Pricy Yong Tau Foo

Time : Evening 9 pm
Date : Some weekday in April
Location : New Century Building, Jalan Besar Road

After a tiring swim with my buddy Jia Lun at Jalan Besar Swimming Complex in an effort to lose some weight, we decided to regain some calories by checking out the Bak kut teh at Poly Credit Building which my buddy said was nice.

When we reach there, we found the coffee shop to be vacant, with no sight of our prey. So we went to the coffee shop opposite at New Century Building for Yong tao foo instead. The horror came when our individual orders came to about $6 each. That's expensive for a coffee shop meal, which i was expecting to cost no more than $4. What's more, my noodles was ordered without chilli, and it came with chilli. This sucks. I hate spicy food and it totally ruined my meal.

Pinhole Specs ! Improve your eyesight now !

On 20 May 2006, after a tiring visit to the Jurong Bird Park, I went to IMM with my sisters. For the first time, we visited the Japanese discount shop on the 3rd floor.[aka Daiso. thx to Desmond for the enlightenment] Because of my crappy memory and generally lazyiness for shopping, I can't recall the shop name despite it's apparent fame for cheap japanese products.

My youngest sister picked up a $2 pinhole specs which she said could help her myopia problem. I activated my doubt-it-all-physics processor and told her that it is going to be useless as it only restricts incoming light, and at best, functions as a lousy sunglasses of sorts.

Then my younger sister told me it should work based on the pin hole effect. I couldn't take the crap because it sounds very much like a quack product to me. There is no way for me to pay $2 for something that is defined as crap by my doubt-it-all-physics processor and leave it at that.

It is sold under various names, eg. Natural vision in singapore $39.90, and is supposed to be based on the Bates Method for improving eyesight without lenses or surgery.

Pro-pinhole specs websites below : (Warning : Bullsh*t ahead)
www.myopia.org
www.thebatesmethod.com

It did a 5 minute research during my spare time and got my answer : It's bullsh*t.
Google answers
Quackwatch.com
FTC Article

It turned out to be ancient product that is based on flawed prinicples made new again and again. It's worthless, so shun it and seek traditional treatment for your myopia problems. People, you have been warned, it is a fairly useless product.

Damn, my $2. My youngest sister still have not paid me for it.
And to all of the myopias out there, sorry this is not your wonder cure

Lousy Mother's Day Dinner

Date : Mother's Day 2006
Time : 7.30 pm Evening
Location : Ang Mo Kio Pizza Hut
Purpose : To exploit the special Mother's Day promotion which is really nice.
2 Splitzza + 1 Jug of Pepsi + 4 Bowls of MSG laden campbell soup + Hut's Platter + 2 Brownie + Mother's Day Goody Bag = about S$48.00 ++

Despite the title of "Mother's Day Special", the special offer is valid without the mother counterpart. So my sisters dropped in at the Ang Mo Kio outlet, while I join in after work.

Disappointment 1 : The special offer is "sold out"

Our response : Ok, fine. We go for the squarish splitzza meal for S19.90. The waitress took our order, and gave us 2 pepsi and 2 bowls as part of the meal, which we consume while waiting for our splitzza.

Disappointment 2 : The splitzza arrives in a round pan...the squarish pizza we were expecting became a normal pan pizza. We stared at the pizza in disbelief.

Our response : We voted 2 out of 3 to reject the pizza. Our order was a Splitzza and not a pan pizza. I talked to a waitress about the mistake. She got the manager to come around and she states that the splitzza is "out of stock" and the pan pizza is the replacement. Athough we were not told about this, she insists that every customer have been told of the subsitutition during ordering. She claims that the replacement pan pizza (regular) is the same as the Splitzza we are ordering. This totally contradicts the promotional brochure screaming at us : The squarish Splitzza is bigger than the normal round pan Splitzza. My sisters got pissed,decided to skip the pizza dinner and went for KFC dinner next door.

The manager went fanatic and kept repeating that the ingredients and size of the Splitzza is the same. She finally stops when I told her that my sisters were disappointed and had walked off. When I told her that I will only pay for the soups and drinks consumed, she went into hyper mode, trying to sell me the full meal by packing the already rejected pizza into a box for take away.

This is really stupid. Firstly, we came for the special promotion which was only available for dine in. If not for that, we would have order through the delivery service. Because of my younger sister's condition, we have to pay for a cab to get there and back. They cancelled the promotional package and we compromised for the squarish Splitzza package. Then we got a regular Splitzza pan pizza and a load of bullsh*t.

Aftermath : End of the day, I paid about $6 dollars for drinks (soup was given free) and $10 for cab which we didn't have to pay for if we knew this sh*t will happen. The pizza hut manager gave us her mobile number and name. She promises that she will give us something special on our next visit. I took the receipt with her number just to shut her up and dumped it as soon as I reach home. As a evil a$$hole, I will never give them another chance ever again. So we had a family feast meal at KFC instead.