Singapore

Singapore trip from last year. Found this in my Drafts. 

Fond memories of shopping with mum, stopping for beers and recharging ourselves - me playing with my phone and her playing Hay Day whenever we come across free wifi.

Mum bought me that demon light thingy cos it was Halloween and lots of people were wearing it. She said it suits me. So I wore it to dinner with dad's friends and inside the casino. Hahah. Got a few stares - this juvenile girl not gambling but walking around the casino with that ridiculous head bead drinking beer. Yep that's me.

Another night found mum and I inside Planet Hollywood (me thinks) drinking again after our shopping. Looking at these photos got me thinking: would be nice to have a daughter right? More than a boy cos daughters will accompany mum's shopping and drinking but not boys. 

Look at how often Winnie and I went out with mum to VA over the years, and Planet. Proof eh. And how many times Kev went out with mum? None! Kev doesn't drink or shop. Cs ah? Don't remember the last time he went out with his mum only too. Mostly just his sister. More proof!

Gawd we two are bad influences for each other. This was after shopping at Orchard. Tired from shopping - find a bar to sit down and drink. =.= Talk and people watch.

And this is our pre-dinner drinks in the hotel lobby. In our defense, there was some happy hour going on. Buy 1 get 1 free I think. Uncle Johnny and dad came to join us shortly after this! :)

OK last photo. Aside from all the drinking, we ate a lot of food during the trip. Shopped a fair bit. Gambled a fair bit (the men only). 

In case you think we are such alcoholics, we only drink in the day time on holidays okay. Holidays what. Why not? And its not just me. When mum and Winnie go on holidays, they do the same! 

Notice what's the thing in common? Mum. So its mum's fault. Hehe.

I can imagine her reaction reading this.

Spluttering in disbelief: moi?? moi??

OK bye.

Universal Studios Singapore and some updates on life

I have been writing this post, on and off, for the past few months. Sometimes I write down a few sentences. When I feel like it, I upload some photos. Today, I'm determined to finish this darn post once and for all. For God's sake, it happened almost a year ago.

So, no surprise if you notice that I happen to jump and down throughout this post. Get used to it. :)

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For some reason, I keep thinking about going to Singapore these days. Rummaged in my folder and realized that I have not shared these photos yet. Big surprise mi!

So these photos were from when I still had long hair..back in Dec 2011. So long! It was almost Christmas then when Cs and I went with a group of friends. Our last vacation together with friends.

I last talked about our Singapore trip here and here.

Anyway!! After a lot of chatter. What I wanted to start with was: on this day, we went to Universal Studios. It was December and Dec in Malaysia and Singapore means monsoon season, which means it rained the whole day and night. Floods are not uncommon. Boo.

In a way, it was good. Because the freak in me don't need to worry about getting dark. No need to bother putting on make up too cos you're gonna get caught in the rain.

Only bad thing was getting wet. Getting your shoes wet, pants wet, parcels wet, and bringing an umbrella everywhere.

To tell the truth, during the trip, the rain put a damper on our plans. But looking back now, it wasn't that bad. Maybe its because we were in a group. We sort of lifted each others spirit. Joking and laughing, you forget about the rain. Wearing raincoats ain't that bad.

How many people can say that: oh yeah when I went to Universal, it fucking rained the whole day and night! And oh yeah I caught a cold. Fun eh? Hahaha..

I'm serious.

Anyway. Moving on. We started the day with breakfast at Vivo City.

When I was packing for Singapore, I picked this long sleeved top to hide from the sun. Silly me. Just cos Kuching was raining every day and night, I didn't think Spore would be too. I *forgot* how close we are to Singapore. Reah smooth mi.

Cs and I chose beef noodles (I think) from this stall. That chef holding that pillow lookalike is our noodles dough (?) He's shaving our noodles! OK maybe I used the wrong words/terms for this but what I'm saying is: that's our noodles! Hand made.

Hand made beef noodles.

Actually I didn't like it much. Its just me. Picky eater. A bit too heavy for breakfast, me thinks. I want my soft boiled eggs and toast please. 

After that, we went to Universal Studios! Excited max.

It was actually drizzling by then already..so we bought raincoats!

See what I mean? Travelling in a group - even putting on raincoats we look happy. We were enjoying ourselves..taking photos in our raincoats.

Actually it was good that we took photos now cos later the rain just got heavier and heavier. Cannot whip out camera for photos. Boo. I need to get myself a waterproof camera.

Happy us.

When we went to Universal then, a year ago, the Transformers ride was still quite new. We were all really looking forward to it. So that was the very first ride we went on..

Look at the crowd!! Some people were actually running to the queue, shouting out to their friends to hurry up.

The crazy queue took one hour plus!! I kid you not!! Just look at all those people!

Luckily there were many things to entertain us while we wait..and lucky we were with friends..so we won't be so bored.

Those lost symbols..

Alvin, Wee Lee, Boon and Siew Ling.

Yep, we're still in the queue..

And yes..we are still in the queue. There are a few turns so every time you turn a corner, you think: almost there, almost there. But yea it took us an hour to get through.

When you reach the 3D glasses, it is finally, almost there!!

Finally it was our turn. All of us fit into one car, and one other guy. In the car, before the ride, the other guy asked us: how long did you guys queue? We told him, and he reacted with SHOCK: What?! I just waited 5 mins. WTF.

Turned out he bought the express pass. Yeah lesson learnt. After that Transformers ride, we went straight to the ticket office for express passes. Best decision ever! No need to queue anymore. Can cut queues everywhere. 

I liked the Transformers ride though. The guys went back on the Transformers ride again after getting their express passes. Good idea.

I didn't go on these rides. There are two: one red and one blue. Cs and the guys went on. It was raining heavier than ever, and my spirits were lower than ever, so us girls went to stand in a corner to watch them.

 Plus I was scared. Hahah. OK fine. Scared won. Spritis low second. Rain ranked third.

We couldn't even get a proper photo outside here cos it was raining (are u sick of me saying it was raining yet?), so had to hide the camera quickly.

Headed off to Waterworld to watch the shows after that. Actually we skipped a few rides just because of the rain.

This show below in the Water World was worth watching. I really liked it. But be warned though. If you sit in the front and centre, be prepared to get wet. I mean, reaaaally wet! They splash you on purpose. With buckets of water or watergun. Wait, was that USS or Bangkok Zoo? I'm pretty sure you get wet though.

But we were all wet that day so it was ok. Good fun!

It was my idea to go on this less scary roller coaster. Fun.

John, Alvin and I before going on the ride. 

Madagascar! I wanted to go on this one as well. Hahah like a kid. Alvin was saying paiseh le..its as if we were fighting with the kids to get on these rides. Cos we had the express pass, so we get to go first, before the other kids in the queue.

John looking very happy heheh.

Me.

This photo a bit dark but can still see Alvin and WL there.

Cs and a disgruntled looking kid.

For dinner, we went to have pizza! Not just any pizza, but this one from Loui's Pizza Parlour! Credits to this blog (Jan Shim) for the photo. Go to his blog to see more pics of how huge the pizza really is.

Ahh..I wish they open a branch in Kuching soon.

A slice of pepperoni pizza is about the same size as my face! And I know I look like terrible but that was after a day of splashing around in the rain. I'm allowed to look like that. But God those eyebags. Its ok. I really just wanna show how huge that slice is.

Cs, who always lets me eat pizza whenever I want to. Thank you baby! ;)

The others went for more rides after pizza. But I was feeling a bit sick and dizzy by then. Running in the rain will do that to you. So Cs and I left to Vivo City. Some more, Tan KF (Cs' friend) was waiting for us there. 

Stopped by a candy store just before leaving USS. Those candies and chocs would tempt anyone. So I followed my heart and bought some home for souvenirs and myself. Right choice.

After Vivo City, we met up with John and went to Orchard Road to take some photos of the Christmas deco before heading back to the hotel. Right choice again.

Look how pretty the decorations are!! Kinda awesome. Why don't Kuching decorate the streets like that too eh? It might help get everyone into the Christmas mood, and be more giving and what not. What you think? Likely or not.

Oh yea, I had forgotten. Those elephants were everywhere last year. I don't remember by now what it was about. Err..saving the elephants, I assume.

OK last photo. Finally done with my Singapore trip. Phew.

I probably could have done a better job when I should have written this post last year. Now, I forget almost everything already. But what else is new?

Ahh..I really wanna update on things going on at home.

In no proper order:

1) We be going to KL next month for some serious CNY shopping. I'm so looking forward. Any trip excites me. Damai would excite me.

2) Shirley (my biatch) is coming home for CNY!!!

3) My biatch is getting married during CNY next year!!

4) We bought a new house. Hahah yes I decided to slip it in here to see if anyone would notice or care. Don't feel like making a big deal out of it cos it won't be ready till who knows when. And we are selling off our current home.

5) I have the coolest parents ever. The other day, I went to my parents place for dinner. After dinner, we started on beers. By we, I mean, mum, Winnie and I. Dad went jogging. When he came back, he counted our beer cans and said only 9? Go on, I bought two crates..continue. Something along those lines. Winnie and I were laughing at how nonchalant he was.

6) I am still trying to lose weight. Losing weight always seemed easy to me in the past. Don't know why this time the scale refused to go down. This means war!

7) I am not yet pregnant. Surprise, surprise. If I am, I would do it Xiaxue style and record down the whole process. Love her post here. Go read it if you haven't already. Feel so happy for her even though of course I don't know her. Damn touching the last part. And very enlightening. Pregnant women throw up that much (15 times a day?!!) in the first trimester. Of course we all know throwing up is common, but waking up in the middle of the night to throw up is downright scary..

I'm running out of things to write.

 Laters. (It really is kinda catching isn't it?)

Singapore Trip Part 1

I haven't posted photos of my last Singapore trip in Dec 2011. Ya I know, its March already! How did it get to March already? Dafuq?!

The only mention I had of the Singapore trip was written in this post here where I complained about how Agoda forgot to book our rooms (no shit) and about the 6 cockroaches in our two rooms. Oh well at least the rooms were cheap. But I am never staying there again..Lesson learnt!

7 of us went together on this trip: John, Alvin and WL, Cs and I, and Boon and SL.

The name of the hotel is Fragrance Ruby but we got transferred to another hotel, which I forgot the name of by now. We were in the red light district at Geylang. I swear, every taxi driver asked us: why did you choose to stay here in Gelang? Don't stay here. Its not a good area, not good. Not safe for single women at night. Stay somewhere else, and proceed to name a few other hotel names. Hahha lesson learnt!

Went to Bugis first to shop some and stop for a bite to eat.

Stopped to eat at this unassuming shop. But the food is good! I forgot the name ah..Typical me.

My sandwich that's shaped like a fish. Can tell? The keropok is the tail at the back. I think. Cs pointed it out. If wrong blame him..

Went clubbing at night. This was our pre clubbing meal at Mcd. 

We went first to a club at gives out free champagne to December babies.

I booked in advance in Boon's name, one of the Dec babies. That got us all in for free and a bottle of free champagne. Woot! Lihai. Damn awesome. I wanna live in Singapore just for these types of promo. Hahha alcoholic!

So we finished that bottle of champagne and came out again. Typical Malaysians...After that, we met up with Alvin's friend and changed club to St James Station. 

My photos somehow turn out a bit blur. Why? Aged issit? Left too long in my folder, didn't upload..har har har. Not funny. (If Kev is reading this, he would be like: diu why you so dumb?) God I hope no one else thinks like him. Har har har cos you would have zero IQ too. Kidding bin kidding. At this time I would leap away from him, to avoid getting slapped on the arm or leg or anywhere he can reach.

If he slaps too hard, I would revenge. I always get revenge! :D To which he would call me a crazy bitch. Haha I can anticipate whatever he will do or say by now.

Ahem. Rubbish aside. Photos all taken at Clark Quay. So pretty.

Surprisingly this photo at St James Station looks clearer. But by then I was busy drinking and dancing and thus no time to take photos. It was about 12am when we arrived at St James Station. So long since the night started at 12. So I ordered a Vodka Redbull to help. I miss this. Hehehe. No lah not really.

It was quite full that Saturday night. The toilet queue: so long!! Why only one toilet? Should have a couple more. Maybe got lah just that I didn't know where. In the end, I just held in my pee and drank less. A bit wtf. =.=

They let down free balloons. I was too short to reach for them. Eh wait no. I was actually too shy to grab it from the other guys in front of me. I think the guy must have noticed how I kept staring at his balloon cos he passed it to me in the end. #like a kid.

Shopping the next day at ION Orchard. Didn't shop really cos it was all bloody expensive so we settled down at a food court to eat.

I noticed that Alvin likes making that face while taking photos. #act cute. hahaha

Oh my. Christmas trees. Paiseh lah. This shows how outdated my post is. Hahha..this was before Xmas.

Met up with Tan KFwho brought us to Marina Bay Sands. It was the rainy season then. It rained everyday!! It was pouring that day we were shopping at Orchard.  Had a hard time looking for a taxi. In the end, took MRT. Very long queues too.

Touristy photo. But not very nice shot actually. I look like sheeet.

And do they look like some boy band group in this photo below? BSB! Men can pose too. Hah.

More Christmas trees inside Marina Bay Sands.

They have a canal too. Like a mini Venice.

HK Jong, Cs, and Tan KF. Sorry guys but calling you guys ah ken and ah fan sounds very cina so I settle for HK Jong and Tan KF. Sounds cooler, no? Well I think it does anyway. :)

They treated us to dinner!! So kind!!!!! All three of them here cos they big taukes earning SGD. Joke. Hahaa thanks for dinner again! :) 

I ordered this plate of pasta with green caviar looking stuff before I knew they were paying. Should have ordered cheaper food ah sorry guys. But it is good. Surprisingly, despite its err..appearance after I mix them all up. I shall spare you guys the photo.

Ai hui and I ordered the same drinks: some sparkling fruity beer, with plum? Or cranberries? FML I forgot by now.

If there is a nice photo of the scenery, it can't be taken by me. This photo must be taken by Tan KF. Hahahah he adjusted my camera's settings and stuff.

 I actually feel kinda pressured taking photos of the guys cos what if it comes out blur? Dah lah no skill, and then when they check back to look at the photos, or if someone is looking over my shoulder as I pretend to look like I know what I'm doing. hahah pressure man.

Could not be bothered to walk all the way there to take a better picture.

Universal Studios the next day. Good God it rained the whole day and night!!!! Sometimes it was drizzling, sometimes absolutely pouring like mad. So it was no surprise really that by the end of the night, we felt kinda dizzy, headache and feverish. By we, I mean me. :P

Bought raincoats even before we got in. Boo hoo. Actually it was kinda fun. The only un-fun part was that my flats got soaked! It was squishing and wet, and smelled! FML!!! But all is well after I bought a pair of flip flops. Happily splashed my way across all puddles.

Nice night view of the tall buildings at Marina Bay. Looks like Canary Wharf, no? Or HK skyline too. More to HK skyline. Canary Wharf, you can see the signs/ logos of the buildings. Kinda. Ahh..I miss. Pretty sure photo taken by Tan KF too, if not its Cs. Can't be me.

I shall talk about Universal Studios next time. Lazy to upload more photos now. Bye.