Singapore City Stuff

I have never seen anything quite like the breakfast buffet at the Oriental in all my encounters with breakfast buffets. I won't go on about it as it won't exactly make exciting reading, but it really was good. Debbie and Steve will be glad to hear that we did them proud.

As Singapore is becoming an annual destination, we find we have "jobs" to do while we are there. The first job was a visit to Jason, the fabulous tailor we found on our last visit. He's so good and has such a quiet, agreeable sales technique that we soon went over the budget we had established before hand. I picked out a lovely chocolate brown Irish linen from the Zegna fabric sample book. Trust me to pick the expensive stuff. Of course, once I had had seen it, nothing else quite measured up. I couldn't conceal my shock when Jason told me how much a suit in this fabric would be. I promptly told him that I had changed my mind and didn't really need a suit after all. This actually turned out to be quite a good (unintentional) sales technique and he dropped the price quite significantly and he offered me a deal I couldn't refuse.

The rest of the day was spent doing agreeable things such as:

eating curry at a cheap food court
getting a manicure (finally!)
shopping for cheap sample sized Clarins products at Lucky Plaza mall
going for afternoon tea
sitting by the pool enjoying the breeze from the bay
going for happy hour champagne cocktails at Axis and watching the sun set over Singapore
having dinner in the courtyard of a place that used to be a convent school (CHIJMES)
having chocolate martinis in a bar called Insomnia in another location at the same convent

The evening ended with an Abu Dhabi moment. We were sitting in a perfectly nice bar listening to perfectly good music when the mellow atmosphere was interrupted by a god-awful Fillipino band doing Celine Dion. It wasn't quite up there with the famous Balance Band from the Dana hotel in Abu Dhabi, but it was close. Why Why Why??!..........