Ah, the final days in Singapore. I guess the mood got a little sad the last two days; the holiday was nearly over and much fun was had. In a couple of days the party would be over and it would be back to work, back to the hard slog.
Well, it was time to exercise the credit card a little more with another trip to the Mustafa centre to buy a mega suitcase for all the other shit we'd bought during the week. Here I also picked up a funky mobile phone for dad; a Samsung U300 (not available in Australia yet)and Robin got some sunnies. It was nice to just continue loitering around the shops - its actually quite relaxing as I don't do it at home. After the Mustafa centre we went back to Singapura Plaza and bought carbon fibre and stainless steel rings (very nice). Dinner was a Snickers and Mars Bar icecream.
Well, it was the last night in Singapore and we sure as hell weren't ready to go back home.
We woke and headed off for breakfast again, I suggested we have a fatty hot breakfast so we have the energy to survive the long day ahead, including the flight home that was to land at midnight. As we had test-packed the day before, there wasn't much to pack away and we had checked out after a nap. We took a taxi to Changi airport where the taxi driver gave us change in currency from Borneo - it looked pretty suss, but when we went to do our tax-free shopping rebates, the gent at the counter explained that it had the same value as the Singapore Dollar.
I got about $140 back, which helped ease the debt, but not by much.
Whilst at Changi we ate some fantastic sushi and generally chilled out, stocked up on booze and perfume and then it was onto the plane. The flight was pretty rough and surprisingly, the food was bad. At least I had my new Bose QC3's and was drinking some Singapore Slings. Robin and I were rocking back to Ministry of Sound, till we landed.
Once in Perth, we were lucky enough to have our luggage come out last off the plane, then got to line up for quarantine with 600 other people as a flight from Malaysia had landed only 10 minutes before us. We declared the mooncake (which was egg-free luckily), had our bags scanned then got home. N'aw, work the next day.... :(
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