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  • 5 Food Apps That Singapore Foodies Should Have

    5 Food Apps That Singapore Foodies Should Have

    As Singaporeans, we’re constantly surrounded by, besides Singlish.. food. Be it a new cafe or a delicious bowl of Bak Kut Teh, we’re almost always on the prowl for good and affordable food. But how does one keep up with the ever-changing food trends? Also, with the relatively steep prices at cafes, how’re you supposed to embark on a cafe-hopping journey without burning a hole in your wallet? With the rise of technology that resulted in the creation of awesome food applications that are offering fancier features by the day, satisfy the foodie in you with the latest food trends and discounts at your fingertips. So let’s get chomping.

    Eatigo

    Enjoy higher discount rates by making reservations for off-peak hours Enjoy higher discount rates by making reservations for off-peak hours

    I’m sure many fellow Singaporeans are familiar with Chope, the application that allows you to make a reservation at various eateries across the island. But with Eatigo, not only do you get to make a reservation at your fingertips; you would, through making a reservation, get to enjoy differing discount rates that are pegged to different reservation timings. For instance, you would get to enjoy a 50% discount off certain items off the menu of Cali Cafe if you were to make a reservation, through Eatigo, at 2p.m. But if you were to make a reservation at say 7.pm, you’d only get to enjoy a 20% discount. But despite the differing discount rates, I must say that this beats having no discounts at all. Am I right, my fellow bargain warriors?

    PickatSG

    Feed the foodie in you with food news and trends that are updated regularly Feed the foodie in you with food news and trends that are updated regularly

    There are food coupons carrying a mind boggling range of promotions on PickatSG. All you have to do is to sign up and be prepared to scroll through a list of downloadable food coupons. Simply tap on the coupon of your fancy (in my case, it was the $9.80 ice cream buffet for two at Maple Loft Cafe) to download it to save them in your coupon box. Simply flash the coupon at the eatery to redeem it. Yes, it is that simple and you get to save a bundle!

    Besides offering a variety of discounts, PickatSG also feeds you with additional knowledge in the food scene. The featured lists includes “5 Brunch Gems in the East”, “5 Economical Buffet Places under $20” and “5 Cafes to Visit in Tiong Bahru”. So the next time your friend says “I don’t know what to eat leh”, you know which app to tap on for the place and the discounts.

    Sugar

    With Sugar, you can enjoy now enjoy the pricy Eggs Ben at almost half its priceWith Sugar, you can enjoy now enjoy the pricy Eggs Ben at almost half its price

    What’s in it for you for this seemingly sweet sounding application, you ask? There’re never enough discounts and this relatively new food based application will have you hooked. The list of promotions/discounts shown on your feed are based on the present location but the sweet application also allows you to alter your location in order to see what promotions the cafes in a particular area are offering.

    So how does Sugar work? The original price and the current discounted price of a certain food item will first be shown to all users. Tap on the “skim” button in order to reduce the price of any desired item by $0.20 (but bear in mind that you can only “skim” any item once). Whenever you find the price desirable, tap on the item in order to purchase it. For more details such as the validity of the coupon, you can also tap the item. The best part? You can sort the promotions in accordance to food, drinks and even desserts!

    But since any item can only be purchased once per day, it is fastest fingers first for this application.

    Open Rice

    Discover eateries that are situated near you with Open RiceDiscover eateries that are situated near you with Open Rice

    If you’re constantly having trouble with making food decisions, Open Rice may be a good application to have in your smart phone. Besides providing you with eateries that are situated nearest to you, you can also choose to view these eateries in accordance of their ratings. Handy details of the restaurant or cafe that includes short descriptions, contact numbers, reviews and photos are also included to aid your decision-making.

    But what’s a food application without discounts or promotions, right? Open Rice also offers a variety of discount coupons but due to the limited variety of coupons, I’d say to revert to Sugar or PickatSG instead.

    Halal Trip

    The app even includes an in-flight prayer time calculator to make travelling more convenient for our Muslim friends The app even includes an in-flight prayer time calculator to make travelling more convenient for our Muslim friends …

    Our Muslim friends will definitely find this food app launched in early January useful to own. Besides discovering nearby halal eateries, users can also read reviews and view photos of the dishes that are being offered. Details such as the location of particular restaurants are also available upon tapping the photo.

    Enabled on both Apple and Android interfaces, users can now widen their dining options and share their experiences with fellow Muslims. This app is also available in both Arabic and English, encouraging Muslims across the globe to share their to-go Halal eateries.

    So get your hands on these free phone applications now and start planning your get-togethers. It may seemkiasu at first, but after scoring a plate of Eggs Ben at $8.80 instead of the usual $14.90, you may come to realize that being a smart discount-auntie isn’t that bad after all.

  • Perkara-Perkara Yang Bakal Pengantin Tidak Mahu Terjadi Di Hari Persandingan

    Perkara-Perkara Yang Bakal Pengantin Tidak Mahu Terjadi Di Hari Persandingan

    Sudahkah anda pergi ke majlis perkahwinan rakan-rakan anda pada hari ini? Tahukah anda bahawa kebanyakan pengantin mempunyai debaran yang sama ketika majlis persandigan mereka? Walaupun naik pelamin sehari sahaja tetapi apa sahaja boleh terjadi walaupun perkara dirancang sebulan lamanya.

    Berkongsi artikel yang digarap dari blog Vitdaily, di bawah adalah perkara-perkara yang bakal pengantin tidak mahu berlaku pada hari persandingan..

    1. Baju Pengantin Tidak Sempat Siap

    Punyalah lama anda tempah baju dengan kain mahal import dari Istanbul bagai, tapi bila sudah dekat tarikh persandingan, tukang jahit bagi pelbagai macam alasan lagi. Tunggu punya tunggu, akhirnya tukang jahit datang juga tapi bawa kain belum potong. Bersandinglah anda dengan gaya kain potong, lilit-lilit badan.

    2. Baju Terkoyak

    Siapa yang tengah baca artikel ini sekarang pernah duduk mengumpat pengantin di meja makan sambil kata baju mereka pakai ketat sangat? Jangan tipu kami cakap anda tidak pernah buat perangai semacam ini. Tapi siapa yang dapat tengok baju pengantin terkoyak, itu bonus buat anda. Sudah tahu hendak bersanding, berusahalah untuk kurus, walau sehari.

    3. Makanan Untuk Tetamu Tidak Cukup

    Kita sudah beritahu katering bahawa 2000 orang tetamu akan hadir. Harga murah sebab first time katering handle wedding. Biasanya debaran bab makanan bermula apabila semakin ramai orang datang dan seakan-akan makanan tak cukup. Oh no. Mahu jemput orang makan haruslah cukup. Yang datang ke majlis anda pula macam dari Kelab Obesiti Malaysia pula.

    Penyelesaian bab makanan ini sebenarnya terletak pada perbincangan yang jelas dengan pihak katering. Jika di kampung, orang-orang rewang biasanya sudah masak sangat dengan urusan makanan ini. Pastikan hidangan untuk pasangan pengantin dapat udang galah dan hati ayam cucuk dan ayam golek. Makan terus tidak ingat dunia, patutlah baju koyak.

    4. Photographer atau Videographer Tidak Hadir

    Sebelum hari persandingan anda sudah survey photographer paling terbaik dan videographer berprofil tinggi, siap pernah cover event antarabangsa. Maklumlah. sekali ini sahajalah anda mahu bersanding pun (jika isteri izinkan, bersanding dengan isteri kedua pula).

    Duit pendahuluan sudah dibayar, tapi bila tiba hari persandingan, mereka tidak muncul. Bila ditelefon, tidak berjawab. Whatsapp keluar tick biru tidak balas. Katakanlah keadaan ini terjadi pada anda, gunakan adik-adik anda. Tangkap pakai smartphone pun boleh, asalkan gambar ada. Jika tak malu, boleh guna iPad. Yang penting, malam pertama nanti boleh tambah filter di Instagram.

    5. Rakan Karib Tidak Hadir

    Kita punyalah siapkan list nama kawan-kawan karib dari sekolah rendah sampai universiti. Kita siap tempah kad undangan yang istimewa untuk mereka. Kita mengharapkan mereka hadir dan memeriahkan majlis persandingan kita.

    Tapi, bila sampai hari persandingan kita, seorang dua sahaja yang nampak batang hidung. Itu pun yang tidak berapa kenal sangat, yang lain hanya mengirimkan salam sahaja kerana ada hal lain (atau ada majlis kahwin rakan yang mereka lagi rapat daripada anda). Akhirnya, kawan yang tidak berapa karib yang ramai memenuhi majlis anda. Tolong jangan ada sikap pilih kawan begini ya.

    6. Pelamin Runtuh

    Tengah seronok anda bersanding di atas pelamin berharga RM30,000 itu, rakan-rakan sekolah rendah datang menerjah anda. Boleh tahan popular juga anda disekolah dulu sebab yang datang hampir 30 orang. Semuanya mahu bergambar serentak dengan anda. Anda mesti tidak mahu menghampakan mereka. Pelbagai saiz pinggang dan peha mula membanjiri pelamin mahal anda. Pelamin start bunyi-bunyi dan senget sebelah. Tidak mustahil ya pelamin yang gah berdiri itu akan bertukar menjadi serpihan-serpihan kayu kerana tidak dapat lagi menampung berat maksimum. Kaboommm.

    7. Demam

    Pelbagai persiapan perkahwinan anda telah berjaya anda siapkan. Semua benda anda mahu buat sendiri. Dari bekas telur sampai ke hiasan pelamin semua anda mahu buat sendiri. Bila sampai hari persandingan, kepala anda mula terasa berat dek kerana kurang rehat selama berbulan-bulan. Awas, anda mungkin pengsan semasa sedang bersanding. Kesian pasangan anda, nanti bersanding sorang-sorang pula atau mungkin ada pak cik yang boleh jadi back up anda. Ketar-ketar kepala pak cik anda.

    8. Bekas Kekasih Datang Merayu

    Aduh, ini kes berat. Sehari sebelum persandingan anda, bekas kekasih anda beritahu anda supaya memikirkan semula keputusan anda untuk berkahwin dengan pasangan anda itu (macam dalam drama Melayu biasa kita tengok). Perasaan anda mula bercampur-baur.

    Tapi, anda berjaya buang perasaan ragu-ragu itu dan memberitahu anda telah buat keputusan yang terbaik untuk diri anda. Semasa hari persandingan, jika bekas kekasih anda datang merayu dihadapan anda sambil disaksikan oleh ahli keluarga dan para jemputan, lagi sadis. Manis sangat janji-janji kau tebarkan wahai Romeo.

    Apa-apa pun, persediaan setiap persandingan itu adalah terpulang kepada kemampuan pasangan tersebut. Tidak guna juga berhabis ribuan ringgit pada hari persandingan tetapi berhutang. Sederhana adalah sebaiknya.

    Jika ada yang teringin jemput kami makan kenduri, pastikan yang ada lauk ayam masak lemak pedas tambah ulam dan sambal belacan. Fuh, berpeluh dahi makan.

     

    Source:www.harianblogger.com

  • IS Women’s Brigade Manifesto Used As Recruitment Tool

    IS Women’s Brigade Manifesto Used As Recruitment Tool

    A semi-official manifesto by an all-female brigade from the Islamic State lays out a guide for women, including their main role (being a wife), chief focus (stay at home, study religion) and tips on marriage (beginning at age 9).

    The manifesto — possibly the first of its kind — was published on a jihadi forum in Arabic last month and is purported to be from the media wing of the al-Khanssaa Brigade, an all-female militia set up by the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS.

    The Quilliam Foundation, a British-based anti-terrorism think-tank that published the text in English, said it is a recruitment tool for Muslim women to join the militant group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria. Quilliam calls the document a “heavily propagandized snapshot of living conditions for women in its territory.”

    The treatise describes an idyllic setting for women in the main Islamic State cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, offering a harsh comparison with life for women in Saudi Arabia. It says women in cities controlled by the Islamic State can move about in safety, are not forced to study or mingle with men and have access to education, primarily the study of Islam.

    It strives to underscore that women should not be relegated to an uneducated status; nonetheless, it stresses that the fundamental function for women is “in the house with her husband and children” and notes a distinction between studying and earning a living.

    “Pursuing these desired goals, above all else, is enlightened, cultured and developed,” the manifesto says. “We say, regarding each gender’s role, that to have a job is a task reserved only for men —- he has been given the body and brain, and he must tend to his women, wives, daughters and sisters, according to his circumstances.”

    It emphasizes that a woman’s place is in the home, to look after husband and children, although there are some exceptions: to study the sciences of religion, to serve as a doctor or teacher or to to engage in jihad “if the enemy is attacking her country and the men are not enough to protect it.”

    Otherwise, the manifesto stresses, it is “always preferable for a woman to remain hidden and veiled, to maintain society from behind this veil.”

    The manifesto offers what it calls an unofficial but “quick, simple proposal” for how women should live.

    From ages 7 to 9, they should study religion and Quranic Arabic, as well as subjects such as accounting and natural sciences. From 10 to 12, they would concentrate on more religious studies, focusing on the rules for marriage and divorce, as well as train in such skills as textiles, knitting and basic cooking.

    From 13 to 15, they would focus on sharia, or religious law, more manual skills, particularly regarding raising children, and on Islamic history, the life of the prophet Mohammed and his followers.

    “It is considered legitimate for a girl to be married at the age of 9,” it points out. “Most pure girls will be married by 16 or 17, while they are still young and active. Young men will not be more than 20 years old in those glorious generations.”

    Far from presenting this life as constraining, the manifesto portrays it as an idyllic condition seen in Mosul and Raqqa. After Islamic State militants took control of those areas, veils and hijabs returned, “and decency swept the country.”

    “Now, women are able to travel to their people in Raqqa without having to show their face to the eyes of even one inspector,” the manifesto says. “Respect for their bodies has returned and has been taken from the eyes of onlookers, with their corrupted hearts. Causes of their humiliation are prevented, revealing dresses were confiscated from shops, and scandalous photos were banned from walls and shelves. Muslims, with the permission of God, were cleansed.”

    By comparison, the manifesto says, women are trapped in a “sorry situation” in Saudi Arabia, where women “work alongside men in shops like banks, where they are not separated by even a thin sheet of paper.”

    In Saudi universities, the manifesto says, men and women “mingle in the hallways as if they were in an infidel country in Europe.”

    Haras Rafiq, managing director of the Quilliam Foundation, says the manifesto answers what kind of life “jihadist brides” will find if they join the Islamic State.

    The manifesto, he says, allows people “to get into the mind-set of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women who willingly join its (Islamic State’s) ranks.”

     

    Source: www.usatoday.com

  • IS Militants Selling Abducted Iraqi Children As Sex Slaves And Crucifying Or Burying Others Alive

    IS Militants Selling Abducted Iraqi Children As Sex Slaves And Crucifying Or Burying Others Alive

    Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.

    Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.

    “We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities,” committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. “The scope of the problem is huge.”

    Children from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, but also Shi’ites and Sunnis, have been victims, she said.

    “We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” Winter told Reuters. “There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers.”

    Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaeda group that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.

    On Tuesday, the group, which is also known as ISIL, released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

    The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq’s record for the first time since 1998, denounced “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive”.

    A large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of “dehydration, starvation and heat”, it said.

    ISIL has committed “systematic sexual violence”, including “the abduction and sexual enslavement of children”, it said.

    “Children of minorities have been captured in many places… sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves,” Winter said, giving no details.

    The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to “rescue children” under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

    “There is a duty of a state to protect all its children. The point is just how are they going to do that in such a situation?”, Winter said.

     

    Source: http://english.alarabiya.net

  • 57% Of Lower-Primary Children Not Getting Adequate Sleep

    57% Of Lower-Primary Children Not Getting Adequate Sleep

    About 57 per cent of children from lower Primary lack enough sleep, according to a survey conducted by students from Nanyang Technological University.

    The survey, which was done in collaboration with National University Hospital, also showed that most of these children get 8 hours of sleep on a school night, when they should ideally clock in 9 to 10 hours a day.

    More than 300 respondents – comprising parents with children aged between six and nine years old – were asked about their perceptions of sleep, their children’s sleep hygiene and their own, between November and December last year.

    Of those surveyed,  37 per cent of children were found not to have a regular bedtime, while 35 per cent of them do not have a regular bedtime routine. As a result, they tend to feel sleepy or become overactive during the day. Some also fall asleep when commuting on public transport or while watching TV.

    For these children, most spend their time using digital devices before they sleep. 75 per cent of children watch television, 60 per cent use smartphones, while 30 per cent use computers an hour before bedtime. Such practices increase arousal and negatively affect the quality of a child’s sleep.

    These practices may have been taken on as a result of their own parents’ pre-bedtime behaviour. Most parents said they spend their time watching TV an hour before bedtime, while 4 in 5 admitted to using smartphones for social media.

    Dr Michael Lim, consultant at Department of Pediatrics, National University Hospital said: “If you are sleepy in the daytime, you are not going to be able to function optimally, in terms of using your brain power.”

    He also added that there is evidence to show that the ability to think in a higher order, to make decisions, or to use higher cognition skills can be affected when children are sleep deprived. “You are also not able to retain things as well as you should,” he said.

    Nine in 10 parents also admitted that they do not feel that their child has a sleep problem. Inadequate sleep hygiene is often the result of a lack of parental supervision of bedtime and sleep behaviours. It is also caused by insufficient knowledge about sleep needs and appropriate sleep behaviours.

    Parents should look out for signs of sleep deprivation in their children, such as a lack of concentration, drop in school performance, irritability and frustration at the slightest provocation as well as spontaneously falling asleep when sitting down or watching TV.

    The survey is part of a public information campaign called The Pillow Police.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

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