Sunday, August 08, 2004
My blog is so terribly out of date. My wish list is outdated (it should be about three times its current length, so take heed). The movies and stuff are, ok, still fantastic and will always be, but they're
old. my attempted mini arts events listing is pretty much dead. I'm too tired - and BUSY - to deal with all of that at the moment. Ack
Went to Malacca and came back over the weekend. Key points to note:
1) Drinking at a very laid back open air place with its own little one man band who sings everything from robbie williams to songs so old even my dad can't figure out the singer's name to santana. Very very cool. We sat at one of those high tables and there was a misting fan, well,
misting down on everyone. The place (I think it's called Geographer's cafe, or something with the word Geographer in it) is especially funky because it was sitting nicely in between a
chai tau kueh stall and a shop with a bunch of guys hand-making wooden shoes. How cool is that? It's such a unique blend of old and new mixed up and stirred togeter, and yet there was this sort of rightness about the unlikely combination of everything there. Like an oxymoron. That isn't. That place has a personality. Its impossible to miss.
2) The food in there is G*O*O*D. Its so good it should be made a national treasure, locked up somewhere and chained in so that greedy creatures like me can't get at it. My butt feels extra heavy today, well surprise surprise. I'm glad I don't live there.
3) Its amazing how many Singaporeans chose to spend their national day in Malaysia. I mean, HELLO? Do the words NATIONAL PRIDE mean anything at all to you? We left there sometime this afternoon, and there were hordes of SGXs and SFCs tht were just beginning to come in. (Happy *One day prior to your* Birthday Singapore!) Think abut it: people would actually take advantage of national day to get out of the nation and go into
some other nation and spend
there. Bleearrgghhh. it's horribly ironic, dont you think?
The Malaysian press thought that the traffic jams caused by the multitudes of happy Singaporeans streaming into the country were an issue of sufficient importance to warrant it a little mention in the papers. That was funny.
I'm so sleepy now i could just die. Happy birthday Singapore.
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