Had a trip down to Singapore from the 24th - 26th of October during our semester break. The main plan was just to go Singapore Universal Studios so we went for 3D2N.
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Day 1 :
The first day we just went for some typical sightseeing. I've been to Singapore a few times now so I kinda know the way around with the LRT/MRT. We went to see the "durian" building, Esplanade, its just a performing arts centre with a feeeew shops inside..
And of course who doesn't see the famous Marina Bay Sands whilst in Singapore... I always wondered how the pool up there looks like, but apparently the tour visits stopped because hotel guests were complaining about invasion of privacy. Haha not surprised...
Sitting somewhere outside Marina Bay Sands.
High class expensive shopping mall like Pavillion. Boooo
Stopped for some Cold Rock ice cream! Mmmmm it was good :3
Omg I looooove this shop!! Cause its filled with so many pretty and adorable notebooks and calendars and planners and such. I just love all these things... If I were richer I would so buy them all. I did buy a few though :3 This was the same shop I went to in Korea last time, but was kinda in a rush cause we were on a tour.. I bought a few notebooks from Korea, still haven't used them :B Bought 2 or 3 from Singapore too hehehe.
I really love pretty notebooks but sometimes they're so pretty I don't want to use them at all T.T I had this notebook-frenzy thing since high school. Or primary. My mum used to scold me for buying so many notebooks, she said I was wasting my money T.T
Oh well hehehe I still buy them.
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Day 2 :
Woke up at like 8 something to have breakfast and then start our trip to USS. Took the MRT to Harbour Front, then took the RWS8 Bus straight to USS! :) We reached ngam ngam at the opening hour, 10am :D Surprisingly saw a lot of people, mostly people who were on tour.. like china people. *just assuming*
We started with Hollywood, but there weren't any rides there, mostly just souvenir shops and some restaurants. Ahh I love the whole place! Pretty buildings and fun stuff inside.
Loved the Betty Boop store!!
Next was Madagascar!
Sat on the boat ride, "A Crate Adventure". It was alright, basically just a ride through an indoors Madagascar environment.
Nothing much in Madagascar either, there's only this ride and another kiddy ride. Then some restaurants and a merchandise shop.
Jurassic Park in The Lost World.
The best show was Waterworld!! Its actually based on an actual movie.. obviously called "Waterworld". I think my brother and I watched it a couple of times on tv last time hehe. Anywho it was darn amazing! All the stunts, pyrotechnics, gun shots.. Woooahhhhh. I wonder how long they practiced to do all those stunts with the jet ski's o_o They can actually turn it at the correct angle to splash water at the audience. *jakun*
There were a few of them going around before the show started, rousing the crowds excitement by spraying/shooting water at us. We were sitting pretty near the front so we occasionally got wet hahaha but it was really fun. Some people even had their umbrellas ready prepared and opened to shield themselves hahaha.
Sat on the Canopy Flyer, the ride was less than a minute! It was a sky view of the surroundings, hehe a liiiiiiittle thrilling.
The bottom picture is the Revenge of the Mummy ride in Ancient Egypt. Indoor rollercoaster which was aweeesome. I liked how it halted at one point, rotated us around and then we went backwards. Wooooohhhh. At one area there was fire on the ceiling and you could actually feel the heat. Woaaaaahhh. Probably the most thrilling roller coaster I've sat there. Cause I didn't sit the Cylon and Human rollercoasters cause they looked death defying hahaha.
In Ancient Egypt! (this is actually after Far Far Away)
Next; to the land of Far Far Away! Ahhh pretty castles and magical fairtytale surroundings..
Went for the Shrek 4D Adventure... which was also amaaaazing. Best 4D ride I've ever gone for.
I like how when Donkey sneezed, we could actually feel WATER sprayed all over our face. Hahaha that was fun. Also when there were spiders crawling on the ground, we could feel things tingling around our legs hahaha a little freaky.
Oooh yeah we also sat on a roller coaster, "Enchanted Airways". Its actually a junior roller coaster so it wasn't all that scary hahaha. But being Shaun's first roller coaster he screamed a lot :P
Donkey Live show, an interactive show. I think its more suited for kids though hahaha cause its just Donkey talking to you from a screen. Sat in something similar in HK Disneyland last time.
Sat on Accelerator in Sci-Fi City. Its like that rotating-spinning teacup ride. Shaun's most thrilling ride hahahaha no idea why he kept screaming and then started clapping his hands awkwardly during the ride.... ._.
The 2 death defying roller coasters... Cylon and Human. T.T You should see the entire thing! Its really really really long and steep at some parts and I think either the blue or red one goes underground. So scaaaaryyy. I'm too much of a chicken to sit that. Hahaha just hearing the screams and watching it go around scares me.
Anywho, Sci-Fi City was the last stop and we sat nearly everything minus the kiddy rides + those 2 scary roller coasters. Oh the Transformers section wasn't open yet that time.. but apparently it just opened recently! Darn it.
After this we just walked around and went to catch the other performances we've yet to watch. Its either our timing is damn ngam or we're lucky that we did all the rides in time cause we managed to catch nearly all the performances! :D So happy we did.
The Marilyn Monroe place... Hahaha so many kids were standing on top of that thing I had to wait quite a while just to take a picture there. Shaun's one somehow looks like a genie floating. (he jumped) If you see the top left picture, "Lights Camera Action"it was a empty sound stage that was a setting for a hurricane in NYC. Preeeeeetty cool stuff.
Watched a short video by Steven Spielberg before entering the place. Something about how movie effects are done.... Quite interesting. I liked it, everything seemed so surreal 0.0 The windows flying off, the fire, the huge ship that came out from nowhere 0.0 Pretty stunning.
The Rockafellas b-boying.
Pretty good I suppose, not really into breakdancing but I think they were good :3 Oh they picked a few people from the audience to join them in doing a mexican wave, then they had to do any freestyle dance of their own. One of the ladies kinda did some pole dancing kinda thing... a bit awkward. Hahaha.
Watch shaun's weird thailand-kind of dance below :
Picture with Marilyn Monroe : )
With the Joker :D
Charlie Chaplin ^.^
The amount of make up on his face was just..... 0.0 Super thick. I could see the vast colour contrast of his face and his neck. Hahaha.
Forgot what this character is called..... Uhhhhhhh
Mel's Dinettes performance.
I liked the "Please Mr Postman" song!
However the real dinner waitresses in the diner were actually old aunties :3 Just saying....hehe. I always rushed to line up to take a picture with the characters/people hahaha. And for the performers they closed the photo session quite fast cause they had to go on stage.... Lucky I got there the first to take picture :3 Hahahahaha
Presenting....... my favourite performance of ALL! :D Hehehehehehehe. The Daddy O's. They sang mostly Beach Boys oldies. Ahhhhh I was melting just watching them sing.... :3 So hensem.
The highlight of my day was dancing with one of them, the one who's standing on the most right side of the top 2 pictures. Hehehehehe *melt* I got so obsessed with Beach Boys songs after that.... -_-''
And thaaat's the end of our day in USS. We spent the whole day there from 10am to 7.30pm. I would say way better than HK Disneyland : )
Last picture outside USS ;(
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Day 3 :
Last day in Singapore; planned to meet up with Kate. Wanted to drop by the Azea office, but forgot it was Deepavali or something so they were on holiday too. Went to Bugis Street to look for my "I <3 Singapore" shirt :3
Had lunch with Kate at Ajisen Ramen; then Kao bubble tea! Quite nice, their pearls were really small and soft... I liiiiike.
Surely a memorable trip : )
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