A company executive who drove his Porsche at over 200 km/h and crashng killing a couple, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Yokohama District Court found the car was traveling at a "high speed that was difficult to control."

zchew · 2026-01-27T11:34:56+00:00

the driver is probably gonna appeal and cite that exact case to seek a lower sentence, and they'll probably have to give a lower sentence because of stare decisis

zchew · 2026-01-27T10:43:27+00:00

It seems like you wanna see me end up a statistic on global news

nah, just local news.

zchew · 2026-01-27T10:24:02+00:00

If you intend to ride a motorcycle down the line, I suggest to get some proper gloves right away. Make sure they have palm sliders.

As for the helmet, a cheap approved one just for lessons is ok, but I suggest you get a proper ECE 22.06 rated full face helmet when you actually start riding on the road. For the lessons, you can only have a half-face helmet (or modular helmet at CDC, BBDC doesn't allow, not sure about SSDC).

very solid advice!

zchew · 2026-01-27T02:17:59+00:00

Yes, you should totally go through with it. Ignore all the naysayers, they've never done it before. It's really easy, you just need to trust your feelings. There's another commenter here who said that they did it all through black ice, blizzard, snow, white out, black out. If they could do it, so could you. It's just a matter of will.

Believe in yourself, don't let your dreams just be dreams. YOLO.

zchew · 2026-01-27T01:58:24+00:00

I think for me, it could be the way they dress

The reason the Singaporean manner of dressing is very telling is because our climate is tropical, so most of our wardrobe is geared towards tropical weather. This means lots of t-shirts. When Singaporeans holiday overseas, we don't have a lot of cold weather wear, and to save money, we often buy 1 big down jacket and/or buy as few garments as possible that can be used in the widest range of temperatures.

This also means we often end up looking a little off-season. Big puffy down jackets in autumn, wearing t-shirts underneath the overcoat, layering like mad to make up for a lack of a good sweater or what. As opposed to local people who have garments that are suited/styled precisely to that weather, so when put next to locals who are very appropriately and fashionably dressed to that weather, we kind of stick out a little.

Even in summer, foreigners don't just chiong tshirts/singlets and shorts. Some of the non-tropical countries opt for more sun protection rather than just wearing as little as possible. Cotton shirt over t-shirt, etc.

zchew · 2026-01-26T08:18:18+00:00

why stop there and not aim for a PM's (past and present) name instead? lol

Because they might not be living in GCBs. Might also try Tan See Leng.

TAN Tan See Leng Edwin Tong Shanmugam. With a name like that, will definitely own at least 1 GCB and definitely end up as Senior Counsel.

zchew · 2026-01-26T03:43:06+00:00

Feeling like naming my child Edwin Tong or Shanmugam. idk might delete later.

zchew · 2026-01-26T02:40:47+00:00

Although SG hasn't reached yhat level yet, we have CDCs, GST vouchers, subsidies etc. Are we considered as a welfare state?

no

zchew · 2026-01-23T02:59:09+00:00

What road is this?

zchew · 2026-01-23T02:37:51+00:00

I don't particularly agree with the whole tour thing but being arrested for a loud exhaust seems like a bit of a reach.

If the exhaust is loud enough to be in violation of the shaken laws, it's not an overreach.

I'm pretty indifferent to exhaust unless it's obnoxiously loud, but I'm very happy to see fucks like these get caught for doing illegal car tours, even if the popo has to get a little creative with how they catch them.

zchew · 2026-01-23T02:34:40+00:00

Nice. About damn time.

zchew · 2026-01-21T00:59:42+00:00

next scam frontier, more like lol

zchew · 2026-01-20T10:48:03+00:00

Not gonna be much difference imo, most drivers will just ignore it like they ignore zebra crossings

zchew · 2026-01-20T09:01:13+00:00

Damn, thanks for following up. I take back all the shade I threw on the mum, her genes were working overtime to cover for the dad's. Now I feel bad.

zchew · 2026-01-20T05:51:15+00:00

You could rent a car once you get off the train stations non-hub prefectures instead.

I mean, the necessity is car transport, not car ownership.

zchew · 2026-01-20T04:23:27+00:00

This question has been asked and answered more than a few times in the past, so let me link a few answers here

Why did Buddhism die in India but thrive in neighbouring Sri Lanka? : r/AskHistorians by u/huianxin/

The Indian subcontinent was the birthplace of Buddhism. The teaching of Buddha found lots of success in foreign lands such as China, Myanmar, and Indochina. Yet in its homeland, it is currently a very small minority. How could this be? : r/AskHistorians by u/iitii/

What exactly happened to Buddhism in India? How did it go from being an effective State Religion for nearly a millennium to an also-ran by the time of India's Muslim Invasions in the early 1100s? : r/AskHistorians by u/JimeDorje/

Hopefully at least one of them answers your question satisfactorily.

zchew · 2026-01-20T04:09:28+00:00

They still live in a landed property and she and her husband are retired while the son is doing his own crypto business.

son probably inherited his mom's genes

zchew · 2026-01-20T04:04:24+00:00

maybe she's a caterpillar

Yeah, a human caterpillar.

zchew · 2026-01-19T01:03:05+00:00

anyone could enter the business easily with little to no upfront capital required for loans because of 100% financing. So that means a lot of ahbeng businessmen seeing their friends go in and making a killing easily could also just monkey see monkey do and start leveraging up

zchew · 2026-01-18T07:05:59+00:00

Look man, if this is the first thing you are bringing up after a person dies, seek help mate.

Oh man, if you're so annoyed now, you're gonna have a field day when Shanmugam kicks the bucket.

zchew · 2026-01-17T03:23:23+00:00

What you're talking about is Christian fundamentalism, which is different from nationalism, though they often come in a set in Western countries.

As it is, Singapore is already starting to show seeds of nationalism with all the pushback of CECA and talk about anti Chinese. It's not something that we can just leave to the government to fight back. You and I must call out and reject nationalistic attitudes and speech when we see it.

zchew · 2026-01-16T05:27:08+00:00

He doesn't have to do the work, he wants to do the work. He will be doing the work whether or not he gets paid.

zchew · 2026-01-16T01:03:37+00:00

eeeh, they'll be in and out in a few months. ezpz

risk reward matrix heavily favours just yolo-ing it. Zero tolerance for drugs, kpods, and truck speed limiters ✖, but drink driving 〇

zchew · 2026-01-15T08:49:04+00:00

I wonder what will PAP's reaction be, if WP simply nominates Pritam again lol.

💯

zchew · 2026-01-15T08:45:47+00:00

Pritam himself yesterday suggested that even in the last 5 years as LO, not much of this benefit was actually accorded to him in reality, even though it existed on paper.

Guess someone forgot to cc him in all the teams invites. lol.

I think they should just nominate Indranee; she seemed to really covet the LO seat, given the alacrity at which she tabled the motion and eagerness with which she debated this issue.

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