Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part LII!

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:10

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  yah.. those things like the "as seen on tv power rider" thing?

  pretty cool isn't it?

  people don't use it because a lot of people don't even notice them..

  
  yeah! i saw some old folks there.. i think its really great for the old folks

  and people spend loads of money to go to gym... (which many don't even go after they spend the money anyway :D)

   

  mebbe i shd resolve to .. uhh.. utilise it more often...

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:11

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  oh.. fully grown Liger..

  

   

  very cool. looks like those fantasy animals that people can ride on...

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 21:13

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  
  yeah! i saw some old folks there.. i think its really great for the old folks

  and people spend loads of money to go to gym... (which many don't even go after they spend the money anyway :D)

   

  mebbe i shd resolve to .. uhh.. utilise it more often...

  i always thought those "power rider" things were pretty cool... because they actually do help with strength and flexibility at the same time..

  and since it's there, it's free!! no need to pay for it.. and don't need to clutter up the house too!

  good right?

  the "fitness park" near my neighbourhood don't have.. that one, scary.. got chin-up bars, rope climb.. those scary things

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:17

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i always thought those "power rider" things were pretty cool... because they actually do help with strength and flexibility at the same time..

  and since it's there, it's free!! no need to pay for it.. and don't need to clutter up the house too!

  good right?

  the "fitness park" near my neighbourhood don't have.. that one, scary.. got chin-up bars, rope climb.. those scary things

  
  yaaa !!! not just the power rider thingy.. got those.. err.. ski thing.. sort of ike low impact jogging/walking/sking machines. very goodah for the knees too..

   

  err next to tt one, also got the 'hardcore' fitness corner.. got chin-ups (that I can't do even one).. and push up bars (that i give up never try)...

   

   

  they even got a really cool children's playground with tt.. UFO plate thing. I think u can see it at Pasir Ris park and west coast park. It's this rotating 'plate' that uses momentum to keep going round and round and round from higher level to lower.. to high.. to low..

   

  so fun :D

  eh u write to your town council and request for one!!! heehee...

   

   

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 21:22

  cannot lah.. mine is a private housing estate..

  got those things in the park already very good..

  and yah.. those "power walker/ski" rocker things... that one, quite fun..

  the disc at an angle.. that one also quite fun.. but you can get maniacs who spin it too fast and children get flung out

  btw.. fishermen's village is no more

• sbst275

  14 Feb 08, 21:29

  Tat Chin Huat Seafood buffet looks like moved to Novena

   

  Anyway goodness abt that HSA press release... The drug is from PRC

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:29

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  cannot lah.. mine is a private housing estate..

  got those things in the park already very good..

  and yah.. those "power walker/ski" rocker things... that one, quite fun..

  the disc at an angle.. that one also quite fun.. but you can get maniacs who spin it too fast and children get flung out

  btw.. fishermen's village is no more

  
  yeah its really sad.. my sch's near there.. but the last i visited, i was confronted by CONSTRUCTION. very sianz.

   

  It was one of my family's favourite places.. to go there and relack and makan....

   

  I remember sitting at the beach pub with those chairs with sawn off legs...so shiok to just nuah there...

   

   

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 21:30

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  Tat Chin Huat Seafood buffet looks like moved to Novena

   

  Anyway goodness abt that HSA press release... The drug is from PRC

  those perverts thought they got some cut-rate viagra 

  why the hell were they taking such "medication" is still beyond me

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 21:33

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  
  yeah its really sad.. my sch's near there.. but the last i visited, i was confronted by CONSTRUCTION. very sianz.

   

  It was one of my family's favourite places.. to go there and relack and makan....

   

  I remember sitting at the beach pub with those chairs with sawn off legs...so shiok to just nuah there...

   

   

  sad thing is that it made way for things which have less soul, and costs more..

  somehow, i think sometimes, we lose too much to "progress"..

  but i don't blame the owners for selling.. i mean, they want their place in the sun too..

  goodness knows, maybe if it was me, i'd sell too..

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:39

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  sad thing is that it made way for things which have less soul, and costs more..

  somehow, i think sometimes, we lose too much to "progress"..

  but i don't blame the owners for selling.. i mean, they want their place in the sun too..

  goodness knows, maybe if it was me, i'd sell too..

  
  err what's happening to it huh?? ever since tt time I went I saw all the construction, i just never went back again. what plans are they happening for it.

   

  yeah.. sometimes I feel quite sian, that everytime my friends and i go 'exploring', its always on army grounds. Looks like almost everywhere that's fun in Singapore is out of bounds. not that we care la... got once my friends came across a whole platoon having exercise there :O

   

   

   

   

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 21:45

  friends and i went there.. and there was a restaurant there, selling overpriced booze, non-descript food and playing tacky "soothing" music...

  still, kinda nice.. sea breeze, candles, alfresco dining, relaxing and uncrowded... not something you easily find in singapore anymore...

  chances are, i might go there again, even when i live in the west

  now.. if there are such places in the west...

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 21:51

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  friends and i went there.. and there was a restaurant there, selling overpriced booze, non-descript food and playing tacky "soothing" music...

  still, kinda nice.. sea breeze, candles, alfresco dining, relaxing and uncrowded... not something you easily find in singapore anymore...

  chances are, i might go there again, even when i live in the west

  now.. if there are such places in the west...

  
  err.. seabreeze, overprices food, reasonably good food?

  
  I guess u can try RSYC in clementi side? Its'  nice.. and they have this BBQ thing on fridays I think.

   

  West coast macs is ncie too but u hate macs heehee.

   

  that's why i love to live in the east. even though I never lived here all my life, it was really the only place I really want to live in. Sometimes, when free, could just go drive thru a couple of burgers from BK then.. picnic at the beach fuss-free...

   

   

• kopiosatu

  14 Feb 08, 21:55

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  friends and i went there.. and there was a restaurant there, selling overpriced booze, non-descript food and playing tacky "soothing" music...

  still, kinda nice.. sea breeze, candles, alfresco dining, relaxing and uncrowded... not something you easily find in singapore anymore...

  chances are, i might go there again, even when i live in the west

  now.. if there are such places in the west...

  i think  a quiet place to go to now is

  bottletree village

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 22:00

  it's Singapore.. everywhere is near

  for three years, i lived in a place where the closest place was about an hour or more away.. and if you didn't have a car, you're pretty much screwed...

  so, i am thankful for singapore.. we do take it for granted for perhaps familiarity breeds contempt

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 22:00

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  i think  a quiet place to go to now is

  bottletree village

  last I went.. about 3-4 years ago.... the food was crap.

   

  But I heard they changed management so .. hopefully things better now.

   

   

• pigsticker

  14 Feb 08, 22:01

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  i think  a quiet place to go to now is

  bottletree village

  which one?? the one at sembawang or the one at yishun??

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 22:02

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  it's Singapore.. everywhere is near

  for three years, i lived in a place where the closest place was about an hour or more away.. and if you didn't have a car, you're pretty much screwed...

  so, i am thankful for singapore.. we do take it for granted for perhaps familiarity breeds contempt

  
  its..relativity la....

   

  its like when I live overseas.. i can accept taking 60 minute train rides regularly and all

   

  but in Singapore.. even when I rationalise that that's about as far as it can get from one point to another... cos of the pace of life.. that 60 minutes can be 60 minutes too long.

   

  so even though I feel damn guilty about driving my van (environment bla bla can't afford hybrid or smart car).. think really need to be very determined to give up driving completely. Hmm.. well we'll see how in 1-2 years time when I pay off the van.

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 22:04

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  i think  a quiet place to go to now is

  bottletree village

  yeah.. that's the place i want to go to.. when i find out where it is

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 22:06

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  
  its..relativity la....

   

  its like when I live overseas.. i can accept taking 60 minute train rides regularly and all

   

  but in Singapore.. even when I rationalise that that's about as far as it can get from one point to another... cos of the pace of life.. that 60 minutes can be 60 minutes too long.

   

  so even though I feel damn guilty about driving my van (environment bla bla can't afford hybrid or smart car).. think really need to be very determined to give up driving completely. Hmm.. well we'll see how in 1-2 years time when I pay off the van.

  yeah.. i guess so..

  when i bought the car, the hybrid was insanely expensive.. i figure i'd get one the next time i buy a car.. which means.. around 7 years' time because i'm the type who will use the car until it dies or the COE dies..

• Rhonda

  14 Feb 08, 22:09

  Car... siiiigh... *dream bubble expands...

  I want a Toyota Yaris! 

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 22:13

  a Yaris is a good idea.. a little 1.5 litre engine which is pretty responsive (i know.. it's the same engine as my car)

  but you get zero boot space so lugging back the groceries will take the rear seats...

  if you want to drive interstate, you should get something with a minimum 2 litre engine.. the little 1.5 can make it but it'll be taxing on the car...

• sbst275

  14 Feb 08, 22:16

  If given me, I still want a manual transmission vehicle

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 22:18

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  If given me, I still want a manual transmission vehicle

  yeah.. me too.. but i figure me, now injured, pretty okay with the auto...

  i think i'll still have no problems with the manual even after 2 1/4 years of driving my little auto

• ShrodingersCat

  14 Feb 08, 22:21

  I would like a Smart car or a Mitsubishi i.

   

  I don't know why they don't give better subsidies for environmental friendly cars!!!

   

  For that matter, I don't know why they don't build bicycle friendly paths!!!

• bluejuice

  14 Feb 08, 22:23

  anyone know where the chingay is tomorrow?