Nocturnal conversion

Since my visit to Taiwan, I've gone another step closer to becoming a night animal. And with the recent night shopping craze, perhaps Singapore is joining me (or the other way round) in adjusting our bio-clock.

Somehow, my mom (who is undoubtedly the most unlikely person to go for nocturnal conversion course) asked me to go out for supper. Her question rather worried me, and for a moment, I thought the sky would be falling down over my head anytime soon.

Just to give a better idea, my mom usually sleeps at 10 pm and wakes up at 5 am.

We decided to go down to Lot 1 to fill up the remainder of our stomachs (because dinner was a pathetic amount of fried bee hoon), and if the shops at Lot 1 are joining the midnight shopping trend, perhaps some shopping as well.

My mom had never done shopping so late at night before. Heck, she hasn't done anything but sleep at this time of the night for decades. From the way she made a beeline to Veeko, no one could tell what her sleeping hours used to be.

It seemed that the more common apparel retailers, like Giordano and Veeko in Lot 1, were closing late to catch the market caused by the recent trend.

Anyway, I shall skip the boring details of the shopping process (good thing my mom doesn't know of my blog) and go on to the more interesting part - food! We discovered that a pasar malam was set up beside Lot 1. All that spells to us was "dinner".

Make that "supper".

I felt as if time has drifted back to the days when I was in Taiwan, wandering through night markets on the lookout for food. I ate myself silly with a half a pack of muah chee, 3 kueh tu tu, 1 Ramly burger and a Japanese pizza. Ah, the fond memories of eating as if there's no tomorrow while in Taiwan.

Following supper was sitting down for an ice blend at Lot 1's Coffee Bean & Tea Leaves.

Which reminds me: why is is that the shopping centres (in Orchard area) that I visit close at their regular timings, when it seemed that midnight shopping is going on everywhere on the newspapers? I always always asked to leave promptly before midnight whenever I sit down at a cafe with my friends. Why don't those shopping centres (with at least 1 cafe) cater to midnight shoppers?