Poppy Dog with a poppy to mark Remembrance Day – today – 11th November 2014.
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Singapore has a Popiah King, perhaps the time has now come to celebrate the understated professor, Dr Tan, who lies behind this country’s only fresh mushroom business which yields a rather staggering 20 tones of mushrooms a month. I think the title ‘Mushroom King’ rather suits him; he looks particularly regal in the Louis XVI armchair, below, which he was sitting in when I photographed him a few months ago.
Dr Tan Kok Kheng has farmed mushrooms, organically, for over 30 years in a small area of land right here in Singapore – off Yio Chu Kang Road. Whilst they are not certified as official organic produce, they are grown organically i.e. without chemical fertilisers, pesticides or growth hormones. In fact, it’s probably this lack of certification that we have to thank for the very good price he sells them at.
“Over recent years Singapore has been nurturing an emerging local fashion scene, artisan coffee has taken off like wild fire and brunch has become a ‘thing’.” I am so proud of the little red dot that I call home but given that it is Asia’s smallest state, it was still quite a surprise that it (my home) has been chosen by Lonely Planet as the world’s number one country to visit next year, according to their book Best in Travel 2015 which has just been released. It ranked well ahead of St Lucia, Ireland and even Morocco.
In the UK, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November – Armistice Day – and the anniversary of the end of the First World War. Remembrance Sunday is held “to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts” (wiki).
But how to best commemorate it when I live in Singapore and it’s not part of any regular church services – as it is all over England?
Do what you have to, to get down to Forum tomorrow from 10am-8pm. Friday is Day One of the designer clothes sale of the century where immaculate second hand clothes go for a song (starting at $10).
Read the post I wrote about last year’s sale here as well as the one I wrote back in 2012 (here) – both of which should give you a bit of an idea what to expect. I will be there early doors tomorrow, elbows sharpened and ready to shop.
