We chased Jupiter’s Earth-sized storm

This is a data journalism piece. We did not anticipate it when we started researching, either.

“There’s a psychological concept known as denial … It’s when a thought is so hateful that the mind literally rejects it,” said Dr. Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development. He’s a psychologist who decided to pursue acting by painting himself in blue.

The Singaporeans are in a similar state of denial. They think there are no earthquakes or typhoons hitting the city, and they are free from outstanding weather events. In fact, there’s a huge storm in Singapore that’s been going on for so long it’s seen as a landscape, not a disaster, like Jupiter’s Earth-sized storm that’s been observed for centuries. We call Jupiter's storm the Great Red Spot, ignoring the fact that it is a natural disaster that produces winds at 644km/hr, or 400mi/hr.

The storm in Singapore, which has the intimate nickname of “the little red dot”, is as powerful as the Great Red Spot.

The good news for Singapore is that it is a storm living on the internet; the bad news is that 94% of Singaporeans are on the internet, according to a World Bank survey in 2024.

The storm is operated by Singapore’s top philanthropist Ho Ching. Ho, 71, is known as the former CEO of the country's infamously secretive sovereign fund, which has a S$434b (about US$356b) portfolio in 2026, having served for 17 years.

Ho Ching is unfairly mostly associated with her influencer husband, who specializes in cane policies and math. But the way she managed to pull off the World Wide Web’s most powerful weather phenomenon while making it so constant and so grand that people hallucinate "oh yeah it’s a landscape" proves her might is bigger than the ZFC theory.

The storm is Ho Ching's personal Facebook page. BobaChair does not know how much a typical person posts on Facebook in one day, but Ho posted more than 100 posts on July 5 alone, the day before this article's publication. Here's Ho's day of July 5:

She kickstarted the day at 06:25 am by sharing Kao Hao Rui's post on a "50 cm juvenile saltwater crocodile".

Also at 06:25, she shared Junnesca Leow's post on a Fried Kway Teow.

At 06:26, she shared Tommy Ng's "Very Very Authentic Old School & Comforting Kway Chap."

At 07:07, she shared a New York Times' gift article on the Ukraine war.

At 07:08, she shared Hexi Lee's observation of an owl.

At 07:28, she shared a casual piece by Mothership, a Singaporean tabloid website, on some jacked elderlies.

After a breakfast break, she shared the DSTA Defence Science and Technology Agency's video on some stuff that apparently says they don't know what to post on that day, at 09:12.

At 09:23, she shared a post on a self-reassuring Singaporean piece on how the PM frames Singapore as an "underdog" but it actually means Singapore is superior to all countries in the world.

At 10:20, she shared Patrick Tay Teck Guan's take on the first Singaporean "Employment Claims Tribunal" that BobaChair has no interest in explaining what it is because we're just tired now.

At 10:22, she shared Mervyn Ting's take on mee and rice. We think Ho is hungry again.

At 10:31, she shared "New Gen facts" (we despise the English capping of the profile)'s explainer on why 70% of South Korea is covered by mountains. We want some fried chicken now.

At 10:34, she shared another piece about the Ukraine war from 2025.

At 10:44, she shared a sentimental piece that's called "I cried 15 minutes after reading this..." and the first take is "One day you'll realize you were never too busy... you were just giving time to other things." Apparently she wasn't.

At 11:05, she shared a self-promoting piece on local English troops called High Sheriff of Lancashire. Ghost of colonization?

At 11:20, she shared a guitar account's "guess this song" video.

At 11:35, she watched The New York Post's post on the Brooklyn Bridge catching fire during a Fourth of July celebration. God bless America.

At 11:36, near lunch, she shared a piece on 8 Days Singapore's "yummy waffles" piece.

At 11:36, she apparently craved some butterflies. BobaChair hates butterflies. We refuse to elaborate on butterflies.

At 11:38, she shared another Mothership piece on a pedestrian & cycling bridge. Yeah it's Singapore. And she shared twice. Sure, respect her as a cyclist.

At 11:38, as the third post of the minute, she shared "Michael Jackson's final rehearsal" from a content farm.

At 11:41, she shared a piece on how Singapore is a good example of like, a mix of a lot of races? Sure. The source is called "Singapore Matters", by the way.

At the same minute, she shared a piece on Singapore's preview on a train station. Please fix your MRT issues before building new stations, like, okay?

At 11:45, she shared a post on data centers of the United States. One reader tapped "cry" reaction on that share. Sure.

At 11:46, she shared something about skin cancer. We hope there's no skin cancer in the world.

At the same minute, she shared a state media's piece on EVs. Sure sure. Yeah.

At 11:47, she shared a photo that blends a lot of costume-wearing people and calls them a meaningful youth day. Like, we think the youths should learn from Ho's stamina.

At 11:48, she shared an article on an alternative life of a member of the Singaporean army. We believe she's more energetic than most army people in the world now.

At the same minute, she shared a historic building of Singapore which is now gone. Her Facebook profile would be more eternal than that. At the same minute, she also shared the new president of Peru. Her versatility in one minute is very very unimaginable.

At 11:56, she shared a piece on how Singapore's gonna prepare for the AI era. No like Ho is more mighty than AIs and has no token limits. Singapore should prepare for you.

At 12:00, she shared a post about Papua New Guinea’s 800 languages. Like, you posted 100+ posts on one day, ma'am. Like is that hard to digest?

At 12:01, she shared about James Garner. We don't care who they are now.

At the same minute, she shared a video of jets flying over snow, sponsored by RedBull. She doesn't need RedBull.

At 12:06, she shared about "6 advanced words on 'HOT'" by an English learning account. You don't need to convince anyone that you're on a hot streak, really.

At 12:07, she shared another piece on the 4th of July. Please do not doubt your Facebook page isn't as big as the US' 250-year celebration.

At 12:15, she shared something about earthquake-prone countries. Do you know your country doesn't care about earthquakes? You’re much scarier than those.

At 12:26, she shared "GREAT ADVICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE". We advise you to eat lunch, ma'am.

At 12:27, she shared about "the world's most valuable flower". We do not want you to eat flowers. It's just not good.

At 12:28, she shared about the Ukraine war. Solidarity observed.

She finally took a lunch break until 14:45, when she shared "UNUSUAL WORD FACTS".

At 14:53, she shared another Duolingo streak by sharing English idioms like "break a leg."

At 14:55, she shared Cleaver Life Hack's "do your tires still have time left?" As if an ordinary person in Singapore could drive.

At 14:57, she shared a video of someone guessing durians' weights. A comment by Chia Teck Teh on this post is "i am very very very tired.... I want to pick up new things... i am very very very very very bored." We can sympathize.

At 15:29, she posted after a break of 32 minutes. That is BobaChair’s guess for how long a typical person needs to get some fresh air after spending slightly more than a usual poo break online. We don’t know that it isn’t the case. The post was a video documenting Indian Singaporeans' youth summit. Very much worth a look. We don't have a comment on the activities they did.

At 15:35, she shared another video of a bird. The internet is getting tired, Ms. Ho.

At 16:17, after a supposed tea break, she shared yet another bird-watching video. This is not a Loot episode.

At 17:11, she shared about a US weapons sale of missiles to Singapore. Like, you don't need that as long as your Facebook is running.

At 17:13, she posted about Norway selling a lot of EVs. Matt Seng, a commentator, said that "SG is reverse. EV road tax twice of ice? Insur 1.5x more ex?"

At 17:14, she shared a capybara image that BobaChair believes to be AI-generated but we have no proof. We don't care because we love capybaras.

At the same minute, she shared about a milky stork eating fish.

At 17:15, she shared "Science World"'s post to "Physics Is Fun" about Japan preserving trees. Yeah...?

At the same minute, she shared another butterfly post. We refuse to provide another link to butterfly images because it's objectively disgusting.

At 17:16, she posted "Think Positive Power"'s piece on happiness with a snoopy dog's image. We believe it doesn't have a license from Peanuts.

At 17:17, she posted an article called "former MP (72) still looks young enough to join youth wing." Ho Ching is 71.

At the same minute, she shared about "HAVE YOU SEEN SEAHORSE OR PIPEFISH IN SINGAPORE" and like we don't like to be screamed at and like we do not want to understand this post.

At 17:18, she shared about Russian horse videos. We are sure no horses or humans care about this news.

At the same minute, she shared about Mothership's post about Singapore's garden festival. Jeez, so many things are happening at the little red dot. Do you know you can bring plants into Singapore without being fined?

At 17:19, another post about the Ukraine war. We care about Ukraine, too.

At 17:21, she shared an article on the Singapore PM's visit to Jakarta which is called a retreat. We hope we can have a retreat from observing Ms. Ho's posts.

At 17:24, she shared another post from Singapore Matters called "dear pioneers, thank you for your sacrifices." The post is tagged with AI content.

At the same minute, she pivoted to the World Cup.

At 17:25, she shared a post that says "an experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones suggests that Homo floresiensis was neither a skilled hunter of big game nor a master of fire" and BobaChair does not have the will or the capabilities to parse this article.

At the same minute, she also shared the wall street journal's take on m&m's artificial dyes. Please spare us from capping proper nouns for a brief second.

At 17:30, she shared another article praising Denmark's success on renewable energy. Good for her!

At 17:39, she shared about an old water tank. BobaChair needs some water now.

At 17:40, she questioned if people can swim in Singaporean rivers by sharing a post. We hope people don't drown like we drown in your posts.

At 17:40, she shared another piece on the World Cup. With music by Robbie Williams. Like, we all know you are single-handedly raising the economy, Ms. Ho.

At 17:41, she shared Morocco's success at the World Cup. We all know you have a better streak.

At the same minute, she casually promoted her influencer husband's post.

At 17:42, she posted a new post about Denmark's renewable energy. Does SQ fly to Copenhagen? BobaChair can't wait to find out.

At the same minute, she shared a post about Kylian Mbappe. We get the appeal.

At 17:43, she posted a news article about a "death to America" protest a day after the US' 250th 4th of July. Rude.

At the same minute, she posted about an expat banker running a free bicycle repair service in Singapore. We like the activism very much. Worth checking out.

At 17:44, she shared another article about France’s World Cup team. Yeah we do need more Mbappe pieces. They keep us rational for a minute, don't they?

At the same minute, she posted a piece about a jet carrying the Singaporean flag at its national day parade. We hope the pilot is Mbappe.

At 17:45, she shared a historical photo of a very old image of Singapore in 1963. Ho Ching was around 10 years old at the time. She did not know BobaChair. BobaChair did not know her.

At the same minute, she posted an image of a Singaporean military person wishing everyone a "happy SAF day."

At 17:46, her attention pivoted to Qatar's maritime activities. BobaChair doesn't have her regional awareness, we'd give her that.

At 17:47, she shared about China's clean energy. Like girl, if you want to do clean energy, tell the PAP.

At 17:52, she shared about another post on Singapore's garden festival. Hee hee hee.

At the same minute, she shared that the Singaporean PM had received Timor-Leste's highest honor. You do know it's not really a flex, do you not? Also, she shared a really sad obituary by Mothership.

At 17:53, she shared some complex geopolitics about Iran and China but BobaChair is too fatigued that we don't have a clever comment now. Also, she shared about the funeral of Iran’s supreme leader. Maybe like, we dunno, talk about the wallpaper situation in the supreme leader’s public appearances?

At 17:54, another piece on the Singaporean PM's retreat to Jakarta. We'd like to retreat to 23:59.

At 17:55, a bird pic again. We are jealous of birds' freedom from her posts.

At 17:57, a historical pic of Singapore in 1964. Such a simple time without Facebook.

At 17:58, PM Wong's personal take on the Timor-Leste honor. BobaChair would like to extend a lot of honors to Ho Ching if she could stop posting.

At the same minute, a piece on a German ethnographer that wrote about Singapore. BobaChair thinks Ho Ching deserves an ethnography more than the whole nation does and like, we're doing that. Also an explainer on the evolution of the National University of Singapore.

At 17:59, she shared an exhibition on like ocean, like yeah whatever ocean is important yeah well yeah.

After a 2-hour dinner break, Ho Ching posted yet another bird pic collage of a bird eating at 20:18. Yeah we know you ate dinner. It took you two hours. At the same minute, she posted a scaly-breasted munia. Please confirm that you did not eat it.

At 20:22, an AI history explainer we did not bother to read.

At 20:29, a National Geographic Travel video on natural wonders. Ms. Ho, please do not doubt that you're the natural wonder of Singapore, Asia, the world, Earth, the Solar system, the galaxy and the universe.

At 22:20, after a mysterious break, she shared a person sawing a tree. No please don't hurt the tree. You're better than that.

At 22:52, a Singaporean woman breaking a half-marathon record. BobaChair suggests that Facebook posting would be a much more viable sport. At the same minute, a video called "they were students before they became pilots." We can't stress enough that we wish Mbappe is the pilot. Also, a commentator Lai Fun Wang pleaded with her to wind down early and sent her a good night.

At 23:21, she posted a video comparing British, Singlish and "Tinglish" with a Thai flag. We do not think it's a funny way to wind down.

At 23:35, she shared Sydney's eco-conscious way to do burial plots. We wish Ms. Ho would bury herself in bed now for her well-being. Also, she shared a video of people doing gymnastics. Like please, let your nerves rest for a split second.

At 23:36, she shared the final post of the day. It's about the foreign ministry of Singapore's new "Consular Response Centre." BobaChair wishes Ms. Ho finds a consular response center for her sleep hygiene. Because she spent literally 17 hours and 11 minutes posting on Facebook, that left her only 6 hours and 49 minutes to sleep. Like, it's usually not very healthy.

This is BobaChair's longest piece by a long shot. And god knows we hate writing long articles. But we can't let the piece end here. It's not fair to Ms. Ho's lifetime work.

We promised this would be data journalism and here it is:

Ho Ching's Facebook page has 434k posts. It's about 123% of the combined total of The New York Times’ (235k) and the BBC News' (118k) posts on Facebook. Ms. Ho produced 81k posts more than 13100 people's output.

We wish we could tell you how we reached the number of 13100 people. The truth is we couldn't. After reading about one day of her Facebook life, we can't do very rigorous factchecking anymore. We’re only human. The New York Times and the BBC are only human. She isn't.

What we can factcheck, however, is that the number of her posts is 275% of The Atlantic's (158k) and 321% of The New Yorker's (135k). BuzzFeed, one of the internet’s most famous content farms, has 244k posts on Facebook, which is 56% of Ho Ching's posts.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed page on Facebook with 173m followers. He has 3.9k posts. Ho Ching's post number is 11128% of Ronaldo's posts.

NASA, the US space agency which kindly provided the image for The Big Red Spot of Jupiter for free, the agency that did countless space studies, produced 22k posts on Facebook. Ho Ching's number is 1973% of NASA's post count.

BobaChair doesn't like most of Meta’s business practices, but we do think it's fair if Facebook decides to charge Ms. Ho server fees of an astronomical amount, for hosting the internet’s scariest storm that's also Singapore's most striking digital landscape.

Researched, handwritten, tiredly fact-checked, and finalized by a real human who was born and raised in Asia. The human hopes the next time they appear in a Singaporean court building is to dine at Odette, not for a defamation case. Grammatically edited by ChatGPT 5.5 Medium.