Lost near at City Hall

On the day we had to go to Victoria Theatre for a "reenactment" of Tan Kah Kee's life, I got lost... I was walking to City Hall MRT station ( or I thought I was ) when I realised I was lost. The surroundings was totally strange to me. I ran around trying to find the North Bridge Road but I still couldn't find that darn road. My iPod Touch's Google map was totally useless. It never shows the buildings, it only shows the roads. Its very confusing... So I ended up asking passers-by. Then, I got so CLOSE to the MRT station ( like just across the road ) and i ran back because I didn't know that the MRT station was there. So I asked another passer-by and he directed my the same route, and there, I finally got to the MRT station... @#$&% maps! I wasted almost half and hour running around blindly. Fortunately, this is a small country. If it is China or a huge country, I would be freakin' lost!