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Manila - Land of Jollibees

Feeling a little peckish one day, I stopped at a Jollibee.

I ordered a serving of little meatfilled eggrolls, and to my surprise, it came with a ball of RICE!

5 meatfilled eggrolls + 1 soda + 1 ball of rice = all for less than 50 pesos.

(30 pesos is approximately SGD $1)

Manila - Land of Mangoes

I stayed at Mekati New World Renaissance for a week in Manila. The best thing about the room was the bed. Fantastically comfortable, and piled with 6 soft pillows.

SIX PILLOWS!

Breakfast buffets are always good, bacon and eggs with toast. Yum!

Jellied Pork. Cold and yummy.

Yup.

Cubes of chilled jellied pork, refreshing and light. Surprisingly un-porky, and subtle. Served with sprigs of spring onions and a thin vinegar chili dip. Very addictive and guilt-free.

The white cubes are boiled shark meat. Slightly gamey, but tender. A strange combination indeed.

Since they are going to be closing down Chinatown's precious hawker center for 'upgrading', we have only a few more months to enjoy these delicacies before they are lost forever.

[Picture of the hawker stall in Chinatown hawker center]

The Best Laksa in Singapore

This store started selling Laksa at Sungei Road in 1956. (Laksa, by the way, is NOT a Singaporean invention, neither is Hainanese Chicken Rice.)

Still using the traditional charcoal fire stove, and keeping the price low at SGD$2 per serving. The Laksa is NOT overly creamy or cloyingly rich with coconut cream. Served in a bowl, rice noodles are covered with generous ground dried shrimp in the gravy. Topped with big, juicy, luscious cockles, this Laksa is the best in Singapore.

They later moved to a food centre around the area, with more and more Laksa lovers going to them.

Envious of their success, the landlord of the food centre kicked them out a couple of years ago and took up selling their own laksa in the original place. While keeping the signboard of the original hawkers and using the same operational set-up.

For the unattentive, this dastardly deed might have passed unnoticed.

Nice huh?

The original store then moved to a new location. Still selling the same Laksa, delicious creamy, dried prawn curry gravy, luscious and HUGE cockles over rice noodles.

This is Singapore's Best Laksa, Sungei Road Laksa. (Also known as The Kelantan Road Laksa, not the awful Katong Laksa.)

Sungei Road Laksa
Swee Huat Eating House
Blk 27, Jalan Berseh,
#01-100, Singapore 200027

"Best", or else its just not good enough for Singaporeans.

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Souless Singapore. Tales of DESPAIR in Singapore.

Will a 100 year old Bodhi tree save an old temple from getting demolished because of the Circle Line MRT in Singapore?

Straits Times Forum Online 2 May 06
Save 100-year-old Bodhi tree: Will the authorities be swayed by non-economic arguments?
Letter from Tan Swee Ann

Straits Times Forum Online 27 Apr 06
Save both the Bodhi tree and the temple
Letter from Ng Chin Guan

The Straits Times 21 Apr 06
100-year-old tree may save temple
by Arti Mulchand

Timothy's Picture of the Tree and account.

Fast Food Evangelist II

Two boys star in this sad little scene.

One, a very pimply teenager, wearing the uniform of ITE College East. Sullen and angry, he trudges into Macdonalds. His skin is scarred and red with acne, he is scrawny and has a very pronounced jaw. He is painfully shy as he looks through his lashes at the world. Self conscious, and socially inept.

The second, a slightly pudgier boy, short cropped hair, self righteous. He was preaching to another socially inept teenage boy before. This teenager with wild eyes talks about how all the ah-bengs in Singapore should all be beaten up by the police and have their tattooes all scratched off their flesh. Pudgy boy does not respond, tragically. Perhaps by not responding, he is encouraging the hate?

Pudgy boy tells pimply teenager, "Today I want to talk to you about giving. Experience the joy of giving: tithing, you may want to write that down, tithing."

Pimply boy scribbles frantically in a tiny notebook.

"But first i have a gift for you."

*pushes a plastic bag forward*

*Pimply boy opens the bag*

Surprise surprise, its a bible.

Pudgy boy starts to preach, "Turn to *blah**blah* Matthew, Verse 41."

"Do you understand the meaning of giving? Giving to God?!" he says with passion, reading from a booklet.

*Pudgy boy recites* *And recites*

I hear words like "sacrifice", "gift", "willingness", "tithing means 10% of your earnings", "I know when i give to God, God never fails to bless me." "For example, when last week I gave money, this week, my dad gave me extra pocket money.", "tithing is given through the church", "tithing can also help the church with events", when we give the tithing of 10% of our money, God will give us back much more."

"When we give to God, for example, when I was challenged to give 50$ to God. And I did, and then the next day, my dad actually gave me 200$. That is God blessing my father to give it to me."

"How much to you save monthly? This is a good time to set aside some money for giving. How much do you save a day?", "6$? Let me calculate, that's 6X5, 30$. *Uses calculator from handphone, 10% of 30$ is...", "You can give at the beginning of the month or at the end.","So you can see, when you start giving you can see all the rewards. We should give out of our hearts."

"Now is May 11th. So by the 27th of May, you can give $12. Giving is important. When you give, God will give you back."

"Invite your friend.", "Don't worry if this is your first time to give, don't be scared".

My heart sinks deeper and deeper with every word pudgy boy tells pimply teenager.

Richard Dawkins said it simply:

...It's a pity, but it can't help being the case, that because children have to be suckers for traditional information, they are likely to believe anything the grown-ups tell them, whether true or false, right or wrong. Lots of what the grown-ups tell them is true and based on evidence, or at least sensible. But if some of it is false, silly, or even wicked, there is nothing to stop the children believing that, too. Now, when the children grow up, what do they do? Well, of course, they tell it to the next generation of children. So, once something gets itself strongly believed - even if it is completely untrue and there never was any reason to believe it in the first place - it can go on forever.

Could this be what has happened with religions ? Belief that there is a god or gods, belief in Heaven, belief that Mary never died, belief that Jesus never had a human father, belief that prayers are answered, belief that wine turns into blood - not one of these beliefs is backed up by any good evidence. Yet millions of people believe them. Perhaps this because they were told to believe them when they were young enough to believe anything...

(Good and Bad Reasons for Believing)

But how do I let pimply teenager see this?

As pudgy boy stands up to leave, I lean over and tap him on his shoulder. Passing him a pen and a piece of paper, I smile winningly and ask him to jot down the name of the church he is from. He obliges, beaming to himself, perhaps he has converted yet another?

"Hope Church Singapore."

We have science, we have technology. We have proof, we have evidence. Yet, we still have this. Blind and irrational ignorance.

I have pictures. Surreptiously taken with my phone, dozens of photos taken of the two boys. It will be posted, oh yes, it will be posted.

[Previous Fast Food Evangelist - Part 1]

Demon Spawn. Tales of DESPAIR in Singapore.

This girl of about 10 years of age bounds off to buy some fries from MacDonalds.

When she comes back, she was whining about how "the woman" asked her if she could manage the tray. There she is, gesticulating wildly and pointing rudely.

"The woman" in this case, I would assume is the staff behind the counter.

""Can or not?" the woman say, kan bu qi wo!" the girl sneered in the most whiney voice to her mother.

Her mother encourages her with nods and the child repeats, while making the ugliest of faces, ""Can or not?" Chey, kan bu qi wo!".

That is right, for you are a child, and the staff was inquiring if you needed help. You silly, ugly Singaporean child.

Next time, smile at the kind lady, little girl. And then thank her for caring.

*swoon*

I still cannot believe how impossibly sleek my new phone is. Look at that! Its the size of a credit card, and less than 90mm!

The controls are a little clunky, but then I have been using Sony Ericsson phones for the past 5 years.

I get a lot of interested stares from people when I whip out my little beauty, and I don't blame them.

I know I would drool.

With its camera, I will no longer post fuzzy pics of my new rings here anymore!

[Samsung SGH-P300]

New Phone (SGH-P300)

*swoon*

A shiny new phone.

Credit card sized, and ultra thin.

Samsung SGH-P300



*swoon*

A new THRILL a month! II

Hell, this job I would pull for free.
- Captn Malcolm Reynolds

My job is sending me places!

May 2006: Manila
June 2006: Osaka
July 2006: Kuala Lumpur

[previous thrills]

New Ring

Bought a new ring a couple of days ago.

2 interlocking rings, one matt and one shiny. One thicker and one thinner.