Category: Eating
-
Fountain of annoyance
Turn up the volume. Noisy right? The sounds of water fountains are supposed to engender feelings of calm and serenity. Not the one in the basement of Raffles City, though. While eating at a fountainside restaurant there, I realised that the damned fountain there was causing the most annoying racket – much like when your…
-
The Monday after
On the flip side, it’s still alive, and therefore, fresh. I think the highest I ever scored in my Chinese composition was 67/100, and my parents were quietly proud of me. I thought it was a very good score myself. Sure it’s not a distinction, but hey, it gave me such confidence and now my…
-
Polling Day
I was part of the 3/4 of the population of this fair country not required to vote today. You’d imagine I’d be ambivalent about the whole thing, and you’d mostly be right. Whatever the outcome, I’m not gonna say things like, ‘You deserve the representatives you vote for’. Instead of mulling over whose gonna lose…
-
Shillings
I went for a coffee break just now, and discovered a little, oft-forgotten quirk in our coffee shops. As I was preparing to pay for my kopi-o, I wasn’t sure if the price had gone up from 50c to 60c or 60c to 70c, so I laid my coins out on the table for the…
-
That’s mean
Marmalade Kitchen It’s no good to make fun of people when they mispronounce things. It’s the bad English karma, you know, where you end up mispronouncing something the same way as the person you’ve made fun of. I’m talking about when people say, ‘that’s mean‘, in this context: “This thing is very complicated. That’s mean…