Shark week!!! So I woke up tired and icky. I took my time and went down for breakfast, just after 10am. There was hardly anyone - score!!! But not much food was left ince breakfast service closes at 10:30am. There was a lady that seemed curt in her response but I took it as that's just how she is. I grabbed some croissants, fruit, and milk tea. Then a waffle (don't recommend), scrambled egg, and bacon. I finished eating just before 10:30am and went back up. I finished blogging, wrote my postcards and rested.
Then it was almost lunch, so I went out and seeked out a post office, and got stamps for the postcards. I didn't get a stamp, but rather a printed label (that was size of two stamps) for 85c to send to anywhere in the world. Oh cool!!
After that I waked back to the library, where I saw heaps of outdoor seats. There was a rsetaurant there and it was super busy inside (but efficient!!!) and lined up to order food. I opted for something lighter, chang-fun (the rice skin sausage) and a teh drink. They served it on a piece of paper on a plate, on a tray. Grabbed cutlery and left the stuffy store, found a seat coincidentally in front of the big air conditioner lol. At least I'm getting semi-clean air?? The chang-fun, I was expected a soy sauce based sauce on it but the sauce was heavy and black bean based?? Whoa, too much. The the is good, but eating the sauce alters the taste of the teh. I managed to finish it, and then off on my way to meet Nadi.
Initially we were going to meet at Suntec and go to the weeb shops but Nadi said we can check them out when AFA is happening but we're not attending. So the plan was to meet at Esplanade MRT station. But I got there faster than Nadi, so ended up walking towards Aniplus Café myself. She told me to find the big Durian building so I found it and went towards it, but went inside and it was a theatre and didn't look right. Rofl.
So I went back outside and walked further down around the durians, and then spotted the Merlion!!! !!! I didn't know it was here!! So I told Nadi meet me at the Merlion hahaha no better landmark. I went towards it, and took my photos. But because it was raining lightly, it was really hard to take a photo with an umbrella, selfies especially. There were a considerable amount of people. And near Mos burger just not far from the lion, was a mini merlion statue from mosaic tiles, haha. After my fill, I went to the toilet and tried to find a seat that wasn't a restaurant, and not wet, and failed. So I stood around waiting, and then spotted a seat that was wiped dry by a couple before, just a little wet, so I sat down on it. Not long Nadi has gotten here so I walked towards her across the bridge.
Hiiiiiiiiii~~~ we took a selfie together of the surfboard (Marina Sands) since the Merlion was a bit small from where we were, and we headed to Aniplus. Wow there was no way I could have found this place by myself LOL. They had a Hololive collab going on. I don't Hololive LOL but we still got some food. I got a blueberry yoghurt parfait, and a yuzu drink. Nadi got a peach tea? and a oreo cake. Thankfully the café only had two other tables and the staff so it was quiet and I didn't have to worry too much about covid risk.
We had a nice chat and I gave her a couple of recs that she might like and she likes being fed pieces of info and have to speculate and work out the plot/what's happening herself, rather than being spoonfed everything at the start. We had a look around the merch parts of the café and it was interesting to see the merch from China, Malaysia, etc. And what was popular.
Then we decided to head to her house to chill, and Archer was crunching his cosplay. We took a Grab taxi, and then arrived at Tampines area. It's interesting that SG houses don't really have balconies (but had a laundry balcony), and if they do have balconies it sacrifices their living room space instead? It's like some sort of regulation that your building can only happen within these boundaries? But the condos have balconies and bigger living room. Some newer condos have smaller rooms overall but better facilities?? Anyway it was interesting and weird comparing differences.
We watched the new Ranma 1/2 for an episode, (oh Mappa, no wonder the animation is pretty consistent and lovely drawn), and then I helped Archer paint his sword. He did a really good job with it in half a day with foam shaping and hot glue!? For some reason they didn't have black or silver acrylic but like 4 golds lmao, so we made do with the rubber spray paint and white. I dry brushed the sword and it looked pretty sweet with what we had. It photos well. I'm ssatisfied. Archer was finishing his tunic top. He's cosplaying Noor from I Parry Everything anime.
I finished his sword and then I needed to poop again?! I told Nadi her enzymes are working too well (she gave me some digestive enzymes) 🤣. And not too long after Archer was at a good stopping point with his shirt. So we went out and took the bus for the nightmarket. We arrived just as the bus was pulling up into the stop, and the driver was kind enough to wait for us. My Wise card wouldn't swipe on but my phone's Google Pay could???? So strange.
We got there and the nightmarket was in a huge gazebo. Apparently it's a temporary thing! We walked around, saw jackfruit that smelt less offensive than durian but still pretty strong, and got three things. I got Mexican taco (halal), we got a dessert thing, and some steamed fishcake in bamboo leaves to try.
There was a gazebo's and plastic strip screened portion of seats with aircon machines running, and we sat there. Not the best in terms of fresh air, but... the ceiling was high enough and the tables were pretty spaced out so I just have to hope for the best. I tried the fishcake and it was very concentrated. Then the taco, was really good but rich, and then finally, a slice of the dessert. Archer poured on the sugar syrup and coconut milk first. The dessert had like sugar pastry wisps outside, and cheese inside. Ground pistachio for decor. It was good! Just so rich.... and then I realised through conversation here that although Singaporeans live a long time, it's because they have a good health system, and not because they have a good diet. They have public health campaigns saying choose less salt, choose less sugar.... woweee that explains why my stomach seems to have shrunk in Singapore!! Everything is so heavy!
After dinner it was like 9:40pm so we decided it was time to go home. They dropped me off at the MRT station and I took the blue line home.
I took a shower and went to bed. So tired!!!
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