but! there's been lots and lots going on. and i am finally here, with time, to actually sit down and write about them!
the first thing i should post about is my spontaneous trip to singapore. four days is probably the shortest overseas trip i've ever taken, but weirdly enough it was actually the most productive! the main purpose of the trip was to go and see my grandma - which i'm really really glad i did. so now even though she can't hear, see or know who we are anymore, i'm really glad that i went. then of course, there was all the family things, which i love.
so the shopping. well, i found another ted baker bag - that's always a good sign! and the lady there actually remembered me from last december which struck me as kinda weird? or funny at least. and she also recognized the tote ted baker that i was carrying, she remembered that i bought it in melbourne on sale. it was that part which made me just a tad bit freaked out. but hey, i figure i'm safe because i didn't tell her my name... either way, it was all just a little too weird for me.
i also found 10 pairs of shoes over the 3 days there, which beat out my previous record which stood at 8. =p it was pretty awesome though because i would walk into a store and *ding*, immediately i was just drawn to a pair which i just HAD to buy. so considering that i only shopped for two days, i pat myself on the back and say "good job". =) i would take pictures and post them up here, but i probably would be mocked for buying six pairs of shoes which look pretty much the same. in my view though, you can never have too many pairs of the same shoes. particularly, if they're cheap asian shoes that work their purpose well at least for six months. funny though because i think i've bought at least 4 pairs of the same shoe... i'm just lucky that the chinese manufacturers have kept supplying singaporean shoe stores with the same shoes for the past two years... what would i do without my C&K flats?!?
so while i don't love singapore, there are a few things there which pacify me. here are three things:
first: apple juice with aloe vera bits.
my only question is.. why can't they manage to bring this into australia???
second: roti prata at midnight
it's just such fatty goodness... hahahah. =p
third: chicken rice
okay so this didn't come in the oil-proof brown paper wrapping, but still singapore's hainanese chicken rice just can't be beat.
now it's time for some other photo highlights:
for the first time ever, i went to a singapore museum. and believe me, this wasn't by choice. mum was looking for some trippy syringe-pens at singapore general hospital (SGH) and we somehow managed to get shanghai-ed into touring their museum. =.= i have no words.
lucky for me, my dates in singapore happened to cross paths with jas and luke and their holiday so we met up and went for some awesome japanese along with my cousin ben and his girlfriend, faith. food was awesome - i'm really glad i got to go back to shokudo. but funnily enough, the only photo i have with both jas and luke turned out to be fully blurry. hahaha. so this one will have to suffice!
we also went to check out mustafa, because i don't think they believed me when i told them about the 24-hr indian palazza of all neccesities/consumables that you could imagine. and true enough, in a world full of toothpaste, i managed to find one with a green appled flavor! and grape, and orange and strawberry. and they came in cute little tubes. oh how i wish i was a kid again. too bad i wasn't game enough to try it - for me, toothpaste is synonymous with mint. anything else is just plain weird. lol.
the other rocking aisle was that with all the tv dvd boxsets. you can't imagine how upset i was to realize that 1) the prices weren't any better than that in australia, and 2) everything i wanted to watch, i own already. *sad face*.
i guess scary seafood places aren't restricted to china. singapore has them too! and as my uncle put it, just because they're live - doesn't mean they're fresh!
and i realized again that i'm really not a seafood person. some people really get a "high" or a "kick" from seafood. i guess i just don't.
what would singapore be without those hawker stores that are state-wide famous for their awesome good food? this place is famous for their teo-chew porridge.. honestly, in my opinion? i couldn't tell the difference between this and rice and water. but hey, maybe i'm just not asian enough! =p *shock horror*
and of course, a singapore trip just isn't complete without a pure chocolate ice blended from coffee bean. =)
okay well that's about it for now.
you'll all be glad to hear that the LSATs are well and truly over. so! i'm happy living in ignorance at least for the next week and half until results come out. =)
til next time!
- pheebs.
