"This year I won't cook a lot," lies my mother every single Chinese New Year.
As usual, the ancestors get to eat first.
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A few brave Singaporeans unfurled this banner in front of the iconic Marina Bay Sands, in a country where any public protest is illegal without prior approval and approved protests are only allowed at one park (and the authorities already said all registered protest applications relating to Gaza will be denied)
If they were foreigners they would almost certainly be deported. As citizens they’ll definitely see some legal action
https://www.wethecitizens.net/here-comes-the-wong-administration/
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I want to make a vegan kaya and call it ‘kayak kaya’ (like kaya)
My multilingual food puns have to go somewhere so hello #tootsea
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For those new to following me here, here's the #speech I delivered in #solidarity with #Gaza #Palestine in #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland in front of #BCgovernment legislature buildings
I call out the #farce of self declared true #democratic states in my speech & how our #governments tell us there ain't enough funds to help citizens but they can find billions to fund #EthnicCleansing of Palestinians.
https://youtu.be/ojlAbsd8x5Q?si=VgZ15m2sNRtkyMHH
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When I was a teenager, I used to spend my days talking to hawkers in Singapore and Malaysia. It was just a hobby I had. I would go in search of tasty food (usually noodles, or soup) and I would talk to them about how they cooked stuff. Knowing how to speak Hokkien / Teochew / Malay felt like a super power in terms of soaking up all these memories and ideas.
Today, I often make clear Chinese soups by adding an apple core: a trick one of these soup dudes taught me.
Since it’s hungry ghost festival this weekend:
(Burning paper effigies of stuff you want your dead relatives to have is a very common Taoist practice. I was really tickled to see that they have a Covid vaccine paper effigy, too)
(Story from 2021)
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TIL there are only 3 entries in "Singapore lesbians' on Wikipedia, and I am one of them
Duterte arrested in Manila. I needed to see evidence that autocrats can fall.
https://apnews.com/article/rodrigo-duterte-manila-philippines-icc-9b9d08b8832b43282db53418535fb245
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83 years ago around this time, my grandparents were 9 and 7 years old when British forces lost Singapore to the Japanese, after the British confidently declared that those Orientals could never defeat them.
The Japanese crossed into Singapore on a fleet of bicycles, bypassing British naval power.
What followed was 3 years of occupation as Singapore was renamed Syonan-to. My grandparents remember singing the Japanese anthem.
3 days after the Japanese won, they began a purge of mostly ethnic Chinese people in Singapore as retaliation for perceived overseas Chinese assistance to China, a few years earlier. 50 000 people died.
My grandparents never wanted to eat a single sweet potato or yam or tapioca ever again later in their lives, because that’s all they had to eat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore
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With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL
Scripts supported: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu
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Basically every political party that said ‘tariffs won’t really impact us / it’s no big deal / someone else will take care of that’ got their asses handed to them by Singapore voters, who are incredibly conscious of being from a place that is entirely about global trade. Ups and downs of global trade impact lives and jobs very quickly there.
It also sounds shocking out of touch and dismissive.
Trade is so important to us that even the aunties at the local coffee shop know the exchange rate of SGD to a few major world currencies.
Anyone who still believes our elections are only about domestic policies probably doesn’t believe it anymore.
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Yay! Another story for Smile is out!
Kindly click the link again if the first time doesn't bring you to the actual story. (I've already alerted the editor about this hiccup.)
"Try These Unusual Travel Ideas When You’re in Metro Manila"
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Direct flights from Manila to Delhi start on October 1.
Air India's service will operate 5 days a week—Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday—using the Airbus A321neo aircraft with business class, premium economy, and economy classes. Bookings of the flight of around 6.5 hours are now open.
#India #Travel #Asian #Delhi #Manila #Philippines #TootSEA #Tourism #Flights #AirIndia
Nike says #Trump tariff war cost it $1bn
#Indonesia, #Vietnam and #China manufactured 95% of its footwear.
#Tariffs of up to 60% has been imposed on them.
« #Nike reported its worst quarterly earnings in more than three years, as revenues slumped 12% to $11.1bn in the three months to the end of May. » #tootsea
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/27/nike-says-trump-tariff-war-could-cost-it-1bn