Wendy's Singapore at Lau Pa Sat

One of the hottest topic in town is Wendy's Singapore, American fast food chain return to Singapore, operated by Kopitiam group.

It was featured in the newspaper, stating the lunch queue was so long, people have to wait till 20min. My colleagues and I decided to check it out. We went in evening to avoid the crowd. However, it turn out, we waited even longer time. It was 30min and the queue hardly move in the process. There are only two counters and the speed is slow. I still cannot figure out why fastfood is slow. Perhaps it can be called slow food.

Ok, back to the burger and food quality. There are few choices - beef burger, chicken and fish. I choose the set number 1 - quarter pound burger. If you use the Kopitiam card, you can get 5% discount, but make sure you top up the card before going.


Wendy's burger choices - 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 pound



The meat party is square, yes square, kind of interesting. The flavour and quality is there. The bun is one of the nice one, among fastfood chain in Singapore. There are more vegetables in the burger too. Overall, the burger is good.



The fries is too dry as you can see. I give it a big cross.

Firefox 3.5 vs Chrome 3 javascript performance

I am a firefox user since version 1 to current version 3.5. Beside this, I also installed the Google Chrome browser for testing.

Recently I noticed the Chrome 3 I have, when using the Google Reader is faster than the Firefox 3.5. Yes, I can see it with my eyes. When you press some keys, the page move faster, the loading seems faster. This also backed by the performance testing result on the net.

Google Chrome still the faster javascript render engine on the market. Therefore, if you are using the Google reader or some javascript heavy website, it is actually faster and of course better.

Google unveil Nexus One, but Google is not Apple

Google has finally unveil the Nexus One android phone which it design together with HTC. The phone would carry the Google brand and also HTC brand. Google would sell the phone online and it is possible to ship to Singapore! for a cost of USD529.

Would you be tempted to buy? The phone offer some interesting feature such as live wallpaper, but there is nothing significantly different than those available on the market. The lack of new features and multi touch make engadget calls it unexciting. Read the review at engadget site.

Google participated in the design of total experience of the phone, hoping to improve the user experience. The hardware was managed by HTC. Despite of that, there is no distinctive cutting edge feature that would wow the crowd. Compare to Apple who manage the total experience in every single detail, Apple would continue to have consumer mind share.

Eat vegetables to save the earth

In the past Copenhagen climate change conference, all the leaders gathered to discuss way to reduce carbon emission. But the meeting yield no tangible result. Believe it not, saving the earth can start from you. Beside the 3R - reduce, reuse and recycle. There is another way to save the earth, by eating vegetables only.

When I was back home, Sinchew Daily run a special to promote eating vege to save the earth. The key reasons are

1) Animal farming consumes crop that could feed more people
2) Crop which used to feed animal yields less food for people
3) Cow dung release methane which cause more green house effect than carbon dioxide

Well, I think I would try to eat less meat and be more vegetarian.

Sugar and coffee price relationship

The sugar price in Malaysia is set to be increased after government annouced the reduced amount of subsidy. The international price of sugar has increased a lot, but not in malaysia, due to the subsidy.
Another reason cited was to discourage excessive sugar consumption which contribute to illnesses.

In my view, the reduce or even abolishment of sugar subsidy is good for the long run. Although subsidy keep the price low, it distort the supply and demand. This in term, create other problems. Malaysian consume so much sugar, I think one of the reason simply is cheap. You look at the teh tarik, how sweet it is, you would know. For the man on street, this is of course not a good news. Who would like the price hike?

The worst part is this news served as trigger point of coffee price increase. Why a small amount of increment would make coffee more expensive by 10 cents? This is not a common sense. However, the coffee shop owner would tell you beside sugar, this and that have increased, therefore they need to hike the price. What can the poor consumer do?