…was one glorified shopping trip.
It was without a doubt the most exciting Chinese New Year trip to Singapore I have experienced in my life. Not hard considering it’s my only one. Here’s what happened :
Hours in car. Immigration at 2nd Link. Fairmont Hotel. Amazingly grand. Up to room. Stay there for 3 hours. Dinner with some friend of my father’s and 2 of their 4 children (other 2 were somewhere else (wisely)). Back upstairs. Sleep.
Wake up. Go to adjoining mall (Raffles Plaza). Eat at Kopi Tiam (a kopitiam shop). Look at stuff at mall. Eat lunch (I forget where). Take MRT to Orchard Road. Walk to Robinson’s, then Isetan, then Robinson’s and spend vouchers which were given by someone to us. Struggle to spend vouchers (:x). Pretend to be only slightly bored while thinking of menial thinks to relieve boredom. Choose clothes, try clothes, dump clothes. Battle with boredom. Walk and wait for sister/father/mother to choose items. Overcome boredom. Walk more and kill boredom. Nighttime. Take taxi back to hotel, and thus to mall, and to Shokudo.
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Finally something interesting. Shokudo is Marche, japanese style. Us being the lucky ones, we went there on the same day a feature came out in the Straits Times. 15 minutes wait to enter. Then we received a card (much more preferable to a stamp passport, thankyouverymuch) to register our purchases. Ordering is simple, go to a counter, tell them what you want and wait.
Then take your food, place on table and go to another stall. Look for something vaguely interesting and order. Then, wait.
(Becomes a normal thing on February the 10th)
Then eat.
GARLIC FRIED RICE + BEEF TEPPANYAKI + RHOSTI + JAPANESE OMELETTE + ORANGE JUICE + CHOCOLATE GELATO = HUGE SUCCESS!
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Back to hotel room. Sleep.
Wake up. Struggle to stay awake. Eat donuts for breakfast. Buy bread. Buy book. Go to hotel room. Read, wait and sleep for further 2 hours. Eat lunch. Pack items, leave hotel, go home.
Write boring blog post.
*fin*
Definitely as fun as watching paint dry. Then peel off. And finally crumble on the floor and decompose.
Moral of the story : Wait, and wait some more.