Postponed Entry: September Singapore - One Fullerton

Salam peeps. :) so today i'm gonna continue writing on my trip to the South.. yang Istanbul pun ndak habis lagi sudah terhegeh-hegeh update yang ni. hehe ilek la.. tu lagi banyak. ada 4 lagi kalau ndak silap. hehe.. mood Selatan ndak habis lagi nii.. :p

14th September, Saturday. 

as i mentioned in my last entry, we stayed at Kawan Hostel near Dunlop Street, Little India. Hoihh. memang femes la Little India kan.. mana-mana pun ada. KK ada Little Italy jak. hehe. nanti la sia bikin Little Bajau pulak. eh..  this place memang fine, i think it will be much safer if you have guy friends travelling along. We took the room for four, and they have washroom inside, which is very fine to me. Unlike the Pujangga Homestay in Bukit Bintang, we ought to share the washroom outside. very dangerous ohh. 

penat macam mana pun, i still couldn't sleep that night. macam itu ayam seja punya tidur. woke up almost every hour. very tired, sleepy and had to bear the big burden at my back and neck.

So that morning around 830am, we checked out and made our way to the famous Merlion Park, or One Fullerton.  

So our room berdepan with this mosque. nearby is the Sin Lin Square (gadget heaven). ada la kedai melayu tapi naa. bulum bukak. apakah semua ini. mamak? me and kibby ada slowwww sikit when come to mamak. sanggup la berlapar. mamak would be the last choice for us.

our room is next to the pantry. so you can see, they do provide brekkie. picky person like me would say, hehe.. its ok.. i'll just have my ice cream for brekkie.

hehe. this is the one! sorry it's not assorted berry pulak. the name is Temptation. Sedap la. apa ndak sedap kalau tengah lapar kan? yaa. sia hantu brekkie. kalau ndak brekkie dengarkan la sia bising-bising kelaparan. hehe tengok tempat la. if menumpang rumah orang ndak kan mo bising-bising kan. terus kenyanggg memanjang :D

ish ish ish. anak sepa la ni makan ice cream sambil berjalan.. ni la brekkie sia and kibby that day.. damit seja.. mo get out from that Dunlop Street and cari cab untuk pg tu Merlion Park. ala. Merlion ka.. Marina ka.. sama jak.. i think la. because at the end, you get to see everything at the same place. dari jauh la. :p

so took a cab and headed to Merlion Park or One Fullerton. ya, sia makan tu ice cream dalam cab. that very kind uncle seems like able to read me, a morning brekkie person. thanks uncle. before we got down, i asked him how to get our bus back to JB. he said just go to Victoria Suite.. i was thinking.. SUITE??????? apa-apa la.. yang penting Victoria, and not Victoria Secret.

tadaa. we're here.. you can see many people jog around, and there were many tourists too. mainly from Indon, China.. and not forgetting Sarawakian.. cakap Iban doe. sapa ndak cam. 

Ada Maybank punya tower and also Fullerton Hotel just opposite here.

i finally reached here. hehe. syiok tengok dari gambar orang seja. mimpi jadi kenyataan. Thanks Kibbbby :) I really am a lucky little brat!

spot me?

tia nampak baju USS sia a. tutup sama tudung. ya. kibby and kak airin mo boria pakai baju USS.

Itu yang bumbung rupa macam steel strainer tu is Esplanade

i don't know what is the name of the building behind that but it's a casino. nice architecture and design, isn't it?

beautiful sunny day :)

that is Marina Bay

Model Marina Bay

sia.. model Esplanade la. asi ndak? kekeke

yours truly.. terlampau haus ni. :D

ni lagi.. siap sambut mo minum. shian kami. :p

dap big? hehe.. ni la akibat terlampau panas sana. bukan lagi sunny. panas terik seh..

so after puas-puas gambar here. we walked along this alley.. there's a Starbucks nearby, and there's also a souvenir shop. we went in since the kakaks wanted to buy things for their colleagues.

ramai manusia here..

after the souvenir shop, we just walked following the crowds without knowing where it would take us to. because we didn't see any cabs coming in.. you can see this too. macam mo naik tapi, kesuntukan masa..

hee.. rupanya sudah di seberang aa.. bagus la. really utilizing their facilities. they knew pedestrians dislike sky-bridge, so they made underpass. 

tunggu sini mo sejam. ada orang ndak mo jalan and hoping there will be cabs coming in. apparently not. one question i dislike the most when we are out to other cities is; "ada apa sana tu..?"

HELLO. this is OUR FIRST TIME AND DEFINITELY MY FIRST TIME AS WELL. my sister knows me very well that even she never asked me that question. we really hate people asking us like that as if we knew the whole town. suruh jalan lebih sikit sudah aci aco. i know la your not that fit. your reluctant really gave me hard time.. after waiting like nincompoops, (hehehe jht mmoi) we walked a little bit. luckily there was a bus stop nearby..

haa. ni la bus stop Esplanade. nampak tu Esplanade depan tu? tapi sayangnya, teda cab yang mo berhenti here. Bus ada tapi we don't know where it's gonna take us. i hailed the cabs like crazy and still no one coming. then we came to the conclusion that taxi won't stop here because there's only a signboard of bus and not cab. so me and kibby decided to walked through the underpass. pedulik la kalau tu orang tia mo. daripada tunggu macam tu. jalan la!

syukur alhamdulillah. that underpass took us to one shopping mall. i think it's Esplanade also la. not sure the name. they have many food outlets but more to serving desserts and light eating. the proper restaurants were still not open yet. kibby walked up the stairs and then realized there was another mall opposite. so we ended up having our brunch there, at the very small restaurant near the entrance. ndak fikir sudah mo masuk dalam ka apa because eyes already fixed on the menu here.

ni la our brunch. kibby and kak airin had nasi lemak and i had meehoon laksa. the taste so so la. like i said, when lapar suma pun sedap kan. licin ai makan tauk. kehkehkeh. yala, all these costs $20. makan jah.

lepas kenyang mam. baru masuk dalam ni mall untuk cari cab. ya Allah. tu la ndak survey betul-betul. lagi banyak outlet dalam ni gingg. tapi what to do la. hahahaha..so dalam ni cari la tanda yang navigate pg taxi stand. haa.. yala.. mana-mana la amazing race nya. bawah tu memang banyak kedai makan. so next time, sila tawaf dulu yaa..

got into the cab with an unfriendly singh uncle. kerek gils beliau. macam very reluctant tapi hello. we are paying you la uncle. I said Victoria Suite (following the chinese uncle punya pronunciation). nasib tu uncle memang faham la. dalam hati ni. betul ka a Victoria Suite? kaaa Victoria Street??? 

ok.. memang betul.. it's VICTORIA STREET. !@#$%^&*.. whatever la. selamat sampai pun dengan tambang almost $20... sampai-sampai jak Victoria St tu, cepat-cepat la beli tiket bas pg Larkin since ada bus tu mo jalan sudah. Bus dia ala-ala bus express yaa.. tambang $7.++ uhu.. dari JB pg Woodland RM1-RM2.. ini time balik pulak mahaiiii.. kehkehkeh..redho jak. that's the price.

so dari Victoria St to Woodland Checkpoint memang quite a distant jugak la, no wonder a bit pricey. then, stopped by the checkpoint and settle the immigration clearance. this time you have to return them the form you filled in when you came in. so adalah penting not to misplace that form ok!

hoh.. yang time dari checkpoint ni laaa bikin panas. seriusss panas. yala, supposed to queue back to get the same bus to take us back to Larkin kan. tapi that time i don't know what's going on. queue panjang gilaakkk and people started to cut queues. asal yang buruk jak bagi Malaysia and yang strict jak time masuk Singapore. mana boleh begitu... so kami yang dengan batu di bahu ni bersesak jak la. queue mana yang patut. and sudah gabra sikit because? we paid for the tickets to Larkin tapi queue untuk pg CIQ. i mean, ndak da valid ticket for that bus. haha. pedulik la. yang pinting was to get out from there. turun mana belakang cerita.



finally reached CIQ... jadi without hesitation pun moh la kita turun. dia ndak check pun sebab tu bas macam sardinas makarel. uhu.. biarla ndak turun Larkin pun..


*so overall, belum puas ronda and tawaf Singapore lagi la. some cool streets like Geylang, Bugis Street and many more places belum sempat pg. InsyaAllah next time la. mo kumpul pitih luuuu. haha.. this time mo pastikan Mr SQE ada jadi ndak gila rndu sebab ndak dapat msg. :p


oho. sudah balik dari the so called overseas. tapau apa yang patut and get a cab untuk balik hotel. our third hotel that time was, JB City Hotel, Skudai Kiri rasanya.. rasanya la.. :D ada nampak bangunan hotel warna kuninn tu dia la tu.. kehkehkeh.. dia dekat sama tu Honda punya service center? i think so. sebab that day Mr SQE pernah tanya if area sana ada kedai makan ka ndak. hotel ni okla.. besar gilak. bawak 1 rombongan pun ndak pa. cuma yang ndak berkenan was the tingkap. tingkap toilet lagi ngeri sebab tutup sama poster aa.. and our room berdepan sama bangunan apa ntah. ada la manusia. memang kena sopan santun dalam tu or else kena skodeng memanjangg.... pakcik cab yang bawak ktorg tu memangg la friendly. tersangat-sangat. and this time giliran kibby yang chit chat. took his number just in case la kan..ni sebab senang untuk our next destinations...one thing lagi, dalam bilik tu memang low signal for digi. atukoi. Mr SQE text and call pun ndak dapat. nasib la dia ada no kibby.



so we slept. i think i slept the longest because i was tooo exhausted dengan sakit kepala and sakit leher dari pagi ndak ilang..


petang tu baru jumpa Mr SQE. dia datang hotel.. rindu dia Tuhan jak tauk. tho ada sikitt........ when i left for Singapore. sabar jak sebab memang rndu dia. ndak dapat text.. fb pun out. perasaan yang sadis. hurm.. supposed that night ada dinner date with his sister; Suya and her husband. tapi something came out last minute so we ought to cancel. thanks to Mr SQE jugak sebab took us to Bukit Indah, jumpa kak Zah and family..



i was really not in the mood that night. moody and sakit kepala. kesian Mr SQE ndak kena layan. *sorry sayang.. my bad :(*



kak zah insist mo bawak kibby pg Muar that night, harus kibby ndak mo kan. sakit jantung iols. last-last kak zah mengalah jugak because she really didn't know our plan to visit her in Muar. bayangkan that saturday itself dia pecut dari Muar untuk jumpa adik kesayanagan dia di JB. and kalau boleh malam tu jugak mo angkut kibby balik Muar. zzzzzz



kibby ada kuasa veto. haha. so lepas mam, amik TAL.. kak zah antar kibby balik hotel, whilst Mr SQE antar sia balik hotel. though ujung-ujung both same destination. privacy katanya.. :)



malam tu jugak la kak zah balik Muar.. (salute ni orang...)



*sorry for everything and thanks a lot sayang :)



cerita Muar? sambung pasni. time to ber-literature review :)