Nex Mall at Serangoon Singapore (Sorry la I can't resist reporting this cos I was there this pm)

The seven-storey Nex Mall, located next to Serangoon interchange station, has over 600,000 sq ft of retail space. It is about the size of Ion Orchard and is the largest suburban mall in the north-east.

A spokesman for NEX Mall said rival brands – such as Cold Storage and FairPrice – will appeal to different types of shoppers.

The Cold Storage supermarket will feature several exclusive imported products, while the 24-hour hypermarket FairPrice Xtra will offer products from food to home electronics and casual wear.

The Nex Mall will also have two foodcourts, Food Junction and Food Republic, ‘to offer more food varieties and choices for family shoppers’, its spokesman said.

Food Junction will run a 17,000sqft foodcourt that can seat about 500 people, while Food Republic’s 6,500sqft food atrium will seat about 250 people.

At present, the Nex Mall is almost fully occupied. Its anchor tenants are Japanese chain store Isetan, cinema chain Shaw, FairPrice Xtra and the Serangoon Public Library.

Other key tenants include bookstore Popular, Japanese food street Shokutsu 10, Courts, Crystal Jade Kitchen, Party World KTV and children’s boutique Kiddy Palace.

It hopes to draw about two million customers each month. To do so, it is introducing a number of new concepts.

Department store Isetan, which is opening its first outlet in 14 years, will have a section dedicated to handbags and fashion labels from Japan.

Its spokesman said the merchandise mix at its new three-storey outlet will be better than those offered by malls in the vicinity. For one thing, it will have more than 14 cosmetic brands not available in those malls, he said.

Guardian pharmacy will have its first private patient care counselling room for its clinical pharmacist to help patients better understand their medication and draw out treatment plans for those with long-term disease or weight issues.

Food-wise, there will also be new offerings: Japan’s popular burger chain Freshness Burger and famous pasta restaurant Kabe no Ana will open their debut outlets.

There is a retail and food zone that operates on extended hours till about 2am.

Dog owners can also make use of the 2,000sqft dog run located on the roof garden. The run is the first in a Nex Mall here, and is meant for dogs to exercise and play in an off-leash environment under the supervision of their owners.

The run can be accessed via designated lifts and escalators. Dogs, however, are not allowed in other areas of the Nex Mall.

To cater to families, there will also be a children’s playground with dry and wet interactive play equipment, and 11 nursing rooms for mothers – more than any otherNex Mall

The mall is now open and most of the shops will be operating from tomorrow 1 December 2010

A380 behind the scenes !

A strange dream

Last night I had a strange dream. In it, I was at one stage jogging and another stage flying like a bird. The flying part made me felt very light and I was soaring like an eagle. After a while, I met a retired inflight supervisor and he told me  a former CCE had struck the first prize of the Singapore Big Sweep. The prize won by the ex CCE  was $2 million. The ex CCE was the envy of us all but someone told me that most of the prize money had been used to settle his debts. 

What is the meaning or significance of the dream? I wish I knew.

Will SIA issue $1 dividend?

Oh dear I have sold all my SIA shares this year....so sad if the above is true.

What to do? *sobs*.

The Power Of Plastic

This story is taken from my book and it's one of the 58 stories published in "Fasten Your Seat Belts". It's for free la and if my publisher does not mind (shhh...dun tell him or his staff ok...aiya they dun read my blog anyway) I will "secretly" post more of the stories ( I am usually quite generous).

"Credit cards can be a curse when put into the wrong hands.And quite a number of cabin crew members have gotten embroiled in financial and criminal trouble by abusing the power of plastic.

Here is one such story.

Upon touching down in Copenhagen from Singapore,two stewards,Steven and Troy,checked into their hotel and changed into their civilian clothes. They then took a stroll down to a nearby Rolex watch shop.
It wasn't unusual for cabin crew members to purchase luxury goods on their trips to European cities as they could get their hands on a wider range of the latest designs at more attractive prices than they would get in Singapore. This was and still remains one of the perks of working as a member of the cabin crew.
After making their selection, Steven picked the Rolex Datejust Special Edition with yellow gold and diamonds and Troy picked out the Rolex Perpetual in steel...they flashed their gold credit card to pay for their purchase.
This would have been a perfect scenario but the truth was the credit card did not belong to Steven or Troy. They had stolen it from a passenger on the flight.
Steven and Troy celebrated their purchase by dining at a Chinese restaurant afterwards. After dinner,Steven and Troy decided to try their hand at purchasing another two Rolex watches using the same credit card. However,this time,luck was not on their side. The owner of the credit card had discovered his loss and made a police report. Steven and Troy were detained by the staff at the store before the police came and took them away.
The two stewards were sentenced to two years in a Danish jail. Apparently,these two daring crew had already stolen at least a dozen credit cards before this,using them to finance their expensive lifestyles".

BT: Do you wanna hear what happened after the 2 stewards been released from prison?

1 in 2 out dance

SIA cabin crew interview in Singapore

Interviews will be conducted on 18 December 2010 (Saturday) at:

Apply only if you are as pretty as me la

Suntec Singapore
International Convention & Exhibition Centre
Level 3, Meeting Rooms 303-305
1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City
Singapore 039593

To kaypoh press>>>> here ....ouch!

Mind, how I love my previous employer Singapore Airlines

Mind you I have worked 35 years and yet I do not complained that I was sick of my job. SIA paid for my children's school fees, our daily household expenses, our holidays every year with the free tickets, our cars, our house,SIA shares option etc etc. Granted, without SIA my family and I could also have survived but what standard of living we would be in? Perhaps we would live in a 4 roomed HDB flat and going to work by buses or MRT trains or both. My wife would have to work too so we could pay our HDB mortgage. Our children would not have gone to the universities because we couldn't afford them. Therefore we are grateful to SIA. Even now, I have not burned the bridge behind me. To be honest, I think SIA is a damn good employer.
When I was with SIA they paid me reasonably well, let me be a member of the sports club for meager fee of $8 a month, at a certain year paid me 6 months bonus, gave me share options, free tickets for me and my wife for life and flew first class etc etc.
On top of the above, I did my own roster,flying to wherever the airline flies to, staying in 5 stars hotels, paid handsome food allowance, generous inflight incentive allowance,rest in the first class,ate first class meals and what have you.
Who cares whether the flights were full because I did not have to serve the passengers.
So you see I have many reasons to, in fact love SIA.
A lot of my colleagues past and present love to bad mouth the company. They are envious of the graduates CCEs who have better job prospects than them. Of course,in front of the bosses they praised the company but behind their backs they whined and cursed it!
As for me I loved my job.
I loved SIA,
I loved it when it's a full load because I was assured of at least 6 month bonus,
I loved it when I see my crew sweat it out on the flights so I could justify my presence on the flights,
I loved to hate my managers,
I loved to kick a few of my svps in their asses.....hahaha....
So you see it's good to love,love,love!!!

What they say about Singapore Airlines or SIA

Humour

Q:   How can you identify a flight crew eating in a restaurant?
A:   The F/A's eat standing up and the pilots leave their trays on the floor.



Q:   Why did the pilot die shortly after retirement?
A:   His wife didn't know to feed him every 2 hours.


Q:   How can you tell a pilot on a layover from a homeless person?
A:   The homeless person is the one buying a newspaper.


Q:   Why don't pilots vacation with their families?
A:   It's too difficult to get the jumpseat.


Q:   What is the difference between a F/A and a jet engine?
A:   The engine stops whining at the gate.


Every takeoff is optional.  Every landing is mandatory.


Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.

The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Malaysians gamble ‘S$3 million daily at S’pore casinos’...For your say click here .

Singapore Airlines Senior EVP Bey Soo Khiang resigns

Bey will be departing from the carrier after 10 years as he ventures to explore new opportunities and challenges.

Singapore Airlines announced on Tuesday that Mr Bey Soo Khiang, Senior Executive Vice President for Marketing & Corporate Services, will leave the company with effect from 28 February 2011.

Source here

Safety briefing on Kiddies' airlines......http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/?searchStr=inflight+video

Video of SQ airplane

Passenger complained not getting his ST on SQ flights.

We will be in contact with SIA to see how we can resolve such an issue once and for all. We are already considering setting up printing presses in all SIA’s destinations worldwide, so that Singaporeans visiting these countries can keep up with the only true news and remain free from corrupt and undesirable influences from other foreign newspapers that are ranked higher than us.

Finally, we are sorry you couldn’t get a copy of the ST. As a token of our heartfelt gratitude, we are pleased to enclose you complimentary tickets to North Korea, Cuba or Myanmar where you can read top newspapers that are published there and experience the same reading satisfaction that you get from reading ST. En route to these places, do present this email so as to guarantee yourself a copy of the ST on the flight. We all know that one reading of the ST per day, keeps the real world away. Feel free to contact us if you have any enquiries. You will be pleased to note that all positive flattering correspondences to the ST are guaranteed publication.

Yours truthfully,

The Straits Times: building the nation as always.

P.S: we love your name. LAWrence LAW. L.L. for short. Lan lan?

Click here for original copy

Shit scared!

We had a few days layover in Paris. This was in the 1980s. One fine day during summer the crew was getting ready to leave the hotel for the flight back to S'pore when we noticed one of our stewards (Jim) was not with us. He went missing.The other stewards went to his hotel room and found his things thrown all over. The stewards reported to the supervisor and after 10 minutes of waiting,we decided to leave for the airport without Jim.
As the driver started the engine of the coach we noticed Jim running towards us. He was shocked to find that the crew was going to leave without him. Jim panicked and asked the other stewards to help him pack his things. After another 15 minutes of waiting,we finally left for the airport with Jim on board.
Jim apologised to everyone in the bus for being late. He explained that he thought the flight was departing the next day and was out shopping. We can see he was perspiring all over and looked pale.
Upon arrival at the airport, Jim asked the supervisor for permission to change his pants.
Reason: Jim shit in his pants because of the shock seeing his crew leaving without him.

New cabin crew forum click here (lastest on cockpit crew LMA)

PITA passenger

Heard this from another airline crew........PITA = Pain In The Arse (passenger).
Mr. Pita was a regular passenger with a certain airline. His status was equivalent to that of a PPS (Priority Passenger Service) passenger in SIA. In this instance he flew business class. He wanted to be upgraded to first class and demanded the purser to do so. Since the purser serving him could not do the upgrading he summoned the chief purser to do so. When the chief purser explained to him why he couldn't upgrade him, Pita abused him saying he and the purser was "not worth a cent".
Pita started to pick fault with the crew regarding his meal,wines etc. He told them he knew the airline CEO and was going to complain against them. He warned them the CEO would sack the 2 crew who did not upgrade him.
Half way through the flight, the purser serving Pita could not take the abuse anymore. He f****** Pita up and threatened to get him beaten up after the flight. Guess what? Pita started to weep and apologised to the purser.
A few weeks later, the purser was shocked to see Pita's pictures in the obituary column of the newspaper.
Apparently Pita was killed in a car accident.

Foreign couple mocked as "infidels" and "swine" throughout resort's 'wedding ceremony'

Do you still wanna get married in the Maldives? The video was uploaded to YouTube with English subtitles by someone within the Maldivian community who could not stand the abuse by his own fellow countrymen.

COLOMBO (AFP) - Police in the Maldives have arrested a marriage celebrant who abused a foreign couple as "swine" and "infidels" during a luxury ceremony in the holiday paradise, an official said.
Maldivian police spokesman Ahmed Shiyam said the celebrant, who conducted the ceremony in the local language at an upmarket resort fringed by white sand and turquoise water, had been arrested with another hotel employee on Thursday.

A video of the ceremony, during which the hapless couple are taunted and subjected to a series of insulting and religious-tinged abuse, was posted on YouTube and has sparked fears for the country's tourism-dependent economy....

"You are swine," the couple were told. "The children that you bear from this marriage will all be bastard swine.

"Your marriage is not a valid one. You are not the kind of people who can have a valid marriage. One of you is an infidel. The other, too, is an infidel and, we have reason to believe, an atheist."

The wife, wearing a white dress and carrying a bouquet, and her husband smile shyly through the ceremony, which was to renew their marriage vows at a cost of 1,300 dollars.

In front of a table decorated with incense sticks, the English-speaking couple bow their heads in prayer through the torrent of accusations, curses and swearing from the celebrant.

At the end of the 15-minute routine, they exchange rings as the staff clap, before heading onto the beach to plant a coconut tree in the sand.

The Islamic republic of the Maldives, a nation of palm-fringed islands scattered in the Indian Ocean, is one of the world's most exclusive honeymoon destinations and its economy relies heavily on tourism.