P.S: It pains me to realize I suck at writing rhymes. HAHAHA!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
If I was a tourist, upon reaching Singapore's world class airport on 30 March in the morning, I picked out a brochure from the Singapore Tourism Board's Visitor Centre's Booth. Browse the contents of the brochure. Caught the headline: SHOPPING.
Adjust my eyes to glance further down the column. BINGO! Midnight Shopping Sale Experience - only happens on the last friday of the month! Now that's one hella shopping extravaganza not to be missed. And what luck that I'm in Singapore this very day!
Now, LUCK isn't really the word to describe how the midnight shopping went. It was utterly disappointing. I was there in the middle of Orchard Road hoping to get some really good deals to bring home at the end of it. I went home empty handed. Well perhaps they didn't see me coming. HAHAHA.
Among the entire Orchard Road, Only a handful of shopping malls were open. TANGS, PARAGON, WISMA, PACIFIC PLAZA, CENTREPOINT (I was pissed Ngee Ann City didn't participate). True, they were open. People kept streaming in and out of them. Only after going into a mere of 2 -5 shops out of the tens or hundreds they had in them.
Worst still, I made myself walk towards Pacific plaza from ngee ann city, looking forward for the much buzzed (based on the thousands flyers they were distributing along Orchard Road) 15% off Quicksilver, Rip Curl, Fox, and Stussy merchandise, only to be letdown. It was freaking 11pm and they were close? They got to brush up on their time management skills. It's M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T!! Equation = 12! You are not Cinderalla, I won't forgive you for not knowing that.
I've never felt cheated ever in my whole shopping sale spree adventure! (Well I confess there are certain times when they advertised - up to 90%! Knowing very well the fact most of the 90% are the faulty or leftover 10 yrs ago stocks! I was too naive to believe in all that gimmick. Still am guilty of that. Hahaha!) But being cheated by this midnight sale, takes it to another level of cheating. (Gee. Do I make sense in that sentence? LOL)
To begin with, it was overly advertised along Orchard Road itself and news of it were splashing on the 'NEW media' - coughs. And it wasn't a cool, breezy night to shop
- correction - CHEATED. It was stale and still and humid. The air-conditiong of most shops were half dead, despite the increasing warmth in the room temperature due to the flocks of shoppers. (I believe its for cost-saving effort to cover up for the extension of additional 2 hours of eletrical bill) - TOPMAN & TOPSHOP, you are truly guilty of that!! Take note.'nuff said.
Now, back to the 'If I was a tourist' scenario, I am truly disappointed.
If you were a tourist, you ___________________?
City of Weirdos. 12:17 PM
