Saturday of sun, camwhore & ROCK N ROLL!

Its a Monday once more, & my weekends was just fab! :)
i wish every weekend could be so carefree rather than being laden down with schoolwork. :(
Headed to baby's camp first thing in the morning, we were all late. Snoozed the alarm many times!
Still, we made it! The weather was soooo hot,
& there were just the usual popcorn & candy stand, drink stall, & a stall which sold laksa in a cute styroafoam cup! I just liked the cup, laksa ain't that good! :(

first time we get to go in.

& this one game they had which i have never seen before but its super hilarious & entertaining!
The Bullride.

It was really funny to see guys hanging on for dear life!
Most of them usually fall off after 3 full spins, and some attempt to cheat by hooking their foot under the horns, thinking that the whole world was blind or something. Obviously everyone can see you doing that.
BUT there was this one guy, he must be like some major there or something, he looked well over 60 years old, & the guy handling the bullride didn't dare to increase the speed in case he fell off and broke a neck or something, but he held on for pretty long, and even after the guy increased the speed, he still held on! Like some true blue cowboy just popped out of the blue.
After he gracefully fell off the bull, gracefully, he just slid off when he lost his balance, he even bounced all the way off the bouncy area. Such energy at such age. :)
But it was so entertaining seeing the bull fling the guys off the ride, or see their faces scrunch up & turn red with concentration of having to hang on! funny!
They should have this at EVERY carnival/event! :)

We left at around 11+ and headed down to Sentosa soon after!
With my trust sony camera, we camwhored for hours & hours, the three of us!
It was pure fun! :)





discovered this mysterious cave out of nowhere, it is like some zone off the map of Resorts World, beyond the seafood restaurant.
& then we discovered this scenic spot to capture very pretty photographs along a mini boardwalk, and the best part? Nobody even knows of its existence!
We made a playground out of it, nobody was even there, that whole place was ours for that few glorious hours!

superwoman! He weighs a ton!

Superman! I don't weigh a ton! :D

aww. show some sister one.

MIIIIIINE!!!
In the mini shopaholic book which i'm reading now, minnie brandon is always yelling 'miiiiine' & i somehow always imagine this exact image of her hogging some item! HAHA!

:D don't ask how we did it.

wooooo do the moonwalk, baby!


<3


Contortionist. Except since when did he have such smooooth legs? :D






yes so that marks our very hot yet enjoyable afternoon, we waited at the lobby of Festive Hotel,
had chocolate gelato which was the best except the service there wasn't really good.
Finally had access to the room @ around 4pm, ahh aircon! what will i do without you?
Brings back great memories to be back in that room, had a nice longggg shower before heading off for the Rocky Horror Show!



we made it just in time for it! Cia waited for us at the esplanade library and the cafe people there were real sweet! They knew she was waiting for us and offered to keep the cafe open till our show ended! I always knew they were a nice bunch of people!
the owner of the cafe (not sure if its still the same one) is a woman with a very strong american accent, but she's the sweetest! :)
i could spend my entire afternoon there anyday.


the turnout was fantastic, and OMG people really do get dressed up for the show!!
before we went in, we saw a guy in the scottish skirt, girls wearing corset tops & fishnet stockings, men dressed as characters in the show (which i only noticed later on).
They had torchlights & light sticks and some guy in front of me even wore pink gloves (for reasons which I was to realise only halfway through the show)


There, this is the guy with the pink gloves! the whole row of them in front of us dressed up for it!
they were pretty enthusiastic about it, but when they started getting too excited in the middle of the show, they got told off by a couple sitting beside us, they toned down a lot after.
But that didn't stop them from doing the whole time warp dance with the crew at the end!
it was soooo adorable! :)

the show was great, a real eye opener.
the ending was kinda sad though.. :(
i prefer happy endings. I loved it when the song 'there's a light' came on & all those lightsticks & torchlight came up, the whole audience was sooo supportive & enthusiastic!
Hossan was great too! Nice to see a familiar face! I was soooo impressed by dr frank n furter's vocals. He can really sing!
awww i'm kinda sad its over! I do wanna go again!
Now i'm looking forward to my next one, the Lion King! :D


i've put my mind to learn how to do the time warp in my free time.
Watched Shan & Ross doing it, they were sooo cute! hahahaha!


During the 20 minutes interval. Nearly full house i would say.


Thanks for a great performance Rocky Horror Show, you guys deserve 100% of the standing ovation you received that night!!
Till we meet again!

I'm finally done with The Pupil, and season 2's not gonna be out till end of the year.
Well, at least i finally found my Harry Potter & the deathly Hallows with the cover i wanted! :)
that should keep me occupied for a bit!

Law can be interesting @ times.

Over the holidays, apart from swtiching on to HBO everytime i got a chance near my TV, I've also been up to date with this local TV series which I never paid any attention to when it was airing on TV; The Pupil.

The title sounds weird, & it seems all draggy & boring, but its far from that.
The storyline rotates around a law firm, and the pupil is this girl who is to be trained as a lawyer.
Law has always been categorised under my 'boring' category, but it all started from touching a bit of media law last sem. The case studies which we had to read were quite interesting, minus the fact that we were all trying to cram it in for a quiz. Still I have to give it credit for not putting me to sleep! Then again, I thought it was only interesting because was within the context of media, hence it was relatively less dry and draggy.

But i was wrong, normal law can be interesting as well, and I have a new found admiration for lawyers! Boy they are really brilliantly smart people!
I now wish I had the brains of a lawyer, being able to see things from more than just one or two pathetic perspective, whenever they put forth their case, all that runs through my mind is "OMG how did they even think of that?"

On the way to work this morning, my dad was telling me all about lawyers and court cases,
funny stories too of how he went to court once for illegally driving a motorcycle up & down the hill behind his old house when he was younger! LOL what a reason to go to court for.
& he planted this idea or suggestion in me that never would have surfaced although i knew of its existence. That is to go attend a real court hearing just for the fun of it!
it could be fun although i'm pretty sure the me that wasn't so interested in this a few months back would have thought of that is the last thing that i wanna waste a day doing.

Still, I've been checking up on the upcoming hearings, but nothing seemed to catch me attention yet, mostly about property rights, custody, and the few odd drug smuggling cases, one rape case & some financial issues between companies.
Hmm.. wondering if i could take a day off from work to go to one of those. Maybe it'll be totally different from TV & I'll probably end up dozing off or something. Its worth giving a chance! :)

& yay I've just received the greatest news from USS that they are gonna change my tickets to the 29th! which means i get to go to the Hollywood After Park Hours after all!
If i do have an enjoyable day, I'll write an email to thank that guy from the feedback section who's been such a star to help me out, rather than the useless enquiries service people who has done nothing but to make my blood boil & waste my phone bills. hmpf!


This whole incident has done well to push my patience to its limits. First we took the time & effort to go ALL the way down to get the tickets, paying $6 JUST to get into Sentosa to get the tickets, we specifically asked the person if there was gonna be the After Park Hours available on the 22nd Jan and was assured that there will be.
& can you believe it, a week later, when i checked on their website, the after park hours were NOT available on that day due to a private event!
Who wouldn't fume? Seriously. I called them & the entire incident was pushed around for days before I finally got a satisfactory response.. My trip to USS had better be great, or all that effort just wasn't worth it & it simply proves that Singapore's USS may have been built here, but the experience is incomparable to that in the States, and its simply destroying universal's studio's brand image. I really am expecting quite a lot from it, even from the beginning. I just hope i'm not too disappointed.

The entire incident was screwed up the minute i started calling them to get them to change my tickets for me.
I had one guy yelling at me 'HELLO?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!?! HELLO????" I was in the office, its really silent & there can't have been a problem with my phone, obviously he just didn't wanna entertain me.
The second time another dude picked up, and this time he kept insisting that I needed a ticket to get into the Hollywood after hours, and I had to repeat it 5 times that I have already bought the tickets, then he went on to insist that the 22nd jan had NO hollywood after hours. I gave up after that. He didn't even understand simple english and had ZERO idea of what i was talking about, or he was doing a pretty good job of pissing me off.
The third time a lady answered, but that wasn't the end of my problems. She insisted that the tickets had stated that "No Refunds Or Cancellations Allowed." and no matter what I said, she just stuck to giving me that reply. ooohhh just talking about it makes me sooo mad..

Its a Friday once more, & if there's one thing I've come to realise about school is that it makes your holidays more enjoyable.
Its like being stretched under all that stress and tension, and the holidays you're just released and relaxed. everyday of my holiday feels like a friday to me.
I can go home and pick up the remote & happily watch tv till late at night, I have no late sleep-in due to work but it doesn't matter!
Going to work is just clearing things for that day and then going home worry-free & being able to enjoy the rest of the night off!
During the school term, you have to worry about upcoming quizzes, presentations, readings (TONS AND TONS OF THEM), essays, homework... urk... :(

I have a long long but exciting day tomorrow!
The family day @ baby's camp tomorrow first thing in the morning, then afternoon we have a date with RWS, val's birthday & she's got a rooom there! <3
Later that night is Rocky Horror Show & after that its back to RWS again.
I can't wait to use the swimming pool there!! The last time we went it was still closed as it wasn't finished yet.
I just adore that place, seems like we're not in Singapore at all, yeah, in a way i guess.
See, that's why i have such high hopes of USS!!

My room's undergone this mini renovation over the holidays. I said mini because we've just done additions to it. Now we have a dressing table! Ah FINALLY!
New chest of drawers which is still so new it still smells of Ikea.
Brand new lights around the room with fluorescent bulbs that gives it that warm feel, it looks even better when the light blends right in with my wall colour. I knew we could never go wrong with choose yellow! :D
I've packed my room as well, i have too many things, I need more space to put em.
My dad said i got this from my mom which i never noticed before.
No wonder our house is full of stuff from every single holiday we've been on.
Its genes man, I'm a hogger, but proud of it! :D


When is the Rainforest Cafe going to re-open in Singapore?

jolly ol' christmas & a brand new year2011!

whoo lots of backlog pictures because something's wrong with my camera's battery, it wouldn't charge & my camera needs to be turned on for me to upload my pictures on my com.
sooo its been a great christmas! great food, great presents, holidays- couldn't ask for anything more!
Dinner on 24th dec was @ Earle Swensens T3, a different choice from the normal Swensens restaurant. The menu's pretty much the same except they include a buffet salad bar which really served up a real good variety!
had to wait real long for it though, 45 mins wait! :((
I prefer it to the normal Swensens, this one's great!
Picked a different choice rather than my usual fish&chips, & the must-have sticky chewy chocolate to top it all off nicely!








25th Dec was another xmas meal with baby's family @ Parkroyal Hotel!
brings back great memories!



and after an exhausting yet rewarding night of cycling, we fought off spider webs, long stretches of ominous dark paths, abandoned spooky areas, and yet amidst that, i learnt how to appreciate the beauty within these situations, like finding a nice toilet @ the NSRCC, taking a short nap @ the food centre, lying down on the cold sand waiting for the sunrise, awaiting breakfast!!
oh the simple joys in life! :)














Finally waited for sunrise @ 8.30am,
just a tiny blob in the sky, nothing like you see in the movies, bah!

style & nicole both fell asleep & had it not been my eagerness to see the sunrise, i would have fallen asleep right there! with the sound of waves crashing against the shore, windy breeze and the cold sand to lay upon, ahhh such peace! :)


still, i knocked out the whole day, it was just a series of deep sleep, then waking up and falling back asleep again.
New year's dinner with the family @ casurina!
mom ordered a whole 8-course meal, we were soooo full!
started off with a cold plate, then a whole fish (which i did eat a teeeny little bit), soup wasn't that great, but chili crab was loves! no, i'm not into the crab, just crazy over the sauce!
its a great year end but a fab year ahead!
Hello 2011!

Started work & will be working all the way till school starts again, & once school starts,
its a week till chinese new year so my holidays actually feel like its more than just a month! :)
Had tickets for universal studios on the 22nd but things screwed up real bad, pissed me off so badly & i do hope everything's gonna turn out fine or i'm gonna have another fit about this whole thing. Date changed to 29th jan, the week that school starts! :(

Rocky horror show this Saturday! Blew my entire savings on 4 tickets but i'm positive that its gonna be GREAT!
Heard about the dressing up & stuff but i'm just gonna be looking at how others dress.
Its Singapore after all, don't think the audience are gonna be that keen on dressing up too. well, we shall see.

Dinner tonight was great, mom went the extra mile! :)
she's been cooking a lot often & i do miss home-cooked food a lot!



Baby's exhausted this week, must be hell at camp. :(
He got himself a new organiser & is so into it! :)
i always like an organised person! :D


another day at work tomorrow!
off to bed!