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Was walking around at Holland V today and guess what? That bookstore in the shopping complex still had Tintin comics! $12 for the single story soft-covered copies, $24 for hard-covered ones, and 3-in-1s are going at $24! So excited.. I've read the other 21 a gazillion times since the time I had perfect eyesight (which was probably more than 10 years ago), but I've never seen this!

This was supposed to be the first editions of the comic, which was first published in a Belgian newspaper. I couldn't stop grinning once I paid the cashier for it. You guys should try. Really, it feels unbelievably good to hold something you once so dearly loved but lost track of because of age.

And taking a good jab at the ridiculous addition of Saturday ERP and the extension of operation timings on weekday evenings is Gramophone.

The Specialist Shopping Centre outlet is closed and will shift to Scotts Road soon. At this rate, carparks along Scotts Road or before the Marriott Hotel junction and the same roads will just get alot more packed. Doesn't make much of a difference to me, there'll still be jams near town. New gantries will then be set up along these roads and other roads will get heavier traffic. More gantries will be set up again to 'smoothen traffic'. There's no end! Sooner or later you will see Singapore as the ERP gantry state.

The Circle MRT line is a good idea; it saves time for passengers who stay in the further corners of the island and needs to transfer to another line. As far as I'm concerned however, they seem to be planning too many stations, and there're some stations may end up being under utilised. I mean come on, stations at Suntec Convention Centre, Millenia and Nicoll Highway? How far are they apart? And Adam, Bukit Brown, Thomson, Pasir Panjang.. How many people people will actually take the train at these areas? Not to mention the amount of disruptions and yucky looking barriers and cranes will be imposed on the work sites, like Holland Village.

No doubt the completion of the Circle line will bring about new conveniences, but in my opinion the feasibility of some stations should be reviewed again to prevent the situations of Buangkok and Woodleigh stations to happen once more.