VOLUME 2, MAY 2006
Who's that girl??
| Doesn't she look familiar? If you think that you have seen the 2nd runner-up for the Miss Singapore Universe 2006 pageant before, she is our ex-line dancing instructor, Ms Genecia Luo! |
## Bon Appetit Singapore's Very Own Dish - Chilli Crab by Shawn Lee It was in the 1950s that a great cook, Madam Cher Yam Tian, came out with what is now known as one of our favourite national dishes. She and her husband set up a food stall selling sea crabs along the seaside, everyday from dusk till the wee hours, by the light of a kerosene lamp. This was the first version of the Singapore chilli crab. With hearty gravy made from fresh red chillies, tomato sauce, fresh eggs and spring onions, chilli crabs are best eaten with your fingers. Don’t bother trying to look well mannered - use your teeth to crack the shells, suck out the succulent meat, and if you have to, hit the extra-hard shell on the tabletop to break it! As the gravy runs down your arms, clean it up with cubes of French bread or fried Chinese buns (known as mantou) served as side dishes. All in a chilli crab meal’s work! The chilli crab's close cousin, the black pepper crab, was born in the '80s. It was not a runaway hit but a slow-building love affair for those who prefer the spicy kick of freshly grounded black and white pepper, salt and garlic. Here are some highly recommended restaurants where you can enjoy finger-licking good chilli crabs: Roland's Restaurant (The original recipe from Madam Cher) Blk 89, Marine Parade Central #06-750 Melben Seafood Blk 232 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 #01-1222 Call 6285 6762 for reservations Punggol Seafood Marina Country Club 600 Ponggol 17th Ave Eng Seng 241 Joe Chiat Place Long Beach Restaurant Please refer to www.longbeachseafood.com.sg for the locations for the various outlets. Jumbo Seafood Restaurant Please refer to www.jumboseafood.com.sg for the locations for the various outlets.
## ## Book Review ## by Gary Wang ## Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom ## An old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson ## by Gary Wang “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Morrie Schwartz said to Mitch Albom. Indeed, this might be life’s greatest lesson after all – learning how to live. Everyone wants to live our lives right. After all, we only live once. We are only young once. We can’t turn back the clock. Tuesdays with Morrie offers a delightful insight into how we should be living our lives and the issues we grapple with – family, love and marriage, dealing with regrets, self-pity and the fear of aging as well as death. As Morrie suggested, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. Morrie taught this last lesson to his friend, and one-time student he had come to love as his son, literally, in his deathbed. Struck by a terminal disease, he lived out the last days of his life as he did all the time before – purposefully and meaningfully. As a professor, he taught and inspired. As a dying man, he taught and inspired again – to his students and peers alike who visited him upon hearing of his demise and imminent passing. Life’s lessons cannot be learnt from the first step to the last. They have to be embraced and appreciated with your own experience. And this book speaks to every reader in different ways just simply because of the different needs we have, the different phases we are going through. But one general principle holds true – if today is the last day of your life, how to you want to live it? What are the truly important things you have not done? How do you live on in the memories of others after you are gone? I quote Morrie: “As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ## Death may be far away. But it is never too late to live the way you would wish you had, when you are moments away from the inevitable. Is there someone you really cared about? Is there someone you lost through years of neglect, in the midst of your busyness? Find a way back to him. Just like Mitch found Morrie after 16 years. ##
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