Today our good friend Huy flew in from Vietnam to meet us for the weekend. We had fabulous dreams of all we'd do and see that day, and then the rain came. And came. Luckily we took cover inside a mall. Unluckily, we took cover inside a mall.

Plaza Singapura is eight floors tall by about 25+ stores around, and we covered it all during the nine hours trapped inside. The Yamaha Piano store? Saw it. The medieval weaponry shop? Been there. The movie theatre? Caught the latest Bond film and ate the popcorn.

We'd never felt more alive than when we stepped back into the fresh, humid, Singapore air.