Foxtwo told me he was feeling down and wanted to check out my usual haunt at Tanjong Pagar. Since I am available last evening after work, I told him I will show him the way to the place. We met at Tanjong Pagar MRT station control, and then went to Maxwell Market for dinner before we moved on to the pub.

How did I find this place? One of my old secondary classmate brought me to Glamor – located opposite the road from ‘The 50’s Entertainment Pub’ near Fairfield Methodist Church – one evening. After that I had been there either to pass my weekends evenings or to watch EPL soccer matches. At times I went there to have some ‘quick fixes’ after work on weekdays with some ex-colleagues.

It’s really a cozy place, where you don’t get a crowd too unruly or rowdy. There are no pesky or irritating ‘working gals’ imposting as waitresses. The waitress there are young girls from China (18 – 22 years old) who are really here to study at reputable institutions – Nanyang Poly, NAFA etc. So, if you are looking for another kind of action, then this is definitely not the place for you. Please go to the one next door or to one of those along Duxton Hill. And in fact, please go as far away as possible – like Geylang or Joo Chiat – and leave some decent places where people can have some drinks peacefully and girls don’t get harassed simply for walking about in the neighborhood.

Also, most of the people there do sing pretty alright. They might not competition or star material, but your ears generally don’t get tortured. You also won’t get certain people hogging the mike for long periods because each table is only ‘entitled’ to 2 songs each round. Of course you can choose as many songs as you want to sing, but after the first two, the pub will put the remaining on queue until the next round the mike comes to your table.

For a better write up of the pub, read foxtwo’s blog post.

Addendum

Boss Kelvin of Glamor told me, if he finds out that his girls are prostituting themselves when in his premises, he will fire them immediately. He told me he’s just making a living and he has his partners to answer to. So if you have an itchy dick, really go elsewhere.

Addendum 【July 2011】

I haven’t gone to Glamor for at least a year or even more. The reason I quit the place a few years ago was simply because it had failed to top up on orange juice, which is the best mixer for one of my drinks. It is also drawing a young crowd which is too rowdy and unruly to make me uncomfortable. On top of which, the service standards deteriorated due to the high turnover of waitresses. The new waitresses are more focused in pushing “ladies drinks” and on one occasion one of them even quarreled with my friend after she had one drink too many. The worst part of it all was that my friend had bought her a drink, and after she finished it she immediately left the table for a smoke outside the pub. That was fine, since we expected it. But when she returned, she thought she hadn’t finished her drink and down the entire cup which my friend was drinking. She then accused my friend of adding our own liquor to her drink and slammed the glass on the table, breaking it. She got so worked up that she end up puking onto my friend’s shirt. The reason why I am now putting this up even though this happened more than a year ago is because I realised that there are people who still read this post and I have a responsibility to provide an update.