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MRT reliability in last 12 months falls to its lowest level since 2020MRT reliability in last 12 months falls to its lowest level since 2020 MRT reliability in last 12 months falls to its lowest level since 2020
MRT reliability in last 12 months falls to its lowest level since 2020
From July 2024 to June 2025, rail reliability fell for three MRT lines, but the overall figure remained above LTA’s target.
www.channelnewsasia.com
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jpjc broke up with me
IT'S SO OVER I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING FROM APPLYING HP THERE... Well, shortlists should be over by now. THIS IS JUST ME BEING NEEDLESSLY DRAMATIC AND EMOTIONAL 😭 😭 😭 Apologies for the second emo post LOL. The title is slightly misleading because I hallucinated the whole process probably ☠️ ☠️ I knew I was already being delusional about the other jcs I had applied for (and have been ghosted or rejected without interview), but to be honest, I actually had a lot of hope for jp 😭. After my interviews at ny, asr and tj respectively, it had made me emboldened I would get a new interview to prepare for. Probably a bit too egoistical but I say with honesty now that I don't expect much good news in the days to come. Of course I know my academics were lacking so I tried to make up for it in the other things I submitted but the rest was history... I'm so embarrassed to say that I actually started thinking of CCAs and how I would want to continue band in jpjc and try to impress (using this term loosely) people with my work-in-progress vibrato on my flute ☠️☠️. I'll get over it eventually. My coping mechanism is history. I spend most of my days reading about history. I spend my recesses excited over reading or writing something history-related. Whenever I have a bad day at school, I just think of recess where I'll get to work on my next history post. When I go to sleep, I think of the next topic I should cover ☠️ ☠️.
Would the average Singaporean Chinese Mandarin really be this bad?
Hey all I have a serious question that I am trying to rack my brain around. My friend is in the third stage of an interview with a tech company. The job is 90% English speaking. However sometimes they have to deal with clients/customers based in China. Therefore this stage is a mock presentation in mandarin. The brief says they don’t expect native speaker mandarin, just enough to present to the client, persuade them, assure them and answer their questions. 30 minutes. My friend is saying they are 100% sure they will fail even tho they are Chinese Singaporean. Here is what I struggle to understand. I have a non English mother tongue which I only learnt once a week on Saturdays + from speaking with my family at home. I would fail this kind of interview in my mother tongue, but when I look at my friends experience as a Singaporean Chinese: - 5 days a week of Chinese language lessons exposure throughout every year of schooling in Singapore. - Regular interactions with people who can’t speak English in Singapore only mandarin. - Their family is Chinese speaking. When I go to their events they don’t even speak English around me (understand this is not the average Singapore Chinese experience but yeah). - Chinese text seen on a regular basis around Singapore. - Chinese media is quite common and available. For example hearing it on the radio in a random grab ride. If I had this kind of exposure to my mother tongue I feel like i would be a black belt master in it. So what is the challenge Singaporeans feel about speaking mandarin at this level? Help me understand.