After being for 5 months I have realised that I really need to sort out my wardrobe. Coming from a more temperate climate, I have very little clothing that is suitable for living in the tropics. Even my holiday togs, the ones that only ever saw the light of day when we left NZ for a holiday or I was brave enough to head to the indoor pool (don't let me get started on that), are giving up and need an overhaul.
Now that I cast my mind back a few years. Ok almost 20 years, I am not that old! Really. I have vague memories of moving back to NZ after having grown up in Australia and being very cold as we had no suitable clothing. I guess after living in a place for a long time on and off you adapt to the environment. Well it's time to do that again.
My first priority was my son. I sorted this before leaving NZ. It is easy to pick things up for him. He doesn't need to spend hours in the changing room trying things on.
Have you tried clothes shopping with a 2 year old? It is a nightmare. I still haven't discovered half my local mall yet. It's just not worth the trauma. Which brings me to my point. Yes, there is one.
I get between 10am and 12pm to myself Monday to Thursday. The perfect time to update my wardrobe, you would think. But you would be mistaken.
The only shops open at this time in my local mall are Fairprice (supermarket), parts of the Kopitiam (food court), Bread Talk (sells bready things) and Metro (department store). A coffee shop or two is open as well, but that's not what I am after.
I have two precious hours to shop until my heart is content and can't manage it. This is the shopping mecca, and yet totally unattainable, well for me, when I want to do it.
Most clothing shops will open between 10.30am and 11am. By which point I have lost my will to shop and am itching to come home and enjoy an hours peace and quiet before chaos reigns again. They will also be open long into the night.
Having moaned, I have found that most of the shops at Vivocity are open if I go there right after dropping my son off. This might be because it takes me 20 mins on the MRT and it is around 10.30 when I get there. Also the shops in Tanglin Mall are open at this time. I guess because it is a child focused mall and in an expat/tourist location.
I guess I have two options. Go and have a coffee and chill out and wait for the shops to open, or wait until hubby has come home in the evenings and head out then.
There is the 3rd option of having a live in helper, but that discussion is for another day.
Today I have spent my shopping time writing this instead. Oh well, the holey shorts will have to do for a bit longer.
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