Wednesday, November 28, 2007
* blog in pictures *
sTuesday rocked! The almost perfect day! (The only reason why its almost perfect is because no day is perfect). First, I met Shawn at Jurong East Station.
Then waited for Zhong Han to call before we boarded the train and we headed to Changi Airport Terminal 3. All the way to the other end of Singapore!! Haha it's an experience. And this outing I didn't bring my camera because since my new phone is my new camera! Convenient and Compact! So like on Tuesday I was mostly high and hyper during the outing. And from the start I was taking pictures.
At Paya Lebar Station Brandon finally agreed to join us so we decided to go to singpost macs to wait for him. Then he called us when he finally reached by cab. So we went to the station and met him...
...Which resulted in the usual reaction. I took the picture a bit too slow. Before this picture they were hugging for like .20 of a second.
Then Brandon had a new N81 and I had a new phone too and somehow everyone was playing with each other's phones.
Finally we reached Changi Airport MRT station. And walked the long passage which said "To terminal 3". Altogether walked through 2 long travellators.
And finally the Terminal 3 signboard was evident.
Hahaha.
And we began snapping all over. Even on the escalator!
And the check-in place. Quite alot of people when we were nearer to the MRT station.
It's empty. So deserted. For people to buy tickets to get into the restricted area (we didn't know we could get in at first). So smart huh those brains. Sure know how to syphon money.
Here the crowd is evidently less.
So we walked and walked. Then we realised people were at the restricted place. And Zhong Han said that we could go in for a fee of $1, on our own or $3, with guides but wtf who needs guides man... see, another way to get even more money out of you.
Guides=
Pay more
Less freedom
Less freedom
WHAT FOR?
If we really needed guides that can only mean that its going to be hard to navigate once inside. Which means tourists will get lost! So means, no need guides.
We got our tickets and proceeded. There's the miniature Terminal 3.
And a nice cool new water feature which is really nice if you see it with your own eyes. The way the water flows is like wow.
And we began our photo-taking.
Here I underestimated the self-timer. So got off too early.
Then we both underestimated haha.
GAY!
The baggage collection area. With a nice water feature again.
Then we took the skytrain to Terminal 2.
Very tired from walking. You know we walked about 2 hour plus non-stop.
I random-ed a shot of the old auntie holding the pole tightly.
See the track to Terminal 2? And I see the future hotel too!
Ate sakae we continued taking more pictures. Make use of a 3.2 megapixel camera.
Oh ya, we happened to meet Dharmen at Sakae too. But didn't get a picture of him.
And after eating like 79 bucks worth of food among the 4 of us... extremely full. I took 2 cups of green tea and a sukiyaki (which really was a huge serving and some sushi).
We left Changi Airport. The 3 others came to my house for swimming. Been swimming loads lately. Many many many times a week. Addicted I think.
I took this shot of the train because I hardly get to see the train all the way from one end to the other end. Normally there will be people blocking the view. But not this time!
OMG see I told you they were gay. Imagine one guy lying down on 2 other guys.
I don't know why but I blog less nowadays. Then the posts accumulate/pile-up.
Feel like changing my blog url all the more I don't (I'm afraid people can't find it). But of course I'll put up a notice. But some people might be blur.
Worst thing is today mum looked at my history. I think she saw "blogger.com"
Monday, November 26, 2007
Gee... something's up with my internet. Seem to be only able to access blogger only on certain days. I'm just going to forget about updating the previous post. People would forget to read it anyway. So now that I'm finally on, let's just get on with life.
Yesterday was great. I went to orchard the whole day. From 9am to 8pm.
The highlight:
I went there with Dad and his friend early in the morning for (if you've been reading the news), the launch of the new Audi R8 supercar. Typical Winston. Sacrifices sleep for the sake of taking car pictures. I got 33 pictures! Anyway, when I went there the R8 wasn't unveiled yet. Only some special people had access to the area nearer to the cars. Audi had this mediacorp guy who had a Melvin-ed body talk loads of stuff about the car.
Mostly just to be saying something. The other cars were being pushed around to the starting position.
Oh, there was this sort of performance by a percussion band as well. But I didn't go to Marriott for that. Couldn't be bothered to take their pictures. Then finally after a long time of being there the R8 arrived. Everyone was like eager to catch a glimpse of it. Finally everyone was allowed to get as close to the car as they wanted. And they took loads of pictures too.
Somehow I find that the R8 has certain similarities in terms of looks to the Gallardo. Audi owns Lamborghini anyway. I'm saying Audi Company has a huge/majority share in Lamborghini the company. Not that their cars really own Lamborghini in the gaming language. Then, all the cars began their trip down Orchard.
After the launch we went for breakfast at food republic@wisma. Then went to Borders to collect car from Mum because she had to go to a wedding lunch and was not free. We took the car to Sim Lim Square because the two guys had to get things from there. After that Dad's friend dropped us back to Comcentre and drove the car back to office while I went to see if there was a long queue together with Dad. The queue was bad so we went to centrepoint for a walk and then walked to Plaza Sing and took a train back to Orchard where we ate Pepper Lunch at Shaw and then went to get 2 more xbox controllers so that whoever who comes can play too! After that we walked to Comcentre again to check the queue and decided it was short enough and so now I have got a K770i!!! Extremely pleased with it. Especially the cybershot camera. Though its very very very sensitive to handshake.
After getting my phone we went to Wisma where we met up with Mum and Bro. Then we went to lucky plaza to find the maid agency which is owned by another friend of my dad's. We want a second maid. Thanks to: Troublesome China Students.
"Man! Dig Baldy!" Haha let's photoshop some hair for him.
Okay, enough, Winston.
Then we left the carpark and the fee... Because my dad thought it was per entry but in fact it was per hour.
We went to Genki Sushi at United Square for dinner followed by sending Mum back to Orchard Parade Hotel because she needed to take back the car which she parked there.
End of day, sleep at 3am.
Today was simple. Woke up at 10, waited for Mum to finish making her phone calls. Then went to school, bought books (im happy!) and went for tuition followed by home.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Be prepared for a long post because Winston hasn't updated for the whole week and he was done many things. He shall go day by day. Take your time to slowly read his jam-packed schedule for the past few days.Monday
I went to Sentosa for an outing organised by Heng Xuan and Michelle. Decided to bring Wayne along since he was going to be staying with me indefinitely. So I woke up at 8.30 and left the house at 9. Took 963 to HarbourFront. Time was underestimated because I didn't know the bus would be very crowded so we took a long time to arrive. Anyway I reached HarbourFront at 9.45 and waited with Heng Xuan, Justin and Michelle for Jiawen and Gladys. They came really late but never mind we all have lots of patience don't worry. So we set off to Vivo Monorail station and luckily while waiting we already got Justin to help us queue for the tickets. So we just went in. At the beach we played volleyball first. Team 1: Gladys, Michelle, Justin and Heng Xuan. Team 2: Jiawen, Winston and Wayne. Most of us contributed to teaching Jiawen and Gladys how to dig. For first timers you two are not bad. Heng Xuan then took off his shirt and everyone could see his Calvin Klein underwear! Then we couldn't really play continuously so we ended up playing captains ball. Gosh running in the sand is sure energy-zapping. After like 5mins I started to wear out. Then couldn't run. So in the end my team lost. But never mind it was fun! After that we played beach soccer using a volleyball because I didn't bring my soccer ball (sorry hx!) . Team 1: Heng Xuan, Michelle, Jiawen and Winston. Team 2: Justin, Gladys and Wayne. This time my team won. It's much easier to score somehow. I think everyone else was tired.
What are they taking?
OMG shocking.
"My phone's got zoom!" -Jiawen
Group photo
Overcast Sky
For lunch we went to Yoshinoya at HarbourFront Centre. I love their beef rice but this time they gave me so much beef I could only finish the beef but not the rice. Felt so guilty about wasting food. Then we went shopping at Vivo. Okay, maybe window-shopping. We split into 2 groups. Heng Xuan, Michelle, Justin and Wayne, Jiawen, Gladys, Winston. Only for 10 mins because the rest of the time was spent outside the toilet due to some unseen circumstances. Hey Jiawen don't worry we're really fine with that. Patience is useful. Then we took a train to Cathay to watch The Game Plan. I must say that it's one of the better shows that I have watched. Funny and touching at the same time. After the show we went to Plaza Sing to walk around for a while before we split up and went home with Heng Xuan, Michelle and Wayne. While transferring bus I arranged to meet Leon for fun since he was near the bus stop. We talked for a while until 173 came.
Haha Heng Xuan don't worry I sincerely had fun okay! See the glee?
Tuesday
Woke up at 10.30 in the morning and went to meet Zhong Han with Wayne at Jurong East Station at 11.30 before heading to City Hall, Raffles City for my favourite Pepper Lunch!!! It's the one at the food court. Called pepper lunch express... My favourite choice for a lunch location. Shawn came along and he brought Jon Au, Joel Foo and Jensen.
And after that as agreed with Shawn during lunch, we went to Esplanade to take pictures! Photo-Taking session! My hobby! Hahaha our first stop was roof terrace where we took majority of our photos and then it started raining so we went to the library@esplanade and took more photos outside. All together the whole camwhoring session we took about 70 I counted. Very satisfied but I think you can never get enough of such things. Zhong and Shawn we must organise another one okay! This time at the beach! Don't want to have too many photos all at the same place. Here are some of the 70.
Now we're sad...
Then we're happy!
After all this photo-taking we went to Haagen-Dazs for a rest. Jensen and Shawn ordered 1 scoop and 3 scoops respectively. Spendthrift people. Their ice cream is so ex! I just ordered tea. I regretted in the end because they didn't give me a teapot but just a cup. So wasted 3.90! When we were leaving Jensen went to kope all the sugar and condiments and he also took the plate! We were all laughing. Then he said he regretted because he should have taken the cup too.
We just randomly walked into shops to see while going through Citylink Mall. I tried on a shirt at Adidas. Then went to Giordano and bought a collar shirt with designs. Took MRT home with Shawn, Zhong Han, Wayne and Jensen. At Bukit Batok MRT, I brought Wayne to West Mall for a quick look around before going home.
The Adidas Shirt
The Giordano Collar Shirt I bought
Wednesday
Woke up late at 8.30 in the morning because I was playing com with Wayne until 4 in the morning. Quickly went to East Coast Park by MRT to Tanah Merah Station then took a cab to East Coast and cycled with Yue Ming and Wayne all the way to the end, town direction. Then we realised we had extra time so we went to Macs for a break.
OMG what happened...
On the returning
Anyway, to ezra.. have a good trip and travel safe okay. hope you have truckloads of fun in europe and switzerland like i did before. treasure the german highway and look out for all the cars that you cant find in singapore.