PS: To navigate through my blog, move your mouse cursor over the words 'ME, SCRIBBLES, TAG, ETC' and just click on them :) i know. it's cool. Thanks, Fedoragirl ;)
"There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away."
--Emily Dickinson
Enjoy my blog!
Best viewed 1024 x 768
The Reader
-Is an English Language major undergraduate who likes to Take It Easy.
Adores
Words and languages, Jane Austen, period dramas/films, Vitagen, Korean dramas, good songs, better books, Green, wanderlusting, Culture, writing, Experimenting
Things I'd Like
- A Nitendo Wii gaming console- Concert DVDs! (Back to Basics: Live & Down Under by Christina Aguilera,
- A cat
Message
Old Stories
The cottage I was raving about yesterdayHappy Children's Day! *bursts out laughing*
You mighty house...my shelter
A fine line...
Mooncake festival
Oh no...! sorry for being so lazy in blogging thes...
Yatta! I did it!
It's the hols!!
Today is the day...
Speaking of clever lyrcis and wordplay.....
Older Stories
March 2007April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008
December 2008
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
April 2009
July 2009
August 2009
October 2009
Great Clicks
TwitterRapture
Heaven
Mraz
Mayer
Xiaxue
Andrea
Retro Music
Music blog
Thanks
Designer: fedora_girl :)Image: Pride & Prejudice (2005) screencaps
Brush, Pattern: The Magic Box
Edit: Adobe Photoshop
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Every first Wednesday of the month.
My mum and I kind of got caught with our pants down just now.
Today is the first Wednesday of the month! And in Singapore (very just recently), it means 'bring-your-own-bag-to-grocery-shopping' day... or pay up for those plastic bags!
How exactly does it work? If you want to use the store's plastic bags (i.e NTUC supermarket, the franchise/monopoly official trade union's brand. Yes, we actually have a trade union in Singapore!)for today, you'll have to pay an extra ten cents each. And all proceeds go to charity. You don't pay the extra change to NTUC, you pay it directly to charity, out of goodwill/trust. So, you actually place the money in the tin boxes at the counter, out of your own initiative.
Or you carry the goods with you-to go.
Now, NTUC's intention is all well and good, but do they have to be so stiff about it? That is, you can't purchase plastic bags from them at all!
And today, my mum merely brought along her 1) NTUC membership card and 2) savings account card to the nearby supermarket to shop. And we didn't have any small change whatsoever on us. While at the payment counter, the realisation hit us (actually, hit my mum. I had no idea how the First Wednesdays' no-plastic-bags day works). For a moment there, we wondered if we had to carry all our chosen goods (which added up to about 20 items) home by hand, and look like we brazenly robbed the store... or, to put everything back on its shelves.
Well, not only did we look like stingy buggers who intentionally did not bring any money to pay for plastic bags,- we were caught in a tight spot. Luckily, the nice lady at the check-out counter just bagged our items neatly in 3 plastic bags and waved us off when we asked what we could do. We left the store with a mixture of the feelings of: children caught with their hand in the candy box, and the relief of being saved. :P
7:36 PM