AFA Updates: Panic? Now? Can?
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 11:43 PM
AFA Updates:Costume: Here!
Shoes: Fuck black... I'm using brown instead :\
Mittens: Made.
Contact lens: NOT HERE YET!
Wig: Done!
After running all over Singapore on Thursday, I managed to get my costume (
$90) and my wig done. A million thanks to Kewen's help!
The only problem is... WHERE IS MY CONTACT LENS?
Melinda told me that they would arrived on 21st Nov, 11am. This totally wrecked my whole timing schedule... I cannot meet ahsie at 12noon and I cannot reached there early to dress up and have my wig touch up by Kewen. Everything have to be pushed back! So sad... I hoped I didn't disturb Kewen by then.
But but but... I really hoped my contact lens will be here on time. Really really hoped!
The wig cut and styled by Kewen :)
I think I looked like a guy here O.o
Leftover cloths...
I think
IF I've got the time,
I would make another mittens from the brown cloth.
All there...
EXCEPT FOR MY CONTACT LENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guessed the character I'm cosplaying as?
GOOD LUCK TO ME TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Labels: AFA, preparation, updates
::NEWater Visitor Centre::
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 4:33 PM
::6th Nov 09::
XueNi and I decided to visit the NEWater Visitor Centre for fun and also because we had nothing else to do. And the trip is completely free! :D I did an online booking of the tour and also to check the shuttle bus timing.
12noon @ Tanah Merah MRT control station. That's what we have planned. The shuttle bus will come around 12.15noon. Anyway, we almost missed the shuttle bus! Because we didn't know where is the pick up point is. Good thing that XueNi spotted the bus :)
Super small sign at the far end of the bus stop :\
And we were completely alone on the bus! xD
After the short ride, we have reached the NEWater Visitor Centre! It's a really pretty place, very good place for photoshoot if they allowed :X
Little that we know... we were in a tour with the Xin Min Primary School students!!! D: So sad that the emcee/host/speaker will be speaking in a very childish manner :( Watched a 7mins video, listened to all the children's chattering and then got scoldings from their teachers :\ There's this teacher who is extremely fierce, even I got frightened by her D:
Walked through the doors and went to a place which looks like a place in Science Centre with all the different exhibits and stuff. With all those students running about, I couldn't even see a thing! xD XueNi and I went to sit down at the side and played with our NDS, "Atelier Annie: Alchemist of Sera Island".
4 sources where we get our water from...
Local catchment (
reservoirs), Imported, NEWater and Desalinated water.
Blehx, the emcee later brought us to the location beside, where the students are made to sit around. Like this:
After he finished explaining, he asked the students to close their eyes while he went to switch on the rainbow lights and told the students that he did magic @_@... & then he invited all the students onto the lighted area to walk about. I don't think it's very fun though :\ But the students seemed very happy!
Rainbow lights! :D
Kids enjoying themselves.
I have no idea why this kid's pants were wet xD
Walking on NEWater~
Next, to the NEWater factory! :D
So many pipes and stuffs.
& so many students sitting on the ground.
STEP 1: ULTRAFILTRATION/MICROFILTRATION
The yucky stuff will not be able to get through
the Submersible Ultrafiltration Membrane fibres.
After the water has been filtered, it will be vacuumed up to the reverse osmosis stage.
Submersible Ultrafiltration Membrane Module.
STEP 2: REVERSE OSMOSIS
Further filtration of the rest of the smaller yucky stuffs like viruses, bacterias and estrogen endocrine disruptor!
... by using this pressure tube.
Heh.
STEP 3: ULTRAVIOLET DISINFECTION
These are some other extra steps taken:
To end off, we typed some nonsense on the commitment wave thingy and collected our free NEWater :)
The final results.
If you are bored and do not want to waste money, go down to the NEWater Visitor Centre and learn about NEWater!!! xD
*__________________________________*
It has been a long time since I last posted pictures of Koko!
So presenting... Koko, the Pearl Cockatiel!!~
Some other random photos...
Completed "Atelier Annie: Alchemist of Sera Island"
with a horrible ending :( Julian won instead!! D:
Made a music note for Yokie and a pink riceball for Rebecca :)
Labels: crafts, DS, excursion, info, perler beads, pet
Short Trip to Batam!
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 1:01 AM
::31st Oct 09 - Day 1::
After much procrastination, I decided to blog about this... but then... I do not know how to start!
So many things to blog, so many pictures to edit :\Ahem... The 7 of us were off to Batam for 2 days and 1 night. Audrey, Daphne, Lisa, Puikwan, Shalee, her mama and me! Just a short lil' trip for the girls only :) Guys? All serving their national service! *
arm chio-ing*
All packed! Like finally~~ xD
We all met up at Harbour Front's McDonald's for breakfast at 7.30am, and I wasn't late!
Thanks to all the wake up calls I got :\
People are crazy over this monopoly thing :\
At approximately 8.30am when everyone has finished eating, we went up to level 3 to collect the ferry boarding pass and pay the sea port tax thingy. Well, I already have passed all my money for the trip and tax thingy to Audrey, so I don't have to worry a thing. And also~~ Puikwan has passed me my Indonesian rupiah money!! I changed SGD100 for 678,000rp! Wow, I'm a hundred-thousandaire~ It felt...
good~
Shinjuku passport :)
Ooh~ xD
We hurried to the ferry boarding place and also to get our passport stamped. I didn't know that it will be that crowded :\ So many people taking the ferry in the morning! I tried not to get separated from the group xD Went to the toilet before boarding Asean Raider I.
Heh. I still stopped to take picture of the sign xD
Waiting for the rest to come out of the toilet!!
& this is the first people picture~ :D
ASEAN RAIDER I
sounds like some power ranger show :\
So sad that we weren't able to sit together, because there were only 5 seats per row and the rows at the front and back of our row were already occupied. Shalee and her mama had to sit somewhere further from us :(
Damn you, free seating!!! Took some pictures before the ferry set off at 9.30am.
Once the ferry started moving, I felt the sea sickness came upon me at full force :\
Damn you, sea sickness!!! Each waves kept adding on to my sea sickness. I was unable to read or even open my eyes. So I went to sleep immediately to avoid the chances of puking. So glad I've got the ability to fall asleep instantaneously.
Like awesome~
Last view I saw, before falling asleep.
First view I saw, after waking up.
I'm on Batam waters~~ O_O
Reached Batam at approximately 10.40am (9.40am Batam Time). So troublesome with all the different timezones. Looks as though we only needed 10mins to get there. Like going backwards in time. We went through all the stamping of passports and checking of bags, and when we got outside, we saw a man holding a piece of paper with the words, "LIAN YUN LING" on it. Heh, Audrey's name.
We followed that man, Rocky, to the van where it will take us to the hotel :) The girls ordered from Rocky some kueh lapis. Puikwan and I didn't order any. And I do not want to speak to that man, because the man only speaks malay and chinese. So I looked out of the window to view the scenery passing by. And soon, we reached Formosa Hotel!
Off we go!~
They have like so much lands to build short buildings!
Formosa Hotel.
I sat at the lobby while the other girls went to the counter. Was really tired from the friggin' ferry ride. Seems like the check-in time is at 2pm, but the receptionist only managed to give us one room. & that room belongs to Lisa, Daphne and Audrey. Another mattress had to be brought in. The room was pretty small, cramped and only had a queen-sized bed!
Koko has a bar?! xD
Put down our bags there first and... it's... SHOPPING TIME! Finally get to spend my 678,000rp~ We went to the nearest shopping centre, Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre, which is two roads away from the hotel. The road conditions there are very bad. No traffic lights and even with the supposing "zebra crossing". No one really give two hoots about you trying to cross the road.
Had lunch first at A&W!~ Too bad Singapore doesn't have that fast food restaurant anymore. Such a pity, really. Well, I bought the 2 pcs chicken set at 42,900rp (
SGD6+). Not at all cheap. Just the same as Singapore's fast food restaurants' prices.
Broke my no-soft-drinks ban again :(
Ahem~ Now it's finally time to shop! We wandered around the shopping centre together, shop to shop. Walking in and out of the shops, asking for prices, using the handphone calculator to divide the prices by 6780 to see the estimated SGD prices for the items. And... most of the items weren't as cheap as we expected to be. Singapore's Bugis Street and China are definitely much cheaper than there. If I buy clothes that are above SGD10 from Batam, my mama will slapped me for sure :\
And my extremely unlucky hands struck again! Everything I touched, the stuff will either be spoilt or dropped onto the floor. For example, I took a pretty hat clip (
you know those small hats attached to clips...) off the rack and when I want to hang it back... IT DROPPED ONTO THE FLOOR AND THE HAT DETACHED FROM THE CLIP! :\ I quickly picked up both of the pieces and pressed them together. Lucky for me, the two pieces managed to stick together so I hung it back on the rack and walked quickly out of the shop! Phew, Puikwan told me that the bloody pretty hat cost 55,000rp (
SGD8+) Hell no, I'm not going to pay $8 for that thing :\
Cool shot of us, using the reflection from the perfume bottle ;)
Went for an express french manicure with Lisa for 90,000rp (
SGD13+)
I don't like the removing of fingernail cuticles part :(
And also I regretted cutting my nails into squares and filing them.
I prefer my long pointed nails! :D Never cutting like that again!
Tata!~
Anyway, at around 3pm+ (
Batam time), we went back to the hotel to collect our other rooms. Actually by 2pm (
Batam time), we could have collected the rooms but we got carried away by shopping :X
Us Girls... *
shakes head* And woah, our rooms (
Shalee & mama = 1, Puikwan and me = 1) were bigger than the other room. Both rooms have 1 queen-sized bed and 1 single bed each! And also they are joined rooms xD
I bought our bags over and we rested and of course, took pictures!
Thanks to Shalee's mama for helping us take the pictures :)
I love the shots! :D
& looks like the other room also did the same xD
At 4pm, we gathered up and divided ourselves into two groups for the cabs. We were on our way to the next shopping centre, Batam City Square~ Had our dinner first at the Breeks there to charge up before shopping!! The food there was really cheap! Better here than Singapore xD
My Chicken Mozzi Pattie at 32,000rp (
SGD4+)
Wow~ xD
Funny shot of me :\
Then it's time to shop... again! I didn't really bought much stuff. I didn't buy anything for my family also. Because if I buy back anything, my mama will slap me and say, "I can buy 10 of the same thing in China than you buy at Batam." D: So nah, I would rather not take the risk. As for Puikwan, she spent most of her money on buying bags for her mama and brothers xD
So cool! For me, I wouldn't know how to paint like that!
Audrey and Puikwan went off secretly to buy a small cake for Shalee to celebrate her birthday later. & lastly, we went to the super mart, bought some food for the night and took cabs back to the hotel.
Cute milk packets xD
In the cab, under the rain, driving back.
First thing we did was to bathe!! After bathing, Audrey, Lisa and Daphne sneaked over through our room to surprise Shalee with the cake! I distracted Shalee so that she won't know what's going on xD I think we did succeed in surprising her. It was so much fun :D
After the birthday celebration, we quieted down, discussed about tomorrow's events and also counted our money, which includes the paying back of debts. O$$P$$!
The seriousness...
Due to Puikwan being in bankruptcy, we donated our coins to her :X
What I have left with...
The stuff I've bought!~
I like the teddy bear I brought from Singapore xD
Dead.
After the rest have returned to their rooms, Puikwan and I boiled water to cook our cup noodles. Little that we know, Puikwan's cup noodle container had a hole... So when I was pouring the water in, the table got flooded :X I quickly took a cup and placed the cup noodles container onto it, while Puikwan cleaned up the spilled water.
Yum. It tasted really good :P
And then before we sleep, we took more pictures!! :D
I used timer all the way, including in the bathroom
where I have to balance my camera on top of the tap!
Until Shalee's mama came and helped us take the last few shots :)
The end. We went to sleep around 2am or so. Puikwan let me sleep in the queen-sized bed, while she slept in single bed. So nice of her!! :D
::1st Nov 09 - Day 2::
I'm always the last one to wake up... And got disturbed until I woke up. Do you know that you shouldn't disturb a light sleeper's sleep? xD Went to shower and also the last one to get ready :( And went for breakfast at the hotel's restaurant ... Didn't have much of an appetite due to the horrible, suffocating, oily, greasy smoke from the egg cooker :\
People disturbing me and taking picture of me,
when I'm sleeping!! D:
Buffet spread.
What I took.
After that, we went back to our rooms to pack everything properly and met up again at 9.30am (
Batam time). Made a final trip back to Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre to buy the stuff that we didn't buy when we were there the first time. We got there 15mins before the opening time of the shopping centre and had to wait outside.
What?! No ice cream allowed?!
Mob of people waiting to go in.
Pretty hats, I hate them :\
Meh, I went back to get the Rubik's cube shirt, but it was sold out!! :( Anyway, I bought some keychain souvenirs for people. I couldn't get for everyone because my money was running dry :\ Well, too bad then xD At 12noon, we went back to the hotel to check out and took the van to the ferry terminal.
Everyone suddenly appears to have extra baggage xD
At ferry terminal, Audrey and some others went off to settle some ferry stuff, probably the sea port tax again. And then we proceeded to our last shopping centre, Mega Mall. We placed our baggage at bag safety deposit place so we didn't have to drag our bags everywhere we go :D
Into the trolley they went!
Okay! The last time to spend all the Indonesia rupiahs! Because it's not worth it to change back to Singapore dollars. We wandered from shops to shops... well, anyway we go split up in groups. Shalee and her mama went off the eat first. Later, Puikwan and I went off to eat also. But... all the food places' queues were sooooooo long! Mega Mall was really crowded that day due to some children event... :\ There were some drawing and singing competitions for the kids.
So we decided on KFC. The queues were moving really really slow. And no one really seems to be minding it at all D: The KFC staffs, including the manager, were doing things so slowly! No sense of urgency at all! :\ If this was Singapore, all the patrons will be complaining like mad! xD So for one seemingly short queue in Singapore, we queued for 30mins there... And somemore, we had to wait for the food to be prepared after ordering :\ This ain't fast food anymore... THIS IS SLOW FOOD!
Drawing competition... Where all the kids have gone to?
I bought a chick'n fillet & a twister.
Puikwan bought a chick'n fillet & a fish fillet.
Eventually, we managed to meet back with everyone again and continue shopping. I bought a pouch thingy for my mama and aunt. After going to few shops to ask for the prices, I managed to find the cheapest price at 30,000rp (
SGD4+). Well, if I've gotten something for my aunt, means I have to get something for my mama, even though she can get it in China for a far more cheaper price. My mama loves to contradict herself! D:
Heh, I even when to change SGD4 to rupiahs because I do not have enough money to buy the scarf! Anyway, I'm left with few worthless hundreds rupiahs and I wanted to throw the money away. But they stopped me :X I pooled in some money to buy some keropok for them to eat on the ferry. And I'm left with 1,500rp... xD!
I like the words on the sign xD
Collected our bags from the deposit place and we returned back to the ferry terminal.
At 4.15pm (
Batam time), we were in the waiting area. We thought our ferry boarding time was at 4.30pm. But it was in fact, 5.30pm :\ We had to wait for an hour more :( We could have shopped more, you know~ xD
My boarding pass just waiting to be tapped! xD
Finally, it's time to board our ferry, the Ocean Flyte. The sun was setting by then. So early! Earlier than our Singapore sunset.
Queuing up to board the ferry.
Going back home to Singapore~
Anyway, I slept throughout the ferry journey again. And we arrived at Harbour Front at 7.45pm (
Singapore time). Yay, back to using Singapore dollars! No more thousands and hundred thousands to count.
Yay! Singapore!
My bag scratched my arm!!
The rest of the stuffs I bought :)
The 2 days 1 night trip to Batam was really awesome. I enjoyed myself thoroughly with my girlfriends :D No guys, just girls. & the part on spending hundreds and thousands of money like water was really fun xD Erm, if I'm not wrong, I have spent $211 for this trip, including accommodation and stuffs.
Next trip would be to Tioman Island! Maybe somewhere during April or so.
Time to save money for the trip :D
-credits to Puikwan for letting me refer :)-
FINALLY I HAVE BLOGGED FINISH THIS POST! :D
& I have 3 more posts to blog about :\
DAMN IT!!! D:
Labels: birthday, celebrate, degreeians, overseas, trip
AFA Updates: Mittens Trouble :\
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 7:59 PM
These few days I have been worrying about my mittens... for AFA! Why, oh why must the character wear mittens and not proper gloves?! And why of all colour, brown?! I went to Daiso to check there for mittens with XueNi the other day. They do not have brown ones! They have black, cream, green and funny orange colour. But no brown!
Got two mittens from Daiso...
Black one is for the using brown felt cloth to cover up plan.
(
But I didn't know how to go about doing it :\)
Cream one is for the dyeing plan.
Started with the dyeing plan to dye the cream mittens to brown.
But it failed horribly... Even though I have soaked it for over 24hours :\
The result... yucky grey mittens D:
Went out with Joshua as well for another round of search. Didn't manage to find anything. I've got fed up with it and decided to make one from scratch myself, using brown felt cloth and the patterns I found online.
Here's one done...
And the other...
The mittens I made look pretty weird. But I guess... they are still wearable.
AHH!!~~ HECK! So much for my first handiwork by myself :\
Btw, I realized that I do not like the feeling of felt on my skin... hmm...
And and and, I've collected my AFA wig! :D But still lots of work need to be done...
Like styling and cutting. Help please? Anyone? :X
Not bad. Not bad.
I pretty likey it!
Mr. Botak also likes it too!
He looks so glamorous in it~ ;)
AFA Updates:
Costume: Tailoring; need to call and check on Monday, 16th Nov
Props: Probably not getting already. Good bye wings and halo~
Shoes: Meeting Joshua to try shoes on Friday, 13th Nov
Mittens: Made. Results: @_@
Contact lens: Ordered/Paid
Wig: Collected; style & cut required!
Oh ya... I'M SO UNLUCKY AT GACHAPON! :\ I didn't get the character keychains I want! :(
4 gachapons = $12 spent
3/4 of them is MAJIN BUU!!! :\
Why didn't I get these three instead? :(
Oh my
Super Saiyan Goku. Oh my
Vegeta. Oh my
Trunks. T_T~
Will be blogging the Batam trip soon... Well, as soon I get started on the editing of the pictures :\
But but but...
I'M LAZY!!! xD
"I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace.
I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth.
Ally to good! Nightmare to you!"
-Son Goku
Labels: AFA, anime, crafts, preparation, toys
Online purchases~
Friday, November 06, 2009 - 2:28 AM
I really like to buy things online :X Either from forums or sprees~
And and and... the Mayuki Taiwan clothes I ordered with XueNi finally came!! :)
I bought a dress and a long jacket thingy :X
Testing them out~
Only spent like SGD26.42 for both of the clothes including shipping. Awesome, eh? xD
And and and also, I have received my contact lens for my EOY cosplay! Why did I get another one? It's because my FreshLook contact lens suck and luckily they are free :\ The colour is really light and not at all obvious when worn. So I bought geo lens at $14; with postage, $15.50.
Tata~ Purple lens~ :D
& & & Thank you Eisha for your card and birthday present;
and also to Sakina for her card as well xD
What other stuff to say?
Oh oh! I would be most likely cosplaying on AFA day 1, 21st Nov.
Well, if everything turns out alright and on time! ^^''''
AFA Updates:
Costume: Tailoring~
Props: Still deciding :\
Shoes: Maybe borrowing from Joshua; need to try first
Mittens: Searching/Making...
Contact lens: Ordered/Paid
Wig: Collecting on Tuesday, 10th Nov
EOY Updates:
Costume: Bibs not yet alter
Props: Completed
Boots: Arrived
Wig: Done
Contact lens: Arrived
Lastly...
Labels: AFA, EOY, online purchase, presents, random, updates
:+ Stargazing @ Marina Barrage +:
Monday, November 02, 2009 - 1:42 AM
::24th Oct 09::
Stop procrastinating and blog all the expired posts now! :\
Started off with some driving practice using my papa's van. It was a horrible experience, especially for the parking. VERTICAL PARKING! :\ My worst driving skill. I even parked in the middle of two parking slots D: Luckily I didn't bang anyone's property...
Anyway, I was really glad it was over and I made my way to Ikea from Kovan. I was the earliest to reach there. Probably 15mins earlier than appointed 5pm time.
My companies :)
Soon Shuhua, WeiLeng and lastly, Moo arrived. And we can go ordered our food :) Moo treated all of us because he came late D: It wasn't really necessary but he insisted. After that, we all shared a Daim cake :P
Meatballs for me :D!! Like obviously~
Yum~ :P
After that, we met XueNi at Anchorpoint and we could finally start our journey to Marine Barrage for
stargazing and the
Orionids meteor shower!~ Joshua will meet us there later at 9pm or so. Took the train to Marine Bay station and walked through a tunnel to reach the bus stop. We were uncertain that the shuttle bus would come to this bus stop or not. But bus400 sure goes there. When I checked the iris, I got a shock that the bus400 will take 40mins to arrive :\ We were discussing whether to wait for it or walk there, and the shuttle bus came! Lucky for us :D And I'm sure glad that we didn't walk :\ It was such a long way in.
On the bus~
When we reached Marine Barrage, there was a horde of students waiting to get on the bus D: It was really horrifying to go through a mass of smelly sweaty students :\ We slowly made our way up to the Marin Barrage, taking lots of pictures on the way. I realized that there are a lot of fountains there as well. Real pretty! :D
First fountain we saw.
Pretty lights!
Heh. Scary?
Lighted pathway up to the fields of Marine Barrage.
Another fountain in the middle.
Another fountain at the side...
Moo taking a picture of us, girls :)
The Bunny couple :)
After that, we made our way to the astronomy club people! Lots of telescopes were set up there. Moo helped us to borrow one of the telescope for us to use :D I got to see a lot of amazing things through them, like the moon, jumping Jupiter, Andromeda galaxy and Pleiades (star cluster). JinPeng has a really awesome device called "goto". It allows him to key in the coordinates of whatever he wants and the telescope will turn to it! That's how we get to see the Andromeda galaxy through the scope! WeiLeng and I tried to capture the moon and Jupiter by taking picture of them through the telescope. My camera wasn't very good for it as the lens isn't external :(
Moo helped us as well :D
& I think telescopes are
amazing!!!!
Here is Jupiter, can even see its moons! O_O
Close up! Now you can see its bands as well :D
Here is the moon taken by WeiLeng :D
Incredible~
Then Joshua arrived, bringing all the clouds along with him... The clouds then covered up the night sky :( It was already very bad, due to all the spotlights from the construction area that lit up the sky, blinding the stars. Now with the clouds? We can't see a thing xD! So we just took pictures like mad and later when reaching 10.30pm, Shuhua and WeiLeng went home. While the rest of us stayed overnight at Maring Barrage!!~
The
very bad clouds D:
This is when I discovered the SL function on my camera :\
Silhouettes!~
... revealed by flash!
Looking at???
Kites!
I didn't know it was so grand to fly kites in the dark! xD
Nothing else to look at since the clouds blocked everything.
So they decided to peep at people in the flyer xD
Group picture before Shuhua and WeiLeng went off~
Anyway, we lie on the mats stargazing and also to try to catch a meteor from the Orionids meteor shower. Played and challenged puzzle bobble on the NDS when we got bored of looking at the stars. I swear I got the Orion constellation imprinted in my head now! Due to staring at it for sooo long! And I didn't even get to see meteors because the huge damn clouds floated by and covered everything again D:
Tried to sleep on the mat but the stupid sprinklers kept popping out unpredictably every hour. They seriously reminded me of Teletubbies D: Once XueNi and I went to the toilet and when we came back, I saw all the scopes were shifted under the shelter... THE SPRINKLERS STRIKED AGAIN! D: Anyway, I think I only managed to sleep for 30mins xD And for XueNi, she didn't sleep at all! She played her NDS throughout the night. I was haunted by the line, "Even better than mama!"
Can't trust the sprinklers anymore :@
All move under the shelter!!
And my... the skies brightened up really quickly to a new day! JinPeng and Moo taught me how to play Monopoly Deal, the card version of Monopoly. It was really fun! Even less hassle than the board game version. Moo, Joshua, XueNi and I left first, because XueNi was really sick due to her flu and lack of sleep. No bus services yet... so we had to walk out to the main road. Anyway, I'm really glad to reach home, shower and climb into my own bed for a nap :) A nap from 8.30am to 7pm+. A short nap? :D
Foggy in the early morning.
Gorgeous sunrise ;)
Now I can take a picture of the horrible sprinkler :\
Popping out everywhere, you see!
Thank you for the birthday presents :) Thank you Shuhua, WeiLeng, Moo, Joshua, Audrey, LJ and ahsie!
Dreamcatchers Swaying
Side by side~
- "Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade,
- Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid."
- -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Labels: birthday, disappointment, driving, food, info, overnight, presents, RP friends, stargazing
::Singapore Zoological Gardens::
Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 1:40 AM
::23rd Oct 09::
Ahem~ Now that I'm back from Batam. I'm going to continue with my going-to-be-expired posts :D
Thanks to Joshua's mama for the passes. 8 free tickets! I'm able to bring my family/relatives and including XueNi into the Singapore Zoological Gardens for free! Well, except we've got one extra person so we just pay a child ticket which costs $9.
Had breakfast at CCK, Lot 1's McDonald's, before taking bus927 to the zoo. We had to wait very long for the bus to come. Probably not a lot of people go there on a weekday, maybe only tourists.
Anyway, when we reached the zoo, I was right! There wasn't a lot of people there. I was extremely pleased xD Because the previous time I went, it was overcrowded with people. I didn't have to queue up to see the animals or wait behind to take turns to see the animal in the enclosure. Especially if the place was really small, it will be very cramped with all those people in there :\ And also I didn't get to see some of the animals like the elephants and the orangutan. But I did manage to see them this time.
It's a pity that XueNi had forgotten to bring her SD memory card for her big-ass camera. So she had to use her iPhone to take pictures instead. Luckily her iPhone camera isn't that bad, unlike my handphone camera. So
This Is It. A picture spam D: Though I didn't take a lot of pictures like the previous trip, unlike my uncle who kept taking pictures of everything :X For me, I didn't want repetitions.
Relatives from my mama's side :D
XueNi and me~
A scarlet macaw :D
Babirusa! xD
White tigers. Pretty cats ;)
And we saw one shitted into the water :\
Pygmy hippos!
Baby pygmy! So cute! :3
WeiQi with the hippos cut-outs.
So much bigger than her! xD
With that, we entered into the "Australian Outback" zone.
Mushrooms I saw O_O!
Chibi grass tree :P
No!~ I do not want to be cratedddd D:
Beautiful sight.
& I didn't know their testicles are that huge :X 
Ooh!~ Boobies~~ :P
Ahem... :$
Silly stuns and a heart that doesn't look like one,
beneath a doorway made out of branches xD
Sweet lil' tamarin.
XueNi likes it a lot!
Yay! Finally I got to see elephants :D
& also... to see it shit :\ 
With my mama :)
My aunt and mama :D
I love cows :D
Especially 6 spotted ones!
Watched Splash! Safari show at the Splash Amphitheatre.
Carlos is such a clever charming seal :D
Hmm, while we were looking at giant tortoise and porcupines at the "Critters Longhouse" and "Sungei Buaya" area, it began to pour :( Not very heavy but it dampened our mood a little. I mean no one could fully enjoy their excursions in the rain right? Unless it is indoors then I've got nothing to say. We opened our umbrellas and made our way to the "Rainforest Kidzworld" to shelter from the rain. I shared my umbrella with XueNi. Rested at KFC and had a light lunch.
Poor pony. Seems so sad in the rain :(
Cheese fries with no spring onions! xD
Can't wait to see the giraffes! :D
Luckily the rain did stop! :D However, since we are at the zoo... the aftereffects of the rain made the shit of the animals smelled so much stronger than before D: It was suffocating. Anyway, we somehow managed to complete our rest of the journey without fail.
Lucky monkey D:
Try to spot the frogs at the "SPH Foundation Conservation Centre"
So cute! *pets horned frog statue*
Entering the "Fragile Forest".
Please watch your steps.
This area is very much like an aviary... Well, I do not know the actual name for it but it has animals, insects and birds as well. So you can actually see the animals flying past you and passing by you. It's really cool :)
Pretty sad that due to the rain,
a lot of butterflies like this tree nymph were unable to fly.
AND MY MAMA DON'T LET ME PICK IT UP! :\
It tried to get up but it fell down :(
A bat and a two-toed sloth sharing a fruit :)
Did you see what I saw? :X
Tree nymph caterpillar and pupae!
I love it :O!
A jaguar playing with his toy ball.
Leopard here though.
Do you know how to differentiate between a jaguar and a leopard?
Their spots! Jaguar's spots have spots in them, while a leopard's spots do not have.
AND TO MY DISMAY, THIS HAPPENED AT THE GIRAFFE EXHIBIT! T_T
I was so looking forward to see them...
I didn't see this sign at the entrance when I was going in...
The trip was really fun with my family/relatives + a friend. I'm glad my cousins were able to enjoy themselves at the zoo. As you know, the school excursions to the zoo, they only bring the students to a lecture room and after the lecture, they were brought back to the school :\ How lame is that!
I did get to see some sights I didn't get to see when I was there previously. For example, we managed to see an ostrich shitting... It was damn gross... It came out from its ass like a murky green waterfall :\ Like ew. We didn't see everything as we skipped some monkeys out. THE SINGAPORE ZOO HAS TOO MANY SPECIES OF MONKEYS D: Got tired of seeing so many of them... And also it's weird to see birds in the zoo... There are cassowarys, ostrichs, parrots, penguins and crowned pigeons in the zoo! Hey, what is the Jurong Bird Park for?
And, and, and I'm still disappointed that I didn't get to see my no.1 favourite animal, the giraffe!
& yay! The library at Lot 1 has all the books from "In the Garden" trilogy.
Time to rest NDS! Reading time~ :D
Final picture: group shot.
Thank you again to Joshua's mama! She made 8 people very happy. Thus the 8 people said their thanks 8 times. And Joshua's mama replied the 8x the "thanks" with 8x the "welcome". That was very cute of her xD Btw, thanks again and sorry for the trouble ^^'''
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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