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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Can you guess what is this object?
Nowadays the kids are quite fortunate in that they get to travel all over the world. My youngest daughter is only 17 and she has already been to Japan twice – and that’s not counting our family vacations. In comparison, I never set foot on a plane until my twenties when the SAF sent us for Ex. Starlight in Taiwan. I remember one of my section mates was so excited he asked to take a photo with the SIA girl.
During the recent June holidays, my daughter traveled to Cambodia as part of her school’s project and looking through her photos I found this interesting object. I doubt many of the younger readers, like Icemoon for example, will know what it is. Maybe a city boy ‘oldie’ like Victor also won’t know.
I have to agree with Chun See's observation about SIA Girl. In the 70s, it was a glam job for a Singapore girl to be a air stewardess. If your gf was one, you were supposed to "have arrived". So when you host a pparty you made sure you got SQ Girls attending, then your party considered "high class". You see SQ Girls know how to talk, know how to dress and how to make-up.
Even when you served as a passenger, you felt "shiok". To frequent air travellers this kind of "sexcitement" wears off after 2-3 trips, then you think they are nothing more than high class waitress up in the sky. Then SQ Girl perceived more to be "ang mo" oriented and locals felt discriminated. Maybe by the time many locals married SQ Girls or this discrimination became quite "intensive", value of SQ Girl dropped.
alamak! city boy, that house-like structure with holes is meant for the goat to communicate with its own kind. there are holes on the other side. when a nanny goat appears on the other side, this billy goat will go to one of the holes on his side and bleat. if the female bleats back, then means a 'deal' is sealed. you can see one with more communication holes here
sorry, i transpose the question for the previous posting with the picture for the latest posting. i thought the question 'what are these holes for?' was for the picture of the 'bird feeder'.
Alamak, City Boy #2; what spirit house? It is a central letter box lah! Even back in the kampong days, we have cluster housing. So 8 houses will share one common letter box like this.
I share the same thought as Thimbuktu. It is pigeon holes. Pigeons actually nest inside. Living in HDB flats have been referred to as living in 'pigeon holes'.
I once told a Japanese friend that the Australians labeled our HDB flats pigeon holes. He replied that the Americans called theirs rabbit hutches. Of course we were only kidding. Aussie and American friends reading this don't take to heart pls.
malu, lah. want to consider myself a true blue kampong boy but couldn't tell the difference between a goat and a cow. i know a cow nomally has four and a goat has two. but could see any on the undernourished cow, leh.
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20 comments:
Are those pigeon holes?
I have seen these pigeon houses in the Bukit Ho Swee kampong during my young days.
But those pigeon houses have more holes though.
What won't know? This one is chicken feed... I mean bird feeder lah.
Hey City Boy. You think Google can give answer to everything is it? We are talking about Spore in the 50's.
Wrong answer!
spirit house?
I have to agree with Chun See's observation about SIA Girl. In the 70s, it was a glam job for a Singapore girl to be a air stewardess. If your gf was one, you were supposed to "have arrived". So when you host a pparty you made sure you got SQ Girls attending, then your party considered "high class". You see SQ Girls know how to talk, know how to dress and how to make-up.
Even when you served as a passenger, you felt "shiok". To frequent air travellers this kind of "sexcitement" wears off after 2-3 trips, then you think they are nothing more than high class waitress up in the sky. Then SQ Girl perceived more to be "ang mo" oriented and locals felt discriminated. Maybe by the time many locals married SQ Girls or this discrimination became quite "intensive", value of SQ Girl dropped.
alamak! city boy, that house-like structure with holes is meant for the goat to communicate with its own kind. there are holes on the other side. when a nanny goat appears on the other side, this billy goat will go to one of the holes on his side and bleat. if the female bleats back, then means a 'deal' is sealed. you can see one with more communication holes here
sorry, i transpose the question for the previous posting with the picture for the latest posting. i thought the question 'what are these holes for?' was for the picture of the 'bird feeder'.
Alamak, Kampong Boy. That is a cow lah, not a goat. You mean kampong boys from Kampong Chia Heng never see cow before ah?
But actually that poor cow in the photo is so thin, it's hard to tell.
Alamak, City Boy #2; what spirit house? It is a central letter box lah! Even back in the kampong days, we have cluster housing. So 8 houses will share one common letter box like this.
Chun See
When city boy does 1 or both of these:
1) cannot tell difference between cow and goat
2) Post box and spirit house
don't you think we should organize a trip/overnight stay at a Malaysian farm?
I share the same thought as Thimbuktu. It is pigeon holes. Pigeons actually nest inside. Living in HDB flats have been referred to as living in 'pigeon holes'.
I once told a Japanese friend that the Australians labeled our HDB flats pigeon holes. He replied that the Americans called theirs rabbit hutches. Of course we were only kidding. Aussie and American friends reading this don't take to heart pls.
Primitive wireless modem..my grand dad had one
They are Pigeon holes lah!
The poor cow looks undernourished and just skin and bones.I feel sorry for it.
Chun See seems to be obsessed with holes lately.
malu, lah. want to consider myself a true blue kampong boy but couldn't tell the difference between a goat and a cow. i know a cow nomally has four and a goat has two. but could see any on the undernourished cow, leh.
Nah .... it's wholely coincidental.
funny. wireless modem--in a way, it is right. wireless no doubt. and if the pigeon carried your message, wireless modem lor.
It is indeed a primitive wireless modem , look at all the holes they are the the forerunner of what we know today as USB ports
You are absolutely right !
It's far better than a wirelss modem. The emails you send via this one can lay eggs and give birth to more emails. You can even cook them if you are hungry.
Is this modem the real cause of bird flu/virus....?
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