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What do you understand by “having prata”? Some people think its going down to the hawker centre to buy some fried dough and consuming it. But that to me is not really having prata.

Having prata is a happening event, having my wife a few friends, siblings or cousins hanging out together at a nice breezy place having supper and tea. Due to my limited command of descriptive english, I think that’s how I would put it in words… but if you think its just to eat roti prata, then that’s not what I meant.

I’m lazy to explain and I don’t think you want to hear my lengthy concept of what “having prata” really means to me, so I will just ask you if you wanna “have prata”.

This lazy-to-explain and unwillingness-to-listen leads to problems limited only by your imagination.

When a teacher asks a student what is 1 + 1? The student might answer 2, but with an unending inquiring string of “why”, the teacher might have no choice but to try and explain the country’s policy on education and the necessity of propaganda.

After going on about something which I’m not sure if I have put it correctly, I hope you understood what I wanted to say. But then again that might not be what I meant.

I’m falling in love with Singapore all over again. The people, the environment, the truly multi-cultural community and many other things that make a Singaporean, Singaporean. I actually wanted to take up an Australian PR and seriously thought over it for quite some time, but that only made me realise how much I really like Singapore and how important it is to me.

How I wish more Singaporeans would realise how blessed they are on this tiny little island and hopefully contribute to it in their small little way.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

The chicken thought to itself, if there is no egg, how can chicken exists? Hence waited for the egg to be created first. The Egg thought similarly, if there is no chicken, how can eggs exists? Hence waited for the chicken to be created first. With this stalemate, we can be sure that there will never be any chickens or eggs?

But if the chicken initiates to exists first, then we can be sure that there will be eggs. Similarly if the egg initiates to exists first, then we can also be sure that there will be chickens.

So… which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Glenvicia and Leeson

Going to Pearl’s grandma’s house at Bukit Panjang means a hysterical time with Glenvicia, Lovel and Leeson. These little cousins of ours are really funny and time past really fast when playing with them.

Roti Tissue

I don’t know what came over us, but Pearl and myself are quite hooked onto Roti Tissue. Its like normal Roti Prata, but its just not folded and is eaten with sugar. If its rolled into a cylindrical shape then its called Roti Paper. Weird names, but great taste.

Our new prata joint is on 345 Beach Road, just opposite The Concourse.