Madness at Sheng Siong Supermkt

Jennifer say:




Every year (3 years) without fail, there will be one or two lines of cars on both sides of the road. Today, SS will be operating 24 h, there are like 50 over cars now. I just watched how two buses tried to pass through the lines of cars from opposite direction.

Traffic police had come and go. Police car had come and go. Cars disappeared within 10 mins and new cars reappeared within 10 min. I think this as a "Mouse and Tiger" game.

From my window, i can always seen those ppl rushing to their cars when the white tigers came. SS's staff is quite good, they always announced of the 'attack of the white tigers' whenever they come so those little mice can rushed to their cars immediately. Of course one odd mouse is never so lucky to escape from the clutches of the tiger. As the chinese saying say " Kill one to warn others" ( i am unable to type chinese words using this template).

I had braved the crowd today. I bought a basket for dudu to sleep in. Yesterday, i bought one for KK. Because i am not sure if they are willing to sleep inside them, i did not buy two at one go. But since SS is only opposite my block, i thought it is easy to get what i want just like normal days. BUT not today. There are like 5 to 6 ppl in the line.I find it funny that i am waiting in the line paying for a mere $0.90 basket. I only went to the second storey that selling all sorts of non-eatable stuff. You name it, it can mostly be found. The first floor that is where the maddness of the crowd began. KK and Dudu do love the new baskets i bought for them. They sleep inside like a hen warming up her eggs.

I was telling mum that maybe we can go to SS at 3 am in the morning. This is just a joke actually. I had completed all my tasks more or less. I am quite satisfied of it in fact.

Mum said that she still need me to help her with some tasks of hers..... tml will be a busy day....Just as mum said, CNY is the only time where ppl bothered to clean up their whole house.

Happy CNY!!

Jennifer say:




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CNY is coming soon on sun. I still got plenty of work that i need to do before CNY. Mum had always tell me not to delay anything till CNY or else for the new year, u will still find lot of unfinished tasks.

Let me list my tasks that i needed to complete by sat:

1) Bath DD tml ( i had just bathed sweetie this morning and KK and du last week)
2) spray frontline for all my cats. I had to bath them early this year so that i can use the frontline on them.
3) repay sister $$$. This is impt... mum said if u owe ppl $ and u did not repay them before CNY, u will always owe ppl something forever. I owed sister $$ that i keep forgetting to repay becuase of the sudden blot of amnesia that i suffered when i forgot my pin for my ATM last time when i bought my MP3 player last year.
4) clean my terrapin's houses.
5) top up my cats' dry food. i had asked dad to help me buy a big pack of dry food tml.
6) Buy some wet-canned food for mimi. I may be out till late on CNY so i planned to store my dry food in my letterbox before i went out, once i am back, i will be able to feed mimi and friends much quicker. Mum and i are excited about the coming Taiwaness Ge Zai Xi at Cheng Huang Miao this year. Maybe we will be going to watch the opera on Day 1 of CNY like last year.
7) Cut some fish red packet to hang in the new 'Four Season Lime' that dad bought from the plant nursery at Seletar Farmway. We also bought Pussy Willow from the market in Kovan. I had already do an makeover for it.

I had written all my tasks down in case i had forgotten to do them.

Spring cleaning is almost completed.

Yesterday, mum and I were at Si Ma Lu to buy some NY goodies. We had prayed at the famouse guanyin temple. We bought some tops at baleno. So far, sister had no new clothes on NY while i had only a red top. I had bought two more tops to my collection while mum bought sister a new shirt. But i had bought myself three pairs of new shoes...

We headed to the stalls above the mkt. Mum spotted a kitty cat at one stall. The auntie there told us that malays love buying that bag. She then told us that her neighbour had 52 of their cats taken away as a result of complaint. This is sad but when u did not sterlize ur cats, 2 cats will become 100 cats within a year.

Ok..bad news aside... Happy new year everyone....

YuanXiao Jie

Jennifer say:


Today, dad, mum and i went to cheng huang temple to pray for hongbao. Mum asked for two hongbao and was refused to be granted one, so she asked me to ask on her behalf. I was rejected too. It was then i learnt how cheng huang god is really divine. The temple staff told mum that we should only pray for one hongbao. So mum try again, this time, the god agreed to let her have an hongbao. You will need to drop the cup to see if the god agreed. The hongbao is to bless us for good fortune and health in the Year of Dog..Next year in the Year of pig, we will need to return double the amount in the hongbao to the cheng huang god. I had placed the hongbao in the pouch that carried my EZ-link card.

After our praying, dad took us to Hong San temple in Defu Lane. This is my first time visiting the temple. As usual, we offer incenses to all the gods in the temple. There were stalls cooking food, i though they are selling the food. Later, the temple staff told us that on every yuanxiao jie, the temple offered free food where you can eat in a table of 10 to eat your food. The only thing is you must have patience. We can only start eating after 7.30. There are lot to eat - fried noodles, rojak, laksa, h0kkein mee, desserts, red bean soup, satay and even free beer to drink. We ate fried noodles and dad waited half a hour for the rojak to be prepared. It is actually quite fun to eat together.

And yesterday, for the 'first' time, i watched firework again. The last time i watched was when i was in primary school..like more than 10 years ago. Mum and I took bus 130 at AMK interchange at around 8.30pm to get to 'River Hongbao'. I thought we would be late for the firework. surprisedly, we managed to arrive there at 9.25pm. After a quick walk around, we heard the announcement that firework would be in the air after 3 min. It was amazing to watch the beautiful firework. I did not bring my digital camera and i did not really got a good spot to watch the firework properly but at least, i can still see the firework so high up in the sky. Then we walked around for a short while before taking bus 167 back home.

CNY is over at last, mum had said that she is busy for two weeks, now she must prepared for QingMing festival that is coming soon. It is also the month of the Rain, i hated rainy days.

Madness at sheng siong supermarket

Look at the number of cars outside SS supermarket on new year eve, day 28. It is amazing (pluzzing) why ppl drive cars and refuse to park their car properly. Poor bus 159 driver, he was unable to park the bus at the bus stop. I had a good time looking at drivers running to their cars when traffic police arrived from my house. I think two cars get fined the other day when the same situation happened. It is really not worth to buy 'cheap' stuff and get fines.