bread of life

in the middle of sengkang, right beside compasspoint, there is this still rather new and clean kopitiam foodcourt. when it first opened, i remembered it was packed with people and stalls. singaporeans being singaporeans, everything new also want to be part of it.

soon, the crowd starts to get thinner, and following that, stalls start to close down. turns out that rent that is like $5000 a month.. according to huimin of course. turned out that because kops (as how smu students call kopitiam) has an outlet inside compasspoint, they have to win the bid to operate at this foodcourt so as not to lose business to other operators. we all know what happens when a company go all out to win a bid for something, look at the BPL (barclays premier league for those who are still in the EPL days) bidding by singtel. so, in a random conversation with huimin today about rents, along with the confused look when we tried to do the math, turned out that rent per day is 166... and not counting other costs... that is 47 plates of ba chor mee.

back to the topic. so, after months of seeing this stall being vacant, some bakery decided to set up shop. the name of the bakery is "Bread of Life" and on their sign, they wrote the bible verse (John 6:35) where they found the phrase "Bread of Life". although im not suppose to judge a book by appearance, I tried and guess if they were christians. for some reason, im under the impression they arent. the point is, they have totally used the wrong phrase if they look at the context. in that verse, the idea is that we follow Jesus who is the Bread of Life, we dont have to worry so much about where our food is coming from as we will never go hungry (non-christian friends, if you are interested, i can elaborate... hahahaha). i really wonder what is the message they are trying to say though..

in other f&b names i encountered, the most "interesting" one would have to be the western food stall in one of the coffee shop at Serangoon Gardens. Taking over what used to be Astons, iSteak (yes... no typo there) took over. i know there's a trend about putting i infront of everything, but previously, i can see some sense in it since it's still in the electronics / technology area... but iSteak? it's really going a little far.