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| 11-Sep-2010 11:28 |
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FREE bus services benefit ? ? ? ? FAF [Free And Free] rIders ? ? ? ? phIlanthrOpy gestUre ? ? ? ? especIally fOr ? ? ? ? actIve [sUbject tO transpOrt cOst cOnstraInts] senIOr cItIzens ? ? ? ? tO-and-frO retUrn trIp saves abOUr S$4 per passenger ? ? ? ? Of cOUrse it is lOst revenue and prOfIt fOr SMRT ? ? ? ? 4,000 x S$4 per day = S$16,000 per day ? ? ? ? Of cOurse
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:45 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:44 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:43 |
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Hawker fOOds mUst nOt be made eXpensIve ? ? ? ? Hawker fOOds are pOOr peOple's fOOds ? ? ? ? pUblIc transpOrts mUst nOt be made eXpensIve ? ? ? ? pUblIc transpOrts are pOOr peOple's transpOrts ? ? ? ? |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:38 |
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Aug 29, 2010YOUR LETTERS
Don't sniff at their culinary skillsI agree with Professor Tommy Koh wholeheartedly that good hawker food is hard to find these days. It has been ages since I had hor fun with good wok hei. Rojak with kangkong is virtually unheard of these days. Slowly but surely, we are losing our food heritage. I am all for teaching how to prepare such dishes in culinary institutes. One should not sniff at hawker food preparation. Each step affects the final taste. Just stand at any stall with a long line and watch the hawker work with the greatest concentration. I would rue the day we are reduced to eating at food courts where our hawker dishes are prepared by helpers who merely go through the motions. I am sure there are willing teachers among hawkers and chefs. I am keeping my fingers and chopsticks crossed that our young aspiring chefs will take up the challenge. Ong Soek Peng (Ms) |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:28 |
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PAP lOsers - prIces mUltIply - fOOd qUalIty mInIply - fOOd qUantIty mImIply - servIce mIcrOply
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:24 |
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Aug 29, 2010YOUR LETTERS
Bring back good service as wellRegarding Professor Tommy Koh's suggestion last Sunday to teach aspiring chefs to cook hawker fare, to ensure its continuity and raise its standard, I would say 'yes' and it's about time too. A dollop of courteous service should also be added. In the old days, there were no queues. You just gave your order to the hawker even when people were crowded around his stall. You either stood there and waited or told him where you would sit and he would remember to serve the food to you. Today, it is all down to self-service. I understand the need during peak hours. But it is wrong to insist on self-service when there are no crowds and during off-peak hours. Derrick Wong |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:20 |
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lOOk and sEE hEar and lIstEn rEad and pErUsE nUmber Of PAP lOsers are IncreasIng by the day . . . . |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:16 |
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Aug 29, 2010YOUR LETTERS
Examine real source of exploitationOn reading the article 'When maids moonlight on days off' last Sunday, I was ready to applaud the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indonesian domestic worker who earned extra money by selling phone cards at a profit to fellow workers who are denied a day off. The next thought was of the conflict between profiting from other domestic workers who have no time off and providing them with the essential means to maintain contact with loved ones. The larger issue is that of the low wages and massive loans that necessitate sideline jobs. Even employers who allow domestic workers to do casual work on days off agree the money is an important addition to their paltry salaries. One MP talks about potential abuse and exploitation related to casual work, yet the lack of a day off, agent fees that take two years to repay, and low salaries that fail to generate enough money to send home would appear to be the source of abuse and exploitation. Deborah Fordyce (Ms) |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:11 |
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SMRT is mIddleman whO multiplies cOst Of lIvIng ? ? ? ? WHY dOes Ministry Of TranspOrt need SMRT as a mIddleman ? ? ? ? WHY nOt Ministry Of TranspOrt cuts the extra SMRT layer and run the transport services directly ? ? ? ?
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:07 |
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Aug 29, 2010YOUR LETTERS
Unfair to pay more for trains to run till laterTransport correspondent Christopher Tan's commentary ('A good time for trains to run till later'; Aug 15) urges train operators to extend service hours and suggests commuters could pay more for such a service. Why should commuters pay more when it is the obligation of the only two train operators to meet customer demand? Continuous operation in many industries is part and parcel of business, especially for fundamental services like power and utilities, hospital emergency services, security, telecommunications and, yes, public transport. The 24-hour operating costs are factored into the business to arrive at competitive prices. The user-pay principle operates in a fair and logical manner in business for legitimate profit. The price of a lamp bulb is the same even if it was manufactured in the second or third shift in the factory while 24-hour fast food outlets charge the same prices whether customers come in at 4am or 4pm. The user-pay principle has no place in extending train operating hours from 12.30am to 2.30am. Paul Chan |
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| 10-Sep-2010 18:02 |
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The mIserable sUccessfUl DUCK RISE HAWKER In 2009, a DUCK RISE HAWKER tOld an aUntIe Store Rent S$7,000 per month without air-conditioning Store Rent S$7,000 / 30 = S$233.33 per day Each duck selling at S$34 Each plate of duck rice selling at S$3 She needs to sell at least 20 ducks just to cover her daily store rent At the high price of S$34, she can hardly sell too many ducks even though her duck is well done and well like. Her hands are totally condemned through years of preparing and chopping the ducks. Despite her success, life is very hard just to survive a living. She wanted to quit but has no alternative means of earning her livelihood. She had no choice but bear to carry on until her last day . . . . ROOT CAUSE Of ALL DAMAGES tO HAWKER FOOD and HAWKER LIVELIHOOD ? ? ? ? KILLER HIGH RENTAL ? ? ? ? This is nOt a restaurant and UNair-cOndItIOed ? ? ? ? WHY does the AuthOrIty intrOduce a Middleman Store Lord tO multiply the cOst Of livIng ? ? ? ? Like the HDB flat shOuld be meant fOr Owner Residency ? ? ? ? Hawker Stall shOuld be meant fOr Owner Hawker and nOt Store Lord who is nOt the Hawker ? ? ? ? WHY ? ? ? ? In this sItuatIOn, the Middleman Store Lord and the Authority are the Only two FAF wInners the tenant Hawker and all the citizen consumers are PAP lOsers citizen consumers are no longer paying for the food but are paying UNnecessarily for the hIghly Inflated mIddleman rent which is detrimental to all PAP lOsers |
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| 10-Sep-2010 17:36 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 17:33 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 17:25 |
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Aug 29, 2010Difficult to accept a loved one's sufferingFeeling compassion with a detachment is wise, but tough when it comes to Mama
The writer, then 19, with her mother and father in Rajasthan, India. Those were happier times before her mother suffered a stroke in May 2008 and became bedbound. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF LEE WEI LINGI awoke with a start, a while ago, from a dream. I looked at my watch. It was 4am. It was a dream worth remembering, so I decided to write it down immediately. If I had not done so, I would not have been able to remember it later. In my dream, I seemed to be simultaneously at home and outdoors at some unfamiliar place. Suddenly, a monster appeared and attacked me. I struggled with the monster but it matched me strength for strength. I did not utter a sound, nor was I frightened. Instead, I wrestled silently with it. Suddenly my mother appeared. She walked towards us, but did not say anything either. Instead, she made a dismissive gesture and the monster turned tail and ran away. That would be Mama's way of tackling problems, I thought: no need for unnecessary words or actions; just do things quietly and effectively. At that point, I woke up. I got up from the floor where I was sleeping and went into my mother's room to see how she was doing. She was sleeping peacefully. I am now back in my room recording what I can still remember of my dream - for a 'dream' indeed it was, as it cannot be classified as a nightmare. For two years and three months already, my mother has been too weak to get out of bed. But in that brief moment in my dream, I saw her again as she had been - physically normal. I wished I could have dreamt on, and after some time, together with Mama, vanquished the monster in the dream and then walked off together. In dreams, everything seems possible. That my mother appeared magically in my dream did not surprise me - either while I was dreaming or when I awoke. This is because between Mama and me, there was always some form of telepathy. Once, when I was staying with my brother Hsien Loong, my toothbrush was worn out and needed to be replaced. I hardly ever shop, so I did what I had always done before: I told Mama I needed a new toothbrush. Since we were in different houses and I did not want to wake her if she was sleeping by calling her on the telephone, I e-mailed her: 'Ma, I need a toothbrush.' She e-mailed back: 'I am telepathic. I just got a toothbrush for you. But one day, the commissariat will not be around. If you don't know the word 'commissariat' go look it up in the dictionary.' She was correct: I did not know what the word meant. And since I did not know where the dictionary was kept in my brother's house, that evening at dinner, I asked him what the word meant. He knew, of course. 'Commissariat', he explained, is a department in the army charged with providing provisions to soldiers. Now Mama is no longer in a position to be my commissariat. Worse yet, she is bedbound and no longer able to read - a favourite activity of hers. Mama had wide interests. She knew things that even many highly educated people would not know or be interested in, as would be obvious if one rummaged through her bookshelves, as I did recently. There were several books on the flora and fauna of Singapore. There was a hardcover book of children's nursery rhymes, which she had used to read to her grandchildren. Of all her grandchildren, my albino nephew enjoyed reading the nursery rhymes with her the most. There were several books on Buddhism and Hinduism. There was a King James version of the Bible printed in a large font so that she could read it even without her reading glasses. There were many books on the Indian caste system, and a book describing the ancient city of Harappa in the Indus valley. The city dates back about 4,600 years ago, and was an important trade centre in the ancient world. Mama was interested in the Silk Route long before it became a fashionable subject of interest. She had a book chronicling the travels of a Victorian lady on the Silk Route. There were six Malay kamus, or dictionaries. There was a book on Chinese customs and symbols. And of course, there were many books of poetry, including a collection of Rudyard Kipling's poems. There were also books relating to the early days of Singapore, including The Battle For Merger, a collection of radio talks my father delivered in 1961, detailing the early history of the People's Action Party's struggles with the communists. It is now out of print. There were many books, too, written by others about my father, including Lee Kuan Yew In His Own Words, excerpts of his speeches from 1959 to 1970, edited by S.J. Rodringuez. Mama also had the kinds of books one would expect to find on the bookshelves of someone so cultured: among other things, The Tale Of Genji, Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum And The Sword, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto's The Daughter Of A Samurai, the novels of Jane Austen, and a book I enjoyed tremendously as a child, Anne Of Green Gables. Mama didn't just collect these books, she read them. It is now 5.30am. I popped into her room again a while ago and she was still sleeping. I comforted myself that at least when she was sleeping, she was unaware of her unfortunate situation. Now I am trying to go back to sleep myself, but I cannot do so - not because of the dream but because of Mama's unhappy predicament. It is acutely felt by her three children, my two sisters-in-law, and my cousin Kwa Kim Li, who is my mother's favourite niece. But the one who has been hurting the most, and is yet carrying on stoically, is my father. It is easy when thinking in the abstract, to conclude that being born, growing old, falling sick and eventually dying is what happens to all of us. I accept these facts with no resentment that life is unkind. I have had more than my fair share of bad luck, but I never resented it, for I think suffering built up my resilience. But I find it difficult to accept my mother's suffering. The Buddhist principle of feeling compassion but with detachment is wise, but it is not an attitude that I find humanly possible to adopt when it comes to Mama. I cannot see her suffering with detachment. But there is nothing I can do to get her back to where she was before she suffered a massive stroke on May 12, 2008. She has been suffering since then, and so has my father. But that is life, and we all plod on, fulfilling our duties as best we can. Indeed by focusing my mind on my duties, I manage to temporarily block Mama's suffering from my consciousness. The writer is director of the National Neuroscience Institute. Send your comments to suntimes@sph.com.sg |
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| 10-Sep-2010 17:12 |
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Aug 29, 2010YOUR LETTERS
Hawkers now use cheap substitutes
--ST FILE PHOTOI empathise with Professor Tommy Koh in his quest to rescue the quality of hawker food ('Hawker fare: Teach it or lose it/Preserve and perfect hawker fare'; last Sunday). The decline in hawker food quality is being driven by the unquestioned use of modern (cheaper and faster to prepare) substitutes in place of traditional (expensive and slower to prepare) ingredients. Many hawkers use margarine or processed vegetable oil alternatives in place of coconut cream in their curries. Many roti prata sellers use margarine in place of ghee or butter. Soups rely on cheap, chemical- laden stock instead of bone and fat boiled over many hours. Chinese sauces are watered down, then have starch added to hide the effects. They are often missing some of the traditional five spices, especially the more expensive ones. Modern hawkers rely on a multitude of pre-mixes used in place of carefully prepared, carefully cooked sauces and flavours. These usually contain starches, dyes and other additives in place of the original ingredients - they are cheap and fast but not good. When offered synthetic, cheap substitute ingredients, money-tight hawkers with inferior cooking skills take the bait. This lowers the food's quality. Obviously, some incentive must be introduced to make it worthwhile to cook properly again. And as consumers, when real ingredients are used, we must be prepared to pay higher prices. Anyone who has eaten a properly cooked traditional meal can tell you that it is a price worth paying. Eric J. Brooks |
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| 10-Sep-2010 17:06 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 16:52 |
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| 10-Sep-2010 16:46 |
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