Sunday, December 10, 2006
Christmast Lights Outing @ Orchard
This may sound rather insane but I actually love Christmas! Orchard Rd has never looked more beautiful and enchanting during the Christmas period. Malls offer various discounts and pretty gifts packages at low prices. And everyone seems to be in high spirits maybe due to end-of-year bonuses and holidays. Certainly, there is something magical about Christmas. Baby and I went to Orchard yesterday night for a splendid outing. Needless to say, it was a great one since we managed to catch numerous colourful Christmas decorations.
My fruitful trip to the malls brought me great satisfaction. I bought some Clinique cosmetics at Tangs, a pair of orange Diesel shades and dresses from the flea market. The flea market was wonderful. There were rows and rows of small stalls selling unique items such as clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery etc at great discounts. Many of the things are not even commercially available so the chances of running into someone wearing the same dress as you is actually quite slim. Pretty hooked to the concept of shopping at flea markets. Goodness, its even better than Bugis!
Nevertheless, something happened while we were making our way around Orchard Road. I was carrying my purchases in the Tangs paperbag when this auntie came up to me. She wanted my receipt of my purchase because Tangs is having a promotion. Gift vouchers or some sort of free items will be given if a shopper is able to accumulate about 300 bucks of shopping value from various receipts. The auntie had the cheek to ask me for my receipt so that she can claim the prize. For God's sake, doesnt she have any shame? Imagine asking a stranger for her receipt so that she can get some free items. I said a curt no and walked off. Fucking irritating! These typical kiasu Singaporeans are driving me nuts! Although I bought my cosmetics at Tangs for about 100 bucks, I wont even dream of handing over the receipt to her. No way! You want a prize? Go earn it yourself!
It seems to me that there are more buskers nowadays in Singapore. Cool. I like them. They usually perform eccentric items which are rather entertaining. For instance, this group of musicians were blowing windpipes to the music of ABBA. Lovely.
This is a very interesting item. This couple pretended to be statues and boy, dont they really look like real ones? I thought so. It must be really tiring to stand there, looking dumb in painted silver from head to toe and pretending to be statues with minimal movements. Sheeeshhh...
OOOOhhhh.... I love this tree! The golden tree of precious stones. Splendid isnt it? Although I looked quite awful in this picture since SOMEBODY did not know how to snap pictures.
The tree, again. Just look at those 'rubies', 'amethyst', 'opel' and what nots lining the tree bark. Plus, I think I took a pretty good picture of the landscape AND the portrait. Not just the landscape only.
Another enchanting picture by your truly. Take a look at the bird in the golden cage.
I love the golden castle! Reminds me of fairytales; of princes, of princesses and of knights in shining armours. Hehehee...
And urgh.. I looked weird in this picture since SOMEBODY could not take a perfect picture.
Hmmmmm..... I never knew that Baby has Brown eyes.
We were going to catch a Spanish movie but there was no timings and we ended up having desserts at Cineleisure. There was a gig organized by Lime besides the Cineleisure and guess who we saw.....
Hady Mirza! Okay, Im not really into him and this whole Idol thingy but its pretty cool to be able to catch him performing without having that intention in the first place. He sounded good although I think he does not have much fashion sense. Just check out those ugly red sweater with neon green letterings. Mighty Ooopssss....
End of the day: Smiley US. Glorious night out.
ΒΆ 2:30 PM 
This may sound rather insane but I actually love Christmas! Orchard Rd has never looked more beautiful and enchanting during the Christmas period. Malls offer various discounts and pretty gifts packages at low prices. And everyone seems to be in high spirits maybe due to end-of-year bonuses and holidays. Certainly, there is something magical about Christmas. Baby and I went to Orchard yesterday night for a splendid outing. Needless to say, it was a great one since we managed to catch numerous colourful Christmas decorations.
My fruitful trip to the malls brought me great satisfaction. I bought some Clinique cosmetics at Tangs, a pair of orange Diesel shades and dresses from the flea market. The flea market was wonderful. There were rows and rows of small stalls selling unique items such as clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery etc at great discounts. Many of the things are not even commercially available so the chances of running into someone wearing the same dress as you is actually quite slim. Pretty hooked to the concept of shopping at flea markets. Goodness, its even better than Bugis!Nevertheless, something happened while we were making our way around Orchard Road. I was carrying my purchases in the Tangs paperbag when this auntie came up to me. She wanted my receipt of my purchase because Tangs is having a promotion. Gift vouchers or some sort of free items will be given if a shopper is able to accumulate about 300 bucks of shopping value from various receipts. The auntie had the cheek to ask me for my receipt so that she can claim the prize. For God's sake, doesnt she have any shame? Imagine asking a stranger for her receipt so that she can get some free items. I said a curt no and walked off. Fucking irritating! These typical kiasu Singaporeans are driving me nuts! Although I bought my cosmetics at Tangs for about 100 bucks, I wont even dream of handing over the receipt to her. No way! You want a prize? Go earn it yourself!
It seems to me that there are more buskers nowadays in Singapore. Cool. I like them. They usually perform eccentric items which are rather entertaining. For instance, this group of musicians were blowing windpipes to the music of ABBA. Lovely.
This is a very interesting item. This couple pretended to be statues and boy, dont they really look like real ones? I thought so. It must be really tiring to stand there, looking dumb in painted silver from head to toe and pretending to be statues with minimal movements. Sheeeshhh...
OOOOhhhh.... I love this tree! The golden tree of precious stones. Splendid isnt it? Although I looked quite awful in this picture since SOMEBODY did not know how to snap pictures.
The tree, again. Just look at those 'rubies', 'amethyst', 'opel' and what nots lining the tree bark. Plus, I think I took a pretty good picture of the landscape AND the portrait. Not just the landscape only.
Another enchanting picture by your truly. Take a look at the bird in the golden cage.
I love the golden castle! Reminds me of fairytales; of princes, of princesses and of knights in shining armours. Hehehee...And urgh.. I looked weird in this picture since SOMEBODY could not take a perfect picture.
Hmmmmm..... I never knew that Baby has Brown eyes.
We were going to catch a Spanish movie but there was no timings and we ended up having desserts at Cineleisure. There was a gig organized by Lime besides the Cineleisure and guess who we saw.....
Hady Mirza! Okay, Im not really into him and this whole Idol thingy but its pretty cool to be able to catch him performing without having that intention in the first place. He sounded good although I think he does not have much fashion sense. Just check out those ugly red sweater with neon green letterings. Mighty Ooopssss....
End of the day: Smiley US. Glorious night out.
ΒΆ 2:30 PM
