Today was another shopping day – yay!
K arrived late last night, and wanted to get some clothes made while she’s here, so first stop was Far East Plaza again to talk to some tailors. We went to the one I’d been to before, and they did a good job working with K’s ideas – and they can get her dress and jacket done by Thursday night! Gorgeous silk fabrics, too. I was thinking of getting some stuff copied, but the tailor we were talking to said the things I wanted copied weren’t really worth having them make, since they don’t really work with stretch fabrics. Bummer!
I looked around for more jewellery, and ended up buying some loose pearls to make my wedding jewellery, rather than getting it made up. As soon as they hear “wedding”, the price goes up to the thousands, and even when I say I have a beer (or diet coke) budget, the jewellers don’t really seem to want to compromise on their ideas!
Next stop was the Orchard ION mall – another huge centre with lots of high end and medium-end shops. The food hall was amazing – lots of international food and very very fresh seafood.
Crabs waiting for lunch…
We unearthed a Swarovski shop which had a good sale section, and I found some cute charms (a martini glass and a champagne bottle) on sale, to add to the gorgeous charm bracelet K gave me for my birthday.
Charm bracelet
A few of the gals back home were interested in picking up some Sephora makeup so we headed upstairs to the store, which is one of the biggest, apparently! Unfortunately, being big didn’t mean they had the same makeup as the US ones, so even though I had a list of 10 things to look for for various people, I could only find one of them! Shopping fail for me…
Eventually we took the train back to the hotel. Our station at Clarke Quay has some fantastic advertising on it – “Fabulous Seaweed” is my favourite!
Station advertising
After sharing a bottle of duty free Veuve, we giggled our way downstairs to try the hotel’s buffet dinner. We started with prawns, mussels and sushi, and worked through curry crab (messy!) sambal chicken, eggplant salad, thyme fish, satay skewers, then finished up with cheese, shot glass desserts, ice cream (including purple yam icecream!) but gave a miss to the Durian mousse (ergh…)
We managed to roll upstairs, just, for an early night – we’re planning on Sentosa Island and the Zoo tomorrow, which will be a big one.
Two Weeks Away 