Friday, February 03, 2012

Unexpected ramble

Unexpectedly, I found myself without any lunch appointments today after a whirlwind of going out with other people, so I decided to check out the cheap necklaces at this shop I passed by.  That didn't take too long, so I decided to walk near Amoy.  I usually walk along Amoy Street all the way to Raffles Place, but today since I didn't actually have to get to Raffles Place I took a detour.

All this while, whenever I look for places to go for lunch, the website always recommended Ann Siang Hill/Street.  Given that I had never seen the place (my team rarely ventures to Amoy for lunch) I assumed that it was very far away.

It wasn't actually, it was two streets away from Amoy!  And we are talking Singapore streets here, which aren't very far apart.  I had myself a very nice ramble along the hill (really just a raised bump on the land).  I think this blog post summarises it better than I did, though I didn't go into any of the shops: Tinyisland's post on exploring Ann Siang Hill and Club Street.

Along the way I saw:
1) Office workers from the hidden offices in the shophouses
2) Couples
3) Two Westerners in exercise gear flipping a giant tire
4) Random Chinese guys just walking around
5) Huge joss sticks at the temple on the corner. I don't know what the occasion is though.

All in all, a rather fun use of my lunchtime.

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