Rhonda SG Hellooooo!! I like my chai poh nng salty-sweet. The packing's done slowly cause I need to sort out stuff too so that the packing will be organised. And to be honest, I don't look forward to the wedding dinner at all. Mom's going to be stressed out and she insists that I stay by her side to be her 'assistant' that night! Cham liao! Means that I have to tahan her bad temper when she gets frazzled! Thinking about it, I feel really really sian liao! Can only hope that somehow, they'll insist that I fly off to Australia before that!
ShrodingersCat SG yeah.. but my sick patriotic streak comes to surface when I feel it is unfairly spoken. DOWN PATRIOT DOWN!!!!! but seriously sometimes it's just a bit... 'sian'. My 'ECA' involves organising stuff for youth and sometimes when friends complain about 'nothing to do, life is so sian' I ask if they would like to join me when I organise activities. And u know.. they NEVER TURN UP!! Then after tt they will complain I am very busy, dont have time to 'entertain' them...
ShrodingersCat SG Hey where's that?! hee the real one from the little prince?! Or issit the Bottle Tree? Nice place.. bottle tree club.
av98m SG Yah! Like sometimes when I'm doing my photography at places like the botanical gardens, people will stop and wonder just what the heck I'm shooting at. They're always pleasantly suprised when I point out the tiny but very interesting looking insects and plants/flowers. And mating insects always amuse people! Amazing the things you see if you open up your eyes big big.
Rhonda SG Orh... It wasn't the food that I go for... I dig the relaxed, laid-back atmosphere and the pretty rural surroundings. Well, not exactly rural but rural by Singapore's standards! Going there, you feel like you've gone back in time to the '70's. My friend and I would spend the hot afternoon sitting there enjoying the breeze, talking and talking away. Very nice memories. So, it's the memories that count, not the food and service per se.
the Bear SG what i say isn't coz of patriotism, but i gotta question people who would say that everything is boring even when they have not gone anywhere near the places, or if they have gone there and refuse to do anything and stick their noses up at everything... it's like.. they have everything served to them on a silver platter, and they complain that they have no slaves waving palm fronds and feeding them chilled, peeled and pitted grapes
Rhonda SG A few hundred folks were afflicted with food poisoning in Hong Kong over the Chinese New Year period. And a restaurant was found to serve contaminated food, causing dozens to fall ill and be hospitalised. So now, the Hong Kong govt is thinking of implementing a food hygiene grading system for eating establishments!
ShrodingersCat SG When Colbar was slated to be torn down, it created such a furor among specific communities in Singapore who frequent it... (so big that the story was covered in TIME magazine)... there was many campaigns to push for colbar to remain as part of Singapore's heritage. So bobian, since it was a kampong hut, they 'dismantled' it.. as carefully as they could, remembering the architecture as much as they can, and set it back up again down the road. So it looks more or less the same now. I am not sure if every single piece of wood is the original one though.
ShrodingersCat SG it's lovely. I wanted to hold my wedding there but unfortunately.. err.. the restaurant food was .. err not very good... lovely envirnoment though. It's nice to sit there and rot the evening away... [quote some previous post of yours] -snort- at risk of sounding elitist and snobbing.. (hmm. I supposed I am to a certain extent) BUT i reckon those who insist they having boring lives deserve it.
skeujin SG i dont think so. its a totally diff building altogether. the building tt colbar is in right now was ther b4 the old colbar was flattened.
Ferret SG WAHAHHAAHAHahaHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahHAHAHAHAhahAHAHAHHAH ! I AM HOME BEFORE 10PM @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
ShrodingersCat SG Err issit? Cos I went there before and after, and it looks about the same. It's a different building cos its not in the same place. But the structure is modelled after the previous one.. and i think they did use parts of the old colbar to build this one. Oh well.. i'm not sure. Maybe u r right.
littlestream SG skeujin........sorry, i couldn't stay this afternoon in Jive Pad. Remember? I had pink eye for THREE weeks and it is now on the road to recovery. I ain't about to get re-infected!!! By someone doing a monty thingy!!! Anyways, hope you garnered lotsa of tips!!!!
