I ON Orchard

Yami Yoghurt! Peach flavoured with fruity pebbles. Yums!

Visited ION Orchard for the second time yesterday and explored all the way up to the 4th level. As you go up to the higher levels, you will notice a huge decrease in noise and crowd. The main reason would be that from ground level up, the mall houses mainly high end labels and restaurants/cafes. Also visited Uniqlo for the first time. Plenty of basics and pretty looking jeans. Ended up purchasing a hooded dress. Will probably return to try on the jeans another day (was totally lazy to remove leggings to try them on). One piece of advice, avoid wearing complicated shoes which are time consuming to put on and take off because all the cubicles in the fitting rooms are carpeted and you will be required to remove your shoes before using those rooms.

Other buys from my shopping trip include a m)phosis top & flats*, magazines from Kino* and yums chocs from Muji.

*Shopping Discounts:

m)phosis is having 30-70% discounts storewide now. Sale ends next Thursday (27 Aug) according to the friendly salesgirl at the ION branch / Kinokuniya is having 20% storewide for all card members now until 31 Aug.

Shop! Shop! Shop!

Ok..lagging in updates again. Will try to do a summary of what has been going on. First off, shopping malls! Went to check out 2 new shopping malls in town.

Orchard Central

This mall is rather huge. Though alot of shops aren't opened for business yet, which explains the low human traffic, seems like it's gonna be an exciting mix of stores. Will check it out again when more stores are open.

This is part of a fashion display you will see when you enter the mall. Totally do not get the blue neon lights though.

Spotted these cool cut-outs on the wall and ceiling on the 7th floor. This level has no shops though. Think it's probably offices?

But the best thing I spotted was this!

This just look like a structure of an enourmous pair of red heels right?

Say hello to the owner of that pair of red heels! Miss Red here is about 4 storeys tall mind you. Do not anger her or she'll stomp you dead.

Here's how she looks like. Smiley and friendly enough.

Something random. Although it can be found in alot of places, if you do go to the mall, do check out the MOS Burger there. The service staff are mainly old folks who provide excellent service. And, they use glasses for drinks and bowls for soups for eat-ins! First time seeing these kinda cutlery used in a fast food joint locally.

ION Orchard

Went to check this mall out over the weekend. Didn't fully explore the place yet though. Only checked out the basements. Human traffic was crazy though. Mainly because it was a weekend and it's a newly opened mall. Will return for a 2nd visit to check out all the other stores on the upper levels.

Judge A Mall By It's Cover. Not.

Since it officially opened, it was my first time there today at the new Illuma mall at Bugis. My friend summed it up best when describing the place - beneath the attractive exterior lies an empty shell. Perhaps they were expecting large crowds to totally throng the place but I thought it was excessively spacious given that the extra space could have been used for more shop floors. Though shop spaces were not entirely filled yet, the current mix of stores in the mall was nothing very exciting. The mall had a sky garden which I went to check out but turns out it was not accessible to public yet. The most interesting thing I found about the mall was crazy enough, the ceiling on every level (as seen above). It resembles a random maze-like pattern created by I have no idea what those are called (metal plates perhaps??). Am looking forward to the opening of ION Orchard next month. Hope it doesn't dissapoint.