Headed to breakfast around 9am and sadly it was moderately busy. The outdoor seat was taken. :( I got congee (yay! just what I need, something light) and had two bowls, and some fruit. Finished asap within 30 mins, and headed back to my room. Finished blogging and writing postcards, and then headed out.
I had a look around Bugis, there's a lot of outdoor stalls, and a couple of divination stalls! Interesting. Outside the big temple, what's interesting is that there's one temple with various deities inside, all sectioned off in their own semi-room and you just choose who to go to pray to. And then in another temple, outside there were heaps of vendors selling incense, paper offerings, and fresh flowers/orchids. The rest of the stalls were like your typical nightmarket style ones. I walked through a food court and it was so busy and stuffy. After having a look around, I took the bus to Chinatown.
I got off and walked around and had a look. There's a lot of shops selling all sorts of wares. Jades and jewellery, fashion, odd bric-a-brac, pharmacy??, 5-metal-stores except they call it a general store, homewares stores, all sorts. I was trying to find the fabric shop... turns out I'm not quite at the right place. I spent some time trying to figure out how to get to People's Place, and there was an overpass to cross the road but it's built into this building complex? I managed to find it and went over, and finally was at the right place. The ground floor was kinda a wet market, and foods, and then second floor is what we want!!! But I decided to try and find a wig head first, and headed to 3F via an really old Live Journal post that comes up when you google "wig head Chinatown Singapore". I finally found Peng Him Corp but they were closed... nevertheless I kept lookign around and then found an actual wig shop!!!! Near on of the corners of the floor. I asked the lady inside if they sell the fold up wig heads, and she did! $5. It's the exact same one I bought from taobao yoinks ago, and was crap and wouldn't stay together (I threw it out last year).
Mission done, I stopped by a shop before going down that had heads of buttons and trims, and they had a tweezer that looked like it would be good for papercraft, so I bought one for $2.50.
Down to 2F!!! To all the fabric shops!! A bit like Yongle market. I found the same blue linen for $12/metre. And then looked around a diff store, they sold another type of textured linen 150cm for $8/m. They had a lovely "oxford" fabric in pink as well, with dual colour thread weave 120cm for $5/m, so I got 2.5m of that. I wasn't decided on the blue yet so went to look around more. They had a lor of printed cottons at another shop. And Japanese cottons, some brocade but not much. There's a materials shop that I spotted a white chalk marker for $2.20 so I got one of that.
Then I found!!! Japanese anime printed cottons!!! They're all in pieces and in the most obscure corner, next to the tiniest counter. The boss wasn't there, and just when I was about to leave, he came over. It was $3 for the piece, I got a Kamen Rider Drive one for Archer.
I was about done, the humidity was getting to me and I was starting to feel sick. I just needed a hairspray now. I found one at a pharmacy shop and they had a small can for $1.70, so I got that. And discovered they have Got2b Glued!!! The legendary stuff from early cosplay days, lol!!!
Alright, feeling not so good. Time to go home. Just as I was about to get onto the escalator, I decided to buy the cheaper blue linen. I went back and found the shop, and then asked for 2m. There was 2.5m on the roll so I just bought it all.
Home now, I got downstairs and sat outside for a wee bit, but so many smokers... so I dried my sweaty face and put on the zimi and got ready to take the MRT home.
Except, I took the wrong side (I forgot to check and just assumed), realised about 5 stops down, got out, and then got onto the right direction (Expo), and finally got to Bencoolen. Up we go through like 5 escalators, and then back into the hotel. I asked for a ironing board from the front desk.
I felt really sick and had a cup of tea, and then set an alarm for a nap but then housekeeping came to deliver an ironing board. So I decided to iron my skirt first, and then ended up doing everything else.
Took about half an hour and my alarm went off. I still had my wig to do so I set up the wig head. It was better? quality? The joins were stiffer? And the ring actually clips into place? Maybe they improved it. It still sucks though cause the inside is empty and the wig collapses, but it'll do.
Finished styling my wig and I decided to try with my zimi mask and see how it works. Oh yeah! Just as I was donning my bro arrived at the hotel and came through the door. mask works but it's kinda a bit loose, so I added the silicone stoppers onto it just for that extra security.
Once done, it looked fine, we waited for Nadi to arrive and went out to dinner together. We ended up going to Flippers, and there wasn't too much people. The ceiling was high. Just as we were on the last bits of our meal two Chinese girls, for some reason, decided to sit at the table right next to us when there were heaps of tables free =_=. I was already on the verge of comfort dining inside, please....
I managed to finished everything on my plate for once!! I haven't been able to do that in Singapore so far, everything is so rich. Finished my yuzu honey tea, and then masked back up. We were all done so we went to have a look at the Bugis Street - which I had totally missed in the morning somehow!? And then Nadi showed us a hidden crêpe shop in 2F amongst all the clothing fashion shops. There's also a little section with gachapon and crane machines. Woooo~
Then back into Bugis Junction, where we came from dinner, (it's a mall), and had a look at Kinokuniya inside. This branch was a smaller one. They didn't have as big of a manga section in English, but they had Taiwan Mandarin manga?! Quick look only, and then stopped by Sephora. Huh it's actually more expensive here than NZ. Who would've known? Even with the Black Friday sale, it ends up being same price as NZ (without the 20% NZ sale discount) for the primer I was looking at, so I decided not to get it.
Then back to the hotel as my bro as pretty tired and we should be getting an early night.
While bro was taking shower I finished my postcards upstairs, as shower situation is a it awkward for privacy.
Just blog, and sleep. AFA tomorrow.
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