A free and easy day today! Decided to go 江汉路 with Sheila, Dee, Eliza, Yuhaw, Yuchuan, and Houngsheng.
Settled our brunch at Dicos, which is something like KFC and McDonald's merged together. Tried their Hawaiian Chicken Thigh Burger, and it wasn't the best choice. If you look closely you can see the pineapple between the chicken and the burger. I have to say their chicken was pretty good though, but this was after I picked out the pineapple.
A fun fact on the side of their burger box to encourage recycling.
"The recycling rate in Japan is 78%; Germany 83%, USA 56%, where the amount of paper used is almost the same. In China, however, the recycling rate is only 30%."
Walked a little down 江汉路 to Meters Bonswe to get some new jeans for the guys, especially Yuchuan and Houngsheng.
Guys looking awkward in their new jeans.
If you thought guys are easy to shop for/with, you're so wrong. It took forever to convince Houngsheng to get a new pair of jeans (that wouldn't make him look like an uncle), and to get Yuhaw to get an awesome faux-leather jacket. Thankfully they both bought the jeans and the jackets in the end, otherwise the girls would have waited that long for nothing.
After getting stuff for the guys and another scarf for myself, we decided to take a rest at Starbucks. Hot chocolate because it was cold out and lemon cheesecake! Nom nom nom.
Went to 太平大厦 to buy some stuff at their departmental store, especially for Sheila and long list of souvenirs for her family members.
Stopped at the toy section, where I found coloured version of Magna Doodle. Love doodling on these since it's so fuss-free. The words actually say "Hello from Singapore" but I ran out of space. :/
Sigh, I regret not getting one for myself now.
Eliza having fun by herself playing with kiddy toys.
Headed for dinner at the Korean barbecue place we've previously eaten at, where the guys literally ate their hearts out.
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Personal reflection
Seeing the fun fact on the burger box today made me, yet again, really admire China's efforts to be environmentally friendly. It's probably not easy to implement methods to help save the earth, especially in such a large country, but they've done it anyway.
Almost everywhere we go, I can see recycling bins. Their take-out boxes are rarely plastic. Their streetlights are solar- and wind-powered (!), their supermarkets push the BYOB campaign a lot more than we do in Singapore.
China is undeniably a rather powerful country, what with all that land and population. So for them to be so environmetally friendly, it really does set an example to the rest of the world, and for them to lead by example. Hopefully, like China, Singapore can also begin aiming to be increasingly friendly to the environment.
