have you all seen that ION orchard?
BANANAS!
it looks really huge and the design of the building is fabulous. i mean have you seen all the other buildings along orchard road. apart from wheelock's interesting cone shape architecture, the rest of the malls are just squares and rectangles. how rigidly boring!
ohh, and have you seen how the ION orchard looks like at night? its like a fucking casino! all the lights in multicolors is just screaming vegas to me. even still in its construction phase it already makes the neighbouring malls look like dingy shacks and slums. i mean seriously, the only time our malls look lighted up and enticing is christmas with all the decorations.
now this entry's purpose is not to laud praises at ION, instead i question the need for another mall in orchard road. sure its a shopping haven, but what we want is variety not quantity.
like for instance, what do you think ION orchard will offer? another topshop/topman? perhaps a g2000. giordano? hmm. esprit maybe? how about a charles and keith?
lets talk food then. bread talk? bakerzin? either starbucks, coffee bean or tcc?
its like the same or similar in every mall, dont you think so?
i'm sick of going from one mall to the other just to see similar items from the previous mall. seriously? do we need another charles and keith or topshop? if this trend continues, EVERYBODY will have the same clothes cause no matter where you shop, be it tampinese 1 or ION, its all the same!
so what i do propose then?
definitely not more newurbanmales! instead of buildings more malls, build better malls intead. improve our current malls by bringing in new brands. local designers or foreign ones it doesnt matter. and bringing in new brands doesnt mean you bring in expensive ones. muji and cotton on are interesting new shops that were brought in. we need new different shops, not the same shops popping up in new malls.
seriously this is sick. in future, i will just need to go to one mall to know what ALL the other malls have to offer.
and this is why ladies and gentlemen, online shopping is gaining in popularity.
talking about online shopping, dont let me get started on my rant on singapore's online blogshops. scums of the online shopping world whose only purpose is to provide cheap and cheap looking clothes to clones who dress with no individuality. this topic for another time.
xoxo
