This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Sunday, June 24, 2007 |
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EDIT: Thanks to the tip-off from hubert, i realised that one of the CAP councillors actually bothered to upload the photos, lol. Check them out on flickr here! Unfortunately, if you were hoping to catch me in some unglam pose, im sorry to say you'll be disappointed. xD CAP "Reunion" yesterday was, sad to say, pretty much a waste of time. Less than 20 out of the 179 CAP'07 participants turned up lor...and that number includes the councillors and the few alumni/ex-CAPpers that turned out. Even Judith, the head councillor, disappeared after the start. So anyway, we were supposed to have a "picnic" at fort canning park for a couple of hours (we met up with some other fellow CAPpers and spent half an hour searching for the location =.=), then the alumni would bring us on an inspirational hike - we're encouraged to come up with some pieces and submit them afterwards. Left just a quarter into the hike though, didn't want to walk aimlessly under the sweltering sun =X At least i got to meet up again with some of the other CAPpers my group mates from e-Holland Village (that's our group name). Mooty, you rock can! xD I guess the most interesting part of the day was the time we spent at plaza singapura, before and after the reunion. Most of the time was spent in Subway after lunch, just hanging around though, otherwise we were just checking out the shops and playing with the display items (especially the soft toys, lol). Oh, we went shopping at Carrefour beforehand to buy some snacks for the "picnic", too. Turns out we bought a little too much though - we hardly even touched the food. But shopping at Carrefour is quite a pleasant experience, with the well-thought and comfortable layout, great customer service and all. They even install water dispensers lor. xD All that compared to Fairprice Xtra, with it's messy desgin and narrow and crowded walkways. I swear, i will never step foot in that place voluntarily again after having gone through the traumatic* experience of shopping there a few times already. It's not fit to be a hypermarket, servicing the volume of shoppers and all. Bloody cramped walkways which are wide enough for only two trolleys, but the situations is often made worse by boex carelessly strewn by the side and inconsiderate shoppers who leave their trolleys unattended and block up the path. Result: You get something like the bus stations in India, with so many people crammed into a small place with everyone's pushing, shoving and you can hardly make your way through. As consolation, Fairprice Xtra has coffee dispensers at least. But there's a long queue - wait, there's no queue at all, just a jostling crowd - and it's sponsored by Nescafe, afetr all, with the usual promotion and marketing ploy. Plus there's this grouchy auntie who is in charge of the dispenser, and grumpily warns everyone, "Only one cup per person arh!" We actually wanted to have dinner at AMK Hub last night too, but there was a power trip, resulting in a blackout just moments after we entered. At least there was a backup power supply for the main lights and escalators, so it wasn't complete chaos. At least they got the electricity running a few minutes after that in most places, but the food court was left in pitch darkness. We decided that we might as well eat at some hawker centre instead. We chatted up a couple of stallholders, who seemed to be in high spirits despite the setback, and they told us that it was the second time ro so that a power failure had occured. Looks like most of the tenants had already been prepared for such a scenario too, with candles, torches and all just seconds into the darkness. As we were leaving, there was another blackout yet again. And we strode out of AMK Hub in a huff. |
'Twas teh winnar at 10:25 am.
