Ikea, a comfy place to camp

These 2 men were seen (top one was sleeping and bottom watching video with Ikea free wifi) at the Ikea chairs/sofa section with disregard to would-be customers who were waiting to test the chairs.
Well the above happened in Singapore but if left unchecked, it may be like the people in China who were seen sleeping and camping in Ikea (pic below).

Ikea lunch

My friend and I had lunch at Ikea this afternoon. It was a change from the usual hawker center and coffee shop food. We spent a good 3 hours chatting. Looking forward to going there again.

My desktop is unstable and so I got the above one which is also Acer Desktop for about $1,400 today (23.8 inches).
The old one has been in used for 4 years and it was a very good set. I got a free China made tablet for buying a mouse that cost $6. Hopefully, this pc may last as long as the old set. I am a heavy user, using up to 18 hours a day. It is a good investment.

We had our breakfast at Tampines Ikea just before proceeding to Courts to buy the computer. The restaurant was quite crowded but as crowded as most Saturdays as most people would have left the country for vacations. The school holiday will end this coming Tuesday.
The above dish was the salmon which I felt was not fresh ($9.90). The pasta was so so but the chicken wings were good. Total damage was $23. Believe it or not we had hot dogs at a kiosk before we left for Courts.


Had this ice-cream last night

Got this box of Magnum ice cream from a 7-11 store last night for $11 (box of 6). I ate up 3 of them and truly enjoyed it so much. It was supposed to be a dessert after my dinner of spaghetti.

Early dinner@ Ikea Tampines

Was at Courts to buy a desktop for my wife. Just before that we stopped at Ikea for our meal which was made up of 6 Ikea chicken wings, lotus leaf rice and lasagne salmon. We spent $24 and considered the food to be fairly good. After dinner, we bought a desktop at Courts for $1,399 (Acer).

19 October 2015 Monday

At last it is Monday. It is almost back to normality but not quite. Sure it's less crowded at the malls and other places. The kids are back in schools and parents back at work...that's where they should be and not jamming up the shopping malls, markets,eateries and what have you.
But still it's not 100% or even 50% normal here as the sickening haze is still around and in the unhealthy range (PSI 133 as at 8 am).
This time round the haze will be with us for almost 3 months (Sep till end Nov). It was usually a 1 month affair every year since 1997.
I wonder what will happened if the haze is going to prolong as time goes by? As for most Singaporeans they will have no place to seek refuge. But for me I have a choice of settling down either in Japan or Australia.

Lunch@ IKEA Tampinese & grocery shopping@ Giant

Thinking aloud
I have got so called friends who do not get in touch with me for ages but suddenly out of the blue when they needed me to attend some of their functions would contact me. These people organised functions to further their agendas.
In this day and age, there is no excuse whatsoever not to contact one another once in a while. We have the services of the SMS, WhatApps, Lines etc and most offer free messaging services.
Attendances for those functions aren't for free. Some can cost you $100 to $200.
So to these people I'll show them my middle finger.... lol.

However, there is a guy who is genuine and his name is Edmond. He is working as a Operations Manager in one of the restaurant chains' Limo department. Once in a while, he would invite me to his work place for dinner with some of our other ex-colleagues. In fact I will be meeting him for a meal within the next few days.
He is also a talented guy who is good in drawing cartoons and has in the last 2 weeks sent me these: