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Michael Palmer-Laura Ong and Ng Boon Gay-Cecillia Sue

Yet another scandal has erupted involving top public servants and the latest casualty this time is none other than Speaker of Parliament, Peoples' Action Party MP Michael Palmer, who supposedly got involved with a People's Association Constituency Directory, Laura Ong. The Ng Boon Gay and Cecillia Sue sex for favours corruption case had been hotly followed by many for its saucy revelations and interest was only dying down recently and out comes the Michael Palmer-Laura Ong case. Thinking slightly further back, we also had the Workers' Party Yaw Shin Leong case where the female in question was never directly identified. These people were the elite of our society but they were all brought down by sex scandals. However, the common thread amongst them thus far has been that they were basically having extramarital affairs. In the words of actor Jackie Chan, they had basically committed an offence that all men are prone to. While our society had been conservative, we had

Improving In-car GPS with Waze

My GPS unit is always turned on during my drives because it offers me an insight into the expected time of arrival at my destination. This has been an important feature to me as I am a stickler for punctuality. However, recently I had realised that I can improve my driving experiences more by tapping on my smartphone. Not by replacing my trustworthy Garmin with a phone GPS but by supplementing the Garmin with the phone. The discovery of Waze made a difference to how I drive. These days, I made sure that Waze is activated on my phone when I go on longer drives. I still rely on my Garmin for driving instructions but the Waze app gives me information on traffic conditions, road hazards, contruction zones, accidents, speed cameras and even sightings of traffic police. The information from Waze is community contributed and hence it gets more useful as the user base grows. Since I started on Waze, my daily drives have been getting more pleasant. I have been able to make diversions m