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20111231 Escalator Screw Failed This is an OTIS escalator at Vivo city front lobby. This happened just before Mid night of New Year Celebration. The plant crew and OTIS crew, about 3 of them, spent about half an hour, cannot open the screw and never did for that night. This engineer has documented other manufacturers' design - they manifest similar design failures, which the cover cannot be open with ease. This will Delay repair Restrain manual operations during accident, e.g. to move forward, backward in controlled manner to extract victims belongings, body part. This has been alerted to all major escalator manufacturers in January. Solutions is ready. Design is fundamentally unnecessarily weakened. Another critical areas to improve is the sensors locator and sensor wirings. They are not attached with ease nor certitude.It may fail at untimely moment, especially in areas such as China, etc where pedestrian traffic is very high and for longer duration. More photos will ...

20130319 3 Keys Saw Pointed for Singapore Leaders to See Seriously http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20130319-3-keys-saw-pointed-for.html   We must hear stories from all side on matters affecting our competitive edge, which in turn impact our survival. Outgoing SMRT CEO  Saw Phaik Hwa  is back in the media spotlight again. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/saw-phaik-hwa-defends-lavish-spending-in-tnp-exclusive.html http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20120318-saw-phaik-hwa-defends-lavish.html   Governing a nation, a nation is an organic entity, succession is key. 1. 9 years as SMRT CEO, without cultivating a successor, even till today, without mentioning who are the able persons cultivated during her watch. Is it so trivial for a CEO of key national infrastructure to resign? For the governing party is party business. But for a nation, succession is a matter of national survival, who fail to do it will be registered in history. We must examine ...

Saw Phaik Hwa defends lavish spending in TNP exclusive Outgoing SMRT CEO  Saw Phaik Hwa  is back in the media spotlight again. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/saw-phaik-hwa-defends-lavish-spending-in-tnp-exclusive.html http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20120318-saw-phaik-hwa-defends-lavish.html   After launching her  personal blog  last week, the 57-year-old has now defended her lavish spending habits in a wide-ranging exclusive interview by  The New Paper on Sunday . Saw, who lives in a landed property off Lornie Road and owns two luxury cars, a Ferrari California and Mercedes-Benz 500, earned $1.85 million in 2010. “I think I should spend it as I wish. Nothing wrong with that,” said the CEO who will be leaving  SMRT  for good on April 5. “I don’t have the fortune that many people have to get married, have many children and dote on them. I’m single... I spend a lot of money on my extended family, especially the older people in my lif...

20120311 Beyond Scholarships - Look at the BEST http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20120311-beyond-scholarships-look-at.html Scholarship Only 67% of foreigner scholars got at least second upper honors. http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120225-0000045/67-of-foreign-scholars-got-at-least-2nd-upper-class-honours We need to think just two points: 1. Are ALL Singaporeans who score Second Upper or above awarded Scholarships? 2. Are ALL those Singaporeans who score less than Second Upper awarded Bursaries if not Scholarships?  If they are not, then we need to know why! If they need to be supported by public donation, we also need to know why? Why we need to know why, because Nourishing our children is the moral obligation of man kind 伦理 What is the outcome if we fail this moral obligation? Wisdom from ancient time define this is the collapse of a nation ! Ch inese common teaching (弟子规） told us not just about individual, but collectively as a nation, clearly stat...

20120309 A Model for all to surpass - Vivian Balakrishnan http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20120309-model-for-all-to-surpass.html First i have not talked to Dr Bala in person as yet. However, from the interaction with him, electronically, and observing the work he is doing, he can become a model for all to surpass. He is a Medical Doctor from NUS, unlike previous Minister of Water Resource, a PhD in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. When there is flood, he went down to the site, to listen, to understand - previous Minister saw him collecting Stockholm Water Prize in Sweden, but not at Orchard Road after flood. When experienced hand in the PUB used the word ponding (my blogspot spelling check said "ponding" is a misspelled word) he confidently rejected this and said "A Flood is a Flood". He is confident, because he has been to the ground and back. When foreign drainage experts asked us to make road to be porous to let rain water seepe...

20120303 Depth to All Inclusive 2 - Purpose and Resolution of Public Transport http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2012/03/20120303-depth-to-all-inclusive-2.html Forenote Solvere is merely another committed Singapore citizen. Only exception may be he  commencing 2001 01 01 after detected the coming of crisis - ( Real Economy )  invested his longer than one decade of effort , resources to provide analysis and solutions to re-install Singapore's  efficiency, improve our chances of prosperity. He did with his best knowledge and judgement. Any error, improvement, Solvere bows to listen and will stand to correct, refine, improve. Strategic Similarity to Singapore Flood After two years of intensifying and proliferating of flood, we now realized Singapore has not updated topographical data of our tiny island. But before such revelation, m ore than $3 billions have already poured in. Therefore are we possible to get the most effective, efficient, eco...