The Real Halal Food 2008, Finally!

After the disappointing "Food Fair" at Suntec, i was thrilled to read in the papers that there's a HALAL Food Fair running at EXPO for the long weekend. Even more thrilled when Kak Ly offered to drive us there.


The title of the exhibition is Halal Food, furniture, lifestyle or something something 2008. Then the first thing we saw when we came in were wood furnitures and i joked, "Say, are these furnitures halal too?" LOL!


But 15mins into the fair, Kak Lily w stroller cldn't take the crowd and left the scene totally.


We were left to fend for ourselves. We spent almost $30 there!!!! *faint*

1. $3 Otak otak (haha all the way to Expo buy otak2 also!)
2. $2 beef lung
3. $5.20 personal Hawaiian Pizza
4. $6 Lemang + beef rendang
5. $5 Choc chip Baulu (which we later forgot it in the MRT!!!)
6. $2.50 on 2 drinks
7. $5 Chicken Kebab (bcos that Pizza is not enough for Zubair)

At least i'm happy that this is the true blue Food fair i've been wanting to show him. We even got to listen in on a seminar about Women. It was in Malay though, so Z cldn't appreciate it. I wish for an auto translator. Where is my darling Doraemon?

Then we took a look at the Book Fair and Baby Fair too.

Book Fair

Hmmm too big and disorganised you can't find something you're looking for but will certainly get some random interesting thing. The best part is Fictions were tagged at no more than $15 (even hard covered ones!) with average being $10 and lowest being $5!!! Some General books are even 3 or 4 for $10!

We didn't buy anything though with only $12 left in my pocket! Not necessary anyways.

Baby Fair

Hmmm When we stepped in, we were quickly approached by this Malay guy asking us, "Are you planning for your child's education?" We said no we are not thinking about it yet as we have no children yet. But he kept on talking about his land investment. Wait a minute, this sounds familiar, i remember listening to Mel explaining it to me when she was with Jardine Smith.

but other than that, nothing else appeals to us since we havent actually HAD a baby YET, considering they were selling diapers like hot cakes!

Teck Wei CAR Roadshow

outside, there was a car roadshow and Zubair fell in love with Honda Fit. the new model retails at $500/mth for OPC (weekend car). I said to the agent, "But that's almost the same price as that MPV over there!" He said, "Oh that is Fiat, ya know. Cannot compare. That one uses up a lot of petrol!" I suppose he's right but dont know whether he just wanna "goreng" / fry or sweet talk us.

Then he told us that he has sold 20 cars just today alone!!! Imagine one single car salesman sold 20 cars a day, how many total Singaporeans buy a car in a day? in a month? How much does that salesman earn? If for eg, he earns 5% commission and the average price of a car is $30,000, he would have earned $30,000 in a day!!!! *faint* Should i get Zubair to become a car salesman? Or should i just switch career and be a salesman myself?! LOL!