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[verykiasu2010]

aiyah, should have known this earlier and set up a stall selling curry paste and curry ingredients ....silly me :stupid: :stupid:

[auntieM]

verykiasu2010:

aiyah, should have known this earlier and set up a stall selling curry paste and curry ingredients ....silly me :stupid: :stupid:

:rotflmao:

Initially I thought the idea was to have everyone cook curry at the same time to fill the air in Singapore with the aroma on Sunday... :oops:

[MummyThreeStreams]

blueblue:

what happen if the Indian family decide to break the agreement one day to cook curry while the prc family is at home? wonder will there be any penalty impose on them...

If I understand the Minister's statement correctly, it appears that the parties did not sign a binding agreement. The mediation Centre is also not a court of law, and there is no law that is broken by cooking curry. Therefore, there can be no penalty imposed on the Singaporean family if they choose to break from the mediated outcome. This is just a layman's understanding.

[verykiasu2010]

MummyThreeStreams:

blueblue:

what happen if the Indian family decide to break the agreement one day to cook curry while the prc family is at home? wonder will there be any penalty impose on them...

If I understand the Minister's statement correctly, it appears that the parties did not sign a binding agreement. The mediation Centre is also not a court of law, and there is no law that is broken by cooking curry. Therefore, there can be no penalty imposed on the Singaporean family if they choose to break from the mediated outcome. This is just a layman's understanding.

wish they make it compulsory by law to cook curry, then I will set up my curry paste stall

[Chenonceau]

verykiasu2010:

wish they make it compulsory by law to cook curry, then I will set up my curry paste stall

Your curry paste nice meh?

I think it is a mediated outcome. No one forced anyone to do anything. They each volunteered a compromise. That's how I understand it.

[Eddow]

verykiasu2010:

aiyah, should have known this earlier and set up a stall selling curry paste and curry ingredients ....silly me :stupid: :stupid:

You've a biz mind...

[philipsteele]

great...i am so crazy with the food items..:)

[pinky]

cooked curry chicken for dinner tonight, will be cooking again this Sunday :evil: :evil: :evil:

[mummyo]

carebear:

Shanmugam clarifies \"curry case\"


http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5166228

SINGAPORE: Minister for Law K Shanmugam on Tuesday clarified that parties involved in the mediation of the \"curry\" incident were not given a recommendation nor forced into settlement.

Instead, they are encouraged to work out a solution that both are comfortable with.

Mr Shanmugam was responding to a dispute handled by the Community Mediation Centre —— an agency under the Ministry of Law —— which has sparked a debate online.

The case in question happened some six to seven years ago, involving a family who had moved to Singapore from China.

They sought mediation because they could not stand the smell of curry coming from the home of their Singaporean Indian neighbours.

According to one media report, the mediator got the Indian family to agree to only cook curry when their Chinese neighbours were not at home.

Mr Shanmugam has clarified that the solution was agreed upon by the two parties, and not imposed by the mediator.

\"The parties are completely free to come for mediation. They are not forced to come, neither are they under any compulsion to come,\" Mr Shanmugam said.

\"And throughout the process of mediation, either party can walk off. There was no agreement that was signed or settled at the mediation. What happened, as told to us by the mediator, this solution was discussed by the two families, [between] themselves.\"

Mr Shanmugam urged Singaporeans to see things in perspective.

\"While it’s good that so many Singaporeans have come forward to protect the Singapore identity, at the same time, let’s not turn this into a xenophobic attack on foreigners in general.\"

Netizens have started an island—wide \"Cook A Pot of Curry!\" movement on Facebook, urging families to cook and share a pot of curry to \"celebrate curries as part of our way of life, and to share this celebration with those who are new to our shores\".

Mr Shanmugam said the mediation centre each year handles about 300 disputes between neighbours, the bulk of which are between Singaporeans.

—CNA/wk

What's the big deal? Why does he have to come out and clarify just cause it's being blown up on the internet? Is PAP so scared? Even PM has to come out and \"clarify\" President Nathan's contribution during his reign.

The internet is what it is, for people to vent and rant and have silly movement like \"Cook a Pot of Curry\" for the fun of it. Heck we LOVE our curries so what?

Please lighten up PAP. Not everything has to be so serious. :imcool:

[verykiasu2010]

is so lame that 6 or 7 years later then mention about it recently


so what was he trying to tell us about cooking curry ?