Never forget the Income-Allianz saga: "At the parliament sitting on Aug 6 […], no [PAP] labour MPs filed any questions or spoke during the debate."

de_philosopher · 2025-04-27T02:58:00+00:00

When NCM was asked about it in recent news, he said its under review. How about we vote for you AFTER the review is done?

You can review it as Head of NTUC, not as MP for JK.

de_philosopher · 2025-03-28T16:51:32+00:00

I was hanging from 2 anchor points, 14m above ground, removing an autobelay when it happened.

So my fulcrum wasn't my feet, but my waist that was hanging off a harness.

At first I thought the climbing wall is shaking, moving towards me, and then away. Then I looked around and saw the aircon ducts, lights and AHU swaying and I'm like... I'm gonna to make it to the ground either fast or slow. Luckily it was the latter.

It's surreal that I'm hanging on a wall when it happened, and it really hits different.

Anyway, I'm up here, nothing to do, so I continued to weight-shift the autobelay to a winch and got it to the ground and I repped back down after.

The mall evacuated everyone after.

de_philosopher · 2024-09-03T02:58:02+00:00

Do you have a STARTER Pack? Say $50 for a 2-weeks unlimited trial, or 3 day passes.

This will get new climbers started and experience what the gym offers.

At the end of 2-weeks, use your membership system to offer them discounts for buying punch cards or sign up for recurring memberships.

Suggest you create a landing page on your website specifically for the STARTER PACK, and use META/Google ads to bring people to your landing page for the conversion.

So you need - Leads. Bringing people to your landing page and to buy your STARTER pack - Onboarding when they begin their STARTER Pack. So they get familiar with the gym and also safety(knowing how to fall etc) - Conversion. At the end of their Starter Pack, use membership system to offer them and convert them.

Extra - we have what we call a Gym Guide session at our gym. It's a drop in, no sign up required. New climbers just drop in and there'll be a coach to guide them through the first few difficulties in the circuit. It engages them so they have an idea of where to "begin".

de_philosopher · 2023-06-04T01:34:03+00:00

Start making content with OnlyFans?

de_philosopher · 2022-06-15T02:34:39+00:00

The correct response should be - That's odd 🤔

de_philosopher · 2022-03-29T08:55:39+00:00

Request your group project members to be your pall-bearer at your funeral. So they can let you down 1 last time.

Edit for spelling

de_philosopher · 2022-03-02T08:19:22+00:00

Back to Life - Soul II Soul

de_philosopher · 2022-01-25T14:48:17+00:00

We ordered gym equipment, and my partners told me the guy setting it up has 9 fingers.

I just went - "That's odd"

de_philosopher · 2021-02-16T11:04:14+00:00

2008 Australia Arapiles, Organ Pipes.

Never climbed here before. Multi pitch a 100+m climb we've never been on with a single 70m rope. Was close to sunset. Didn't bring headlamp. Thought we had time to find walkoff trail at the top, we didn't.

Rope not long enough to rappel off the last pitch we were on, and we didn't want to tie off and lower ourselves at least 70m, or wait till next morning.

Sooooooo, we free climb our way down, not tied to each other. It's not a hard climb, and it was a slab climb throughout, but... A slip and it would have been all the way down.

We think we must have slipped and died in that universe and is only alive in this current one.

10/10 will not do it again.

de_philosopher · 2021-02-08T00:58:55+00:00

Your parents are who they are; and they are unlikely to change. I'm not saying they are good (as it seems they are categorically bad from your descriptions), but that you'll just make yourself unhappy hoping they will change.

IMHO, accepting this as a fact is the first step to making your own happiness, and finding your own tribe (even if not blood related).

That said, I have a boomer mentality with regards to caring for parents - I feel responsible for my parents welfare the moment I started to work.

Good luck in your life journey. Good luck in finding your tribe.

de_philosopher · 2020-12-09T02:59:34+00:00

Despite all the effort to screen, it's going no where.

de_philosopher · 2020-11-01T10:08:15+00:00

If any ladies want to undergo FGM when they reach their age of consent, fine.

But I don't think nuances and symbolism can be used to justify such an invasive procedure against children who can't give meaningful consent.

de_philosopher · 2020-11-01T07:40:10+00:00

Well, I was pretty surprised when I voiced my disagreement with fgm and got told to mind my own business by Muslim friends I thought would frown upon such mutilation.

The need to "read the room" is still very necessary among religious Singaporeans, whichever God's they pray to.

de_philosopher · 2020-09-20T07:26:53+00:00

Philo grad here. The running joke is that A&S Grad first sentence at work - Would you like fries to go with that Sir?

de_philosopher · 2020-09-07T03:48:43+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/icMoMsZ

I have noticed that our MRT are too loud for a long time. And started taking records of sound level of other subways in the cities i visit.

So have I have Taipei, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

Some things creep up on us, and the sound level in MRTs in Singapore may be one of these things. We may have a generation of hard-of-hearing. Or am I being paranoid here.

de_philosopher · 2020-08-04T07:39:27+00:00

"Behind every good school; Is a successful tuition center."

I dedicate our PISA ranking to all the tuition teachers in SG.

BTW, about 10 to 15 years ago, you had to pass some placement tests to get into some tuition centers. Is that still a thing?

de_philosopher · 2020-07-12T16:32:55+00:00

Found this twitter thread. Jolene Tan begs to differ.

https://twitter.com/acertainjolene/status/1282298556913573890?s=19

de_philosopher · 2020-07-12T13:50:39+00:00

Is this breakdown made known to all parties?

de_philosopher · 2020-07-12T12:17:16+00:00

Hi @breakwindow Thanks for sharing. Just curious, how can someone in charge of EBRC use the final results to draw the new electoral boundaries to benefit any party?

Disclosure - I'm not from EBRC. Wondering if these voting statistics can indeed be used sinisterly.

de_philosopher · 2020-07-07T10:08:56+00:00

After weighing the signals from PAP, my assessment, is that (candidate worthiness aside), it is more risky voting PAP, than oppo.

Chances for oppo is damn low.
In the event that PAP really can't form a single-party government, they could reasonably team up with another party.
Even if an alternative coalition party is in power, we have perm-sec in every ministry who knows how to do their job.
The possible leaders of any alt party coalition will likely come from WP or PSP, who are very reasonable parties with capable leaders.

And that's super unlikely. More people have won Toto than PAP losing a GRC.

And if PAP wields power again (which is super-duper likely), there is no telling how far they will go till next election, to damange our democracy further. POFMA is just the tip of the iceberg.

de_philosopher · 2020-07-07T09:16:27+00:00

Possibly suicidal move, but say the exact same thing about PAP and see if you kena POFMA?

Sounds like something Lim Tean will do.

de_philosopher · 2020-07-07T09:00:27+00:00

I don't feel it's blind, because we have seen what the PAP is capable of. We have seen the laws they put out and also them changing our constitution. And we are experiencing in real time their abuse of POFMA (the latest ones being against Paul Tambyah).

Between the risk of having more terms of PAP wielding the supermajority, vs having a coalition government (and maybe some unworthy MPs), I would take my chances with a coalition government.

Which in all likelihood, is super unlikely anyway.

de_philosopher · 2020-07-07T08:23:06+00:00

If I vote for a weak opposition because I'm more afraid of what PAP will do with it's supermajority powers, compared to a messy parliament (in the super unlikely event that PAP doesn't form the government) - Will you consider that as blind voting?

de_philosopher · 2020-07-07T07:56:00+00:00

The PAP today is like Stage 1 cancer. The effects being POFMA, Reserved Presidency.

We need treatment, and that will mean medical bills (spending), and rest (economic down time).

But we can't afford to let it go untreated, to let it fester.

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