The road to hell is paved with soft furnishings

This morning we were in Tampines for a BMX race that I was too disorganised to enter (it helps if you have a bicycle, for starters) and so it was only natural that we visited Ikea, home of such Singaporean inventions as meatballs and flat-pack furniture.

Drunk in Ikea

This afternoon, after a Michelin-starred steamed dumpling in Causeway Bay, I headed over to Lantau.

One of our friends is remodelling the interior of a house in Pui O, so we got to sit in a building site and drink champagne, while looking down on the beauty of the bay. There's nothing like the scent of recently sawn plywood, combined with the taste of champagne and hummus. Possibly that is a little bit confused; we should have been eating hors'd'oevres (or spelling them correctly) rather than a recently purchased packet of bagel bites. Ah, them's the breaks.