Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Little Nyonya

The biggest year-end production of Mediacorp - The Little Nyonya (小娘惹) is now showing on Channel 8. A slice of history and culture of the Peranakans, a unique community found in the Straits Settlements of Malaya. This is what Mediacorp is best at - dramas depicting olden days Singapore - it does give a bit of feeling of nostalgia, doesn't it? They are also good at dramas depicting lifestyle of modern Singapore. However, they have to stop those crap shows on God of Gambler or attempted action-packed shows, coz they are simply hopeless at those.

Talking about Singapore, they are pretty down now with the ongoing recession. Retrenchments seem the order of the day with us expecting JB to be the receiving end of retrenched Malaysians. As usual, Malaysians will be among the first to go! We can't blame them. The same with Malaysia - the Indons, Banglas and Indians will most likely be the first to be sent packing in a downturn. That's just life. But JB is already crime-packed as it is, with more jobless returning from across the Causeway there could be 2 scenarios. The better one would be more selection of hawkers as returning ones may take open stalls selling char kuey teow and laksa. The second scenario which is more likely - rising crime rate. Tak boleh cari makan? Well just go and mug and rob! Or maybe the NFOs will have a field day. Don't you realize there are more special draws nowadays at Toto?

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