Was having dinner earlier on when my mum commented about how we should ALWAYS tell those sales staff trying to promote a particular food product how bad their product tastes. Now this is where my mother and I are from different dimensions.
I feel obliged to at least say "erm... it's ok..I guess??" , as in, I would never go outright, straight in their face, and say "that is HORRIBLE!". My mum does just that. Moreover, my strange, picky taste buds are relatively easy to please heh. I have queer preferences for seafood (No to mussels and cockles, yes to clams and oysters. No to crabs, but yes to the chilli crab gravy. No to HK-style steamed fish, yes to Teochew steamed fish, not a strict no, I do eat the other once in a blue moon, but I have my preferences), but when it comes to poultry, pork, beef, mutton and the likes, I'm pretty easy going, so normally I don't find much to complain about them as long as they're not laden with fat (I think fat tastes and feels GROSS, anyone with me on this one?). So considering, most of the time people try to promote chicken nuggets to me (Do I look like I have the nuggety face? I don't know), I don't really have much to say, they all taste pretty much to same to me, still chicken. XD
So course, being the typical kiam siap (spelling??) Singaporean that I can be, I don't mind the free food *halo emerges*. Which brings me to what I wanted to blog about. Strange, over enthusiatic sales staff.
You see, I was out at Bugis on Thursday night after the last of my core A Level prelim papers and there I was, entering Swensen's when we (you don't seriously think I would go to Swensen's alone, would you? Fast food outlets maybe, coffee shops, yes, hawker centres, yes, but SWENSEN'S?? Lol) were served by this strangely hyperactive and over-enthusiastic guy. He spoke so fast, I wasn't quite following what he was saying (Kinda like Jonathan preaching to the Bio S people about his religion and what he does at church). He had a queer tone, spoke at an abnormally fast speed I wondered if he was training to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest speaker and seeing this, the only thing I wanted to do was to LAUGH. Nah, I didn't do it, of course, at least not when he was around *sniggers*. Ok, so I giggled, in his ABSENCE. Every time he walked past the table, I had to stifle the urge to laugh heh. Anyway, the salmon baked rice was a lil strange, I tasted SALTED FISH in it. Haha. The fish baked rice was nicer.. lesson learnt I reckon. The fries are good =). The apple crumble was the most memorable one of all, except SOMEONE had to try to get my mouth dirty, RIGHT??? =P Swensen's makes their staff wear white shirts with red ties, I disliked the red tie, mainly 'cause I don't quite like the colour red to begin with, that's why you don't exactly spot anything red in my wardrobe. Except for a particular t-shirt which was given to me. My only red shirt, which came in handy for the school's National Day celebrations lol.
You know, I never knew the view from Tanjong Rhu was that nice until I went there on Thursday night? I've only been to the opposite bank of the river where the Indoor Stadium is, but lol going to the other side at night, the view was nice. Nice place to dog-watch too. Damn, should have taken a pic just for reference but it didn't cross my mind (plus would have turned out strange since my cam-phone can't take nicer pics when there's too little light). Looking out at sea from ECP at night is nice too, with all the lights from the ships. Strangely, we had sea breeze at night (shouldn't it have been land breeze? Of course, TKGians are known to be HORRIBLE at physics).
Tomorrow.. 2 more bloody papers. And I'm actually very unprepared 'cause I have no idea how to prepare for them. I'm just reading through the articles (some, I try, I'm trying) for Econs S and flipping through some assignments for Bio S. I don't know, I guess I'm going have to go in there and wing it. I'm so sick of reading Econs articles now =(
I'm a 3rd year student in what is probably the largest autonomous university in Singapore majoring in a Science-related subject (well it sorta IS SCIENCE). I'm known to be introverted, sarcastic (at times), funny when I rant (which isn't a good thing lol) and somewhat of a loner. I miss LA and would move there in a heartbeat :(
