{"id":171,"date":"2007-12-03T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:26:49","slug":"more-pointless-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"More pointless wandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless1.jpg\" title=\"pointless1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless1.jpg\" alt=\"pointless1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I passed these dumpling-makers on my way to the train station this morning. \u00a0They seemed baffled when I wanted to take their picture, but they were working behind a big plate-glass window which was clearly installed in their kitchen expressly so they could be gawked at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">I spent most of the morning and early afternoon searching for a reported \u201cBackpacker style cafe with chill-out lounge\u201d and I circled the neighborhood several times looking, but all I found was SNACKS SNACKS SNACKS. \u00a0I\u2019m not anti snack, but it got kind of ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless2.jpg\" title=\"pointless2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless2.jpg\" alt=\"pointless2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless3.jpg\" title=\"pointless3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless3.jpg\" alt=\"pointless3.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless4.jpg\" title=\"pointless4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless4.jpg\" alt=\"pointless4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">Later on, I made a (doomed-to-failure) attempt to buy a GPS system at Sim Lim center:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless5.jpg\" title=\"pointless5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless5.jpg\" alt=\"pointless5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless6.jpg\" title=\"pointless6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pointless6.jpg\" alt=\"pointless6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">It turns out my 2-year-old Treo is way too obsolete for anyone to deal with. \u00a0They sure do have some neat-o looking phones here, but I\u2019m not really tempted to buy one that won\u2019t work back in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed these dumpling-makers on my way to the train station this morning. \u00a0They seemed baffled when I wanted to take their picture, but they were working behind a big plate-glass window which was clearly installed in their kitchen expressly &hellip; 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