The 24-hour Mega-Shop

Singapore has this shop- it's called Muhammed Mustafa & Sons (or Mustafa). It's the highlight of any Indian tourist to Singapore. And it's open TWENTY-FOURS-A-DAY-7-DAYS-A-WEEK-365/6 DAYS-A-YEAR. Yeah, I know... freeeeeky..but it is open non-stop. And sure, since S'pore is Shopping Capital, u DO get insomniancs going down at 4am to shop (i've never done that, but Winnie has =p )

Besides the fact that you can get almost EVERYTHING (from Massage chairs to blood-glucose-testers to DVDs to Rolex watches to GOLD to diapers to cold-storage FISH to really horrendous clothes to suitcases to Adidas shoes to Squash rackets to IBM laptops to..you get the point, at afforadable prices), you ALSO get lousy service and long queues (neat eh! what a deal!!). All this and MORE, especially on Sunday nights.. you'd either be craazzyyy or sadly masochistic to go to Mustafa on a Sunday night. If you're looking for a night of more pain than pleasure, I suggest a Sunday night...but you again get the point.

Anyway, on my way home today I saw a bus with a Mustafa "One-stop Non-stop shopping centre" ad painted on its exterior. And it had an Indian female as its model. Pearly whites, brown skin, dark brown eyes and all.

It struck me as strange. This has been honestly the first time I've seen an Indian model on a public bus ad (but I'm sure there are others, probably in non-East parts of s'pore =p). Perhaps i became used to seeing Indians as models when I was on my traineeship in India, but I had also become so used to seeing non-Indians as models in S'pore, that when I saw this today, I felt it as, you know, Weird. I think i've officially been re-integrated back into Singapore. The cycle has ended =)