December is Rambutan Season So Let’s Punggol! Punggol, also spelt as Ponggol, in Malay means: “hurling sticks at tree branches to loosen fruits from their stems, thereby causing the fruits to fall to the ground” What an awesome verb! (Punggol is also a town in Singapore)
All the important questions can be answered by searching within… A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says: “Make me one with everything”. The vendor makes the hot dog and hands it to the monk, who pays with a $20 bill. The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it....
Is Ang Mo Kio Named After Rambutans, Caucasians or Tomatoes? Ang Mo Kio is a town located in Singapore. In the 1970s, the authorities decided to keep the phonetics of the name ‘Ang Mo Kio’, but altered the Chinese characters slightly, so that it would read 宏茂桥 “Bridge of Expansiveness and Prosperity”, instead of ‘red...
Yellow and Red Rambutans
July 1968, four villagers killed when they entered a live-firing range to pick rambutans 14 July 1968 More than 10 villagers from Kampong Bereh ventured into a prohibited area to pick rambutans during a live artillery exercise at Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute Firing Ground at Choa Chu Kang. Four of the trespassers were killed, while...
The Castor oil plant known as Ricinus communis is not from the same family as the Rambutan. However, it does share a similar appearance in shape and colour. The castor oil seed is the source of castor oil and it also contains a toxin called ricin. A dose of ricin as small as a few...
Antipodes (ænˈtɪpədiːz) Two points that are antipodal to each other are connected by a straight line running through the centre of the Earth. The antipodes of Singapore lies in Ecuador. More construction in Singapore, the Rambutan line. Or Angmohdan line. Rambutans are grown in Ecuador and are known as “achotillo”, however they are not native to...
The violent nut head Ang Mo cousin of the Angmohdan is the horse chestnut. As a child I played conkers, a traditional children’s game using the seeds of Horse Chestnut trees. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they then take turns striking each other’s...
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