Jonathan hollered from the bedroom that I might want to head to the grocery store. He'd just heard the Prime Minster would be addressing the Nation at 4 pm. It was April 3.

Every time the PM speaks, we all run to the store in advance as if he's closing them. This time people were speculating Singapore would go into full Lock Down due to COVID19; We did not.

Instead we were asked to stay home as much as possible effective immediately, not visit anyone outside our household. We were given 4 or 5 days notice to allow everyone to get things in order and then only Essential Services would be open.

Anyhow, I headed to the store just like everyone else I know at about 3 pm.

This was the meat section: There was liver, chicken feet and one black whole chicken left. I passed on those.  I considered the whole chicken, but bought a cooked chicken from the deli instead.

I roamed around in circles checking different areas for a while. The line for fresh fish was crazy long. Eventually I passed a pack of frozen chicken that someone had abandoned in a random place and then I ran off the check the frozen meat section. I found a pack of frozen chicken breast (6 breasts). For most of the packages it was frozen as one solid blob, but I was able to find one package that seemed to be separated in 2 so we only had to defrost 3 chicken breasts at once. With the household of 6, that's about right for most of the things we cook.

On the Ground floor the line to pay went from the tills right to the back of the store - everyone was spaced the required one metre apart. Upstairs the cashiers are in a more condensed area and required staff to stand and direct people to keep order. It was very orderly. I paid upstairs, it's always faster because there is less food up their. I waited about 1/2 an hour in line to pay - 1 metre apart of course.