Yesterday I went to Luxola's headquarters to collect my order and I got lost in Tiong Bahru. The directions they gave me were to take bus 5 from the MRT, for two stops. There were so many bus stops :( so I went to the nearest bus stop and got on bus 5. Two stops later, I was lost. I wandered around until I found their headquarters - 203 Henderson Road. The people were pretty nice and I got more free gifts, too. Two of the same thing, though. I guess I can give it away. From there I got lost again -.-" walked aimlessly till I found a bus stop that went to Vivocity, where I was supposed to meet Alia, Esther, Kate and Aishah. When the first bus came, I moved to get on the bus, but the bus driver saw me and DROVE OFF >:( I was so shocked I stood there for a second and made a scandalised sound when I turned around - another commuter was just staring at my embarrassment :(

But anyway, you'd think with a bus directory that explicitly states which stop to get off at I wouldn't get lost, right?

Nope.

When the next bus came, I didn't count the stops or notice where I was, so I got off at the next mall-looking place. I thought it was Viviocity, obviously, but it was some other mall at Labrador Park - a stop away from Vivocity. Fail me :( I actually even walked around for a bit before realising for sure that nope, that wasn't Vivocity.

Eventually I made my way to Vivo, of course, and met the girls. It seems like it's been so long since I've seen them all! Well, except Esther, since I met her the day before yesterday for a haircut. We were supposed to grab dinner, but we couldn't settle on a food place so we ended up buying sushi, chips and drinks from Cold Storage to eat at the Skypark. It was really nice up there, there were even some fireworks off in the distance.

Even though I slept before midnight last night, I didn't get enough sleep - I woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep. It was tragic. I dragged myself out of bed to get ready to meet Joshua for pancakes :) It was nice seeing him again! The last time I saw him was probably Flag Day, almost half a year ago. I do miss some people from secondary school. He bought me something from his recent trip to Australia!

We went to the Prinsep Street outlet of Strictly Pancakes. It was too early, actually, even though I was kinda late. For a café that sells almost purely breakfast foods, it opens pretty late - 11.30am. We chatted a bit while waiting for it to open.

The lighting inside the café wasn't really good, so we couldn't take nice photos :( The pancakes were really good, though! We had a large stack of the original pancakes with sautéed mushrooms and the Strawberries & Co. pancakes. The mushrooms were really nice! And though still nice, the Strawberries & Co. pancakes weren't as good - I wouldn't recommend it. The service isn't worth the 10% service charge and 7% GST, in my opinion. Maybe the other outlet provides better service.

We still had time after we were subtly shooed out by the staff, so we went to Plaza Singapura :D Monoyono has beautiful decorations and interesting things, but totally out of my budget :( I'm coveting the Alice in Wonderland notebooks, Kate Spade 2015 planners and wall art. Maybe I'll redecorate when I get my new bed in! Then we went to Paper Market, I think. I got these:

Yesterday I went to Luxola's headquarters to collect my order and I got lost in Tiong Bahru. The directions they gave me were to take bus 5 from the MRT, for two stops. There were so many bus stops :( so I went to the nearest bus stop and got on bus 5. Two stops later, I was lost. I wandered around until I found their headquarters - 203 Henderson Road. The people were pretty nice and I got more free gifts, too. Two of the same thing, though. I guess I can give it away. From there I got lost again -.-" walked aimlessly till I found a bus stop that went to Vivocity, where I was supposed to meet Alia, Esther, Kate and Aishah. When the first bus came, I moved to get on the bus, but the bus driver saw me and DROVE OFF >:( I was so shocked I stood there for a second and made a scandalised sound when I turned around - another commuter was just staring at my embarrassment :(

But anyway, you'd think with a bus directory that explicitly states which stop to get off at I wouldn't get lost, right?

Nope.

When the next bus came, I didn't count the stops or notice where I was, so I got off at the next mall-looking place. I thought it was Viviocity, obviously, but it was some other mall at Labrador Park - a stop away from Vivocity. Fail me :( I actually even walked around for a bit before realising for sure that nope, that wasn't Vivocity.

Eventually I made my way to Vivo, of course, and met the girls. It seems like it's been so long since I've seen them all! Well, except Esther, since I met her the day before yesterday for a haircut. We were supposed to grab dinner, but we couldn't settle on a food place so we ended up buying sushi, chips and drinks from Cold Storage to eat at the Skypark. It was really nice up there, there were even some fireworks off in the distance.

Even though I slept before midnight last night, I didn't get enough sleep - I woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep. It was tragic. I dragged myself out of bed to get ready to meet Joshua for pancakes :) It was nice seeing him again! The last time I saw him was probably Flag Day, almost half a year ago. I do miss some people from secondary school. He bought me something from his recent trip to Australia!

We went to the Prinsep Street outlet of Strictly Pancakes. It was too early, actually, even though I was kinda late. For a café that sells almost purely breakfast foods, it opens pretty late - 11.30am. We chatted a bit while waiting for it to open.

The lighting inside the café wasn't really good, so we couldn't take nice photos :( The pancakes were really good, though! We had a large stack of the original pancakes with sautéed mushrooms and the Strawberries & Co. pancakes. The mushrooms were really nice! And though still nice, the Strawberries & Co. pancakes weren't as good - I wouldn't recommend it. The service isn't worth the 10% service charge and 7% GST, in my opinion. Maybe the other outlet provides better service.

We still had time after we were subtly shooed out by the staff, so we went to Plaza Singapura :D Monoyono has beautiful decorations and interesting things, but totally out of my budget :( I'm coveting the Alice in Wonderland notebooks, Kate Spade 2015 planners and wall art. Maybe I'll redecorate when I get my new bed in! Then we went to Paper Market, I think. I got these: