Final Day (25.12.2019)
What an eventful day–today was both Christmas, and the last day of our trip.
My Boyfriend’s grandparents and aunts and uncles gave us all hongbao, for the upcoming Lunar New Year. (I still have the ones they gave me last year; they have been laying against the windowsill for a full year now, and the sunlight has changed the color from vivid red to a faded pink.) They gave me a few other gifts, too—Totoro keychains, and these adorable pastel pins. I was so touched~
We ate at a dim sum restaurant for lunch before saying goodbye. Our next destination was Singapore, where we would spend our final evening before flying to the US the next morning.
The first thing we did in Singapore was go to the barbershop. Yes, my Boyfriend scheduled a haircut on the final day of our trip, in our precious few final hours in Singapore. It sounds ridiculous (it still kind of is) but he has insanely thick hair that only very experienced Asian barbers know how to properly manage, and there aren’t any suitable barbers back at home so he was rather adamant about getting his hair cut while in Asia. I must admit that the haircut he received was the best he has ever sported. He looked so handsome, that any annoyance I initially felt melted. Besides, while waiting for his hair cut I also got to look at this absolutely beautiful Chinese temple, the Thian Hock Keng Temple. The glowing red lanterns looked gorgeous against the golden setting sun~
The rest of the evening was spent getting out our shopping itch. (Believe it or not, Boyfriend is even more into fashion than I am.) We bought mostly clothes, including matching Pocky shirts, his a yellow shirt with a black Pocky box and mine a white shirt with a pink box. I also bought CC cream from Etude House~ I loved seeing all the Christmas decorations in the malls! We also met up with Ben again and he gave us a gift, a box of Hong Kong style egg tarts~ Other egg tarts I’ve had in the past were made with a puff pastry, but these ones had a crust that was more similar to a shortbread cookie.
This is the final entry of my trip. I do hope you enjoyed it! If I made a similar series of posts for the next time I travel, would you have any comments or suggestions? I know I hope to bring my DSLR camera next time– I forgot it on this trip, so all the photos were taken with my mobile phone as you could probably tell from the quality. ;;
I loved keeping up with these posts! It was so fun to read about your trip! I especially liked how you highlighted food and interesting sights! I honestly can’t really think of any way to make this style of post better besides perhaps including more photos? That’s all I can think of in that direction. ^-^”
Luna, I’m so glad you enjoyed reading the posts! I had fun writing them too ^^ More photos is good feedback. I think I was hesitant to include a lot of photos because I took them with my phone and most of them looked lower quality than I would have liked. I really want to get some better shots next time ^_^