Singapore Trip - Part I
The last time I stepped my foot on a land / soil outside Malaysia was 1991 (Standard 1 / 7 years old). Fast forward to 2006, while my 2 sisters had already been to Indonesia (Not once, but twice) and also Thailand; I was only able to go outside Malaysia again after 15 years. Yes, I was in Singapore for the weekend, with my sister - Jamie only.
After passing the immigration, I called Earthtone, who’s voice sounded very much like Twinsmom, except Earthtone’s voice is younger. Ha!
“Earthtone, I just came out from the immigration. Then I will be in Sentosa Island.”
“OK.”
“Are you free to come to Sentosa Island to meet me?”
“I will see how first. Bao Bao is still sleeping and hubby went out already.”
“OK. Give me a call at 012-6842434 later.”
“OK. Enjoy your trip.”
Upon reaching Sentosa Island, we went to have our lunch at the S.E.A Village Restaurant inside the island. However, the food was bad but still edible.
Our first stop was the Dolphin Lagoon. The show was about 30 minutes long and nothing much to shout about though, since the stunts performed by the three dolphins were not really impressive, in my opinion; except the last stunt. With the power of 12X optical zoom and 1/600 shutter speed, snapping pictures of the dolphins performing the stunts were an easy task.
The next station was the Underwater World. Since I haven’t been to Langkawi’s Underwater World (Or did I?), I enjoyed the walk. The Japanese Spider Crab gave me the chill though, it was freaking huge and to think that, Kai Hong and I just agreed to have Alaska King Crab for dinner when I am in KL next week. By the way, was it the glass’s effect or the fishes were just that huge?
After that, it was The Luge. The luge is a much simplified version of Go-Kart. You sit on a plastic “board” and go down the hill by controlling the handle bar. Release the bar to go and pull the bar towards you to stop, it’s that simple. It’s not very fast but very fun to play with. When you reach bottom of the track, you will be carried up to the hill by the skyride, overlooking part of the Sentosa Island.
We then took the lift to go to the top of the Merlion (A lion with a fish body.) to have a hazy view of the Sentosa Island. Each of us were given a lucky coin, which entitled you to a souvenir when you exit the tower.
Next on the list was Images of Singapore, where you go through a series of buildings, reading and learning the history of Singapore with the aid of models, sculptures, pictures, audios and videos. It’s quite interesting provided if you don’t know about the history of Singapore or the culture of Chinese, Malay and Indian (like the foreigners), else it would be quite boring. It took us almost 30 minutes just to walk out from the building. We were relieved when we saw the “See You Soon” poster. Ha!
Then we had steamboat buffet for dinner, which was so bad that I didn’t enjoy at all.
After our dinner, we rushed ourselves for the musical water fountain show. It was very beautiful but not when the stupid monkey came out. In fact, it was annoying. I was hoping to see a show of splashing water with colours changing in the background, but this monkey was just… just… Forget it, I only like the front and last part of the show.
We then checked into our hotel, Metropolitan YMCA and called it a day.
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October 27th, 2006 01:21
IM FIRST! LOL I HAVENT EVEN READ UR POST… ok i go read now. i jus wanted to post first. LOL… talk abt kiasu.
October 27th, 2006 01:47
*生气*
October 27th, 2006 02:00
this Jason ahh.. go anywhere also contact blogger wan.. hehe…
Why you look so serious in the pics wan? smile la a little bit.
I don’t remember much about S’pore cos the last time I was there was 14 years ago. I remember the Tang dynasty, haw par villa and the nice musical fountain.
hope you had a good trip. =)
October 27th, 2006 03:31
Well..well.. Jason..!! you should have told me.. that you were in Singapore..!! i could have gotten you a good hotel rate.. in a decent hotel..!!
Aiyah..!! so wasted..!
October 27th, 2006 08:48
First pic of the Underwater World is haunted! :p
Nice optical illusion though, can send this out as chained junk mail to bluff ppl that fish in Sentosa can swim without water hahahahha
October 27th, 2006 09:09
wahahhahhahahah ahahwhwhwhahhahwhahwh
please forgive me for laughing so hard.
My gosh.. envy u la.. going sentosa…
me stuck in the town onli… so sien.. eating all the good food nia.. no dolphins, no crabs..eh.. got got got crabs…. i eat black pepper crab… one of the singapore best food…
ok la.. can see ur face… seem very very unhappy like that.. but for the sake of showing us, u just took pic with that face… kesian u… :p
btw, the green shirt chick in this pic - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/jason_lioh/Folder2/P1070660.jpg
CHIO BU !!!!! is that ur purpose of taking that pic??????
October 27th, 2006 09:25
Wah…. last time went S’pore is 2001 with schoolmates lol…
Sentosa Isle is fun, I wish I could go back there again. :)
P/S: Haha, too bad ur pics are ruined by the haze.
October 27th, 2006 10:19
hehehe… i’m going to spore soon hehehe
October 27th, 2006 11:21
Seronok betol…
I’m having my long break soon ……wahahhaa…
But no money to go spore. SOBX.
October 27th, 2006 12:21
Ah the pink dolphine is cute leh.
How come Luge’s track traffic jam one ?
October 27th, 2006 12:22
Debbie : lll0.o
Twinsmom : 哈哈哈… *给你一粒糖*
Moopig : Haha, yeah, I will also call you if I am in London or Kota Bahru. LOL. The sour face was because the food sucks, the tour sucks, I don’t know anyone in the bus and again, the food sucks. Maybe you should visit Singapore soon, 14 years is very long indeed.
Mama Bok : Errmmm… We followed the tour. :(
Tien Soon : LOL. I didn’t notice until you mentioned. Really illusion. Haha!
Cely : I fucking hate you! And that one you call chiou bu ah? Ugly like shit lah.
CLF : Wah, your school mates all so kaya one har, go Singapore woh! Yeah, the haze sucks.
Aprilcherrie : Oh, where are you going then? Shopping spree?
Ellone : All your money has been spent on beers, alcohols and shopping. Don’t blame me. :P I save my money to have fun.
Che-Cheh : Oh, that’s the end of the track already, waiting for the workers there to unload the luge and etc.
October 27th, 2006 12:39
sei jai bao.. hate la… u better not to view my next post .. else u will go jambi me liao…
not chio meh? from that angle.. looks like cecelia zheong BAI Chi leh.. :p
October 27th, 2006 17:01
u so good kor kor, can travel alone with mei mei!
October 27th, 2006 18:08
Cely : That’s not chio ok
The last time i went singapore was 2 years back now……. hmmm…… kinda nice trip tho. I particularly liked the “frog porrdige”(tien-ji) down in geylang :D yea yea!!!!
October 27th, 2006 21:07
Follow tour? How much like that? How come follow tour? But Singapore is so near why follow tour when you can travel alone. And furthermore you don’t need to eat those tasteless food…? :D
October 27th, 2006 22:02
Haha….now i realized i skipped quite a number of places…..basically, from your Luge ride onwards. When exactly were you at Sentosa?
October 27th, 2006 23:51
mau adik angkat tak?
October 28th, 2006 01:08
you still small huh, need ur mum to paid the trip fees?? haha..i have been to singapore 2 years ago, and i got to go all the places you mention o
October 28th, 2006 12:26
Cely : I am not going to read your blog for the next 3 posts, until you finish blogging about your Singapore trip. Chio? Your eyes cacat lah, even Boss Lepton also said ugly.
Jesslyn : My mum paid for us, not I belanja my sister go.
Boss Lepton : *sobs* Don’t talk about food… I am so depressed when I think about it.
Shinky : Ask my mum why she signed us up for the Singapore tour.
Emotionalistic : I was at Singapore on Saturday (21/10) and Sunday (22/10). You should have try The Luge. It was quite fun.
Tze Shan : Tak Nak! :D
Irene : Mum wants to sponsor, what to do? :P If I got money, I don’t think I want to go Sentosa Island also. :P
October 28th, 2006 12:51
:S
ok lo… not chiio ma no chio lo…
whatever… felt unwelcome here liao.. shud shut up.. sorry for my comments
October 28th, 2006 13:45
Cely : She really not chio mah. Haha! Don’t lah like that! Not not welcome you, just that you been taunting me with that black pepper crab, it must have been a big mistake.
October 29th, 2006 09:39
hey, mummy sponsor you all go mah good liao lor… dun complain they din let you go travel ler.. :P:P
last time i went to singapore once when i was just 12 yo… that’s the scary incident where i nearly lost in singapore…fuiyooo……
but hor, last time the sentosa island stil not many things to play…sigh….. haha..i also stay at metropolitan YMCA…
October 30th, 2006 10:03
I called the h/p cannot get through…the luge looks fun..never seen it before
October 30th, 2006 16:37
Milly : Got lost in Singapore? lll0.o I can’t even remember what I did at Sentosa Island 14 years ago.
Earthtone : I suspect my line got suspended the moment my credit was down to 0. :(
October 31st, 2006 10:32
no, I think the line can;t get thru becos it’s outside malaysia. same case with my father’s h/p
October 31st, 2006 10:34
Earthtone : Got such thing one meh? My phone got international roaming one woh. Hmm… Nevermind lah, next time. I am sure I will be visiting Singapore again.