Friday, July 23, 2004
two for the price of one?
i made my first pizza delivery order today. couldn't find the number for domino's (i don't even know whether they exist in singapore) so i googled the word 'pizza delivery singapore' and found pizza hut...american pizza and canadian pizza. since i've heard of pizza hut i decided to be adventurous and try either one of the other two. i ini-mini-myni-moed it and went with canadian pizza. i mean how much of a difference can the canadian pizza be from a normal italian or should i say pseudo italian pizza that i normally eat. boy was i wrong on that one. it didn't even taste like pizza. it wasn't bad....just erm....different. not my preferred kind of different though. it was semi burnt...not sure whether that's the way its supposed to be but it seemed pretty over cooked for me. in addition to that...there was too little tomatoe paste and i normally love my pizza's with lotsa tomatoe paste.but the funny part about the whole thing was the call that i made for the order. i dialled the number and this lady picked up so i asked her whether they make deliveries over to my area and she transfered me to the Hougang branch which is actually pretty near to where i live. so i spoke to the lady at the hougang branch and i told her that i just wanted a regular beef pepperoni with cheese and she said "ok...that will be 21.90...what about your second pizza?" i was like....i'm only one person...i don't need two regular pizzas. that's when she tells me that they're having a 2 for the price of 1 promotion going on and i was like "geez...how sad is that". not because theres so much competition that they have to come up with promos like this but because i am only one person. when she said the words 2 for the price of 1 i immediately had a flash of names going through my head of the number of people i know in this country. only 2 names came up. then i thought to myself....how many out of these 2 people would like a free pizza at 10.30pm....the answer is NONE.
so anyway...i'm having a really bad flu and a slight fever but i'm still going to work on time everyday. i don't want to have to take a day or two off and have to make up for it later on. i figured i'd save all my sick days for something that really matters. my temperature at this moment is apparently 38.8 degrees...i'm assuming it's in celcius. my colleague zapped me in the ear with one of those thermometers thingamajigs and she just said "38.8...u have a fever". then it dawned upon me that i don't even know what constitutes a fever. she could've said "20...u have a fever" and i would've believed her. isn't it something that i should know? what if i'm all alone and incapacitated and i have no one but myself to take my own temperature and the thermometer that i have does not come with instructions? then i figured....there's always the internet. heck...i can find the number to canadian pizza...i'm sure i can find instructions on how to determine whether i have a fever :)
feefs, 9:51 AM
