Caramel: A Place Where Birds Don't Lay Eggs

It's a Chinese saying which means a place so remote even birds don't fly there. And that's where we're at. Exit bridal shop, exit steamboat restaurant, exit soya drink stall, exit watch shop, even ATM doesn't want to be here. They've always stressed that their centre lacked the "critical mass", which we already knew, as it was printed in black and white on the offer letter (for the place) before we moved in. But what baffles me is, they actually "highlight" this lesser fact, again and again, through their email correspondence with us.

Now, instead of saying there's no crowd coming to their centre, why don't they do something about it? I do not know. Oh yeah they did - they created a Facebook page which no one knows about and a website which no one visits. It just seems that they are more comfortable admitting defeat than trying to promote their centre (yes EFFORT AND MONEY will be spent instead of perfunctorily organizing a very sorry ass of a flea market which looked like a primary school charity sales event, and attracted no one).

But one thing for sure, they are very good at getting replacements (read: dumbassese like us who were lured by the delusions of cheap-but-not-exactly-that-cheap rent and non-existent office crowd from above their centre). Not the ATM, though. Banks are smarter - they don't go to a place where birds don't lay eggs.