Sticker photos make life better...really!

I'm in a blogging mood today, so I'm going to write another entry :) Went out today with my best friend N from high school, who's doing a law program in Singapore this year. It's been awesome hanging out with her again, and I love that though we've barely seen each other since high school, we're as close as ever!

Anyway, today was kind of a disaster! N came over to my area, and we took a bus to one of Singapore's largest malls, VivoCity. We walked around a bit, splashed around in this wading pool on the top floor (she has the photos, but as soon as I get them, they'll be up :P), and then decided to go for lunch. Disaster 1: There were bugs in our food!!!! We had ordered a plate of roast chicken and a large hokkien mee to share, and we were barely midway through our food when we noticed a bug on our table. With some unease, we swept the bug off of the table and continued munching away, but within a minute, we saw more bugs crawling on our plate. Being the insect phobic girls we both are, we dropped our chopsticks in horror, grabbed our bags, and left. Without lunch. We were too freaked out to get more food, so we decided to leave Vivocity behind us and take a train to Bugis to do some real shopping.

At Bugis - which is an outdoor street shopping area - we felt a lot better, and wandered around picking out cute tops. I love Bugis - week to week, fashions are different, and it's hard to be bored. This week the theme seemed to be ruffled office shirts and colorful tube top sprinkled with flowers. N found a really preppy but cute pink long button-down top with a collar and grabbed it. She wanted to see how it looked on, and so we ran into the nearest indoor mall and tried on her top...which ended up being much too small in the shoulders for her. Disaster 2. We ran back to the stall, and after some hard talking, managed to get the vendor to agree to an exchange. N picked out a flowery tube top...but remained in a kind of funky mood from the whole encounter.

Walking around, we saw a sticker photo store and decided to make ourselves feel better by taking pictures :) It was a little stressful, actually, because we had to use Japanese machines (where you get to write on the photos after you're done taking them) as opposed to the Thai ones that we're used to. We messed up a lot and couldn't find the erase button, but we felt much better after the scribbling process. Took a few random shots of the pictures at the store.

Yup, there's nothing like sticker photos to make one feel better after a lousy day!