INAF 2
I was tidying my room and i've only juz finished the newpapers that had piled up over the week >.<...k..so i found these few interesting articles that i tot would be nice to share^^ One for doggie owners in Singapore and one food for tot...kekeke...
See Spot run...to his chicken rice dinner(News, theSundayTimes Oct2nd2005)
Busy dog owners are ordering gourmet meals for their beloved dogs - delivered right on their doorsteps
>Sarah Ng
CALL it the pampered dog's life: pooches Yogi and Ework dined on Hainanese chicken rice, grilled lamb with garlic and potatoes, chicken pot pie, baked lamb and rice, and chicken stew last week.
And more gourmet meals are on the menu for them.
their owner, Ms Karen Lim, 41, has signed up for a new food delivery service for dogs, started last Monday by US Dog Bakery in East Coast Road.
For $16.50, she gets five meals packed in plastic boxes, delivered free to her home.
And depending on what yogi, a poodle, and Ewok, a poodle-pomeranian, like, she can choose from a list of 30 dishes.
Ms Lim, who is a director of curriculum in a private school, said:" I don't even haf the time to cook for myself, let alone my dogs. But they are our babies and we want ot give them the best."
She and her husband, civil servant Harold Lim,41, have no children and usually haf hawker food for dinner.
The doggie food delivery service,, much like the "tingkat" meal service for humans, is believed to be the 1st of its kind here. THe bakery's opwner,Ms Sharon Ho, 32, said:"Dog owners nowadays want pets to eat well as they do but they may not know how to prepare meals that are tasty and suitable for the animals."
She opened her shop, which sells cookies, cakes and steamed buns or bao for dogs, in December last year. It is the only dog backery in Singapore with the licence from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority.
The delivery service came about because customers asked for food to be delivered, as many were too busy to pick up treats for their dogs.
So she worked withe the animal nutritionists and vets to produce more elaborate meals that use no sugar, salt, preservatives and food enhancers.
So far, the shop has recieved about 12 orders for the meals to be delivered weekly for at least a month. It also recieves about 30 inquires a day and about 10% fo them sign up.
THe customers are mainly Singaporean couples who haf no children and no time to cook for themselves or their dogs.
Sales representative joey Lee, 31, is one of them. She and her husband, a wharf supervisor, haf a one-year-od Maltese, Javier. they used to feed him commercialdog food but are now adding 10 tingkat meals a month. Their monthly food bill for Javier is $50. "we tried cooking things like scrambled eggs or poached chicken and rice for him, but it was troublesome as we worked long hours," she said.
The irony is that with the meal delivery service, her dog eats better than she does.
He fills up on chicken pot pie while she and her husband haf yong tau foo and fish soup from the hawker centre. " We always say he has a better life than ours," she added.
Guess what's the gander up to my lady's chamber
(sorry, forgot to keep the date n whichStraitsTimes >.<) >Janadas Devan on words
CHILDREN often ask adults the most extraordinary questions. I remeber my son when he was aged 3 stumping me with the question:"Why is water wet?" I was unable to answer becos i didn't know the answer.
At other ti es they ask questions which youcan't answer b'cos u do know what the answer might be. I faced this difficulty when my son began asking what the nursery rhymes his parents hummed to him incestantly meant precisedly.
"Goosie, goosie, gander,
Where shall i wander?
Upstairs and downstairs,
And in my lady's chamber."
Try explaining to a 3-year-old what someone wandering, upstairs and downstairs, and into my lady's chamber, might be after.
I had a particularly difficult time with the violent nursery rhymes. As any parent of young children would have noticed, nursery rhymes often haf dark, even sinster, themes.
"Ladybird, ladybird,
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire,
And your children all gone."
Nowadys,parents would think twice before letting their toddlers watch cartoons with a story line like that. Yet they think ofputting their children to sleep singing such a jingle. If nursery rhymes had a rating system, many would get a PG rating and some might well earn an R.
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
Chop chop chop."
That surly merits an R rating.
"Georgy Porgy pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the biys came out to play,
Georgy Porgy ran away."
That at 1st blush, might deserve a PG rating, till one recalls how Aldous Huxley spied its X-rated potential in Brave New World, wher he appropriated it as a celebration of orgies:
"Orgy-porgy, Ford anf fun,
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release."
"Release", of course, was probably the initial motive for most traditional rhymes, as Chris Roberts explains in Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind The Rhyme, a delightful account of the concealed meanings in familiar nursery rhymes, that became a best-seller in Britain when it 1st appeared last year.
All the rhymes quoted here, for instance, were intially "adult songs" in the 17th century and earlier, functioning in the same way satire and irony do today in popular culture. Some originated as "highly sexual" narratives, others as political satire; some sought to convey "complex ideas in code", deliberately concealing hteir salacious meaning, while others probably originated as "clecer allegorical topical songs" or convert forms of political protest.
Take for instance, this staple:
"Baa, baa, black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, three bags full.
One for the master,
one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane."
Some versions of that rhyme end with "And none for the little boy who lives down the lane." - a rendition that makes it ovious that the rhyme originatedas a complaint about taxes, "the little boy" representing taxpayers.
Roberts explains: "In the middle Ages, farmers were required to give 1/3 of their income (which could be in the form of goods such as wool) to their 'master' - the local lord - who would in turn pass 1/3 of it to the 'dame'(the Church). The final 1/3 they kept for themselves or sold, and this is that part that went to the 'little'. Of cos, if u really want to bleat about it, the little sheep started off with all the wool but eneded with none at all."
What were 19th-century anthologists thinking of when they sanitised this rhyme for the consumption of children? The Victorian era was when such potentially subversive rhymes were 1st taken "off the street and into the parlours, making them at once more acessible but perhaps less potent", Roberts informs us. Little boys (and girls ) were meant to be comforted they would be ensured at least one bag of wool? A century before the Welfare State came into being, Eminent Victorians were already conditioning the British public to accept high tax rates? Goodness knows.
The mystery deepens when one turns to the explicitly sexual rhymes. Take "Goosie, Goosie, gander", which i used to sing to my son while tickling him. He would be tickled pink to learn now, a teenageer, that "goose" was a common 16th-and 17th-century word for "prostitute". And "bitten by a goose", or to have "goosebumps", meant to suffer from vernereal diseases.
"Goosie, goosie, gander,/Where shall i wander" - that might be an allusion to the fact that prostitution had become a more difficult enterprise by the end of the 16th century, after Henry VIII and Elizabeth I closed the brothels in London. Or it might be an allusion to spread of venereal diseases - even as far as "in my lady's chamber", an indication that the problem had become rampant not only among the poor but also the wealthy.
Of course, not all nursery rhymes have such hidden salacious meanings. For example:
"Higgledy Piggledly
my blach hen,
She lays eggs for the gentleman.
Gentlemen come everyday,
To see what my black hen has laid."
The hen might have been a "prostitute". On the other hand, the hen in question being a "black hen", the rhyme may have been about a spy; and the "eggs" he produced, his stock in trade, gossip and rumour. Or the rhyme may have been about a dark woman, like Shakespear's "Dack lady" - attractive but hard to get, so gentlemen "come every day" to see her, but only to have her fob them off with stories or "eggs".
The point is we don't know - its pointless to to speculate. As Sigmund Freud used to say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Try that line when your child proves insistent, demanding to know why "three blind mice" would run after "the farmer's wife", and why she "cut off their tails with a craving knife".
See Spot run...to his chicken rice dinner(News, theSundayTimes Oct2nd2005)
Busy dog owners are ordering gourmet meals for their beloved dogs - delivered right on their doorsteps
>Sarah Ng
CALL it the pampered dog's life: pooches Yogi and Ework dined on Hainanese chicken rice, grilled lamb with garlic and potatoes, chicken pot pie, baked lamb and rice, and chicken stew last week.
And more gourmet meals are on the menu for them.
their owner, Ms Karen Lim, 41, has signed up for a new food delivery service for dogs, started last Monday by US Dog Bakery in East Coast Road.
For $16.50, she gets five meals packed in plastic boxes, delivered free to her home.
And depending on what yogi, a poodle, and Ewok, a poodle-pomeranian, like, she can choose from a list of 30 dishes.
Ms Lim, who is a director of curriculum in a private school, said:" I don't even haf the time to cook for myself, let alone my dogs. But they are our babies and we want ot give them the best."
She and her husband, civil servant Harold Lim,41, have no children and usually haf hawker food for dinner.
The doggie food delivery service,, much like the "tingkat" meal service for humans, is believed to be the 1st of its kind here. THe bakery's opwner,Ms Sharon Ho, 32, said:"Dog owners nowadays want pets to eat well as they do but they may not know how to prepare meals that are tasty and suitable for the animals."
She opened her shop, which sells cookies, cakes and steamed buns or bao for dogs, in December last year. It is the only dog backery in Singapore with the licence from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority.
The delivery service came about because customers asked for food to be delivered, as many were too busy to pick up treats for their dogs.
So she worked withe the animal nutritionists and vets to produce more elaborate meals that use no sugar, salt, preservatives and food enhancers.
So far, the shop has recieved about 12 orders for the meals to be delivered weekly for at least a month. It also recieves about 30 inquires a day and about 10% fo them sign up.
THe customers are mainly Singaporean couples who haf no children and no time to cook for themselves or their dogs.
Sales representative joey Lee, 31, is one of them. She and her husband, a wharf supervisor, haf a one-year-od Maltese, Javier. they used to feed him commercialdog food but are now adding 10 tingkat meals a month. Their monthly food bill for Javier is $50. "we tried cooking things like scrambled eggs or poached chicken and rice for him, but it was troublesome as we worked long hours," she said.
The irony is that with the meal delivery service, her dog eats better than she does.
He fills up on chicken pot pie while she and her husband haf yong tau foo and fish soup from the hawker centre. " We always say he has a better life than ours," she added.
Guess what's the gander up to my lady's chamber
(sorry, forgot to keep the date n whichStraitsTimes >.<) >Janadas Devan on words
CHILDREN often ask adults the most extraordinary questions. I remeber my son when he was aged 3 stumping me with the question:"Why is water wet?" I was unable to answer becos i didn't know the answer.
At other ti es they ask questions which youcan't answer b'cos u do know what the answer might be. I faced this difficulty when my son began asking what the nursery rhymes his parents hummed to him incestantly meant precisedly.
"Goosie, goosie, gander,
Where shall i wander?
Upstairs and downstairs,
And in my lady's chamber."
Try explaining to a 3-year-old what someone wandering, upstairs and downstairs, and into my lady's chamber, might be after.
I had a particularly difficult time with the violent nursery rhymes. As any parent of young children would have noticed, nursery rhymes often haf dark, even sinster, themes.
"Ladybird, ladybird,
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire,
And your children all gone."
Nowadys,parents would think twice before letting their toddlers watch cartoons with a story line like that. Yet they think ofputting their children to sleep singing such a jingle. If nursery rhymes had a rating system, many would get a PG rating and some might well earn an R.
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
Chop chop chop."
That surly merits an R rating.
"Georgy Porgy pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the biys came out to play,
Georgy Porgy ran away."
That at 1st blush, might deserve a PG rating, till one recalls how Aldous Huxley spied its X-rated potential in Brave New World, wher he appropriated it as a celebration of orgies:
"Orgy-porgy, Ford anf fun,
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release."
"Release", of course, was probably the initial motive for most traditional rhymes, as Chris Roberts explains in Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind The Rhyme, a delightful account of the concealed meanings in familiar nursery rhymes, that became a best-seller in Britain when it 1st appeared last year.
All the rhymes quoted here, for instance, were intially "adult songs" in the 17th century and earlier, functioning in the same way satire and irony do today in popular culture. Some originated as "highly sexual" narratives, others as political satire; some sought to convey "complex ideas in code", deliberately concealing hteir salacious meaning, while others probably originated as "clecer allegorical topical songs" or convert forms of political protest.
Take for instance, this staple:
"Baa, baa, black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, three bags full.
One for the master,
one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane."
Some versions of that rhyme end with "And none for the little boy who lives down the lane." - a rendition that makes it ovious that the rhyme originatedas a complaint about taxes, "the little boy" representing taxpayers.
Roberts explains: "In the middle Ages, farmers were required to give 1/3 of their income (which could be in the form of goods such as wool) to their 'master' - the local lord - who would in turn pass 1/3 of it to the 'dame'(the Church). The final 1/3 they kept for themselves or sold, and this is that part that went to the 'little'. Of cos, if u really want to bleat about it, the little sheep started off with all the wool but eneded with none at all."
What were 19th-century anthologists thinking of when they sanitised this rhyme for the consumption of children? The Victorian era was when such potentially subversive rhymes were 1st taken "off the street and into the parlours, making them at once more acessible but perhaps less potent", Roberts informs us. Little boys (and girls ) were meant to be comforted they would be ensured at least one bag of wool? A century before the Welfare State came into being, Eminent Victorians were already conditioning the British public to accept high tax rates? Goodness knows.
The mystery deepens when one turns to the explicitly sexual rhymes. Take "Goosie, Goosie, gander", which i used to sing to my son while tickling him. He would be tickled pink to learn now, a teenageer, that "goose" was a common 16th-and 17th-century word for "prostitute". And "bitten by a goose", or to have "goosebumps", meant to suffer from vernereal diseases.
"Goosie, goosie, gander,/Where shall i wander" - that might be an allusion to the fact that prostitution had become a more difficult enterprise by the end of the 16th century, after Henry VIII and Elizabeth I closed the brothels in London. Or it might be an allusion to spread of venereal diseases - even as far as "in my lady's chamber", an indication that the problem had become rampant not only among the poor but also the wealthy.
Of course, not all nursery rhymes have such hidden salacious meanings. For example:
"Higgledy Piggledly
my blach hen,
She lays eggs for the gentleman.
Gentlemen come everyday,
To see what my black hen has laid."
The hen might have been a "prostitute". On the other hand, the hen in question being a "black hen", the rhyme may have been about a spy; and the "eggs" he produced, his stock in trade, gossip and rumour. Or the rhyme may have been about a dark woman, like Shakespear's "Dack lady" - attractive but hard to get, so gentlemen "come every day" to see her, but only to have her fob them off with stories or "eggs".
The point is we don't know - its pointless to to speculate. As Sigmund Freud used to say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Try that line when your child proves insistent, demanding to know why "three blind mice" would run after "the farmer's wife", and why she "cut off their tails with a craving knife".
posted by Kougaiji at 10/21/2005 01:18:00 PM
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