Spolit Princess?

Spoilt Princess?  A reader wrote to the local papers musing that today young ladies are spoilt princess unable and unwilling to take care of themselves and consequently their families. He went on to say that our young man has the benefit of national service and hence are better.

I beg to differ. I believe today young man and young ladies are all spoilt brats. And that is being nice. Just look at the children running wild in the malls. And when they goes to school, the grief they gave to their teachers. And with the ever so loving parents always ready to jump in to protect their precious little backside from poor old teach. It's no wonder they grow up to be spolit brats at work as well.

Almost without exception, these young fellas expect with their paper qualifications to jump straight to management post without working their way up.  And they can't take pressure and hardship for nuts. Give them some extra assignment, throw in a deadline and watch them crack.  And these buggers don't even know anything about loyalty. Offer them a bit more and watch them jump ship straightaway.

Spolit Princess? More like rotten princes and princess!

Dr Goh Keng Swee 1918 - 2010

I was fortunate enough to get close enough to him to take the above photo. I remember I was one of the student photographer at the Pre-U Seminar when Dr Goh was the Minister of Education. Then a greenhorn in photography and with no zoom lens, I climbed onto the stage to take the above shot and was lucky enough not to get wrestled down by his bodyguard.

I don't know him and never will but by all accounts, he seemed a fairly nice man although during the 2 hours plus session at the pre-u seminar, I never see him smile. But I think he is a great man with great foresight and without him and the other old guards, Singapore would not have become what it is today.

Dr Goh, RIP.

Beautiful Places

Guess what condominium is this? Beautiful landscape garden and is that a pool in the background?

It's a HDB precinct and nowadays HDB has spare no effort to beautify the surrounding and for some precincts, there is even attached multi-storey carpark with landscaped rooftop, bar-b-cue pits etc

I guess that's why it's time to move back to public housing!

臭豆腐

There this Taiwanese stall at Lau Pah Sat selling 臭豆腐 and my curious colleagues who had not tried it was interestingly turned off by the smell yet curious to try it. So one fine day last week, they decided to finally brave the smell and try it but not before dragging me along to split the food just in case they can't tahan it and cannot stomach all the food!


So the 3 of us sat down in front of a plate of 10 small little tofu served with a side of pickled vegetables. Well they said curiosity kills the cat. It didn't quite kill them but I could see one of them having a real difficulty swallowing it but still he gamely took his share while the other lady took another 3 and the rest went into my stomach!

Just how good or rather bad is it? Compared to the one I tried in Hong Kong, this wasn't really good but maybe the Taiwanese version is different but me think I will pass the next time round!