Category: Hiburan

Ngalirdjo Mungin: When I First Started Selling Satay, It Cost 2 Cents A Stick!

Three individuals, whose stories are featured in the book Living The Singapore Story: Celebrating Our 50 Years 1965-2015, tell GAO WENXIN ([email protected]) what life was like in the early years of independence

He has been in the satay business for 70 years and knows the exact flavours that appeal to the locals.

“Singaporeans feel that sweet satay tastes better. I know because I sell,” said Mr Ngalirdjo Mungin, 94, in Malay.

Although Singaporeans have enjoyed the same taste of Mr Ngalirdjo’s satay for decades, things have not always been the same for the satay man.

Before he set up his stall at Sims Drive Market And Food Centre in the 1970s, he used to peddle his satay as a street hawker.

“Back then, I had to look for customers. Now, my customers come to me.”

Mr Ngalirdjo came from Java just after World War II in 1945.

AVOIDED BEING SOLD

“Many immigrants here would be sold to Malaysia as farmers but I did not want to be sold,” he said.

Instead, he lived with other Javanese satay sellers at 97, Jalan Sultan, and was paid 10 cents a day to make satay.

There, he learnt the tricks of the trade and later sold his own satay.

He would carry two huge baskets of ingredients and a portable charcoal grill, and cover the area between the Esplanade area and Geylang.

“I also sold satay at Jalan Besar because I would get more business when there was a football match on,” said Mr Ngalirdjo, who occupied a space at the back entrance of the stadium.

Satay was sold at two cents when he first arrived, then five cents in 1947 and 10 cents in the 1960s.

Fifty sticks a day was considered good business but the jovial man said he was quite blessed to get orders of hundreds of sticks from towkays.

He met his late wife, Madam Kamisah Dadi, thanks to his satay trade. She was selling her mother’s kuih (Malay for cake) at the time.

After they got married, Madam Kamisah also helped him make satay.

His current stall is named after her.

The couple have 11 children and one of their sons runs the stall. But Mr Ngalirdjo still keeps an eye on the food quality.

“I still haven’t retired. I hope my story will encourage people to do their own business and to work for themselves,” he said.

Source: http://news.asiaone.com

May 19, 2015
Pelajar Remaja Hubungan Sejenis Di Malaysia Pampangkan Gambar Meraka Di Media Sosial

Tergamam seketika tatkala melihat beberapa gambar yang agak meloyakan ini. Mana tidaknya, sudahlah sejenis, dibuatnya pula sign ‘Love’ ala-ala K-Pop. Mau terbeliak biji mata dibuatnya.

Gambar pasangan remaja songsang ini mula tersebar di laman sosial menunjukkan betapa intimnya mereka berdua.

Remaja ini didakwa pelajar sebuah kolej swasta di Melaka ini juga tanpa segan silu ber’papa’ ‘mama’ dengan pasangannya itu serta memuat naik gambar mereka secara terbuka di laman sosial.

Menurut sumber, gambar-gambar ini diperolehi dari aplikasi pesanan ringkas, WeChat.

Penularan LGBT di kalangan belia semakin menjadi-jadi. Justeru, ibu bapa digesa memantau aktiviti anak-anak terutamanya telefon pintar mereka.

Golongan belia amat mudah terpengaruh dengan benda/budaya baru. Yang mana, pada mulanya mereka hanya memberikan alasan mahu mencuba. Tetapi apabila sudah menikmati ‘kesedapan’ yang tidak terhingga, mereka akan terus menerus terjerumus lebih jauh sehingga sukar untuk kembali ke pangkal jalan.

Mohon siapa yang mengenali pasangan songsang ini, nasihatkanlah mereka agar kembali ke pangkal jalan.

Source: http://wowberita.org

May 12, 2015
Man Who Slapped Amos Yee Sentenced To 3 Weeks Jail

A self-employed man was sentenced to three weeks in jail on Monday for slapping teenage blogger Amos Yee outside the State Courts last month.

Neo Gim Huah, 49, was charged in court on Monday. He was not represented and gave a long mitigation plea in Chinese, explaining why he did it. He told the court earlier he wanted to teach Yee a lesson.

Neo, who runs his own air-conditioning and electrical engineering business, said he had taken offence at portions of the video posted online by Yee which he found disrespectful to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

He closely monitored the case and intended to confront and slap the blogger before his first two court appearances as he felt that the teenager’s actions had portrayed Singapore in a negative light.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Winston Man said Neo initially restrained himself and did not confront Yee until his third court appearance on April 30 when he realised the teenager had flouted his bail conditions.

Neo also believed that it would be difficult for the criminal justice system to deal effectively with Yee because of his age.

On the afternoon of April 30, he waited at the State Courts for Yee to arrive. He knew the media was present when he slapped the blogger, and deliberately committed the offence as he wanted the assault to be publicised “so that the world at large would know that the victim was being taught a lesson”.

Neo was arrested at about 2am the next day.

Arguing for a sentence of two weeks’ jail, DPP Man said Neo’s offence was pre-meditated and featured a strong element of vigilantism, which undermined law enforcement mechanisms and the criminal justice system.

“Public confidence in law enforcement mechanics and the criminal justice system will also be eroded if there is a widespread perception that it is acceptable to take the law into one’s own hands and resort to violence in order to address a perceived injustice,” he said.

Neo said in his mitigation letter that Yee had been disrespectful to Singapore’s founding father and insulted him, making all of Mr Lee’s contributions “worthless”.

He said Yee, whom he described as a “clever child”, had let everyone down.

“What I feel is what everybody is feeling,” he said.

Slapping him would instil fear in the teenager, let him know what the ways of the world are and teach him a lesson, Neo said.

He said he knew it was wrong to slap Yee but could not control himself.

He could be jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to $5,000.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 11, 2015
Silat Gold-Medallist Hopeful, Shakir Juanda, Out Of Contact Event Due To Knee Injury

Singapore’s silat gold medal hopeful Shakir Juanda was ruled out of the contact event of next month’s SEA Games after failing to fully recover from a knee injury.

The 2013 world champion injured his left knee during last month’s Southeast Asian Pencak Silat Championship. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests showed that he had sprained his anterior cruciate ligament and had a Grade 2 tear to his medial collateral ligament.

The former world champion will now partner Sheik Ferdous to compete in the artistic doubles instead.

The 26-year-old, who won a SEA Games bronze in the Class H (80-85kg) in 2013 said: “I am naturally disappointed that I’m unable to bring back a first gold medal for my strongest event on home soil. But I will train with my partner, Sheik Ferdous, and come back stronger in the SEA Games.”

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 11, 2015
Pelawak Celebrity Malaysia Very The Lepak On Set

Terperanjat pelakon Sani Hussin semasa menjalani sesi penggambaran bagi rancangan lawak terbaru, Super Spontan Upsize, baru-baru ini.

Sani, yang diundang bukan sebagai pelawak tetapi sebagai ‘pengurus’ pasukan, agak terperanjat dengan budaya kerja di sana memandangkan kesemua penggambaran diadakan di Malaysia.

“Kalau kat Singapura, kita pentingkan disiplin dan semuanya mesti teratur.

“Tetapi di sana, suasananya agak santai. Malah ada pelawak yang dengan bersahaja boleh bermain bola di dalam studio,” kongsinya.

Rancangan yang bakal ditayangkan di Suria pada 4 Ogos nanti menampilkan pelawak Malaysia dan Singapura.

Antara yang diundang termasuk Najip Soiman, Sahfudin Mahfuz, Fakkah Fuzz, Mamat Bora serta satu-satunya bunga di antara kumbang, Farhana M. Noor.

Dari Malaysia pula, pelawak yang disertakan termasuk Johan, Rahim, Zulin Aziz, Pak Yus dan Ajak Shiro.

Sani juga menyifatkan status para selebriti di sana berbeza daripada selebriti di sini.

Ini memandangkan kehadiran mereka bagi apa jua rancangan menjadi daya penarik yang dapat meningkatkan lagi rating sesebuah rancangan.

Ini belum termasuk unsur kewangan yang dapat diraih sesebuah syarikat yang menampilkan para selebriti ini dalam acara mereka.

Bagaimanapun, Sani akui ada yang boleh dipelajari daripada ketangkasan dan kepetahan berbual para pelawak Malaysia.

Menurutnya, mereka memang cukup handal selain boleh berfikir dengan pantas dan berkesan.

“Rancangan Super Spontan ini sebenarnya mengasah dan mencabar minda serta kebolehan pelawak.

“Ia sesuai untuk pelawak yang memulakan kerjaya mereka dalam dunia teater.

“Ini kerana dari situlah kita mula mempelajari tentang kemahiran melawak serta kemahiran mengubah suai sesuatu situasi.

“Jadi para pelawak Malaysia ni memang cepat dan mudah mendapat idea selain menjadikan sesuatu bahan yang simple itu sebagai sesuatu yang melucukan,” katanya sambil menambah bahawa para pelawak di sana tetap terus berjenaka meskipun di luar set penggambaran.

Super Spontan Upsize yang diterbitkan Grid Media Pte Ltd, syarikat milik Khairudin Samsudin, dihoskan Najip Ali dengan pengadil tetap, Afdlin Shauki dan Suhaimi Yusof.

Antara pengadil undangan termasuk Norish Karman, Shah Iskandar, Hisyam Hamid, Khairudin Samsudin dan Amy Mastura.

Para pelawak juga dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan yang namanya juga sudah cukup mencuit hati – Gajah Gerek dan Selamba Kodok.

Source: http://beritaharian.sg

May 7, 2015