I am not a shopper. I do not get great joy from purchasing things. I'm not even good at purchasing things that I actually like. I know better than to ever shop on my own. This is just unheard of here.
It was raining yesterday morning so I asked the guy who runs the hostel what I could do on a rainy day. "SHOPPING!" he said excitedly, which I nixed. He looked confused and then offered "Window shopping?" I went over to the stack of brochures and a full 5 minutes later he said "Oh, I forgot, we have some museums too" which he had clearly never been to.
This is Singapore. It's a place to shop. There are so many malls that it is dizzying. In fact I have gotten trapped in malls at least 4 times. You see, Singapore is a big fan of the underpass. Pretty much anywhere you want to go there is an underpass to take you there. Except whenever you enter an underpass, you come up in a mall. Similarly, whenever you get off the subway, you exit into a mall. And then you just can't get out. You can't find ground level, no one else seems to be interested in leaving, and when there is an exit, it looks like a regular old wall that happens to open when you walk by.
I am going to have nightmares of malls.
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