All in a Day's Work

Why on earth am I blogging at such an ungodly hour?

Went down just after lunch to collect my Fujitsu Tablet PC T4010, which was probably one-odd week overdue. Feeling more poor than excited now, so if you would like to, please donate a USB 2.0 hub or some useful accessories that Fujitsu might have forgotten to throw in.

The sprawling SMU city campus is awesome! It's not very big in any case, but it's connected by an underground mall! So that we can avoid the rain while shuttling between lessons, or pop by a shop to pick up a cappachino or a pair of slacks. Evil!

When I was crossing the road, I noticed a young lady using her sweater to shelter herself from the rain, so I offered to shelter her to Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station. It turned out to be a rewarding experience. Haha... got to chat with her and liven up the mood of things (hey, what else can you do on a rainy day?) Yup, she's an insurance agent currently studying part time and working full time with AIA and was rushing off to Newton and so was unprepared for the rain.

Arranged to meet Zi Rong and Jian Ming for dinner at Heartland Mall. We ended up eating at KFC. Shared a buddy meal with buddy Jian Ming. :D haha... why else do you think they coined such a name? R-i-ght. At ten bucks for two pieces of chicken, a chicken taco wrap, two drinks and four regular sides, I think they might have overpriced it a little. Eight dollars for the package both sounds good and affordable. Remember MacDonald's $2 promotions in the past where they just showed how two golden coins can buy a burger. KFC can try something similar: How about the buddy meal for 8 bucks, with (specifically) two golden coins change if you pay with a ten-dollar bill. It catches on, and has the added bonus of splitting the cost evenly between buddies (A buck each). Just a thought.

After dinner, we walked around Heartland Mall in search of a reasonable USB 2.0 Hub. Anybody who does not need his/her USB hub can toss it my way. Would be very much appreciated.

A Warcraft III Battlechest is going for $74.50 at Comics Connections, up from $65 three months ago and $50 when Loren bought his half a year ago. I suspect DOTA has a role in the recent price spike. Oh well...

Bubble Tea resurgence! - Okay, so it's just a recent rekindling of interest in bubble tea (Thanks to Zi Rong, who got the ball rolling). Today's choice outlet is the Co Co Bubble Tea outlet at Hougang Heartland Mall. There is a good variety of drinks here as well, but for additional toppings (such as pearl, or the 'bubble' in 'bubble tea'), it would set one back thirty cents. It's complimentary at the Bubble Tea shop in Serangoon Central. Anyway, I tried a 'Black Crystal Milk Tea', half disappointed that they didn't serve up cappuchino Milk Teas, but was delighted when it turned out to be Coffee Milk Tea, and that the mysterious 'Black Crystals' were caffeine-infused pieces of agar-agar!

Presentation: 18/25
Taste: 17/25
Service: 15 /20
Value for Money: 15/20
Queue: 8/10

A feasible alternative to the average Kopitiam's kopi-bing. 73%

Preparing for the all-important meeting and clarification session at AWWA at eleven. This will test the mettle of our team. Do keep you fingers crossed for us!