you know at one point in life when u are broke and u know u are broke and u realised u have a credit card...yes, that is called chaos...i was hungry yesterday...i went to dinner with friends (dora, yaya and the rest, u know the gang, syed, irfan and rini with 4 additionals, shafiq, a new member, zahara and nadia, dora's friends from malaysia and another girl)...we went to occidental and on a spurt of sudden rebellion i decided to order a different mussel platter than the 2 i always ordered (the cheese and herbs one or the olive oil and garlic one)...i ordered the espagnole (the chilli and olive oil platter)...it tasted like plastic, to quote someone (i think it was rini who said that)....
i ate about half of the platter and gave the rest away...that was a $16.50 meal...another zap to my budget...the service was bad that particular day....zahara didn't get her meal, even after more than 3 times asking about it...dora and someone got the wrong order, sadly the only mussle platter in the menu we can't eat, yup the spinach and bacon one...we were told to wait around 30 minutes for a seat inside the bar and we waited valiantly outside in the freaking cold for more than 30 minutes, neither menu or waiter could be seen within that waiting period...so we wasted more than 30 minutes, rather than at least ordering something and wait for our seats...then, there was no waiter service, no plain water to be offered and so on...i could complain for hours, but alas, the conclusion the same....the service was BAD!i wonder what had really happened to our old favourite vulcan lane's the occidental...
anyhow, because of my driving hunger, i bought the $ 8 turkish chicken and mushroom pizza...another zap on the credit card...today, i was hungry so i went to foodtown to get some snacks, i promised myself to buy only a box of cheese snack crackers that costs about $ 2 but i ended up buying carrots (it was on sale!), rhubarb and apple cake, brown sugar (again it was on sale!) and some buns...from my original intent of spending $ 2, i had spent $ 16.01...so...credit cards and sale and supermarkets are evil, that's the real story here...
i ate about half of the platter and gave the rest away...that was a $16.50 meal...another zap to my budget...the service was bad that particular day....zahara didn't get her meal, even after more than 3 times asking about it...dora and someone got the wrong order, sadly the only mussle platter in the menu we can't eat, yup the spinach and bacon one...we were told to wait around 30 minutes for a seat inside the bar and we waited valiantly outside in the freaking cold for more than 30 minutes, neither menu or waiter could be seen within that waiting period...so we wasted more than 30 minutes, rather than at least ordering something and wait for our seats...then, there was no waiter service, no plain water to be offered and so on...i could complain for hours, but alas, the conclusion the same....the service was BAD!i wonder what had really happened to our old favourite vulcan lane's the occidental...
anyhow, because of my driving hunger, i bought the $ 8 turkish chicken and mushroom pizza...another zap on the credit card...today, i was hungry so i went to foodtown to get some snacks, i promised myself to buy only a box of cheese snack crackers that costs about $ 2 but i ended up buying carrots (it was on sale!), rhubarb and apple cake, brown sugar (again it was on sale!) and some buns...from my original intent of spending $ 2, i had spent $ 16.01...so...credit cards and sale and supermarkets are evil, that's the real story here...
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