Monday, June 9, 2008

Tampines and the People

It was a rather cooling afternoon as I rushed off quickly from my house to Tampines Mall yesterday. It was another outing with me being "the one who gathered everyone" again. With Wilson as one of the people being called, I told him to meet us at 1.45pm while the others to come later than 2pm. But I was too late to inform Jiunn Kai to come later as he had already stepped out of his house when I SMSed him, and so I rushed out of the house as fast as I could.

He was already queuing for the movie tickets when I got there, there were whole lot of people queuing. Luckily, Alvin Liow had already bought for us early morning and Jiunn Kai could avoid the hassle of standing in such a long queue. He was looking for something that could fill his stomach as he has not taken his lunch. Same for me. But my stomach was partially filled with my mum's homecooked Red Bean Soup, and so we settled down in the Basement 1 Katrina to have some fried Tofu while waiting others to come.

As usual, even I give him about 15 minutes for him to reach the mall, Wilson still came later than anyone of us. We still compromised though. Haha. Everyone was excited for the movie we going to watch, but Yi Sheng thought of watching Kung Fu Panda. Still, Sex and the City won the majority's hearts. We went in straight into the cinema after we got our popcorns. The movie was really long - 2 and half hours, and it was really nice. You can really see the lifestyles of New York City dwellers. And as usual, the character Samantha Jones has the most funny parts in the whole show.

We sat down in the McDonalds for some fries while waiting for Russell to come down after his duty. Jiunn Kai went off shortly after that. As soon as Russell appeared, we headed to Ding Tai Feng for our dinner which we have already decided and Alvin had to eat again since he had it for lunch just this afternoon...

When we are indulging ourselves with the restaurant famous dumplings, I suddenly heard noises two tables away from ours. I turned my head and saw one unsatisfied customer complaining, and scolded the waitress for the poor service. The poor waitress stood there helpless, no idea how to deal with such fierce customer. I watched for a while and realised that the customer was very unhappy to find small glass chips in his food, and demanded to see the manager or the chef. But the problem seemed to be solve as soon as the chef appeared and apologised. As the customer and his family have left, the waitresses who have served them let out sighs of relief. Since yesterday night was a Sunday night, everyone wants to go home early as they need their time and rest for the work tomorrow.

Counting Down: 6 Months and 5 Days

No comments: