Benjamin "Mr Miyagi" Lee
Up until yesterday’s STOMPgate revelation, our Kai had a bright future as a STOMP Content Producer.
A few weeks back, he had put on his helmet and taken his kick-scooter to the corridor in our apartment and carefully placed it on the floor before lying next to it and calling out for his Mama’s help because he had “fallen down”.
He was busted because he didn’t see his Mama following the action right behind him.
The lasting impression I got from Saturday’s Singapore Memory Project Food
Trail was the passion of the local food vendors we visited.
Stories of craftsmanship being passed down from generation to generation are becoming scarce in this increasingly mall and condo dominated city, and the video clips we shot of the food and their makers (and eaters) contain a few of these stories, and will be ready for viewing soon.
In the meantime, do contribute your own stories about our culinary heritage online, or at the Singapore Memory Portal (there’s an app for that too). Use the hashtag #sgmemory if you’re posting on twitter so others can see what you’re sharing easily.
Our friend and collaborator Nadya Hutagalung has been nominated for Green Awards’ Most Responsible Celebrity – alongside luminaries as George Clooney and Vivienne Westwood.
She gets our vote on a personal note because she and her husband were instrumental in turning our lives towards green-consciousness. About 90% of all of Kai’s baby things were given by her so that we’d start this cycle of virtuousness with our new family. The 10% that we didn’t get from her had already been given to another couple starting a new family when we told them we were having Kai. We’ve since passed on Kai’s stuff that we don’t use any more, so friends/acquaintances/friends of friends don’t have to buy brand new things when hand me downs will do.
As the founder of Greenkampong.com, Nadya has been teaching us that every small action counts, so if your intentions are good and green, those little acts of influence will go some way when they are all aggregated.
So this Monday morning, do a few things: Vote for Nadya, and then when you go out and buy something that you can put in your own bag, tell the cashier, “no, I don’t need a carrier” (and it’s silly to put a little thing in a little plastic carrier which you put into your handbag anyway).
Two weeks ago I said my Singapore Airline’s meal “was about as good as economy rice, only smaller”.
Well, I had SAF cookhouse-standard “stir-fried” chicken and rice on our Cathay Pacific flight yesterday afternoon:
You arrest and charge someone who vandalizes the road and traffic button thingies but it’s “still unclear” whether you’ll charge the man who very clearly SHOVED SOMEONE OUT OF A BUS!
SRSLY, HOME TEAM?