Day 3 also happened to be my 25th Birthday. For the last few years I've made a bit of an effort to make sure I wasn't at work for my Birthday. This year I couldn't have asked for a better day.
We were up early and had breakfast before 9am, but something wasn't quite right. I felt a bit... average. Robin noted that I looked tired; and I felt it. I had a nap and woke up around 1pm, which by Perth standards is a waste of a Monday - shops would be closed in a few hours. In Singapore, at noon, you've got a whole shift to go before shops start closing.
Lunch was more food from the Hawkers on the corner, some excellent chilli squid with bok choy. Again, off to the MRT station and into Little India to scout the motorbike shops for bling and accessories. We spend the afternoon checking out shops and scoping out stuff to come back and buy.
Later in the day we stumbled upon Singapura Plaza, a massive complex above the main rail interchange we took. I'd been looking for Bose headphones around the place as well and some retailers suggested a shop in this complex, so off we went. For those that live in Perth, you'd be familiar with Karrinyup and Garden City shopping centres. Now, stack them both on top of each other, then triple. OMG!! 7 floors of shops - from trinkets, jewellery, gadgets and gizmos, haberdashery, fruit, coffee, musical instruments, a LEGO shop, fragrances... everything. It was almost like the complete issue of Perth CBD shops in one area.
Here I did eventually find the Bose headphones I wanted, with 10% off and not to mention the exchange rate - It ended up being a pretty sweet deal! Robin also got me a little "something" - a beautiful blown glass necklace. *thanks Robin!!* We bought heaps more stuff and ended up finishing our shopping around 10pm, walking through Singapore at night is awesome!
Back to the villa again and munchies kicked in so I dolled up and we headed out to grab food. Where else in the world can you pick up lobster with spicy noodles, a lychee cocktail and a jug of beer at 11:30pm on a Monday night!?!?!? Ah, another awesome day in Singapore - and a wonderful way to celebrate a quarter of a Century!
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