comics mart closes

It is a sign of changing time. Comics Mart closes, at least so call officially. In a sense, the loyal fans and customers probably sensed something was wrong when it closes some time last month. Now that the closure is in the papers, it is official. Contacts to the owners are not successful in anyway. Even their listed apartment seems to be closed or being "seized by bank". So what is Comics Mart? It is a comic shop that been around since the 90s. It was reported by some as open since 80s but I only visited it in the 90s. I got my comics from there regularly. Only stopped getting them since last year as I find that the comics are not much to my taste. You could go there and browse come of the comics. It is good as you could read on some other titles that looks interesting but not in your list of to buy comics. Even though they have sub branches in Orchard and Raffles City I don't go there. I only visit the Serene Centre main shop. So how did it ended up this way? Comics nowadays just seems to be not so exclusive as before. Lousy artwork, lame plots are part of what contribute to the decline. And you could download from the net if you know how. There used to have other good comic shops but they didn't make it years ago. Then Comics Mart started to shrink the shop space, put a big portion of the shop into selling magazines and you can't browse some older comics anymore. So hopefully it will come back it an updated fashion. Or someone new took over the name and bring it back. If it does happen, it isn't the old shop anymore. The name, right now remains to be seen if coming back will happen. For the news, read the 18th May 2010 Straits Times Life.

world cup that is making news before the ball start rolling

World cup fever is here but this time it got so hot it burns everyone! So what the heat about? It is about money as usual. It seems that FIFA is asking for the price that no one willing to pay and have been in discussion like forever and ever and time is running out. When it does announced that a deal was done, it just isn't appealing to majority. All boils down to the price. Most find the package costly. They blame one of the telco for spoiling the market during the EPL bidding. Some people analyze that FIFA think people will bite the same way as EPL. So now do the telcos involved think they should have accept the package offered? It remains to be seen as people might not take the package offered and will go for other alternatives or even forget about world cup. Now it seems money talks but one needs to know which direction the money is talking to.

my view on the SDA meetup

 The local political scene is bustling with activities again. Most likely that election is near, that it will happen anytime near instead of dragging until its due date. At least that is what being speculated by some people. One story that make the news was the Reform Party in discussion with SDA about possible alliance. With all the positive and negative out of it came the so call 11 conditions from RP. One of the condition ask for SDA leader Mr Chiam in a sense to hand over the post to Mr Jeyaretnam. Read the conditions on http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=4046 or search for it on google. Now SDA, or Mr Chiam is a veteran politician that is respected by all. Mr Jeyaretnam is to me, a newbie who only his name will reminds people that he is related to the late senior Jeyaretnam. The late Jeyaretnam  is good, but his son hasn't shown any results. RP should prove something and get some results in the elections to show that they are not just a party with a name. Only then they could start to put in conditions, and only conditions that will not be seen as taking over what Mr Chiam built. To do that you have to be good or bad. Someone had already done the bad part before, now it is just waiting for someone doing the good portion.