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Yay, a third community fridge has just been launched at Stirling Rd! Thanks to volunteers, residents there can better reduce food wastage and help the needy at the same time. 

The community fridge, which is located at Blk 166 Stirling Rd, educates residents that ugly vegetables can still be eaten and encourages them to stop food wastage. According to a volunteer at SG Food Rescue, residents have already benefited from the programme and more are joining in to contribute to the cause.

Isn't this a good idea? Perhaps community fridges can help revive the kampung spirit in Singapore! ;)

A retired Singaporean man who was in Palu to take part in a paragliding event over the weekend ended up being a hero of sorts, when he helped rescue a girl and her mum from first being stuck under the debris of the hotel he was staying at, and then escape the tsunami that followed.

53 year old Ng Kok Choong said he had just left the Mercure Hotel where he was staying at, when the ground started shaking violently. Realising immediately that he was in an earthquake, he saw the hotel building collapse, and then also noticed that the sea close to what was left of his hotel becoming rough and waves were building up. He immediately rushed back to Mercure Hotel to escape the incoming Tsunami, but instead came across a mother and her daughter stuck under the debris. Together with his friend, they managed to free the girl, but not the mother. The trio managed to escape the tsunami, and when the water cleared, Ng went back and was relieved to see the mother still alive. 

The mother was finally freed when Ng and a few locals manged to lift the heavy concrete that was trapping the woman. Ng is now safely back in Singapore, after successfully being evacuated on Sunday. 

According to some online reports, a Policeman get more than he bargained for when his chase after an alleged molester ended in him jumping into the canal, Hollywood style, to nab the man.

The 26 year old man was alleged to have molested a woman worshiper in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, and also was creating a scene there disturbing the peace before he fled. The man, alleged to be drunk, then decided his best way of escape was to jump into the Rochor Canal and swim under the tunnel there. However, the police who were hot on his trail, did not let him get away, with one officer jumping in to apprehend the man.

In videos seen of the incident, the policeman was seen holding onto the shirtless man, while other officers rush to throw a lifebuoy to the duo. The man was seen to be struggling, but the video ended without showing how the two got out of the canal. 

Police confirmed that a 26 year old man was arrested for using abusive words against public servant, intentional harassment and drunkenness in public places. He could be the first person ever in Singapore arrested by the police while having a forced swim in a canal. 

RIP. A full-time SAF NS man has passed on. He was found hanging by a rope, motionless in his office this morning. The incident happened at Sembawang Air Base. The deceased was a transport operator from the 706 Squadron.

MINDEF and SAF have expressed their condolences to the NS man's family. 

Investigations are ongoing.

What's happening to our younger generation? This is already the 2nd case in two months. What can be done to prevent more tragedies? 

Condolences to the grieving family :(

Local beverage company Pokka have been reported to have suspended its CEO since last week, in what the company calls an internal shake up in their management. The suspended CEO, Mr Alain Ong, is also the husband of local actress Vivian Lai, who is also Pokka's brand ambassador for the past decade.

The spokesman for Pokka confirms that Mr Ong was suspended, but he remains a staff of the company and also added that none of their companies or their employees are being investigated by outside organisations. However, the company also did not disclose why the drastic suspension measures.

Despite her husband being suspended as CEO of the company, Vivian Lai remains a brand ambassador, and only just recently signed a $1m deal with the company. Maybe the couple are making Pokka, pokai? 

To repeal or not to repeal? That is the question. 

The latest hoo-ha regarding S377A involves a police report against a blog post on singaporeaffairs.wordpress.com. The blog responded to Prof Tommy Koh's comments on the issue by claiming that most Singaporeans are against homosexuality. It saw a need for a law like S377A to "police morality".

"So, the repeal activists want is for us to gamble the future of our society just to impress some Western liberals that we are 'progressive'... It would be wholly irresponsible to risk that progress by indulging in social experimentation to appease the whims of a very tiny minority".

Judging from how narrow-minded the author sounds, it is no surprise that many people are unhappy. Facebook user Raymond Ng lodged a police report against the blog for spreading fake news and "also Sedition, aiming to convert our secular democratic society to a theocratic society.

That cowardly author did not leave a name. Hopefully the Singapore Police Force would be able to investigate".

So drama. To repeal or not to repeal? There is no answer.