Wednesday, June 20, 2007

KH Sunday trip

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Haven't been writing much recently... Reason being, i'm just being lazy. Heh. Not that there were a lot to write about recently!

Anyway, so... From popular demand (KH's demand) Here's a little happening for Sunday. Sunday is Exploring day. Let me just check the places we attempted that day:

(1) China Square Sunday Flea Market
(2) Some hills (i think its called Liang Siang Hill forget liao) in the CBD area
(3) Beautiful shophouses amidst the monstrous CBD buildings
(4) Red dot Museum
(5) Fort Canning tunnel and the National Museum

China Square's flea market is only opened on Sunday and featured a number of collectibles and antiques. There were basically old toys, models and figurines on sale and one could not be more mesmerized to walk down memory lane when you see your favourite cartoon character on sales. Smurfs, he-man, care bear whatever you can think off. Wasn't very interested in models, so didn't get anything. Thought i wouldn't be spending any money there, but still did... I bought a book! At a very very VERY (must put big big) reasonable price of $9! New book okie!

I asked the owner how he managed to sell them at such unbeatable prices compared to 50% more at Kinos, and he told us that he got them direct from warehouses that's why. Well, you'll be sure i'll be checking out his store when i want books before heading out to major bookstores. Too bad, he only have selected titles.

After China Square, we sort of out headed out to see some shophouses. Must be boring without pictures, so here's one:



(Postcard quality eh? Hahaha)

Beautiful shophouses amidst tall gigantic buildings. You can find all sorts of nice places like bars, spas and huey kuans!? Hmm... Exotic places for the rich and famous i reckon? No chance of me walking in there in the foreseeable future.

We somehow then ended up at the Red Dot Museum (and saw a sleeping security guard). And then we saw this interesting signboard:



At night, we actually went into the National Musuem. The new one is nice compared to the old and eerie one. There were nice cafes, pubs in it. (And swinging celing lights) We were wondering whether we could visit the exhibitions for free, and decided that our motto for the day is "Just push only". So we did, and yes, its free! Visited a couple of exhibitions and had fun with some "artistic imprints".



(Now, i confirm i am not artistic...)