Thursday, December 30, 2010

Singapore Christmas

CHRISTMAS is here!

This year, my father brought my whole family to Singapore for christmas. It's a last minute decision. Actually, we plan to go to Taiwan but since it's a last minute decision, air tickets are all SOLD OUT. Therefore, we had no choice but to switch our plan to Singapore. This is the second time I'd been to Singapore and both of the time are on christmas. The last time, I stayed at Orchard street but this time, I stayed at Marina Manderin Oriental. It's a nice hotel. My mom actually booked a excecutive room with super nice view.


FIRST DAY .

We went there by plane on the 23rd, which means it is PMR RESULTS DAY!!! I sat on the plane with a burning ass. I'm so anxious about my results. I'm so unlucky that the results are actually announced when I'm sitting on the plane. When the plane arrived, I straight away called Su Shen. She told me I got 7A's and 1 B. I hate that stupid B, which is KH. It's KH! Damn, KH! I'm so close to straight. So so so close. I'm not super duper luper happy about my results but somehow I'm kinna glad it's not really bad. Still, there's quite some people I knew got staight and of course, I'm kinna dissapointed in myself. Anyways, my parents did not scoled me or praised me. They are like 'Oh, okay'. So, we continued to have fun at Singapore.

There's 5 of us who went to Singapore, which is not a really good number since one taxi can only fit 4 people, it's maximun. Still, we managed to find an old 'London taxi likey' taxi that's so special that it can fit 5. The driver told us that there's only 9 such taxies in Singapore. We arrived at the hotel and my first impression is WOW. The lobby is huge and nicely decorated. And, IN THE HOTEL there are actually fake birds chipping from all around the hotel. It sounds like you are in the jungle, not a super nice hotel. We checked in and went into our room. It has super nice views, like I mentioned earlier.

We met up with my cousins and went for some seafood.

The lobby.


The crystal near the reception.


Morning view form our room window. It's Marina Bay.


Night view from our room window.


Another window. You can actually see the Sinagpore Lion.


In the alevator. Heading to Orchard street.


Meet up with my cousins at night and went for some seafoods.


This is some kind of seafood that's super expensive, forgot the name. It tastes normal, like jelly.


SECOND DAY .

We met up with my cousins again and went for a walk. My father wanted to explore the road. We wanted to wlak to the Marina Bay, and yes, we did. We took lots of photos while walking. When we went into Marina Bay, we had brunch at the food court in Marina Bay. After that, my parents and sister went into the Casino for half an hour. We, 4 little kids walked around the mall. Eveything is branded and of course, DUPER EXPENSIVE. We don't even dare to walk into the shops. -.-

Then, we bought the ticket and went straight up to the marina bay sands boat (I'm not really sure is that the name but that's how it looks like, a boat). It's windy up there. We took lots of pictures, of course. After that, we went to a open air bar on the marina bay sands boat. After sitting down, we realize that evey drinks in at the bar contains alcohol except for tea. Still, all of us ordered alcohols. I ordered 'Summerset Punch', which I don really know what is it but it ended up quite delicious while some of the drinks ordered by my cousin and sister are not that delicious. we headed back to the hotel for a nap after that.

That night, we went out for seafood AGAIN. But this time, we had our seafood at Westcoast. After eating, we walked along the bach for a while. After that, we went to the lion (there's a name for that lion, I just forgot!). Of course, we took lots of pictures again! We even ate ice-cream from an ice-cream car. One of my cousin is staying overnight at my room that night, we watched '21 rounds' together before sleeping. =)




My cousin and I.


5 of us. Parents not included.


Marina Bay Sands


Fooling around.

Marina Bay Sands Boat


The three guys.


Looking around. (doesn't my hair smell good?? =p)

My brother and I

That's me!


Cocktails


Dinner at seafood restaurant. PRAWN!


I'm not sure what is this called but it taste really good.


Red FISH!


Mr. crabby!



I'm just too thirsty!


Us, AGIAN!




DAY 3 .


The next morning, we went to a Bak Kut Teh shop to have our breakfast. The Bak Kut Teh in Singapore is totally different from the one in Malaysia. Their Bak Kut Teh's soup is flavoured by pepper while Malaysia's are flavoured by chinese herbs. Both flavours are nice. Still, I prefere Malaysia's Bak Kut Teh more.

Then, we went to Universal Studio. We checked online few days ago and called Univeral Studio, they told us that all the tickets on that day are all SOLD OUT. My sister and I were quite dissapointed that we can't get into Universal Studio. However, we still decided to got to Sentosa Island to take pictures and see the NEW casino. While we were taking pictures OUTSIDE the Universal Studio, my sister and mother went to the counter to ask for available tickets that night. (There's a show IN Universal studio that night) However, they found out that there's still available ticket. (Ps. They even put up the sign board saying 'ALL TICKETS FOR TODAY ARE SOLD OUT!) And yet, there's still tickets. So, we changed our original plan to go to the beach and headed to Unversal Studio.

We are quite unlucky since it started to rain for a while. we played a few games only but we watched quite a number of shows. When we are about to play the Boat thingi, we lined up for half hour for it, they announced that there's some techinical problem and it was stopped. -.- Anyways, after playing for some time, we head to a 60s restaurant to have a break. My father, mother and sister fell asleep there. My brother, me and 2 cousins went out and play the pyramid coaster thing again and agian. We can already memorise what will happen next. We made different poses when it's CAMERA TIME! Not long later, my sister joined in. We start playing a few chilidish games. We even tried wearing all kinds of hats at a stall. I wanted to buy one, but the price is super WOW-ish. 69.90 Singapore money per hat. Super Duper Luper expensive.

That night, we had dinner at a shop in the mall. we lined up 45 minutes before getting into the restaurant. There's just too many people. We tried asking 'Hardrock cafe' but to dine at their restaurant, you need to wait for 2 hours, WORST. We even went to watched the Pheonix dance that night. It's the first time in Singapore, the Opening Ceremony of it. We sat under the rain to watch it. We slept immediately that night cause we were exhausted. We even said BYE BYE to our cousins cause we are only going to meet them next chinese new year.

Eating Bak Kut Teh


Universal Studio


Fly Fly airoplane!




Group photo
credits to the workers




Street show




Trying all kinds of hats


Make sure to learn from us. Walk in a straight line while crossing the road!

I'm sitting on a ZIBRA!


US.


Decorations on the trees. LOLLIPOP.


The pheonix dance


They fell in love with each other.

DAY 4


This morning, we went out to Orchard street. The FOOD COURT over there is AMAZING. There's so many korean and japanese food that I had never seen before. It's definately an experience. After that, we checked out from the hotel and went home. =)




SAY BYE BYE TO SINAGPORE!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Early surprise party

Today is just 5th of December. There is still 2 more days to go till my birthday. Since today is a Sunday and I have no plans at all, I stayed in the house playing computer and watching TV for the whole evening. I'm wating for my 'secret garden' to load. It takes such a long time since Malaysia's connection is BAD. I mean REAL BAD. My mom, dad and brother went out for some kind of talk during the afternoon so I'm alone. And, I enjoyed being alone for that very moment. When they reach home, it's around 5pm already. Mom asked me to change into something nice cause we are going out to celebrate my birthday at some place nice since my father is not free on 7th of December, which is the day of my birthday. So I changed into a dress. My favorite one but not the nicest one since it's the only one that is comfortable. I waited for them to get ready while watching 'American's Next Top Model' and 'Wipeout'. Then, my father suddenly say that he wanted to go to the club and he'll be back in half an hour. When he's back, we went straight to the car. Before going into the car, my mom recieved a suspicious phone call, she ran upstairs to answer it. She told me it's her friend.

While I'm still wondering where to have dinner at, I realize I'm the only one who dressed up nicely, I mean formally. Others just wore some sort of T-shirts. My mom didn't even put make-up, that unnormal if we are heading to some place nice. Seriuos WEIRD. Then they told me they are just eading to Subang Parade, and I was like -.-. You asked me to dress up and we are heading to Subang Parade. That's why none of you dress up. You guys should tell me earlier. They make me feel wierd walking in a dress at Subang Parade. If I knew we are just heading to Subang Parade, I would just wear a shorts plus T. Then my brother say the only nice restaurant in Parade is T.G.I. So we went there.

When we walked into T.G.I. I first saw Victor and I'm thinking. Damn, Victor? What the hell is him doing here? Then Chung Ren's head poping up from the side, smiling. Then, I saw everyone. The first thing that came into my mind is 'what is everyone doing here? Are they having a party without me?' Then, BOOM!!!!! Everone shouted 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' I just stood there and start saying thank you yo everyone. It's super touching. I never expect anything. All i expect is having dinner with my family. My mind is blank. All I can think of is the word 'thank you' so when Shee Yen asked me to sit beside her, I sat. I'm super shocked. Then Tze Yun came to my side and told me that the exact thing happened to her right before i reached. We laughed at each other. Then Nicole asked everyone to move and make space for Tze Yun and me in the middle of the table. She even ordered our food. I had mutton and Tze Yun had Beef. We keep on talking and talking and talking until we are the last one who finished our food. Nicole and Su Shen went out between the meals to buy cake so Nicole didn't barely touch hers at all. After a while, they came in with a Secret Receipe Cuppocino Cheese cake and start singing birthday song for us. After that, the T.G.I's stuff also came to sang birthday song for us again. Tze Yun and I was forced to stand on the chair. Then, we cut the cake into 17 slices, still there's extra slices. Tze Yun and I shared one slice since there's another brownie cake free from T.G.I. It's super sweet.

Unfortunately, there is still the time we asked for the bill. It's RM600+++, nearly touched RM700. All those service charge and everything cost around RM100. All of them were shocked. All of them started to be seriuos since they are lacking of money. I offered my help but none of them want my help. So, Tze and I just sat at the another corner of the table enjoying our cake while others are trying SUPER hard to solve the money crisis. =DD Anyways, they manage to solve it in the end. Tze Yun even helped me to ask for 2 free balloons from T.G.I. Their waiter prank us by bringing us the bill for the balloon. -.-

Anyways, we had such a wonderful time. IT'S THE BEST DAY OF MY ENTIRE YEAR. THE MOST SHOCKING BIRTHDAY I EVER HAD. THANK YOU GUYS. I LOVE YOU.

here are some pictures
Our BIG HAPPY family

Me with balloon

Secret Receipe cake. YUMMY!

Tze and I.


=DD

The disaster

Pointing to the birthday girls

Flower face

All my presents

Birthday card


Lastly, big thank you to the organisers of this party. Nicole Choong and Su Shen Lim. I love you. KISS!

Nicole Choong


Su Shen Lim