Tag Archives: Late

A netizen came up with 4 solutions for SMRT to facilitate students who are late for exams due to train delays. She suggested linking up with taxi companies, having buses for students only and even preparing a room in the station for them to take their exams!

A North South Line delay this morning caused several students to be late for school and their oral examinations this morning, but the Ministry of Education (MOE) has assured students that they will not be penalized as alternate arrangements have been made.

A netizen was unhappy with SingPost for delivering her item late at night and asked the postman to deliver it again the next day. The man never turned up again. In the end, she was even asked to personally drive down to collect her item. What do you think?

In my previous company, I wasn't very happy with my supervisor so I decide to talk to my director about it. He decide to sit in as well (my biggest mistake is to allow him to do that). In front of director, he said I am always later for work even though I live near the office. Then say I go lunch sometimes more than 1hr. I was like huh? You step into office after 9am (8.30am work time) all the time and you complain that I am late? Wow.....I didn't say anything though. I know you live in woodlands but does that give you a right to come late everyday?

On 20th Feb morning I've booked GrabHitch and got confirmation by driver Maverick (Honda Stream SJM3443Z). Driver texted me telling me there will be another passenger sharing, hope I don't mind. Of course I won't mind as I knew GrabHitch was something similar to GrabShare. Driver picked me first and proceed to pick the second passenger. Along the journey, the passenger asked if by 9:15am able to reach her destination and driver replied will try his best. When reaching the security guard post at my location, I told the driver to go straight ahead and I will alight at lift lobby but got rejected. The driver simply answered me - she's running late so i gotta walk in! I paid for my fare and got my rights, why should I walk in? I was also late for picking her. Does that mean she's late then I need to bear responsibility? It was the driver who couldn't fulfill 2 pick ups and blamed it on the traffic. I'm also consumer, why the other passenger got more priority than me?

Twitter user Reg booked an Uber ride on Sunday (2 Oct). It was supposed to be a short ride to her office in Sentosa. According to the map, the route was straightforward. The driver just needed to take the bridge over to Sentosa and then make two turns. Uber had estimated that the cost of the ride would be $5.46.

Singaporeans are famous for being efficient, kanchiong and kiasu. But there is a unique Singaporean culture of being late and yet give lame excuses which are highly justifiable and totally isn't our fault. It is always something or someone out there to get us and make us Sinkies late for our appointments. Let’s look at some of the top excuses we have heard of and probably used before.

An SQ business class passenger has drawn the irk of fellow travelers after he complained about Singapore Airlines on their Facebook page. In his complaint, he was angry that Singapore Airlines flight SQ25 left without him even though he was only 5 minutes late. In reality, he was 5 minutes late from the departure time and 50 minutes late from the boarding time.