Mum took us for a Nyonya lunch at a restaurant called Ivin’s. Nyonya (or Peranakan) food is hard to find in New Zealand and parts of Malaysia, so I really appreciated the choice of restaurant. We had otak-otak, beef rendang, chicken curry, ayam tempera and bubor chacha. The tempera was a dry version, different from Mum’s. But everything was delicious!
After lunch, we asked to be dropped off at Sim Lim Square for some electronics shopping. We compared prices for computer monitors and car stereos. We also took a look at some phone prices and they were higher than in Dubai. Kim did end up buying the car stereo.
We had put in the smallest of our memory sticks of photos to be developed. Printing prices here are cheap at SGD0.40, discounted to SGD0.35 because we were printing a larger number. The resulting photos were unacceptably bluish. They assured that the remainder wouldn’t be that bluish as they would adjust it accordingly. When we returned later in the day, all of the were still unacceptably bluish. We were offered the option to leave the photos at no charge or to take them at SGD0.25. We opted to leave them.
Later in the day, we tried again at another place by printing a sample from the smallest memory stick. The results were promising and we had the remainder printed.
Hopping into the taxi back to step-dad’s place, Kim realised that he had left the car stereo behind. The taxi driver offered to ring the photo shop who confirmed that it was there and held it safely for him until tomorrow.
In the evening, we went out Mum and step-dad, step-bro and his girlfriend Jess. We had good food in a nice air-con foodcourt at United Square in Novena.