supposed to meet aze and meff up in orchard at 10am this morning, but when i picked up the call from meff, i was still in bed. gosh! 'i'll b there at 11' after telling meff that, i quickly get myself ready to get my ass out of the house. managed to reach heeren by 11am. we decided to haf lunch first but ended up wandering down emerald hill road.
me and aze started snapping away at the peranakan shophouses. i really like the idea of living in a shophouse. it can be considered a representation of local culture. you can see a combination of colonial, chinese, islamic influence in one single facade. the colonial column details, chinese style roof and windows at the first storey and islamic floral carvings. beautiful.
local flavoured 5-foot-way...
shophouse with nice street lamp...
uncle reading newspaper...
a blisful marriage of 3 parties, colonial, chinese, islamic...
came across orchids along the way...
we had a long walk.. really a long walk. enjoying the architecture and envying the living environment . in the middle of the city yet able to enjoy peace and serenity. old houses having modern interiors. we continued walking and reached the expressway. found a nice place to chill with a view of the highway. juz a plain grass patch.
we ended up walking into cuppage plaza from the back. finally had our lunch in cuppage plaza. ate at a mixed vege rice stall, where i used to haf lunch when i worked at giordano before enlistment. cheap and filling.
the next destination is relc, where meff will be applying for his australia university. it's a tiring and sweaty long walk from cuppage to relc. after the application, we decided to take a cab down to wheelock. though not very far, but we dreaded walking. none of the cabbyies wanna stop for us. some even stopped to ask where we intend to go but ended up rejecting us. shitty attitude. finally one nice cabby driving the silver arrow cab stopped for us. friendly uncle. nice acceleration. at 60km/h we can feel the acceleration. 3 bucks saves us all the sweat. chilled at starbucks while aze met up with his friend to discuss bout some wedding plans. not aze's, but his friend's. got bored... started snapping again.
kind looking meff...
laughing at those trapped in rain, evil...
evil eye...
no smoking ambassador...
1st shot at pigeon...
waiting for another opportunity to shoot pigeon...
he best out of the many shots at pigeon...
after the discussion, we headed down to far east plaza for some window shopping. it's when i started looking at shirts then i realized how long i've not shop for clothes. but nothing appeals to me right now... feel like i've got less occasions to wear those nice clothes. last stop: food republic. had dinner (but i ate again when i reach home). went for the famous hong thye char kway teow again, because there's no queue today!
laid back...
'sianed' fox...
'sianed' meff...
'sianed' aze.
chilled for a while after eating and left for home.