singapore part 3
tag, i'm it.
after suntec, walked to esplanade, the funny looking durian shape building. lotsa foreigners there... most of them just lepaking. i wonder which is worse... klcc / kotaraya or esplanade.
after that, walked to padang, checked out their funny court building, the parliament before heading to Fort Canning Park for a walk... then walked all the way from there to Orchard room... stopped by at Specialist Centre for Starbucks coffee.. hang out more around orchard road, then walked all the way to Borders' building, before heading to Hyatt hotel on Scotts Road. Did we stop our walk there?
nope... took the bus to Night Safari, did a lot more walks there before heading back home.
Night Safari... mmm... i love the place... it's bigger now... compared to my first visit there some 10 years ago. Our favourite animal ... the Tiger... so cute, big head and really really nice coat. it was sitting in a small pond quite happily when we reached there... we are about 1.5metres away from it... separated by a glass panel. we saw lots of animals that night.. how lucky we were as we found out that another friend did not enjoy her trip previously as all she got to see was some animal asses from a distance.
should go check out their zoo the next trip.
friday, didn't go to sentosa nor did we go to harbourfront to buy a knapsack for baby. ended up queing for almost 45 mins in a bank. ended up walking around Orchard Road area... around lunch time, it looked like it's goign to rain, so both of us decided to go check out the cinema instead. we watched this movie Saving Face... really hilarious... a banana-me would appreciate it more than others i supposed.
We had pasta for lunch.. yummy and very reasonably priced. uhm... Pasta Mania. had a set lunch for $6.95, which includes a bowl of pasta, some potato salad and a soft drink.
after the movies, we went across to the road and had Marche cheesy pork sausage and icecream. we walked more along orchard until our tummy and legs could not hold up any longer. there was some photo exhibition along Orchard Road from Borders upwards towards Hilton and pass it.
We decided not to have Burger King for dinner and couldn't think of anything decent to eat there. Jumped on a bus and off we go to Raffles Hotel / Chimes. i love the atmosphere at chimes... church background, lotsa food places (though it's expensive) and lotsa cun chicks.
decided we aren't blessed enough with a money tree growing at our backyard, head to raffles city for food hunting. there's not much to eat there except for this small cozy shop by the name of The Soup Spoon we had a big bowl of soup Russian Roulette set meal. comes with either sandwich or salad (we chose the salad... even that we have to choose between a potato salad, waldoff, greens, coleslaw... and even with the greens, have a few choices to choose.. and a few dressings) and together with either a dessert, snack or drink. sigh.. choices, choices choices. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THE SHOP NEXT ROUND! what's a russian roulette... i thought it's a gun fight game. anyway, it has lotsa big chunky beef, potato, celery, carrots and onions. very wholesome indeed. they even gave us a small bun and a chocolate bar to go with the meal. not bad for uhm... $11.
saturday, spent almost 2 hours doing hiking boots shopping (in 1 shop). baby and i now have 2 pairs of hiking boots. we are such big suckers.. ended up joining up as member, just so taht we get a Grissly knapsack, a Spalding indoor basketball, a Columbia water bottle, 3 pairs of white socks. we put baby's brother name down instead (so smart of us) so that he can use the 1 week free trial workout at Fitness First, a aromatheraphy session, a 2 hours wall climbing session and etc. sigh.. if only we are in singapore... i would be a member right away.
met up with sandra after that and had a lil nap before going to catch our bus. baby had to end up napping on the floor (sitting position) because sandra and i hog the rest of the bed.
baby's brother met us at the bus station and shouted us to thai food. i still can't take the green curry... sigh... (read all about my green curry story here).
So that's it folks, our trip to the land of the kiasu & kiasi. enjoy it.. wonder why i didn't go down there more often. oh... yeah.. i know... $1 = RM2.25 ain't helping.
after suntec, walked to esplanade, the funny looking durian shape building. lotsa foreigners there... most of them just lepaking. i wonder which is worse... klcc / kotaraya or esplanade.
after that, walked to padang, checked out their funny court building, the parliament before heading to Fort Canning Park for a walk... then walked all the way from there to Orchard room... stopped by at Specialist Centre for Starbucks coffee.. hang out more around orchard road, then walked all the way to Borders' building, before heading to Hyatt hotel on Scotts Road. Did we stop our walk there?
nope... took the bus to Night Safari, did a lot more walks there before heading back home.
Night Safari... mmm... i love the place... it's bigger now... compared to my first visit there some 10 years ago. Our favourite animal ... the Tiger... so cute, big head and really really nice coat. it was sitting in a small pond quite happily when we reached there... we are about 1.5metres away from it... separated by a glass panel. we saw lots of animals that night.. how lucky we were as we found out that another friend did not enjoy her trip previously as all she got to see was some animal asses from a distance.
should go check out their zoo the next trip.
friday, didn't go to sentosa nor did we go to harbourfront to buy a knapsack for baby. ended up queing for almost 45 mins in a bank. ended up walking around Orchard Road area... around lunch time, it looked like it's goign to rain, so both of us decided to go check out the cinema instead. we watched this movie Saving Face... really hilarious... a banana-me would appreciate it more than others i supposed.
We had pasta for lunch.. yummy and very reasonably priced. uhm... Pasta Mania. had a set lunch for $6.95, which includes a bowl of pasta, some potato salad and a soft drink.
after the movies, we went across to the road and had Marche cheesy pork sausage and icecream. we walked more along orchard until our tummy and legs could not hold up any longer. there was some photo exhibition along Orchard Road from Borders upwards towards Hilton and pass it.
We decided not to have Burger King for dinner and couldn't think of anything decent to eat there. Jumped on a bus and off we go to Raffles Hotel / Chimes. i love the atmosphere at chimes... church background, lotsa food places (though it's expensive) and lotsa cun chicks.
decided we aren't blessed enough with a money tree growing at our backyard, head to raffles city for food hunting. there's not much to eat there except for this small cozy shop by the name of The Soup Spoon we had a big bowl of soup Russian Roulette set meal. comes with either sandwich or salad (we chose the salad... even that we have to choose between a potato salad, waldoff, greens, coleslaw... and even with the greens, have a few choices to choose.. and a few dressings) and together with either a dessert, snack or drink. sigh.. choices, choices choices. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THE SHOP NEXT ROUND! what's a russian roulette... i thought it's a gun fight game. anyway, it has lotsa big chunky beef, potato, celery, carrots and onions. very wholesome indeed. they even gave us a small bun and a chocolate bar to go with the meal. not bad for uhm... $11.
saturday, spent almost 2 hours doing hiking boots shopping (in 1 shop). baby and i now have 2 pairs of hiking boots. we are such big suckers.. ended up joining up as member, just so taht we get a Grissly knapsack, a Spalding indoor basketball, a Columbia water bottle, 3 pairs of white socks. we put baby's brother name down instead (so smart of us) so that he can use the 1 week free trial workout at Fitness First, a aromatheraphy session, a 2 hours wall climbing session and etc. sigh.. if only we are in singapore... i would be a member right away.
met up with sandra after that and had a lil nap before going to catch our bus. baby had to end up napping on the floor (sitting position) because sandra and i hog the rest of the bed.
baby's brother met us at the bus station and shouted us to thai food. i still can't take the green curry... sigh... (read all about my green curry story here).
So that's it folks, our trip to the land of the kiasu & kiasi. enjoy it.. wonder why i didn't go down there more often. oh... yeah.. i know... $1 = RM2.25 ain't helping.
posted by Debz at
4:53 pm
3 Comments:
A bit of trivia - CHIJMES used to be a Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus girls' school. Hence the spelling and the very nice missionary setting.
By
Spot, at Friday, November 11, 2005 10:07:00 am
ooh... thanks ya... helps to know lil trivia like these occassionally... ppl might actually think i'm smart. :P
By
Debz, at Friday, November 11, 2005 10:12:00 am
you're welcome. my brain is full of useless trivia like that.
eh, btw, sorry about having to turn you guys down for the Spainish queen's dinner the other day. Too short notice, the food was themed specially for her tastes (so can't just bring a tapau) and literally, there was not enough space on the dinner table (being a proper sit down, change cutlery & plates type of dinner) for more than 5.
Another time lah ya?
By
Spot, at Friday, November 11, 2005 5:37:00 pm
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