It was still raining from the day before, so I donned my coat, but immediately regretted it because of the heat outside. We hopped on the MRT to the post office, which was in the very centre of a large shopping mall full of restaurants and food courts. In the post office, we paid for the postage and packaging of the things we wanted to send. I sent my Mum's pashmina and a few postcards. Back outside and the rain had seemed to pass so now I had to carry my coat around, which was even more annoying. We caught the MRT back in the other direction towards Orchard road.
Getting off the MRT at Orchard street was cool because we had to go through a temporary passageway with ambient music and funky lights. Walking out into the street, we were taken aback by the height of surrounding buildings. The pavements were heaving and the roads were crazy. I felt extremely weak from lack of food and drink, so we searched for somewhere to have lunch. We looked in a few malls, but were only met by expensive shops. Any restaurants we did find were very upper class and way too expensive for us. We should have eaten back at the food courts next to the post office! Eventually, we decided on Burger King. Not very adventurous, but it was our only option really.
We felt much better after our lunch and decided that Orchard road was a bit expensive for us, and that we should go
browse around Bugis, the cheaper part of town. We hopped back on the MRT towards Bugis, but on emerging from Bugis station we found a torrential downpour. We waited twenty minutes for it to clear up, but it showed no signs of doing so, so we got straight back on the MRT and went back to the hostel. It was only 4pm.All night it poured down, getting stronger and slower in turns. We sat in the room all night, sorting our bags for the flight to Thailand the next day and occupying ourselves with books and journals. We were all asleep by 10pm.
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