Showing posts with label Raffle's longbar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raffle's longbar. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Olivia, I found our mecca

There's a place here called Orchard Road. Its the fancy schmancy shopping district. They have everything I want and need. I would have to inherit some money first. Then I would need to inherit some style and class and maybe then they would let me in.
Today we shopped a lot. We startled at Raffles Landing where Raffles first discovered singapore 400 years ago. There were natives of course, but he was the first Brit to hang out. After that I held a python. Oh, I fogot to tell you that I ate an octopus yesterday. It was an octopus ball which was like a fried ball of octopus inside a doughy fried something. It was chewy and didn;t taste like much but at least I ate one. So after the snake and the landing spot we went to the Long Bar. Thats where the Singapore Sling was invented. Its super sweet and tastes good but it was 22 bucks. My coke was 9 bucks and the only other time I have spent 9 bucks on a coke was in a strip club in Vegas which was equally disappointing. Lesson learned is that expensive cokes do not guarantee good times. But the building was cool and well preserved for a 400 year old building. Florida should learn about the maintenance measures here and maybe it wouldn't look so dirty and rundown.
After those sights we went and shopped until my feet broke off. At the grocery store in the candy section they have tiny dried spicy crabs. They looked like sand crabs with paprika. I bought them.

Tomorrow we trek into the jungle with Daniel. He is Scott's dad's coworker and he's bringing us to dimsum and then the jungle and maybe a temple or something. It should be a great time!