20081215: Singapore Day 3

GOOD MORNING ALL!

Today is Monday, and is a working day for most.

As usual, holidays mean garnering enough rest. And enough rest means a good 9 to 10 hours of well deserved sleep.

Breakfast and brunch was skipped.


Our next date was with my 2 decade old classmate from A-Level days too from Raflles Junior College. He's now a top notch solicitor, much like Gene Hackman in "THE FIRM"
Our rendezvous was to be at his offices in THE GATEWAY.
Our MRT took us to City Hall again and we took the Raffles Link to cross over to Suntec City.

And what a small world it was. Fancy bumping into another Macuser here!
After a pitstop at the Wheel of Fortune at Suntec City, we connected via a bus, which took us past the rear of the GATEWAY. After legging it on "Bus 11", we discovered that we were on the WRONG path. We only found the GARBAGE entrance at the REAR of GATEWAY, as there was NO rear public access. Dismayed, we contacted our advocate and rescheduled the rendezvous point to the PLAZA for some Dim Sum lunch.
As we reached the PLAZA, our enquiries for such cuisine was met with startled stares, as they only had a Japanese outlet plus a few Ma & Pa mixed rice stalls for the typical office crowd.
Situational awareness brought us over to the Park Plaza hotel where there was dim sum lunch, but only found out that it was only DURING WEEKENDS. After some patience, the phone was used to redetermine the situation, and the conclusion was MISCOMMUNICATION.
The new rendezvous point was actually down at SHAW TOWERS, at Ah Yat Abalone Restaurant.
After easing myself in the exquisitely design lavatory in the Park Plaza Hotel, we hopped on the next bus, down to our intended destination.

Fortunately this was the correct place, as our gastric juices were working up in our stomachs already.
We finally met up with my legal partner and another IT CEO, running his business in Singapore for the past decade.









After a hearty rendezvous, we strolled around the Shaw Towers for some window shopping. A super large Lampberger outlet was on the 1st floor, with an astonishing array and selection of lamp variations.

Next pitstop was the St Andrew's Cathedral. Just a quick visit to view its pristine interiors.




Proceeding to the Fullerton Hotel at Raffles Place, we took the MRT from City Hall which sported an egyptian themed MRT waiting platform.



The decor within the Fullerton was dressed to the nines, no doubt. Christmas decorations were aptly decorated without much fanfare.








The lobby water feature had its fair share of its Japanese Koi.


Even the weekend Dimsums were affordable!



After the ubiquitous Daniel Boulud pose at the Fullerton Tea Garden, we passed by the concrete jungles, through Raffles Place MRT enroute to Orchard MRT to our next pitstop, Takashimaya.

This Japanese anchor tenant at Ngee Ann City featured a fabulous affordable food court.
















Feeling tired, our next pitstop was a good rest in a cinema. The nearest was the Lido at Shaw Towers, where a movie UNAVAILABLE to our IMMATURE Malaysian audience was shown. This was an R rated movie (for above 18 years old), entitled "Sex Drive". Surprisingly, 2 months later, this movie was ACTUALLY shown in Malaysian cinemas. How much censorhip is up to YOU to find out!

As usual no cameras were allowed, so the only trailer you can see of this movie is at this link. You can view the lobby of the cinema here though.

After the movie ended circa 1115pm, we managed to catch the last train back to Tanjong Pagar MRT. What a tiring day!

Good night!