I’m a sucker for bus ads. The bus ads in Singapore are pretty effective; since we don’t have billboards, they’re effectively huge and mobile substitutes. I’m one of those people who are more observant than they would like to be, and the ones that really get me are:
Subway: Craving a New Taste Everyday
Carl’s Jr: It’s Gonna Be Messy
I have a Subway outlet on the ground floor of the building all my classes are in. I keep walking by it, ignoring it (it’s not a diet I’m on; but I do eat a shocking amount of Subway sandwiches); just as I think I’m safe, I have to see a bus with the huge Sub and the text, Craving a Sub? At which point, have to relent, and go back and order a footlong BMT.
I’m starting to think I have a psychic connection with these bus ads — they read my mind too well. When I’m hungry and not sure of what to eat, I look up, see a Subway ad, and go straight for a footlong. But maybe I’m just a Subway slut.
When I’m sad and miserable (which is all the time nowadays, because I’m a reluctant nerd), I look up, and see: “Next Stop: Thailand”, “Happiness on Earth”, conjure up images of fiery somtam _pet pet_. I’m a sucker for Thailand, obviously; I’m that wannabe Bangkok native who spends too much time in Singapore; I’m that weirdo who watches Anthony Bourdain on Discovery Channel and can identify every single street he walks past, and every restaurant and streetside vendor he goes to. At this point, as I’m nursing my _som tam_ fantasies, I’m accosted by another bus ad: Jetstar Asia, Now Boarding.
Oh, 10 days: som tam pet pet, cha yen, and you thai same same!
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Next Stop, Happiness
I’m a sucker for bus ads. The bus ads in Singapore are pretty effective; since we don’t have billboards, they’re effectively huge and mobile substitutes. I’m one of those people who are more observant than they would like to be, and the ones that really get me are:
Subway: Craving a New Taste Everyday
Carl’s Jr: It’s Gonna Be Messy
I have a Subway outlet on the ground floor of the building all my classes are in. I keep walking by it, ignoring it (it’s not a diet I’m on; but I do eat a shocking amount of Subway sandwiches); just as I think I’m safe, I have to see a bus with the huge Sub and the text, Craving a Sub? At which point, have to relent, and go back and order a footlong BMT.
I’m starting to think I have a psychic connection with these bus ads — they read my mind too well. When I’m hungry and not sure of what to eat, I look up, see a Subway ad, and go straight for a footlong. But maybe I’m just a Subway slut.
When I’m sad and miserable (which is all the time nowadays, because I’m a reluctant nerd), I look up, and see: “Next Stop: Thailand”, “Happiness on Earth”, conjure up images of fiery somtam _pet pet_. I’m a sucker for Thailand, obviously; I’m that wannabe Bangkok native who spends too much time in Singapore; I’m that weirdo who watches Anthony Bourdain on Discovery Channel and can identify every single street he walks past, and every restaurant and streetside vendor he goes to. At this point, as I’m nursing my _som tam_ fantasies, I’m accosted by another bus ad: Jetstar Asia, Now Boarding.
Oh, 10 days: som tam pet pet, cha yen, and you thai same same!
possibly related
Thai-Indian Music Video / Walking Into Cambodia And Back Out / It’s Out / Jing Zhong Bao Guo / Some Tips on Indian Visas /