Visited a friend who just sold her 5-room HDB flat for $1.4M yesterday.
Another friend selling her 4-room HDB for $1.3M.
Both just upgraded — one into a $1.8M resale condo, the other a $2M new EC.
Both complaining about the loans they took to get there.
Their reasoning? "This is how you build wealth in Singapore."
But here's what I actually saw.
Two families in their mid-forties. Strapped to massive mortgages. Freedom quietly traded away for square footage.
That's not wealth-building. That's a gilded invisible cage.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Five years of exponential property prices will do that to you - recency bias at play.
Spurs players celebrating like they’ve won the World Cup, kissing the badge and singing “we are staying up.”
On the same day we lift the PL trophy.
Do not ever compare these clubs again.
Can you imagine the terror and horror Israel inflicts on Palestinian children, women, and men in detention centers when the cameras are away?
This is Israeli terrorism.
His name is Amin.
He did security for Mosques in America.
He was a Christian and accepted Islam.
He was martyred today at San Diego Mosque.
This video is now his legacy. Repost this.
Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi
“You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬
Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.