Remember the trip I mentioned, it happened Christmas Eve morning. My aunt, grandpa, mum, bro and me. Yeps, the 5 of us. Quite the odd group, but it works nevertheless. Dad was stuck with work and well, stay home to feed the dog.
I find it hilarious that mum's spending the Christmas with her in-law and sis-in-law, which dad spends his with mum's side of the family. An aunt had invited the whole family over for dinner, and dad took it up, since well, he knows everyone there anyway, and there's home cooked meal. XD
It was a long drive down, in which we were entertained by YehYeh's stories. Seriously, he should write a book or something, he's had a really colourful life, and some of which are *coughnotverynicecough* things.
He once worked in the police station, in the fingerprint dept?
Played goalkeeper for the police while he was there?
Had....various....*coughfightscough*
Helped my gramma's siblings to find jobs.
Fishing in various places with his buddies....who are now, well...are gone to the higher above. orz
Torn all his photographs of them since there wasn't a point, he's the only one left.
orz much?
Ah well, it keep me interested, I love stories and he definitely has a knack of telling them, like me mum.
So then we reached.
It was a lovely place full of old, shady trees; properly lit street lights; superbly accurate and timely train service; and proper pedestrian walkways. We M'sians should learn a thing or two from them. Like seriously. -.-
Everyone walks and takes the underground trains there, that explains why everyone is so healthy. But then again, I wouldn't mind walking if there were shady trees everywhere with proper broad walkpaths. And a train every 5 mins, fully air-conned, I might add, since our trains have super crappy air-conditioning. orz
One thing is, everything moves fast there. The people, heck, even the escalators in the train stations. And there's shopping malls everywhere. O.O So far, all the stations we've stopped at were like underneath a shopping mall, you barely have to sweat.
And if you wonder about how seemingly desolated S'pore looks, it's probably because the bulk of the population is underground. XD And I am amazed at how disable friendly everything is. I've seen so many people on wheelchairs going about their business, and you rarely see those here, because our country has yet to make it easy for them to venture out.
We spent day one randomly walking around since it was quite late, and grabbed dinner. Then we took the train down to Orchard Road to see the famed roads lit up with lights for the Xmas season. It was packed....with people....XD But really nice, we didn't walked the whole stretch because it was farrrrrrrrrr. I suppose it would have been way better to be there on Christmas day itself, but we didn't quite fancy the crowd much.
Pretty lights for the festive celebrations
Day 2 started with a walk to the marketplace for breakfast. Grandpa reckons it's further than his usual morning walk routine. We took the backalleys to avoid the main roads, a lot of S'poreans use them, and they're quite clean.
Later, we took a train down to Clark Quay where a lot of tall office buildings were, and the station is like smack underneath a grassy garden, a short walk onwards will bring you to a lake. There's a row of restaurants which boast of seafood with a price for the view of the lake. O.O
The evening view, note that we walked 180 degrees. O.O
We had dinner and when it was night, the night view was lovely, I think some of the buildings leave certain levels lit up and it become quite a view to see.
Night version *O*
(a lot of photos I took turned out crappy, except for some precious few)
Day 3, we took another train down to Sentosa Island. Had a cable car ride and saw the Underwater World. There are certainly many more other things to see, but the queue and prices are a killer. No bluff.
There's this tank full of starfishes, stingrays and some species of fish....and they encourage you to touch it, so we did. =P
My seahorse shot is...blurry....orz
Jellyfish! It's all puffy like clouds and just floats...
Day 4, we went to Bugis Junction. Did some slight shopping and walked around. There was this water feature in the middle of the conjoining malls, and little kiddos would dive right in and play around. XD
Little kiddos are sooooooooo cute, yes?
Day 5, we went home. XD
It was an awesome experience, I've never been to S'pore before despite it being so near to M'sia. The last time, both my family and my uncle's plus my aunt went, I was away in US with YehYeh and MaMa. I was a lucky 11 year old. <3
Plus we played a lot of *coughgim/jim/gym?cough*. Card game. Enuff' said. I should probably mentioned both my bro and me and another cousin of mine were taught how to play by *cough2auntsplusgrandpacough* when we were....back in primary school. orz?
It was a memorable time for us, and probably more for grandpa, he mentioned how this would probably be his last trip down to Singapore. Gramma would have tagged along, but she can't walk as well as she used to. So I'm amazed as how YehYeh managed to do all that walking and keep up with us. Even I was complaining a bit, since lazy me does no exercise in my usual routines.
My cousin would come down to KL for the school hols and mum and dad would dump us at gramma's for the weekdays since they were working. So we hung out a lot, with my aunts (one who doesn't work and another who lives there) plus my grandparents lor. XD
That's it for my Chrismas. XD How did yours go?
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