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Quick & Easy guide to Retirement and CPF

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So, many people, EDUCATED people, are still bloody clueless about what they can do with their CPF and keep making a fuss about it. Here’s how easy it is.

Before you reach 55 years old, your CPF is basically 3 accounts – OA (Ordinary), SA (Special) and MA (Medisave). You use OA for housing loans or shares. You cannot touch SA at all except for some selected shares you want to invest in. You only touch MA when you need to pay for medical attention at govt clinics and hospitals. Throughout your working life, money keeps going into these 3 accounts.

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The Morning After – Aftermath of Singapore GE2015

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So… what do we have on 12 Sept 2015?

Yup yup, a PAP government, as expected. There has always been no danger of Singapore falling into chaos, no riots across the nation, nothing dire. Our civil service still works, and that is even confirmed by our Ah Gong LKY himself some years ago.

So what happened to all the huge crowds at WP and other opposition rallies? Beats me. It seems like they have popular support, but I have no idea why it fizzled out. Some have indicated that the “new citizens” may have largely swung the votes their way, but I personally have no idea. I would have thought, like with most other people, that the opposition parties might win a few more seats in this election instead of the actual result. By the way, if you want to know what a “freak result” is, this is the epitome of it. Expectations and actual results are opposite. Everyone (that I know) expected more opposition wins. It didn’t happen. Hence, “freak election result”.

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Sausage or Hot Dog?

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Something happened recently and, honestly, it has not happened before now. Which makes me wonder… has it always been like this, or is this a new thing?

So yeah I went to a food stall recently… and just wanted to get a couple of sausages so when my turn came, the lady asked “what would you like?” and I just said “2 sausages please”, like I always did.

Amazingly, she had a blank stare on her face. So I pointed to this (pic below).

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