Date: 30 July 2006
Time: 1938 hrs
Place: road junction near National Library
(sorf) Waiting at the traffic lights outside Sunshine Plaza headed for the library when a young guy in a dragon print shirt and shorts, with his girlfriend, asked in Chinese where the train station was. Told him Bugis and he asked if it was very far. Said no, just 2 lights down, and on the left.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Queue cutter
Date: 27 Jul 2006
Time: 2157 hrs
Place: IKEA
(both) We're right at the cornermost cashier, waiting to pay for our purchases, when this middle-aged lady wearing printed pants rudely interrupts us from behind and asks if we would mind if she could pay for her scented candles first. The candles weren't very classy and to think that she travelled all the way down to IKEA just to buy these cheesy candles. We said no and she had to go back to the tail of the queue.
Time: 2157 hrs
Place: IKEA
(both) We're right at the cornermost cashier, waiting to pay for our purchases, when this middle-aged lady wearing printed pants rudely interrupts us from behind and asks if we would mind if she could pay for her scented candles first. The candles weren't very classy and to think that she travelled all the way down to IKEA just to buy these cheesy candles. We said no and she had to go back to the tail of the queue.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
mm chee dou...
Date: 25 Jul 2006
Time: 2005 hrs
Plaace: Outside Novena Square
(sorf) A very harried looking bespectacled young woman outside Novena Square asked in Cantonese what road she was on.
Time: 2005 hrs
Plaace: Outside Novena Square
(sorf) A very harried looking bespectacled young woman outside Novena Square asked in Cantonese what road she was on.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Chemists that don't do chemistry
Date: 18 Jul 2006
Time: 1010 hrs
Place: Maxwell Market
I'm at Maxwell Market just having a nice coffee when an Australian lady, wearing a t-shirt with the word "DIOR" splashed over it, comes up to me and asked where the nearest chemist was. I told her to head over to Raffles City to look for the pharmacies there.
Time: 1010 hrs
Place: Maxwell Market
I'm at Maxwell Market just having a nice coffee when an Australian lady, wearing a t-shirt with the word "DIOR" splashed over it, comes up to me and asked where the nearest chemist was. I told her to head over to Raffles City to look for the pharmacies there.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Dove
Date: 16 Jul 2006
Time: 1755 hrs
Place: NTUC Toa Payoh
I'm with my younger brother looking at the foldable table on offer and this man asks me from behind, in Hokkien, whether the Dove shampoo could be used for washing the body or washing the hair ("ji gei xi shui tao meng ah si shui xin gu eh?"). My younger brother told him that it was not for body washing. I think he had some problem with his eyes. He's probably a bachelor, quite dirty looking, carrying an umbrella.
Time: 1755 hrs
Place: NTUC Toa Payoh
I'm with my younger brother looking at the foldable table on offer and this man asks me from behind, in Hokkien, whether the Dove shampoo could be used for washing the body or washing the hair ("ji gei xi shui tao meng ah si shui xin gu eh?"). My younger brother told him that it was not for body washing. I think he had some problem with his eyes. He's probably a bachelor, quite dirty looking, carrying an umbrella.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
It's a taxi queue!
Date: 11 Jul 2006
Time: 2115 hrs
Place: Paragon Shopping Centre
(sorf) Am loaded with groceries and too lazy to walk so I'm waiting for a taxi in the taxi queue. And I got asked by a filipino lady which is the taxi queue!
Time: 2115 hrs
Place: Paragon Shopping Centre
(sorf) Am loaded with groceries and too lazy to walk so I'm waiting for a taxi in the taxi queue. And I got asked by a filipino lady which is the taxi queue!
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Hold your peace...
Date: 08 Jul 2006
Time: 1241 hrs
Place: Just outside Dhoby Ghaut MRT near Penang Road
(both) We had just come out of the exit and a lady in jeans skirt and red tank top came up from behind us and asked us, "Excuse me, where is Peace Centre?" I told her to go towards Selegie Road and she was hemming and hawing and asked, "oh it's the other side ah?" and I said yes and then she walked off. I think she wasn't very happy though.
Time: 1241 hrs
Place: Just outside Dhoby Ghaut MRT near Penang Road
(both) We had just come out of the exit and a lady in jeans skirt and red tank top came up from behind us and asked us, "Excuse me, where is Peace Centre?" I told her to go towards Selegie Road and she was hemming and hawing and asked, "oh it's the other side ah?" and I said yes and then she walked off. I think she wasn't very happy though.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Revolving door challenged
Date: 06 Jul 2006
Time: 1425 hrs
Place: The Factory
(sorf) Chubby woman in black blouse and pants at the revolving gate outside our office asked if she could get in. I told her she had to go to the main gate.
Time: 1425 hrs
Place: The Factory
(sorf) Chubby woman in black blouse and pants at the revolving gate outside our office asked if she could get in. I told her she had to go to the main gate.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Woody Allen was right about Chinatown
Date: 05 Jul 2006
Time: 2141 hrs
Place: Dhoby Ghaut MRT
(both) We are getting on the train at Dhoby Ghaut when a voice asks us from behind, "Excuse me, does this go to Chinatown?" in some unplaceable European accent. He was a tall, Asian looking guy wearing jeans and blue shirt, with a Caucasian girlfriend wearing a purple skirt. There's a whole lot of people they could have asked and they chose to ask us. From behind. I told them no, they have to take the train from the other side, while sorf had blanked out.
Time: 2141 hrs
Place: Dhoby Ghaut MRT
(both) We are getting on the train at Dhoby Ghaut when a voice asks us from behind, "Excuse me, does this go to Chinatown?" in some unplaceable European accent. He was a tall, Asian looking guy wearing jeans and blue shirt, with a Caucasian girlfriend wearing a purple skirt. There's a whole lot of people they could have asked and they chose to ask us. From behind. I told them no, they have to take the train from the other side, while sorf had blanked out.
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