Chinatown 17/2/15

After exploring large part of Europe, I realize there're so many things I've yet to experience in this small little country I live in, so here's the very first of my escapades in my backyard: Cheenatown on Cheena New Year! 

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Things they sell don't really appeal to me and since we went during the off peak, crowd was bearable as well. What really killed my energy was the sun: what a love-hate relationship we have! Highlight of this day out is, once again, food, but more with ice than not. 

Coins hanging all around, doesn't your childhood Mario-fantasy tingles at this?

Gave up fighting the heat to find those good food recommended online and just settled for the coffeeshop the Senso gang used to eat when we were working there, and we stumbled upon this nice Oyster Egg stall that was without queue (lucky for us cos the queue came after we bought it!)

Decided to buy this $3.50 matcha (with Earl Gret taste) ice cream from a Jap shop nearby cos, yes, it was too damn hot! Hid inside the MRT station with this while waiting for Bird 

Bird's $15 zoom-out clip-on really quite useful for selfies haha. And hi there, random strangers! 

Attempting to be a tourist: snap all the statues!!! 

And we finally gave up (again) and settled down for this shaved ice after walking two streets. Food coma sets in (I blame the sun though) and we didn't stay much longer after the cooling effect of this ice wonder waned off...

Didn't really have a full impact of the CNY atmosphere (I blame the sun again) but we did see Kym Ng, Bryan Wong, Lee Teng, and Desmond Koh rehearsing for the CNY countdown at the stage set up in the middle of the road! And I've also seen first-hand the legendary queue for Lin Zhi Yuan bak kwa (though I think the queue for Yong Tau Hu at the coffee shop earlier was more impressive haha!). Still, a really nice trip out of school that I've been looking forward to for days! 

Also, 新年快乐 to everyone!