Meal of the day!

10sticks chicken, 10 sticks mutton, 10 sticks beef, 3 ketupat=$21

Enviroment outdoors under the sky and beautiful deco in the trees=priceless,lol

Anyways after the meal went to Harbourfront to like burn off the food and to get drinks. Afterwards hungry again so bought prata. Bus-ed home afterwards. The End!

Currently there'r like so much talk on the foreign workers moving near housing estate, zzz..here's a sharing on it

hotos and text from E-Chen

Singaslaves :From 248 000 in the early 90's to more than 750 000 nowadays, the foreign low-skilled (and very low-paid) workers are now a a vital element of the booming singaporean economy and a huge component of the population (18% of the 4.6 millions people living there)

Although a lot of Singaporeans pretending not to be racist tend to say that the real singaporean population is 3.7 million (as if the foreign workers were not part of the population)... Not so fun to be a foreign worker in the construction sites. Of course, if you come from Sri Lanka, India or Bangladesh (or Myanmar, or Indonesia, etc), the pitiful 600 singapore dollars ( around 310 US dollars or 290 euros) salary you earn for the work is far more than the average wages you could earn in your native countries.

Of course, you can buy a nice handphone or mp3, and maybe send a bit for the relatives you've left. So i guess i can understand when some of them i've talked to told they are quite happy here.
But... They work like dogs, they are carried in lorries like cattle. They are lonely. They are too poor to rent flats and in the miserable dormitories where they live, there is usually no comfort and very strict rules: no gathering, no drinking, no smoking, no guests, no talks after 10pm...

So some of them gather in the evening around HDB (public housing residences) void decks and eat, drink and talk, as they used to do in India or in their native countries. Of course, there are sometimes loud noises and other little troubles for the neighbourhood, and I guess sometimes worse things. Some residents seem to be very bothered by that - obviously more than when it's a rowdy ah bengs (local chinese singaporean bad boys) gathering.

In the newspapers, some residents say they created "vigilant groups" so as to catch foreign workers urinating or drinking around the HDBs. Some "not racist" madams say they are too afraid to go out when there are foreign workers around their residences and that their smell is unbearable (!). Some threw bags full of urine at foreign workers gathered under their windows... Classy.

The Prime Minister himself had to remind that foreign workers are human too and they are a necessary part of the economy, hence they deserve more tolerance and respect from the Singaporean citizens - who by the way are very often descendents from migrant workers.What a friendly country.

Gonna go to Nativity for funfair tomorrow, bye!

*FIN