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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Busy NOV

Have not been updating blog for days...
ehehe cos if I'm free, I will be playing Facebook. keke

Work wise, my colleague and I had completed with our 1st project-- a service booklet. Will be receive the 500 copies on Monday soon. Next thing to tackle would be the website,
which had to launch by end of this month. But due to some lead time need to import the layout, think the earliest we can launch in is on the 1st week of November.

The clinic official opening is on 15 Nov. Minister of States has accepted the invite as Guest of Honour. Expected to help out then.
Two days after that official opening, I gotta help out at a department's retreat. And that's on a Sat.

BTW, Jackie Chan came to the hospital which I was working at on Friday. Yes , he the Kongfu super star 陈龙. Though it is supposed to be a low-key event (there wasn't any announcements made), guess news leaked out. As I was accompany my colleague (who got the chance to meet him as she need to pass him smoothing to sign) to the ward, saw that staff (doctors, maintenance workers, nurses) , patients and visitors all standing along the corridor, even up to 2 lift lobbys away. Most of the were equipped with digicams. I can't be bothered as I need to get back to my office and I had caught a glimpse of him 2 years ago at a chingay parade . As I walked pass the crowd, could hear people keep on whispering "Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan".

On another note, LY's wedding will be held on 11 Nov (yah , nic number 1111) and I gonna be one of her Jie-mei. Just had a jie-mei briefing on Friday. Well... thanks to the recent hype on Jolin's pole dancing skills, they thought of bringing out bamboo pole on that dat to make the bridegroom do a pole dance.

Well , so I have 3 activities line-up up within that week. Nov is sure to be a busy month.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Indulgence @ Paisley & Cream

20 Oct 2007

Met up with Fannie over tea at Paisley & Cream, the pretty-looking cafe at The Central.

To us, it's a "tai-tai" place, whee the Tai Tais would spend their afternoon there chatting, having pretty cupcakes and tea.

(pic from http://www.paisleyandcream.com/ )

We ordered a cupcake each (mine is the Double Chocolate) together with a pot of tea and ice latte. Expected the bill to be about $20 as the cupcake cost $5.

When the bill came, saw that cupcakes were sold at a discounted price of $3.50 each.

Even though Fannie said that the cost of making cupcakes is cheap (which in my mind the market rate for a designed cupcake is $3), still we were wondering how this pretty cafe maange to survive as for that whole hour , there is only me and Fannie in the cafe.

For that hour, their earning from our bill is $18 +. There are 2 staff manning the cafe and estmate manpower cost could be abt $12 for that hour. Have not factored in the hourly rent, material cost...

Our conclusion:
The owner must be a TaiTai, opening a cafe just to past her time...

My verdict on the cafe:

Food: Cupcake was soft (meaning fresh?) though it did not have the "omph factor" when I ate it.
The latte fail to impress me.

The cafe scored mainly for its ambience.