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I used to eat the prata at Upper Thompson Road ("Casuarina Road... Best Crispy Prata. Recommended by New Paper) after/before (on Saturdays before choir) school, and it was good. When I went there after a Macritchie 'training' session, I ordered some prata and got this monstrosity; it was oozing with oil and it had been cooked with so much, the prata seemed deep fried. Further the shape was distorted. More reasons why Canai pwns Prata.
City Harvest loves Singapore
This is why one should stay clear of the Rock Path in Bukit Timah nature reserve. Even the way to/from Laban Rata wasn't this bad.
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Yes, many a gullible shopper has been conned into buying this crap, thinking that's it's butter. Actually it's just Palm Oil shit that's been hydrogenated (IIRC, so you get the best of both worlds - trans-fat AND saturated fat) and then packaged into nature-identical 'bars' of 'butter'.
"Now in Brinda's. Free Hotspot. 1st Indian Restaurant to provide wireless surfing."
Uhh
"Nuisance Creatively Gift" stall, Vivocity
"Special Blend 'Power' Cheng Xing Fresh Fruit Juice"
Cathay claims to have lower ticket prices, yet they claim that "for selected releases, in alignment with all cinema exhibitors in Singapore, Cathay Cineplexes will apply the prevailing rates." Which is why The Bourne Ultimatum cost $7 per head yesterday, instead of $6.50. Maybe the lower rate only applies to local releases.
I was attending one of Cunning Linguist's events at the Asian Civilisations Museum and we noticed this drawing. She thought I looked like the character in the drawing and so this picture juxtaposes us.
Description: "Third Prize
Secondary and Pre-U Category
The River of Life
By Yong Xin Hui
Nanyang Girls' High School, Age 14
This design presents a juxtaposition of the past and the present of the Singapore River. The left panel comprises bumboats (or tugboats) which were present in massive numbers on the Singapore River, alongside with trishaws, coolies and warehouses in the olden days. The right panel of the design depicts me standing in the foreground of the Singapore River. In the background is a bumboat used not for transportion of goods but for ferrying tourists. This shows how the Singapore River is growing and developing with Singapore. This panel perhaps represents the present and the future."
Great, so I have a future job prospect of being a stand-in for 14 year old Nanyang girls.
"No matter what you will do in the future after grauation, you will never have enough money! That's true! Then why not start to practise now to become a professional translator/interpretor (sic)"
Funny, I thought the solution was to reduce your avarice, since if you will never have enough money, there's no point trying to get more.
'Youcan Spicy Vanilla Cup Ice Cream' (NUS Co-op).
Sounds disgusting. No wonder there's a Special Promotion of Buy 1 Get 1 Free. And no wonder they're donating money to charity for people eating this sort of thing (see below).
"The King Never Smiles. BANNED IN THAILAND."
The NUS Co-op is doing wonders for bilateral relations.
During the holidays: "open till late. 11am - 8pm Daily".
McDonalds NUS redefines the meaning of "open till late".
"2 girls fighting over one guy! Can you help? USP Seminar. Negotiation Masters Workshop."
Simple. Polyamory is the solution.
Seditious NUS library sign (note what has been done to the NUS library chop in the bottom right)
"NUSSU PRU presents... NUS Breakers
For every crane folded before 23rd Aug... Songhe will donate 1 bowl of rice... On 23rd Aug 2007... Uzumaki will donate $0.50 to charity for each hot and spicy icecream consumed!!
Songhe will donate up to a maximum of *$1.00 to charity for each crane folded!!
* - The presence of all 10 Deans and 4 NUS Office Bearers will allow for a maximum possible donation of $0.95 per crane from Songhe. Else, each Dean/Vice Dean and NUS Office Bearer will contribute $0.05 per crane folded on the event day."
So, an alternate slogan for the event might be: "Kill a tree, save a life". I don't know what they're breaking except the hearts of environmentalists and the stomachs of people eating that disgusting ice cream (imagine how many starving Third World children can be induced into puking after eating the ice cream that people will eat!)
And don't even begin to ask me to decipher that Byzantine formula for charity donations, even if we ignore the fact that the maximum possible donation of $0.95 still falls one Dean short of $1.00.