Sunday, 12th July 2026
At the end of every year, our church has this annual practice of getting her members to write down 3 prayer requests for the upcoming year, which we then bring before the Lord as a corporate body on the first Sunday service of the new year.
Just this week, the 1st prayer request that I had jotted down back in December 2025 was answered. Thank you Jesus!
Through God's wonderful divine arrangement, my son was able to accelerate his learning journey and was assigned to a team of elite driving instructors. That all culminated in him obtaining his Class 3A licence on 8 July 2026. Hallelujah!
Over the past few months, I would happily fetch him to the driving centre and back for his lessons (he was my "captive" audience, so to speak), and as a consequence, we have gotten much closer because of the time spent together :-)
In fact, he and I went on our maiden father-son bonding trip to UK from 24 to 31 December 2025 (primarily to watch Chelsea v Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge), and will be going on a second trip together to Hong Kong from 4 to 8 August 2026 to watch both our favourite teams in pre-season action (Chelsea v Juventus and Aston Villa v Bayern Munich).On to the title of today's post.
Separately, I have been monitoring COE prices and noted that one particular vehicle category typically lags behind the rest by around $30,000, which is Cat C meant for commercial vehicles such as vans and lorries. I have also observed an increasing number of minivans (what the Japanese term as kei cars) such as the Suzuki Spacia and Nissan N-Van plying our roads. It appears that drivers are switching from Cat A cars to Cat C kei cars, and saving at least $30,000 as a result of doing so.
Thank God for His prompting then because it has saved me $25,000 :-)
Indeed, God's Blessings are Never-ending. They are perfectly perfect (77), filled with grace upon grace (55). Lavish. In other words, GBN 7755 L. Amen?
By the way, I had initially bidded for GBN5775S but someone else beat me to it. Thankfully, GBN7755L was available.
For those of you also considering doing a switch from a Cat A car to a Cat C kei car, do take note of the following:
- the vehicle has to be G-plated and purchased using an ACRA-registered entity (for which, a sole proprietorship suffices at an annual fee of $30). It cannot be purchased in your own individual name.
- unlike passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles are subject to annual LTA inspections (yup, EVERY year).
- the vehicle technically cannot have rear passenger seats, so they will need to be removed every time before it is sent for that annual inspection.
- the speed limit is 70km/h (although you do see some of them travelling faster than that).
- the vehicle technically cannot be driven into JB (unless you first register a Malaysian business with a director that is also a director/owner of your Singapore business)
Having said that, the above are tolerable "inconveniences", given that you will be saving at least $30,000 on COE. There is also excellent fuel efficiency -- you can get at least 20km per litre.
