Diversifying Ruined

Went to Crocodile House today. Prices are quite low there and bought quite a couple of stuff.

Decided to cook some fried rice today using the leftover rice. Youtubed for video on cooking nice and simple fried rice and viola.

Fares and surcharges
Applicable to CityCab, Comfort, Yellow-Top Cab, SMRT Taxis. Different fares apply to other operators

Flagdown fare: S$2.80 (≤ 1 km)
Meter fare
S$0.20 (every 385 m thereafter or less > 1 km and ≤ 10 km)
S$0.20 (every 330 m thereafter or less > 10 km)
Waiting: S$0.20 (every 45 seconds or less)
Booking
S$3.50 (0730 - 0930 and 1700 - 2300 hours Monday - Friday)
S$2.50 (all other times including public holidays)
S$5.20 (advance)
Peak hours
35% of metered fare (0700 - 0930 and 1700 - 2000)
Late night
50% of meter fare (0000 - 0559 hours)

Public holidays
S$1.00 (1800 hours eve to 2400 hours of New Year's Day, Hari Raya Puasa, Deepavali, Christmas Day, first and second day of Chinese New Year.
Should public holiday fall on a Sunday, the surchage will be imposed till 2400 hrs on Monday)
CBD
S$3.00 (1700 - 0000 hours, Monday - Saturday, except public holidays)
Locations
S$5.00 (Singapore Changi Airport: Friday - Sunday from 1700 to 0000 hours)
S$3.00 (Singapore Changi Airport: all other times)
S$3.00 (Seletar Airport)
S$2.00 (Singapore Expo)

Higher flag-down rates for certain models.

All Electronic Road Pricing charges incurred on the trip are to be borne by the customer. An additional 10% administrative charge on the total fare is also incurred when payment is made on credit or charge cards. Higher fares apply for premium taxi services that employ premium vehicles, such as CityCab's Presido and MaxiCab, Yellow-Top Cab's Sovereign limousines, SMRT's Prestige and London Taxi and Airport Transfer service, and so on.

Observation: Singapore must win the award for the most complicated taxi fare structure in the world.

Source.

NEW YORK - US stocks plunged Friday after data showed the weakest job creation since 2003 and a rise in unemployment to a two-year high, fueling recession fears.

Heard that G2000, Zara, Topman etc all having sales now, who wanna join me to get some shirts and pants?

btw, there is Crocodile sales going now on at their factory. Prices as low as $20 for their shirts.

It was a last minute gathering. To be precise, the gathering was discussed and organised the night before around 11pm where Jits called for an 'O' group meeting in MSN. All the members from the DCNT were gathered and conform to the suggestion initiated by Jits. Time and venue were set at 6.30pm at Happy Pot Steamboat aka "Tian Tian Huo Guo".

D-Day has arrived. I reached the RV at 6.15pm. Thinking that I was late, I fastened my pace in order not to miss the TTR timing. However, upon reaching the RV, I could not find any of them. I sent an SMS signal to Jits and found out that they were still on the way.

We arrived at Happy Pot Steamboat and requested to sit inside. A quick scan at the food, it was bad. Luckily, there was a list of ala carte "premium" food which we need to order but its freeflow. On the list there were the Tiger Prawn, Pork, Beef, Lamp, Beancurd, Pig Liver and Kidney. I thought that Pig's Organs are not well accepted but what a surprise I got. Jits, JJ, Desmond and Gavin kept downing them! I was they were gross! yuks


I was not really hungry as my brunch is still occupying much of the space in my stomach. In addition, the food was not very appealing other than the Pork and Tiger Prawn. Hence, I only attack both of them and the Ma La Soup. The soup was superb and I drank non-stop from beginning till the end. Thumbs up!

We agreed that playing with food is bad.

But we further agreed that this little Tou Fu would need some hair.

We left around 9.30pm heading towards Shaw Tower. There was only 3 movies on show. We slack around before decided to go Suntec Eng Wah. They wanted to catch some movie as it was still early while I was waiting for my sick and poor Wendy as she wanted to watch the fireworks at Esplanade.

Unfortunately, there was only the first row seats for AVP2 at Eng Wah. Not giving up, we went to Marina Square. Halfway through, my sick Li Ling has arrived and I have to leave them. Jits told me that they watched I am Legend and previously I have told them timeless counts that its not worth it. Seeing is believing, they agreed on my comments after watching the show. TOLD YA GUYS!

There was incredibly lots of people while I tried to maneuver my way to City Hall MRT. I finally saw my sick Wendy standing in the middle of the crowd. Knowing that Marina Square through to Esplanade was packed with people, we took another route to Esplanade (via The Aldephi). We finally chose a spot where we could have a view of the entire fireworks only to realise there was a stupid sign blocking 1/5 of it.