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Decide to took half-day leave today, as I have something to do and also want to take the chance do some shopping in the middle of the day.

So first stop was to Raffles City, as I wanted to go to the Robinson Store. Since Robinson is well-known for its services, thus wanted to go experience some good customer service. Well.. now I realised that selecting perfume to buy is not an easy task, especially when the info I had on hand is rather vague. So its pretty much relying on gut-feel to find out  the scent I want to get. To make matter worse, a particular brand has to come out with 3 different  scent all under 1 range; Addict, Addict 2 and Addict Shine. So gave up on this brand, move on to brand 2. This one at least pretty straight-forward, since they only have 2 different scent for their range that comes with numbers. But I was wrong, cos this brand of perfumes (in my own words) have this time-lapse feature that the actual scent will only come out after it takes time to ’settle-down’. Cos the promoter was explaining to me why I couldn’t get the scent right earlier because the scent has yet to ’settle-down’.

Now at least I can ‘put a face’ to the different scent and brand of perfumes I can get, should I decide to purchase it. So move on the my 2nd stop, where its time for me to relax and chill over a drink. Went down to my favourite lounge at Intercontinental Hotel to spend my afternoon reading while sipping a cold beer.  I had found this place to be very conducive for reading, since its pretty quiet with soft music played over the lounge. If I were to stay later, I can get to hear live performance by the lounge piano player. Had managed to finished reading the Library Journal containing papers presented during the 2008 Library Conference and 2 short stories excerpts from this year’s Read Singapore selected reading material. Haa… I guess I will be hanging out at the lounge this week again, since now I got another book on hand to complete.

After spending my afternoon at the lounge, decide to do some window-shopping before heading for dinner. So ended up at Kinokuniya Book-store. Decide to check out this book ‘The Best I Could’ by Subhas Anandan, the famous criminal lawyer in Singapore. Chance upon this book on Monday while I was at Times Bookshop, got rather engrossed while browsing it. Had initally wanted to loan it from the library (the cheapo side of me say “Don’t Buy.. Loan!!”) but upon checking the Online Catalogue, the book is either out on loan or under reservation in all the libraries. I figure by the time I get my hands on it, the interest in the book might be lost. So decide to purchase the book from Kinokuniya, since they are offering a further 20% discount on the book. So a good book that cost slightly above $20, where to find!!

So decide to head down to Central Mall for dinner, since I am not too sure what I want to have for dinner, but had the intention to check out some clothes at one of the shops there. Upon reaching Central Mall, decide to go for dinner first as its troublesome to look for dining place alone, and worse if I have any shopping bags with me should I decide to buy some clothes. Decided to try this shop that sells Hong Kong style food, as that is the only store that kind of sell something not local and yet look decent enough. Furthermore, there were these 2 ladies that also happened to decide eating at this shop and I actually made a couple of eye-contact with one of the lady. Haa… so ordered my food and drink, got a seat and enjoy my nice cold milk-tea while waiting for my Pork-Chop noodle to be served. I must said, the food was good, serving was rather large I would said. So had a satisfying dinner, then decide to buy some Japanese pastries for my colleagues at work tomorrow. Since I hasn’t really given them a treat ever since I join AFS, so decide to give them a little treat since I had gotten my PB. Had bought this cute finger-bite size donuts and cakes.

Finally all is done and its time to head home. On the way, start reading the book that I just bought and the momentum just build up. Now the reading mood is once again ignited.