Half-Term
Tuesday, October 23, 2007,12:45 PM
I just got back from singapore on Sunday midnight, aka Monday morning. The wee hours of the morning. Shall post the images some other time, when time permits.
Oh, and I’m not a skiver, I’m sick- down with flu due to a late night. I’ve got a hyper-sensitive nose, the least smell of anything makes me sneeze- causing a bloked nose. An irritated throat too. Sucks, I hate being sick…Slept early, woke up slightly cranky. Been doing more art homework, have to study for the chemistry test tomorrow. Was doing research on the internet and decided to look at my friendster—
Then I discovered a gazillion happy b’day comments- a whole about 2 pages from various people- both late and early. I haven’t told anyone how my b’day night went, so I’ll spill.
Not exactly the most glamourous venue but, I spent it at my GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE. With my cousins and aunties and uncles. I got a cake, a chocolate ice-cream cake, for some reason not exactly the ideal cake I had in mind- soggy and all brown. Nevertheless the chocolate was great. Grandma got a fruit cake or something from the Sheraton. Sounds great and all, but my cake was finished first.
None of my cousins knew it was my b’day until that day. Maybe I should look for that picture of me and my grandma. Oh yeah, and this is to explain why our bdays fell on the first day. Thursday I was going to spore and her bday, on the Chinese calendar fell on thurs 18th of October. So we ended up celebrating it on the same day.
Okay. Now to Singapore. Note that I haven’t been there for over… gulp* 7 years or more? Haha I admit I’m trying to make it seem less drastic, but it sure is true. So this is what I noticed about the people of Singapore.
1) Those around orchard are far trendier. The teenagers and couples and businesspeople hang around this area
2) Singaporean ladies’ choice in clothes. Miniskirts, shorts and a top. Shoes preferably ballet flats for casual wear, extreme high heels when at work. Patent shoes, either red or black, sharp tipped-crocodile style.
3) There is singlish. It exists. Like yellow being pronounced as lellooww
4) It is a forever-busy place.
To summarise this, we spent the whole day shopping, for other items on the shopping list other than clothes, mostly things like metronomes, watches… books =)
Kinokuniya is huge, the photography section is amazing. Borders resembles a library. Could spend the entire day there…
in singapore- so busy shopping till we forgot to eat. Lunch was at about 2-3pm, dinner at 9pm+ then we went back to the hotel- and showered and watched some funny Taiwanese idol thing, till 12. There was no sleeping in at all… breakfast ended at 10, so there was a mad rush downstairs. There were a lot of Indonesian tourists around as well.
Okay. Off to do the thanking-the-people-for-their-bday-comments thing in friendster.
PS: I recommend a sushi place called ‘Koh’s Sushi and Grill’ at ‘food paradise’ in wisma atria. And ‘din tai fung’ for the ‘xiao long pao.’
PPS: big thanks for the presents I got yesterday in school =) thanks to ching-o and Camille, weiwen and ALEXIA the xiao cha bo =)
Labels: birthday, shopping, travel
