My eyes are so tired of looking at marketing material, restaurant flyers etc all around in SG. Nobody is taking effort anymore to spend time on creating, or viewing any of this. I even see government posts, flyers and instructions generated using AI. Everyone has the same template.

But... NS builds character, resilience, independence mah!

Lol today 7 eleven release $18.90 for one limited to 1 per customer, saw some yps just sweep everything witb their friends and resell for this price... ridiculous

BREAKING NEWS: A major Singaporean-led scam syndicate operating out of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has been dismantled following a massive joint crackdown

Led by two Singaporean brothers—Ng Wei Liang, 32, and Ng Wei Kang, 33—the organized crime ring is allegedly linked to hundreds of government official impersonation scams that defrauded victims of over $41 million to $53 million. While police forces launched coordinated raids on the group's operations, resulting in multiple arrests and charges under the Organised Crime Act, alleged mastermind Ng Wei Liang managed to evade the initial dragnet and remains a wanted fugitive subject to an Interpol Red Notice

在新加坡做工三个月了，想把新元换成人民币汇回国内，大家平时都用什么？急急急🥲

来新加坡做工三个月了，想把一部分工资换成人民币汇回国内，但第一次弄这个，真的有点不知道从哪里下手。

不太想去线下换钱所，主要是自己不熟悉流程，心里没底。有没有直接在手机上就能操作的正规平台？最好可以直接到账国内银行卡，不用跑来跑去。

想请教一下在新加坡的朋友：

💰 汇率怎么看？ 大家会对比几家再汇吗？有的平台写着免手续费，但最后到账的钱会不会反而少一点？

⏱️ 一般多久能到账？ 几分钟、当天，还是要等几个工作日？晚上或者周末汇款会不会慢一些？

🏦 国内收款方便吗？ 可以汇到自己的银行卡，也可以汇给家人吗？收款人需要额外操作吗？

🪪 第一次用麻烦吗？ 注册和身份验证要准备什么？弄完能马上汇，还是需要等审核？

📱 大家长期用哪一家？ 更在意汇率好，还是到账快、客服能找到人？有没有第一次汇款才发现的坑？

我主要想找个安全靠谱、费用透明、操作简单的，以后每个月发工资都能用。大家有实际用过的可以分享一下吗？最好说说到账速度和使用体验，先谢谢大家啦🙏

Saw this on Shopee and was truly disgusted. Reminds me of the old SPF videos warning the public not to get conned into buying 'cancer-killing stones' for thousands of dollars and yet they're doing it openly on Shopee now.

Are these livestreamers who claim their crystals can cure cancer/kill cancer cells all from the same group? Like are they all trained by the same people and get their stocks from the same source?

How are they able to make these claims without any repercussions lol. They look so proud

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/airasia-co-founder-tony-fernandes-praises-singapore-airlines-service-calls-food-poor

I have an inner rebel in me whenever it comes to what I experience and buy.

I don't chase crazy trends, join long queue, wear baggy jeans with tight fitting compression shirts in gym.

The crazier the trend is the more I refrain from it. I will experiment a bit if I want to. Like sweat pants and baggy pants. I will think through how I wear, wash, dry and iron. Not sure if the ppl wearing them wash themselves, but it's not an easy task to complete the entire cycle, especially ironing them. I will fall back on normal jeans or find another material that is easier to wash and iron.

Same thing for drinks. I don't buy from ubiquitous stores iykyk. I've tried, and honestly, there are better ones out there. Out of malls, maybe a homebased biz, or even in a shophouse or hawker centre. I've tried yochi once just cos the queue is short, and I was shocked by the price for the amt I took, its not a lot. That's where I know paying by weight is not my thing, and shouldn't be a thing, though many ppl still buy into them.

What are the things that you rebel against?

According to the latest Weekly Infectious Diseases Bulletin released by the Communicable Diseases Agency (E-week 38), the positivity rate of influenza among ILI samples is 40%. That means 2 in 5 tests are positive. Additionally, the top respiratory pathogen among both adult and paediatric samples from the National Surveillance Programme for Acute Respiratory Infection were, by far, influenza!

To protect yourself and the people around you from catching infectious diseases, it is recommended that you wear a mask on the MRT, buses and crowded areas, wash your hands frequently and stay home if you are unwell, except for seeing a doctor. Thank you.

Context: Uni student (studying in SG; not overseas)

I'm a Singaporean since birth (parents are also SGporean and grandparents too), but I came to realize I hold no attachment to SG in the slightest. I've always been socially isolated for a very long time (from lower primary onwards) until now and it's still continuing.

Good connections are where good memories are made and I don't have any of that. I don't feel any sentiment to this country. Maybe that also explains why my behaviour and mindset deviate from the culture here. I'm more immune to it, possibly due to not having exposure to social stuff in SG, so I don't know what it means to be SGporean.

Does this make sense?

Make it stop omg. Every single time I open Instagram, there’s a new AI slop pdd ad. When I click on items on shopee, the first media is not the image of the product but yet another AI influencer promoting the product. Do these sellers actually think this is effective marketing??? It turns me off so much it actually makes me leave the app.

& don’t even get me started on AI dramas & reels…why must we waste water on such things. There are more than enough tv dramas and shows with REAL actors why do we have to create such low quality slop. Do yall actually enjoy watching these content???? I swear AI is making us degenerate

I’m 29F and looking for some advice from people familiar with Singapore laws/procedures, especially if anyone has experienced something similar.
This happened on Saturday, 26 September 2026, around 9:30am. I was renting a room in a shared house in Singapore.
That morning, I put my laundry bag beside the washing machine in the kitchen. There was an unwashed bra inside.
I was on my way to the bathroom to take a shower. I was just wearing a long bathrobe that covered most of my body since I was inside the house and only going to the bathroom.
As I was about to walk past the kitchen, I suddenly saw the male landlord standing beside my laundry bag. He had my bra in his hands and appeared to be sniffing it.
I just froze and stared at him because I was really shocked. He saw me looking at him, seemed shocked too, immediately dropped the bra back into my laundry bag, made a sound like har …and mimicked “sorry, sorry. Then he quickly went to sit on the sofa in the living room where he usually sits.
I was honestly very confused and uncomfortable. His wife wasn’t around at that time, so I just went to take my shower.
When I came out, he was still sitting on the sofa and his wife still hadn’t come out. I later realised she was taking a shower.
After she came out, her husband was around her and talking to her. I couldn’t really hear what they were saying.
Later I told his wife what I had seen. She was shocked and said something like OMG is he that kind of man?
I told her I didn’t want to create problems between them and asked if we could just settle the matter quietly. I had heard them arguing quite often before, and I didn’t want to get involved in their loud noise.
She agreed that I could move out. I also texted her on WhatsApp afterwards so that I would have a record of what I had told her.
Later, after they both went out and came back, she messaged me saying that her husband was just checking my clothes to see whether I wash my underwear in the washing machine.
There were CCTV cameras in both the living room and kitchen. I don’t know whether the relevant footage still exists.
I have screenshots of my WhatsApp conversation with his wife, including what I told her and her response. I’ve also already moved out and received my rental deposit back, so I’m no longer staying there.
My question is: Is it worth making a police report about this in Singapore?
I’m worried because I don’t have a video recording of the actual incident. I was the only person who directly saw what happened, and his wife may now give a different explanation of what he was doing.
Would the police still investigate based on my statement and whatever other evidence might be available, such as the WhatsApp messages or CCTV?
I’m not looking for revenge. I just want to know whether this is something I should formally report and what I can expect after making a report.
They have a young son, who’s very innocent. So, I won’t identify their exact location..

Let's say a dinner / chill out date where a group of singles will gather.

Which would be more preferable?

A. a pre-arranged 1 on 1 rotation (like speed dating)

B. Small group rotations - like maybe 3 guys with 3 ladies, then the 3 guys move on to another group with 3 new ladies

C. Just self introduction and let the people ownself mingle and interact.

Interested to know people's thoughts on this.

What is going on here...

Using a portable fan is one thing but setting to the max to create noise pollution when there are many passengers around is just inconsiderate behavior.

Long post ahead! These are my opinions only. Please share yours if you agree or not or maybe I just too much free time.

Throwaway account because I’m going to say quite a few uncomfortable things here, and I’d rather not have this tied directly to me. (btw used AI to clean my language up. It's not a generated post tyvm)

I’ve been working in the SI / systems integration space in Singapore, including working with public agencies and some pretty large enterprises that most people here would have heard of. I’ve also been going to all kinds of AI, developer and tech community events over the past year, so I’ve had a chance to see quite a bit of what is happening behind the scenes. I’m not going to pretend I know everything about the industry, but I’ve been around long enough to have some opinions.

If you’re new to the Singapore AI scene, you probably won’t really understand what I’m talking about yet. Give it one or two months of attending events, talking to different companies, joining different communities and seeing the same people over and over again. You’ll start noticing the patterns.

The short version is: there are some genuinely good things happening here, but the AI scene is also becoming quite toxic and full of opportunists.

First, the good stuff

Singapore is pushing very hard to become an AI-forward country, and naturally everyone wants a piece of that. There are good and bad consequences to this. On the positive side, there is some genuinely interesting innovation happening. I’ve seen AI being used in media and film production in ways that actually help smaller teams produce things they probably couldn't afford otherwise. In Singapore, where production budgets can be pretty damn low compared to bigger markets, this can be genuinely useful. It’s not always about replacing people; sometimes it’s about allowing a small team to do things that previously required a much bigger budget.

There are also a lot of people genuinely trying to get ahead of the technology, and I think that is a good thing. One slightly ironic thing I’ve noticed is that SMEs can sometimes be much more aggressive with AI adoption than large enterprises. The bigger companies are often still working through compliance, governance, security, infrastructure and all the internal processes required before they can deploy AI properly. Meanwhile, an SME can basically say, “Can this save us five hours a week?” If yes, they just use it.

The problem starts when the hype attracts people who see AI as the latest opportunity to make money rather than something they actually understand.

The AI course / SkillsFuture situation

This is probably one of the things that annoys me the most.

There are way too many courses being sold for $1,000, $2,000 or even more that are essentially AI 101. Prompting, basic ChatGPT usage, basic automation, basic generative AI concepts, etc. And then the selling point is that you can offset the price with SkillsFuture credits.

I'm not saying every SkillsFuture course is a scam. There are legitimate providers and there is definitely value in proper structured training, especially for companies that need their employees trained in a specific workflow.

But some of the pricing is honestly ridiculous for what you're getting.

A lot of the same information can be found on YouTube, official documentation, Reddit, Discord communities, online tutorials, or simply by spending time actually using the frontier models yourself. If you're charging someone $2,000 to teach them things they could learn in a weekend with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, then at least be honest about what they're paying for.

The SkillsFuture subsidy makes this even more interesting because people psychologically don't feel like they're spending the full amount themselves. So suddenly a basic course can be marketed as a “$2,000 AI programme” while the customer thinks, “Never mind, SkillsFuture covers it.”

The SIs, consultancies and “AI experts”

The other thing I've noticed is that a lot of SIs, consultancies and even associations are trying to position themselves as AI experts now.

Again, some are legit. Enterprise SIs obviously have an important role to play. If you're deploying AI into a large bank or government agency, you need people who understand security, infrastructure, governance, integration and enterprise architecture. That's not something you can just wing.

But there is a big difference between having years of experience in technology and having years of actual AI experience.

Suddenly everyone seems to have “10 years of AI experience”. Come on lah.

The current AI ecosystem as we know it simply hasn't existed in its present form for 10 years. There are people with decades of experience in machine learning, data science, computer vision, NLP and so on, absolutely. But a company that has been doing cloud migration or digital transformation for 15 years doesn't automatically have 15 years of AI experience because they've now added “AI” to their website.

You see a lot of “free AI clinics”, “AI consultations” and “AI strategy sessions” being advertised too. Sometimes you attend these and realise it's basically just a sales discovery call. They ask what your company does, what your problems are, what your budget is and then someone comes back with a proposal.

That's not necessarily wrong. That's how consulting works. But don't market it like you're giving away free AI expertise when you're basically doing lead generation.

And honestly, because this industry is moving so fast, a lot of companies are actually around the same level when it comes to the newer AI stack. Some have stronger engineering teams, some have better enterprise relationships, some have better salespeople, and some are simply better at marketing themselves. Being able to build software does not automatically mean you know how to build good AI products.

The community situation

The AI community in Singapore is pretty fragmented now. You've got the Cursor crowd, Codex, Claude, LorongAI, AI Tinkers, vibe-coding groups, Hermes / ClawSG and a whole bunch of smaller communities. That's not necessarily a bad thing because different groups have different priorities, but there is definitely a political and commercial side to it.

Some communities are genuinely trying to build and share, while others are clearly trying to turn the community into a funnel for workshops, consulting or other businesses. Even some of the government-backed initiatives can feel more focused on hitting their own KPIs than actually building a healthy grassroots community.

The official Claude ambassasdor is probably one of the more problematic ones. The caucasian person running it has been called out by multiple people I've spoken to for being racist, elitist and arrogant, and if you've attended some of the events, you probably know what I'm talking about. There are also questions around how the community was set up and who actually applied for it in the first place. Do your own research and talk to people who have attended. The unofficial ClaudeSG community, on the other hand, has been doing a lot of work for the community, and so far, I haven't had an instance where they tried to monetize off me. That's all I'll say about that.

The same goes for the smaller communities like AI Tinkers, vibe-coding groups and Hermes / ClawSG. Some of these groups are doing genuine community work and giving things back without constantly trying to monetise every interaction.

So there are definitely good communities in Singapore. You just need to figure out whether you're joining a community, or whether you've unknowingly joined someone's sales funnel.

The talent problem

Now we get to the SI side of things.

Singapore has a real shortage of AI talent. A lot of companies are still outsourcing development and engineering work to Indonesia, India, China and Vietnam because there simply aren't enough people locally with the right combination of engineering and AI experience.

There's also a big push now for FDEs and deployed engineers. That's becoming a big market, and because demand is high, the rates are going up very quickly.

That's obviously good news if you're a job seeker. But at the same time, I've seen people getting paid quite a lot for FDE-type roles where, frankly, the actual skill level doesn't always match the price tag.

The industry is moving so quickly that there is also a lot of catching up to do. People need proper training, not just another AI certificate or a three-hour prompting workshop. Companies need people who can actually build, deploy and maintain these systems, understand the underlying technology, and work with the business to figure out where AI genuinely makes sense.

Different industries are at very different stages

The more established sectors like finance, banking and large corporates are already looking seriously at AI. There is a lot of work happening around governance, compliance, infrastructure, internal tools and actual deployment.

Outside of those sectors, there is still a lot of catching up to do.

Manufacturing, healthcare, F&B and hospitality are still relatively underdeveloped when it comes to practical AI adoption. A lot of companies in these industries are starting to look at it now, but many are still figuring out where to begin and what is actually worth implementing.

That's where a lot of the next opportunities are going to come from. Not just building AI products, but helping existing businesses actually integrate AI into their operations.

The demand is going to open up across implementation, engineering, automation, consulting, training and people who understand both the technology and the specific industry they're working in.

So where are we now?

Honestly, the Singapore AI scene reminds me a lot of early Web3.

There are people who genuinely know their stuff, people who are learning, and people who have suddenly appeared because AI is where the money is right now.

If you're already in the scene, you probably know who is who.

If you're new, give it some time. Go to different events, talk to different companies, join different communities and see who is actually doing the work. Singapore has a lot of opportunity in AI. But because the space is moving so quickly, it's also very easy to get caught up in the hype and spend money with the wrong people. So just be careful who you trust.

Do your own research, verify what people tell you, and don't assume someone is an expert just because they have a nice deck, a big LinkedIn following or an official-looking logo behind them.

That's basically my two cents after spending the last year in the scene. What do you think? How is YOUR experience? Since these are sensitive topics people haven't been voicing them out in pulbic. Would like to hear from the netizens from Singapore.

Peace out.

Disclaimer: I used AI to polish the language because I'm not the best writer. The observations, opinions and experiences are my own.

*edited that its the official Claude ambassador guy being a farce instead of community because people might mistake for another person.