Located near a bus stop just beside Bugis Village, Chapter 2 is a hair salon very convenient to get to. Apart from that, it is a place with a rather different atmosphere. It does not look like a "designer place" but it gives people the feeling that it is a rather lively place.
Hairdressers at this salon are mainly people who are quite young, but this does not mean that they are inexperienced. The place seems to be quite popular and it is always quite packed. Then again, I'm not surprised, because the last 5 times or so that I've been there, I left with a very satisfied haircut. One of those times, the hairdresser attending to me actually suggested to make a small change to my hair which eventually gave a very different touch on the overall.
I would say this place is not a bad place to go to for a good haircut, especially for people who are very particular about leaving the salon with a presentable hairstyle.
Located at bedok south, opposite TJC , this place has got good fishball noodles! I never really liked fishballs before, but the fishballs here are delicious and is a must try! Plus the noodles of course. They've got soup and dry noodles, but I've never tried the soup ones before. But this shop is definitely good and I believe everyone agrees so too , since there's always an extremely long queue during lunch hours .
I trully agreed with tinkerbell's comments. It is about time that the Government protrayed the effects of smoking on a national scale. No point having these images printed on cigarette boxes when the main target are the potential ones that decide to pick up this habit from a young age. As far as the smokers are concerned, they are used to such images and don't even bother to look at them each time they buy a new pack.
As the age group of smokers are getting younger from survey done recently, we have to act fast unless we want the next generation to live a life of misery. If the advertisement is scary and have a huge impact, then I am one of them that will strongly support the move to advertise it regularly as a constant reminder to both young and old smokers or non-smokers.
Although the building outside looks the same, abeit the renovations and refurbishments done, the interior of the museum is totally brand new and very much different from the National Museum I have been to many years back. The old musuem was eerie, dark and museum like. The new looks refreshing and more like an art gallery.
If you are driving there, you can park at the car park at fort canning park (next to ROM) and enter via the back entrance to the museum. Entrance fees are $10 for adults.
Must say that you can spend the whole day in the Singapore "History Gallery" to look at the exhibits and listen to the cleverly arranged scripts and stories from 1800s to the present. I took about 4 hours to finish the History Gallery (with in-depth concentration).
The "Living Galleries" are equally interesting with topics on fashion, food, wayang and photography. There is one particular section I particularly enjoy: the private collection of photographs of people, their families and scenes of Singapore in the early 1900s.
Although guided tours are available, I recommend taking the self guided audio tour. You will be given an audio set which you can put round your neck, with headphones attached. As you move round the museum, and see an interesting exhibit, just select the appropriate buttons on the audio set and hear the narration and explanation. There is a wealth of information available with this audio set. At times it seems like there is an overload of information.
Much of the exhibits are well preserved. You can find Passports, Japanese occupation documents, birth certificates and marriage certificates that look like they were just written a while ago....although the date says 1923.
Many immigrants came from China to look for a better life in Singapore in the 1920s. It isn't much different today. To think that these ones who came in 1920s for a better future are not longer in existence just makes you feel how short life is. And to think that the present is just as bad as the past, or even worse in terms of world conditions just makes you wonder if it really is possible to find a "better" life in another land. The past events portrayed in the Musuem really makes you think about life as a whole. Much of the Museums's exhibits dwell on the founding of Singapore, the Japanese occupation and the beginning of the political history.
It is also interesting to note that many road names we have today are named by the British in the 1800s. Much of Shenton way, Colleyer Quay, Alexander Road, Bukit Timah, Jurong and Even Tampines and Bedok were on maps dated in the 1800s!
Visiting the museum was an eye opener to people, their thoughts and aspirations. Over the years these have remained unchanged....and I guess will never change.
So if you want to do some soul searching, visit the National Museum. As the saying goes, "Without the past there will be no present".
Seems to be one of the more popular computer shop in Sim Lim. And the service has really improved a lot over the years.
The last time I stepped into the shop was with a friend who bought a external hard disk enclosure from them. We were pleasantly surprised when the sales person offered to test the item for us. Something quite rare in Sim Lim.
As for prices, theirs are definitely among the better ones.
If you have not visited this 'kitchen' ( I won't call it restaurant because it lacks the spacious and proper table arrangement as seen in a restaurant ) , you should try it out now.
There are really too many variety and mostly Hong kong style cooking. I particularly like the Pepper beaf and Roast duck.
The only problem is too crowded. You need to wait to be seated. You also need to wait to pay for the bill.
This is my favourite shop to pick up some Sashimi whenever I have a crave for it. The shop carry various type of Sashimi and many Japanese Tibits. You can pick and choose the type of fish you like and the staff will give you some advice if you do require it. They will explain to you the difference between a Salmon and a Tuna. Once selected, they will cut the Sashimi and pack them nicely in a container together with the soya source and Wasabe for you. Of course, the dry ice too.
Whenever I walked past this hawker centre, I saw people queing up for their Bak Chor Mee. I thought it must be good. So I joined the queue.
Not bad, worth waiting. They served only home-made noodles which has the springy effect when you chew on it. As this stall only sell the noodles in soup, it is either you order small thin round noodle ( mee kia ) or thin flatten noodle ( mee pok ). It comes with meat balls, minced meat dumplings ( wanton ) and of course, loosen minced pork.
Together with finely cut red chillies, the soup really taste sweet and superb.
If you observe around, most of the people will patronise this stall. The number of bowls that the cleaners collect each day can be quite tall when they stacked them in front of the stall.
There are many minced pork stalls in various hawker centres, but what stand out at this stall is the soup and the dumplings.
Give this stall a try if you like soup noodles but be prepared to wait half hour to 45 minutes during dinner time.
Went to this outlet of Coffee Club several times, but the last time wasn't a very pleasant one.
Perhaps due to their low table and the inexperience of the waitress, she spilled coffee (cold one, fortunately) on me while trying to place the coaster with one hand and balance the coffee on a tray with the other.
The coffee only managed to spill on my socks, but they could have done better than just offering me some serviette to clean myself. Shouldn't the drink be on the house?
And when the accident happened, the waitress was more concerned with cursing under her breath than apologising to us.
Overall, nice and quiet cafe except for this unpleasant experience.
I tried their Belgian Chocolate Chips ice-cream and fell immediately in love with it! The chocolate chips are chunky and absolutely delicious, while the ice-cream itself is creamy and just perfect in sweetness.
The down side is that Andensens' ice-creams are not the cheapest ice-creams around. A single scoop costed me $4. But if you ask me, it is well worth the price!
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Located near a bus stop just beside Bugis Village, Chapter 2 is a hair salon very convenient to get to. Apart from that, it is a place with a rather different atmosphere. It does not look like a "designer place" but it gives people the feeling that it is a rather lively place.
Hairdressers at this salon are mainly people who are quite young, but this does not mean that they are inexperienced. The place seems to be quite popular and it is always quite packed. Then again, I'm not surprised, because the last 5 times or so that I've been there, I left with a very satisfied haircut. One of those times, the hairdresser attending to me actually suggested to make a small change to my hair which eventually gave a very different touch on the overall.
I would say this place is not a bad place to go to for a good haircut, especially for people who are very particular about leaving the salon with a presentable hairstyle.
Rating given:
Fishball noodles !
Located at bedok south, opposite TJC , this place has got good fishball noodles! I never really liked fishballs before, but the fishballs here are delicious and is a must try! Plus the noodles of course. They've got soup and dry noodles, but I've never tried the soup ones before. But this shop is definitely good and I believe everyone agrees so too , since there's always an extremely long queue during lunch hours .
Try it !
Rating given:
I trully agreed with tinkerbell's comments. It is about time that the Government protrayed the effects of smoking on a national scale. No point having these images printed on cigarette boxes when the main target are the potential ones that decide to pick up this habit from a young age. As far as the smokers are concerned, they are used to such images and don't even bother to look at them each time they buy a new pack.
As the age group of smokers are getting younger from survey done recently, we have to act fast unless we want the next generation to live a life of misery. If the advertisement is scary and have a huge impact, then I am one of them that will strongly support the move to advertise it regularly as a constant reminder to both young and old smokers or non-smokers.
Rating given:
Although the building outside looks the same, abeit the renovations and refurbishments done, the interior of the museum is totally brand new and very much different from the National Museum I have been to many years back. The old musuem was eerie, dark and museum like. The new looks refreshing and more like an art gallery.
If you are driving there, you can park at the car park at fort canning park (next to ROM) and enter via the back entrance to the museum. Entrance fees are $10 for adults.
Must say that you can spend the whole day in the Singapore "History Gallery" to look at the exhibits and listen to the cleverly arranged scripts and stories from 1800s to the present. I took about 4 hours to finish the History Gallery (with in-depth concentration).
The "Living Galleries" are equally interesting with topics on fashion, food, wayang and photography. There is one particular section I particularly enjoy: the private collection of photographs of people, their families and scenes of Singapore in the early 1900s.
Although guided tours are available, I recommend taking the self guided audio tour. You will be given an audio set which you can put round your neck, with headphones attached. As you move round the museum, and see an interesting exhibit, just select the appropriate buttons on the audio set and hear the narration and explanation. There is a wealth of information available with this audio set. At times it seems like there is an overload of information.
Much of the exhibits are well preserved. You can find Passports, Japanese occupation documents, birth certificates and marriage certificates that look like they were just written a while ago....although the date says 1923.
Many immigrants came from China to look for a better life in Singapore in the 1920s. It isn't much different today. To think that these ones who came in 1920s for a better future are not longer in existence just makes you feel how short life is. And to think that the present is just as bad as the past, or even worse in terms of world conditions just makes you wonder if it really is possible to find a "better" life in another land. The past events portrayed in the Musuem really makes you think about life as a whole. Much of the Museums's exhibits dwell on the founding of Singapore, the Japanese occupation and the beginning of the political history.
It is also interesting to note that many road names we have today are named by the British in the 1800s. Much of Shenton way, Colleyer Quay, Alexander Road, Bukit Timah, Jurong and Even Tampines and Bedok were on maps dated in the 1800s!
Visiting the museum was an eye opener to people, their thoughts and aspirations. Over the years these have remained unchanged....and I guess will never change.
So if you want to do some soul searching, visit the National Museum. As the saying goes, "Without the past there will be no present".
Rating given:
Seems to be one of the more popular computer shop in Sim Lim. And the service has really improved a lot over the years.
The last time I stepped into the shop was with a friend who bought a external hard disk enclosure from them. We were pleasantly surprised when the sales person offered to test the item for us. Something quite rare in Sim Lim.
As for prices, theirs are definitely among the better ones.
Rating given:
If you have not visited this 'kitchen' ( I won't call it restaurant because it lacks the spacious and proper table arrangement as seen in a restaurant ) , you should try it out now.
There are really too many variety and mostly Hong kong style cooking. I particularly like the Pepper beaf and Roast duck.
The only problem is too crowded. You need to wait to be seated. You also need to wait to pay for the bill.
Rating given:
This is my favourite shop to pick up some Sashimi whenever I have a crave for it. The shop carry various type of Sashimi and many Japanese Tibits. You can pick and choose the type of fish you like and the staff will give you some advice if you do require it. They will explain to you the difference between a Salmon and a Tuna. Once selected, they will cut the Sashimi and pack them nicely in a container together with the soya source and Wasabe for you. Of course, the dry ice too.
Fresh Sashimi and good service. Try it out!
Rating given:
Whenever I walked past this hawker centre, I saw people queing up for their Bak Chor Mee. I thought it must be good. So I joined the queue.
Not bad, worth waiting. They served only home-made noodles which has the springy effect when you chew on it. As this stall only sell the noodles in soup, it is either you order small thin round noodle ( mee kia ) or thin flatten noodle ( mee pok ). It comes with meat balls, minced meat dumplings ( wanton ) and of course, loosen minced pork.
Together with finely cut red chillies, the soup really taste sweet and superb.
If you observe around, most of the people will patronise this stall. The number of bowls that the cleaners collect each day can be quite tall when they stacked them in front of the stall.
There are many minced pork stalls in various hawker centres, but what stand out at this stall is the soup and the dumplings.
Give this stall a try if you like soup noodles but be prepared to wait half hour to 45 minutes during dinner time.
Rating given:
Went to this outlet of Coffee Club several times, but the last time wasn't a very pleasant one.
Perhaps due to their low table and the inexperience of the waitress, she spilled coffee (cold one, fortunately) on me while trying to place the coaster with one hand and balance the coffee on a tray with the other.
The coffee only managed to spill on my socks, but they could have done better than just offering me some serviette to clean myself. Shouldn't the drink be on the house?
And when the accident happened, the waitress was more concerned with cursing under her breath than apologising to us.
Overall, nice and quiet cafe except for this unpleasant experience.
Rating given:
I tried their Belgian Chocolate Chips ice-cream and fell immediately in love with it! The chocolate chips are chunky and absolutely delicious, while the ice-cream itself is creamy and just perfect in sweetness.
The down side is that Andensens' ice-creams are not the cheapest ice-creams around. A single scoop costed me $4. But if you ask me, it is well worth the price!
Rating given: