Saltwater... take two

Starhub Logic (or Lack of)

Starhub are at it again with their classic ignorance and typical Singaporean can-not attitude.  Actually this is nothing new, at least its been around since I arrived almost a year ago now.  Imagine this:

Let's just say you wanted to get a pre-paid SIM card for your phone.  Simple enough.  And let's just say you wanted someone to be able to call you, without you having to pay for the privelege.  After all its normally the caller that pays for the call, so this sounds fair enough right?

Well you're in luck, because on Starhub you get FREE INCOMING CALLS ON PREPAID!!!*

Not sure about where you are, but where I'm sitting there are bells and whistles going off, and someone just realeased a few thousand baloons from an HDB flat over at Novena.  Happy Days!!

* But hang on... that may have been a case of premature congratulation.  I just checked the fine print, and there's actually a $0.59 daily fee for each activation (including re-activation) of on-demand 'Free' Incoming Calls.

Not sure which planet you are from but to me that means incoming calls are not actually free at all!!  Feeling used and abused I tried taking to one of the Starhub muppets in-store about this slight 'oversight', and true to the script, they rattled off "sorry cannot waive lah, incoming calls are definitely free once you've paid the 59 cents".  Fucking muppets.

New Toy

Camera envy is a major problem in Singapore, where tourists and locals alike have no issue in carrying around their hardware, foot-long lenses and tripods wherever they go.  Especially on weekends.  Its just a shame there's not a lot to take photos of, excluding the zoo of course, which means hundreds of happy-snappers converging on MBS every weekend.

Never one to miss out on a bandwagon, I've decided to upgrade my simple point-and-shoot compact camera to something (slightly) more substantial.  Working for a UK bank the budget was somewhat limited, and given the issues I've had with Canon cameras previously, decided to give the Nikon a go. 

I ended up with a D3100, and am very, very happy.  It puts a new spin on weekends when you can head out and take photos of stuff, and gives me something to do on holidays while Keryn is reading her magazines.  Good result all round, really.

Such a hyporcite, this is the palm tree selection outside the Marina Bay Sands.  That pyramid-shaped building on the right I believe will soon be the new Avalon Nightclub which should be interesting...

 

Here we have the bikes left behind by the construction workers in what they call 'downtown'

And one from Singapore's Arab corner, which is an interesting spot.  The 7-11s in the area sell no booze...

Paradise on Earth, Berjaya Resort at Langkawi.  Could have stayed here forever.

And lastly, just to prove I'm not the kind of person that spends their Saturdays at home uploading pictures of their cat to the internet...