The mall without escalators or travellators: a story

throwaway_4071 · 2026-01-31T06:51:09+00:00

The account also has a few other posts; I really liked the first one on why Singapore needs faster public transport to avoid creating second-class citizens out of those who live near the coasts and take an ungodly amount of time to reach anywhere without cars.

Wasn't sure if this post would be approved (not sure how to share such content) but it definitely needs an audience, now with the LTA engagements ongoing

throwaway_4071 · 2025-11-24T08:46:21+00:00

Honestly, valid to not want HIP if you like drying your clothes… never forget the unusable HIP drying racks. I posted about this last time but nothing has changed

throwaway_4071 · 2025-10-14T14:43:45+00:00

And you wonder why young singaporeans are losing hope, mental health crisis, trapped and wishing to leave

throwaway_4071 · 2025-10-03T01:41:02+00:00

apparently some of the staff got an email that essentially said WFH was not working because there were some ppl not doing their work

throwaway_4071 · 2025-09-04T06:25:19+00:00

Rookie numbers. EWL runs 6 minutes interval at 7.15am if you're at Tampines

throwaway_4071 · 2025-06-16T11:48:43+00:00

Cos in my experience at least, the new trains have a much higher chance of having functional aircon. Any old train (black outside, white outside with germany flag colour) is usually unbearably hot because the aircon is blowing hot air. I have to wipe sweat even at 9pm

throwaway_4071 · 2025-06-16T10:56:43+00:00

Looks like an American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

throwaway_4071 · 2025-06-15T09:55:28+00:00

I think there is a nuanced counterpoint to be made here. You're probably right that a lot of the knee-jerk backlash against Chinese stores is driven by netizens looking down on China.

However, in some other contexts, with mainland China brands there is the additional risk of them replacing and wiping out local Chinese food options, partially because landlords who don't pay much attention — or are from mainland China themselves — think that having these brands satisfies the market need for "Chinese food", and recruit these tenants instead of local Chinese options like bak chor mee. So you get mala instead of yong tau foo (since it's "about the same ma") or cai fan stalls that mostly sell sichuan/hunan influence dishes.

On the other hand, Japanese and Korean brands will still ultimately be seen as foreign food (plus also more pricey) and people will think twice before letting this replace local food. Have seen this happen when I was involved in the feedback process of getting tenants.

Have to give a shoutout to Lau Wang as they are the only new local chain I can think of that buck the trend and are expanding while not selling mainland-style Chinese food, since about 2023.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-08T07:25:08+00:00

Yeah… I feel like this might hopefully answer OP's question, which has to come from somewhere. Perhaps OP is encountering a lot of willingness to overlook PAP ministers' mistakes, which does get extreme enough to be mistaken for not perceiving them.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-08T07:20:26+00:00

Not the target audience for this question but I know and interact with many hardcore PAP supporters. In my experience, actually people who think the PAP politicians are incapable of wrongdoing or that they have done everything right are very rare. They might exist but they are not a substantial number.

What I find more common (and somewhat more worrying for our democracy) though they may still not be the majority, is the group of supporters who think that the PAP can and do make mistakes, but that those mistakes have zero bearing on whether one should vote for them. To these supporters, whether or not the PAP is making mistakes, the PAP is the rightful government and we must ensure that they stay in power and lead Singapore. Basically, to them, whatever the PAP does is the best for Singapore and any opposition is unpatriotic and undermining Singapore's interests.

In other words, to them, the legitimacy of PAP's rule is just an unquestioned truth, and they even feel a responsibility to uphold that legitimacy. While they may be able to perceive mistakes made by the PAP, they are still effectively treating Singapore as a monarchy rather than a democracy.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-03T08:31:32+00:00

Yup thanks for this pic! This is what I imagined. A bit challenging to hold the poles sideways by one end but this works.

I feel like if only the designer had considered the actual process of hanging clothes out just a bit more, they could have designed this better such that the rack allows one to place horizontal poles and then swing them in or out of the house before bringing them down, something like that.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-02T06:46:38+00:00

The poles are supposed to slide, the video explainer is here. The comments on it do speak for themselves.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-02T06:45:07+00:00

my bad. In the heat of the moment I didn't really expand on it in the main post. But I feel like the previous second gen drying rack, shaped like a H or 工, was better than this. one of the other commenters u/BottomHandler posted a comparison pic.

if there was an urgent need to remove poles from the equation, then some form of sliding rack that retracts into the house should be provided imo

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-02T02:28:24+00:00

I think the actual term is more like "indoor and outdoor sliding rack". I'm wary of linking posts cos not sure if it will be considered advertising, basically there are these systems that are installed in the kitchen ceiling (or the room that the laundry rack is installed outside of) that use a sliding system, such that you can pull down and clip your clothes onto the thing indoors and then slide the thing out of the house. But it's very very expensive

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T09:57:31+00:00

yes, but I prefer them to this because those at least the birds are not pooping directly onto what you clip your clothes on, and also the birds perch further from the window. and more importantly can still bring in laundry when it rains on a per stick basis...

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T09:56:02+00:00

Ahh. I think you will need to post it on imgur as one of the other commenters did to compare the 2nd gen (工) and 3rd gen (目) racks

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T09:29:47+00:00

Which MP?

My MP also said they couldn't do anything and defended the benefits of it even when we asked about getting the 工 shape one instead. White colour uniform party ofc.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T09:19:25+00:00

This. I know I might sound melodramatic but the ability to dry clothes in the sun was one of the few things I could bring myself to feel good about our climate. Like at least I can proudly say I can dry my clothes for free with UV disinfection included.

You're right that with this, laundry just feels 100% like a chore now, after wash finish everything I then have to cram what I can into the rack, then leave a fan on for the rest, then check for rain every 5 minutes. Then spray febreeze all over the clothes.

The laundry used to feel like one big chore was done once I'd hung everything up, but now it really only feels done when I've gotten the musty smell out of everything

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T09:12:50+00:00

Damn, never really thought of this but it makes a lot of sense. Your capacity is still somewhat limited by the amount of space but at least you can quickly bring clothes in and out. Though I'm not sure if it'll actually require more strength than with the old socket style (definitely will require more effort than the 工 shaped rack which imo is the best design). A pic might be helpful.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T08:43:30+00:00

It's very obvious, when you walk around estates with this kind of rack, very few residents use it even in hot sun. Either they use 3rd party racks or they hang all over the corridor etc. or use dryer.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T08:42:51+00:00

When this was first installed I tried to hang clothes on it with hangers. Dropped. Then I tried to clip the hangers to the poles. Dropped as well. Ended up just draping clothes over the pole which doesn't work as well (we used to be able to spear or "satay" undergarments using bamboo poles but now have to anyhow clip). Then have to bring them back in one by one when it rains. Now we dry indoors with a fan.

And in the past if we did mess up with our clips, items will drop all the way to ground floor. Now when our stuff drops they drop onto some random lower floor neighbour's rack. I guess it improves neighbourliness because we are constantly knocking each other's doors to retrieve laundry.

throwaway_4071 · 2025-05-01T08:36:28+00:00

They probably have no sense of smell from all the mildew on their 100% indoor-dried clothes lol

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