After an eventful and rather stressful week at work, boy was I glad when the weekend rolled around! When I mentioned needing to get some proper furniture for the apartment, Daniel and Michelle suggested going to someplace called the Tampines Retail Park, where there were furniture stores and a “hypermarket”. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the place, but I figured, why not, right?
The two of them came by in Dan’s car after lunch, and we all set off to the ‘Tampines Retail Park’, and when we got there, I was completely amazed. The place is absolutely HUGE! Imagine a huge expanse of land, with just three, enormous buildings, and nothing else!
Of the three, the most eye-catching was the huge, blue box-like building splashed with big yellow letters spelling out IKEA. We didn’t have enough time after visiting both Courts and Giant, so maybe I’ll check that one out the next time I come here. I can’t wait to go there. It looks so exciting! Dan said it is one of the best places to go shop for furniture so I’m hoping that I’ll find good things for my apartment next week.
Michelle told me that the land here was industrial land, and the idea of building places for shopping on industrial land is really a mind-boggling one! Honestly, the place is quite out of the way, and even though there are shuttle buses, it really isn’t convenient to lug huge pieces of furniture on a crowded bus. I guess that’s why they offer free parking here, and why the parking lots are massive, as you can see from the picture.
