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dont worry... east coast, katong, marine parade got many robert dua kumgong to pay excessive money for normal food. If U go katong shopping center basement... those dua kumgong willing to queue up to pay high price to see a dancing chao ah gua selling very normal chickn rice. @Homelander @HarrisY

Sic dis cheap n goot lobang wif my avid kgk followers After dis will have strength n vitality for last date wif atb gf for year of the rat wahaha

of course no craving la else we will suspect you are pregnant LOL

Dis ish slum area rah Near my slum are all slums haiz

I think need to pay a lot more for that kinda service

you put in your safety measures and enforce it. let the people do what they want. if still cannot control the crowd, shut it down. why need to go on national papers to shame them?

Employees work on a lithography machine at ASML in the Netherlands. While in-house technical personnel can be trained in the basic operation of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, chip makers will always need on-site support. Photo: Bloomberg After reading a report last week that said China was stockpiling chip-making equipment to protect against future US trade sanctions, I was reminded of two old proverbs: “There’s a sucker born every minute” and “laughing all the way to the bank”. Last year, Chinese companies spent almost US$32 billion buying such equipment from suppliers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere, a 20 per cent jump from 2019, according to a Bloomberg analysis of official trade data. Separately, trade group SEMI forecast that total chip equipment sales by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to China reached US$18.1 billion last year, up from US$13.4 billion in 2019. Stockpiling semiconductors is one thing, but stockpiling the complex, high-priced machinery that makes them, is another – and comes with risks. This can only end badly for both sides. While it might make sense to stockpile machinery used to manufacture, say, smartphones or laptops, the approach won’t work for wafer fabrication gear that can cost several tens of millions of dollars apiece. It’s like trying to secure the supply of Coca-Cola by acquiring the bottling plants, but without the “secret” ingredients needed for its signature taste. Chips, unlike Coke, not only require secret ingredients – chemicals, gases, and even lightwaves – but also highly skilled people who know and understand the complex “recipes” to achieve the finished product. And different recipes are needed depending on the type of chip being made. While in-house technical personnel can be trained in the basic operation of the machines, a chip maker will always need on-site support from the OEM that designed and built the machine in the first place. To illustrate why having the machines alone won’t help, look at the case of Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co, a Chinese DRAM start up. It had US$5.65 billion in state funding to build a new wafer fab and fit it out with the latest chip making tools – including gear from US suppliers like Applied Materials and Lam Research. But after Jinhua was indicted by the US Justice Department in November 2018 for alleged economic espionage against US-based Micron Technology, Jinhua was blacklisted and US companies were not allowed to do business with it. Within days of the announcement, Applied, Lam and other foreign equipment suppliers recalled their on-site engineers, leaving the machines sitting idle on the wafer fab floor. Jinhua never produced a single DRAM and is now out of business. Laughing all the way to the bank Semiconductor equipment vendors have been posting record quarterly results that have propelled their share prices upwards – and much of that is driven by China’s chip-equipment buying binge. Applied Materials, the largest US maker of chip tools, reported that 34 per cent of its fourth quarter sales went to China, up from 29 per cent for the full year of 2019 Lam Research, one of the biggest suppliers to Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, is even more dependent on China sales. As a proportion of its total revenue, China has grown from 16 percent in fiscal 2018 to 31 per cent in fiscal 2020 – and that figure was 35 per cent in the fourth quarter last year. Japan’s biggest chip equipment maker, Tokyo Electron, now sells more gear to China than to its home market. For the nine months ending December 31, its sales to China amounted to 223,622 million yen (US$2.1 billion). A Chinese flag hangs from a pole near the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. headquarters in Shanghai Photo: Bloomberg But this party won’t last forever. The semiconductor capital equipment business is prone to boom and bust cycles, which have laid waste to many companies in the past. While the survivors have learned to live with the feast and famine of the market, China’s binge on equipment is inflating the boom part of the cycle even more. That means the bust, when it comes, will be even more painful for the vendors. To be sure, Chinese chip makers are in a tough spot. While they are primarily producing chips for commercial applications, their products could end up in weapons used by the People’s Liberation Army in a future conflict, making them national security threats to the US. So they may have little choice but to stockpile some foreign equipment for fear of losing access to it due to geopolitical factors. However, if China truly wants to achieve the goal of becoming independent from foreign semiconductor technology, some of that money might be better spent on research and development. But that will take more than a decade – and it will be a chaotic and expensive process with many failures along the way. No pain, no gain.

I will be shocked if the answer is good

They have the fugging $$$ which other countries poured into them over the decades... It's nuttin to them...

should i follow him and eat like there no tomorrow?

More efforts should be used to preserve the pockets of wild greenery left. I hate the concrete jungle.

Pre-nups are not recognized in SG law! Too bad!

Your batam snacks are aka Cewek ah?

Its very rare for a company in SG that rewards and takes care of their own employees. because in SG,....... Bonus

this siam uncle the happiest i know. our kgk xdd @HarrisY comes second.

ya, eat healthy food but sad food

It's true when they say absence makes the heart grow fonder because after the coronavirus put a halt to our weekend Johor Bahru (JB) trips, we've come to realise how much we miss our closest neighbour. Apart from shopping sprees and cheaper massages, one activity that we definitely can't wait to partake in when the borders reopen is stuff our faces with food. This, of course, includes the famous Ramly Burger. While these can often be found at pasar malams in Singapore, we haven't come across one in a very long time due to the pandemic. If you happen to be hankering for a solid Ramly Burger and need to satisfy the craving stat, you'd be glad to know that a number of places here sell it, outside of the night markets. One is Burock Cuisine, which used to be a humble pasar malam stall before they opened a physical stall in Bedok and a small kiosk at Cosford Road. https://www.instagram.com/p/CK5ardSBi3j/?utm_source=ig_embed They recently opened a new outlet at a coffee shop in Yishun, which is great news for Northies who are so close yet so far from the Ramly Burgers in JB. The ones at Burock Cuisine go by the name Burger Ayam/Daging Special ($4) but are essentially the same thing — a juicy chicken or beef patty enveloped in an omelette and sandwiched between two burger buns. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGlatibhVNV/?utm_source=ig_embed If you have a bottomless pit for a stomach, you can opt for the Double Special ($6) which comes with two patties. Burgers aren't the only thing on the menu here; they also sell other pasar malam classics such as Roti John and Roti Boyan. Address: 101 Yishun Ave 5, Singapore 760101 Opening hours: Daily, 2pm to 10pm

i presume you will like that in the cupcake or bread spread?

since when fair price is cheap? FAIR means FAIR

Whaahahah..ya lor She is actually kgb, small things she dunno how to do

Pat is far from lesbian. She got try many young man cock and even amdk at times

few weeks ago she ordered an expensive chiffon cake from local seller. Seller sent the cake frozen so she kpkb abt how she wanna support local businesses but they don't serve quality.

indeed, too bad he is not capable to do that

more awkward if the 3 of them knew one another.

later jin awkward those atb c tomy dun wan talk to kgk riaos

i walk pass many time but never spotted anyone using it. Augmented reality failed

last time hokkien ah beng call this kay kan, kay zua... add fcuk, add spray... AR decor for what fug?

if KGK brings his gf back to meyer rd for reunion dinner, Tomy will be so happy...

i think kgk xdd @HarrisY been using wechat's e-angbao for many yrs liao. very convenient to send his best wishes to his now-afar atb gfs.

Sometimes just diplomacy...other times can be a few terrexes

as long as the core technologies of photolithography, calibration data and design architecture r with bee kor and asml, tiongland can only suck thumb. even something as mundane as oxygen gas, tiongland cant even make it to the ultra-purity level required in semicon fabrication. the skoreans cant as well. thats why skoreans went begging to the nippons rite from the start of the trade dispute. https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?sc=30800018&year=2019&no=497499 wahahahahahhaha

i waiting for giant to sell coke 30cans pack for sgd15 and heineken 20cans pack for sgd45, then i buy. cny snacks, i just ask my shipper to bring in from batam as part of their customer service. so the quality good and consistent. nowadays, many batam bakeries have singapore agents liao.

thats why i m a proponent of pre-nup. the best pre-nup i seen thus far is that the wife must give birth to a kim kia within x yrs to qualify for a larger share of the fortune.

usually stage 4 cancer is 6mths gg from diagnosis. if lucky, can stretch up to a yr but will be painful due to all these chemo treatments and cancer pain. i would also advise him to put all his financial and personal affairs in order using a living will. it will save alot of unnecessary conflict when the eventuality comes.

update: i go insde the shop to take more pictures

I think CNY goods will lelong coming soon! CNY snacks quality also quite poor! I think due to shutdown so lack of manpower and $$$, so products cut "corners"!

Paid more then >$2k then! Also bought a superdrive & use it 2 times in the 10+yrs! Out of warranty, so diy repair! Bought this battery, very good! from amazon ~US$55! Using for 4yrs liao, still holding charge! Before this Anker, i tried using those after market or OEM batteries from those so called "apple repair shops", but after using for 2mths batteries charge dropped to 70%.

spray on your own pgd and watch the water flow into kgk mouth better

next time she will ask u wash her pgd after she pangsai cos she too lazy

Tht day no destroy cause busy. Jus use hsmner smash still cannot smash