waterway Point



towards sengkang

We decided we'd make a trip here just to see the new mall, cos' that's what locals do on weekends and public holidays.

Waterway Point is a very, very new mall situated at one extreme end of the island. Parts of it remain uncompleted still, it being not more than a month old at the time we went. But I'd heard there were interesting shops, including Daiso, a cinema, H&M, Starbucks and Coffee Bean and I wanted to just go and see- even if I wasn't sure whether I'd get anything or not. 

And so there we were, wandering around, looking for a place for dinner, and then came out onto an outdoor terrace where there's some sort of grass for children to roll around.

How funny is it that for so long I must have passed this structure tens of times on a bicycle and not even known that they were constructing something there.

How funny is it that I didn't even know where this new structure was or where it stood until this sight greeted me, and only then I realized that I must have biked past this at least a couple of times. 

Because this is the easiest, and most convenient route one takes from Pasir Ris to Sengkang. It's the route that you usually will find yourself in when you're heading in from the east side via the northeast and then off to elsewhere.

We've been there in the early part of the evenings and in the later part of the nights too. We've been here on warm evenings and also on rainy ones. We've been here after having started from East Coast Park to Changi Village to Loyang Avenue to Pasir Ris to Pasir Ris Farmway One, Two and Three to Lorong Halus before turning into this dark strip of road that leads to the Punggol Waterway Park.

Where the very spot where I'm standing right now is somewhere right in between of the park, and where to my left, leads to a McDonalds at a sports center which is a convenient pit stop for hungry and tired bikers who don't want to think about the d*** diet and just eat an apple pie.

It's not just one way.

We've also take this route whilst on the opposite side of the bank- I still get confused, and often I've gotten lost weaving myself in and out. But there's a road that leads you right up to Punggol Point where the jetty still stands and then it leads you up towards Seletar and then Yishun dam and Yishun and Lentor and Ang Mo Kio and Hougang and Eunos, or after Yishun, up further towards Mandai and Woodlands Road and Dunearn Road before heading down back east via Kampong Java towards Rochor and Nicoll Highway again.

munching in the Lunar new Year...

eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat.

A common sight this time of the year at Giant Hypermart, at NTUC Fairprice, at Cold Storage, Fairprice Finest and at Sheng Siong...

 

It's the time of the year where rows and rows and rows of snacks and cookies liven up the stores, overwhelming us with a bright, distinct, celebration of reds, pinks and fuchsias all in preparation for Lunar New Year.

 

I was at NTUC a week before the first day, and there was an event taking place there (something to do with Milo) and Love 97.2FM DJs were somewhere in the huge supermarket. I don't know where precisely which section they were- too preoccupied I was with the sight of all these goodie jars greeting me by the entrance, placed right next to the boxes of chocolates and the steamboat and mookata pots.

 

It's fun that celebrations begin early for just about everyone.

It's fun that there's so much variety. Pretty labels stuck on the sides of jars let you decide how much butter you want in your pineapple tarts and pineapple pillows, and are probably a deciding factor as to how festive you want your goodie corner at home to look.

There's alot of comparisons when it comes to Lunar New Year.

There's just as much decisions one has to make. You've got to decide whether you'll buy from this supermarket or the other, or how many from this supermarket, how many from the other. You've got to decide what sort of goodies you want. You've got to decide how much you wish to spend (practically). You've got to decide whether to buy one jar first *just to try* first then buy more later.

There're just so many things to consider- and all this time you're standing along the shelves.

 

With the pea cookies, pineapple tarts, pineapple balls, love letters, sugee cookies, potato cookies, peanut cookies, peanut cookies shaped like curry puffs, peanut cakes shaped like pieces in a board game, cashew cookies, cranberry cookies, kuih bangkit, kueh balu, pineapple pillows all gazing down at you, willing you to bring them home.

 

Not to mention the bags and bags of individually wrapped sweets, packets of jell candies dusted with sugar, sugared and preserved fruits packed in hexagonal shaped trays, pistachio nuts, groundnuts, peanuts, peas, almonds, and the macadamia nuts.

 

All ready and happy and eager to make this once-a-year celebration an immensely joyful, happy, pleasing, blessed, fruitful, peaceful, lively one.

 

PS: We got the pineapple balls, the buttery, buttery ones. :) And fish skin a few days after.