The Rise of Hipster consumerism- The Singapore Context

First of all, let us define what is a hipster? why did it start, how did it came to Singapore? And most importantly, the hipster and the consumerism associated with it- within the Singapore context.

A hipster is way of life that seek genuinity, hates conformity, a sort of a rebel (Frank 1997) and believes in sustainability with their environment (nature and people). Sounds a bit like the pot smoking hippies of the 60s that protest the war, smoke pot and have endless sex.

I wouldn't say the hipster culture started but evolved is the word. it is an inevitable part of sociology where certain people are just different. we know communism does not work and absolute laissez-faire doesn't fare much better.

Hipsterism came to Singapore as an inevitable side effect of a well travelled populace coupled with cushy life expat coming to Singapore. The desire to lead a different life in the most expensive city in the world and to hide from the pressure cooker that is cooking them to the bone. 

Now back to the Singapore hipster. to sum it up, they are nothing more than pampered love child that couldnt take the grinding of a life filled with third party expectations. These are your self confessed hipster wither by admission or by their way of life. The bigger fringe group are the closet hipster that is fully in the grind of the pressure cooker but see hipster consumerism as an escape or a temporary reprieve. this it the group that is financing the hipster movement, providing the platform to breed a new generations of weaklings that in the near future forms the weak link in our society. 

You see hipsters are people who avoid a hard fight, do not understand the reality that certain elements of society need to be sacrificed for the continuation of the greater good, believes in the naivety of equality and most importantly- they are a burden to the state.

A Positive correlation exist between high cost of living, high unhappiness , high GINI index and more hipster establishments. What we see in Singapore is being replicated in cities that have this correlation. HK, KL, Shanghai, Beijing, London, NY, Sydney, Melbourne and so on. The more serious the index, the more establish the hipster consumerism culture is.

How to spot a hipster place?

1. Establish in out of the way places
2. Have large communal seating arrangement (big tables for strangers to sit together)
3. Retro or simple decor populated from cheap IKEA
4. Elements of black snd white color, chalkboard, lightbulb
5. menu with an overwhelming amount of gluten and sugar (the weak love sweet and the gluten is a sponge for the sweet)
6. Pride itself on gourmet coffee
7. young, gay, lesbian and weird staff
8. frequented by the same type of riff raff fucktards (cant tell the staff from the customers apart)
9. A nonsense name that make no sense or simply name after the road they are situated in
10. Almost always owned by unemployed sons and daughters from rich family or a closet gay or lesbian who had a well paying job prior.
11. Fancy sounding menu items which turns out to be simple bullshit (hipster are good at the branding game)
12. Mostly reviewed online by the same gay, lesbian and fucktards bloggers.


Sugar, Gluten and the poor wanabe

Who would have thought that decades of nutritional advancement would be thrown to the stone ages by the hipster. The menu on a hipster are full of sugar and gluten. it is the combination of both that in practical sense alleviates the misery of their existence. The hipsters that refuses to face reality for the failure that they are and the lack of courage to even try. 

Hopeless graduates from our degree mill that cant find work and are from a cattle class background but yet are still able to afford that $5 coffee and $6 waffle. Or the undergrad who like to convince themselves that a bright future awaits them upon graduation and hence study on the communal table in the company of hipster. Not forgetting the hoards of faggots and lesbian with their pink dot friends talking shit. Of course the most important group are still the closet hipster that seek escapism by overpaying for unhealthy feminine food in a god forsaken place.

A movement need to be brought upon in the community to fight the hipster movement. They are like a cancer in our society, turning up weaklings, gays, lesbian and diabetics right under our nose. As we speak, the hipster cafes are all over singapore even in places where people are suppose to survive on community handouts. The weakened generations will erode our country competitiveness and the health cost associated with a hipster diet will bankrupt our healthcare system. 

Sugar tax

For a start, all hipster cafe can start paying a sugar tax or value added tax for their menu items to subsidise the ill effects they bring to our society. While a dictatorial regime could simply shut them down, a socialist place like singapore could only use legal sanctions to turn the hipster away.

I say good riddance to the hipster and their sugar and gluten. and please dont get your weird staff to serve me.

The $90 Titanium key chain

Simple design to solve a century old problem. well i wish the world did away with mechanical keys and instead relies on biometric or digital solutions but the reality is, keys are part of an legacy issue in terms of civilisation upgrades. so i recently chance upon an american on one of my flights and i caught a glimpse of his swiss army knife concept key chain and the first thing i did when i landed was to order a few of this.

For $90 SGD after shipping, you get real titanium as a raw material for your key chain compared to their regular aluminium. its a real steal in my opinion because most stuff just give you titanium color and in actual fact, they are anything but titanium.

sleek, quiet and understated.. this is the key chain for the digital urbanite. are you still making all that noise like a fucktard when you reach for your 50c key chain? time to fooking upgrade!

The best wanton noodles for Singaporeans

Was off for a quick business trip to Bangkok and despite my numerous times for both golf and business, i never tried the famous Soi19 wanton noodles and specialty meats

I guess the location and the ever crass crowd put certain people off. However if you do not mind waves after waves of fake havaianas slotted feets with cheap over the top psuedo fashionista and fuglies Chinese Archipelagos, the food offer you a quantum of solace if i may quote the producers of Bond.

The wanton noodles soak in a magical proportions of lard and noodles offer a bite and texture that is bar none and the whimsical small servings gets you craving for more. The char siew is nothing to shout about but the wonton have a caramelised center that resemble more of molecular gastronomy that spell El Bulli more than anything else. Bear in mind we are still talking about street food prepared by the lower rungs of society for the unappreciative hordes of culinary barbarians that thronged its queue from 9am to 3pm with no intermission.

Whats makes this noodles so special than? if we are talking about quality ingredients, there is none to speak of, if we are talking about culinary excellence, no cordon bleu chef or aspirants would ever set foot here, instead its a bunch of retired looking hitman that is tossing your noodles and slicing your meat. What about novelty than? No..i am sorry, wanton noodles is no novelty to most especially coming from a guy that had dined on the best Xi rong in HK under the expensive companionship of michelin trained chef while i was on business there.

Now if i really have to answer the question on behalf of 99% of the people who queue mindlessly over and over again, i would have to say its a feeling of void, emptiness, vacum and abyss that draws them to this place. Look at it, they got the perfect soul food for Asians, a nostalgic foodsake that most who would have tasted when they were a child with all innocence, the restaurant reeks of an ambience of yester years genuine of undevelopments and quaint which in a strange sense seek an agreement with the majority of underachievers who dines there. The constant queue create a feeling of achievement for the underachievers who manage to get a seat and create a perception that they are onto something good because in their real mundane life, they are almost never onto anything exclusive or rare.... 

Now.. imagine you are in the restaurant,...take a deep breath and look around you. "what do you see?" you see losers and losers and you think everyone is one except you and you relish the fact that you are an exception while you dine on your noodles..... Now you know why the wanton noodles taste so good here... it is never about the noodles but YOU. you finally found a place that could fill your void and for that 45 minutes(30 to queue, 15 to order and eat) of your life, you are served a noodles that appeal to your soul rather than your palate and you never understand why you love it so much until sungod66 tells you today...

Now you know why the majority of this establishment customers are Singaporeans. The most expensive and pressurised city in the world and yet the worst performing homosapiens inhabit it. ... Ciao

New $10,320 Mac Pro System with dual 4K resolutions display

Yes, I am finally a convert after years of being a PC user. The transition was inevitable, i used UNIX, LINUX, NT versions of OS before i made the switch. definitely not your run of the mill consumer, i do programming, design and other intellectual stuff on my computers and i can say the move to a consumer based UNIX system like Yosmite was a bliss.

Using iPad and iPhone for years, i realise how reliable and good these apple products are and to be honest the Android just doesnt stack up, not because Google fail in its development but rather the decision not to control the whole process including manufacturing has created an abscess of tumour from all these under par manufacturer. Apple on the other hand, being run by faggots and perfectionist control every single process and in the end, it is just a spectacular product.

Android and their competitors are just cheap....cheap users, cheap products and cheap everything. dont even get me talking about vertu, not that anyone reading this blog could afford one. you cant even afford the yearly $3k concierge fee to run your vertu. Oops, you didn't know that? i had a vertu given to me by a rich shanghai client a few years back and that how i know and the reason these people use vertu is not because of the phone, its all about the concierge service which is legendary, they could get you michelin star restaurant bookings last minute or world cup final tickets.

So back to the system, i decided to go for moderately high end system in the Mac Pro and will be primarily using it to run algorithms to trade the financial markets, some auto porn downloads, CCTV monitoring and maybe some illegal access to other computers.

It already all paid for by the markets by the time this post is ready.... and did i mention 4K display is glorious!!!!

Here is the setup

Mac Pro                                             : $6300

Dual 4 K Display from Dell                : $3800

Accessories                                       : $220

                                                            $10,320

$89 fancy iPad Stand- A work of art

This design award winner is a standout among iPad stand that is in the market and i am not even talking about all the counterfeit, low workmanship stuff 90% of the people buy in the dubious retail outlets.

Even among the genuine products like belkin, this particular stand is a sight to behold. simple, polished, elegant with excellent proportions.

here are the pictures and at $89 sgd, its worth every penny

Forum gift from a hedgefund outing

A gift bag from an outing of a ridiculously expensive forum that gather the hedgefunds and private equities in HK.

The star item is of course a Iphone 6 Plus 128GB. what colour you get is random. The cover i bought the most expensive i can find in Nubox for under $50. Not bad for a day of talk, wine, lie and dine