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.

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!