May it rest in peace knowing that it live on in the hearts of others who have touched his and went on to touch other people's hearts

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After the final batch of 257 students at Yale-NUS College graduate in June 2025, the liberal arts college will close its doors for good after a brief history of 14 years.

Alumini hope that the values it instilled - open-mindedness, diversity and a willingness to question the status quo- will continue to shape Singapore‘s education landscape- Straits Times.

Is Singapore landscape matured for liberal arts?

Without thinkers, we are just blind followers.

TLDR: Deliveroo delayed my order by more than 1.5 hours with vague status updates and no transparency. I reordered the same meal on Foodpanda and got it in 28 minutes, proving the issue wasn’t with the restaurant.

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Ordered from Deliveroo at 10:38am — way before the lunch crowd, and the restaurant is less than 1km from my place.

By 11:33am, still no sign of food, so I tried to cancel. But Deliveroo said cannot — apparently the restaurant had already started preparing it.

Honestly, I don’t really buy that. Feels more like they didn’t have any riders available and just didn’t wanna admit it.

Live chat told me the usual line: “The partner is preparing your order and will hand it to the rider when it’s ready.” So I ask who the rider was, since they claimed one was already assigned. But they couldn’t give me a name.

Chat ended at 11:43am. At 12:05pm, the app still show the same message: “Your rider is at the restaurant, ready to pick up your order when it’s ready.”

At that point I figured maybe it’s not the restaurant’s fault at all. So I decided to test it — placed the EXACT same order from the same restaurant on Foodpanda at 11:48am. (Yeah, I know, extra cost, but I just wanted to see.)

Both riders showed up at 12:16pm — literaly at the same time.

So Foodpanda managed to deliver in 28 minutes. Deliveroo took 1 hour and 38 minutes. Pretty clear that the delay wasn’t from the restaurant — Deliveroo was just stalling with the same old “still preparing” message.

Last point: both of the food is equally hot when they arrived.

Later I checked Reddit and turns out I’m not the only one — seems like this has been happening with Grab too: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/15n7o9m/waited_2hrs_for_my_lunch_becos_grab_refuse_to/?rdt=61181

Really disapointing to see Deliveroo doing the same thing now (trying to stop people from cancelling or getting refunds, even when there is no rider assigned).

Honestly, this kind of thing should be looked into under consumer protection.

Anyway, I think I’ll be sticking to Foodpanda from now on.

This was from a joint venture with ST Engineering. I once shared a news article in the past about it.

I was re-reading