MPH Book Fair + Singapore Food Expo (28 or 29 May)
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come along lah
makan time too
and ferret... welcome to The Dark Side
Originally posted by xking:hmm....might go for the book fair...
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Yup. I am a confirmed case.
And I have never watched star wars before >_<'
If you are thinking I am from the Stone age, you might be half right.
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well, ferret, i'm from the Stoned Age
so not that far off eitherOriginally posted by Ferret:Yup. I am a confirmed case.
And I have never watched star wars before >_<'
If you are thinking I am from the Stone age, you might be half right. -
I am dinosaur.Originally posted by the Bear:well, ferret, i'm from the Stoned Age
so not that far off either -
you're a drink made up of milo?
muahahahahaOriginally posted by Ferret:I am dinosaur. -
Review of the MPH Warehouse Sale
Yup! Yup! Yup!! I was right in the thick of action just five minutes after they opened the doors at Hall 6 in the Expo! I went right after I completed my night duty. Just a month ago, it was the Times the Bookshop Warehouse Sale, at the very same hall, and coincidentally, I headed there right after my night shift too.
You grab an empty box once you enter the doors so you can put your chosen books inside. There are boxes of books lined neatly on the floor for you to go through. The paperbacks are placed in no particular order so the fun of it is to spot a good title.
In less than five minutes, I had already picked out my first book! I couldn't believe that it was there at the sale! It was a Dean Koontz novel, 'The Face', retailing for $16-18 thereabouts, but it was right there for $5!!! Pristine condition too!
That very first book was the key that unlocked the floodgates of book bargains!!
I thought I'd 'go pick out up to five books max'... but I came home with my box full and almost bursting!
They have some spanking new fiction paperback out there but there aren't too many copies of those - less than five or so on display. I grabbed a copy of Amy Tan's 'The Opposite of Fate', (displayed at Border's as 'New' and retailing for $18.90, I think) for only $6!! I only spotted two other copies of the same title. Other great buys of new fiction paperbacks in limited quantities include Rebecca Wells' 'Little Altars Everywhere' for just $5
, Peter Moore's Swahili for the Broken-Hearted for $6 , and Bill Bryson's not-so-new 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' for a mere $5!!! Early bird catches the big, fat, juicy, succulent, worm though... I saw less than five copies of Wells' aforementioned book, and I think three copies of Bryson's and about four of Moore's paperback.
There are Lonely Planet travel guidebooks on sale there too. Not all the copies are of good condition though. Be sure to check the edition too because when I was looking out for a guidebook on Australia, I saw a copy of the 10th, 11th and 12th Edition. There were quite a few copies of the guidebook for Japan, and other SEA nations.
Sadly, there weren't a good selection of cookbooks.
Those on display were the exact same cookbooks I saw a few years back when I first attended MPH's Warehouse Sale in this inconspicuous warehouse in some industrial park area. They do look kinda yellowed. They are the Joie, Inc published cookbooks of mostly Japanese cuisine and they're going at half-price ($12) if you're interested. I think they normally sell for close to $30.
There were tons of children's books too. Cultivate a reading habit... start 'em young!
Overall, I prefer this MPH warehouse sale to Time's event. The variety was greater and the titles were newer. However, I hated having to cart around a box and having to kneel on the floor / bend over to look at the books in the boxes placed on the ground.
I was also disappointed that the three Cashier counters there only accepted CASH!
I mean, what happened to NETS and VISA??!! The Times the Bookshop Warehouse sale had those options on top of cash. Notwithstanding, there's a DBS ATM just after Expo Hall 3, which is a looooooooooooong walk away!
As I trudged on towards the ATM located in Mt Zion , I passed by the Singapore Food Manufacturers' Fair, which was still closed with an eager crowd already amassed outside its doors. I had to give it a miss because there's no way I'd lug around a carton heavy with books and salivate at the food, which I won't be able to sample or try or feast on because of my load! I was sooo upset I had to give it a miss!
ok next was some Aqua show. No!! Not 'aqua' as in transvestites but 'aqua' as in the Aquarium Fish show. If you want to enter that exhibition today, you'll have to pay for entry because it's still restricted to trade folks only but tomorrow, it will be opened to public. I peeked into the hall and saw a few new designs of fish tanks that were soooo pretty!
So, for those of you who are heading down to the Expo for the MPH Warehouse Sale, go! And go early!! I was there at 9:05am and the crowd was sparse for only about half an hour afterwhich, it got crowded! By 10:30am, the crowd that had built up was large!
Also, remember to bring your CASH along because that's the ONLY mode of payment they'll accept.
Unless you don't mind making the pilgrimage to the ATM altar beyond Hall 3! -
hey.. wanna go again tomorrow?
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And go bankruptOriginally posted by the Bear:hey.. wanna go again tomorrow? ... and eat bread for the rest of the month till the next payday a month away?! No visits to that Meiji chocolate counter at Takashimaya for my stock-up of chocolates and sweets?! ... And ... and... no sushi for the entire month of June?! 
Hmmm....
We are talking about books, afterall! hehehe! And I've been a bookworm since I was a wee li'l tot. (Was I ever that puny? hahahahahaha!!!! )
Dunno... I regretted not picking up a few titles that I reeeeeely was mulling over and that took great discipline and restraint to not pop them into my overflowing box. And there's this boxed set of The Chronicles of Narnia that's pretty neat... that I STILL cannot believe I left behind!!! 
Ah well, we'll see... Tomorrow's crowd will be horrendous, if past year MPH warehouse sales are indications to go by. -
Argghhhhh.... Cheap books !!!
Have to go early tmlz @@@@ -
I'm going tomorrow after collecting my '0' level certificate from my school, who wants to join me?
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met ferret for the first time today
the food fair had lots of wonderful food.. but about half the population of singapore was there... and 1/4 of JB's... got shoulder-charged by a huge bunch of old aunties and was quite afraid because they could have hurt themselves.. but they didn't care
anyhooooo.. pleased with myself.. got a total of 3 books
saw another 2 people from the forums at the book fair too.. they TMM so after saying "hi" to them, i made myself scarce
went to the suntec "book fair" with rhonda and it was one of the worst book fairs i've seen
after that, went to the hobby toy shop at suntec to see if i could blow about $75 on the duelling tanks i talked about.. NO MORE!!
then blew about $37 on chocolates at The Cocoa Tree
and bought 3 DVDs including Steam Boy for $17.90.. and Any Given Sunday + Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels for $22.90 each
all in all a good day shopping -
i had a football match...
but we did a liverpool
i totally forgot about this event! -
haha...MPH ?Originally posted by The man who was death:I'm going tomorrow after collecting my '0' level certificate from my school, who wants to join me?
nearly went..if not for my sis... -
Bought five books
1.Jihad vs McWorld
2.The Hunt For Bin Laden
3.Just And Unjust Wars
4.American Soldier - General Tommy Franks
5.Warrior Politics - Robert Kaplan.
only $31 -
hmm political and war natured books...Originally posted by LazerLordz:Bought five books
1.Jihad vs McWorld
2.The Hunt For Bin Laden
3.Just And Unjust Wars
4.American Soldier - General Tommy Franks
5.Warrior Politics - Robert Kaplan.
only $31
this is the best place to buy such books..other place surely expensive.. -
oh.. forgot to list my 3 books...
The Complete Chronicals of Narnia - C S Lewis ($25)
Sex, Lies & Politics, The Naked Truth - Larry Flynt ($
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore ($5) -
sigh, shinta told me got offer for the Chronicles, too bad i am not there....
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the place was lousy with it...
$25 for the GIANT book i bought...
or $25 for the 5 little books in a boxed set.. i chose the giant book coz the paper was better and there are illustrations
other things that were littering the whole place... LOTR - The Two Towers and LOTR - The Return Of The King...
i bet after trudging through the 1st one, many didn't bother to buy the 2nd and 3rd booksOriginally posted by laurence82:sigh, shinta told me got offer for the Chronicles, too bad i am not there.... -
Why don't they just get the compilation of the 3 books??? By doing so I HAD to finish the bookOriginally posted by the Bear:the place was lousy with it...
$25 for the GIANT book i bought...
or $25 for the 5 little books in a boxed set.. i chose the giant book coz the paper was better and there are illustrations
other things that were littering the whole place... LOTR - The Two Towers and LOTR - The Return Of The King...
i bet after trudging through the 1st one, many didn't bother to buy the 2nd and 3rd books -
there were LOADS of that too
tolkien was very very long winded
could not find any of the Dune books tho'...Originally posted by kopiosatu:Why don't they just get the compilation of the 3 books??? By doing so I HAD to finish the book -
When i was reading LOTR... i realised he could use up to 2-3 pages just to describe the bloody scenary. What's more the words were so damn small. Thank God for the movie, except that it wasn't very accurate.Originally posted by the Bear:there were LOADS of that too
tolkien was very very long winded
could not find any of the Dune books tho'...
Dune? I think it'll be really hard to find unless they do a movie remake. -
Thats why his books are a good read.Originally posted by kopiosatu:When i was reading LOTR... i realised he could use up to 2-3 pages just to describe the bloody scenary. What's more the words were so damn small. Thank God for the movie, except that it wasn't very accurate.
Dune? I think it'll be really hard to find unless they do a movie remake.
Game for other Tolkien books besides the LORT series? -
The bloody Hobbit? I don't know if I want to start.Originally posted by laurence82:Thats why his books are a good read.
Game for other Tolkien books besides the LORT series? -
bought 5 books today... hehehe
heng got manpower to help me carry... -
wah..who had the honour?Originally posted by coolger03:bought 5 books today... hehehe
heng got manpower to help me carry...
anyway waht time did u guys go ?