Getai The Road Show

A getai 歌台 is a live stage singing performance held during the Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore mainly across the heartlands.



More singers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia are flocking here for the month-long festival.

They get about $80 to $100 per venue. A good singer could garnered 153 venue performances during the month. The industry average is 4 to 5 venues per night.



Now let's get into the real world.

Celine Dion new 3 year contract at the Colosseum, Las Vegas will pay her more than $20,000.00 per song.

Not per night. But per song. In USD.



As the chinese saying goes, 人 比 人 气 死 人. The west call it Keeping up with the Joneses.

Casino Ruckus

Singapore is a new kid on the casino block.

A Singapore woman went to Marina Bay Sands casino on 18 October 2011.

"Suddenly, I struck the Bonus Cash jackpot of $416,742.11." she said.



A manager of the casino told her that the jackpot machine had malfunctioned.

He explained that the machine's top prize is a car, and that its highest cash payout is only $50,000.

The woman refused to settle with the manager's explanation and followed with a legal letter to Marina Bay Sands.



Sensing bad publicity, Marina Bay Sands casino agreed to pay $416,742.11 which the winner will be donating to various charities.

The woman has vowed that she will never visit casinos again.

People Bonding

Karaoke was invented in 1973 in Kobe, Japan.



40 years on, it is still as popular as the day Japanese, tone deaf or otherwise took to the microphone.



Community bonding using karaoke competitions is a good way of getting the people together regardless of skin colour or language.

Music is a universal language.

Anyone Bite ?

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I am making this contact with you based on my need for you to help me , my name is Jennifer Mason 20yrs old the daughter of late Mr Raymond Mason ,My father was the former Director of Cocoa and Agricultural products exportation in Burkina Faso, Before the death of my father he told me that he deposited sum of (USD $7,000,000.00 Million U.S Dollars ).

my purpose of contacting you is for you to help me relocate to your country to further my studies and stand on my behalf to transfer my inheritance money , I will compensate you with 25% of this money for your kind assistance while you shall invest my ownshare of the money in any good business until I finish school.

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Pawnshops

Glamourise the unglam. This is what pawnshops are doing.

One has even open a branch at Orchard Road, where no man has ventured.



Pawn shops date back to ancient times. The rise of popularity of pawn shops is due to the public needs to borrow small sums of money that banks are not willing to provide.

The pawn business is almost always inherited.

There is no other business like the pawn business which is somewhat recession-proof.

Every time an item is pawned, the pawnshop owner knows that it could be on his shelf for sale.



So how did pawnshops actually started?

In Italy two monks saw the poor needed material help first and spiritual comfort afterward. They started a pawnbrokering business and never look back.

Some say the earliest recorded lending institutions started in ancient China more than 3,000 years ago.

Going Fishing Too

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Foreign Talent

Volkswagen 2011 Women's World Cup held in Singapore from 28 - 30 October.

The event will see 19 of the top women players from around the world battle it out for the title and the US$150,000 prize money.



Interestingly 10 of the women playing for their respective countries are China born.



Feng Tianwei Singapore Born in China
WangG Yuegu Singapore Born in China
Li Jiawei Singapore Born in China
Tie Yana HongKong Born in China
Jiang Huajun HongKong Born in China
Li Jiao Holland Born in China
Wu Jiaduo Germany Born in China
Shen Yanfei Spain Born in China
Wu Xue Dominican Republic Born in China
Li Karen New Zealand Born in China
Li Xiaoxia China
Ding Ning China
Ishikawa Kasumi Japan
Fukuhara Ai Japan
Hirano Sayaka Japan
Kim Kyung Ah Korea
Pavlovich Viktoria Belarus
Hsing Ariel USA
Meshref Dina Egypt



And expectedly it is an all China final.

World number one Li Xiaoxia vs World number two Ding Ning.



Ding Ning claimed the Volkswagen Women's World Cup.