I really enjoyed myself yesterday. I skipped class =p
I went to the ITShow, and later to this sooooo nice cafe in Selegie.
The ITShow was crapped and i really boooore myself out there. Admittedly, it is the worst place one can be on a Friday evening, especially when (1)you skipped class for this (2)you don't need anything from the fair (3)you aien't got any spare bucks that you might want to splurge on the occasional DVD-ROMs.
Singaporeans are such suckers for this kinda of fairs, why can't they buy printers, DVD-ROMS, and the oh-so-cheap thumbdrives any other times? It is no wonder stall-owners at Sim Lim know how to jack their prices up, knowing well that people will flock to their stalls at the show and grab all the "cheap" items, better still, they throw in those "goodies" like a "Get a Free MousePad for every $2398 you spent", and we will go "I want"!
Now, i am not lamenting that i think Singaporean sucks, they don't, they just allowed companies to dig their graves for them. I, for one, was such a culprit last year when i bought my laptop at a computer fair. Why? For the relatively "cheap" price and the goodies they thrown in. See, i am a sucker too. Now, i haven't regret my laptop, i love it. What i'm trying to say is, Singaporean's mindset allowed business to draw on the fact that we like "discounts" and "goodies", so this kinda of fair allowed them to make huge profits while we satisfy our needs to "get more than we intended".
Ok, enough about the fair.
After our little expedition at the fair, we (Jieming, Steph, HengXin and me) had our dinner at BK and went to a few places namely German Bar, 爱琴海, and finally settled down at Hark Cafe (Cool place!).
I wanted live songs, so i suggested the chill out place at Millenia Walk, but it was full. So we went to 爱琴海 instead. After settling down for 5minutes, we realised that the songs, ambience and age-groups were not really us, so we moved on (Not after i accidentally popped in a piece of potato chip and had to leave sheepishly... Luckily we were not charged, and thanks to Steph for being so braved to ask =p).
So we drove to Selegie and finally settled down at the Hark Cafe. There was a live band, nice songs and some clique dialougue to amuse us... Haha. But overall, it was really nice, the songs they sang, the ambience and the drinks! The cafe encouraged their guests to sing to the live band... But as me and Steph had put it, you have got to be either (1)super thick skinned or (2)sang superbly well to go up. We were neither.
They have really nice programmes seriously, like Men's Night on Wed, Ladies Nights on Tue, Singing Competition on Thu, performances on weekends... Best, the price is not expensive, $8+ per person and we sat through from 11-1+am. I shall go back there again.
Happy TGIF night. =>