Calvin came across this sight when he was at the Ang Mo Kio MRT station, and he was appalled to see this Message Box meant for the Yellow Ribbon Project being reduced to a rubbish bin. There were receipts and even used EZ-link cards thrown into the collection box. Calvin had been waiting for a friend, and had spotted a teenager walk up to the transparent box, look up at the message on the board, and drop something in. Calvin then went closer to take a look and saw all the rubbish covering the messages of hope which were meant for reformed ex-convicts. Being a supporter of the campaign, he says, in his email to STOMP: "Even though you might not want to contribute to the Yellow Ribbon, you don't have to trample over it by treating its contribution box as a dustbin. The Yellow Ribbon was created for ex-offenders, people who have paid for their crimes. If a ex-offender should walk past and seen the contribution box being treated as a dustbin, how would he/she feel?" What kind of person would use the Yellow Ribbon box as a rubbish bin? Join the discussion in Talkback »

Rahima Bahri, 39, was on her way to work on Sep 12 when she saw this lady munching on a chocolate bar openly on an MRT train (left picture). She feels that some commuters are just too 'attitude' to heed the rules. Alice Soo, 38, a playgroup teacher, abhors inconsiderate commuters who eat on board buses and trains. The MMS she sent to STOMP is of a mother who openly fed her young son a bun onboard an MRT train (middle picture) despite Alice's indignant stare. "I'm upset that even the bus drivers seem nonchalant when people board the bus with ice cream cones. What's the point of having all these signs around?" she says. Catherine Lim believes that commuters eating on buses are the main reason why buses are dirty and sometimes infested with cockroaches. The homemaker sent us an MMS (right picture) of a primary school student eating a packet of crackers on bus number 18 on the afternoon of Sep 20. She feels that the transport companies should take action on people who commit such acts to deter them from spoiling the cleanliness of Singapore's public transport.

Jasmin Cheng notes that her void deck at Block 119, Ang Mo Kio is always wet and algae-stained. The water is apparently from a leaky air-conditioner of one of her neighbours. "The air-con water has stained our window panels and the air-con is also very noisy at night when we are sleeping," added Jasmin. What can be done to combat this perennial problem in Singapore? Join the discussion in Talkback »

STOMPer, Didi Time, has trouble seeing these white-on-grey carpark lines in the day and wonders whether they'll be visible at night. "Why can't they tile the whole space black and use a continuous white line for the separation?" He asks. According to Didi, these carparks in Yishun Central were recently upgraded.

When Derrick Yap reversed his car into a parking lot at the OG Orchard carpark on Thursday (21 September), this was probably a sight that he least expected to see. He was at the shopping centre to while away some time before meeting his wife, but got this rude shock instead. The 36-year old technical inspector suspected that the owner of the bras wanted to take advantage of the isolated lot in the carpark to hang her laundry. "I was wondering why there were so many of them hanging there like that. Probably someone had just washed them and wanted to dry them!" he said. Unfortunately, Mr Yap left after only 20 minutes and could not get down to cracking the mystery of the bra washing line at Orchard.

Noraziyeh, 31, has been putting up with her neighbour who constantly dumps bulk refuse at the staircase lobby of Block 288 Yishun Avenue 6. Multiple warnings from the Yishun Town Council have been left unheeded by the neighbour. A frustrated Noraziyeh said: “Just yesterday, they left 2 shoe racks there. Today, there’s even a table there!” Cleaners cleared the bulk refuse today (22 September) at about 11.30am.

Michael Chan sent STOMP this email of a fire which broke out on 22 September. He said that the fire was ''put (out) swiftly by brave neighbours before the fire engine arrived." Michael observed that the fire truck took up the whole lane when it arrived. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident.

Heaps of boxes and goods clutter both sides of this narrow walkway, going against a regulation that states that shopkeepers have to keep their wares within the designated yellow lines. The result is a “very messy and crowded” area, where passers-by and customers have difficulty in navigating through the area, causing a human congestion most of the time, according to Dennis Tan, 34, who sent us this MMS Thursday (Sept 21). The shop at Bishan Street 24 covers a shop space of 2 to 3 units, and so does the excess clutter outside the shop. Mr Tan, a Bishan resident, tells STOMP that this has been the situation for many years, ever since the shop first opened. When the place gets crowded, things turn ugly too. Mr Tan said: “My mum accidentally knocked some things over once because they had placed things in the middle of the lane. The shopkeeper actually came over to scold her!”

Another wonder of nature has been spotted outside the Bukit Batok Polyclinic – an L-shaped tree branch. Serene Ong, 25, spotted this "odd tree that was different from the others around it" at Bukit Batok West Avenue 3 yesterday evening (Sept 21) and sent this MMS to STOMP "because it was a new sight for me!"

Patrick Lee, 45, was having a cuppa with his friends at Bukit Merah View Hawker Centre when he noticed the man, dressed in black, peddling his wares from table to table. According to Mr Lee, the seller was 'showing leather wallets, belts and men's socks to potential customers. On-the-spot fitting services were also provided to keen buyers." Mr Lee was "surprised by his boldness and enthusiasm moving from table-to-table, selling his goods in broad daylight. Not to mention the personalised service as well as the cheap and good stuff he had to offer."

The owner of this Hyundai Santa Fe isn’t just content with just modifying his car by adding a body kit; he has even gotten Spiderman to grace the front hood of the car. The elaborate artwork on the car caught Nanthakumar’s attention. The 18-year old spotted it at Macpherson Road and sent in an MMS of the “very unique and distinctive car, which is probably one of its kind in Singapore!”

Mohamed Jadir, 26, spotted this elderly man sleeping at the void deck of Block 14 at Beach Road at around midnight on 21 September. This isn’t the first time that Mr Jadir has seen elderly folk sleeping at the void decks in the area. He has tried to communicate with some of them previously, but to no avail. He said: “But most of the time, they don’t want to talk or chase me away. It’s also quite hard to talk to them because there’s a language barrier.” But for the handful that he had managed to speak to, they told him that they had been neglected by family, or had no place to live in. On any one night, there would be several such elderly people sleeping at the void decks.

Joshua Chin, 33, a pilot, moved into the Telok Blangah Heights estate two years ago. According to him, archery sessions are held at this plot of land where there is a footpath right next to it. The field is located in front of Block 87, Telok Blangah Heights. Mr Chin had returned from a flight on 21 September morning and took these pictures after he witnessed such sessions again. He was very concerned about the safety of the residents and the students who study in the nearby Blangah Rise Primary School. In his email to STOMP, he says there are signs put up by the Telok Blangah Community Centre about the sessions, but he wonders if more should have been done to ensure no mishap occurs. He told STOMP "there are no proper barricades to ensure passers-by, especially school-children, will not be hurt. The other residents do not use the footpath because they are afraid of the dangers." STOMP had contacted Telok Blangah Community Centre. Stay tuned for their reply.

Shu Huiwas shocked when she encountered this man on board SBS bus service 2 on 20 September. According to her, he had been seated at the back of the bus and to her surprise, removed his top as the journey commenced. She says, in her email to STOMP, "Such a major turn-off! I happened to glance at him and he glared at me, as if I'm the nutty one. There's an increasing number of weird people popping up around me nowadays."


The library@orchard at Ngee Ann City came alive with the sounds of home-grown rock bands PlainSunset and Auburn’s Epiphany, who performed to a 200-strong crowd from 7pm yesterday (Sept 20). The two-hour concert, organised by Stomp and the National Library Board (NLB), was the first of four in the inaugural Stomp Rocks the Library! series. Bands performed 30-minute set pieces, followed by question-and-answer sessions with the audience. The concerts are inspired by Stomp’s latest tag24 video series, which was launched in July, and is now in its seventh of eight installments. It features local musicians such as Linda Ong from Lunarin and Jon Chan from PlainSunset. Watch Plainsunset's performance on STOMPcast now! More videos from last night to come. Also look out for more photos of the event in the STOMP Rocks the Library! gallery hitting your screens soon. Were you there last night? Share your experiences in Talkback »

Aloysius Teo caught the fireworks over Marina Bay last night (Sept 19). The dazzling 10-minute display was put up specially for the delegates of the IMF-World Bank meetings. The 19-year-old full-time national serviceman wrote: "The fireworks were certainly impressive and were comparable, if not better, than the fireworks festival held last month."

Christine Ng was mesmerized by these giant colourful lanterns when she was in Chinatown Monday night (18 Sept). They were situated in the middle of Eu Tong Sen Street and some of the lanterns were taller than double-deck buses.
Even the passengers on buses were clicking away at the displays, noted Christine, who had thought that the light-up was held in tandem with the IMF-WB meetings. But a check with Singapore Tourism Board reveals that the lanterns were put up by the Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng CCC as part of the Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations. The light-up will be launched later this week; what Christine saw was only a test light-up. Philemon Loh of Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng CCC informs STOMP that President S R Nathan will be at Lucky Chinatown Saturday 23 Sept to launch the light-up and kick off a series of festivities which will culminate in a mass lantern walk Friday 6 Oct.

Jaster Ngui, who is in Bangkok at the moment (20 September), sent STOMP these pictures of her and her boyfriend, Burn Koh, in Thailand, which has since experienced a military coup.
She says that all is well there, that it is "business as usual!" She then went off to do her shopping. Join the discussion on the Thai situation in Talkback »

Catherine Lim, a homemaker, was traveling on board SBS bus 163 when she spotted this lady on the same bus as her. The lady was carrying a foldable trolley, which had only an umbrella as its content. Catherine had taken this picture from the back as she did not wish to alert the lady her taking the photograph. She told STOMP that, " The bus was not crowded, but she could have easily folded it up. She was just plain lazy."

Wonders of Nature I Yuri Tan, 13, a student, bought this papaya at a supermarket in the Upper Bukit Timah area on 17 September with his father, Mr Carlmond Tan, 42, self-employed. They were surprised when they cut open the fruit and saw another papaya within the papaya. The two proceeded to finish the fruit, but kept the inside bit for remembrance. Wonders of Nature II Sim Siok Leng and her colleagues keep guppies in the office. Somehow, this pair of conjoined twins were born on 18 September. Siok Leng was very excited and sent STOMP this email: "We kept guppies in the office and they started to breed a lot. Out of the many 'normal' guppies that were born, this weird pair of conjoined guppies was born yesterday. I think it was a rare occurrence that it happen."

Leonard Zuzarte, 37, a photographer, sent STOMP an email after he came upon this scene while he was returning from a photo shoot. In his email to us, he says: "At 4.20 pm today I chanced upon this scene at the junction of Balestier Road and Pegu Road. This old tree fell from inside the old Pegu Raod clinic and broke off part of the brick wall separating the clinic from Balestier Road. Thankfully no one was injured though one lane was taken up."

A MOTORCYCLIST was flung off his scooter after it crashed into a lorry on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) at about 2.05pm yesterday. The 62-year-old man died at the scene from severe head injuries. He was on the PIE heading towards Jurong, near the Stevens Road exit when the accident occurred. The lorry driver, a 26-year-old man, is assisting police with investigations. A bottleneck jam was caused by the crash, as only one lane on the extreme right remained open to traffic flow. Mr Varun Arora, tipped off STOMP by sending an SMS to 75557. Said Mr Varun: “I was stuck in jam for about 45 minutes, and was wondering what was going on. Many Traffic Police bikes passed by, so I gathered it was an accident.” Mr Varun, 32, an executive in a telco, said the Expressway Monitoring and Advisory System (Emas) only stated that there was a massive jam, but not what caused the jam. Said Mr Varun: “I was initially rather frustrated, as I had taken a wrong turn and landed up stuck in a jam. But when I saw the covered body lying on the road, I was quite disturbed." The jam, Mr Varun said, tailed right down the PIE nearly to Kallang. Eyewitnesses who saw how the accident happened can call the Traffic Police at 1800-5471818.

Ian Crawshaw was greeted by shattered pieces of tiles on 19 September at when he walked to the lift landing at 7am in Block 413A Fernvale Link. The 34-year old customer engineering manager was concerned that it could hurt passers-by, "especially mothers who are with their little children".

Koh Tak Yong, 35, was concerned that it might be. The car, parked at Block 180 Bukit Batok Avenue 8, was badly smashed up in the front where the engine was, according to Mr Koh. He was sending his child to the kindergarten located next to the car park at Block 180 Bukit Batok Ave 8 on 19 September when he spotted the vehicle He said: "It’s could be dangerous if the car is leaking, especially with a kindergarten so nearby."

K H Yeow, 33, a creative director, was at Tampines Mall on 17 September evening when there was a blackout which affected some stores in the mall. In his email to us, he says:
"Shops like Mcdonalds, Bodyshop, and a lot of food outlets. Power was up an hour later! It was during dinner time, so I think business was badly affected for the food outlets."

Kok Kwang sent STOMP this email about an encounter with a lady selling cakes from door-to-door in Queenstown. Apparently, this lady was from the Phillipines and she was holding on to a card showing she was representing a charity organisation. He says in his email: " A Philippine lady was seen peddling cakes from door-to-door in my Queenstown neighbourhood. She called out to me when I was about to leave my home this afternoon at about 4.45pm (18/9/06). She was trying to sell her cakes to me. When I turned down her offer, she persisted and went on to show me her cakes which were contained in small white boxes placed in the large IKEA brown paper bags. She also flashed a light blue card with a photo on it and claimed that she was selling the pastries for charity. As I was in a hurry to leave my home, neither did I pay much attention to her rattling nor the "charity card" that she flashed before my eyes. These pictures were taken at the car-park while the Philippine lady was in the midst of selling her cakes to an aunty."

STOMPer Peggy Yeo Chay Ping sent in an email to STOMP about fixtures like these found along the road. In her email to us on 17 September, she says: "The doors were missing from at least 2 of such fixtures found around Loyang Villa area since yesterday, Loyang Rise and Old Tampines Road. Wonder why they were missing and nothing been done yet."

This was Wendy Yip’s thought when her two friends and her spotted this man sampling mooncakes at Change Alley using the same toothpick at every stall. There are about seven temporary mooncake stalls set up at Change Alley. Bite-sized sample pieces are given out for anyone to try. Ms Yip and her friends had observed the man for about twenty minutes and noted that he had re-used the same toothpick at every stall that he had sampled mooncakes from, instead of discarding the used toothpick and using a new one. She said: "It’s OK if he wanted to try out mooncakes, but it’s unhygienic to re-use the same one that he had just put in his mouth to poke at the rest of the mooncakes from other stalls. He even made a U-turn and went for a second round as we were leaving."

Abdul Rahim Bin Non, 42, admininstrator, was passing by North Buona Vista Road towards AYE, opposite Ayer Rajah JTC at around 5.45 pm on 18 September when he saw this lorry which had overturned. He got off his bike and sent these pictures to STOMP. STOMP checked with the police and spokesperson Tan Soon Aik confirmed that this case took place at 5.20 pm. The driver, in his 50s, had been traveling towards South Buona Vista Road in his company vehicle when the accident took place. A lamppost was knocked over. The driver, according to Mr Tan, sustained cuts on his right eyebrow but declined to be sent to hospital. The Traffic Police are still investigating the case as public property had been damaged.

This rider sure knows how to pimp his ride, sunflower-style. This enigmatic motorcyclist has caught the attention of many motorists along the way. With more than 100 plastic sunflowers plastered all over his bike, helmet and even on his jacket, it’s hard to miss the Sunflower Biker on the roads. Over the past two months, at least six snapshots of the Sunflower Bike Man and his uniquely decorated motorbike have steadily streamed to STOMP. Tan Kaiqi, who spotted him on the CTE just before the Balestier exit in the picture above, said in an email to STOMP: “I saw this interesting rider on the road and wanted to share it with all STOMP readers!”
In one of the earliest shots (above left) of the Sunflower Biker sent to STOMP, Kevin Tan, 37, was so amused by this bike with “fresh flowers on the go” that he tailed it from the Outram Road entrance on the CTE right up to the TPE exit! Leong Keat Sung calls him a "flower lover" after he took this picture (above right) of the bike along Marymount Road.
51-year old Foo Suan Seng sent us this MMS (above left) after spotting the motorbike on the CTE again, this time in the Bukit Merah area heading towards Ang Mo Kio. Azman Athan, 41, who is in the shipping business, took this shot (above right) of the cheery bike heading towards Bendemeer Road. Most recently on 17 September, 5-year old Goh Yi Min told her mum Siew Hua about the motorbike with "an uncle who had a jacket full of sunflowers too". By the time the mother-daughter pair managed to get a digital camera, only the bike was left, parked at the Toa Payoh East Community Centre carpark (right). Just who are you, Mr Sunflower Biker? Do you know him or have seen him on the roads? Tell us in Talkback »

Michael Tan, 44, a Sales Representative, sent STOMP these pictures of a maid cleaning the kitchen windows of a 8th storey unit in a block of HDB flats in Ang Mo Kio on 16 September. He says the maid is "oblivious to the dangers/ risks of falling off."

Clarence Ngian, who is a resident at Sengkang East Avenue, sent STOMP these pictures on 18 September of graffitti scribbled in the then wet cement on the road. In his email to STOMP, Clarence says: "The pictures are taken at a bus stop at Block 235 along Sengkang East Avenue undergoing reconstruction for the bus bay. Vandals had inscribed words while the cement was still soft and wet. If the workers at the site do not cover it or somehow remove the wordings, then it's going to be a permanent eyesore when I take or alight from the bus at that bus stop."

Bank executive Lester Wong, 30, was having Sunday (17 Sept) lunch at Jalan Kayu when he spotted this man at the next table. Lester said many others at the duck rice shop were staring openly and the man seemed to be enjoying the attention. Lester counted at least 10 thick gold chains round the man's neck. There was also a gold watch and huge rings. Talk about a confident sense of style.

Bank executive, Lester Wong, 30, sent us this mms of someone moving into a new flat in Tampines. Lester lives in the block opposite and was tickled by the ingenious moving-in technique. The advantages of living on the 2nd floor? The movers have direct access to your unit.

39-year-old Hougang resident, Leong Shung Yan, sent us this mms taken Saturday (16 Sept). He said a heavy storm that evening led to the tentage of the night markets stalls next to the Hougang MRT to topple. Mr Leong told STOMP that no one was injured, but the storm was so sudden that the stall holders were not able to pack their goods in time.

Chuan Keng Keat took this picture with his mobile phone and sent this email to STOMP. "On 16 Sep 2006, at around 3:15pm, I saw a group of students in white uniform when I boarded SBS bus no 36 (SBS898C). I was shock and disgusted when I saw them using small pointed devices, poking at some flag day donation containers. It seems to me they were trying to steal money from the donation containers. It was after I started taking photos of their action that they stop.Interestingly, the bus that we were traveling in is equipped with surveillance cameras. The students' action should be captured clearly on tapes."

23-year-old undergrad, Michelle Chua, was out shopping at West Mall on Saturday (16 Sept) and sent us these pictures of what she said was the best gift - the gift of life. Even though she could not donate blood at the Exxon Mobil Blood Donation Drive there, she was thrilled that many did. But the sight that truly impressed Michelle was this: "Children of all races mingling together while their parents give the Gift of Life."