Her personal London included libraries, theaters, museums, parks and a few homes whose memory she treasured for having been the setting of bedroom adventures.
- Gregory Maguire, Lost
Looking at the pictures from Singapore, I am not surprised that most of them feature me (or my sibs or Johann) eating. If you look at my luggage, you will find that we all bought mostly books.
Singapore has always been about the bookstores and about the food. This trip was no different.
Day 1, June 8 --
This is the gourmet baguette we ordered on board Jetstar. It was really crunchy bread with grilled chicken with tomatoes and mozzarella. Johann and I split it because we weren't really that hungry (and we were both too excited to eat anyway ^_^)
We arrived in Singapore at 4 and took the MRT to our hotel. We checked in and had our first meal at the Food Junction in Funan. The Food Junction is a food court with branches in many of the major malls. The number of foodstalls vary, depending on the size of the food court.
After an early dinner, we took the MRT to Bugis Junction and brought Johann and my sister to the smaller Kinokuniya bookstore.
One of the first things to catch Johann's attention was this column -- guess why. ^_^
Beside Kinokuniya was a comic book store called Absolute Comics. They have an amazing back issues selection. Absolute Comics is heaven for comic book collectors. Was so tempted to get a copy of Image's Four Letter Words . One of the things that makes me go "wow" in this store is their selection of bundled single issues for a particular series. They had the complete Preacher in singles and Johann was interested in getting The Intimates -- 7 issues for S$30.
Day 1 ended with a trip to 7-11. We purchased a very interesting rootbeer and a bag of chips.
Day 2, June 9 --
The plan for our first full day in Singapore was to go to Orchard Road. We discussed our itinerary over breakfast at Coleman's, Peninsula-Excelsior's cafe.
One of my travel habits is to indulge in toast smothered in butter and jam -- the breakfast buffet was amazing -- they even had French Toast, which I love, love, love. ^_^
Since we finished breakfast early, we decided to go to Esplanade (to do some tourist-y things ^_^)
There was an art exhibit along the walkway going to Esplanade --
The Esplanade is lovely, it's a recently-built cultural center:
There are also restaurants outside and you can eat al fresco -- the view is lovely --
Our first stop in Orchard was Kinokuniya -- the Kinokuniya in Ngee An City. You can get lost in the books here -- we decided to split up and gave each other 2 hours to go around. I went to the stationery/office supplies section. ^_^
My big purchase in Kino was a catalog of T-shirt designs from Japan. (I want to be able to create the same funky designs! >_<)
On our way to Borders (yes, another bookstore), we passed by the Ice Cream Vendor --
and decided to take a quick ice cream break. Believe it or not, this was my first time to try out Singapore's "dirty" ice cream --
For S$1, you can choose to have your ice cream on a cone, or between two pieces of wafer or on bread. We chose bread. Yum.
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This is curious --
What comes to mind when you see this?
I bet you it's not this --
It's a place that sells bean treats -- I love their red bean pancake (which reminded me of bibingcrepe) and my bro loves the drinks there.
To be continued...
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