten them at all. The pain persisted all through the next day and the next night as well. On Saturday, my arms started to swell and they hurt like hell. Worse, my urine turned a dark yellow, almost brown. That was when I knew this was far more than just delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). I headed straight to the A&E at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. They took a blood test and as soon as the results came out, warded me immediately and put me on an IV drip. I was on the drip for three days."

The hospital told him that he was down with a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which basically means having an injured skeletal muscle. If serious, there could be life-threatening consequences. 

The worried man contacted his gym trainer who later visited him in hospital. He also promised to offer some compensation as a measure of goodwill. 

"But he never made the payment. And practically ghosted me thereafter.

I didn’t know what was going on.
 
Then, one of the other co-founders called for a face-to-face meeting with me on 12 February. He denied that I had suffered rhabdomyolysis in the class and insinuated that I could have been injured elsewhere, which was frankly ridiculous."
 
He thus decided to post it on Facebook to warn Singaporeans against potential injuries in the gym and to tell people to trust their bodies more than their supposedly experienced gym trainers. 
 
"Needless to say, I’m not going back to that gym." And in fact, he might not be alone.
 

A beautiful community garden at the Chempaka housing estate has been forced to be destroyed. In a Facebook post a few days ago, a resident of the estate said that the Prime Minister's Office had rejected his appeal to retain the garden. As a result, the residents there have only a week or two to vacate the place. 

The heartbroken uncle wrote another letter to Lee Hsien Loong to ask for his understanding. He feels that it is unfair for the government to remove the garden because of a petty dispute that happened some time ago due to a hit and run accident nearby. 

He said that none of the residents have complained about the garden for being an obstruction. On the contrary, many neighbours in the Chempaka estate have been helping to spruce up the garden for the past 12 years. Many of them are retirees who just want to keep the kampung spirit alive. It is really unfair that so much time and community effort go to waste.

"Many neighbours and I live here for many years. I live here for 26 years and we all are like one big family. Everything was so peaceful and we work together compromising each other at times to create harmonious, Kampong spirit and neighbourliness in our estate.

Your government encourage your humble citizens to create community garden, sharing to create neighbourliness and Kampong spirit but you make us think THRICE and we will consider very hard before we want to do anything further in future."

If the government continues to be indifferent about it, the residents will start raising funds to pay off their summons.

"We are arranging resources this Sunday and next Sunday to destroy and remove everything that we had put in our hard work, efforts and creativity over the years and to close this chapter on our community work and move on with life. After all, we seniors has limited time left in this mortal life but we believe WE HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. WE HAVE FINISHED THE RACE. WE KEEP OUR FAITH."

Those who want to have a last look at the Chempaka garden are encouraged to pay a visit this weekend. Before it is too late.

SCDF firefighters just spent the entire night of 4 March, or about 13 hours so far, of battling a vegetation fire that broke out near the Lim Chu Kang Chinese cemetery on 4 March, and reports indicated that the fire has yet to be fully extinguished.

They were alerted to the fire on on Monday morning, as of night time, the firefighters were still battling the fire. The fire was described as "slow-burning" and "deep-seated" and had burned through an approximately one football field length of vegetation. To make things worse, the fire was aided by extremely windy conditions and thick vegetation. The nearest fire hydrants was also about 2km away, so the firemen had to manually lay the hoses from the fire hydrants.

They are assisted by portable pumps, that were placed at strategic locations at various points to help boost water pressure for effective firefighting. The firefighting was so long, that temporary rest and refreshment area was set up for the firefighters to take turns recuperating. 

Local activist Jolovan Wham is under investigation again for allegedly protesting outside the State Courts. All Wham did was to hold up a piece of A4-sized paper that read: "Drop the charges against Terry Xu and Daniel De Costa" and take a photo of himself. He left the place almost immediately. 

Angry at being investigated again, Wham accused the mainstream media and police for publishing fake news and "mischaracterising" him. According to the mainstream media, Wham had applied for a permit to stage a protest outside the State Courts but was rejected. It reported that he went ahead despite being told otherwise. However, the said application was actually for an event on 10 Dec 2018 - separate from the one where he simply held a piece of A4-sized paper. 

"The current investigation is for a photo I had taken on December 13 and has nothing to do with the human rights day event I tried to obtain a permit for. For the police to mention my application of this event together with the photo I took on December 13 is misleading."

Wham also said that he was never informed that the State Courts is a prohibited area for protest. Nevertheless, he maintained that he did not mean for it to be one. Instead, he merely wanted to show solidarity for his friends. 

He criticised the Singapore government for depriving citizens of the chance to peaceful assembly and defended that having one person alone does not constitute an "assembly". 

"Singapore cannot call itself a developed nation and a democracy if it continues to crack down on peaceful acts where even a photo op is criminalised...  It is mind boggling that investigations for this were initiated and my personal mobile phone was confiscated for an action which did not cause any harm."

What an alarmist culture. The Singapore government should not attack citizens at every chance it gets as it just makes them look petty and immature. Same goes for our mainstream media. Go on, they can continue to be in denial and think that Singaporeans still have faith in them. We'll see who laughs at the end. 

 

Are you one of those that was plagued with the bad customer service from Singpost? Despite the many horror stories online, many others have actually never experienced anything negative from Singpost. This particular Redditporean was one of them.. Until now. 

This Redditporean did her usual online shopping and was expecting her packages to arrive safely like how it has happened for her the previous few years. However this time, Singpost decided that it was time for her to taste their infamous service for real. You can read her full post here:

I was expecting 3 packages to be delivered last week. I successfully recieved 2 of them on the afternoon of 1 March, they were both delivered at the same time by SingPost. Later in the evening I checked the tracking status of the remaining undelivered package only to find out that a delivery was attempted but failed, and a delivery advice was issued. And for some bizzare reason it was on transit to Bishan PO when my missed packages normally transits to CCK PO cos that is the nearest one to my house. I attempted a redelivery/redirect request via their website but the request did not seem to go through. However seeing it was in the evening, I decided to call back the following day.

So I called the following morning. I was greeted by a gentlemen who told me that I already arranged for a redirect from Bishan PO to CCK PO (So apparently the request I made via the website went through?), and that it will be ready to collect in 3 working days. He even gave me the details on how to collect it and that I can track it via the SingPost website, fair enough.

Then... I checked the tracking on 4 March and saw that a redelivery was attempted but failed YET AGAIN and that ANOTHER delivery advice was issued. I called 1605, but operators seemed busy, so I opted for the next best thing - Live Chat. The lady over chat told me I in fact opted for a redelivery instead of a redirect (lol wut?) and since the request can only be made once, I have no choice but to manually collect the package at Bishan PO, which is going to be an inconvience for me as I live in CCK. I kept asking for an explanation on why the 2 delivery attempts never took place, but she repeated kept replying with the usual copy/paste sentences and their delivery SOP's. (You can see some snippets of the convo here) It honestly felt like I was talking to a bot instead of a live chat. (Again, see pics) She either did not seem to understand what I was asking or she was completely unaware of how to handle my request. Or perhaps SingPost deliberately instructed their live chat to not divulge too much info? Frustrated, I decided it was hopeless to continue our conversation so I thanked her and ended the chat there.

Nevermind the redirect request didn't get through. What I want now is an explanation on why the deliveries never took place, and also why was the "missed package" somehow got sent to Bishan. Although I do find the former to be even more bizzare.

My best guess is upon arrival at the sorting center, my package got mixed up in the wrong batch of other packges meant for delivery in another region of Singapore. And SingPost took the easy way out by simply marking it as a failed delivery attempt instead of noticing the address and redirecting it to the nearest PO for it. I've been shopping online for years, I hardly ever buy stuff from retail anymore, and my family has generally had good experiences with SingPost unlike all the horror stories my friends tell me and those I see on the internet. But after this, I'm not sure anymore.

TL;DR - SingPost never delivered my package TWICE, live chat was pretty much as good as talking to a bot, and now I have no choice but to travel down to Bishan PO from CCK (where I live) just to collect my package or it will be sent back to the sender.

Welp. Looks like the apology and promises to improve their service did little to nothing as we continue to see negative comments by netizens. 

 

A Private Hire Car had an impromptu car wash when it was found inside a children's swimming pool at a Geylang condominium on Sunday morning. Photos that have been circulating on social media shows the front two wheels of the red Honda Shuttle half-submerged in the pool.

Another photo also shows that the car would have to been driven over several metres of a grass patch and onto a pedestrian path before it eventually reached the swimming pool, thus realistically giving the driver enough time to react or to actually stop the car. The incident happened on early Sunday morning at Sims Green Condominium, which is located at 27A Geylang. Witnesses said the driver appeared to be an elderly man, who was not injured but appeared to be shocked. 

It was not known how the driver failed to notice the grass patch, the pedestrian path, and the swimming pool before he went for his car wash, but some suspect he might have gone for carpooling. 

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