Tea Talk
March 19th, 2023 | 
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I am the son of illegal Street Hawker & Taxi Driver. My mother has applied for hawker stall in the Toa Payoh market numerous times but her applications were all rejected just because my father had a taxi driver license!
There were 10 of us in the family and they expected one taxi driver to feed all!
Thus we all became illegal hawkers due to such stupid rule.
Never once in my life have I felt “shameful” for being an illegal hawker. I am truly proud of my parents of working harder to provide us all under such circumstances of hardship.
Here I am again, selling my favorite tea as a “hawker” in a Bazaar … Geylang Serai Ramadan Bazaar and it brings back lots of fond memories of being a hawker on the street when I was young!
Come to Geylang Serai (booth no. A399) and enjoy exclusive offers, and we can have tea talk!
Goh Meng Seng
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Have your mother ever been arrested for illegal hawking by the ‘tey ku’ if this was the case then it could the reason why the Authority rejected her application for a hawkers license. Nothing to do with your father or his driving license. In what time-frame are you talking about? When Toa Payoh was under the Japanese hand and a pig farm complex cum a grave yard ocean.
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Thought of going Geylang Serai look N see. Now change my mind. Even go there will avoid this stall with 10 ft pole. Don’t want go near any tea party member.
Narrow-minded, petty and selfish. Just see the number of his posts here, enough to judge!
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Your parents should’ve used contraceptives!
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Now I know why most Sinkies are so easily conned and bullied. Can’t even set aside petty differences and respect each other, cannot even agree to disagree, what hope is left for Sinkieland?
Remember that everyone reap what they sow, how sure that day will not come back to haunt? I believe in Karma and it is very real.
Don’t like tea, just drink coffee, simple bo?
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Isn’t karma at work now? ye. I believe in it!
You got stroke. The other lost to a fresh nubile chick in Aljunied. And now trying to fool idiots like you? Selling tea? Sympathy?
NEVER vote PAP at all! But if this goofy-looking BUT insidious fellow come to my constituency for election. NO SECOND THOUGHTS, put a cross next to box and VOTE for PAP!
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@I believe in Karma
Frankly, I am past the point of being concerned and worried about my condition, which has improved greatly. As for karma, believe it or not, your perogative, to each his own. I don’t need to prove anything to you or anyone else.
BTW, when are you going for your 6th jab, have you gone for a checkup of your heart and blood recently? Better do so, else you may find yourself short of time to do the things that you should have done a long time ago before karma strikes. lol
@Tracey Ching
Why waste money on the rubber? Just shoot into the toilet bowl, simple and save money right? lol
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You must be a pappy ib. Pappy puppies.
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Today’s hawkers are different from the pioneer past who were poor and had little education.
Turning to selling cooked food is their only way to make a living without much capital needed.
But today’s hawkers are rich, greedy and opportunists. They now have good education up to tertiary levels but chose not to work. They tried their luck to become hawker to get more money by charging high prices because they bid very high for their rentals. Quite many succeeded and drive Mercs, BMWs and some live in landed and private properties.
These hawkers fleece their customers whenever they can citing high costs as a front. Take it or leave it attitude. They are not the hungry type who have to earn a living to feed 10 people in the family. Their greed started way back in early 1990s.
Remember Johnson Lock Roast duck and Chen Fu Cheng Teochew porridge and BBQ Seafood at Newton Hawker Centre in 1992 ?
They thought Newton Hawker centre was a goldmine and bidded high monthly rental for it at $10,168 and $7,600 per month respectively only to close shop 6 months later. This is a princely sum in 1992 ! !
A Toyota Corrolla then at that time cost about 35K on the road. The rental is about one third of this car. So 10K rental in today’s value would about one third of todays cost of car plus coe or about 50K.
I also remember a hawker at changi appeared in Straits Times making huge money and could afford to buy bugalow and sports cars for his children just from just selling Fried Hokkien prawn noodle at an expensive price per plate.
I have not been a hawker customer for a long time and never will. Not that I couldn’t afford, but I don’t want to be a victim for them to fleece.
I am also doing it in a way to help the lower income in not buying at high prices so as not to spoil and lower the their affordability.
I will only patronise them if I can tell that the price is fair and reasonable with correct portion of food and ingredients.
We can all play a part to curb this incessant hawker greed.
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You have said it very well, especially about the stroke karma and the losing to a fresh nubile chick in Aljunied karma.
Agree. Especially on the stroke karma which is very well deserved since no end of lying together with the selling tea one about Vax.
The one selling tea lied. The one stroke, afraid of losing job, subpress posts that tell the truth that he kenna stroke because he is lying.
Both deserve their karma. 100% deserve.
This post snapshot is taken, and will be sent to TRE owner in case the lying one about vax too afraid to post it for the rest to judge.
The owner of TRE must know. They cannot hire someone lying about vax just because kenna stroke and become kiasi to the extent of mixing up fact from fiction by anti vax pseudo experts.
Still, you have said it very well. The one selling tea deserve is karma. The one kenna stroke, the more stupid one, deserves the stroke karma.
Tech: I already warned you 2 times about leaving me out of your comments, but you are acting as if you own TRE and continue to curse and take pot shots at me. As such I have decided to ban you permanently, try changing your nicks and see if any of your comments still go through, bloody childish. This is your last and final comment on TRE, goodbye and may myocarditis visit you soon. lol
BTW, just so we are clear on why you are banned. You come to OUR house and despite being warned 2 times, continued to curse, swear and insult me, what do you expect? If you feel I am being unreasonable, feel free to email the ownerS, their email is available by doing a domain whois. Oh, you do know how to do a domain whois, don’t you?
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Tre Police.
Now, you are full of cheap tricks filled to the brims with shit.
Tech: Instead of hurling wild accusations, why not fill in the details so that the issue that you are unhappy with can be addressed? I have never bothered to address any of your comments, how have I accidentally stepped on your foot to warrant such an outrage from you?
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Nothing shameful.
You are just earning an honest living.
Even that old bended lady collecting cardboard exudes True Singaporean Dignity.
The wor$t is when you belong to the CAMP that claims *WATS WRONG WITH COLLECTING MORE MONEY* even from the NEEDY.
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All the best to your tea stall.
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Hahaha, wild accusation? You are the sneaky one here. Why should I bother waste my time and effort to explain myself to snakes like you here. Just close shop, like you have often said before but have not done. Hahaha.
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