I REFER to Mr Joseph Tan's letter, 'Baby's birth cert reverses parental joy' (Sept 20).

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Ms. Jayakumar is equating the choice you have when you subscribe to a telco service to a government administered registration number....?

Wow.

'Unlucky Electricity Prices': Be more Poor.

another joker

some object to 4, or 44, or 444, or 4444, or 44444

some will object to 748, 1748, 74848....(go and die lah)

some will object to 13

some will object to 14, 24, 34, 5353, 5354, 44, 54, 64, 46,

some will object to 164 (die all the way ??), or 264, or 364, or 464, or 564, or 664........7474.....


alamak....don't use numbers lah...use alphabets instead.....but then people will object to XXX, just like the X they place across the lintel of the door when there is a death in the house / shop..........

c'mon people, will Joseph Tan accept a free gift from the government /whoever if he is given cash S$44,444 in his bank account ?

WHat is this little RD coming to nowadays?!

What the hell is ST doing publishing this sort of crap!

so that people could draw away from the REAL issue?????

like a certain increase in certain fee??

Superstition. Have a campaign to educate the people not to be supertitious. I hope to have 13 clients everyday instead of 8.

I agree that we have one joker after another and that the ST has nothing better to do than to publish such letters.

It is neither a Chinese belief nor a religious belief that '4' signifies death. '4' sounds like 'death' only in the Cantonese dialect, not all Chinese dialects. Joseph Tan is not a Cantonese, going by his surname. So why should he believe in it for personal matters. I chose '04' which sounds like 'surely will die' in Cantonese because I am not a Cantonese.

Inflation and foreign workers are some of the worrying topics today. These topics concern everyone living in S'pore and yet letters on such matters do not appear in the ST. I'm sure Joseph Tan belongs to a very small group of people and yet it seems to be a very serious matter that deserves to take up the space of 2 letters in the ST Forum. Why?