2010 Asia backpaking

Marina Bay Sands – The night Sky Park ← previous post

Last day, the 4th day in Singapore  .. I’m taking ages to blog just on Singapore..

Waking up and making up on the bed  

There’s a street with pretty shop-houses along the river at Boat Quay~
 

Waiting for lunch 

Had lassi while waiting..
When one having a lassi drink, you should know what we are going to have for lunch 

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NAN~

Curry 

And CURRY~

I forgot what curry though..

Curry at Maharajahan Indian restaurant at Boat Quay~

The boss of Maharajah  He has the look of a boss~ He was great 

Two lovey-dovey pigeons at Boat Quay.

Just happened to be there to snap this 

Panorama Boat Quay~

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This is my last post for Singapore on this trip.

2 days at Geylang, a nostalgia place which I enjoyed quite much though this place not too popular among my friends . All budget hotels gathered around Geylang 

Then, we had Megazip at Sentosa Island. That was great~ All the way from the mountain to the ocean 

Stayed 1 night at Marina Bay Sands hotel (the main purpose on this trip), mostly just for it’s infinity pool → the sky pool 
Had a romantic night  too at the sky park 

Marina Bay Sands – SkyPark, SkyPool !! ← last post

After experiencing swimming on top of the world at the sky pool, we went back to our kingly spacious room, took a shower and a bubbly bath, and changed

for dinner~ 

Snap-shots before dinner

Great night view of a lightened up city 

Dinner-time at Rise restaurant, an all day dining buffet style restaurant. 

SG$68 per person .. I don’t know whether it is a lil’ bit pricey for what it has or it is actually quite reasonable in a hotel like this.. 

The Sushi-plate  + 

The Chinese-plate  and Cheese Salad plate 

The serious-face eating all the plates~ 

After dinner, we then back to the top at the sky park breezy break~ 

The quiet sky pool at night  the pool is not opened at night though..

I forgot to bring my shoes to match the dress on this trip..
Sneaker x night dress   how is it  

Working seriously as a video-cam man the whole trip~

Our *dokodemo two-shot  

at Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Sky Park

*dokodemo = everywhere

 

My private videocam-man~

At last, the infinity panoramic city view Sky Pool  

This is one of where we wanted to experience after seeing some promotion articles from Marina Bay Sands hotel   though my passion was mostly for it’s sky park pool~ 

How fascinating~

As if, a piece of heaven looking upon the world 

My first experience in a pool on top of a city 

 

Was trying to take some pics on high shuttle speed..

Splassssh~

I love the ocean, love the nature, but sometimes a pool up above on a city could be very exciting 

As the sun goes down, the city started to light up 
Love the gradation of the sky 

As if there were no other people in the pool except he & she  How romantic 
in real, do expect loads more people..

As if, swimming on a cloud..

..2 guys.. sorry..no girls were around..haha

Have a look at the edge of the pool

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When you see the fact that it is fully concreted, just can’t help to feel a lil’ bit of disappointment.. though it is expected 

See post Marina Bay Sands Hotel room – Horizon Deluxe King 

Day 3 of Singapore ..my updates are so slow.. 

Anyway, in day 3 we transfered to Marina Bay Sands Hotel, which actually our main reason this time to Singapore  – for it’s infinity panoramic city view sky pool 

This hotel is known as a 5 stars hotel  

and I expected a more welcoming reception and a more luxurious lobby 

Never expected that a new, big known hotel lobby could be like a shopping mall full of people standing around talking loudly with no lounge or sofas visible for a rest.. the atmosphere here is just not so right for what to be expected..

A lil’ bit of disappointment here..

Anyhow, I was very much more expecting a great time at the pool though

Once we stepped in to our room, I can’t believe that I spent quarter of the day just wow-ing and camwhoring around the room..  

A whole piece of mirror on the wall – an impact once we stepped in

The room is huuuuuge 
Marina Bay Sands Hotel – Horizon Deluxe King (city view) room for a night 

The sea view might be great, but in Singapore, the city view could be more magnificent  especially the night view 

Love the big window  

Lots of mirrors – best when you have nobody to take pics for you 

 

 The room is really huge

The bathroom area is huge too

Glass partition shower room 

The bathtub is adorable 

Love cute bathtub  especially the retro one 

And, here’s my video camera-man and the video camera-man always 

 

Quarter of a day, we spent it on cam and vid-cam whoring just in the room 

Halo~

I’m lagging in updating my trip blog..  and my YouTube Halo~ Konnichiwa trip-log is going to Cambodia next..  ..so much left behind here.. 

Anyway, we were in Singapore. – the first place in our trip schedule.

See Day 1 in Singapore 

Day 2, we went to Sentosa Island for a walk with my friend, Brenda 

My school-mate since primary~ 

Sentosa Island is a man-made island with a man-made beach, a very happening beach with all sort of activities 

Nice place to have fun in Singapore. But for me, everything was quite pricey.. 

At least, we tried ONE of all activities 

The MEGAZIP 

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Not cheap but not bad. It was SGD$29.00 / ride.

Second or more ride after that will be SGD$20.00 / ride.

Megazip official website

And so, we are up  

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Yeah, a lil’ bit scary seeing from on top.. 

And, here we go

So fast, so high up, so thrilling, so scary at the starting  

I hold the rope so hard that I didn’t get to take any snaps on top… 

And I snap , snap , snap , snap , snap  so much when the speed started to slow down at the bottom after all the trees~~

 Snap this 

for this 

 Snap this 

for this

Megazip was fun~

I love the part when flying through the forest~ 

The Halo~ Konnichiwa video of Megazip  

I’m in love 

 (my photoshop-ed land)

We were actually viewing some pictures from my camera..  but I kinda love this shot  

Us 3 in Sentosa Island 

 Watch more of Halo~ Konnichiwa HD – my backpacking trip videos to here and there 

I lied..
I said I’ll be updating my trip on my blog xxx days? ago and I didn’t..

 

Sorry..and I hate it too when I’m being lazy..

 at least I made new video very often now on YouTube! 

Anyway, I’m gonna blog on my lil’ trip around Asia


 I’m sharing tips of backpacking and for those who loves travelling! 

I’ve moved my whole house from Tokyo to Hokkaido! I had my last few days at my old house in Tokyo trying to clean and pack everything and send everything to Hokkaido home~

We had to depart straight to Malaysia from Tokyo after the house-moving..
Didn’t really had time to really really organized my trip to the MAX, but I did make a lot of research and planned my schedule for a BackPack 

My planned schedule 2 months before we depart 


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All prices in that schedule are for two unless it was written there for one!!

And so we departed on the 6th of October 2010 from Narita (Tokyo) to KLIA (Kuala Lumpur), 3 of us, Mami, Yapi, and me 

There’re various ways to Narita from Tokyo and this time we took the New Skyliner which we have not been on one before! 

 

Only
36 mins

 – it has always been an hour to Narita 

The New Skyliner now is,

 More spacious!

 Well-designed!

 Faster!

SKYLINER
Official website: 

http://www.keisei.co.jp/keisei/tetudou/skylner/us/skyliner.html

At the vending machine corner inside Skyliner 

Yeah, I went to a few places in Malaysia but I guess I wanna keep Malaysia as my last one to blog 

So on the 22 October, we took 5hours in a bus instead of 45mins in a plane from Malaysia to Singapore..

The reason is, coz the bus is way more cheaper

 and the bus was great compare to any of the budget flights!

AEROLINE
bus, is comfortable with big seats, lounge in the bus with big TV, yummy lunch is served, and the service captain was really PRO and polite 

Price
RM90
(from Bandar Utama, Malaysia → Harbour Front, Singapore)
RM70
(back to Malaysia!)

Not a waste of time at all even if took 5 hours all the way to Singapore! Experiencing the journey is one of an excitement too! 

AEROLINE
Official website: 

https://www.aeroline.com.my/

Video on my journey with
AEROLINE
 

     

    

Click YouTube and watch it there for bigger size!! 




This bus series a lil’ bit boring.. but yeah, just get an idea how does the bus looks like!! 

And so, we arrived!

Basically, I haven’t been to Singapore since I was a kid and I didn’t really know how it works in Singapore..

When I first arrived in Singapore 

We arrived at Harbour Front and I didn’t know whether I should take a cab or the subway to my hotel..

Just walked around, to the mall, up and down, till we saw a MRT station in the mall!! 

I know I need to go to Aljunied Station

 where my hotel is 

A sign at the MRT station reminding parents that their kids are now old enough that you have to PAY!! 

It takes only 10mins ~ 15mins from Harbour Front to Aljunied station 

In Aljunied, again we have to look at the map to search for the hotel..

 
A hotel 20mins away from the station.. and we’ve walked for an hour (or more!!) to reach

 

On the way, we walked pass all these old shops 


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I always have an image that Singapore is a big city with modern buildings everywhere 

But when I first arrived here, I was impressed 

I love old retro stuffs, love the atmosphere, and the feel of nostalgia
 

I’m glad that I chose this place to stay for the first 2 days in Singapore! 

By the way, this place is called
Geylang
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Geylang
is an old town of Singapore, a town which is kept as it has been since the past 20 years.
It is not a place pretty much straightened-up. Quite a lot of snack bars (prostitution) around
Geylang
as well. Girls walking alone in Geylang, be descent or you will be the target of hunger-for-sex uncles on the street! 

 

 
Geylang
is also a place where all the budget hotels are gathered!!! 

Fragrance Hotel 
Ruby

First 2 days, we stayed in this hotel and it was cheap!

Twin Room –
SGD$65 / night
 

              Room was moderately clean

          Space quite small..but it was ok 






      Love the location


 to see a more cultural side of Singapore. 



          Staffs were fairly good!

          Wifi is not free!!

Geylang
main street traffics in the evening. 


 


 

Hazy sun shines softly and pretty 

It was so hazy when we were there caused by the fire in the forest from Indonesia..