Last week, a few of us gathered at my place to watch the debut and enjoyed a round of durians, mangosteens, langsat, longans, keropok and ang ku kueh. Needless to say, our Lor Arh seller got a standing ovation for his fine acting. Tonight you will probably hear him narrate a touching story that happened at the old National Library @ Stamford Road. Do tune in.
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I enjoyed watching foodage ep1. Thanks guys.
Army food in third episode......
Excellent ep2. Saw all the oldies in action. I like the part Chun See said, "I saw history being made" and "eat so much but never get fat". Haha.
Never get fat yet eat so much? The answer: Eat organic food fertilised with shit and not with chemicals what
"eat so much but never get fat"....that's when the ladies who are not so interested in history also run our from the kitchen to watch, haha!
I wonder if Uncle Dicko's ukelele song is an original composition? Such ethnic song should be passed down the generations.
Alamak. I looked so deadpan, I didn’t dare to look at myself! I wish Sohkiak had shown some screenshots from our blogs so that viewers know that we were actually reading stories from our blog and not narrating them. But her insertion of Unk Dicko’s ukulele performance was genius.
Anyway, I enjoyed the show and laughed out at certain points. Unk Dicko was the star of the show. And now we have 2 contenders for the Oscar. Hope that by 27 Aug we will have 4!
Sorry guys. Looks like if you want to know what an experience it was to savour the army cookhouse food of the 70's and the exact location of Spore's first fast food restaurant, you will have to tune in again next week.
Thanks to YG, I now know that the sack race was actually an Olympic event.
Icemoon. How about the part where I said, stung by mosquitoes everyday and yet nobody got dengue fever?
Someone should request Mediacorp to put the Foodage program on this page for those who missed it. Overseas readers can watch too.
http://video.xin.msn.com/browse/okto
Chun See, you obviously reading from a teleprompter or cue cards. I can see your head is steady but your eyeballs are moving. Next time, try to be more natural and move your head a bit. Blink from time to time. Vary your tone so that you don't sound like you're reading, even if you are.
Chun See, my dad was watching that segment and he chuckled when he heard that.
There is obviously some truth in your observation. Since we trained in the jungle as infantry, we got stung by commando mosquitoes pretty often and yet, like you said, nobody got dengue or malaria. Ironically I kena dengue outside the camp, few years back.
Icemoon. Actually I was saying that 'tongue-in-cheek'. No scientific basis at all. I believe our kampong mosquitoes were of a different breed. Not aedes mosquito. Maybe anopheles; and did not carry the dengue virus.
My family and I enjoyed the show and one asked why it was not shown in other channels which have viewers. I told them most probably the other channels are reserved for mediacorp artistes, news and advertisement.
Watch Unk Dicko's performance here.
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed following the series! Kudos to the makes of the series as well as to you guys for walking us down memory lane, and keeping it our history alive through your blogs. I'm a history lover with no particular focus, but I've always enjoyed seeing pictures of old Singapore, even if it's 20 years ago. Brings back much memories! Keep up the great work!
This is Soh Kiak - I'm the producer/director for Foodage. I have to say to Joseph Wong that it was not Chun See's fault. I wanted bloggers to read from their own blogs. There was a grand design idea behind this styling, but unfortunately ran out of time. Only had 4 months to do this massive documentary. thanks for encouraging words, keep watching. I am grateful to Chun See and all the other bloggers for supporting this heritage project.
Thank you Pathfinder for your encouraging remarks. Yesterday evening I went for brisk walking exercise with my ACS68 kaki's and they said they liked the show.
If you watch a show like this and you find that you enjoy it, you should realize that a lot went in to create that experience; the script, the music, the narration; and what I find most impressive the transition from one topic to the other. It flows very naturally.
For example, in one episode, the topic of terrible army food came in very naturally following the description of the withdarwal of the British forces, NS etc.
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