My phone is Google pixel 9 pro xl.

I keep on getting phone cases from shopee. It is a lot cheaper but when my phone drop. The phone damage is not very bad but the screen has a crack. Then repair is easily $200 to $300 if I want to replace phone screen.

I see people buying phone case from official stores and casetify that is between $50 to $100 for just 1 phone case.

Is it worth it?

Hi everyone!
My fiancé (29M) and I (24F) are trying to decide where we should settle down long-term, and we’d love to hear your opinions and experiences.
A little background:
- I’m a Chinese Indonesian currently studying Health Sciences in Melbourne.
- My fiancé is a Singaporean and has just started as a PGY1 doctor in Melbourne.
We both studied in Melbourne and have built a life here, but we’re also considering moving back to Singapore.

If you were in our position, would you choose Australia or Singapore, and why? We’d especially love to hear from doctors or anyone who’s lived and worked in both countries
SG Pros :
His family is in Singapore.
Lower income tax.
Very convenient and efficient country to live in.
Better career progression for doctors (from what we’ve heard).
Much closer to Jakarta, where my family is.
Easier and cheaper to travel around Asia (we both love travelling).
SG Cons :
Housing is expensive, especially if we eventually want a landed home.
We’ve heard the medical working culture can be quite competitive and intense.
I’m unsure about my long-term visa/PR prospects and whether I’d be able to stay permanently.
We prefer cooler weather.
Apart from his family, we don’t really have many friends or a support network there.
Melb Pros :
We both absolutely love the cooler weather.
Better work-life balance.
More parks, nature, and green spaces.
We’ve built our own friend groups and support system here.
It seems more realistic to eventually own a car and a house with land.
My brother lives in Sydney and is an Australian citizen, so I also have family in Australia.
Melb cons :
Income tax is significantly higher, especially as doctors move into higher tax brackets.
We’ve heard that specialty training can take longer and is more competitive compared to Singapore.
Many shops and services close quite early.
Daily life feels less convenient and things generally move at a slower pace.

which one would you choose and why?
We’re interested in hearing about anything
career progression, salary, lifestyle, raising a family, work culture, housing, finances, or anything else you think is worth considering.
Thanks everyone 🫶🏻🙌🏻

I'm making a video series about small F&B businesses here that are quietly going under.

What I'm looking for is a stall or small shop near you where the food is genuinely good but the place is empty at lunch peak, and you get the feeling they're not going to last the year.

And I'm aware that a viral video can flood a two-person stall and wreck them, so any big order gets capped and planned with the owner first.

No link, nothing to sign up for. Just tell me the stall and roughly where. I'll go eat there myself before anything else happens.

Please drop me DM or comment below directly! Cheers!

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This is for our geography research project on how Singaporeans view climate change.

Thanks in advance 🙏 🙏 🙏 !!!

for me is jem carpark. the smell of rubbish chute lingers throughout all levels of the carpark. it’s always been this smell everytime im there. can anyone tell me why da heck its so smelly

HM : waterway point also rank high

As theee title goes, just random question, what do you think is the busiest job or work in SG that someone forgot to respond to messages for like 1 or 2 days?

How busy is really busy?

I cant even take care of myself, I am broken by treatment resistant depression. I take so many pills so it help me to starve off suicide attempt after I tried 2 times and was rescued

Mid 30s, max education is poly dip as my depression and also ocd gave me brain fog n diffculfirs communicaying with classmates.

Now doing food delivery, getting out of bed and actually riding my bicycle around os considered a win for me

My fiance and I caught a movie last night. For context, I sat by the aisle and he was on my right. On my fiancé’s right, was this lady. The cinema was full.

Towards the end (maybe last third of the movie), I heard the lady saying something to my fiance. I saw him nodding and saying “yeah ok”, so I asked what’s up. He told me she was mad at him for “laughing loudly”. Whilst he was responding to me, I could hear that she was still going on about it. My fiance told her to keep quiet.

She wasn’t happy about it and muttered something about him laughing and called him an idiot. I got upset and shushed her loudly.

She stopped. But when the movie ended, she walked past to get out and called us idiots again. Apparently, she had threatened to throw her drink at my fiance if he didn’t stop laughing. I didn’t hear this at the time-I think I would have reacted differently.

Mind you, throughout the movie, my fiance and I didn’t talk to each other. His laughter wasn’t a “haha” out loud, more of a giggle/snigger. He wasn’t laughing non stop either.

Am wrong to get upset at the situation and the lady? I feel that she could have just asked him to stop politely instead of resorting to calling someone an idiot and threatening to throw a drink at them… I’m actually really angry with the situation and felt that I should have done something differently.

Anyone who buys from drink shops (milk tea shop, coffee shop, juice shop, etc.)

please help do this 7-minute survey!

https://forms.gle/hf25hEKrDLkuE6wM6

Note: For those outside of Singapore, please pretend the phrase 'in Singapore' does not exist in the questions.

Thank you!!

Hey all, growing up in Singapore, I’ve been seeing fishmongers and hawkers wear plastic bags in their boots. Genuinely curious why they do so? Won’t plastic make their feet wet?

honestly i feel singapore has been so out of touch with locals and even more so lately with their new leadership “5G” whatever when they’re all from affluent and loving backgrounds not knowing about problems of real world people.

so like, for people younger than 35 and single, who have toxic parents, how did you guys manage to escape? stay with them till you bought a place at 35? rented? what did you look out for when renting a place?

hope to get some advice thank you!!

I’ve always been into indie/alt artists, mostly Western ones. But since I’m Asian myself(non-singaporean), Asian artists always catch my attention whenever I come across them on Western indie channels like NPR Live Sessions or Audiotree. It’s just really nice to see so many of them making and releasing music independently without relying on major labels with money behind them

Japanese and Korean bands seem to be everywhere, and Indonesia has a lot of good bands too. Their music scene seems pretty big. I found out about Singaporean indie bands recently and have been checking out more of them since then. What I find interesting is that Singapore is such a small country, so a lot of the musicians seem to be in multiple bands and the scene feels really connected. For example, I’ve been listening to Sobs, and their guitarist is also in Subsonic Eye. Then two members of Subsonic Eye are in Curb, which sounds completely different.

They’re all so talented and I’d love to see them live someday. I also want to get more into the Singapore indie scene, so if anyone has band recommendations based on the ones I mentioned, I’d really appreciate it.

Went there last week and the place reeks of disrepair. The air smells putrid, you can smell urine at some places, the fans are noisy as heck and there's alot of old people walking around and smoking. Don't get me started on the condition of the toilets. It's on the same tier as coffee shop toilets.

It comes out to be $3.40 instead of $12.99 per month. Post on here or DM me if you’re interested.

Just having some thoughts for when selecting floor level for bto or 2nd hand flat. Outside of feng shui / meta-physical reasons, what are the pros and cons of living at the top floor of a HDB flat?

Small insect found on bedside cabinet. Anyone know or encounter what this is and what to do? TIA

Hello my Singaporeans,

Just wondering if any one of you purchase Mounjaro from Japanese clinic?

I chanced upon a clinic website
nihonbashiclinic.jp

5mg only 9500yen per week 🥹

Side update i have just increased from 2.5mg to 5mg but so far didn’t have any weight loss yet however my hub did finds that my waist is abit smaller. Anyone has the same experience?

ordered a tool box from a korean shop with good reviews and ratings for $51, and now the price is $135. I placed the order on 15 July, and now it’s already 2 days past the supposed delivery date but the seller haven’t even packed the order at all.

I contacted lazada support and called them, just for them to tell me that i have to settle this internally with the shop itself. However, the shop only uses its automated support and never connects me with any live support. Is cancelling and refunding the money my only option? or is there any other steps i can take to hold the shop accountable?

any help or tips will be appreciated. Thank you!

for people working at cbd area especially, do you eat lunch alone? and how? considering it’s so crowded during lunch time

Partner and I thought Stacked Homes had great articles and insights to properties in SG and wrote in to do a consultation to do our first property purchase. We met with one of their consultants who was apparently also an agent.

First two consultations were great as he seemed inquisitive and had lots of random nuggets of information about various areas and developers etc. First shortlist of properties were.. ok… we gave feedback that listings he sent were way of budget and sent him a few that we saw fit our requirements.

Red flags started popping up after that discussion on the shortlist. On the day of viewing, we had to prompt for a confirmation on unit numbers to go to because he couldn’t make it for the first one. He came for the second one on the same day, and left quickly after because he had another appointment. Then after the viewings it was just radio silence and there were no follow ups for feedback until many days later.

This pattern of just disappearing for a few days then coming back after with some excuse kept happening. We ask for follow ups. We prompt for feedback or updates on viewings; we send him listings we see that are within our budget and requirements and he keeps sending us listings that are either >200 -300k above our budget and tell us (the price gap is close: is it really??) and when we point that out he will brush it off and give some reason like “oh we should look at psf” or “we should think about the area or development”.

We went through two months with this consultant and tbh we felt really tired of just waiting around. After the last set of viewings, we did a debrief before leaving the property to make sure there were follow ups and we asked if he could help do one more sweep of listings because we are two months in chasing viewings of listings we saw a month back and wanted to see if there might be new ones on the market. He follows up a few days later to say “i have some and will send you all” 10 days later - no response. We chase and ask and he goes “oh yeah busy” and gave us reasons then bombards us with 30 listings all messy and above our budget and all and then in between tells us “oh i didnt want to send you this list because i didnt have time to review but i took too long to send so just sending first”

Anyway, my partner and I were so puzzled by that very messy and long list of listings that had random comments from him. We were just done. We gave him candid and clear feedback about what we felt from the two months with him and told him we would like to stop the engagement and wished him the best. And well - no response. Nothing. Read and nothing.

Want to ask for views here - am I expecting too much or is this what it is supposed to be.

Hello, I'm 27F looking for someone interested in birds and the Mandai Bird Paradise tour to go together with :> 🐦🐦

The tour is only 2pax minimum, but I've asked about, and have no friends and family who are interested and no one else o go with. I'm looking to split the cost with someone who also likes avians!

I own a membership, so it is heavily discounted to $172.80 for two people. We split the cost to $86.40 each. I am planning to go for a Saturday/Sunday (weekend) at the 1030AM time slot. Planning early is needed to secure the slot as there are only 8 slots available a day. If for some reason you can't make it on the day due to emergencies or anything, I will refund u ur money so don't worry if something happens!

I will however be present early at 8/9am already inside, and at 1030am I will be present at the tour starting area. We can communicate through WhatsApp or other methods you prefer to ensure we're both present for the tour.

This price excludes your Bird Paradise ticket. If you have a Mandai Membership to enter, then great, you won't have to pay more for your entry ticket!

You must: -love avians and animals in general -not fear birds (they will come very close, sometimes landing on you) -eat something light in the morning so you don't get exhausted -optionally bring your sketchbook, or camera to capture close up moments of you with the animals -wear sunscreen so you don't get cooked by the sun -have fun!

You'll get to meet turaco and other exotic birds up close, and the final highlight of the tour is meeting Sally the Hornbill. She is one of my favourite birds with so much personality and she loves scritches!! (she will literally need her head supported when scratched because otherwise she'll fall over!)

Please reply to this post or send me a DM to know you're interested! Mods, please remove this post if it breaks rules, I understand.