The Secondary 4 student thought she would be spending her Deepavali holiday studying at home for her O-level exams.
Instead, Geetha Meyyappan can get a short break for Deepavali after a revision to the exam schedule, following a change to the date of the Hindu festival.
Early last year, he had an altercation with an immigration officer in the Philippines when his Filipino wife-to-be had a problem leaving for Singapore for their wedding.
Singaporean Ivan Ng Sheng Kai (above) supplements his living expenses playing an instrument few of his fellow countrymen have seen or heard of before – the three-string Appalachian mountain dulcimer.
He was just 23 and was preparing some field items for training activities with a fellow national serviceman in a storeroom at a military base in Taiwan.