Here s your 'did u know ?' fact for the day :- Did you know that you could be fined upto 1000 Singapore dollars for smoking in the MRT !!
To make that clearer for our mathematically challenged friends, that means you could be docked a cool INR 30,000 for roasting your lungs near an MRT station.
That apart, Singapore looks like a pretty decent place to me. Its roads, though are really clean... and its pathways are really clean... and its bus stops are really clean... and its bylanes are... yea, you get the drift....
Say, whats with these Chinese people having the most age-defying skin complexions ever. For instance, that pretty woman you were gaping at near the restaurant, the one for whom you mustered all your courage to ask the time (yes, the one who replied with a finger pointing at your wristwatch which you tactlessly forgot to hide) was actually a mother of 3.
Though you ve got to say these guys have a pretty good sense of humour - So we went to this authentic Chinese restaurant and the menu card is essentially this elaborate 12 page enlistment of every organ of every animal you've ever heard of, cooked in every imaginable way known to mankind... with about 1/4th of a page dedicated to 'Vegetables'. Whose contents were - i kid you not - Mixed Vegetables with Chicken, Mixed Vegetables with Fish, Mixed Vegetables with Pork and Mixed Vegetables with Prawn. I thought it was pretty funny. Somehow Jignanshu, my pure veg Gujju co-intern here (who btw, was fricking hungry at that point) couldnt exactly see the humour in it.
Anyway, thats all for now - Rest assured, boredom, laziness and time crunch not withstanding, I will spam this blog with more of such useful trivia on Singapore over the coming weeks. Adios for now.
(For the uninformed,The Strait Times is Singapore's cheapest daily - which explains why its the only newspaper we've gotten our hand on - which explains the title. And also highlights a severe lack of imagination)
To make that clearer for our mathematically challenged friends, that means you could be docked a cool INR 30,000 for roasting your lungs near an MRT station.
That apart, Singapore looks like a pretty decent place to me. Its roads, though are really clean... and its pathways are really clean... and its bus stops are really clean... and its bylanes are... yea, you get the drift....
Say, whats with these Chinese people having the most age-defying skin complexions ever. For instance, that pretty woman you were gaping at near the restaurant, the one for whom you mustered all your courage to ask the time (yes, the one who replied with a finger pointing at your wristwatch which you tactlessly forgot to hide) was actually a mother of 3.
Though you ve got to say these guys have a pretty good sense of humour - So we went to this authentic Chinese restaurant and the menu card is essentially this elaborate 12 page enlistment of every organ of every animal you've ever heard of, cooked in every imaginable way known to mankind... with about 1/4th of a page dedicated to 'Vegetables'. Whose contents were - i kid you not - Mixed Vegetables with Chicken, Mixed Vegetables with Fish, Mixed Vegetables with Pork and Mixed Vegetables with Prawn. I thought it was pretty funny. Somehow Jignanshu, my pure veg Gujju co-intern here (who btw, was fricking hungry at that point) couldnt exactly see the humour in it.
Anyway, thats all for now - Rest assured, boredom, laziness and time crunch not withstanding, I will spam this blog with more of such useful trivia on Singapore over the coming weeks. Adios for now.
(For the uninformed,The Strait Times is Singapore's cheapest daily - which explains why its the only newspaper we've gotten our hand on - which explains the title. And also highlights a severe lack of imagination)
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