Teh Tarik Power

ok, for the record, I am going to list down once and for all, all the different types of coffee and tea you can get from the kopi stalls from anywhere in Singapore. I have been getting questions from the kids here about the 70 cents a cup tea/coffee that I drink everyday. Most of them questioned the drinkability as compared to the gourmet ones from Starbucks and Coffee Bean. I can assure you that you can get as many tasty mix and blends from the coffee stalls at the hawker centre. You may not have the snob appeal drinking from the cheap styrofoam cups, but at least you won't go broke drinking them everyday.

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Hilmi Coffee Stall
Marine Parade Central Hawker Centre, Unit number 1146
Manager/Senior Sugar Cane Juice Extractor : Mr. Ahman (a.k.a. Michael Bolton)
Marital status : Married with 3 kids, owns a semi-D in Malacca but has no electricity at the moment.
Years of Experience : 25
Recently Launched Drink : Milo Dinosaur Extra
Affiliation : Mention Victoria or Mr Ong and Mr. Ahman will waive the drinks cover charge

Drink list
(Regular size only. If you want 'upsize' or 'vendi' or 'grande', just order two regular cups la, bohdoh)
1. Kopi (coffee with milk)
2. Kopi O (coffee without milk)
3. Kopi See (coffee with evaporated milk)
4. Kopi Siew Tai ( coffee with more milk less sugar)
5. Kopi Gao ( 3 parts coffee, 1 part hot water)
6. Kopi Pok ( 1 part coffee, 3 parts hot water)
7. Kopi Tarik (coffee tossed from one cup to another, for cooling and aesthetic effects)
8. Kopi Gos-stan (coffee that is not tarikked)
9. Kopi Aliah (coffee with Ginger)
10. Kopi Tongkat Ali (coffee with a herbal root that is known for curing memory loss)
11. Kopi Peng (coffee with ice, but not blended)
12. Kopi Kosong (coffee without sugar)
13. Kopi Cham (coffee mixed with tea)
14. Kopi Cino (coffee with milk foam) new!

1. Teh (tea with milk)
2. Teh O (tea without milk)
3. Teh See (tea with evaporated milk)
4. Teh Siew Tai ( tea with more milk less sugar)
5. Teh Gao ( 3 parts tea, 1 part hot water)
6. Teh Pok ( 1 part tea, 3 parts hot water)
7. Teh Tarik (tea tossed from one cup to another, for cooling and aesthetic effects)
8. Teh Gos-stan (tea that is not tarikked)
9. Teh Aliah (tea with Ginger)
10. Teh Tongkat Ali (tea with a herbal root that is known for curing acne and constipation)
11. Teh Peng (Tea with ice, but not blended)
12. Teh Kosong (tea without sugar)
12. Teh Cino (tea with milk foam) new!

The Banker

There is this game show going on the radio the other day and they were interviewing the participants. One of them was a former air hostess and then now she says she is a ' banker'. Interesting transformation .. From a air hostess (hopefully an intelligent one) serving tea and coffee and asking people to sit up straight .. to a owner of a bank .. hmm .. If I am right, a banker is someone who owns a bank, correct or not??? Wee Cho Yaw is a banker because he owns the United Overseas Bank and he has tonnes of real cash to lend out to the general public. But a former air stewardess? I doubt she can harness so much credit power even if she fly back and forth non-stop to the moon.

The problem I think, lies with the fact that people tend to use the term 'banker' rather loosely. You WORK in the bank, and you call yourself a banker just because you collect money and lend out money? The bad news is, very sadly, the money isn't yours. You are just agents, at best, for people like Mr Wee. Mr Wee does not have the time to do all the borrowing and lending himself, so he hires all these former air stewardesses to assist him, understand?

So the approriate description would be, if you are p-r-o-c-e-s-s-i-n-g the applications for loans and deposits, you are known as the 'banking officer'. And if you are distributing investment and deposit information pamplets outside the bank and interrupting my stroll inside the shopping centre, you are known as the bank's executive flyer distributor ok? If you want to be called a banker and don't have the means to do it, go buy yourself a Monopoly game set and deal with those paper money and dice.