Mall-hopping

When I was a child, they knew everything.

When I was a teenager, they knew nothing.

When I exited my teenager years, they knew something again.

Guess who?

Took the day off to go mall-hopping with mum; Clementi Mall, Star Vista, and Tiong Bahru Plaza. Intended to go Parkway as well as Changi City Point but we decided to call it a day. Star Vista wasn't very exciting, far from the glamour of its website. The building was just this lump of rock between buona vista mrt and park avenue rochester. There's not much of shopping to be done, and the number of restaurants/cafes just doesn't do the space justice (but there is this korean BBQ Bornga that has gotten decent ratings on hungrygowhere!).

Huge flight of stairs leading from the second floor to the basement, not extremely useful for getting up and down, and the top landing is exposed to the elements. There is no air-conditioning between shops - building probably designed to be energy-saving - so the shops are enclosed glass bubbles lined up on two sides. It's pretty warm in the afternoon. The coffee at Owl was decent though, not the instant kind that they themselves sell in supermarkets. They had this caramelised banana and chocolate ice cream (dno if i mixed the ingredients up) on toast, but we were too full to try that. Just shared a kaya butter toast, comes with cute slabs of butter on brown kaya and sliced baguette.

I had gone to tiong bahru plaza on one occasion for a movie, and the cinema sucked because the gradient of the seats is too smooth. You will get blocked and you will block people. Otherwise, the mall has a bit of old plaza sing feel to it and there is a cafe run by ex-drug offender mr benny se teo: eighteen chefs. They are coming up with a 64degrees egg soon and it sounds like a wonderful poached egg kind of thing to me.

Dropped by at bras basah to collect a complimentary textbook (ORD eprep course!) and went to cool down at nlb. Borrowed some freud books. :)