29 Sep 09
A quick word to the readers who aren’t Singaporean: Singapore’s service industry has a longstanding poor reputation. It’s something locals always compare and complain about. So a group of people are trying to do something to hopefully make some difference.
Are You Being Served? is an initiative started by Singapore Tourism Board and I’m so pleased to be a small part of it. For me, I get to experience service (good or bad) mostly when I dine out. I hardly shop in stores and generally am a ‘i-will-look-for-it-myself’ kind of a shopper. At restaurants, I’m usually partial to servers because I know most of them are doing it part-time so it’s easy to simply treat it as a job and not a job you love. I worked in the F&B line while in school too so I can speak for myself at least. I am digressing… So! When asked to think up a mission to put our service industry to the test, I didn’t want to do food as I might be able to predict the outcome so the next best thing was to try something real, something which I meant to do myself with or without this mission.
Industry: Retail {Electronics}
Mission details: I want to get educated on the different types of sewing machines out there in the market. As a beginner, I’m definitely looking for something pretty entry-level but not too basic. But more importantly I want to find out the difference between a serger and an overlock sewing machine, what are the factors I should be considering – maybe someone who sews clothing and someone who makes curtains require different types of machines? In my head I’m thinking of how I’ve come to learn to choose between a DSLR and a point-and-shoot camera, I’ve learnt what to look out for and what I have to compromise on. So with this mission, I’m really hoping to get in tuned with sewing machines!
Service skill to test: Knowledge of product and possibly personal experience
Estimated expense (SGD): $0 because I’m window shopping!
I will be carrying out my mission next week and to be fair, I won’t be testing some sales guy who unfortunately was lurking around the sewing machines department in Harvey Norman or Courts. So check back next week to find out how it all goes down!
P.S. If you know about sewing machines, you’re most welcome to share your knowledge and experiences!
| Tags: are you being served?
26 Sep 09
Sometimes i don’t know what to say alongside my photos. What i do know is that i’ve been having nightmares of ghosts, of haunted houses, of evil people for many nights. What’s up with that you ask? No clue, i haven’t been watching no scary movies.
It’s F1 weekend! I’m camping out in front of the telly and taking a bullet to the heart every time the commentators remark how dirty and dusty the tracks are. Have fun at the tracks if you’re there, soak up the adrenalin for me!
| Tags: agfa ct precisa, Lavec LT-002, Singapore Flyer
24 Sep 09
Got my hair chopped off last week. It’s real short underneath, sorta like an undercut but not exactly. I don’t know how what hair terms to use to describe it. And there’s an overlapping layer of hair to cover it all?! Anyway it just means lesser time in the shower and getting (hair) ready, hurray!
Shirt is vintage from a local shop which name i cannot recall, black shorts from Uniqlo and flats from Cotton On.
| Tags: wardrobe_remix
23 Sep 09
These are some of the girls i play floorball with on weekends. Some are my secondary school babies and some are new friends (Melanie’s friends!). Don’t you think they look surprisingly good for people who just finished a game?
Christine (on the left) and Melanie
Dahlia with the red headband, Shal whose face is covered, Melanie, Denise Seah and Cherie on the far right
Dahlia, Nabs, Mel and Christine
This is Loi and beside her is our self-appointed-coach, Huzer
I used the Lavec LT-200 to shoot these and lousy memory of mine should have remembered to use faster film, ugh, i used a 100 instead. This camera requires so much light so they’re a lot grainier than i hoped but at least they turned out. My first roll resulted in one sad lonely photo.
| Tags: agfa ct precisa, kool kats meow, lavec lt-200
20 Sep 09
We started walking from Millenia Walk, going under expressways and climbing up expressways to walking along the expressway. Got to see the Singapore Flyer upclose, it’s huuuuge! And counted twenty six carriages and roughly calculated how much the Flyer can make in a year… a lot of monies.
Part of the F1 track
View across the Singapore Flyer
Towards the end of the path
It was a dead end, or rather to leads to a construction site with a million dead leaves on the ground that look like they’re hungry to swallow you up. Whenever we take an ‘adventure’ to unexpected parts of Singapore, i get fuzzy feelings and love my country a lil more. Have. To. Stay. Away. From. Crowded. Malls.
| Tags: AYE ECP Expressway, Singapore Flyer
