Another Trip

Off to a tiny city state for an almost week-long break. If you consider it a break. Already packed a backpack of clothes.

There's not much culturally or historically significant site that's worth going to there. And it has never been one of my target destinations, but I'll be there 'cause:

• a friend thought I should join her as she goes back to her old place of work to get her reference letter from her old boss for her UK post-grad app,
  
• round trip air fare is unbelievably cheap, and
  
• got a place to stay: my friend's place
• nice addition to the collection of stamps in my passport. cute decoration. lol.
  
• new place means new photo opps ;)
  

So it's just like spending about as much money as when we go out of town/Manila to another island/beach.

I'll just take photos and visit their very important zoo. And take photos of the animals there too. And hopefully get to see a polar bear there.

Apart from hanging out with buddies, other to dos for this trip:

• check out the IKEA store there
• find a new pair or two of Teva flip flops to replace my one and only old pair of Tevas
• go to a photo/camera store to get a lens adapter for my Olympus (stores in Manila don't carry any for Olympus apparently, and it sucks knowing so)
• go to Sanrio stores there and get stuff I might like with Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Bad Badtz Maru... probably something for my desk or car
• probably see the Raffles Hotel, Clark Quay, shophouses in Chinatown, etc. Any place worth taking photos of. I'm thinking night scenes might be better and more distinct.
• get my meals from street hawkers
  

I'm just disappointed that they don't have H&M yet there. A bit surprising actually. As they have Zara, Mango, etc. And Hong Kong has all 3 (I'd be totally shocked if Hong Kong didn't have H&M). I like H&M. Always left H&M stores in Europe with several items of clothing. 'Cause they can be here today but gone tomorrow. They have cheap throwaway clothes that are fashionable. And I'm not exactly a shopaholic/clotheshorse so H&M suited me fine when getting new clothes/wardrobe overseas instead for lack of time/interest back here/home. It's cheaper than Espirt or Zara but yeah you probably won't wear it again next year or so.

So, maybe I'd like the place enough to move and work there. Who knows. We shall see.. Hehe!