its just weird that one has to queue before even knowing what the heck is on offer
granted the fact that its the first chain in Singapore, and opened with much fanfare, the shop was seriously miserably small as observed from the OUTSIDE
yet, there were like long queues of people who I feel most just wanted to have a look at what’s on offer
Mum wanted to bring me to get a pair of jeans, but the long queue totally killed every shopping mood we have
The least they could have done was to offer shoppers catalogues for those who just wanted to know what they sell!
It’s really one of those consumerism tricks. They make you queue for long time, then it makes you feel compelled to buy something at least after all you have ‘queued for several hours’.
And to be honest, the complaints against Tampines 1 are coming in seemingly faster than the praise.
Everyone looked forward to it, but barely less then a day since it opened, the Straits Times carried interviews with disgruntled shoppers and tenants who are upset with parking slots.
I for one felt the 203 slots made available was a big joke.
Tampines Mall and fellow Mall Chain of Asia Malls, Century Square, had excess of 600 parking slots, and yet, it was already not enough for the shoppers of these 2 malls.
Add a third mall, and add at the very least another 5000 shoppers a day? 203 parking slots for both shop tenants and shoppers is way too little.
Moreover, it seems to me T1 has a lot of high end boutiques and pretty good restaurants.
Didn't they see the need for parking slots?
But that’s besides the point.
Queuing to enter a shop may be evident during big sales at places like EXPO or Suntec. But in a mall, I don’t see the need, and it killed the shopping mood when they said this “Yes you have to queue to enter” without a single smile or whatsoever.
Its just crazy.
Joel Last update on 10:45 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2009
hello
I know I haven’t been exactly posting in recent days (or even weeks)..but its all down to a real lack of time and many things have since taken over greater importance in my life at THIS point of time.
But I really wanted to update my blog, which I was hoping to do so with my class recent BBQ pictures..but I have yet to receive them =X
I’m also very lazy such that I am blogging now without logging onto Blogger. Instead, I decided to use Windows Live Writer for the first time!
Anyway, recent MBT have been crap
Full of crap.
Having seen the need to pass Chemistry and Economics, I decided to focus fully on it. Granted the fact that my Economics improved (but still failed), it didnt seem all worth the risk as my Maths and Physics took some battering as well
The only saving grace was my General Paper, which got a C grade, but that’s still not anywhere I want my results to be come year end.
Oh, and yea, Project Work results came out last Thursday, and 95.5% of MJC students got an A grade
yea, and I got it too =)
Really want to thank my group mates for putting in the extra hard work and all the sleepless nights we had. =D
Hmm, as for today, during PE, gastrics overcame me yet again
The feeling kinda irritates me.
I managed to get pass the 2.4KM trial run, which I surprised myself by taking longer than usual to complete (partly blamed by frequent gastric attacks that prevented me from completing full 2.4km over past few months), but it was still a silver grade.
I actually managed to sprint the last round in under 1 minute 30 seconds as I realized my time was like 10min 50 seconds by the fifth round, so had to sprint the last 400m to get that D grade. Hopefully I’ll do that for my upcoming NAPFA test as well.
Be going to finally visit Tampines One tomorrow with mum. Helping her to carry some pillows (If we ever find any among the crowds..)
School’s been pretty decent recently.
Oh, and did I forget to mention I’ve just been awake for 20 hours! Woke up at 2am last night to catch the second leg of Man United Porto match. Was surprised I didn’t have the urge to sleep in class today. That's good =D
Alright
back to my tutorials.
ciao!
Joel Last update on 9:41 PM
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Hello!
Long absence
haha
Well, will change blogskin once MBT is over
=X
anyway
Thought I upload some pics from last Sunday's lunch-dinner meal with aunt and sis
Aunt steph brought me and my sis to this German Restaurant at Katong area called Wearnes
We ate at around 3..haha..so not sure if its lunch or dinner =X
Aunt said that the Pork Knuckles were good, so we ordered it..but before that..came our...
1.SALAD!
2.Garden Linguini
3.Cheese German Sausage (OMG..this is good. seriously.)
4.Pork Knuckles
5.Warm Apple Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream (No Pic)
6.Baked Cheesecake (Takeaway)
German food is nice!
haha
On the way home, saw this hilarious advert on the bus
Either the chicken's stopped growing, or its everything around me that come to a stop
hmm..in cinemas December 1..they're repeating the show? lol
There's another funny advert by CapitaLand that i saw just a few days back (Last Sat in fact)
it was an advert for the new condo Livia in Pasir Ris (Yes, bao...its Livia)
they drew this map for people to know the ammenities in the vicinity
and then I saw this info
"Meridian Pri/Sec"
I thought to myself..there is a meridian sec next to meridian pri???
Wait a minute..where's Meridian JC?
and i realised..
There was in fact no Meridian Sec!
these advertisers had made this big mistake of thinking Meridian JC was Meridian Sec
what a joke..and there isnt even Meridian Sec
Wonder how advertisements are processed before being published
and since the haze just started, and there's no knowing when it'll end..so i'm given a 1 month mc from physical activity
which is till the end of the term
and then i realise
its only 5 more weeks to block tests!!!
=S
missed chem test today
vina just told me i'll be taking my chem test tml at 5.10
wah
damn late la
haizzzz
looooong day in sch tml
=S
anyway
while waiting for the doctor, i was reading The New Paper
and the cover story shocked the daylight out of me
" Scandalous Family Of UK's Youngest Dad "
Here are the videos of the news on youtube
according to reports..that boy havent even broken his voice, and when quized by reporters about what he'll do finacially, he asked "Whats finacially?"
Moreover, the girl's family is living on Goverment benefits, and the boy comes from a pretty broken family
I wonder how will life be like for this young couple and their newborn daughter
I think UK Education system needs to rethink their education system before matters gets out of hand
Already 2 other boys werent afraid to come out to the media and claim that the child could be theirs since the girl had a promiscuous life, and so the child could easily be any other guy's
this is one news, that I hope we don't see occuring to Singaporeans
bt after she recooked it 2 times, it was niceeeeee
school thru the week was quite the usual
hmm
oh
had a personality test
and it was somewhat pretty accurate
This is the results:
Your Type is ISFJ
Introverted
Sensing
Feeling
Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56
1
62
22
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
moderately expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
distinctively expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality
hmm
interesting
there are 5 introverts in my class
and if I not wrong..3 including me are ISFJ
at least wouldnt feel bored when we go for talks =X
okay
and thru the week, a shocking news was reported on Goal.com
INDONESIA HAD BID FOR 2022 WORLD CUP
it was hilarious
i mean okay. no ffence to Indonesia, but how on earth is it possible
maybe it is possible if everyone's dreaming
u see..political unstability, security issues are a few of the many issues that they face
i'm not saying that singapore will do btr, because that's rubbish too and singapore should nvr bid for world cup unless we win Asian Cup, which is in my dreams as well
but really, Indonesia are just out of their minds
I'm pretty sure during the voting, they'll be the first to be kicked out
against countries like Australia..China..Mexico..oh man..Indonesia is no whr there
and Indonesia in WC?
okay..maybe by 2022 they are much btr..but..based on current standards..nope.
okay
and i'm very very happy that Man Utd are now leading the pack
before Chelsea Liverpool clash tonite, we are alr 5 points clear at the top, and with a game in hand
I'm hoping chelsea and liverpool draw, so that mna utd will be able to go 7 points clear or more when we win our game in hand!
Man Utd for EPL, Carling Cup, FA cup, CL!!! Than plus Community Shield and CWC, we would win 6 titles!!!
it didnt help that my jaws were feeling painful due to a possible fall off the bed two nights ago..or simply the emergence of wisdom tooths
maybe that'll make me wiser ^^
anyway, before that was poiema
had new cell groupings ^^
well..me, james,daph are still tgt, and we brought over from our previous cell Ruth and Ryan
now we have additions of Jason, Janell, and Joy
so as it is, we have 5 Js in this group now
hahaha
hoping that this year would be such that i'll find time to prepare lesson plans with james and daph but at the same time, have a good focuz on my alvls
anyway, the match was at telok kurau
uncle steven was thought to only come in the second half
so we proceeded with the first half
by the half time whistle..we were cruising 5-2
quite a total domination over our chinese congregation neighbours
and so we started out the second half with a half changed team
me, tiong wei, and a few others replaced those who palyed in the first half
okay..i think i'm pretty happy with my performance..although certainly nothing to be proud of
tiong wei did pretty well too..with those burst of pace bringing back memories of our n-league times in secondary school
overall, we won 8-2 or 9-2
we kinda lost count
haha
but yea..good match
had a decent time preventing Qi Xin (My opponent on left wing) from getting the better of me
anyway
back to more manchester united loves, i totally adore berbatov now
was watching manchester united vs bolton last nite
and i had this feeling berbatov had to score a late winner again
and that was a neat finish
he's proving his worth alr =D
but i was totally disappointed that rivals Chelsea failed to hold on to their loss
they should have lost 1-0 to stoke
how the heck they managed to score 2 goals in the dying minutes is uncomprehensible to me
all i know is that they are in trouble, cuz its rumoured that their sugar dad is trying to sell them off
sch starts again tml
and i'm not feeling too good now
the mouth issues..the gastrics..and i feel a little feverish
shall go and get some slp now
hopefully i wouldnt have to pay a visit to the doctor again =(
and xiaozhu, please please please cfm ur attendance at F.F reunion on friday okay!
i betcha having some glitzy show at Cinderalla now =/
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starin into da skie.. the happie memories.. when i was tu.. i spent mii tyme in da hse in australia.. having loads of funz.. the happie memories.. pluckin the sweet juicie oranges from e trees.. all fer freez.. plaeing in da garden.. helpin mii dad prune da trees.. da happie memories.. of my childhood.. i nvr forget.. times have flown by.. my childhood daes i still rmb.. and i alwaes do.. but now, everythin and everyone got to do wid me, is mre memorablez =)
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