Saturday, October 4, 2025

Snippets of Singapore and Singaporeans (4 October 2025)

The iconic People's Park Complex in the heart of Singapore's Chinatown has been refreshed with a new coat of white and red paints.

People's Park Complex

Click here for URA completes structural study on People’s Park Complex ahead of anticipated conservation.

This was how it looked like before the paint job.

Click here for More than 50 MASSAGE PARLOURS in This Shopping Mall?! 🙌 新加坡最多按摩店的商场 [People’s Park Complex].

For your further refreshing, here are some articles and clips on life in Singapore and Singaporeans.

Click here for Billy Koh bridges cities through music | Find Me A Singaporean :The World's My Stage 稀游记之世界我的舞台 E8.

Click here for Dr Chua Jia Long breaks world record, conquers Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in 23 Days.

Click here for Why Singapore Built A 150m-Deep Oil Cave | Singapore Hour.

Click here for Excessive screen time – our eyes are bearing the greatest brunt and the long-term damage is worrying.

Click here for Truth About Living in Singapore for 6 Years as a Japanese.

Click here for The Italian Who Brought The World’s Oldest Pizzeria To Singapore | Singapore Hour.

Click here for 24 hours with a Wood Fire Butcher Chef: Butcher's Block.

Click here for Not for sale: He manages UOB’s 2,800 artworks.

Click here for Why This Neighbourhood Is A Gentleman’s Paradise | Singapore Hour.

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King Grouper Fish Soup

Generally, good fish soup in Singapore is easy to find in just about any hawker centre. 

The usual sliced fish used for the soup are either batang (Spanish Mackerel; a sea fish) or toman (Giant Snakehead; a freshwater fish). You could find many such stalls with their loyal following of repeat customers. To my knowledge, competition is friendly.

So far so good. Wait till you try grouper (from same family as Sea Bass; an ocean fish), if not already done so, at, say, King Grouper Fish Soup.

With more outlets now, you do not have to travel all the way to Changi Village to enjoy grouper at King Grouper Fish Soup. The outlet featured here is located in Food Junction at NEX mall.

Get ready for a memorable fish feast

The grouper fish slices are super fresh, smooth in texture, tasty and thick-cut but so tender that they do not feel chunky at all. Meatballs are added to 'beef-up' the flavour. Unless you are sharing your soup or have a huge appetite, the small-size order would be more than adequate to satisfy your penchant for really fresh fish.


For the  standard fare, go for grouper. If you are giving yourself a treat, try the premium red grouper.

Teochew style sliced grouper fish

Super fresh sliced fish

Full steamed ahead and your meal is ready promptly

Besides pairing your fish soup with rice or noodles, there are are also other sides available such as fried fish roe (best kept secret addition, imho) and fish maw.

Grouper fish head with added fish maw


Click here for ULTIMATE fish soup showdown! | Food Finders Singapore S7E8.

As per general advisory, please consume all food in moderation.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Be Kind To People

This is a gentle reminder to be kind to another person. 

May your life be like a fountain of kindness.

As it is, life is already tough. Be generous to offer a cup of refreshing kindness that conveys your human touch to make people you meet feel a little better because you are considerate and show that you care.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop


You can be kind with the words that you speak. Top on the list is to keep anger at bay. Anticipate and be prepared not to over-react to any unexpected event or worst-case scenario in life and hold your horses so that you do not unleash those poison darts from your mouth on other people (and yourself). Words spoken are liked spilt milk which could not be retracted. Berating another person harms both yourself and the victim(s) of your verbal abuse.

"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people." -- Dennis Prager


You can also show kindness with empathy. As you are not in the other person's shoes, you do not know what that annoying or agitating person in front of you may be going through-- their current circumstances, struggles and issues. People are not uptight or constrained for no reason. And, on a fair day, people wants to live a happy life and not cause trouble to other people.

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." -- Og Mandino


If you are in a position to help, your willingness to go the first mile or even an extra mile would go the distance to alleviate another person's predicament and/or plight.

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." --Saint Basil 


When you show kindness, you create a cycle of blessing and ripple effect to enrich your community and contribute to making our world a better place.

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."   -- Barbara De Angelis

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." -- Scott Adams 


Sign up for the Kindness Revolution today. There is no registration and subscription fees. All it takes is your willingness to go for it. 

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Click here for Ripple (Award Winning)- Kindness and good deeds will come back to you.

Click here for The Kindness Song | Official Lyric Video | Songs for School.

Click here for Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day.


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