Dining and gambling at MBS

It was the start of the long Easter weekend when I received a text from a close friend.

"Wanna go to the casino?" it read.

I was pretty bogged down with work but hey, whats a life if I have no work life balance.

So my reply went back as

"Sure but after 7pm cause I've tons of work to do"

Girls being girls... 7pm turned to 7.15pm and then to 7.30pm.

Yes and so by the time M picked me up in her cab it was only around 8.30pm when we finally set foot on MBS. We had to queer our (actually just mine) hungry stomachs before we hit the slots. As my gut instincts felt that I was going to lose some money (I mean the house always wins!), I told M to go somewhere cheap. We ended up at TCC but not before waiting for a good old 15 minutes as the place was packed with dinner customers. 

I ordered this plate of Tobiko Scallop Pasta at TCC

Marina Bay Sands

The pasta was good due to the light Japanese soy dressing that blended perfectly with the spaghetti and scallops. It was not a case where you come out feeling out as if you've just swallowed a whole bowl of indigestible cream. The meal was made even better with the quality conversations we had with each other. I think we talked about how a certain occupation could become so rich and who is dating who. Oh well what to do, we are girls and so our conversations only revolve around so many things.

We headed to the casino and on hindsight so many signs were telling us that it was not going to be our day. The first sign was when my IC card got stuck in the payment machine. YES!!! My IC card was eaten by the machine so I had to call the guards to get it out. A bit of a drama but I should have seen it coming that it was sign to not go in. When we got in, the people at the table refuse to move even though the table was not full! How do we place our bets then? ARGHH!!

Anyhow M and I spilt up. She headed to play blackjack while I played three pictures. Three pictures is quite a brainless game compared to blackjack. This also explains why she is so much smarter than me cause she's the one playing the intellectual games. After we met up again, we were both down!!! It was really not our day at the casino :( We headed outside to breathe some fresh air and to expel all the bad air out. Yes we have our girly superstitions.

When we headed back in I refused to enter by the bad luck entrance. Yes we even coined the different entrances as the bad and good luck entrance. It was already 1am plus by then. As usual, we spilt up again to play our respective games. Lady luck was still not on my side as I went down even more! Yes the sad reality is that the house always wins. But the highlight of the day was when we witnessed a high stake game at the blackjack table. This guy was winning at least $25K worth of black $100 chips at the blackjack table. For those who dont usually go to the casino, the normal blackjack tables start at a base rate of $25 or $50. So to see this guy having a stack of black chips worth at least $25K was a sight to behold. What made it even more dramatic were his interesting antics. He kept on turning the chips around and around just before he placed his bet and continuously tapped on the table while the banker dealt the cards. It looked like something from a HongKong drama serial but this time real!

Even though we lost money, both of us felt that the drama at the blackjack table provided us with lots of entertainment which kinda made up for what we lost. At around 3am we hailed a cab and being Singaporean, headed to the nearest hawker centre for supper.