Orchard Road

Today I decided to explore Orchard Road a bit more on my own. A bit more freedom to move around and explore the places as I please.

During the week, I had explored more of the market places than the big shopping centre areas. I did go to Bugis Junction as well but I more went to the eatery areas. It is also understandable that since Singapore is a mostly Asian influenced place but I noticed MANY Japanese/Korean cuisine to that of other Asian Cuisine.

Anyways, Just having walked around Orchard Road, It was all about the BIG brands, which made a lot of the shopping quite pricey when one is already seeking cheap meal alternatives :P e.g. Louis Vouton, Chanel and etc. But it also showed that there would be a lot of competition to make sales, especially close to a start of a financial year. Once again, because most places prohibited picture taking, I could only get so many examples really.

Just walking around ION and Takashimaya, the design was more sophisticated and somewhat fancy rather than bold and minimal colours with silver/gold or black/white being stronger in colour presence, allowing the products to stand out. Though, Lauduree was a exception what with its pastel coloured and floral bordering design for its macarons. I’m thinking that one was paying more for the branding and packaging over the macarons. A box of 6 macarons costed around $33 SGD ><

Even I got this one for $13 SGD at City Hall

Anyways, one of my goals for the day was to find a Fish Spa and there was one located out at Orchard Central, which I wasn’t anticipating quite a walk but I managed to find it. Orchard shopping centre wasn’t like the other shopping centres, infact it was almost a bit opposite.

For starters, I found my Fish Spa place but it was a bit trick to find as navigating the shopping centre was a bit tricky. Most of the time, you would be better off getting the elevators to get to where you wanted to go and Orchard Centre was, you could say, one half of a building while the other half was another Orchard shopping centre. The building had quite a number of floors too.

The elevators to get around.

The thing that stood out the most was the design aspect of the shops and they even had this 1980’s themed event going on on the first floor which was bold, bright and ‘flashy’ ish LOL

Hippy and bright/bold colours splashed across these vehicles and there were different stores displaying and selling their products that were displayed on the bonnet or in the back of the vehicles.