The last Eastern and Oriental Express (E&O) train left Tanjong Pagar Railway station for the last time on the 5th of June 2011. The railway station will be closing its doors on the 1st of July 2011 after a landmark landswap agreement between the governments of Singapore and Malaysia.

The station have been in operation since 1932 and will be gazetted as Singapore’s 64th National Monument.

Giving away used ground coffee to its customers for gardening, collecting rainwater for lavatory use and switching to LED bulbs for energy conservation are just some of the very cool green initiatives being spearheaded by one of Starbucks Malaysia’s Setia Alam outlet.

Judee Tan, popularly known in most mainstream circles as “Kim Bong Cha”, the eccentric North Korean newscaster from the TV series, The Noose, has been raising a lot of eyebrowns online with buzz over her performances on the stage after videos circulating around the Internet have been picked up by Netizens and reposted on popular forums like Hardwarezone.

We too are really impressed with her bi-linguistic command of English and Hokkien as well as her stage flair and charisma that we had to share those videos here.

“Kim Bong Cha” Debut

Rendition of popular Hokkien favorite ‘Na Si Wa Wu Ji Pa Ban’ and ‘Billionaire’

Did you also know that she also sings?

Just do a simple search for ‘Judee Tan’ on Youtube and you’ll probably find much more videos.

As for us, we can’t wait to see what else she has to offer, but so far its pretty darn good.

Image at the top of the page taken from Mr Tan Shou Chen’s blog

NTUC Fairprice Co-operative, the supermarket chain under the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), has announced plans to roll out more self-checkout systems into its other stores in a bid to improve productivity and reduce costs.

According to this article by the Straits Times, it is being reported that hawkers who signed up under the Government’s Retail Price Watch Group program which started early this year, are now facing a situation of being unable to cope with the rising operational costs.

Under the program, hawkers had pledged to hold their prices for 6 months but many hawkers that The Straits Times interviewed have expressed concern that they are not able to cope as the prices of raw material have been on the increase.

This may see these hawkers who originally volunteered under the program to pull out of the program prematurely.

Image originally posted on Flickr.