I was horrified when I logged on to Facebook this morning and read that Telegraph (UK) had run a story on the Cook a Pot of Curry event with the following headline, "Singapore’s anti-Chinese curry war”.
Besides the misleading headline, the article made several factual errors.
Calling on all Singaporeans in Sydney to cook a pot of curry this coming Sunday, August 21st, in support of Cook a Pot of Curry Day!
It’s an event created by a group of Singaporeans on Facebook to peacefully protest against immigrants who demand that locals change their ways to fit theirs.
Coles Supermarket’s “Down Down” jingle was ringing in my head when I read online that the Australian dollar was going down. A part of me wanted to shout out loud, ‘and stay down’!
You probably guessed by now why the news of a weakening Australian dollar mattered to this Singaporean student in Sydney. It hits the pocket! To be specific, my pocket, which has a big gaping hole created by the continued strengthening of the Australian dollar in the first half of 2011.