Dear all, click on the following link to get skincare sample from Estee Lauder.
http://www.thelittlebrownbottle.com.my/edm/evoucher.php
Directions:
1. Fill in your name, mobile phone & email address
2. Print e-voucher.
3. Bring it to any Estee Lauder Counter, and here u receive 2-piece “Advanced Night Repair” samples.
These is what I’ve redeemed:
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
Day 5 - CITYHALL & RAFFLES PLACE AREA (CON’T)
Just about the depart from my cousin’s residence, there’s a small market, shops, mcD, kindergarten, clinic just within short walking distance. It’s really a nice place to stay..
We got all our camera batteries fully charged today .. Hehe ..
Breakfast at Bread Story again, why?! It’s the nearest eating place from cityhall MRT station.
Singapore National Library
Library Cafe
Mint Museum of Toys
Entrance fees S$15 each (Visit Singapore 2009 Promotion, Malaysia tourist can pay using Ringgit Malaysia RM15. We are having hard time searching for this museum, although there’s signage along the road. Why? It’s due to the appearance of this museum, it’s located in the middle of shophouses. We did not expect it to be there..
We view from top floor.
Match boxes vehicles
@ Mint Museum Cafe
We’ve got a meal voucher of S$5
The interior of the Museum Cafe, nice huh?
Street Sight Seeing
Singapore Flag
We can see the Singapore Flyer from quite a distance away.
There’s people taking wedding photos here.. Snapshoot on the antique look building here ..
The Esplanade
The Esplanade is an indoor stadium/teather whether people enjoy concert/orchestra here. I’ve heard abt a few nicknames given to The Esplanade, for example: Singapore Durian, Flies’ Eyes
This make me recall about buying burger at “NONAME” burger stall in Senadin, Miri.
Arrived at the esplanade.
Marina Square
Sight-seeing bus
looking at Singapore Flyer from a distance away
Walking towards Singapore Flyer
As we walked along the street, this is what we saw. I guess this one should be either spare parts or under maintenance
After walking for a while, we reached the flyer.. Guess what, three of us had reached the Singapore Flyer on foot, walking from Cityhall MRT station .. That’s really quite far away ..
Yeah.. ready to go up there … Really excited!!
There’s promotion for Malaysian Tourist too at that time, we only have to pay RM29 for each of us. Really fortunate ya?
Here we come …
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
Day 4 - CITYHALL & RAFFLES PLACE AREA
Sticking to our schedule, we went sight-seeing for area within walking distance around Cityhall and Raffles Place.
Bread Story is just directly across the street from the MRT station.
CHIJMES CHURCH
It was quite a hot day. I discovered that i’m becoming much darker by the time i came back from the vacation, even though 3 of us had consumed one whole tube of sun-block lotion within that week.
Nice church isn’t it?
Half way through the walk at citihall area, our DSLR camera runs out of battery. Our initial plan was to take a ride on The Singapore Flyer, but how can we go there without taking pictures???? We decided to prospone the ride, hence all of us agreed to change our schedule and spend the rest of the day SHOPPING !!! Not bad also .. right?
We spent the rest of the day shopping at VIVOCITY again …
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
Day 3 - SENTOSA ISLAND
It’s sunny day today, as planned, we went to Sentosa. There’s a special promotion for the Cable car ride only for malaysian tourist, we can pay the same figure as stated in the price list using RM. That means we only have to pay less than half price.
The ship at the botton of the picture, that’s the famous Virgo Cruise. That’s the common pick-up point for passenger i guess, at Habour Front.
Arrival point
We also meet up with my Uni-mate Milton & his girlfriend (Jacqueline), KJ’s youngest brother (Tian) & his girlfriend (June).
Meet-up point> Coffee Bean
Me & Jacqueline
UNDERWATER WORLD (Entrance Fees - SGD22.90 per head)
Visitors can feed and touch the sting rays here.
Wow … look at this giant octopus …
Underwater Tunnel
Select souvenirs for family & friends.
I like this soft little jellyfish plushie, dear dear bought it for me .. hehe .. thankz darling!!
DOLPHIN SHOW
Free entrance to watch dolphin show with purchase of ticket for underwater world.
LUGE & SKYRIDE
After all this visit and games at sentosa, it’s around evening time already. We took the cable car return ride back to harbour front. After having our dinner at harbour front shopping centre, we also went to Vivocity which is just adjacent to harbour front mall.
Roof Floor @ Vivocity
While i was surfing others’ blog article, i came across these information about the active ingredients for sun screen liquid/lotion.
Not all the ingredients can protect us from both UVA and UVB. In order to get fairer & younger skin, make sure to check on these ingredients before you buy any of the sun screen products.
(Reference: http://www.vivawoman.net/2009/08/17/effective-active-ingredients-in-a-sunscreen/)
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
Day 2
According to our schedule, we are suppose to go to Sentosa that particular day. After we done applying sun block lotions and fully dressed-up in our beach wear, the sky started to pour down rain water … >_Orchard Road area.
By the time we walked out of the MRT station at Orchard, the sun is smiling brightly at us already… +_+”
We went into Wisma Atria, after a short walk we found ourselves standing in front of Food Republic. We took our ‘Brunch’ there. Quite a nice looking food court.
Dear Dear ordered food.
Walking through the mall, we found that there’s nothing much suit our taste. The clothes style there looks closer to foreigner’s style, might looks a bit odd for us asian to wear. We decided not to waste our time there.
Observing the ladies in singapore, most of them like to wear hot-pants. Due to hot weather? But I think it’s also quite trendy in kuching lately.
Ngee Ann City
I’ve no idea whether i’m still in ngee an city or Takashimaya now. Since these 2 mall is just side-by-side, with a side entrance interconnecting to each other. I think that’s the reason why my cousin couldn’t find us due to i gave her wrong info .. Opss.. sorry sis!
Louis Vuitton Outlet - Look! Lotsa people queueing up to buy????
In Kuching, fake LV is extremely common here. You can see a lot of people riding an old motorbike but carrying a handbag with LV logo. From the material and colour tone, we can see that it’s not real, maybe a grade B/C fake LV.
However, I noticed that LV Bag are so common in singapore. I went into one of the outlet, i saw so many ladies holding a real LV.. but still seeking for the latest model in that outlet. Business seems good there huh? I’ve never encounter any case that queueing up is necessary for any of the KL Outlet. For most of the case, the outlet is near empty.
I guess the main reason why real branded stuffs are common in singapore is due to the currency. For example, buying a LV neverfull handbag in KL, we need to pay at least RM2000+ , this is almost/at least one month salary for most of the people here. However in singapore, it’s only selling at few hundred dollar SGD in singapore due to currency exchange. For somebody earning SGD2000-3000 a month, buying a bag that worth a few hundred SGD is so much easier than those who earn RM. Therefore, it’s no surprise if u see singapore ladies own a few LV bags as collection.
We had some snack at bottom floor in Takashimaya, and then we moved on to Paragon. After that we entered a small shopping centre, i forgot the name of that shopping centre .. “Lucky Plaza” or something .. i can’t recall .. and i bought this … Yukata for SGD 16.
Dinner at the same shopping centre:
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
(Cont’d)
Next, we went to Bugis Area … By the time we reach Bugis, it’s around evening time already..
At Bugis Junction.
Bugis Street
Hehe .. we ate this for dinner .. That night we had our supper back at Bugis Junction - KFC. Feel like KFC at Singapore is less tasty comparing to M’sia ..
After the walk at Bugis Street, the sky is already dark. We proceed to a nearby street, where there’s lots of the bargain stalls. Then we saw this big statue of ChengHo holding Chinese dumplings. That time during our visit, it’s quite near to the Chinese Dumpling Festival / Dragon Boat Festival(端午节).
In the middle of the street, there’s a smaller shopping mall selling mainly all sorts of feng shui items & crystals. This is what we saw:
For display only.
The shops and stalls near the entrance sell at quite expensive price. I suggested that we shop from the top floor, and slowly move downwards. Since i know top floor is always the cheapest.
I’m quite right at this, hehe .. we found a shop up there which is selling crystals at a very good price. At least much cheaper than those i can get in kuching or through mail order from KL. All of us purchase some crystals display items at that shop. Hehe ..
By the time we done our shopping at crystal shop, wow .. it’s 10pm already .. We non-stop walking for the whole day already. Time to go back lo …
Date: 28 May 2009 - 3 June 2009
Venue: Singapore
Objective: Gawai Vacation
People: Me, KJ & Mom + Cousins & Friends
Day 1 (28/5/2009)
After all those planning & survey we had done over these few months, finally this is the day of our actual departure. Yesss!!!! So excited!
My passport 
This is the first time i went on-board to an international flight. I’ve to fill in this form …
Actually this is the 2nd attempt visiting outside m’sia. The first visit was to Brunei more than 5 years back then. That time i was still pursuing my first year degree course at Miri. I travelled to Brunei with a gang to hostel friends, we travelled by land transport. 3-hours ride to Bandar Sri Begawan.
I’ve only manage to get a stamp on my first passport, and this time i’ve got another first stamp on my new passport … I feel like i was wasting money for the first passport, for not travel more…
Arrival at Changi Airport, Singapore.
Health scan due to A(H1N1) virus …
Me and mom meet up with kj at the arrival hall, then we took a cab to my cousin’s house. We went for supper at a nearby cafe, and that’s all for the day since it’s quite late already after our meal.
Day 1 (28/5/2009)
1. Little India
LRT station @ Kangkar
Public Transportation: MRT, LRT and buses sytems at singapore uses the same Ezlink card.
KJ’s & my mom borrowed the Ezlink card from my cousin, while i borrow Catherine’s (My bro’s gf) card. She went for short dance course at Singapore and just came back the day we departed. She proposed to lend me the card, she is quite nice huh? hehe ..
Reached Little India.
I wonder what’s the meaning of these zig-zag yellow line???? I saw a lot of these lines at singapore, but it doesn’t appear at any of the road in m’sia.
“ABC Cheapest Store in Singapore”
Next is one of the famous temple at Little India - Sri Veeramakaliamann Temple. Coincidently, there’s some ceremony at the temple, so we had the chance to watch it.
These is unique and colourful, isn’t it?
2. China Town
After a whole morning walk at Little India, we started to feel hungry. I seems to us that the food at little india might not suit our appetite best. So, we decided to return to the MRT station for a ride to Chinatown which is only one station away, if not mistaken.
Look at the MRT station… haha … looks like Phua Chu Kang is really a great idol at singapore, I can almost see his potrait everywhere in singapore. I admit that he does make the MRT station more lively in his humourous accent & trademark yellow contruction boots.
And here we arrived at Chinatown.
Cactus Drink ?! Anyone ever tried that???? I wonder how does it taste like? I should have tried that la … haha …
Famous Temple - 佛牙寺
This famous temple is just located at one end of chinatown street, again we noticed that there’s some special event going on there. What a coincidence!
Before i manage to step inside the temple main hall, i saw a big notice. Whoever wearing sleeveless top, short pants, mini skirt (above knee length) are prohibited from entering. From the earlier photo, u guys can see that i was wear hot pants at that time. What’s the solution then???? There’s some scarf / fabric provided at the main entrace, we can borrow them free-of-charge.
Once i stepped inside, my eyes were caught by a shining glittering gold colour … wow … Even the lamp fittings are so unique & grand, also gold in colour.
This is the most luxury buddist temple i had ever seen.
Next, we went upstairs. we decided to visit starting from the roof floor.
a. Roof Floor - Orchid Garden
b. 4th Floor
This floor has a big prayer room, inside there’s another room with wide glass windows. Inside there’s extremely luxurious design made of pure gold. We were told that photo shooting is prohibited since there’s pure gold inside, it might be due to our flash light can cause oxidation to the gold element.
We donated angpow, and the monk said some prayer to each of us whom had donated.
c. 3rd Floor - 展览馆
This exhibition hall is mainly about Buddha’s life story.
d. 2nd Floor - 展览馆
Small model of the temple displayed at the entrance of exhibition hall.
This place looks nice right? The fact is, the atmosphere there is quite good. The centralise air-con make us feel so comfy.
Walk for few hours already, better sit down for a while & get some drinks. They also selling some tip-bits and bottled drinks. Not bad huh? After relaxing our feet for a while, we decided to move on to the next destination.
Walking on the street along china town, before reaching the nearest MRT station, this is what we saw:
Chinese herbal drug store. Guess what we saw??? Deng! Deng! Deng !!!
+_+” Yucks ….
Lin Tze ..
Dried Sea Horse ?!!
Art Muzium
We did not pay a visit to the Art Muzium, main reason is due to we do not want to spend too much money on entrance fees.
After a short walk, we reached tanjong pagar MRT station.
Stall selling beauty/slimming item introduced by “女人我最大” famous astro show.
Dear dear found that he had lost the MRT Ezlink card, he bought another one from the counter.
I’m off from work for 3 working days + (4 days Public holiday & weekend) , for a vacation to Singapore, staying at my cousin’s cozy apartment. It’s really a nice trip, it was enjoyable and I’ve took lots of photo. I’ll blog about it after I organise all those photos. I did not shop that much, comparing to the mega sale in KL. Surprisingly I do not need to use the extra foldable luggage bag that my dear dear prepared for me. Although we were there just in time for The Great Singapore Sale, everything is still somewhat expensive after multiply by 2.4 (Currency exchange). Still, I’ve manage to grab a few items at reasonable price ..
I’ve returned to my office this morning, my pigeon hole is fulled up with lotsa un-processed documents as expected. Also lotsa telephone calls from client’s office, contractors, from those who are unable to reach me over the week .. It was really a busy & stressful day .. Same thing happened to my dear dear…
Joke quoted from one of KJ’s senior, “If someone is away from work for the whole week, but the workdesk is still empty, isn’t that even more unusual? Be prepared to pack up your belongings, if this really happen… ” Which is really true, isn’t it? We should be delightful, since this showed that the company still need us, aren’t we?
Think this way, and be happy .. =P
Cheers.
My office has a culture of giving away souvenir, if case anyone from our department came back from a vacation.
Early this month, one of my senior (Victoria) went to Liverpool for holiday. This is what she brought back for us. One for each of us.
Candy Bar:
So, what’s so special about this candy bar?
If u chop the candy into pieces, u can see the word “LIVERPOOL” inside ..
Of coz i’ll need to buy some souvenir for my colleagues when i go to Singapore end of the month… Any suggestion?
