Not a good photo-taking day, I only like these 2 shots. Kenji’s camera is kinda broken while J’s Holga rewind-misfortune probably cost him the entire roll.

Reflection

J

Kith Cafe serves yummy milkshake, try strawberry yoghurt or peanut butter! Reasonably priced at SG$5.50 each. Free parking at Waterfront condominium if you let them know that you are going to Kith Cafe (limited parking lots).

I love wood and chalkboards.

http://www.kith.com.sg/

Best part about “re-uniting” with Kenji after all these years is to find a spontaneous photography buddy! Not to mention, my new friend, J – the unknowing victim who willingly jumped into our crazy whirlpool of film/digital SLR/DSLR/toy cameras after a spontaneous decision to meet in Taipei! Sooo… the 3 of us went on a little excursion last Saturday…

魔鬼！

Geek specs!

Notebooks

More notebooks

Kenji and his SLR

Cat Socrates is a bookshop that also carries a variety of tin toys, CDs, tote bags, notebooks, stationery and other zakka, with a tiny corner that serves coffee (for like only 6 people!). They’re organising a Space Tin Photography Competition, submission deadline 30th June, chekkit!

Cat Socrates
苏格拉底猫·新生活阅读·创意杂货
ttp://www.catsocrates.com.sg/
231 Bain Street
Bras Basah Complex
#03-39
Singapore 180231

As we couldn’t get seats at Cat Socrates + it was getting too dark for some lomo action, we headed over to the Mint Museum of Toys for coffee. J getting trigger happy with his funny conversion lens (wide angle) that Kenji and him bought from Cat Socrates at only SG$8.50.

J

Me & my Sony α

MINT cafe

Mint Museum of Toys
http://www.emint.com/
26 Seah Street
Singapore 188382

p/s: They sell the funny lenses at Strapya World too, but at US$9+! Pricey!

To ease a bit of the Taipei-hangover, Shaun introduced me to Casual Poet, a laidback cafe tucked away in an inconspicuous shophouse in Chinatown. I told J about it and we went to check it out on a lazy Saturday.

布告欄 with Shaun's drawing!

Owned by a very young lady-boss in her early twenties, this little hideout sits less than 20 and houses a good stock of zakka for sale.

A sunny day

Vintage typewriter

I <3 Notebooks!

The food and drinks are rather pricey at about SG$7 for a strawberry shake and SG$10 for the chilli butter chicken rice (I can’t remember exactly). I like their chilli butter chicken rice even though it was a little too dry. On the other hand, the drinks and J’s fried rice didn’t do it for me (he claimed it was alright; that, or my tastebuds are just more sensitive). There’s free Wifi but my iPod Touch refused to connect to it somehow.

Skinny girl

Yummy!

Wooden shelves are nice

I probably will not re-visit unless there’s an event going on because I feel the food and drinks are overpriced. However, it’s a nice-to-visit-once sorta place that I’d recommend to get out of the usual Starbucks or Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf monotony.

Casual Poet
http://casualpoet.com/
273B New Bridge Road
Singapore 088749

Jiufen (九份) reminds me of somewhere in Japan (I forgot)… You’ll need to take a cab or bus to reach here as there isn’t a train station. Lots of food, souvenir shops and tea houses with smashing views. They say it’s easy to identify the tourists, especially Singaporeans, because we’re usually in shorts/berms and slippers while everyone else is wrapped in layers during this pre-summer weather. I wore a jacket only because Jiufen is located on the hills and it was raining that day. Slightly chilly but lovely, I like!

Signature 九份 photo point

下雨天

J & I had tea at this scenic 忘情小巢茶坊, which literally means “the little nest to forget love teahouse”.

忘情小巢茶坊

茶道

小盆栽