There you are my Precious, I found where the 4 Brutus are hiding.
A Marie Kondo for the Admin and Moderator roster of SGGURLS. Hopefully no more Brutus and Gollums.
Sggurls is the largest and oldest forum for transgender networking in Singapore https://www.facebook.com/groups/sggurls
Ask your your questions on HRT, social issues here. There are regular meets. If you can see the invite on the forum, means you're invited.
Love,
Nicole, co-founder of SGGURLS
10 sgd wine at Mami's and my vegan diet makes me bloat like a blimp. Maybe I go for non-alcoholic next time.
SGGURLs have survived 15 years. Some of the calamities would have spelled the end of her. Yet here we are. The first disaster started with R. R had a volatile personality which inflamed almost all of our members. There was so much dissent when I made R one of the mods in our old yahoo group.
Then there was J an amorous admirer who slept with many of the gurls in SGGURLS. The decision to kick J off the group caused a gaping rift.
The last epic battle was about five years ago. E tried to wrest SGGURLS for her own benefit by showing off her wealth, paying free meals to get the gurls to change camp. E recruited a drunkard C. Between C and E, I lost SGGURLs and was kicked out from the yahoo forum.
Recently I got wind that S wanted to form her own group and preferred to organize meets using her own banner. That prompted me to I cleaned up the group of admins. It's back to a small group that may not be ready to take over the reins. This meet is special. It's a clean slate to search for a new worthy team. There are only 3 prerequisites for a successful SGGURL admin. The first is the belief that SGGURLS (Singapore Gurls) are for all transgenders and not just a small group. Second SGGURLS meets are inclusive and form a great opportunity to network. There is no events to a paltry annual events for the gurls. Most the gurls just go out on their own. Meets are an opportunity to network. If the gurls want to hangout, post it on SGGURLS Facebook. Facebook excels facilities to blasts events be it small or big. Third is the belief that transgenderism is a spectrum where people in a journey of their own, travelling the spectrum. This belief strongly implies that all members of SGGURLs are accepted for who they are.
... in a night. If only it was a menage-a-troi.
The Flamingo:
The Deer:
And the Lebanese:
When I have time, I reconnoiter new safe places for our sggurls so that they can meet in a safe comforable place, feel welcome and at the same time support lgbt businesses.
Neal Road is peppered with lgbt friendly bars. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Neil+Rd/@1.27925,103.8417907,20z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x31da196dec7e1a0b:0x72c8e9159c4e3df4!8m2!3d1.2780473!4d103.8405167!16s%2Fm%2F02625ym
As Covid curbs lift, bars that were once friendly to trans are no longer so. Friendlier to $$$ are they focussing on selling whisky bottles, segregrating the VIPs from the rest of us. Illuzion is definitely not friendly on the purse and I defnitely didn't feel welcome. The greeting I got when I walked in was, "you can sit outside." That's fine, I'll sit way way outside of their bar about 1km away. As we walked by other bars, the doors that were once open, were shut. They want the big spenders and not a few gurls that just want to hang out and get 1-2 drinks. Our paltry $ no longer satiate their revenue.
SGGURLs is a Singapore based transgender facebook forum https://www.facebook.com/groups/sggurls
Chinatown rental for F&B pre-Covid was SGD9-12 psf (per square foot). During COVID many of the shops were vacant between 8-14 months. Landlords lowered the rental rate to SGD7-9 psf. Post Covid, these same landlords are rabid with greed. Commercial guru results shows 15-45 psf rental rate in Chinarown driving the same businesses that parachuted in during Covid to save their landlord's rapacious butt. The bars that I go to will not be able to support a 15-45psf rental. Singapore Tourism Board which manages road stalls at arm's length through Chinatown Business Association (CBA). They realize that business are still struggling offered rental relief. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/year-long-extension-of-rental-relief-for-chinatown-street-market-tenants
In land scarce Singapore, you don't own any property. Land come in leases from the Singapore government. There are various leases: 999 years, 99 years, 60 years, 33 years and variants of these numbers. Private property owners are so motivated to suck in profits for the length of their lease. Inevitably, rental prices goes sky high. A black eye to F&B businesses. F&B (food and beverage, typically covering hawkers to hotel) in Singapore is a cut throat business. The goverment over issues food licenses. It's yet to be proven that they do this intentionally. Food licenses are money generators. It also complements the country's employment statistics. Why not make money and look good on the report card? An uber competitive over-crowded industry is the second black eye to F&B business owners. The third whack is a labor quota system that limits F&B businesses to hire foreigners. The government makes F&B businesses take the punch in the lip whilst asking the business owners to stiff their upper lip, close their eyes by the use of ridiculous productivity grants that breed a greedy industry of cheats and snake oil sellers.
