A kid in a candy store

This is exactly how I felt today.  I had a fantastic sleep yesterday and spent my morning poolside. It was extra sunny today, not a cloud in the sky, which for Singapore is a big change.  I probably spent close to 45 minutes in the water, which has got to be some sort of record for me.

Following that I skyped with mom until I needed to shower and meet up with model friend. Exploring the mall, we searched for a bookstore. After wandering our way down to B4 (that’s right 4^th basement), we discovered that we actually needed to go to floor 3. That’s 7 flights on the escalators. Before that though she wanted to stop by this awesome DC comics store to pick up some merch for friends back home. And that’s when I spotted the Dark Knight. 

Finally making it to the bookstore (it’s Called Prologue), I spotted the fiction section. Under the advice of a very beautiful woman back from Canada (there are a lot of these women in my life J) I found my new book. Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver, it’s the latest James Bond novel. It was a little difficult due to the fact I was looking for a different cover. The one here is white, where as in NA it is black and has a big 007 on it. 

The time rolled in on dinnertime for me and under the discretion of a pointing finger and a picture I tried Beef Kway Teow? I think that’s what it was called. It was beef, peppers, green onions, been sprouts and wide rice noodles. As I was eating this I thought, wow eating out in Singapore is so much easier than in Canada. My model friend commented on how weird I am for eating all the local foods, trying a different dish every opportunity I can.

My day continued to get more exciting when model friend talked about this place that has chocolate. I bought myself a box of the Royce Japanese chocolate. Dark of course, 82% bitter and 94% extra bitter, they came in little 1/3 oz. packages inside a bigger one. Immediately I tried and the chocolate was decadent. Very rich, these chocolates will likely last me until I am done my time in Singapore. This was the candy store part, or was it.

Model friend made my day with this move and made today unforgettable. The garage! Yes the garage! This garage was far more than I could have imagined. She lives in a very wealthy building and the cars in this garage were what dreams are made from. It reminded me very much of that poster in my guidance counselors office. I think they all had one as a requirement. The reasons for higher learning or something like that poster.  

This garage was incredible. Many Rolls Royce, to many BMW, Merc, and Audi to pay attention to. The cars that caught my eye were the incredibly sexy automobiles of the Aston Martin variety.

Audi perhaps? 

Although you can never go wrong with having several Lamborghini in the picture.

Or Ferrari

And one of my all time favourite cars the 911 GT3RS 

Yippee. I was so excited. Here is a YouTube of what I was looking at. Okay here are two videos of it.

After spending at least a couple hours admiring the beauty, model friend showed me the Grocer Jason’s. They had a lot more western things; I figured this would be a good opportunity to familiarize myself with the store. I spotted these.

We all know my never-ending search for gluten free. I had a great chuckle when I saw this. It is always important to acknowledge that just because it lacks gluten, doesn’t make it any healthier than the Choco crisp or other cereals next to it. 

Seeing the cereal reminded me that I didn’t have any left at home. So I continued towards the Tanglin Market only a few blocks away. And then flash, it hit me. Brown Rice Paradise. This is kind of a community natural foods store. I spotted some of my classic favourites and some new products. A picture is worth a thousand words. I was speechless for much of the day so here you go:

And Haley, we totally get ripped off with clif bars at Costco. Blueberry crisp, cookies and crème, brownie, vanilla almond, white chocolate macadamia, not to mention Clif granola bars and many other awesome products.

For a day without work I have to say it was incredibly eventful. I was so excited with everything that happened today. Huge thanks to model friend for showing me a good time, both good company shopping and opening my eyes and dropping my jaw.

The names Bond, James Bond

Lets get some beats going for this. A James Bond Theme for you.

This is getting hammered out real quickly. I remembered to take the melatonin, so countdown is on till I crash. After a relatively inactive day I set out to do my first paid job since getting here. All I knew going in was “this is an affluent party and the theme is James Bond”. Fair enough, right up my alley considering I had been chatting with Brenna about James Bond and my flight was 007.

This was my first time taking the bus since getting here. It was nice and simple, tap my ezee pay card getting on and then again getting off. The bus brought my right across the street from my destination. Ugh one thing I really can’t seem to get used to when crossing the street is the direction of traffic. I always check both way, but I always look left then right. I need to change that habit to right first. It’s just one of those things, it’s the walking on the left side of the sidewalk, standing on the left side of escalator. Or when there are two escalators, the one you want is always to the left. I can’t count the number of times I have started trying to go up the down escalator. There are tons of those here by the way.

Upon my arrival I ask for Chris. Turns out the coordinator are Paul. A well-dressed small Asian guy, he looked like someone that would be watching a poker match in Casino Royale. He assistant was a beautiful Asian woman; she looked the part of someone’s eye candy. Our mission was simple. We were walking talking display pieces for some of the biggest people in the city. There were 3 ambassadors, several military, and owners of diamond mines and other various big money ventures. The merchandise. Stylistic and fashionable body armour.  I am talking polo shirts, ski jackets, sweaters, you name it. Miguel Caballero is the company that designs this stuff. Its hand made in Colombia. Here is a pic I snapped before we started. I hope to get some more from the event coordinator soon. 

There were 4 models. Myself, a Chinese guy from Hong Kong, a French guy and a girl from Romania. The three of them were from a different agency. The four of us strolled around for 3 hours letting people check out the armour. It was rather entertaining. There was one beautiful woman that said she already had one of the pieces. Crazy, I can’t imagine being in the market for that kind of stuff. Its certified 3A, which means the vest, can stop a point blank shot from an Uzi or a .44 magnum. 

I had a wonderful chat with the CEO for the Asian market and the director of marketing. Both are great people, offered me a place to stay in Hong Kong if I want to come up for a weekend. She also said she would love to have me help model this armour throughout Asia. I have her card.

I had fun tonight at the event. Unfortunately all the walking over the past few days I developed a blood blister on my heel. I have done wonders for giving it rest (wearing flip flops) and I put a band aid on it while wearing the shoes, but it swelled up quite a bit. A result of tight sock, and lots of standing. I took this pic when I got home so it came down quite a bit from that. The whole area is quite tender, likely going to take an ibuprofen too. 

On my walk to the bus I spotted a few notable cars.

 Okay I am nodding off goodnight. 

Oh and lastly here is the Jungle Gym workout area.