Oh and BTW, TS's email, @netvigator.com, is the email given by the ISP run by PCCW hongkong. Would you care to englighten us why is this so? You might actually be giving people the impression you're a china scammer ya know. Please prove me wrong

Originally posted by Dynamco:

first we have to establish the child is still in Singapore  Publishing a photo tells a thousand words There is no doubt that the father will come to Singapore if the child is located The runaways are Australian citizens From where did you glean 'cannot afford to pay a lawyer' from the data above. That is incorrect. Had you read the provided data you would see the father is the deputy fire chief in Sydney. The Singapore police have been contacted but their reply was not promising hence this approach for volunteers.

So if the father is the deputy fire chief, pray tell, what's stopping you form taking out and ad? If you can hire a plenthora of private investigators who have turned up nothing, I don't think putting an ad in the straits times will cost as much.

If a parent is that intent on locating his/her child, I would think that monetary concerns will be the least of his/her worries. You still have not answered VK's question. If like you say money is not a problem, why would putting an ad on the straits times be an issue??

Originally posted by Volvo_Volgren:

Hi everyone!

With the new year round the corner... let's take this opportunity to ride through the recession with an positive outlook through studying and working hard for a better tomorrow...

My wish is that the new year will be peaceful and harmonious ... despite the recession...

My hope is to see an improvement on our economy outlook...

My dream will be...  more car events for me to attend... hee hee

With this, I wished everyone:

 

                                          ((((( HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 )))))

Best wishes to all!

Originally posted by Pin Head:

Parn's usual reply when not able to produce a more intellectual reply.

Clones usual reply when not able to produce a more intelligible reply. Instead of constructive discussion over the overall topic at hand, you choose to focus on a small and unimportant part of his post, taking it way out of context and choosing to nitpick trivial details instead.

Not on anyone's side, but despite you all saying this and that about parn, the fact remains you guys seem to be fascinated with his posts, and regardless of the barrage of insults and criticism you all hurl at him, you all still come back for more. Shows how much you're secretly fascinated with him, huh.

Originally posted by lianamaster:

Honda Jazz....hehe....

Good choice!! Haha..

Originally posted by lianamaster:

I am dreaming of it everyday when I sleep....sometimes I got so caught up with owning cars that I can't wait to start work the next day.

Haha you're not the only one. Don't mind share with us what's your first car? It can be a practical car, I mean, think big but start small, unless one is those super-entrepreuner, I think it's not wise to start aiming for a gallardo or murcielago as one's first car?

Originally posted by alleggerita:

You are looking at it the wrong way. What if a rich guy wants to do his part for the environment, but still own a big and comfortable limousine and still be able to show off his ride? You can't possibly ask him to get a Civic Hybrid or a Toyota Prius.

The Lexus LS600hL (for example) is the way to go for him. He can do his part for the environment and at the same time own a big limousine. And compared to many of the limousines out there, his LS600hL might just be the most fuel efficient.

Ok, when you look at it this way, I guess it does make more sense for a rich guy who does not want to forgo his luxury to invest in a hybrid lexus. I guess it's the lesser of two evils, better this than say, a 750i or a S500L.

Originally posted by TroubledPhantom:

Thanks for the info guys. So the C230 is not turbocharged like the C200. What about the C280? Seems like not bad of deal too. Will be going down to C&C in January after the festive seasons. 1 thing I'd like to clarify, what is 7-Gtronic?

Thanks and sorry for being troublesome.

Nope, the C230 is a naturally asirated V6 engine, it is not supercharged; neither does it need to be. It's a great engine already. The C280 is a higher capacity V6, it is 3.0 litres instead of the 230's 2.5 litres, but only choose the C280 if you feel you will, for any reason, need the extra power and torque.

The 7-G tronic is only for C230 and above. The C180 and 200 are using the regular 5-speed automatic transmission, while the 7G-tronic is an improved gearbox boasting 7 gears instead of the usual 5. While it might not be feasible to go into an indepth discussion, the main gist of having more gears is usually for better acceleration (wider range of gear ratios), better fuel consumption (same reason, including higher FD ratio). It all translates down into better day to day driving and you will find overtaking a breeze.

But don't take my word for it, you can test drive the different models at the showroom and feel the difference for yourself.

Originally posted by Sim.veronica:

Gedanken, thank you for your point. of alll the info posted here. yours is by far the most helpful.

1 question. i saw the diploma certificate , it is awarded by the university n the school. it has 2 logos of the university and the school. so its awarded by the university.

it is a 3 year programme which i signed up . year 1 is awarded by both insitutution and year 2 and 3 by the university only.

we just want to get out and i have evidence, you suggest we write in to APS ?

we want a refund and if we bring the evidence to case singapore does it help.

honestly, never trust an australia university. the government will do anything to get the student's money...including this......

So you finally reveal your true intentions.. You want a refund. I guess in this day and age even justice comes with a price tag. I wonder if you had this intention right from the start and now the opportunity falls out of the sky for you to get your money back after you have studied, used the school resources, teaching, etc etc.

You already mention its a diploma then degree course. Does it make any difference if you don't get distinction for one of the modules of your diploma? What diploma you have will not make any difference anyway since the end goal is the degree.

You have with your last sentence demonstrated first hand your level of intellect and maturity. Just because of a mistake committed by the school LOCALLY, you go and smear all australian universities. I appluad you.

Then again I do hope you manage to get your money back and quit the course, because I think with your standard, maybe you just are not cut out to be a degree holder. You'll give degree holders a bad name.

Just to add, the C230 is on 7-Gtronic which means it is in effect a 7-speed automatic as compared to the 200's 5-speed automatic. Overall, the C230 is a much better package if you can afford it. 

Originally posted by n0x:

the c200 and c180 are both 1.8 litres supercharged, thus the kompressor tag...

the c230 is 2.5 litres NA..

i have no experience with the c class.. but purely from a technical point of view... i would reccomend u get the c200 because:

1. more torque (low end) is better in sg roads

2. save on road tax

3. cheaper ( savings of $20k)

and it would be reccomended as per what lianmaster has said to pay in full..

however if need be .. can sign 1 year - 3 year installment yi shi yi shi yi xia depending on cirumstances...

hope this helps =)

If one really wants to save on road tax, I think the overall costs of getting a continental car is much higher than the negligible amount one saves from a road tax difference of 1.8l vs 2.5l. Cheaper, sure, but take note that when you buy the C200 instead of the C230, you may be missing out on accesories / trim level that will definitely be higher on the 230 than the 180/200.

Technical wise, the C230 being a V6 has 245nm of torque which is lower than the 200's 250, but honestly I do not think the 5nm of torque will make that much of a difference on sg road conditions (how much torque do you need from one traffic light to the other), and the loss in any noticible torque is more than offset from the smoothness of a V6 as opposed to an I4. 

Payment wise, when buying the car, paying in full or installment to CnC does not make much of a difference to them, they will not treat you any worse (remember, you are buying a MERCEDES), and if you feel like you are being treated shabbily at any time, feel free to ask the SE to F Off and I'm sure the rest of the SE will rush to do your business. Customer is always right.

Costs associated with owning a Mercedes, this one you have to ask a bona fide Merc owner. Parts wise you should have no problems, and stock will more than suffice, since its a new car maintanence wise should be done with CnC. If you feel the need to dress up your Merc, the AMG catalogue is easily available from CnC as well, and internally, the Merc will be more than sufficient especially with the 'Agility' package which is the selling point of the new C.

Originally posted by Sim.veronica:

girls. u r not getting my points.

it is nt about the grades but about the value of my degree.

please put yourself in our position. we took a bank loan for thousands of dollars and spend our weekends and evening studying for a piece of paper that has no value.

students cheats.. its normal. but university cheat.. thats so sad and disappointing. i respect my university but why  and how can they award grades or results to students who didnt even take the exam. these people deserved to fail but because of the coverup , they got a distinction.

imagine your bf cheating on you behind your back. you all will never understand. we paid the school fees with our hard earn money.. we are in debt now and all we get is a piece of worthless paper..shit.

i confirm its true. spoke to 4 course mates.. to appease them ,the school even buy them dinner and ask them to keep quite as it will affect the reputation of the degree and university. this is one incident i heard and confirm it is true. there could be more such incidents who know.s.....i m depressed. seriously... i blamed myself for choosing that stupid school and university.

So does posting here help. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Think carefully about what you are unhappy about.

So it's the case of the students who got distinction? Like eagle mentioned, 1 module with distinction does not make that much of a difference. Its only one module. If you want to tell on them - sure, but then again you don't wish to for fear that doing so will discredit the whole course/batch and by proxy, yourself included.

You already mentioned that you already taken the bank loan. You also mentioned that the course and degree awarded is accredited - so what is the noise about it being worthless? Its not worthless, the content you study is NOT worthless. If there are such more incidents, if next time the student affected is you, and you are the one who got the distinction for free, will you come here and WHINE about you getting distinction due to the admin losing your assignment and the other students getting credit?

Amid the wall of text that you have typed, trying to push blame on the admin, the school, the course, the degree - the underlying message that you are trying to push is that YOU ARE JEALOUS. Jealous because you think your hardwork deserved marks while the students whose assignments were lost got higher marks than you. Why don't you think - what makes your assignment so special above the others? can you be 100% sure that the assignments that were lost by the admin will not have gotten distinction in the first place?

In the first place, you should have done your own prior research in the first place, before taking the bank loan and etc etc etc. I'm sure if the course is accredited, there are a few schools that you can learn from. Its a case of buyer beware - just that in this case the school you chose fell short of your expectations.

I would like to reiterate what noahnoah said - Be happy with what you have. Too pushy and you might lose everything.

Originally posted by veron soh:

Mercedes taxi drivers all drive very fast & reckless,maybe they want to ‘show off’.?They tailgate,speed & overtake in a way,like king of the road,yesterday saw a Merc taxi ram into a car along Sims Ave East,the car was giving way to people crossing the road[green man on traffic light],while this Merc cab just ram behind,luckily,the car block the taxi crashing to the persons or else….....they sure get killed.!

170 bhp @ 3800

BUT

400 Nm of torque @ only 2000.

Originally posted by Hwaimeng:

however if u still wan to try u need to submit complains to NEA

National Enviroment Acdamry

mmm think i spell wrong (- -)

 

 

 

 

Don't know how to read? I already said in my previous posts trees are under the jurisdiction of NParks.

Originally posted by Brancho:

Dear forum,

My car had an accident. It was hit by a tree branch that fell when it was parked in a HDB carpark near a tree.

I wish to seek your opinion on compensation, if that is possible.

1. If the branch seems like rotten, is there a chance to get compensation?

2. who can I ask for compensation?

3. trees are all over singapore planted by .....  and we cannot remove a tree if we want. So many trees are planted along car parks. If a branch falls on a resident's car, is it not compensatable?

4. based on your knowledge , if it is not fault of mine, how will my car insurance be affected? 

Hope to get some advise.

regards

an unfortunate hdb resident.

 

Trees under jurisdiction of NParks. But very unlikely the tree is rotten, if it's rotten, the whole tree will come crashing down instead of just only a branch.

These kind of things, if the damage is serious, LPPL self-claim lo. I don't think your insurance coverage includes 'Tree deciding to shed it's branch'. Can't be helped one lah, this kind of thing very heng suay. Maybe next time park MSCP?

Originally posted by lianamaster:

There's the CLK, SLK, 1-series, 3-series, Audi A4 and Peugeot 207cc etc..

You forgot the 6-series!, and the Saab 93 convertible, Audi A3, Boxster, 911 Cabriolet, as well as the Beetle convertible.

Originally posted by lianamaster:

Let's share what new cars that have arrived in our shores lately...

Feel free to discuss them too...

Who knows you might get your dream car from here....

Let me kick start with....

1. Lexus GS450h (A)

2. 2009 Honda Odyssey 2.4 (A)

3. Audi S4 3.0 (A)

IMHO the Lexus h series, if you really really wanted to save fuel/the earth, you'd get a prius or a civic hybrid, and not buy a Lexus with a 3.5L V6 or a 5L V8 and then suddenly decide you wanted to care about the environment, and tack on an electric motor.

The Audi S4 however, looks fantastic.

Originally posted by sinicker:

He is pinned under car after bench he is sitting on with fiancee is struck

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By Amelia Tan

 

ALMOST every night, Ms Nurliah Sulaiman would sit on a bench outside her Yishun HDB block chit-chatting with fiance Muhammad Anis Kamsani.

But their get-together proved fatal on Saturday night when a driver lost control of her car while reversing and rammed into the couple, according to witnesses.

The vehicle uprooted the metal bench and drove it back 10m before finally coming to a stop.

While Miss Nurliah, 23, was flung to the side, her fiancee was pinned under the Toyota Corolla.

Paramedics arrived at Block 221 in Yishun Street21 before midnight, but there was little they could do. Mr Muhammad Anis, 26, was dead minutes later.

Yesterday afternoon, just a few hours after being discharged from hospital, Miss Nurliah bade a final farewell to her fiance at the Muslim cemetery in Lim Chu Kang.

With her swollen face bandaged and her eyes covered by dark glasses, she sobbed quietly as she poured water over his grave.

Miss Nurliah choked back tears when she met The Straits Times later at the accident site.

'We chose this place because it was quiet and we had our privacy,' she said. 'I still cannot believe that this is where Anis was taken away from me.'

His younger brother Muhammad Faizal Kamsani, 24, said the family was at a loss over the accident.

'They were just sitting there on the bench, talking. We have no idea how the car could suddenly ram into them. Everything is a big question mark.'

The driver, a woman in her 40s, is assisting police with their investigations.

The accident shocked residents of the quiet Yishun block.

Mr Ahmad Redwan, 44, who lives just above the accident site, said he rushed downstairs after hearing a loud crash sometime before midnight on Saturday. He said Mr Muhammad Anis was pinned under the car and screaming in pain.

'He could focus for a few minutes but after that he starting slipping away,' he said.

Eyewitnesses said the driver was in a daze when she exited the car. She is believed to live in the neighbourhood.

Miss Nurliah was bloodied but conscious.

'Even though she was in pain, she was pointing to her boyfriend to tell us to help him,' said Madam Faridah Kamisah, 50.

Mr Muhammad Anis worked as a furniture mover and also helped out at a food stall run by his parents. He would meet Miss Nurliah after she finished work as an assistant nurse at the National University Hospital.

Miss Nurliah said they would then cycle together to a multi-purpose court outside her block to chat on the bench.

The couple had known each other for two years and were planning to get married next year.

 

She continued reversing 10m even AFTER hitting the couple on the bench. So.. hmm.

Originally posted by lianamaster:

Both makes are far far far within my reach...So I can cut that dilemma out.

Me too look from far and admire can liao. But to actually be able to own one? Hmm..

Originally posted by lianamaster:

ooh la la...how do they find them?

From carbikebus's posts about bodywork quality sucking big time, I think its hard to find 'proud' owners of MIC cars....

Heck, even the Geely driver in the first post also don't want people to know he driving a geely.

Originally posted by seyKai:

I haven't see riverted brake pads in cars for long time except in trucks

most car brake pads using binder, bonding the the pad and the back plate

 

It could somtimes also due to insufficient brake fluids.

 insufficient brake fluids will cause this sound - how is it so?

What do you mean by 'how is it so?'

Are you trying to ask if the sound can be caused by insufficient brake fluid, or are you trying to "test" us if we know why insufficient brake fluid can caused screeching sounds emitted by the brakes?

Originally posted by Interpid:

Hi,

 

Will like to purchase a car and is looking out for OPC cars. Had look thru some bros contribution on owning a car. But there does not seems to say OPC rebates or i have miss it.. :p

 

Hope anyone out there could give me some pointers.. using this car as example..

Registration: Oct 2006

OMV: $8215

COE: $12001

Deregistrated date: Oct 2011

 

What OPC rebates or we get back?

 

http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=32172&DL=1354

 

Thanks for your advise..

For your example stated above, let's make things easier by assuming a COE of 12k and OMV of 8k. So when you first buy the car, the 17k rebate will be offset against COE, then any remaning against ARF

17k - 12k = 5k

Which will then be offset against your ARF (06 car, ARF = 110% OMV, = 8800)

8800 - 5k = 3800.

The ARF paid should have been 3800.

If you deregister in 2011, ie not exceeding 5 years, you will get back PARF of (75% ARF)

which will be approximately $2850.

No COE rebate as COE was fully offset by OPC rebate during point of registration.

Any bros who find any errors in my computation, please do highlight.

Originally posted by Interpid:

Thanks for advise, nightsky87.

 

Let say if it is for 2nd hand car, will there be any rebates on the OMV or COE?

I'm not 100% sure, but I think for deregistration for cars less than 10 years old, PARF/COE benefits still apply, ceteris paribus for OPC cars you will get back rebates based on COE/ARF paid at point of registration.

That's my understanding though I could be wrong.

Originally posted by Interpid:

Hi,

 

Will like to purchase a car and is looking out for OPC cars. Had look thru some bros contribution on owning a car. But there does not seems to say OPC rebates or i have miss it.. :p

 

Hope anyone out there could give me some pointers.. using this car as example..

Registration: Oct 2006

OMV: $8215

COE: $12001

Deregistrated date: Oct 2011

 

What OPC rebates or we get back?

 

http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=32172&DL=1354

 

Thanks for your advise..

OPC rebate of 17k to be offset against ARF/COE is only for registration of new cars.

Originally posted by xXBlack_RebelXx:

singaporeans are SO stupid. so much for trying to have an intelligent conversation.

your lack of intellect is irksome.

courtesy of fatone. Think you really need to heed advice as stated above.