Monday, August 01, 2005
It ain't half hot
Soundtrack: "Tales Told" by Ian Broudie
Good evening this evening.
Most of the stuff to do in Singapore consists of shopping, shopping and shopping, so when Aunty Hui Suan took Dad and I out for lunch today, we ended up walking round the attached shopping mall whislt we waited for the restaurant to open. It was surreal, walking into Marks and Spencers and seeing all the biscuits sold at extortionate prices because they were imported from the UK. We had dim sum for lunch, but fortunately, it was at one of those places where you pre-order everything by ticking what you want on the menu (like in HK), so I didn't get any hot chicken feet spilt on me this time.
After lunch, we walked in the midday heat to the Asian Civilisations Museum on Armenian Street. There was quite an interesting exhibition on the Peranakan Chinese of Singapore, but we had gone to see the exhibition of Vatican artifacts. It turned out that they were actually at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Empress Place. Ah. So we gave up that one, then. Aunty Hui Suan then took us to the new national library of Singapore, which has only recently opened. It's really rather large, and I couldn't find Q anywhere inside it.
Right, I'm getting chucked off now. Farewell for now.
Good evening this evening.
Most of the stuff to do in Singapore consists of shopping, shopping and shopping, so when Aunty Hui Suan took Dad and I out for lunch today, we ended up walking round the attached shopping mall whislt we waited for the restaurant to open. It was surreal, walking into Marks and Spencers and seeing all the biscuits sold at extortionate prices because they were imported from the UK. We had dim sum for lunch, but fortunately, it was at one of those places where you pre-order everything by ticking what you want on the menu (like in HK), so I didn't get any hot chicken feet spilt on me this time.
After lunch, we walked in the midday heat to the Asian Civilisations Museum on Armenian Street. There was quite an interesting exhibition on the Peranakan Chinese of Singapore, but we had gone to see the exhibition of Vatican artifacts. It turned out that they were actually at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Empress Place. Ah. So we gave up that one, then. Aunty Hui Suan then took us to the new national library of Singapore, which has only recently opened. It's really rather large, and I couldn't find Q anywhere inside it.
Right, I'm getting chucked off now. Farewell for now.
