I smsed 2 colleagues, one said that she is on the way but she was at Tiong Bahru MRT station and will only reach here in 45 mins to 1 hour. The other replied that she's still at home at Jurong and will only arrive at the club at about 6.30pm.
Ok, so I took a lift to the highest floor of the building which is the 5th floor at E-hub. This floor consists of K-box and a Japanese restaurant - (Nihon Mura) which is famous for their "worth-the-money" 99 cents sushi especially with the bad economy now. Anyway, since I can't be going to K-box alone and can't be eating sushi at this time. I went down to another floor, this floor really caught my attention, my time and my hard-earned money. I spend the rest of the hours there till 6.45pm.
So what is this floor? Entertainment! Cinama and arcade. Guess where did I go? Cinema? To catch a show till 6.45pm? NO! I went into the arcade and watch people playing with the claw machine and big sweetland machine. I watched and watched for 30 mins and was very tempted to try out myself. I tried to control myself until I saw a potential chance of getting a mini Minnie plush toy.
I searched my coin purse and found 5 pcs of $1 coins, I tried and tried, finally finished up all my $5 coins and the toy was at the edge of the dropping point. I went quickly to change for another $5 coins and continued..... At the 6th coin, I managed to catch 2 plush toys ( Minnie and a white cat) but only Minnie dropped into the winning tunnel.
Hee....;p
With 4 more coins left, i walked around and stand at the big sweetland machine again, watching a couple play. After a while, they decided not to play and walked off. I looked at their score, and thought to myself, isn't it very pity that they stopped at this point. So I went to exchange for some coins and starts to play.
As I play, I felt that quite a numbers of people are standing behind me to watch me play. Why? It's because I am winning a "Jackpot" soon. However, the sweets falling onto the checker were not strong enough, and I ended up exchanging for more coins. One couple beside me were even more excited than me, the guy kept saying, how come it didn't spin even when the sweets hit onto the checker! I turned and looked at him and smiled at him.
Finally, after about 4 - 5 trys, I won the jackpot. Was then given a choice and to choose, a Mickey figuring for display, a Minnie's ribbon cushion or a Yellow Bunny. I choose the Mickey figuring but then regretted it after 2 mins, then asked for an exchange for the yellow bunny.
At this time, my colleague called me, informing me that she arrived with another colleague. They came to meet up with me at the arcade and we played other games together, including claw machine and big sweetland. We had a wonderful time at the arcade.
Although I really enjoyed the fun and the process of winning, but I think I really have to give this "costly hobby" up...
I must really try hard to stop myself from playing the claw machine and the big sweetland machine. We had a lot of candies and plush toys at home now since our 1st try on 24th Dec 2007. Will have to give it away for birthdays and Christmas then....;P
-SGFemale
