Went to a nearby field on last Friday evening after work to kick a soccer-ball with 2 colleagues. Even though there were just three of us horsing around, it was a great workout and great fun. For a person who hadn't kicked a ball since secondary school, I think my kicking techniques are all wrong. Cos just 30 minutes into it, I found myself aching in places where I never knew got muscles...*
After the work out, 2 of us decided to hitch a ride with my friend who's going for a family dinner at Ang Mo Kio (AMK). We walked the whole of AMK Hub but couldn't find a relatively empty restaurant**. So in the end, I took my friend (who claims he was there at AMK Hub for the first time) on a tour of AMK central. We finally found a coffee-shop to stop for the evening. What drew us was the amount of people drinking beer at the coffee-shop. Also, there are a lot of "beer-maids"/beer promoters who are actually pouring out the drinks to the customers^. My theory is that they are trying to get the patrons to buy more beer. ..
Anyway, the beer they sold us both were cheap, at $5 plus a bottle^^. We tried a brand we never try before (Harbin 哈尔滨，a Chinese beer), which was kinda flat and "no kick". Not satisfied, we tried the Carlsberg, which was surprisingly only 30 cents more expensive than the Harbin. However, it was also kinda flat. I joking told my friend, "Hmm, imitation beer?"
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*like my butt-hole :p
* Actually quite an impossible aim to start out with: looking for an uncrowded eating place at dinner time on Friday night at AMK Hub... :D
^ For those not familiar with local coffee-shop culture, the beer-garden "aunties" seldom will actively pour out the drinks for the patrons, after the first customary pour.
^^ My friend, who's a regular kopi-tiam drinker, says that Carlsberg is priced at minimal $6.40 a bottle
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