Actual WFH jobs
I see so many people wfh but what are you all doing? And is it all full time? I'm currently coming off maternity leave in the UK and will be doing training to become a swimming teacher(good pay and short hours). I'll be getting some money through this but long story short I need more money. Currently if I go to work I'm probably only getting minimum wage or just above other than the swimming job so I was looking for something flexible and WFH that I can do while my baby's in bed or napping just to top me up financially. I know it's a very specific job I'm looking for but I'm currently desperate. As I'm doing training for the swimming job I can't afford to do training for anything else otherwise I'd be looking into bookkeeping training or something similar but do have a little administrative experience from a few years ago. Everything I'm finding seems like a mlm or scam!
Are there any real part time work from home jobs out there?

Looking to join but have seen bad reviews here. Some people say it’s a mlm. Others say it’s guaranteed returns. Isn’t that against ftc ruling? His friends seem to promote it online with him but would like to know before joining.Jazakallah uk khairyan

Hey. I wanted to share my experience of Belief Coding (popular in the UK). I am unsure whether it’s classed as an MLM but here goes. The website states “Belief Coding® is a revolutionary healing method that is science-backed and spiritual, changing beliefs at a subconscious level.” My friend became a Belief Coding facilitator about 2 years ago. I know they spent a good couple of grand at least on the training, and the rest since. They offered me a free session in return for a testimonial, this was around 6 months ago. I wanted to support them so I agreed to take part. It involved a Zoom call where they would guide me through a Belief Coding and Human Design session. They are a kind soul, genuine, would do anything for you. So I am sad they have become entrapped in this world which I believe to be a scam. The session tried to delve into my “discomforts” and use my subconscious to find out what’s holding me back. My friend is by no means trained to psychologically assess me or even support me if I become upset so I already feel uncomfortable talking about things that happened in my childhood. They keep delving, asking me to rock back and forth to determine the time I was born which gives me my human design (my path is already chose apparently due to the date/time I was born). They want to find out what my “limiting beliefs” are. Why I’m not succeeding at what I do, why my confidence is low. And they believe (as do all Belief Coding facilitators) that it links back to something that happened in our childhoods. I become quite uncomfortable, they keep prodding away, asking about something that happened as a child (I’d swayed back & forth to determine that my discomfort happened at a certain age). Kept asking me to try and remember what it was. In the end I just had to end the session. I apologised, I said first of all I’m sorry but I can’t give you any answers right now. Lots of things happened in my childhood, they are resolved, I didn’t need to speak to a friend about them. My friend posts lots of testimonials about their sessions, each one comes from another Belief Coding facilitator (I’m yet to see a genuine testimonial from someone who isn’t another facilitator). Jessica Cunningham (founder of BC) is laughing her way to the bank with lots of vulnerable peoples savings. This healing method claims to have helped people get rid of physical ailments such as rashes, chronic diseases or even rapid weight loss. I feel so awful for my friend but I also wanted to share my experience anonymously. I think we have to be very careful when it comes to people’s mental health and trying to assess & cure them using Belief Coding. Would love to hear others thoughts on this.

UPDATED:
This was over a decade ago now, but I still think about it often. A large group of our mutual friends cut off contact with me and I later found out it was because I apparently left my wife a pauper eating rotting food from bins in Spain. This all started the year before when in July my wife (F36) let's call her M decided our marriage was over and declared to me she wanted a separation.
I (M39) was the main breadwinner and paid all household and grocery expenses, and even a fair chunk of my pay into Ms personal bank account even though she earned her own money. She travelled a lot for work, as I did, but she could not afford to move out on her own or afford to take over the bills from me. So we cohabited awkwardly, organising travel to avoid each other, but making sure one of us was home to care for our 5 pets.
Initially I thought we could repair our marriage but by October suspected there was someone else. I was subsidising her to jet set around Europe while having a suspected affair. So I stopped payments from my pay to her personal account, and covering her groceries, and started divorce proceedings. She was furious, both about the divorce and the money. Somehow she thought I owed her, and this made our living situation very toxic. We were still talking and coordinating travel so someone was always home with our pets.
She was due to travel over Christmas and new year with her "new friends", and I had a long work trip in February which she had agreed she had no plans and would be there for the pets. While she was away she let me know she used and one way ticket and did not know when, or if she would be back. That created a huge problem for me financially and logistically to organise care for my pets, a housesitter, etc. I couldn't find someone that would care for our large dog and ended up taking him overseas on my work trip for 11 weeks at my own cost.
It took over a year to finalise the divorce, which to just get it over with I just about left myself bankrupt. With 2 years of support payments. Anyway, during that year we barely communicated except through lawyers, but at some stage during the year she reached out to me with some sob story about her rent money being stolen from her purse while on a work trip. She'd always been extra cautious with money, valuables and pickpockets, and it just didn't ring true. I was unmoved and said something like have you reported it to the police, and she just broke down and cried about how she couldn't afford to loose it and she didn't want to go to the police in a foreign country, etc. I refused to help. By the end of the Divorce she had over €100k in the bank, €600 a month support, a heap of the household furniture shipped to Spain and me responsible for her massive credit card bills.
Years later I crossed paths with one of the group of friends that cut me off to hear the story they had is I had left her broke and scrounging for food as one of the group that had visited her in Spain where she settled found her living in an unfurnished flat with cupboards and fridge bare except for some rotting vegetables. Should I feel responsible? AITAH for not helping out?
UPDATE: Thanks for all the replies. Rather than respond to specific comments I'll post answers here as much as possible:
The friend group that "sided" with her were not close friends. We'd met whilst on the show circuit with our dog.
Not sure about the timing of her "broke" phase. I assumed it was during the year the divorce was being finalised. Never occurred to me she'd have blown through the cash, but she was a spender. Massive credit card bill case in point.
As for the empty apartment with rotting food, I have a theory. My guess is that she was trying to hide the fact she was living with her new boyfriend (the boy toy comment made me laugh as he was younger than her). In the UK adultery is justification to get divorced, but does not impact the settlement. It was the kind of stupid thing she would do just to prove a point though. So I think she was actually living with new bf and only using the flat for show when visitors came to establish a story JIC we went to court. But who knows ?
Do I have concrete proof of her having a new boy, let alone shacking up with him? No. But there is circumstantial stuff like grocery receipts with packs of condoms (we had not been intimate in a while), pics of the guy in question on one knee to her, and the uni friend that let it slip at wedding I attended that she'd visited M and her lovely new boy on the way to the wedding (she flew from Australia to Scotland for said wedding). That wedding was before the divorce was final.
As for the divorce settlement: I kept the house, most of the furniture and most importantly the pets. The house had increased in value a lot in the 8 years we'd owned it so it was the extra mortgage cost not only if having borrowed more, but having the rate increased as the loan to value ratio went up. By the end I'd moved on and my new gf (now wife) had moved in and lawyers are expensive! Fighting would have meant we both got less and lawyers got more. I also had a chunk of land I inherited with my brother's well before I married M. She wanted my share included in the assets, the compromise meant it wasn't.
To the comments about paragraphs, entered this on my phone, and did use them. Edited with doubles now to make it easier for you to read :). Deffo not chatgpt generated!
As for her "job", well she'd fallen in with an alternative healing group. Think cross between reiki and mlm. She'd set up a business as a "healer", and was also getting paid to run the seminars/workshops across Europe run by the Guru (the only way to become an accredited master healer) and by the master healers (to do group healings and "spread the word"). She got a fixed fee for each, and covered her own travel expenses as a tax write off. So not well paid.

Last night around 8:30pm a solicitor for this company rang my doorbell 3 times, sending my dogs into a frenzy. After being told to leave multiple times, I eventually just had to shut the door and walk away. But I wanted to share some things I found out about this company, in case anyone is enticed by their "good deals". I think this goes beyond aggressive marketing and might be some sort of MLM or other type of scam.
I found that their accreditation with the Better Business Bureau was revoked last June due to "significant failure to support ethical business principles" (proof). Over 350 complaints have been filed against them in the last year alone, some being about their aggressive solicitation, but others about even more nefarious issues like hidden fees, neigh impossible cancellations, purposefully misleading contract pricing, abhorrent customer service, etc. Read some of the recent complaints on the BBB site I linked if you are curious.
They are also likely buying fake 5* reviews on google and other sites. The tech was very enthusiastic to show me the 4.3 or whatever they have on google, but if you look at other sites like Angie's List (link) they have a 2.8 or lower, with many of the reviews being about the issues I've mentioned, and most 5* reviews being very generic or completely lack text at all in some cases.
This issue isn't limited to RVA but it seems they have been ramping up marketing in the area. One of my neighbors fell victim to this recently, so I wanted to spread the word. Just for fun, here's some more links to posts on reddit from around the country:
PSA: Aptive Pest Control (buyer beware) from Eugene, OR
Is Aptive Environmental a scam? from Raleigh, NC
BUYER BEWARE - Aptive Environmental (pest control services) from Boston
Beware of Aptive pest control from RVA subreddit 2 years ago
There's also a post linked here from the anti-MLM subreddit that shares the perspective of a summer intern who worked for Aptive as a sales associate.

There's no mention of referral schemes or recruitment of others in the "job description" for event organisers on their website. The advert I saw on jobcentre (and reported, again, as "not an actual employment opportunity") reads similarly to an MLM pitch, and the postcode given relates to a range of local addresses including residential addresses. Not the registered office address.
Anyone know anything about these folks?
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Editor’s Note 10 May: Visit the new list here - https://reddit.com/singaporemusicchat/comments/1co3y9megalist_sg_concerts_gigs_raves_till_vesak_day_10/

26 Apr, Fri

• BOYS LIKE GIRLS Live - 2nd Show@Scape, SCAPE Ground Theatre (orchard somerset), $91

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• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn: King Promise (🇬🇭 Afrobeat LIVE) pres by Fuego Night, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $71
• DJ, XPULSE pres. HARDTECHNO "BOILER ROOM", Por Vida Skateboarding @ GR.ID mall (bencoolen, dhoby), IG 📸 , $27
• DJ, FAILSAFE!: dcln (of sarco) x Inflake - live electronic music, 42 Waterloo St (bras basah), IG 📸$12
• DJ, Offtrack: Retromigration 🇳🇱, music gastro bar @ 34 North Canal Rd (next to hong lim park, clarke quay)
• DJ, .WAV(Y) Remixed Presents: FRANCHISE (🇦🇹 riddim baile funk hiphop) with PRAV, XG & KNRCK - hiphop vibe, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, , $19
• DJ, iki: Uncaged with Muttiah Ashnim (deep progressive house, tehcno, indie dance), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), , $22
• DJ, High House: Groovetop pres. Wantigga (🇳🇱), supported by YA5TH , High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ Sivilian Affairs x MUGIC presents Chucheewa & Logisticman (🇹🇭), Joe Delon (🇬🇧), and Miss Lil., tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $32
• DJ, Thugshop Presents - All Night Long with .VRIL (🇩🇪Ambient, IDM, Peak time Techno, Electro), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36,
• DJ, Marquee: GARETH EMERY (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿trance), nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30

 

27 Apr, Sat

• CNBLUE live in singapore 2024 , Indoor Stadium, $168
• TBA (aka Coboy Junior / CJR, 🇮🇩 pop) live, Capitol Theatre (city hall), $108
• 白鲨JAWS Band - Live in Singapore (🇨🇳 rock), Wire Entertainment @ Atrix building, 82 Lorong 23 Geylang (aljunied mrt), S388409, $55
• M-pop: FNM Mini Hari Raya Show - HADY MIRZA, Bo Jenggo, Dayak Konspirazy, Ezam Ernandy, The Coral Ballroom at 18 Kaki Bukit Rd 3 (kaki bukit mrt), S415978, $78
• Indie Rock: The Jansen (🇮🇩 power pop punk) ft Intermission, Camping, Krunkle, Cave Sex, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $35 doors
• SakuraFest: Singapore K-On Club, Taiko Drums, J-JAZZ Maestros, ANIME TRIBUTE by Rina-Hime, YOASOBI tribute by Lihannah, X Side Man (canto and japanese hits), WHEELERS Estate Seletar @ 2 Park Ln S798386,free
  • DOUJINFES @ Heartlands: Day 1 - Reiko, Halim, DJ Rogue (anime culture, ani-song), Beyblade Compeition, hometeamNS @ bedok reservoir, 11am-7pm, free
• Indie Pop Singer-songwriter: Sunroom Sessions #5 - Trevor Wong, kai.zen, Nino, Elaine, Vananko (bedroom pop, jazzy pop, soul), Sunroom Studios @ 63 Hillview Avenue, L10 (hillview mrt), $20
• Indie Rock Acoustic: Rabak Records: Reflections - ft acoustic sets with Nosedive, Days of Television, Late Culture (normally indie, dream/gaze), Crane @ Claymore Connect 442 Orchard Rd, L1 (orchard mrt), $18
• Indie Pop Gig: Late 4 SCH! by OVERDRIVE!! - ft ICEBOX, REGINA SONG, LAST MUNUTE, DJ KIKS, Everrich Industrial Building L5 @ 1 Tannery Lane, Singapore 347719 (tai seng/potong pasir mrt), $25
• Experimental Contemporary Music: WA #8! - Weird Aftertaste (vaporwave, metal, synthpop, youtube covers, hiphop, sensitive number for ladies), The Music Parlour @ Peninsula Shopping Ctr L4 (city hall), $26
• Noise Electronic, Doom Stoner Rock Metal: MATARAMBANG - Rumang, Kushna, Terminal Liner, ORQAN 🇮🇹, IBLISS and Tripping Haze Ceremony 🇲🇾, rad studio 345, $25 doors
• Jazz Loft: Mei Lin Hii - Tango Appassionata (tribute to Astor Piazolla, a night of south american classics),Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: Through the Years - A Disney Night with pianist Gabriel Hoe, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38+ drink credits
• SCO: Journeying Together - Shao En and Singapore Chinese Orchestra 一起走过 - 邵恩与新加坡华乐团 (G), Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• Esplanade: Tracing Origins – The Life and Times of Cantonese Opera’s Laosheng《溯源》粤剧老生 – 戏剧人生 with Tung On Opera Orchestra - Day 2 of 2, Esplanade Theatre Studio, $38

 

• Esplanade x SSO: Ravel's Spain by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, ESPLANADE concert hall, $15
• Esplanade contemporary classical: The Vast One by Tze Toh and TO ensemble - human x A.I, music x visual projections, Electronic Sound Design, Indian, Chinese, Japanese music, modern jazz and classical orchestra, recital studio $25

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• LIVE & DJ Tropika presents Gabriele Poso (🇮🇹🇨🇺 Afro-Latin, Disco, Conga, band), El Chido at Pullman Singapore Hotel @ 1 Hill Street (city hall), $45
• DJ, Wallich Manor Wallich's House Party with Seng Wei & Widenski (🇪🇪), Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar)
• DJ, ARK 11: ARENSKY (🇫🇷), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn: BASSJACKERS (🇳🇱 dutch electro house, hardstyle, techno), Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $20
• DJ CÉ LA VI: Pres. FABIO NEURAL (🇮🇹 tech house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, IG 📸 $38
• DJ, 1880: TEMRY (🇩🇪 neo-soul and afro-house), 1880 Members Club @ 1 Nanson Rd (Robertson Quay), $60
• DJ, BTGD: FRANCA (🇩🇪🇳🇱 house , techno - electro disco, deep, melodic) ft EJ MISSY supported by Morabito x Soul Collective, Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $36
• DJ, Tuff: Thugshop x Unmute pres. SEDEF ADASI (🇩🇪 acid, progressive, electro, tech house), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36,

 

28 Apr, Sun

• Debbie Gibson: Electric Youth 35th Anniversary Live in Singapore, Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $128
• Teresa Cheung (張德蘭) in Concert ft Johnny Yip (葉振棠), ESPLANADE concert hall, $78
• One Night With George Lam 林子祥新加坡演唱会 ft Sandy, Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $68
• Jazz Day at Botanic Gardens: Jazz Au Jardin - VOilah! France Singapore Festival x Jazz Association (Singapore) - Celebrating International Jazz Day , Singapore Botanic Gardens Shaw Foundation Stage, 530pm, free

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29 Apr, Mon - Golden Week, International Dance Day

• INCUBUS Live in Singapore, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $118
• BLOOD RED THRONE (🇳🇴 Death metal) - Live in Singapore ft End of All, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $52
• Acoustic: Tony & Will - the Mini Show (acoustic love songs), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $32
• Asia Pacific Band Festival at School of The Arts - Day 1, School of the Arts (bencoolen/dhoby), the full schedule, $15 per show

30 Apr, Tue - International Jazz Day, International Workers' Day Eve

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• The Projector Orchard Market & DJ Party AFTER HOURS SOCIAL CLUB - Streetwear Night Market & EATMEPOPTART Party, Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Area Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, free to $15
  • DJ, EATMEPOPTART PRESENTS: LABOUR OF LOVE ft Secret Pals, with KidG, Weelikeme, Fantastic Dinosaur, 300 free tickets
• DJ, Bollywood Club DJ AQEEL LIVE - DISCO 82 , hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $37
• DJ, Tuff: Thugshop Presents - SAM ALFRED (🇦🇺 house, deep, tech house) ft Tashasan, Dexter Colt, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $35
• DJ, MDLR: ØGravity x ArtBeyond Presents – STEPHAN JOLK (🇩🇪melodic techno) - ft David Carollo & Raja Rani, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $47
• DJ, Marquee: presents Da Tweekaz (🇳🇴 hardstyle), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30
• DJ, JST BCZ Presents 30 Years of V Recordings (🇬🇧 Drum n Bass Label) - Bryan Gee, Paul T & Ed Oberon, Saxxon and Felon MC, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $32

01 May, Wed - Labour Day, End of SIFAS Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society Festival

• DEEP PURPLE Live in Singapore (G), Fort Canning Park The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $188
• MIRROR FEEL THE PASSION CONCERT 2024 SINGAPORE (G), Singapore Indoor Stadium, $168
• MAYDAY! Festival 2024 - WE THE KINGS, STAND ATLANTIC, TINY MOVING PARTS, BLUSH, Rocket Rockers, Dads in the Park, Defying Decay, Battle of Bands Winner - update Aarcade , SCAPE Ground Theatre (somerset orchard), IG Lineup 📸, $129
• 金刚慧音 Imee Ooi & JSJG 演唱会 Mantras and Sutras - Day 2 of 2 , capitol theatre (city hall), $50
• Lawrence 陈俊宏 个人音乐会 Concert Serenading Under the Moon (月下倾诉) with MacPherson Philharmonic Orchestra (MPPO), Victoria Concert Hall, $78
• Piano Recital by Piotr Anderszewski, Victoria Concert Hall, IG 📸$25

 

• >> Esplanade
• E: Lim Yu-Beng: Notes To Self (the actor's music debut - folky rock singer-songwriter), ESPLANADE Recital Studio, $35

02 May, Thu

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• YNGWIE MALMSTEEN (the neoclassical shredder) w/ Special Guest MARTY FRIEDMAN (the megadeth axeman who went to japan) (G), Capitol Theatre (city hall), $158
• SSO x Esplanade: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev - Hans Graf and Benjamin Schmid by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade: Ryan Hunt - percussive fingerstyle guitar & covers, indoor concourse, free
• Anderson Serangoon Junior College Symphonic Band - Vivezza 2024, Victoria Concert Hall (city hall), $11
• ==Cool Cats: What the Jazz: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 1 of 3 Swing and the American Songbook, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20 schedule

03 May, Fri

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• Gregg Arthur (jazz), Victoria Concert Hall, $52
• Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys 🇦🇺 ft Cuban Young Guns - 1 of 2 - plays iconic music of Buena Vista Social Club (afro-cuban jazz), Mandala Club at 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd (outram), sold out last week at tix 🎟) $33
• Jazz Loft: AARTSENS-VARELA - Israel Varela (🇲🇽 jazz flamenco) & Nita Aartsen band family (🇮🇩) - Day 1 of 2, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: Jazz of a New Generation by EJ Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38+ drink credits
• Cool Cats: What the Jazz: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 2 of 3 (Swing and the American Songbook), nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), tix 🎟 $20, schedule
• Indie: Strangefest - 7 Bands 1 Drummer lol - Tariot, Rockanine, Bigdaddyrai & Chero, Wrathbourn, Floral Sky, Shuffle Squad, Tenga Band ft DJ TheSoundofAlvin afterparty, from thrash metal to indie pop to japanese rock, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $23
• Indie: SMU Soundfoundry: The Red Gala - ft. Daniel Sid and Bellied Star + SMU's the backdoor boys, best regards, velvet, beef cheeks, the matyrs, indie / college / uni gig, from pop rock rnb soul punk etc, scape ground theatre (orchard somerset), $22
  • Candlelight: Tribute to Imagine Dragons w VOX String Quartet, arts house chamber, $42

 

• SSO x Esplanade: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev - Hans Graf and Benjamin Schmid by Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Day 2 of 2, Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade Opera & Mini Intro: OPERA 101: An Introduction to Opera by Lirica Arts wtih musicologist and speaker Shridar Mani , Recital Studio, $42
• Esplanade FREE Music: Danesh Leonadi - I'm Just Being Human (singer-songwriter), indoor concourse 645 745pm, free
• Singapore Poetry Writing Month SingPoWriMo Closing Party ft Vivien Yap, sing lit station @ 22 dickson rd (jalan besar), free RSVP

 

• DJ, EMONIGHTSG: The B-Sides (emo pop punk, nu-metal, post hardcore), hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $20
• DJ, TASTY vol. 15.0 - hiphop afrobeat reggaeton - DJ Sweezy, DJ Shai, DJ Axeo & Emcee T.Williams, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $22
• DJ, Highh Party: K Pop Night SEOUL SEARCHING with DJ Raw, Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), $35
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 1 of 3 - Martyn (Deep House), Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• DJ, Temple Cellars Bottle Shop: Bring Your Own Vinyl Night, 31 Binjai Park (king albert park), free
• DJ Cherry : pres. Chambers: graduation ft Keagan, Tajima , Joon (hiphop top 40s pop) , 133 cecil st (cbd), $20 or free in grad gown
• DJ, Offtrack: Dexter Colt (leftfield house), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, Behind the Green Door: Candice B, Stephen Day, Kunda (afro, house, disco, funk), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25

 

• DJ, Quintino (🇳🇱big room house) & Nora En Pure (🇨🇭🇿🇦 deep progressive house & techno) for Sports Illustrated The 19th Hole presented by LIVGOLF, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $60
• DJ, Midnight Shift pres. ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (🇯🇵post-indsutrial deconstructed club edm, from trance to gabber to hardcore to house to rnb), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, tix 🎟 $35
• DJ, Zouk: pres ARGY (🇬🇷 melodic techno), zouk club clarke quay, tix 🎟 $45
• DJ, HQ: Thugshop Presents - KANGDING RAY (🇩🇪 techno, glitch idm) & NVST (🇨🇭 breakbeat industrial acid techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

04 May, Sat - Star Wars Day

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• LAUV pres by Liv Golf, Palawan Green at Sentosa, $138
• A-LIN 黄丽玲 - A-LINK WITH PASSENGERS 2024 金曲 ONE MORE TIME (G), Resorts World Ballroom, Sentosa $98
• HAVOC BROTHERS Mayileh Night (18+), sector 26 indian club at Cuppage Plaza B1 (somerset), $48
• Carnival & Pop Raya at Sports Hub Day 1 of 2 - shazza , kallang wave mall, outdoor covered area, shazza at 6pm free
• HC Punk: GWU pres. Restraining Order (US 🇺🇸) ft Check Your Head (MY 🇲🇾), Psylock, Spirits, Pseudo Reality, city area, $27
• Indie Chinese: FULL POWER CHINESE ROCK NIGHT - feat college rock bands), Wire Entertainment @ Atrix building, 82 Lorong 23 Geylang (aljunied mrt), (S388409), $30
• Timbre+ One North: Singapore Originals - IZZAN ADLAN (mpop), music food court/beer garden @ 73A Ayer Rajah Crescent (one-north), free
• J Music: OreDan オレダン - Live J-Music Afterparty - Singapore K-ON Club ft AIJOU, KIRAMEKI Future, L5 @ Gr.iD mall (bencoolen/dhoby), $20 includes dance event below
• Gardens by the Bay: Borealis Preview Show - NORTHERN LIGHTS Light and Sound Installation with atmospheric soundtrack by French composer Guillaume Desbois, gardens by the bay supertree groove, free
• Tampines Hub: GEMA RAYA 2024 - Hyrul Anuar, Fuad Rahman, Sanisah Huri, Zalelo, Rudy Djoe, Najip Ali and Orkestra Melayu SG, our tampines hub stadium-library-library, free with reg
• > Jazz
• Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys 🇦🇺 ft Cuban Young Guns - 1 of 2 - plays iconic music of Buena Vista Social Club (afro-cuban jazz), Mandala Club at 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd (outram), $33
• What the Jazz Mini Fest:
  • Cool Cats Performance: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 3 of 3 Swing and the American Songbook, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Jazz Loft: AARTSENS-VARELA - Israel Varela (🇲🇽 jazz flamenco) meets Nita Aartsen band family (🇮🇩) - Day 2 of 2, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Thomson Jazz Club; 30 Years of Music Making! big band music & swing ft alemay fernandez, mario serio, regan wickman, stephen rufus, tama goh, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20 or student dc

 

• Esplanade : Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Talk & Demonstration , 5pm 6pm Indoor Concourse, free
• Esplanade: Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Performance , 7 830pm, Outdoor Theatre, free
• > Others
• Methodist Girl's School: MGS Festival of Arts (Visual and Performing Arts ) – Kizuna I (G), Victoria Concert Hall, $30
• Candlelight: Film Scores and Hollywood Epic w Vocalise String Quartet, arts house chamber, $42
• Candlelight: A Tribute to Ed Sheeran on Strings w Vocalise String Quartet, the arts house, $53
• Movie & DJ, The Projector THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD (Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam aka Turkish bootleg Star Wars) and post-screening party with Reptile Skin Business Club, the projector golden mile tower
• DJ & Art Exhibition Opening: Michael Cu Fua's ‘Traces of Introspection’ feat. DJ set by ARMS1, Late Studio at 2 Jalan Rajah (along Balestier Rd)

 

• Mini Festival DJ, Sound Renegades - 3 Stages: 90s rave, progressive, house - feat. Gaspray & Sivanesh, Pure Love & Yuju & Kayh, Pengsoo, Jared Kong, Cosmo Carbon & Koppa, Dr Foo, Vivra Verra, Secret Site near National Stadium & Kallang Riverside Park, $25
• Alt Rave, Bussy Temple Rave Anniversary - rEmPiT g0dDe$$ B2B LnHD (DJ set), Mervin Wong x Anise (LIVE), howrøng (DJ set), Metamoksha (DJ set), Josh Tirados (performance), alternative culture rave, sold out no doors $30~
• DJ, Drip Chinese Hiphop Battle: Salt Basement pres. EastOut 第七集, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $27
• DJ, Moonstone: EATMEPOPTART The Kids are Alright - an unapologetic pop night - with weelikeme & YA5TH, Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St
• DJ, Behind the Green Door : May the Beats Be With You - James Selva, Nicolette, HBN, Leland (underground vibes - uk garage, disco, house, techno, asian funk, baile), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25
• DJ, Bollywood Club - GULABO, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $27
• DJ, Luxuria, Afrobeat & Amopiano - Move and Groove with DJ fidixx, Luxuria rooftop lounge @ Tekka Place Mall (rochor), (S218227), $30
• DJ, Party Social 5th Anniversary : ALL PINK - CINCO DE MAYO EDITION, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar), $20
• DJ, WILDIN' v8.0 - hiphop reggaeton afrobeats - DJs Sweezy, Kelibre & Snickaz, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $22
• DJ, Feel Africa: THE FORCE - DJs Gillou, BADGALDIDI, SWTLKR & Saint Ben - afrobeats, amapiano, kizomba, zouk kompa, reggaeton etc, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $16
• DJ, Cherry: Starwars - May the Fourth be with you , 133 cecil st (cbd)
• DJ, Cinco De Mayo by Element - Stephen Day, Chichi, Kris Haagensen, Mr Gray, Kinki Restaurant + Bar Rooftop at Customs House Collyer Quay (downtown, cbd, just off merlion), free
• DJ Debut Event: Tanglish Urban Music - Curry : "The First Serving" - Tamil & English Dance Event, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis) L2, $25
• DJ, BYOT - Bring Your Own Trunks, gay event. Pullman Singapore Hotel at 1 Hill Street (city hall), $40
• DJ, Fate by HaveFun: Future SG Presents : Interstellar (Star Wars themed) with DJs Limm, Kavok, Sharkboy, Skabush, southeast asian style club @ orchard cineleisure L8, (S239695), tix 🎟 $30
• Drag,: Salud: Labour Day with Femme Fartale & Earth na khaa , salud bar @ 19 Keong Saik Rd (maxwell, outram), free/bar
• > Hangout or Restaurant Gigs
• DJ, Vatos City House: Cuatro De Mayo by Vatos Urban Tacos - DJ Shai and hiphop reggaeton trap, City House 36 Robinson Road, $20
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 2 of 3 - Sadat & Fernyfren (World Electronica), Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• Wellness & DJ: Wild Pearl Immersion - breathwork, cold plunge, sauna etc, at SOMA HAUS, 108 Joo Chiat Rd, well it might be less DJ focused on this one, $50
• Hangout DJ, Fat Kid Records Rooftop Party - some drinks and dancing, it is a hiphop funk rnb electronic leaning record store @ 57 Joo Chiat Pl (paya lebaeunos)

 

• DJ Brunch to Night: Manifest and Mandala Club - Papi’s Fabulous Fiesta & Taco Libre ft DJ stephen day, raaj, Taco Libre with Gregor Salto (🇳🇱 house), mandala members club @ 31 bukit pasoh, $68-$88
• DJ, TRANCE4M International ft Suncatcher & Exolight (🇷🇴 UPLIFTING & CLASSIC TRANCE), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $37
• DJ, High House: Gioli & Assia 🇮🇹 melodic trance house n techno, indie techno pop, High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place, $55
• DJ, FOMOHOMO pres. Bianca Oblivion (🇺🇸 house club uk bass & miami hiphop bass, baile funk, mixed-genre), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, queer gig,35
• DJ, MDLR: Thugshop pres. ADIEL (🇮🇹 hypnotic techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), IG 📸 $47
• DJ, CÉ LA VI [pres. SPENCER BROWN (🇺🇸 progressive house, melodic techno)](ttps://celavispencerbrown2024.peatix.com/), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, $38
• DJ, Marquee: Showtek (🇳🇱 hardstyle, edm house), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $45 or student dc

 

05 May, Sun - Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May)

Some events truncated for word limit

• ALL TIME LOW ft Iman's League (G), Fort Canning Park, $158
• Choral: Voices of Singapore - Concert of the People 2024: In One Voice!, family friendly, Capitol Theatre outdoor Plaza (city hall), $23
• Carnival & Pop Raya at Sports Hub Day 2 of 2 - Sezairi , kallang wave mall, free
• Kinda Jazzy Raya Sama-sama Shiok Raya! with Rudy Djoe, Rachma (Keys), Niq (Percussion) and Rudy & Namie (The Jazz Djogets), EXP at 340a Joo Chiat road (paya lebar, eunos, katong), $22
• NYJC & Nanyang Chorale: in.harmoNY 2024, kid friendly, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• What the Jazz Festival: Workshop and Party - Jazz Inc and Amanda Lee Swingtet present a dance workshop, a Lindy Hop taster, and a dance party, jazz loft at Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Gardens by the Bay: Borealis - NORTHERN LIGHTS Light and Sound Installation with atmospheric soundtrack by French composer Guillaume Desbois, gardens by the bay supertree groove, Straits Times IG preview vid 📸 free

 

• > Esplanade
• ESPLANADE: Mother's Day Special by Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, free with Reg full
• ES Free Perf: Crooner’s Corner: Hillary Francis , Indoor Concourse 645 745, free
• ES Free Perf: Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Performance , Outdoor Theatre 7pm 830pm , free
• ES Art Talk & Demo: Sounding : .:. : . :. ..::.: Sand as score by Suhui Hee & Marjet Zwaans 🇳🇱🇸🇬 , Esplanade Annexe Studio, free with Reg

 

• Bike DJ Rave, Wild Pearl's Cargo Bike community ride, Cinco de Mayo special with Chimi's, Chimi's Marina Bay (downtown/raffles place/near merlion), free
• Party: CINCO DE MAYO at Lucha Loco - Tropical Garden Party ft DJ Black Tropik, At Lucha Loco - Mexican Cocina Y Mezcaleria 15 Duxton Hill
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 3 of 3 - DJ Candiceb, Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• DJ, High House: DJ SWTLKR for cinco de mayo by casa agave (afro beats & baile funk), High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• 🏖 DJ, Tipsy Unicorn : DAZED OUT (trance progressive) takes over Jonic, Victoria Leembruggen, Arif Rajab, Yukun and Jong, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa)

06 May, Mon

• As I Lay Dying (melodic metalcore), FooChow Hall @ 21 Tyrwhitt Rd (next to Jalan Besar Stadium), $92,
• Diana Krall (vocal jazz), ESPLANADE, $58
• Esplanade: Coffee Morning & Afternoon Tea Release Me, The Hits of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck by Peter Chua, Recital Studio 1030am 3pm, $18 with drink
• DJ, Offtrack: Restrospective with KiDG (80s notalgia), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar

07 May, Tue

• ES: Forward to the Past by Joy Alexis (singer-songwriter), indoor Concourse, free
• ES: Peirce Wind Symphony of Peirce Secondary School, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• Open Mic and Performances with Spoke & Bird presents: readings with Kirsten Han, electronic with Bani Haykal & singer-songwriter Malaika Mfalme, THE COUP BAR on 7 ANN SIANG HIL (maxwell) , tix 🎟 *$11 soldout
• YST Conservatory: Masters Recital : Clarinet, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory main concert hall L1, other recitals free

 

08 May , Wed - Music Matters Live & Creator Week

• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  • Swee Lee: NME Live Music Series: Girls To The Front - ft Shye, shazza, rhyu and noui at Swee Lee Clarke Quay, Swee Lee Music Store at CQ @ Clarke Quay, IG free with reg was full awhile back
  • CLARKE QUAY Fountain Square Stage: DAY 1 - ADRIEL 🇲🇾, Dhruv Visvanath 🇮🇳, Fi-Ne 粉内🇨🇳, Ben Swissa 🇦🇺, Isserman 🇬🇧🇫🇷, Balu Brigade 🇳🇿, Berywam 🇫🇷, William Singe 🇦🇺, ONE CLICK STRAIGHT 🇵🇭, the center area of clarke quay, fountain square, free
  • ZOUK Phuture Club: Set the Tone - hiphop, pop r&b - William Singe 🇦🇺, WHO SHOT SCOTT 🇳🇿, Arlo Maverick🇨🇦, Kyleaux🇵🇭 & VIVAOLA 🇯🇵, Zouk Phuture Club at Clarke Quay, tix 🎟 18+ free
  • Conference: see Creator Week link above
• Esplanade: Papaya Duck (vocalist Grey and violinist Audrina, sings Mandopop with classical fusion), Esplanade Concourse 645 745, free
• Choir: St. Andrew's Junior College's Saints Chorale - Viva Vox VII, The Salvation Army at 20 Bishan Street 22, $10,
• 8 (Wed) -12 May: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage (Advisory - Some Mature Content and Coarse Language), Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30 - $60
• DJ, Club Rich: DJ Nicole Birthday, southeast asian club @ 114 middle rd (bugis), (S188971)
• DJ, Flow @ club Iki (rnb hiphop reggaeton afro night), iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay)
• ==DJ, Moonstone: BOOGIE BALL w KidG (throwback pop), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St
• Ladies night at clubs, cant list them all.

Other Arts / Musicals

• Festival 25 Apr- 26 May: Voilah! France Singapore Festival, various
• Festival 1 - 25 May: Singapore HeritageFest 2024
• Till 11 May: Theatre - Backstage Betrayal, A Crack the Case Mystery (Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd (robertson quay, fort canning mrt), $68
• Till 4 May Theatre And the Cats Dance by the Light by Intercultural Theatre Institute, Drama Centre at National Library (bugis), $27
• Till 9 Jun Musical: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, marina bay sands, $80
• 4-5 May: The Everyday Museum: Roving Theatre inspired by Hilmi Johandi's Stagecraft: Landscaped Grounds, Start at SAM Tg Pagar Distripark
  • ℹ: more info
• 27 Apr - 12 May: Hendrick's Sunset Cinema Tanjong Beach, Sentosa Tanjong Beach (harbourfront), $48
• 24 Apr- 25 May: European Film Festival 2024
• 4-5 May: Chinese Kids Theatre: 神笔马良 The Magic Paintbrush (G), Gateway Theatre at Bukit Merah L8, $24
• 8 May: Standup Comedy: KAMPUNG UNDERGROUND: Comedy Night with LADYBO$$, Mad & Midas cocktails @ 39 ann siang hill (maxwell), IG 📸 $19
• 8 -12 May: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage (Advisory - Some Mature Content and Coarse Language), Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30 - $60
• 9-12 May: Teochew Opera The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸, $10

09 May Thu - Esplanade's Pesta Raya (Malay Festival of Arts)

• Niall Horan, indoor stadium, $108
• PREP (UK Synth-Pop), SCAPE The Ground Theatre, $84
• Cancelled: Converge (metalcore mathcore pioneers)
• Felix Martin Guitar Clinic (prog guitarist), Tonehouse Studios at Parklane Shopping Mall (bencoolen), IG 📸 $28
• 9-12 May: Teochew Opera The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸, $10

 

• ESPLANADE: Pesta Raya Festival
  • ES: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek, Esplanade Courtyard, free
  • ES: DINAMIKA! by DIAN Dancers, Outdoor Theatre , free
  • ES: Kembang Mara: A Gathering of Flowers by Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble, Esplanade Concourse, free
  • ES: Jalan Raya by Zarina Muhammad, in collaboration with local artists, Esplanade Annexe Studio, $17 - $22
• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  
  • Fountain Square Stage: DAY 2 - Peej 🇵🇭, VIVAOLA 🇯🇵, Jewel Owusu 🇦🇺, Arlo Maverick🇨🇦, Kyleaux 🇵🇭, GAC 🇮🇩, BINI 🇵🇭, Nadhif Basalamah 🇮🇩, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE 🇮🇩, the center area of CQ @ clarke quay fountain square, free
  • Senor Taco Stage: DAY 1 - JHM 🇦🇺, Mali 🇮🇩, MATILDE G 🇸🇬, TBA, Señor Taco restaurant livehouse at CQ @ Clarke Quay
  • PHIL STUDIO: Full Volume - ONE CLICK STRAIGHT 🇵🇭, Lemony 🇹🇭, Isserman 🇬🇧🇫🇷, Balu Brigade 🇳🇿, Emma Dilemma 🇳🇿, Adriel 🇲🇾, COUNT VERNON 🇸🇬, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), free
• DJ, Offtrack: Kaleidoscope: Bongomann (jazzy not jazz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
  
• DJ, iki: ROYAL BEATZ (Afrobeats, Hip Hop, R&B), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay)
  
• DJ, Drip: NRG Thursdays @ Salt Room ft Skilla & Zax (hiphop rnb afrobeats amapiano latin), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel
  

I am on telegram: search sg music chat or visit t.me/sgmusicchat

I’ve seen posts about Royal Family posts in Facebook, promoted by so-called influencers, even a certain DJL.
I tried to research as much as I can, but lumalabas usually is the UK royal family(smart marketing to hide their name, if ever).
It looks to be typical MLM, flaunting as much as $500 a dollar a day with hashtag AI automation.
Wanted to see if there is some certain awareness about this, kase they are said to be affiliated with BE securities(red-flagged).
This is the only article I found:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/be-securities-fraud-ponzi-warning-from-philippines/
Any thoughts on this one?

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Note: The books on Centuri Holdings, Inc. (CTRI Proposed), a unit of Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. (SWX),are set to close at 4 P.M. EDT TODAY – Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – a day ahead of pricing. The IPO is set to price TOMORROW night - Wednesday, April 17 - to trade Thursday, April 18 – on the New York Stock Exchange.

2-Star SCOOP Rating The Consensus Call: Up 1/2 point to up 1 point

Size: 12.4 million shares at $18.00 to $21.00 to raise $241.8 million – if priced at the $19.50 mid-point

Market Cap: $1.7 billion - if priced at the $19.50 mid-point

UBS Investment Bank, BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo Securities are the joint book-runners.

*Note: The Street likes Carl Icahn’s involvement in a concurrent private placement through two of his investment vehicles.

Centuri Holdings (CTRI Proposed) Books Close at 4 P.M. EDT TODAY – Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - IPO Set to Price TOMORROW Night – Wednesday, April 17

Centuri Holdings, Inc. (CTRI Proposed)

2-Star SCOOP Rating The Consensus Call: Up 1/2 Point to Up 1 Point

The IPO Buzz: The Street hears that natural gas company Centuri Holdings’ IPO is “2 to 4 times covered” with no price sensitivity ahead of the books closing at 4 P.M. EDT TODAY – Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

The Street also hears price talk in the mid- to upper end of its $18.00-to-$21.00 price range on 12.4 million shares. The IPO is expected to raise $241.8 million, if priced at the $19.50 mid-point. (Incorporated in Delaware)

IPO investors like this energy play, which some say is coming at a reasonable size and price range at a time when oil is setting new highs.

The Centuri IPO has a 2-Star SCOOP Rating,

The Consensus Call: Up 1/2 point (up 50 cents) to up 1 point (up $1.00)

Centuri’s IPO is expected to price TOMORROW night – Wednesday, April 17, 2024 – to trade Thursday, April 18 – on the New York Stock Exchange.

The market cap is expected to be about $1.7 billion ($1,689.87 million), assuming the IPO is priced at the $19.50 mid-point.

UBS Investment Bank, BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo Securities are the joint book-runners.

The co-managers are Baird, KeyBanc Capital Markets and Siebert Williams Shank.

Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. (SWX), the parent of Centuri Holdings, is offering the stock in the IPO. After the IPO and the concurrent private placement, Southwest Gas Holdings will still own about 82.7 percent of Centuri’s outstanding stock.

“It’s right sector, right time,” a seasoned IPO pro says. “It’s (natural) gas. Look at oil right now, setting new highs."

The private placement for Icahn is also a plus factor, he said.

Note: Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, investment entities affiliated with Carl C. Icahn, have agreed to buy in a concurrent private placement 2.59 million shares (2,591,929 shares) at a price equal to the IPO price, the prospectus says. If these private placement shares are priced at the $19.50 mid-point of the IPO’s price range, the private placement would raise $50.51 million.

Centuri Holdings, based in Phoenix, is a leading pure-play North American utility infrastructure services company with over 110 years of operating history that partners with regulated utilities to maintain, upgrade and expand the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses, the prospectus says.

“We are a leader in utility infrastructure services,” Centuri says in the prospectus.

“Our customers are leading electric, gas and combination utility companies across North America, including American Electric Power, Enbridge, Entergy, Exelon, NiSource, National Grid, Sempra Energy and Southern Company, among others,” the prospectus says.

“We also contract with certain large-scale 5G datacom providers to support increased utilization of 5G and network expansion with the addition of C-band and small cells.”

Centuri says that its top 10 and top 20 customers are almost exclusively investment-grade utilities. The top 10 customers represented 49 percent of its revenues during fiscal 2023, while the top 20 customers represented 71 percent of its revenues during fiscal 2023.

Financial Snapshot: Net loss of $0.19 million on $2.9 billion of revenue for the fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2023

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For background I'm 30F and have never had a skincare routine. At best I used moisturiser in the morning and that was it. I have combination skin with a very oily t zone that shines even without any makeup, so I've never wanted extra products/chemicals to make my skin worse or breakout. I also have very large pores which I'm very self conscious of.
In the last few months my routine has been:
Morning:
Paula's Choice BHA
Tropic Moisturiser
Night:
Tropic Cleanser
Tropic Toner
Paula's Choice BHA
Body Shop Moisturiser
Last night I brought COSRX snail essence, Saturday Skin Sleep Mask (to be used 3-5 times a week over moisturiser), Saturday Skin Moisturiser (to replace Body Shop) and Saturday Skin Eye Cream.
Is this okay:
Morning:
Water to wash face
Paula's Choice BHA
Snail Essence
Tropic Moisturiser
SPF (when UK finally has some sun)
Sebum Powder (reduce shining)
Night:
Tropic Cleanser
Tropic Toner
Paula's Choice BHA
Saturday Skin Moistuiser
Saturday Skin Eye Cream
Saturday Skin Sleep Mask (3x per week)
It just all seems a lot and I'm overwhelmed. I dont have much time at all in the morning so adding the Cleansing, Snail and Eye Cream seems too much.
Edit: I've just found out that Tropic is MLM so will be buying some Korean CleaneToneMoisturiser when they've ran out!

Hello fellow Malaysians,
Summary:
I am writing this post because I am annoyed by all the doom-gloom post and people reinforcing negative and even dangerous notions about education and salary lately. This post is made to give a reality check of these issues and maybe provide some actually concrete advice LOL
As such, it will mainly be about the correlation between education and salary specifically for fresh grads (working populace also applicable) and less so about other (relevant) factors such as economy, politics, world economy, Malaysian policies and etc. Also, a disclaimer that it will not cover everyone and everything (including 1.9% of Malaysian OKUs, people in poverty, with family issues etc) but it will largely apply to the GENERAL populace.
Start post (or rant lol)
Item #1: Fresh, Master Grads
“is it normal to receive <2k a month in Malaysia”
“does it make sense to only get XXX”
Yes I get it, Malaysian economy is trash, our politics are bad, FDI is bad, rates are high, your hair cut is getting too expensive, nasi lemak is not rm1 anymore blablabla:
I am going to be brutally honest here, from an ACTIONABLE STANDPOINT (Keyword: ACTIONABLE) you deserve the salary you get because the market accurately priced you for who you are as a whole. The tightening of the world economy sort of amplifies that as it makes things more efficient / cost-saving.
Here’s some reasons why you get low salary (covers roughly 50-80%):

1. Graduated from a below average uni (bonus points if you took a trash subject)

No your gender studies degree from TARUC isn’t going to help you land an MNC job that pay 5k a month if that’s what you’re asking. Be realistic, you are in no way competitive at all, you can’t demand anything. In economic terms you are a price taker, not a price setter.

1. Graduated from an okay to good uni but has really weak character.

Okay, so daddy worked hard enough to get you into a decent uni in Malaysia, which means a lot of jobs should be available to you right? Right?!?!
But does this sound like you: “omgg malaysia is so badd rnnnn I giv up” “I went to dez uni cuz flens!!” “Idkkk Im so anxious of job searching” “I shuld just settle for my first job” “atleast is near to my house”
What a lot of people don’t get, is that your personality is also priced into the salary you will receive. WAIT WHY? Because you undervalue yourself and settle. A company offers you 1.5k, you don’t take effort to find another job, and you settle and complain. Instead, if you made the effort, pushed yourself, make the right choices, you would have gotten a much higher salary.
People keep saying mindset is everything etc (although half of the time it isn't) but it's very applicable in this case. You deserve to get more only when you become more than who you are.

1. I AM A MASTER GRAD BUT IM PAID 3 CENTS a MONTH?

If not for the same reasons as above, competition is unfortunately extremely fierce in the current climate. You are competing with people with degrees all over the world.
Why the hell would any prestigious job EVER choose a masters degree or EVEN PHD from utar, inti, even private unis like taylors, sunway, nottingham when they could choose people from Melbourne, LSE, Cambridge, UCLA, Yale?
It’s not about work experience > education, that is only true for people with masters from trash unis or for experienced colleagues (in relevant and adequately prestigious work)
I’ve seen multiple fresh grads with prestigious masters get 8-12k starting salary EASY IN MALAYSIA. At mid 20s they are already at 20-30k, and it’s not even a small sample size.

1. Personality Issues

“I am better than everyone else” “can you just fking give me the job or not” “I AM ENTITLED TO THIS!!! I WANT IT NOW” "you should do this for me"
Good luck :P
Item #2: Negative Reinforcement from Boomers
“You should be grateful you have a job?!?!?! BaCk In My DaY, I used to earn 10 cents a century and buy a Bugatti”
For people who make these sort of statements, just remember six floors is enough ;)
A salary of RM 1800 in 1990s would be worth RM 4700 now based solely on inflation rate, also lets not forget the disparity between income and house prices.
It's usually these old, uneducated, arrogant people that speak the loudest. Please know that this mindset is very damaging to the younger generation and adds on to fresh grads anxiety, social issues, and overall loss of hope in society and future.
Not to mention it gives employers more bargaining power to press employees down and keep salary low by using the same exact statement against them.
OMG THIS POST IS JUST EGO DESTROYING AND HUMILIATING ME!!! I SHALL DOWNVOTE THIS POST AND SPILL HATE COMMENTS!
Woah there, hold your horses pal, I'm not done yet; we're getting to the boring part:
Final Item #3: Solutions
Then Mr. Generic Name, As a Malaysian WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!
Well, if you have decided not to complain to others and contribute to this doomspiral of negative BS for self-gratification, and convince others how Malaysia is screwed but not taking any action at all for yourself, here are some of the (real concrete) actions you can do so that you may have atleast some standard of living in the future:

1. If you can’t afford a high-class uni or get a prestigious job, leave to Singapore.

Sorry but if you get <3k a month in a no name low-value corporate job, there’s no way you’ll ever become well-off. The only way to ensure some sort of standard of living is to move to Singapore. Even a janitor pays rm 8k a month, quicker and faster than your entire career growth in a life time if you worked in Malaysia.
Edit: this is about overall having MORE money, feeding your family etc in Malaysia and coming BACK to Malaysia to have a standard of living, not stay in sg. Staying in SG sucks but if you are left with rm2-3k work at a stale job in MY what would you choose?

1. Join a commission-based job (i.e. Property/Insurance/Bank Sales)

Alternatively, if you must stay in Malaysia, the way to gain a decent maybe even impressive standard of living is if you worked your ass off in a commission-based job with growth. This is highly highly dependent on your likeability, personality, communication ability, and grind. There are various stories of people (and I know them from my circle as well) that make like 50k a month etc from these jobs, keep in mind they are the exception and not the norm. It takes a unique type of individual to achieve this.

1. Get a loan to attend a high-class uni, with a high chance (please do risk calculation) of getting a prestigious job.

Saw few individuals (one studied at INTI) risk it all by taking massive loans to study MBA in the UK/US and end up taking high finance jobs in Singapore. Breakeven in a single year. A high-risk, high-reward method that could leave you swimming in debt though.

1. Save for and study cheap but international and prestigious certs. Pivot into high paying jobs

There are various certs that may be worth to take (i.e. ACCA, CFA, etc) that have international reputation. They are much cheaper than the average prestigious degree and may or may not benefit your career growth depending on where you are in your career. At least, you can pivot you career into a much more prestigious and high-paying role.

1. Go for “black money jobs”

If you would like to sell your soul to the devil, can try MLM, scams and etc :)
Notice how I never said start a business, because the realities of starting a business is very daunting, and I will not touch on that in this post.
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Again, what I mentioned is not at all comprehensive at all and if you have finished reading to this point, here's a thumbs up.
Everyone is consistently moaning about 2k salaries, blaming the economy, etc. It doesn't change anything. The world remains fcked unless you become a super influential figure, otherwise you are just a cog in the machine. You can't control external environments but you can control yours and make the world that SURROUNDS YOU, a better place than it was before.
Do what's best for you RUTHLESSLY and EFFICIENTLY.
Edit: Damn from this post I realised atleast 50% of Malaysian are idiots, crab mentality of a bunch of egoistic lazy people who aren’t smart enough to form an own opinion except blame others.
No wonder we are paid so low and Singapore is so much better. Fyi, Self denial isn’t gonna change anything.
Cry me a riverrr

DISCLAIMER: This does not mean I think heralds are consistently Outer. I just made this post to collect every outerversal feat I found for them. Let's begin.
Superman:

• (Post-Crisis) Shattered the primal void once being set there by Neron, with this being the ultimate foundation for all universes and dreams within the minds of men and gods. This void exists as the pinnacle of existence in DC, above the infinite hierarchy of dreams, where all individuality stops existing whatsoever. It reduces you to the form below dream and thought itself. It exists at the very top of cosmology.
• (Post-Flashpoint) Shook the Phantom Zone while fighting Rogol Zaar and even said he was capable of destroying the Phantom Zone if he really put his head to it (Superman #5 2018). The Phantom Zone is a dimensionless structure in the Godsphere, and exists as an equivalent to Comic Book Limbo, which contains the set of all characters not yet written. The Phantom Zone exists as a dimension within the Sphere of Gods, a realm that contains several layers of fiction and reality, as well as being above the Bleed, orrey, and the speed force wall, which contains innumerable higher dimensions.
• (Post-Crisis) Withstood the resulting energy from the the Source Wall exploding. This is the very edge of creation, and is an actual barrier that surrounds the multiverse. It is the border of reality, existing in all realms and transecting all dimensions. It is also described as extradimensional, and exists simultaneously both everywhere and nowhere.
• (Post-Crisis) Tanked blasts from Gog’s staff, which contained the emerald energy of the guardians of the universe, the cosmic power of the source, and the magical night of Zeus and Shazam combined. With the Source being the divine energy that created DC.
• (Rebirth) Survived being hit with the entirety of magic in the multiverse, the entirety of the Speed Force, and the entirety of the Emotional Spectrum merged within a singular person, and was able to subsequently match this person’s attacks with his heat vision. The Emotional Spectrum contains dimensional layers and planes of infinity.
• (Post-Crisis) Survived as the last character in the DCU after Mandrakk the Dark Monitor sucked every other narrative dry, essentially being the only character left after the entire omniverse was erased during the events of Final Crisis.
• (Post-Crisis) Breached the essence of Mageddon and absorbed its warhead, a warhead so potent that it was causing the Pax Dei to gather around the Presence to engineer a new creation lest the old one fell to the warbringer (JLA #41)
  • The Pax Dei represents the Heavenly Host of God, the army of the Presence; such an army was the military force which ultimately cast down Lucifer Morningstar from Heaven.
• NOTE: This is probably an outlier
• (Post-Crisis) Survived being in the Source itself, with the Source being the ultimate energy source which created the entirety of DC comics, existing above spatial dimensionality in general. There exists no direction in it whatsoever, and no living beings could ever exist in it (until Superman, of course) (Superman/Batman #45)
• Post-Crisis) Survived a blast by Gog which breached Hypertime. Hypertime is like three "temporal dimensions", like time beyond time, applying to and encompassing even the Sphere of the Gods. There also exists the Branefold Interior, which is the space between spaces and the time between times, the physical manifestation of the Hypertime abstraction. Grant Morrison describes DC Comics as a war between the ink (published material) and the white page (God). Hypertime as it was conceived is basically all the ink. It is essentially everything.
• (Post-Crisis) While at his weakest, powered the Miracle Machine with his own life force, which recreated the entirety of the DCU after it had been consumed by Mandrakk (Final Crisis). The Miracle Machine calculates the life equation, which is the opposite of the anti-life equation, and one half of the dyad which immediately emanated from the monad which is the Source.
• (Post-Crisis) Was able to generate energy with his vocal cords which could shatter the true form of Darkseid’s godhead.
• Post-Flashpoint) After momentarily sundipping, was able to one-shot the World Forger and destroy his replacement multiverse and crack the Sixth Dimension.
• (Post-Flashpoint) The Anti-Life Equation combined with various isotopes of Kryptonite from the Dark Multiverse was unable to kill Superman, and was simply used for torture by a Dark Multiverse version of Batman fused with the Omega Effect (Dark Knights: Death Metal). The Anti Life equation is apart of the Source and exists on the same level as godheads such as Darkseid.

Wonder Woman:

• Shattered the Cronus Specter, which had the power of the Godwave; WW can call upon the raw power of the Godwave itself. The Godwave is an energy echoed from the essence of the Source. After the Ragnarok War which killed off the Old Gods, the God Wave was generated from the second world. The Godwave is a divine energy source that created the pantheons of Earth, Speed Force, Quantum Field, and Emotional Spectrum. With it being stated to be on the level of the Presence potentially by Cronus (Genesis #3-4).

Flash:

• [Rebirth] Barry Allen and Godspeed survive attacks from an amped Paradox, who was destroying the time stream
• [Rebirth] Barry Allen deforms space-time with his infinite mass punch, toppling the COIE Anti-Monitor
• (Rebirth) Barry and Wally’s race nearly tore apart the very fabric of the entire DC multiverse, with their race causing energy that the Highfather mistakes as coming from the Source Wall, affecting the microverse (which is higher dimensional), Fourth World of the New Gods, and the Green, a metaphysical realm that connects to all separate timelines of creation itself.
• Wally destroyed the armor of an amped Anti-Monitor, something the Pre-Crisis heroes couldn’t manage even after Wally amped them

Green Lantern:

• [Rebirth] Hal Jordan nearly causes a Speed Force singularity
• Hal is the 5th component of the miracle machine with his ring being the 4th, and Hal can power-up the miracle machine with nothing but his ring and proceeds to do so. The Miracle Machine recreated all of DC because Superman wished for a happy ending.
• (Infinite Frontier) Hal can power an unlimited energy source for the Nomad empire, who generate Ultrawar, with the power source being greater than their Ultrawar engine. Hal actually does it. This would mean Hal >Ultrawar which created all differentiation in DC cosmology. It's the final war of everything against everything else, as well as bring the creation of DC 'to ash'. TL;DR Hal powered up an energy source that was>an engine (Cosmic Grail) that could destroy all of DC.
• [Post-Crisis] Hal Jordan knocks off Crispus Allen Spectre’s jaw, later stabs him with the Guardians’ help

Superboy Prime:

• Superboy-Prime survived a blow from the Anti Monitor
• Superboy-Prime also punched his way out of the Phantom Zone (because he’s built different²)
• He also fought Bart Allen when he used the entire Speed Force to amp himself.
• Is said to be a bigger threat than the Anti-Monitor ever was.

Darkseid:

• (Post Crisis) Darkseid was ending all of existence during one of his fights where he defeated Highfathr
• Darkseid was established as capable of ruining and ruling the Source, and was as bending and twisting it as the very heart of existence during one of his fights with Orion where they were both becoming everything and Darkseid began violating the Source. Their fight corrupted the entirety of the Source
• (Post Crisis) Darkseid was merging the whole DC Multiverse into himself (Final Crisis)
• (Post Crisis) Darkseid was unharmed from a blast by Black Mary Marvel who had the powers of Zatanna, Black Adam, The Wizard and Klarion (Countdown #24)

Brainiac:

• Brainiac channeled enough temporal energy to reset the Multiverse
• Brainiac averted the collapse of the entire Multiverse
• Established to have absorbed many timelines into his body throughout his multiverse travels
• Brainiac basically brought everything together, going even beyond the Source to other Creations to get every iteration of the characters from different continuities to converge them. He essentially mixes all Supermans together, from the Golden Age to Rebirth, and even All-Star Superman is included in the mix, among several others.

Zatanna:

• As Lord of Chaos she literally went outside of the comic book panel and tear the comic book panel apart in The Overvoid
• Zatanna defeating the Upside-Down Man through belief (by asserting a cost onto him… thereby proving his power false - around the 1:13:20 mark) after he beat Swamp Thing, one-shot Constantine, and took down Dr. Fate amped by Nabu. Amped Diana was holding the Upside-Down Man and Zatanna’s own magic was amped while UDM was weakened… making him susceptible to her magic. Swamp Thing sacrificed himself to weaken UDM even after starting to change the reality of the Otherplace. It wasn’t a physical battle but a battle of belief. A battle of belief in which Zatanna won.

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This is all I could find. When I find more, they will be added in the comments.

(Hi mods I actually finished it now. Sorry about that.)
This is a little aside from my main literary analysis, but I got sidetracked into a history of wisteria and found it intriguing.
Taylor mentions wisteria in the lakes, the deluxe track from folklore.

I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet,
'cause I haven't moved in years.

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There are four species of wisteria plants, one native to the southeastern United States, two to Japan, and one to China. We have a lot of them in the UK, where they're technically invasive but also considered a standard of stately homes and old cottages alike. Some parts of the plants are poisonous, while others are edible if prepared in certain ways - a real duality. The flowers range across white, pink and purple, but are most commonly and most famously lilac or lavender in colour.
One of the most famous is the Sierra Madre Wisteria Vine, known as the "Lavender Lady".
Potential queer link one: lavender
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The plants were named Wisteria by botanist Thomas Nuttall (don't google this name too blindly, there's now a male porn star with the same name) who named them either after American scientist Caspar Wistar or perhaps after Nuttall's "close friend" Charles Jones Wister Sr. Charles Wister was married twice and had several children, and doesn't seem to be a very public figure. Nuttall, however, is better known - he never married, doesn't seem to be linked with any women, and though I can't find anything specific about him I get vibes. (Maybe he was aroace, maybe mlm.) Folks of his time called him "queer", but in those days it would have meant "strange". He was devoted to botany, and discovered, described and identified hundreds of species. (Yes, in many cases native peoples of the land already knew about the flowers, but Nuttall at times identified separate species where nobody, colonist or indigenous, had previously done so, and also studied plants from outside the north americas.
Potential queer link two: A confirmed bachelor named it for his close male friend but in a subtle way.
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Since two of four plants are native to Japan, Japan seems to have the most folklore about them. They are linked to 藤娘, Fuji Musume, or The Wisteria Maiden, which is now best known as a classic kabuki dance often considered the pinnacle of kabuki performance. In the story, a painting of a woman falls in love with a man who views her portrait and comes to life, but even as she expresses her love for him he either does not hear or does not reply, until the pain of her unrequited love becomes too much and she returns to being a painting. It is still often performed today, for example this 2022 Japan National Theatre production.
Potential queer link three: This female role was made famous by a male performer.
Some places describe this as not just an unrequited love, but a socially forbidden or disallowed love. I don't speak enough Japanese to look deep into this, but even coming across this interpretation is interesting.
Potential queer link four: Forbidden love.
Beside the queer links, it's very interesting comparing Taylor, who has extensively contrasted her social/public front and her real self, to a painting that comes to life because of love only to retreat to being an image when rejected.
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Wisteria is known for being extremely long-lived; some plants are confirmed to be nearly 150 years old at this time. The plant is also extremely resilient, with rough treatment and clipping or damage that would kill many other plants leading the wisteria to instead grow back stronger and more beautiful. ("I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time, I rose up from the dead" would like a word.)
Some places link wisteria directly to LGBTQ+ history, as Alice Austen House which included it in its Queer Ecologies Garden Project which challenges binary concepts of sex and gender. Alice Austen was herself a groundbreaking queer photographer who lived from 1866 to 1952.
Potential queer link five: We love us some purple flowers, and so does this queer garden maintained by a queer horticulturalist in the residence of a queer photographer.
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The word "wisteria" also pops up in another quite famous British canon - that of the original Sherlock Holmes stories. "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", by Arthur Conan Doyle, was originally two separate stories - "The Singular Experience of John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro". The former of these (Wikipedia summary, or read legally for free online) is the important one - it is a murder mystery full of secrets and lies, particularly in the form of secret identities. However, what is not outright stated, but is very strongly and deliberately implied that John Scott Eccles was gay and that he and Garcia were lovers. It has even been pointed out that Mr David Sherlock and Mr Hugh Holmes were the barristers defending two gay men accused of sodomy in the 1884 Dublin Castle Scandals.
Potential queer link six: Wisteria is in the title of Arthur Conan Doyle's story with the most overt gay subplot.
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And it's still used today! For example, Wisteria Magazine is an online zine that prioritises the voices of LGBTQ+ and POC individuals.

Lately I have found myself in a position where I have been giving career advice to many late teenagers and people who are considering a career change.
I have become increasingly frustrated with people who seem to live in a fantasy world.
Recent examples:

• A friend’s brother who wanted to change from teaching, applied to about four jobs online that really took their interest (in marketing, so not something they have experience in), then called it a day, and then couldn’t understand why they weren’t employed soon after. Exasperated at not even getting an interview!
  
• A late teen I mentored, who spent a good hour telling me all the reasons why classroom learning was not ‘their thing’ and that’s why they dropped out of college, but then proceeded to tell me they wanted to be a family law solicitor….
  
• Someone who did a 6 month, online, non accredited course in management, and practically threw his certificate at me mid way through interviewing him to show why he thought he was above the position he was applying for. I didn’t hire him.
  
• A friend who likes to tell people she runs her own business, when in actual fact she’s bought into one of those pyramid MLM franchises, and surprise surprise, she’s not making sales and she’s alienating her friends. She’s been asking me how she can grow her business, and my answer has been ‘quit and get a real job.’ Her response is that she can only find work in retail but doesn’t want to work weekends, but in the same breath tells me she’s desperate for money.
  
• My favourite. The employee who when I spoke to him about career progression and where he sees himself in five years, he said he wants to be a millionaire. He has no idea HOW he’ll do it or what business he wants to run, just plans to be a millionaire.
  

As a woman in my late thirties who has been put through the ringer over the years jobs wise, and has had to eat my pride and done whatever disgusting cleaning job possible to make sure rent is paid, or worked multiple jobs, and given up evening, weekends, christmas, etc, and spent literal weeks of my life applying to any job I can get when I have come unstuck, I have zero patience for these fantasies.
I can be pretty blunt. I tell them as politely as I can, that although that dream sounds nice, what do they plan to do in the interim? I don’t want to hear the ‘dream’, I want to hear a sensible, acheivable plan of action as to how they’re going to finance their lifestyle.
Someone said to me the other day that I am pessimistic, and that I shouldn’t be so harsh, and maybe they ‘might’ achive their goal.
Yes, I know they ‘might’ in time, and with A LOT of work, but what is their plan for paying next weeks rent?
Does anybody else think some people are struggling to adjust to the reality of the UK job market and how you don’t get your dream job just because you want it, or have I simply become a bitch after being bitten in the arse too many times?

Maybe a bit of a weird request - I just watched Lularich (late to the party I know). I really want to buy some cute patterned leggings similar to Lularoe from an actual store/retailer that isn't an MLM or similar scam/dodgy/whatever. Any recommendations? A lot of the stores I usually shop in just have block colours or patterns I don't like.
I'm in the UK :)

i applied to a summer retail assistant position a few weeks ago at a VERY prestigious place (landmark, not store) in london (UK). the application process was alright but drawn out - most of the questions were about my 'personal details' rather than me as a candidate but whatever, i wasn't bothered.
i got an email the other day that my application had progressed to the 'interview stage', except the 'interview' is going to be 2 hour presentation from the manager. the email made it sound like there is only a 50/50 chance i'd actually get an interview on that day.
they also want me to bring a bunch of documents of more 'personal details' - a bunch of security forms and a passport size photo.
i wouldn't be too bothered, but last time i needed to bring a photo and sit through a presentation prior to interview it turned out to be a scammy MLM job. if this job wasn't at such a prestigious place i'd probably have turned it down by now, but i don't know if stuff like this is normal for jobs in prestigious places.
please help me - will i regret it if i go to the 'interview?' i'm not a huge fan of sitting through a 2 hour presentation to get the same cashier job i got after a 20 minute interview in my hometown!