Friday, October 15, 2010

Third party motor insurance

If your car is more than 5 years old, you may find it beneficial to insure it under a third party insurance policy and save 30% to 50% of the premium.

Read this FAQ
www.tankinlian.com/latest.aspx.

Time to buy a property?

This articles gives 5 reasons to buy a property now:
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/10/15/five-reasons-why-you-should-buy-a-property-now/

But, you should ask the people in Japan (20 years of stagnating property prices) and America (housing prices will continue to slump for at least 3 to 5 years) to know that property is NOT an appreciating asset.

Drop in sale of private properties

THE cooling measures are leaving their mark on the property market - and the latest developer sales data for the month of September seems to underline that.


After the cooling measures were announced on Aug 30, the number of private homes sold by developers fell 27.6 per cent month on month to 911 units in September. BT's analysis also showed that at least 60 units were returned to developers in September, compared with nearly 30 units in August.


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Taking a bus - SG Bus Timing

I had to take a bus from the stop outside NTUC Income Center to Cricket Club. I find the signs at the bus stop quite confusing. I went up the first bus that is heading the right direction. It turned out to be the wrong bus. I stopped outside Clifford Pier. It was a long walk to the Cricket Club. This is the confusing state of the bus services in Singapore.

I found an application in my Android phone called SG Bus Timing. It has a useful feature that allow you to locate a bus stop along a road. I searched for Bras Basah and located the stop at NTUC Income Center. I also searched for Connaught Drive and located a stop near it. The matching numbers were 131 and 167. The application also show the time of arrival of the next bus.

The useful feature of this application is the ease of locating the nearest bus stop along a road and the bus services that use this stop.

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Excessive charges

Are you angry at the excessive charges levied by corporations for incidental services? Do you feel; that they holding the consumers to ransom? Read this article.
http://tankinlian.com/admin/file.aspx?id=241

Take part in this survey.

Here are some consumer views on the excessive charges made by corporations.
http://tankinlian.com/admin/file.aspx?id=244

Google Driverless Car

I am fascinated with the Google project to develop a driver-less car. It uses technology to drive the car and is safer than being driven by a person. I believe that there is big potential for this driver-less car to be used like a taxi.

Imagine, You use a mobile phone to book for a driver-less car nearby. It comes to your location. You enter the place you want to go. It brings you there. The car is then available to be used by another commuter.

Read more about this project.

Watch this video

Google observes the law on road driving.