YMy life as a starving intern
Today I joined my very first Singapore queue.
While trying to figure out how to save even more money this week, I recalled seeing ads in Subway about 10 cent sandwishes. So yesterday I called up Zhen, who works near United Square.
Me: Zhen, could you help me go down to Subway to check when they're selling their 10c sandwiches?
Zhen: Are you sure they're selling them? Can I go down later? I'm thinking of having a late lunch.
Lunch time, she messages: "Your 10 cent thing is today 3-4."
I'm convinced the 10 cent thing is on a Wednesday, not a Tuesday, so I call her up. "Zhen, are you sure the 10 cent sandwich is today?"
"Yeah, Joanna told me so."
"Can you help me go check again? I thought it was on a Wednesday."
"But I wanna go for lunch!"
"Oh, okay. Where are you now?"
"United Square." Which is where Subway is.
"PLEEEEEEEEASE, Zhen?"
I can hear the manga comic-esque "G*r^npbn@#f!" grumbling in Zhen's head. "Argh, all right, you stupid woman."
"Yay, thank you!"
So that's how we found out that today Subway was giving out sandwiches for 10 cents from 3-4 pm.
The plan was to skip lunch today, or nibble on something, and at 2:30 take the mrt down to Raffles City to get our sandwiches. It was HORRIBLE trying to get to 2:30. I had one of those $1 chicken feilluetes from Delifrance but that actually made me feel even worse. By the time it got to 2:30 I wasn't even feeling hungry because of all the grastic juices bubbling in my tummy.
Elg had to see her supervisor so I went down with my other friend, Yanling. We decided to walk to Raffles City, and got there at 2:50. As predicted, a queue had already formed. So I sprint to the back of the line, narrowly cutting in front of two women who had strolled their way there.
We had to wait till 3 pm because they wouldn't start serving then. Subway had advertised in the newspaper so quite a number of people came, though not as many as we expected. Guess people aren't as enticed by 10 cent sandwiches as they are by cute Hello Kitty dolls. A clueless guy walked up to me and asked, "Excuse me, why are so many people queueing?" So I kindly, (patronisingly,) explained why.
Once they started servinc, the queue moved pretty quickly--guess the Subway people were prepared for it. With robot-like efficiency they slapped slices of meat on bread, brandished sauce bottles, wrapped the sandwiches in paper. I suppose this would be what a soup kitchen is like overseas. It took us 10 minutes to get our sandwiches, but it was worth it! Haha.
(I'm never doing it again though. Yanling told me irregular meals lower your metabolic rate because the body doesn't know when your next meal will be so it'll store up more food in anticipation of the time the body gets hungry again and you don't feed it. And it did feel pretty sucky, not being able to eat at lunch time. I like listening to my body and and eating three square meals at set times every day. I figure a time-honoured tradition like that can't go wrong.
But I proved my Singaporeanness for the very first and last time today! Hahahaaa. At least I can say I've done one stupid thing in my life. :D)
Lunch: $1.10
Exhilaration from knowing you purchased something at a vastly cheaper price than normal: priceless.
jac was here with you
2/07/2007 03:53:00 pm
Did you just add this in? I can't believe it's been there all the time otherwise I would have said something already :P
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