Category: People

Northpoint’s spanking new foodcourt

Check out the newly renovated foodcourt at Northpoint! It’s so bright and cheery. Although I felt that the whole place was a little too bright that it can be overwhelming. I tell you what else is overwhelming. The crowd.

Everywhere I turned, there were throngs of people buying food, and queuing for food. It’s almost impossible to find an empty table. This was the situation at dinner time, so I haven’t had an opportunity to sit down and try the new stalls. There’s pepper lunch express and some other new stalls, but it was too chaotic to go around taking photos!

I just quickly ordered my food from the Jap stall (my usual), and left. Too many people~

There was a change in layout as well so the old stalls are kinda jumbled up. The Banana leaf indian food is now all the way inside the foodcourt! I wonder if the standard is still the same though. Anyhow! I’m just glad the foodcourt is back and I can always fall back on some cheap and nice food from that place.

Collected my Churpie~

So SO lucky that I remembered to collect Churpie on the very last day of the collection period. I’d won him from Valerie (Miss Universe Singapore 2011) @Dweam ‘s twitter contest! All I had to do was to tweet why I love churping!

I didn’t know how cute Churpie is until I got him. Haha I sound like I’m badmouthing him but his head is bigger than his body so he always topples! But it’s cute lahhh. Lol

So now Churpie is safely with me. He’s trying to mingle with bearbear, but bearbear says he needs time to get to know him. He’s shy but can be territorial. So, we’ll see how it goes!

"Hello, I think I need some time to get to know you.. What's your hobby?"

Make It Right For A Better Ride!

Remember singing to the catchy tune “Train is coming! Train is coming! You may start queueing~” by The Dimsum Dollies in 2010? This time, the Gracious on Public Transport campaign is back to remind us not to be unpleasant commuters to one another!

Since we are confined to such a small space in the duration of our travel, we are all ‘in the same boat’, so why irritate each other with talking loudly (it’s not the market), blasting your music (ever heard of earphones), or blocking others’ entry (so that you can have more space is it, grr)?? And the number 1 ultimate crime: not giving up your seat to those in need even though you’ve spied them from the corner of your eye the moment they stepped into the train.

The campaign this year aims to cultivate travelers’ graciousness through poetry, reflections and calligraphy submitted by fellow commuters of different ages, but they are all advocating the same thing; kindness on public transport.

I first saw the posters at Bishan’s circle line station (I take the train quite often), and this was the very first poster I saw that caught my eye.

I was attracted by the Chinese calligraphy and after reading the words, I realized that I was standing right in front of the door in order to read the poster! So I immediately stood to the side of the doors. I guess such reminders are indeed needed, especially when commuters are all tired and occupied with hundred and a million things on their minds, we tend to not take notice of such minute details. Whether we are blocking others’ exit/entry, or whether the next person boarding the train needs the seat more than we do.

I then checked out more posters at ‘We Keep Your World Moving’s FB page and here is my favourite!

I find this super relevant because every time I gave up my seat to someone else, I would feel embarrassed/shy as though I’d done something wrong!! This is because the person would thank me profusely, and the rest of the seated commuters would stare at the commotion (and suddenly I’m promoted to a small heroine. Okay that’s being overly dramatic). And perhaps growing up in an Asian society, taking credit for something isn’t really part of our nature, even for something as trivial as this. So this poster struck a cord with me. It also has a catchy rhyme! :D “DON’T BE SHY, GIVE IT A TRY!”

Check out the entire collection of posters here.

And also join the “Make It Right For A Better Ride” Twitter contest and stand to win a pair of movie tickets! More details on http://on.fb.me/betterride.

How to transform from a girl to lady.

I was reading October 31′s issue of TIME magazine and there I found an article that intrigued me. Apparently there are schools in the world called ‘Finishing schools’ that will put ladies through a course of strict etiquette, dining, serving, and manners etc so that they all turn out to be perfect, refined ladies at the end. Most of their students are princesses, and daughters of Presidents and Prime Ministers. But now, in order to pick up business, they have turned to cater to professional career women who deal with international clients and associates.

Pardon me for being a country bumpkin and my coarse background, for I did not know such places exist at all! And you could not have imagined my excitement at learning of their existence; my head was literally screaming, “Sign me up! Sign me up!”, because of course I dream of living in a castle and have immense wealth that I have to hold afternoon tea parties and entertain guests to no end.

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Click to read the article here.

But alas, despite my desires to learn to be more refined and lady-like, I think I will be quite stifled if I have to be prim and proper every minute of my life.