Decided to blog about yesterday, cos' I went to many places which I've never/seldom been to. And come to think of it, Singapore ain't that small anyway, there are still many places which are yet to be discovered by most of us.
Oh, and there's no work today, as well as tomorrow, cos' I've the interview in NP, feelin nervous about it. Okay, early in the morning, my aunt said she wanna treat us a meal. I don't know why and don't bother to ask anyway. So she treated us in this restaurant called "Neptune Restaurant". It's a Chinese restaurant located in the CBD, at Clifford Pier. And that restaurant is certainly the most classy-looking and largest Chinese restaurant I've ever seen. They even got a waiting hall at the reception outside the restaurant, it's really well-furnished and gave me a 'hotel' feel to it. No wonder it's so much like a hotel, cos' that restaurant is managed by Meritus Mandarin. And inside of the restaurant, it's like "WOW". It's darn huge in there, there're 2 levels and a big performing stage in the middle of the restaurant. It's more like a ballroom, a HUGE one. I never thought Singapore will have a restaurant like this. And there were people singing on the stage, it was really good and they are talented people. But the turn-off is that the food isn't as tasty as other restaurants, it's too salty. And their service is not good at all, given the fact that they're managed by a 5-star hotel. Maybe because the waitresses there are all "aunties", so they don't really give good service.
Next on, we went to Expo to indulge ourselves in this Adidas sale held there. It was the last day of the sale, as usual, all the nice apparels are all nowhere in sight anymore. What's left are really ugly/old items there. Only managed to buy a pair of trainers and they gave a free Adidas water bottle. Okay, at least it wasn't so bad.
We left Expo soon enough, and my uncle wants to collect his bike in some weird place in Sembawang, and when we reached there, I was darn amazed. In this rather secluded part of Sembawang is actually filled with lots of old colonial houses and western architecture. I thought these can only be seen in Europe. Then my dad told me this whole stretch of architecture belongs to Australian Army last time. And no wonder the roadnames there are like "Canberra Road", "Wellington Close" and all those Auzzie/NZ inspired roadnames. It really felt like as though I was in Europe and there was a huge grass plain, the trees there are really the type you see in western countries, I've no idea what trees are those. Pine trees perhaps. I just can't feel that I was in Singapore. But in these really old houses, I presume most of them are haunted but still see people living in there. My dad told me even up till now, some of these houses still belong to Australian Government. So probably, those living in it now are Auzzies. It was really amazing to see these in a secluded and quiet corner of a neighbourhood in Singapore, Sembawang. Really never thought such a place existed. I must go and explore that interesting place on my own someday.
After discovering such an amazing place, we went to Novena Square for dinner. It's so quiet down there and lifeless. Wonder how those shop tenders live by with no business. Dined in a Thai-Chinese restaurant. It's cosy and gave me a very comfortable feelin there. And it does not look like any Thai/Chinese restaurant in any way. It looked more like a Cafe. Once again, it's quiet there except a rather large Malay family eatin too. But the food was good, and not to forget the Tom Yam soup, it's marvellous.
Alright, I love yesterday. It was really different and allowed me to realise that Singapore can be interesting too. Hope that everyday will be like that, haha. I'm certain this entry is darn long, so am gonna stop here now. Ciao.
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