Are you ready for 6.5mil people?

Yesterday, my dad was on the MRT at around 4pm. The train was packed.

He got whacked in the face and stomach – supposedly accidental – prompting him to wonder to my mother why the MRT was packed at non-peak hour.

After he got off the MRT and was crossing the road to get the car, he was talking about how wonderful it was to be in safe Singapore. In other countries, they’d be pickpocketed.

And at that very moment, he felt for his pockets and realised that his mobile phone had been taken.

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NTUC Xtra, 24 hour drive-thru McDonald’s, Ang Mo Kio Hub

Two big things have happened in year 2006 for the humble rather sleepy hollow of Ang Mo Kio – the 24 hour drive-in McDonald’s with free parking, should you choose to dine-in and the move of NTUC Fairprice into the new but ugly Ang Mo Kio Hub (AMK Hub) and its transformation from Plain Jane supermarket to hypermart. Continue reading “NTUC Xtra, 24 hour drive-thru McDonald’s, Ang Mo Kio Hub”