The Pyjamas

Overheard this lady in Isetan asking the salesgirl for pyjamas. It's been a long long time since I heard of people buying these uniforms for bed time. I have never worn one before and I cannot imagine myself wearing long sleeve shirts and pants to sleep. I have always maintain my half naked policy for all my sleeping years.

I don't know who came up with the idea of a dress code for sleeping in your own bed. Do you have a bed security guard that will turn you away if you are not dressed for the occasion? It's already very tough trying to match what you wear for work during the day, and I don't wish to stress myself before sleeping. Plus it's extra laundry the morning after ...

Some people say you ought to have that loose and light clothings when you sleep ... ya, I am sure that 100% fat free cotton fabric is going to enhance your sleep 1000 percent. But you already have that blanket and the bedsheet and the pillow case, isn't that enough cloth already? And I don't think people in the past do this either, I have not read anything about cavemen changing their leopard skin underwear to rabbit fur before going to bed.

I think the people who believe your soul would travel out of your body during sleep, will find the pyjamas useful. It's like you may actually need to travel, so better dress properly in case you need to hold a meeting later. That's why most pyjamas look like office attires. Long sleeves stripes shirt with collars, cuffs and a pocket for your Mont Blanc pen. Come to think of it, it may be true, otherwise its hard to explain why you need pockets when you sleep.

The Evolution of Dough

I knew that ever since the alphabets appeared in the soup, we would one day hear the dough talking to one another. It's just a progression of wheat and time, that once you developed the basics of speech, then everything else start to evolve naturally, from chatter to story telling and to history lessons.
















How did the dough become alphabets and then find its way into the soup? Finding the answer would be as difficult as asking how the dinosaurs got under the mud for millions of years. Nobody really knows who created the first A or B for humans, so its the same with the dough. But it's useful, because when you are in the can, there's no way you can talk to each other if you don't form up words, unless you want to play charades in the dark.

But like the homo sapiens who took years to walk upright, the dough took a long time to develop speech ability. Eventually, it was in Singapore that we saw that breakthrough ... and every bread got excited. Within a few months, in every crook and cranny, we had bread talking everywhere throughout the island. Quite naturally, the human beings got curious too. Everyone wanted to know how they did it, and we started queuing to bring a specimen home.















And so just like humans, with speech ability, the bread got smarter each day. Some migrated and form their little communities elsewhere. Like any other success, everyone has a story to tell.

















If you are still very keen on the evolution of the dough, please visit the bread musuem ..



















The End

The Petrol Cocktail

I was at the Shell Petrol station earlier when I saw this man drove up his BMW to the pump next to mine. Normally you would just tell the guy to fill up with a particular grade of fuel. But no, not this BMW dude. He told the attendant he wants $30 of V-Power, $30 of Shell 98 and top up with Shell 92. Then he told the attendant in Mandarin what must be the most amusing request of the century ......

" uncle, must shake a bit as you pump ok? "

My cheeks were vibrating so furiously that I had to clamp my jaws and try not to laugh at his face. And my slightly warped mind would be thinking, was he refering to the car or the attendant?? Interestingly, the pump attendant knew what he was talking about and did exactly what was told. I could not resist the temptation to ask if this BMW guy is the only one who treats his car to this special petrol cocktail. Not many, the attendant said, but mostly people with big cars!

So thats the secret of the rich and famous. Expensive on the outside but cheap on the inside .... No wonder I can cannot afford a BMW, cos I have been feeding my car with that V-Power all the way!!! With all the traffic lights every fifty metres and jam on the roads, the best petrol would not make a difference to your driving pleasure. Clever!!! I should have asked the BMW driver for his number, then maybe I could have an insight to his lifestyle and see if he applies the same formula to his bungalow, his girlfriend and work.

I guess we really enjoy mixing things, we are a mixing group of people and it's really in our culture. We mix drinks, music, fruit juices, petrol, noodles, coffee with tea, algebra with abacus, French fries with Mayonnaise, Chinese woman with Indian man etc ....

The Singapore Banner

Saw this cute banner on a coffee shop rooftop in Yishun. As I am blogging this, I am beginning to wonder if " Die Die Must Try " is the stall's name ... 'cos I recently found out that "Closing Down Sale" was actually a shop's name, and they have branches all over Singapore! No wonder they are always closing down ... it's almost like someone is always dying but can never make it to the last breath.

But Die Die Must Try is so Singaporean, and it's hard for any foreigner to try and make sense out of it. Die already how to try, correct or not? I bet you there is nowhere else in any English speaking country where you can find this slogan .... and I just love it!!!