On Sunday 28th, we (Janne and Santeri) decided to visit Orchard Road, a
huge shopping street. The first thing that draw our attention was the
large crowd of people. Even thought we've stayed here in a big city for a
quite a while now, this was the first time we felt suffocated by the
number of people in the same area. The street had narrow side walks
filled with both locals and tourists.
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| Orchard road |
We heard that there was a
video game store that sells retro games and we tried to locate the shop
as soon as possible so we wouldn't have to stay in the crowd. We found
the place and it turned out not to be a store that sells retro games.
After leaving the game shop we stumbled into a tailor shop which sign
said "Tervetuloa suomalaiset asiakkaat" ("Welcome Finnish customers" in
English). The owner had had Finnish customers and spoke few words of our
beloved mother tongue.
The Orchard road and it's neighbouring
area have a lot of malls, many right next to each other. It's easy to
get by the underground tunnels that connect the malls. Afterwards we
visited Orchard road again to visit Kinokuniya a huge book store (This
time Eero came along as well). Kinokuniya is located in the Ngee Ann City shopping centre.
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| Ngee Ann City |
It was a pleasant surprise to find
a large comic book section at the book store. Janne two science-fiction
books: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville and Sand by Hugh Howey
and a graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Eero picked up two books as
well, both graphic novels: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons as
well as Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Because
the store had such a large selection, we consider visiting Kinokuniya
one more time before our departure back to Finland.
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| Big Damn Sin City (and Eero) |
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| The comic book section at Kinokuniya |
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| ION Orchard |
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| Bulldog statue |
Eero, Janne, Santeri
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