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.
Friday, October 15, 2010
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.
Tan Kin Lian
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.
Tan Kin Lian
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
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.
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.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Banks banned from selling credit insurance
Read this article
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/u-k-antitrust-regulator-to-ban-banks-from-selling-most-credit-insurance.html
The banks are banned from selling the credit insurance on the grounds that they are offering an over-priced product that is unfair to consumers. The ban is to ensure that the consumer can get products at the best market rate by shopping around.
When will this type of protection come to consumers in Singapore?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/u-k-antitrust-regulator-to-ban-banks-from-selling-most-credit-insurance.html
The banks are banned from selling the credit insurance on the grounds that they are offering an over-priced product that is unfair to consumers. The ban is to ensure that the consumer can get products at the best market rate by shopping around.
When will this type of protection come to consumers in Singapore?
Gmail and multiple inboxes
I use Gmail to receive and send out my e-mail. I have two other mailboxes under SMU (where I teach as an adjunct professor) and in my corporate website (www.tankinlian.com). In the past, I often forget to log into the other inboxes to retrieve my e-mail.
Recently, I configured Gmail to retrieve my e-mails from these other inboxes. It was quite easy. Now, all my e-mails are retrieved from the three inboxes automatically. I am able to respond to all e-mails promptly. For those who are still logging to multiple inboxes, you should consider this approach.
Some people told me that they maintain a separate inbox to receive their junk mail. But they have the risk of over-looking to reply to genuine e-mails sent to these mailboxes. I prefer to retrieve all my e-mails daily and to delete the junk mails. GMail has a way of identifying most of these junk mail and transfer them to the spam box.
Tan Kin Lian
Recently, I configured Gmail to retrieve my e-mails from these other inboxes. It was quite easy. Now, all my e-mails are retrieved from the three inboxes automatically. I am able to respond to all e-mails promptly. For those who are still logging to multiple inboxes, you should consider this approach.
Some people told me that they maintain a separate inbox to receive their junk mail. But they have the risk of over-looking to reply to genuine e-mails sent to these mailboxes. I prefer to retrieve all my e-mails daily and to delete the junk mails. GMail has a way of identifying most of these junk mail and transfer them to the spam box.
Tan Kin Lian
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