ShrodingersCat SG -blinks- 2 kampongs. Kampong Melayu and the chinese Kampong. Ubin still have got village headman even.. though I think now position pass down to his daughter liao. Humm. No tours that I can think of. To preserve a kampung, you need to find someone who want to live that way for posterity too. Old folks can stay but what about their kids? It's probably fun for you and me to stay in a kampong a couple of days but... to stay there long term with centipedes and etc.. is no fun. i do know of a couple though who used to live on mainland and when they were both retrenched, decided to move over to ubin and stay in a friend's empty houset to live kampong style, and selling drinks etc to tourists and visitors.But it aint easy.
Rhonda SG There are lots of places I'd love to visit but can't because I don't have a car. I really hated it when they tore down that Colbar place in Portsdown Road! There are whimsical places all over the island... hopefully, the govt will leave them unscathed!
ShrodingersCat SG hrhurhur i think to make the egg real fluffy.. u supposed to beat it until lots of small air bubbles come out... lotsa lotsa lotsaaaa
ShrodingersCat SG Humm... colbar ... food lousy, drinks overpriced.. service.....subjective.. But it's a nice rustic place. Anyway they've put it up again, just down the road, looks almost exactly the same cos they dismantled it with the intention to put it back.
Rhonda SG This reminds me of this whimsical, light-hearted movie starring Sammi Cheng, "Xia4 Tian1 De4 Mo4 Mo4 Cha2"! Very lovely idea - selling drinks in a beach area!
the Bear SG hey.. well done! work at it oh.. another thing i forgot.. beat the egg well so as to add air into the eggs.. however, don't overdo it... coz to much air makes it collapse and you'll have flat and hard eggs again.. comes with experience
Meia Gisborn SG Chances are, you would have to have visited the place to reach the conclusion that it is boring. I think sbst275 was alluding to places he has never been to before. Given Singapore's small size, it'll be hard to find 'undiscovered' territory on the island. (Speaking of 'discovering' new places, I remember back in my pre-NS days driving through the Mandai cemetery in the middle of the night with the song "Everytime You Go Away" blaring from the car's stereo. We were bored and were just driving around randomly, looking for 'new' places! )
Rhonda SG The food was pretty good. Home-cooked style, definitely not the restaurant style. Service... what service?!
the Bear SG well, they do go there... but i've seen it myself... they don't do anything, they refuse to look at the stuff, and all that.. but somehow, it's boring.. oh well.. i guess diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks... i find things around singapore wonderful.. just as much as i find things overseas wonderful the world is so much a better place if you're not a jaded cynic
ShrodingersCat SG been to shinto shrine ruins in the middle of macritchie? or down one of the rivers in sengkang punggol? or the 'carpenter's trail' in pierce reservoir to see lovely cute little pitchers on the forest floor? Off the beaten track beaches at Changi and Tanah Merah? Lots and lots of places people really don't bother going to find out and see in Singapore.. and if they do, Hmm... it really isn't as boring as people think.
Rhonda SG I used to go out with these two really kewl ACS blokes! We'd go out, have dinner, drive around deserted places at night till really late, scared myself on quite a few occasions cause some of the places we drove through didn't have street lights and they told creepy ghost stories as we drove along... and then, sufficiently scared and satiating our need for adventure for the night liao, we'd head someplace for supper. I love car rides!
littlestream SG Helllooooooooooooo Rhonda.......... Thanks......I was pretty pleased too but still, I have to admit, the taste is not the greatest. But an improvement is a start. How's the packing coming along? But first to look pretty in your nice gown for your bro's wedding eh? I love wedding dinners.....erm, actually only the COLD DISH, then it's downhill all the way for me.
Rhonda SG Well, when folks grumble that they're bored, I always tell them that it's not our responsibility to keep them entertained, too bad! There are lots of interesting things around, like you said, if only people would bother to find out.
ShrodingersCat SG The food good?! Hummm.. I dont know. Mebbe cos I am hainanese and .. seriously! Hainanese western food has much better standards elsewhere. I went there about 3-4 times.. and each time, the food was a sad disappointment. Service ha. Depends on ... whether you belong to the COL part of the colbar or not lor. Colbar.. short for colonial bar.
the Bear SG yeah... taking a stroll in Changi into the places where they have chalets... jumping onto one of the bumboats to the islands.. going birdwatching in Sungei Buloh... visiting that place where there's a baobab tree... places off the beaten track... but but but... they're "boring"
littlestream SG Thanks, Shro-Cat. But it won't turn out like meringue hor? Oh, you should see those that I've done before. Flat and hard and the chai poh were bits pieces and burnt. I thought got to fry the chai poh first.
