It's my first time to Vivocity since it opened! If I'm not wrong it's developers are touting it as a refreshing shopping experience, and in some ways that is true. For starters the new Sentosa Rail thingy that replaces the monorail will have a stop in Vivocity.
There are shops that you don't get to see in every other mall, like the not quite fully stocked up Candy Empire,

Pull and Bear, and the shockingly expensive GAP (check out their bags to know what I mean). There's also some oddly named and very cheena looking restaurant cum lounge slash bar. Interesting.
Vivocity's designers must've taken a page off the California style board walks coz you'll find wooden plank lined walkways by the break water. Oh, incidentally the Pacific Coffee on the 2nd level along the board walk looks pretty nicely decor-ed too.
Finally there are those er.. friendly helpers who assist you should you get lost in the big new mall.

Much like a higher class version of the Carrefour bladers, they move around in Segway Human Transporters which costs like US$4k. Yea, just so you won't get lost in the mall. Uh, you might also think the 2 of them are so cheerful that it borders on the creepy. Haha..
Anyhow, I've got to say that I wasn't entirely thrilled by Vivocity. Maybe I haven't got to see all the shops yet, or maybe very soon the hype will die down and more people will agree with me that it's just an exercise of trying quite hard to be different.

We've got Little India, Little Thailand, etc. Now there's a little Malaysia! Go to Boon Lay Place and you'll know. Stepping into the complex is like any other er.. complex in JB for instance. Without the need for a passport! It's a nice old neighbourhood actually and you won't believe you'll find a super crowded hawker centre in such an ulu (to most people) place.
Many many handphone shops, many travel agencies like the ones you find in Chinatown, some old provision shops and even a shop that still sells LDs (or the ginormous predecessor of the VCD/DVD)! Go look for the overhead bridge and I swear the last time you saw one like that was in the '80s. It's still a warm feeling kampung place! Nice~

bet you've never seen cakes sold in slabs like this confectionery shop @ boon lay place does

Finally I show you our gross students. This picture was taken at er.. 1am at canteen A. Uni students! Thinking there are maids in the canteen! Super embarrassing. Again, like the pee-ers-who-don't-put-the-toilet-seat-up people.. Shame on you!