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all look ky... u watch sg version.... all bky...

My lunch tasted good after imagining it came direct from hyy’s anus @Cybertan @noobmaster @classyNfabulous

SINGAPORE – The average consumer will likely not face a marked increase in his electricity bills when Singapore begins its renewable energy imports over the next few years, said observers. They added that the clean power will mostly be purchased by companies looking to slash their emissions. The imported electricity – produced from sources such as solar, wind and hydropower – is expected to be priced at a premium, as a result of the hefty price tag that comes with the necessary battery storage solutions and electricity transmission cables. In September, Singapore raised its electricity import target for 2035 from four gigawatts (GW) to 6GW, after greenlighting an extra 1.4GW of solar power from Indonesia. Seven companies will be importing around 3.4GW of solar energy from Indonesia, five of which are expected to start commercial operations for their projects from 2028. In response to queries from The Straits Times, a spokesman for the Energy Market Authority (EMA) said the cost of low-carbon electricity imports may not be more expensive than other sources of low-carbon electricity. Renewable imports aside, Singapore is considering a host of other clean energy options such as geothermal, green hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage technologies. “In evaluating the various electricity import proposals, EMA considers a range of factors, including price-competitiveness and source diversity. (The agency) is actively collaborating with importers to optimise their projects and reduce costs, such as by optimising landing sites and sea corridors,” said the spokesman. A spokesman for Vena Energy, which received conditional approval earlier in September to import 400MW of solar power from Indonesia’s Riau province, told ST that the firm is committed to keeping the cost of its electricity at a “competitive price”. The eventual price will depend on several factors, such as the development of transmission infrastructure, regulatory approvals and prevailing market conditions at the time of the project’s construction. The renewable energy company has partnered Shell Eastern Trading for the development of the import project, with the oil giant committing to purchase clean electricity from it. Shell has a target of getting to net-zero emissions by 2050, which means it has to reduce emissions from its operations and from fuels and energy products it sells to its customers. A spokesman for Pacific Medco Solar Energy, which will be importing 600MW of electricity from Indonesia’s Bulan island, said it will be conducting tenders for all its onshore and offshore assets to ensure that the electricity delivered to Singapore is cost-competitive. It also expects its buyers to be large corporate energy users. Mr Melvin Chen, Wood Mackenzie’s head of power and renewables consulting for the Asia-Pacific, said he expects the electricity imports to be purchased by companies with sustainability targets, and therefore the average Singaporean would likely not bear the brunt of higher prices. In particular, big tech companies with data centres may have more urgency to source clean energy to reduce their emissions, he said. For example, companies such as Meta and Google, which have operations in Singapore, have targets of getting to net-zero emissions by 2030. Renewables now make up only about 5 per cent of electricity generated from the grid, which makes decarbonisation a challenge. Dr Victor Nian, founding co-chairman of the Centre for Strategic Energy and Resources, an independent think-tank based in Singapore, said having more renewable energy imports will allow companies here to secure more low-carbon electricity, albeit at a potentially higher price. However, he said that part of the cost will likely be passed on to the regular consumer, as all imported low-carbon electricity will be sent to the grid by default. As the share of renewable energy imports increases, Mr Chen said, Singapore will inevitably require more backup gas-fired generation capacity for energy security reasons. And while electricity importers will likely have to bear the costs of such infrastructure, some costs will inevitably be passed through to end consumers, he added. Clean electricity import projects will be priced at a premium, even as the price of renewables has fallen over the years, Mr Chen said. A solar import project from Indonesia, for instance, could cost upwards of $300 per megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity, he added. For comparison, the cost of electricity from natural gas in Singapore is around $214 per MWh, while a solar project in Indonesia could cost about US$60 (S$78) per MWh locally. But these costs could vary widely, depending on the distance of the project from Singapore, and the type of renewable energy produced. Given the intermittent nature of renewables, battery storage solutions, which are still costly, will be required to store excess solar power for use during night-time when the sun does not shine, or when there is no wind. High-voltage subsea cables – which transmit the electricity – will also add to the project’s cost substantially, amid a looming shortage of these cables as factories struggle to ramp up production. In addition, all electricity import projects must have a load factor – or power efficiency – of at least 75 per cent in order to meet the power generation requirements of the import agreements, said Mr Chen. This means that the average amount of electricity produced by a solar or wind farm must be at around 75 per cent of the plant’s total generation capacity. However, the EMA’s newly launched Future Energy Fund could help reduce the costs of these import projects, Mr Chen said, though the structure of the fund has not yet been announced. The fund, which can be used to offset the cost of infrastructure like high-voltage subsea cables, will be set up later in 2024 and will receive an initial tranche of $5 billion from the Government.

Problem is the dead one explicitly left instructions NOT to build one. You want a building that gathers the wrath of the dead? Causes that's how you get one...

The chio ones in sg won’t join this kind of lansai competition

so how BIG is the small increase

Let down by Elon Musk canning Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi reveal? Well, good news: we may have just gotten an early look at one of these things in action. Try not to be disappointed, though, because even if this is a photo of a real "Cybercab," it probably won't be anywhere near representative of what the Tesla prototype is actually supposed to look like. The source of all the buzz is a new photo that shows a small, two-door yellow car driving around what appears to be the Warner Bros movie studio in Los Angeles at night, tailed by another Tesla. Based on its odd appearance, such as a boxy protrusion at the rear, it's probably a camouflaged vehicle, which in the automotive industry means it's a prototype in disguise. As Electrek reports, the photo was shared Friday night by a Reddit user who purported to be a Warner Bros. employee — though, mysteriously, both the original post and their account have since been deleted. https://twitter.com/MatthewDR/status/1834451732459651206 Proof of Concept So what points to this being the fabled Cybercab? Well, Bloomberg reported last month that Tesla planned to officially unveil its robotaxi at Warner Bros' 110-acre lot in October, so it makes sense that it'd be driven around there ahead of the event. Beneath the ugly camouflage, some Tesla fans speculate that it resembles design elements of a Robotaxi concept render, along with a photo of Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen standing next to what's allegedly an early mockup of the car, that were revealed in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography, Electrek notes. Official details on the robotaxi are scant, but those concepts suggest that it will be a small vehicle with two passenger seats, two doors, and room in the back for cargo. The vehicle in the photograph seems to fit the bill in those respects, but it's not a lot to go off. In any case, if Bloomberg is correct, the mystery of the car's appearance should be solved at the reveal next month. Elon Musk is banking on robotaxis being Tesla's next big thing — but the industry still faces many technological and regulatory hurdles, and is yet to be profitable. And inauspiciously, he somewhat sabotaged this bold new foray before it even started by cancelling its originally planned reveal in August, spurring a nosedive in Tesla stock.

diam diam lah, kumgong pappy serfs!!!!!!!!! the building is anointed by clown prince, who is anointed by Ah Kong so that means the building is also approved by Ah Kong, ok????????

They will mind wanna feature them on your yootoob?

Who are they? Won’t mind letting them spit on me

waste all these $$... especially for the dead one...

@ManOfTheHour pls confirm.

Guess a few will venture into tvb @ODACHEK

The authorities were alerted to the possible illegal roof structures and began inspection of one of the units in June 2024, ST understands. Who bao toh ?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=514584001189194&t=0

soon will become some rich man mistress LOL

Warning: This article contains descriptions and visuals that readers might find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. What's scarier than finding a rat in your bread? Finding half a rat. That's a rat, friend A woman in Durban, South Africa had an unhappy surprise when she took out a few slices of bread only to find an odd addition. A section on the edge of a few slices of bread appeared to have something furry protruding from it, but it wasn't quite clear what it was. Only after consulting with some friends did one of them break to her the horrifying news: "Yi mpuku leyo tshomi", Xhosa for "that's a rat, friend". A video she posted on social media shows that the extra bit she found was like a physical CT scan on a rat, with an extremely clean-cut, dismembered slice with the creature's innards entirely visible. Fair warning, it's not a pretty sight. In denial But the most horrifying part of the story has to be that Nombulelo Mkumla, the woman who found the rat, had already eaten half of the loaf of bread. The slices of the animal she found were clearly from the middle section, leading to the disturbing question: where was the rest of it? According to South African media IOL, Mkumla had bought the loaf three days prior from international supermarket chain Spar. When she initially found the rat, Mkumla said she had gone "into denial", hoping that it was something else, but ultimately realised that the rat explanation "made sense", speculating that the rat likely got into the bread at the factory. "This experience has been traumatic and disgusting!" Mkumla concluded. Things like this are bound to happen Returning to the shop to complain, she was instead directed to the bread's manufacturer, PepsiCo. While she was eventually contacted by someone claiming to represent Sasko, the subsidiary of PepsiCo that supplied the bread, he did little to allay her concerns. Although the spokesperson did apologise for the incident, Mkumla claimed that he said that it "gets hot" in the bakery and that "things like this are bound to happen". He also assured her that measures were being enacted to prevent such an occurrence in the future, and that she would not experience adverse health effects; which far from comforting Mkumla, only served to anger her further. A PepsiCo representative, likely a different one from the one she spoke to, said the occurrence was an "isolated incident", and that samples from the same batch of bread showed "no discrepancies", reported IOL. https://mothership.sg/2024/09/rat-bread-south-africa/

@noobmaster @ExTreMisTxxx @classyNfabulous

The design is very human

What is so wrong for a father to hug his daughter? And their ki ss is a peck on the lips, not like they are doing French

On 14 September 2023, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, former People’s Action Party (PAP) MP and founder of the Progress Singapore Party, publicly expressed concerns over the estimated S$335 million cost for the Founders’ Memorial. In a detailed Facebook post, he questioned the necessity of such an extravagant expenditure and referred to the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s known opposition to monuments in his honour. Dr Tan highlighted a poignant moment from Lee Kuan Yew’s eulogy, delivered by his grandson, Li Shengwu, on 29 March 2015. Li recalled how, when it was once suggested that a monument be built for him, Lee Kuan Yew had responded, “Remember Ozymandias.” This reference was to a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley about Ramses II, in which a traveler encounters the ruins of a once-grand statue in the desert. The statue bore the inscription: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” But nothing else remained of the empire. Li Shengwu reflected that his grandfather’s remark underscored his belief that if Singapore failed, a monument would be useless, and if it thrived, a monument would be unnecessary. “His legacy is not cold stone, but a living nation. We could no more forget him than we could forget the sky,” Li said, adding that Lee Kuan Yew’s enduring contribution lay in the strong institutions he built, which persist beyond the individual and ensure Singapore’s stability. In his post, Dr Tan echoed these sentiments, questioning whether spending S$335 million on a memorial aligned with the founding leaders’ values. He suggested that the funds might be better spent addressing pressing national issues, particularly healthcare, as Singapore’s population continues to age. Dr Tan, who served for decades as a practising doctor, called for investments in a home care system, noting that such a move would reduce the strain on hospitals while improving the well-being of the elderly. The estimated S$335 million figure was revealed during a Parliamentary session on 9 September 2023, in response to a question posed by Louis Chua, a Workers’ Party MP for Sengkang GRC. Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong provided the cost breakdown, explaining that the figure covers construction, the fit-out of exhibition galleries, a viewing gallery, an outdoor amphitheatre, family spaces, amenities, and a five-hectare outdoor garden. Mr Tong added that the final operating costs for the memorial are still being worked out alongside the development of operational plans. Notably, Mr Tong’s disclosure did not include land costs. Lee Hsien Yang, son of the late Lee Kuan Yew, also responded to Dr Tan’s post, pointing out that the five-hectare site in Bay East Garden could significantly increase the overall cost. He noted that a nearby plot of land at Marina Gardens Crescent, measuring about 1.5 hectares, was tendered earlier in 2023 but rejected for a bid of S$984 per square foot, deemed too low by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on this price, the value of the land for the Founders’ Memorial could exceed S$500 million, pushing the overall cost of the project even higher. The Founders’ Memorial, initially slated for completion in 2025 to coincide with Singapore’s 60th birthday, is now expected to open by the end of 2028. The project was delayed due to extensive infrastructural work at its Bay East Garden location and disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The twin two-storey buildings, designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates and Singapore’s K2LD Architects, will house an integrated gallery and public gardens, intended to serve as a space for reflection on Singapore’s past and inspiration for the future. While Minister Tong emphasized that the memorial aims to capture the spirit of the nation and foster unity, Dr Tan urged that the focus should remain on practical solutions for Singapore’s future. He argued that a simpler, more humble memorial would be more in line with the founding leaders’ values, allowing the remainder of the funds to be redirected toward initiatives that benefit the nation’s aging population. https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2024/09/15/dr-tan-cheng-bock-questions-s335-million-founders-memorial-cost-citing-lee-kuan-yews-stance/

His son probably knows no one's going to build anything for him - so might as well use this excuse in the name of LKY to pull strings in the background and have the Founders' Memorial erected. Only then later got chance lightning will put his face and "achievements" next to the "Founder" - he want more physical recognition than his father :s

fwah rans ehs her piece of fatty browned squashed armpit meat rooks jin soured and warm!!!!!!

Diam diam la, later more tax to pay

i never eat for more than 25 yrs. today saw a cute specky cashier so just try for fun @Cybertan

@noobmaster

Knn but why look like cag

now yootoob also can casting couch ah? jskm

@ManOfTheHour @meng.huat @coffeenut his tripock fall again and he blame designer https://t.me/kurttayupdates/53535

ownself also cannot take care properly, want to take care of expensive dog.

SINGAPORE – The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Building and Construction Authority (BCA) are investigating possible unauthorised rooftop structures at two condominiums in Haig Avenue. This follows public feedback on possible violations by several penthouse owners at Rose Maison and EiS Residences. One of the structures in question, at the four-storey Rose Maison, appears to be a glass-enclosed space with an extended roof sheltering part of the terrace. The area is decorated with potted plants and seating. The rooftop structure at the five-storey EiS Residences features a rectangular enclosed room with windows. BCA has so far assessed that “there is no impact on the structural integrity of one of the units”, the agencies said in a joint response to queries from The Straits Times. “As investigations are currently ongoing, we are unable to share more details,” they stated. The authorities were alerted to the possible illegal roof structures and began inspection of one of the units in June 2024, ST understands. The rooftop structure at the five-storey EiS Residences features a rectangular enclosed room with windows. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR It is unclear whether building plans for the roof terraces were submitted for approval by the penthouse owners. According to URA and BCA, home owners must obtain approval from their management corporation strata title (MCST) before carrying out any works that affect the appearance of their building. If the works increase the gross floor area (GFA), approval must be secured through a 90 per cent resolution at a general meeting. Additionally, home owners should ensure they comply with any relevant MCST by-laws before starting any alterations. Beyond MCST approval, regulatory approvals may also be required. For alterations that increase the GFA or affect planning parameters, URA’s approval must be obtained, said URA and BCA. Furthermore, BCA must approve most building works, including erection, extension, demolition, alteration or repair of a building, the agencies’ spokesmen added. URA’s website notes that a private roof terrace refers to a semi-outdoor area located on the roof level of a strata unit. It forms part of the private strata area of units that are sold to home owners. Private roof terraces approved before Jan 12, 2013, may not be counted towards the development’s GFA. ST contacted four of the penthouse owners in the two developments, all of whom declined to comment. The remaining four owners were not home when ST visited the premises on Aug 29 and Sept 12. At least two of the owners are in the MCST management committee of their respective condos. One is the chairman of the EiS Residences management committee. EiS Residences, a 16-unit freehold condominium built in 2014, has four units on the top floor. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR Residents in both developments were also tight-lipped about the situation. The management committee of Rose Maison did not respond to queries on the matter. EiS Residences, a 16-unit freehold condominium built in 2014, has four units on the top floor. Rose Maison, which also has four units on the top floor, is a freehold development built in 2001 with 13 units. URA and BCA said they investigate alleged unauthorised structures brought to their attention through public feedback or during periodic inspections. Their investigations will be extended to all parties involved in the construction of these structures. “Property owners are reminded to ensure that the necessary approvals are obtained prior to carrying out building works such as structures on roof terraces,” they added. Property owners will be required to remove unauthorised structures if they are not allowed to be retained. Even in cases where the structures can be retained, the owners will be subject to civil penalties and charges related to any increase in property value. Rose Maison before (top) and after the rooftop structure was built. PHOTOS: SRX, JASON QUAH An architect in private practice who wanted to be known only as Mr Chng B.G. said unauthorised roof structures can pose significant risks to a building’s structural integrity. “It’s overloading the structure with additional superimposed load, which it wasn’t originally designed for.” He also highlighted concerns about glass enclosures, noting that under BCA regulations, laminated glass must be used to prevent anyone falling through in the event that the glass cracks. Safety risks extend to the residents and even neighbouring units, with Mr Chng warning that “the structure may collapse, or the construction can weaken the existing structure”. He added that such works often go unnoticed unless discovered by URA or BCA during inspections, or in the unfortunate event of an accident or collapse. While he could not confirm how widespread the practice of rooftop modifications is, he did observe that most unauthorised modifications typically involve enclosing balconies or open terraces, rather than more elaborate rooftop structures. ST’s checks on Sept 14 showed that one of the penthouse units in EiS Residences has been sold, and another is being put up for sale. On a property with possible unauthorised structures being sold, lawyer Chia Boon Teck of Chia Wong Chambers said: “If the sale and purchase agreement is silent on the matter, the responsibility falls on the new owner. However, if the issue was discussed and agreed upon between the seller and buyer, the buyer can hold the seller accountable based on their agreement. “Buyers should consult their estate agents and conveyancers to ensure there are no illegal structures. If any are found later, the buyer can work with their estate agent and conveyancer to address the matter with the relevant authorities.” In 2022, a penthouse unit owner at Skies Miltonia in Yishun was ordered to remove unapproved structures on the roof terrace area of the condo. In 2023, the co-owner of a property agency was fined for authorising the construction of a mezzanine floor at an Alexandra Road building without approval. Under the Planning Act, any person who is found guilty of carrying out or permitting the carrying out of works to build unauthorised structures without planning permission could be fined up to $200,000. Under the Building Control Act, any person who is found guilty of starting or carrying out, or permitting or authorising any building work without obtaining planning approval or a permit to begin structural works, could be fined up to $200,000 or jailed for up to two years, or both.

Organized cul.. *cough* religions can make you do all kinds of crazy shit.

Things like this are bound to happen AKA 没办法的。。。

the only way to survive is not to get married. dont SG TFR as one of the world lowest give you a hint? https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/country-comparison/

illegal, pose potential danger. glad people suspect and reported.

Confirm neighbours, 9 out of 10 such cases

Maybe he’s one of those brainwashed Taylor Swift fan going around with the cag bracelet