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Spent the whole morning walking around Bugis area. Highly recommended for girls who loves clothes like I do. Bugis Street is like a clothing heaven. Left, right, front and back, is all clothes, clothes, clothes and more clothes. There is a few shops that sells other stuff too, but mostly are all clothes! The price is reasonably cheap, if you do not covert it to RM. Heh Heh! It's mostly clothes that we always see online but sadly, they do not allow customers to try before purchasing. So, it's more like a 'buy at your own risk'. That's what I did. :P


Bought 2 dresses and a jumpsuit. The one on the left, I got it for S$18. It's really nice as the top part of the dress is velvet material while the attached skirt is leather. The sleeve is off shoulder but somehow, in a unique way. It looks really nice and when I measure it against my body, it looks like the length is just nice for me but when I try it on when I got back to my relative's place, it's way way way too short. Goodbye, my lovely new dress. Oh yeah, the belt broke too when I was trying to tie it around my waist wtf. LOL! Am I too fat or is the material that bad? I forgot how much I got the floral dress and the jumpsuit for but it's below S$20 each, if I'm not mistaken. The floral dress is really nice and it's a tube kind of dress! My favourite! I just got to start get used to wearing strapless bra and try to minimize my activity on keep pulling the dress up. Heh Heh! The upper part of the dress has an extra layer of cloth and it's frilled. It makes my bust look even bigger but my mom said it looks just fine. :P Now, the jumpsuit. At the back of the jumpsuit, it has lots of elastic to the extent that it took me some time to zip the front. LOL! Love the colour and the overall and it's so tight, that I don't need to worry of it falling down from my body. LOL!


Bought some souvenirs for my college friends as well. I forgot to bring it along with me to Kampar. Aiks! Let's hope it won't be like those souvenirs that I bought from Australia. I only gave them to my friends after a year! Heh Heh!
PS: Belle, yours is from universal studios ^^ and Boo Boo, you already received yours ^^

After Bugis, we went to White Sands which is located at Pasir Ris. It's a mall that sells things with a reasonable price that people like me can afford it. :P Mainly is for my sis actually as they have shops that sells clothes that she can fit into perfectly. Glad that she manage to purchase a few pretty dresses.


Bought this black skirt for S$18. It's long enough and the material is heavy so it won't make the lower part of my body look so huge? Heh Heh!


iPhone cases for only S$3 each for myself and my dear boo


More hair accessories. I can never get bored of ribbons and bows! Wheeee..

In the evening, we sent my dad and sister to the airport as they left 2 days earlier than my mom and I because of work on the following day. After that, my relatives and I head over to Orchard Road to admire the Christmas decorations there. Let pictures do the talking :

Decorations in front of Paragon Mall, Orchard Road, Singapore


Had our dinner at 313 Somerset before proceeding with our night sight seeing along Orchard Road.

Beautiful pink themed decoration at Orchard Central :










Before we called it a day, my uncle bought a few packets of Garrett Popcorn which cost about S$9 per packet. It has lots of choices in flavors and my uncle chose Caramel, I think and it seriously taste like heaven! Totally worth it.


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Signing off. Chiao ^^
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Spent the entire day 2 at, guess where? Obvious enough, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE! Hehehe!! My leg was already starting to hurt from all the walking of previous day, but when you are having fun, you just simply naturally forget and ignore everything that's bothering you. Heh Heh! 

At the entrance of Universal Studios, Singapore

Nothing much to say about second day. All in all, I had lots of fun ^^

So, let pictures do the work :

This area is known as Hollywood

Trying on funny hats :P

Look at the name of the restaurant behind, 'Mel's Drive-In' HEHE!! Me me me me! XD

New York Street

SESAME STREET! WHEEEE!

While waiting for a show, 'Lights, Camera, Action'
With Catherine and David

Inside the hall of monster rock
Good performance and music. Everything is so lively and the sound system is just wow! Sadly, I couldn't take any picture of the performance as I was not allowed.

Italian lunch
Biggest individual pizza I have ever seen and eaten!


Santa's sleigh! HEHE!

I got hugged by ELMO!

While lining up for the transformer ride with our 3D glasses on

Oh yeah, the 4 of us bought the express ticket while the others got the normal ticket. The express ticket cost us an extra of SGD50 but then it is totally worth it! Imagine this, the normal line takes about an hour and a half to queue while those with the express ticket only needed to wait about 15-30 minutes! The express ticket is really worth the purchase! We got to go onto every single ride in Universal Studios except for those kiddy-baby rides. Heh Heh! And also unfortunately, they closed down 2 of the roller coasters. Not sure why but at least there was one left, it's called 'The Mummy'. 

This roller coaster is so awesome! It's in a pitch black closed up area filled with scary mummy decorations inside. There were fire and mummies everywhere! The roller coaster went backwards, steep down and up and turning everywhere! It's a very scary ride but at the end of it, you would feel like going again. XD

After transformer ride, a picture with Bumblebee in his car figure

BUMBLEBEE! My favourite! And... it is actually moving! As in, it's a costume for someone to wear it. LOL! It look so real!


While waiting for the accelerator ride

This ride, it will keep spinning non stop and you can't control anything! Best not to ride it after meals. HAHA!

Somewhere near 'The Mummy Ride'

Waterworld show

After the show, we went for another 2 rides. One of it is a water ride and yes, I did get wet, a little but the girl opposite me got drenched wet! It's something like a river ride with high and low tides and at one point, we were like dropping down from a waterfall and that was the biggest splash! The second ride, is a canopy ride. We hang from above to overlook the whole Universal Studios. It's actually quite slow but then it really swing you left and right when cornering! I screamed for no reason and everyone looked up and I shut up! LOL!

After the rides, we watched the Parade :
Some interesting shots I got, mostly all uploaded in Facebook



After the parade, we headed to Castle Far Far Away (From the movie, Shrek)

Went for a motion master in the castle. Lots of movements, wind and water splashing LOL! It was pretty cool, but I prefer more scary rides. HAHA! I don't know why :P


We are now in MADAGASCAR!



Our last ride, a boat ride into Madagascar land. Hehe!! More for like little kids, but then it's fun too! Even the my parents, aunt and uncle went for it but they took a different boat from us because our ticket types are different.

Not much pictures after that until the Christmas show because it was raining. So, I kept my camera and all the other gadgets :( The Christmas show is a special one as it's only on show for the Christmas season. At the end of the show, there were snowfalls all around but what it's actually just foams and bubbles LOL!

The Sesame Christmas Special Show

Snowfall!

Pretty snow everywhere!

Before going back, we saw the characters, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop. Followed them till where they stopped for a photography session and my sister and I took a shot with them.

Marilyn Monroe

Betty Boop

Overall, it was a great day! A new different experience. I did not realize how tired and painful my leg was until when I was waiting to board the MRT to go back to my relative's house. LOL! I could barely walk that night and of course, had a very good night sleep after a long day of games and rides. Wheeee! ^^

Till my next post, cheers! ^^
Signing off.
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WARNING: This post is going to be filled with LOTS of pictures. :P

This trip is my first trip where we departed from home at night, at 11.30pm! Initially we planned to leave at 12am, so that my dad could have more sleep before having to drive all the way to LCCT in the middle of the night. FYI, our flight was at 6.05am and few days before, my mom received an e-mail stated that all travellers are advised to be at the airport 3 hours before time which means we had to be at the airport by 3am! Anyway, my dad could not fall asleep whereas the rest of us did not sleep at all. Heh! Heh! For me, my bedtime is usually like after midnight at about 1am. So, there was no way that I could have fallen asleep at 9pm! Since everyone had nothing to do, except for me as I was blogging, we decided to leave half an hour earlier.

Quick selfie of me sititng on my luggage bag before leaving to the airport

One thing I like about car rides, is that you will fall asleep very fast even if you're battling with insomnia. I don't remember seeing my dad pass the toll booth and when I woke up, we were somewhere nearing to the airport already and we were half an hour earlier than what we have planned. I was half awake and half asleep but all of us got down from the car and into the airport anyway. Had a little midnight snack at Old Town Kopitiam, LCCT first before checking in.

My boarding pass. So fascinating right? Hehee! Of course it's fascinating because it's my first time flying with a boarding pass printed out on an A4 paper from the internet. I was wondering whether will they even accept it to allow me to go on board. LOL!

After going through all the procedures before we can board the plane, we were at the flight gate an hour and a half early. How I wish I was in my bedroom where I can just sleep peacefully rather than at the airport gate with all sorts of scary people surrounding me and I have to keep myself awake and to guard my luggage bag. LOL! I know it's unlikely anyone would want to rob your luggage bag at the airport unless they are that desperate for clothes or want to use you for drug trafficking or something. Heh! Heh! You'll never know right? So yeah. I was fighting my sleepiness at about 4.45am! The flight to Singapore was extremely short! It took us less than an hour to reach there. I was just about to fall asleep when they was an annoucement saying that we will be landing shortly, and there goes my sleep time. 

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The moment when I step into Changi Airport, it's a whole 180 degrees turn! Everything is so high class and sparkly clean compared to LCCT, where you will feel danger everywhere! The last time I've been to KLIA was when I was 9 for a trip to Hong Kong with my family but I think Changi Airport is still way better than KLIA! Changi Airport looked even more pretty with the Christmas Decos all around it! It gives me a very jolly holiday season feeling. 


We were then greeted by my uncle who lives in Singapore at the arrival hall. Before leaving for breakfast, he first showed us something very special and unique at the aiport.


See those pearl/water-droplets like figure? Each of them is actually hung by a string where all those strings are attached to a motor above on the ceiling. So, what does it do to make them so special? They actually move up and down forming many beautiful formations of all kinds of shapes and objects ( such as an aeroplane ) but most of the time, they just form into different designs and patterns. There's a short video below that shows how they move together. It may seem nothing from the video, but the feeling's totally different when you get to watch it there with your own eyes. :)


Sorry for the low quality of the video, as I had to convert it into a different type of file to be able to upload it here.

In order for one to have the energy to walk around the whole day, one must first eat! My uncle took us to a coffee shop in Bedok, Singapore to try the nice breakfast that he finds it nice, and also where he usually takes his breakfast. That area reminded me so much of Island Glades, Penang, where my grandma stays. 


This was what my uncle recommended for us to try. It taste a little bit like Wan Tan Mee but only diferent, in a way. It's suppose to go with some spices but it was even too hot for my mom. So, I wouldn't want to take the risk of trying it as I will definitely not wanting to spend my days in Singapore looking for washrooms. 

We then headed to my uncle's place in Pasir Ris, Singapore. A very spacious condominium located at a very convinient location I would say. It was the rainy season as well during our stay there, so it was already cooling without turning on the fan. After we have unloaded our luggages from the car, we headed out straight to Marina Bay Sands (MBS) area via public transport (bus and MRT). Each of us were given a prepaid card, something like Touch n Go so that we would not have to line up everytime when we want to board a MRT. 

Honestly speaking, I think I will get adapted to Singapore more easily than KL. The MRT lines are so much easier to understand, that I think I can actually travel alone to Singapore in the future without relying on cabs. Besides, it's the world's #1 safest country for a woman to travel alone and yes, I do feel very safe there that I don't even have as much fear of getting robbed compared to when I'm Malaysia. I would really consider of migrating to Singapore in the future.

So, after much walking and taking different MRTs, we finally reached Gardens By The Bay, which is also MBS area, I think. MBS and Gardens By The Bay are like just a road across from each other. Heh! Heh! 

What I see when I look to my left :


What I see when I look to my right :


Yes, it's just that near! I was surprised too that it's so near to each other. At first, I thought it's 2 total different place. Hehee!! Oh yeah, that day was pretty cloudy as well. So the pictures are not that nice. How sad. :( 

We then took a shuttle van that drove us all the way into the area. We only walked at the surrounding as the entrance fee into those big giant trees and also the greenhouses was not really worth our money for people like us. Heehee! One of the greenhouses had a waterfall in it and that really attracted me to want to go in to have a closer look but, no. I did not have that chance to. Hence, only got to take pictures at the outside of the place. 

The shuttle that drove us in

A view of Singapore Flyer from Gardens By The Bay

It's so windy that our hair were flying around messily, except for my cousin brother, David's hair of course
We are fabulous! XD

With Catherine :) We used to stick to each other every time we meet when we were much younger :)

Jumpshot!

After having enough time walking around Gardens By The Bay, we made our way to Marina Bay Sand's mall which is know as 'The Shoppes At Marina Bay Sands', but I just call it MBS' Mall. Heh Heh! Things there are like totally unaffordable for people like me. All branded stuff and everything is in S$! But it's definitely a nice place to hangout. Some pictures that I took around the inside of the mall :




Oh yeah, Louis Vuitton has an outlet sorta floating outside the mall which is connected by a deck. Okay, I don't kow how to describe it. LOL! Picture says and explains it all.





We had lunch at a restaurant called '1983'. Their Nasi Lemak is supposedly to be famous, but I did not try it because sadly, I can't eat spicy food. How unfortunate. I've been training myself these days but whenever I take spicy food a little too much, I always end up having tummy upset. It's like I have a limit of spicy food intake. LOL! So, yeah. I just ate chicken rice instead while the others tried the Nasi Lemak. 

After lunch, we headed for the Marina Skypark which the entrance is from Tower 3 of MBS. It was drizzling but then we still went up anyway as we didn't have much to do there. It's a benefit in a way that it's not burning hot but strong and cooling breeze. Wasn't satisfied with my photos because everything was cloudy and it makes the pictures look blur. Well I'm sure a professional photographer can just take a picture perfectly even if there is a thunderstorm! LOL! 









Non hotel visitors aren't allow to go over to the bar and infinity pool section but we manage to sneak a peek over to the other side. Teehee!


After visiting the Skypark, we planned to walk over to Merlion Park because it looks really really near from MBS and we could see the Merlion fountain all the way from MBS. So, we started walking over to Merlion Park but then the further we walk away from MBS, Merlion Park seemed to be getting away even further! So, we stopped half way on a bridge that we were walking on and also because I already could get a shot of MBS and the Art Museum from the bridge. Heh! Heh!

The bridge that we were walking on. Loving the structure of the bridge. So artistic!


The main highlight of the day was actually for the fountain show at 8pm at MBS. We were already out of activities at about 4.30pm. So, we decided to head over to Chinatown for a little sight seeing and dinner. 

Hello, Chinatown! Got here by MRT! Hehee! :P 






Spotted someone's name in one of the shops that does these name thing. Heh! Heh!

Had a quick dinner at McDonald's and then headed back to MBS just in time for the lighting and fountain show. Managed to take some photos of the environment before the sky gets totally dark. 




Some pictures of the fountain and lighting show :













Headed back to my uncle's place after the show. I think I slept almost the whole way back as I am just so overly exhausted from lacking of sleep of the previous night. Heh! Heh! That's about it for my first day at Singapore. Till my next post. Cheers :) 
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