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Filling most of the third floor at Harbourfront Centre (gateway to Sentosa Island and southern terminus of the North-East Line MRT, or just a mall with a cruise centre so it features cruise ships and customs officers) were temporary drywall corridors hiding renovations. Plastered over the walls were non-specific signs about what's coming soon.
Covering the walls were: ``Mine's Big! How about yours?'' This was accompanied by a cheery little cartoon blue whale. ``Beware! Big (by Safe) is on the way!'' That had at its end a little blue cartoon herring, the kind drawn by chopping off an infinity symbol sketch and adding a smiling face. ``Be brilliant! Be gripped! Be innovative! Be Big!'' The phrase ``Big by Safe is coming!'' was repeated three times on the drywall next to a food court. ``Are you Big enough?'' was also asked. This was accompanied by a cute but little cartoony brontosaurus, who was navy blue, with yellow eyes, and dotted with several orange and green polka dots.
That's all quite exciting, though my enthusiasm is dimmed by the suspicion it's building up to a furniture store.
Jurong Point MOS Burger's posted hours are 10 am to 11 pm, Sunday to Wednesday and public holidays; 10 am to 11:30 pm, Thursday to Saturday and eves of public holidays. Today is a Sunday, a public holiday, and the eve of a public holiday; when do they close? Yesterday's early afternoon shift wasn't sure. Figures.
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Date: 2005-05-01 10:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-01 12:59 pm (UTC)Hey, no need to be scared. It may be Big, but it's also Safe, after all.
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Date: 2005-05-02 07:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-02 11:45 am (UTC)And the poster outside the mall says you can get parking now.
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Date: 2005-05-01 03:10 pm (UTC)Yes, that has nothing to do with posted X trumping posted Y, just human nature.
What public holiday?
--Chiaroscuro
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Date: 2005-05-01 06:35 pm (UTC)Oh, C.L., I hate to say this, but you sound mighty naive like that. MOS Burger is a Japanese food chain, with its outlets in Singapore. This is a city which has ISO 9000-certified preschools. Whatever exactly they did, something as lackadaisical as what everybody felt like at 10:45 didn't factor into it.
The holiday is Labour Day -- First of May, you see.
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Date: 2005-05-02 05:22 am (UTC)Yes, a Japanese chain.. which means I'd expect rather formal and polite pestering. Unless it'd been made plain to the workers days in advance which factors this day followed- and it should, if there's any sort of solid time-sheet system.
But, yes, it's Signapore, so I'd be shocked if there weren't a time-sheet posted weeks ahead, which would indicate said closing time. Still, I hold that it's still a restaurant... and still supsceptible, as such, to the whims of an early close with no traffic, especially when the difference is a half-hour.
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Date: 2005-05-02 11:47 am (UTC)Well, I missed them today -- went off to other places instead -- but just about the same thing comes up three weeks from now, with Vesak Day, which happens on a Sunday and makes Monday a holiday by definition. They should know better then ...
Hmm...
Date: 2005-05-01 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Hmm...
Date: 2005-05-01 06:37 pm (UTC)Yes, that's it, more or less. The lyrics kind of circle on themselves for a while.