South to Sporeland, Part 1

*Friday, 17th April 2009*

Braving, Nivlac and I intruded Singapore end of last month to pay Sinner (who was assigned to work there for 3 weeks) and DL a visit. Since we can bunk in at Sinner's hotel for free, Nivlac decided to fly over thru Tiger Airways.

The interior of the plane is very similar to AirAsia except that their seats are in dark blue and made of fabric (red and leather in AirAsia).

Immediately after we were seated, a lady sat opposite us and was scolding the air stewardess. Apparently, her finger was bleeding and I think she was annoyed by their slow "rescue" action.

Singapore's budget terminal at Terminal 2 was quite empty that morning but very clean and new. We took the MRT at Terminal 3 by free shuttle bus (from Terminal 2 to Terminal 3) straight to City Hall (if I remember correctly).

It was still early, about nine something in the morning and DL haven't arrive to meet up with us, so we walked a bit into Raffles City mall. Most of the shops weren't open yet except a few restaurants serving breakfast. Took a shot of the neatly arranged tables and chairs of the lower ground food court, shown below.



Finally met up with DL and he brought us to Marina Square for brunch. According to Nivlac, DL insisted to come to this place called Xin Wang HK char chan teng (cafe) because he liked the food here. We had nissin noodles, curry chicken bun, pork chop, noodles with spicy pork cubes, prawn paste chicken and we shared a dessert, the tallest mango snow ice I've ever had! The shaved ice were topped with mango puree, mango cubes and one scoop of mango ice cream. Pure enjoyment for mango aficionados!



We then walked over to Esplanade, which is next to JP Morgan building, camwhored a bit at the back of the building that overlooked the skyscrapers and the Merlion fountain and took MRT to our next destination... Funan DigitaLife Mall since Braving said he wanna have a look on iPhone.





But we've came to the wrong place as the mall is only selling computer and accessories! Soooo, we walked to Bugis Junction instead, not without stopping by at a noon market to gobble on ice cream bun (their ice cream for bun is cut into rectangular shape!)



Upon arriving at Bugis, the three of them immediately "surrounded" the poor iPhone on display (working model, not dummy) - shake, knock with finger, press, slide, flip, take photos etc while I just standing behind and watch. Me not an Apple fan :p



Tired from all the walking, we stopped by at MOS burger to grab a teriyaki chicken burger set (very fresh lettuce, unlike KFC or McD) and took the MRT to Chinatown to meet up with Sinner (finally!) as he only can leave work at 6pm. Imagine that we actually walked since 9am++ till 6pm++.

Took shower and before dinner, Sinner brought us to Sportsmen Asia store inside Chinatown Point. A very gayish shop, with lots of underwears, tank tops, sex toys, fancy shirts and pants, male magazines, postcards, posters, lubricants for sell. And also, some friendly gay sales promoters. I got a piece of black, but thin cloth, short sleeves shirt. Wondering whether it'll be sheer in sunlight.

*to be continued....

p/s: I'll be leaving for GuangZhou in another few hours (might have reached by the time you read this), will be back next Tuesday. Have a good weekend ahead!