All work and no play… is surely not the way to spend your lunch hour.
Packet lunches and doughnut are popular among office workers; it has become a trend for most workers to tide their hunger pangs over with a good barrage of styrofoam packed rice or sin-filled confectioneries. It’s tasty, and most of all, convenient. Why trot down to a noisy, non-air conditioned hawker centre when you can simply ‘da bao’?
And other than playing ‘tissue throw’ to reserve seats, how about these fun and light-hearted lunchtime games to pass time after downing the food? We know you don’t want to get back to work THAT quickly.
You wake up at ten (or eleven), freshen up, turn on your computer and read the day’s news. Something interesting catches your eye, and you make an entry on your blog. As usual, you check your bank account to make sure that payment has been made, and you make a few calls to arrange the next few shipments. You update your blog with some new stuff, then the officer from the bank called.
“Sir, we regret to inform you that we no longer have space in our bank to hold all the money that you’re making.”
We complain about a lot of things – the warm weather, the inconsiderate people, the cost of living, not winning the million-dollar lottery – but nothing is as fiercely assaulted as the morning commute on our very own Mass Rapid Transit. It takes a certain kind of Singaporeanism to proudly brandish the badge of initiation.
“I have survived the morning rush.” It shall read.
Tens of thousands of people take then morning MRT to work, ignoring the mad rush into the carriage, planting themselves firmly against the nearest pole, and pushing for seats the moment they sense someone is going to get up. But all would attest to the fact that, once in the train, the real battle begins.
When the gaming crowd hollered for change, Nintendo took up the challenge to deliver a uniquely different product to the perpetually dissatisfied consumer market. Its latest product, the Wii or “We” for everyone, proves once again that the creator of classics like Donkey Kong and Mario still knows how to play the game in a court that they could rightfully claim massive credit for building. And while Microsoft and Sony continue to push the technology envelope to try to appease the “hardcore” community, Nintendo polls in the casual gamers. Casual gaming is big and Nintendo knows that.
Nintendo had the right idea from the start when it first started selling Hanafuda cards way back in 1889; that the big pie was with casual gaming and not just the big budget, “hardcore” mentality that seems more prominent on the scene. Results have proven otherwise. First there was Mario.
