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Friday, December 29, 2006

It's me again! 2nd post in the same day. Just wanted to blog about my experience, at the town centre. Hmmm, i guess i've been sleepwalking most of my life and sometimes i do not take my thoughts seriously. As i journeyed to this town centre which i frequent for my meals, i suddenly felt so blown over by all the festivities!

It's not even new year, yet vendors were already touting those new year "chun lians", those hang-ups with blessings and there was just so many many many people. "Offer! Offer! Offer!" was all i could hear in the bustling crowd. But as i looked around, most of the people belonged to the 2nd generation. The stall owners also belonged to the 2nd generation. How long more would town centres last?

We who belong to the addidas and nike generation, would we actually get shoes sold in these places? We who belong to the zara, topshop and guess generation, would we buy our clothings from those shops in the town centre? I guess in the near future, there will be more vanishing trades. There will be no more neighbourhood cluster shops, because there just will not be much demand.

And those shops at old shopping centres like beauty world plaza and bukit timah shopping centre, there is hardly anyone walking around. Compare that to places like bukit panjang plaza, how can these shopping centres survive?

Well, 1 thing to be happy about though is to see hokkien speaking, heavily tattoo-ed men working in cai fan stalls and fruit stalls. At least these people who once roamed the streets aimlessly are beginning to find work, instead of just lazing down at home and being a burden to their families.

ok haha nonsense post..haha

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