The Great Escape @ Singapore...

What would you like to escape from when you are in Singapore?

There is this place called The Great Escape... basically it's a hidden place that you can escape from most of the PRC / MIC tourists in Singapore... you may be able to escape from crowd like Orchard or Marina Bay Sand. Hmmm... what else you can escape from... let's see~

It's actually located Golden Mile tower parking... so it over look the view of the new stadium and the eye of Singapore with the side view of marina bay sand...

Great place to have an evening booze booze and chat chat... My friend has a nap too. Oops~
We spent about an hour plus and headed to Arab street later~

Countdown @ where?

One week back when i was in Singapore...

Friend : This year countdown where shall we go? 

Me : Not sure, you decide... 

Friend : Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok, ... 

Me : What are we going to do on the countdown? 

Friend : Just have a few friends to get together... 

Me : You wanna come over to Kuala Lumpur? 

Friend : Maybe in my place @ Singapore then... Let's have potluck... 

Me : Okay... 

Friday Oct 30th 2015 - whatsapp

Me : so have we decided where to have the countdown? I wanna book the air ticket already if confirm

Friend : confirm please buy your ticket 

Me : Okie will buy tonight 

Friend : Yay~

Night 

Looking through all the airline and finally decided to go with Tiger Air... 

Me : I'm booking the air ticket now. 

Friend : Let us know once you have confirm your flight 

Me : Done~ Here you go 

< Attached the flight itinerary > 

Friend : Yay yay... Let's plan for the party now. 

Me : counting down now... 

YES~ I will be counting down in Singapore this year... 

What is your plan for New Year Eve?  

Sembawang White Bee Hoon Restaurant @ Singapore

Believe or Not people just queue up for food in Singapore. One of my friend queued up 2 hours just to have this...

叉烧饱

Cha Siew Pau

When she told me, I was like... why? I still can't believe people will queue up 2 hours for a 饱 ...

Another friend of mine told me this Sembawang White Bee Hoon Restaurant also need to queue for 2-3 hours... My first reaction was I can skip it... No way i will queue for food. It's really pack if you see the picture that adapted from Juicyfingers 

Picture from Juicyfingers

Guess what? My friend bought me to taste this White Bee Hoon in this restaurant last Sunday. Of course it was not as pack as what the picture shown in Juicyfingers blog. Otherwise, you will not see me eating in the shop. Neither do my friend who also no patient to wait for food.

Hazy day, Singaporean chosen not to go out. Blast aircon to get rid of the burning smell. Maybe this is one of the reason why this restaurant lost its SIGNATURE... QUEUE~

The food is very nice and i don't mind to pay a visit in the future.

On Weekend Getaway in Singapore - Saturday

Weekend getaway to Singapore to visit my friends... 

My last visit was visiting Garfield and Odie together with my friends... hehe, the Garfield run. 

This visit I managed to visit a couple of places... 

Are you able to guess, where i have been in Singapore?

Weekend Run Away...

In less than 12 hours i will be landed in ...

Yes, I'm leaving the city of potholes and getaway the weekend to the kiasu land. Not sure what my friends have planned for my visit.

Anyway, I will go with the flow... a.k.a Follow la~

Garfield Run @ Singapore

Hellooooooo...

Not sure how Garfield runs... He is so so sooooo FAT FAT FAT!!!!

Anyway, I'm going to participate on the Garfield run this coming September 19th 2015 @ Singapore. Hey it's NOT a kiddy run but i think there will be lots of kiddy adult as they wanted the Garfield T-shirt and finisher medal ;-)

Are you growing up with Garfield and Odie?

Halloween night 4 @ Universal Studio is back!!!...

Have you been to the Halloween night @ Universal Studio?... If you haven't been, i would recommend you to do it at least once.

I went for the Halloween night 3 @ Universal Studio last year... I think i didn't blog about my encounter. But it's a very impressive horror night @ Universal Studio. Anyway, it was very scary and the environment setup as if it is real. The sound, the smell, the lighting and the decoration. Not to mention, the people that put on make up, walked around you and all of the sudden, they were besides you... Muhahaha~SCARE?!!!

Unfortunately, this year i don't have any available weekend in October to go down to Singapore. All my weekends are filled with something that i need to accomplish. My routine, my mama routine, my MBA classes, my MBA exams, my weekend getaway but not Singapore, blah blah blah... So no time for Halloween Night #4 @ Universal Studio in 2014 but i'm going to plan for 2015. See you next year eh~

Anyway, let's watch the complete walk through about this year Halloween Night #4...

Excited to go?

Scare to go?

 

On planning how to spend the long weekend

Oct 3rd - Oct 6th 2014 is a long weekend in Malaysia and Singapore. So, my travel buddy from Singapore will be coming to Malaysia for spending a long weekend with my friends and I.

So as a host, what should i plan for this long weekend? I have a few options and got a quick discussion with my friends

Option #1:
2 day 1 night in Ipoh + remaining day in Kuala Lumpur

• We will drive up to Ipoh and visit the surrounding area (e.g. Gua Tempurung etc), then spent a night in Ipoh happening downtown booze area. Next day come back to Kuala Lumpur. 
• Day 3 will chill out in Kuala Lumpur 

Option #2: 
3 days 2 night Pulau Ketam, Klang area, Kuala Lumpur downtown

• Day trip to Pulau Ketam to visit the fishing village and have seafood lunch, evening chill in cafe @ Klang
• Be a tourist in Kuala Lumpur for 2 day 1 night including visit attraction in Kuala Lumpur and booze booze at Changkat Bukit Bintang at night.

Option #3: 
Staycation in downtown Kuala Lumpur for 3day 2night.

• Find a nice hotel and staycate in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Enjoying food around Kuala Lumpur and booze booze at night

This are the 3 options that we have in mind... We tried not to go too far from Kuala Lumpur due to foresee the highway will be jammed up with people traveling on the long weekend.

So, any suggestion?

Singapore Formula One

Singapore F1 is a very unique F1 as it held in the middle of the night and they close partial of the roads in Singapore to become the F1 venue. So, if you are in some of the buildings in downtown, you may view the F1 from the top... 

Snapshots from http://www.singaporegp.sg

When i visited the Singapore GP page, I saw this stunning design and decided to snapshot it and keep it in TZ-Photo since they are going to change after the F1. To me this was a well design piece of artwork that brought out the features of Singapore at the background... Don't you think it's nice?

Anyway, back to the Singapore F1... Anyone here went for the event? I noticed every year they have some famous artist in their grand concert, not sure who was there this year >.<

I'm not a big fan of Formula One. Moreover, to go to this event in Singapore will cost me a hand and a leg. So i just have to say "PASS"

If you have been to this event in Singapore, can you share with us what is your experience?

TALKING MINION DAVE

Minions have been accompanied me to study for the past few weeks...

Minions study with TZ

After few days of studies... Minions also got fainted especially all the graph in Business Economics...

Minions fainted...

Last weekend, my friend shipped a TALKING MINION from Singapore by hand carried. The minion called DAVE. Yes~ is Minion Dave...

Minion Dave

Let's take a closer look at Minion Dave...

Minion Dave - Close up

Now you wanna hear Minion Dave talk and fart? Yes?

Singapore Safari Zoo Run 2014 : Unleash the BEASTS in you...

Have you heard about Singapore Safari Zoo Run?  I didn't take part in 2013... this year my friend in Singapore has signed me up for this run... I decided to run 6km and it's a fun run. No stressed but fun... :p

Waiting for my turn to run

This is my first time running in the zoo... A different experience especially have to bare with the stared from different animals during the run. And not many cheer from the organizers cause they have passed their cheering job to the host... :p

If given a choice to choose an animal to run with, who would you choose?

A marketeer?

A sleepy Lion?

An Elephant?

An ostrich?

A mighty white Tiger?

Have you made up your mind? Are you ready to run with your chosen animal? Hehehe... I won't tell me your choice but please do not ask me to choose Turtle eh~

Getting ready for the run

It's time to hit the starting line... On your mark get set GO GO GO~

Waiting for Flag off for 6km Fun Run

Due to great response, the organizer has broken us into few groups for flag-off. I was in Wave #3...  This is a fun run... I spent most of my time taking picture of the animal along the way... we passed by Night Safari and day zoo. I managed to see the Night Safari in daytime ;-)

Come come come~ Take picture...Common word that you will heard most of the time... Fun Eh~

I finished the whole 6km in 1.5 hours... longer than my 10km run. Oops~ But anywhere i gotten my finisher medal too... Yay~ Yay~

6km Fun Run finisher medal

Nice eh~

My Birthday Pressie - Part B

Remember my previous post... My Birthday Pressie - Part A.

Let's review what is inside...

hehehe...  It's a pen~

Sideway - close up

Mont Blanc Pen

Mont Blanc StarWalker Midnight Black

Thanks to my friend for giving such a prestigious pen. :-)

My Birthday Pressie - Part A

Last weekend i traveled to Singapore and was given this for my Birthday pressie...

My Birthday Pressie

Anyone can guess what is inside this?

The legend of Hercules...

My Singaporean friend has suggested to watch the legend of Hercules last Saturday... she was looking forward for the Hercules' body... Is Hercules having a nice body?

Adapted from Wikimedia

Since I'm not a regular movie goer, most of the movie i haven't watch so i'm okay with any of the movies. We decided to watch it in Cineleisure Cathay Orchard Road after our Twin Tower Sushi lunch.

The Legend of Hercules as a whole was not that great, storyline was sucks and nothing but the muscular body...

Adapted from http://www.justjared.com/

Friend A : The movie is so so only. The storyline sucks.
Friend B : What do you expect? Is all about body
Friend A : Initially the body is nice but after a while, the body was nothing great about...
Friend B : Body was the selling point...
Me : hmmm....

Do you think so?

If i would rate this movie, it would be 3/10... which 10 is the best. So nothing much to hooha about. Maybe for some ladies out there the body might be what they are looking forward to... LoL :p

PS: after the movie, my friend keeps asking me to aim for getting a built like Hercules... Hmmm... i really have no comment~

Nihon Mura Express @ Cathay Leisure - Singapore

Sushi feast for SGD1.50 per plate in Nihon Mura Express has drawn the attention of my friends and I to eat like a gluttony ;-) As the conveyor belt moving... our eyes were moving to the dish we wanna to pick up...

Conveyor belt

As many many plates passed us but we didn't see the Sake Sashimi (Raw Salmon). So we ordered from the staff 4 plates of Sake Sashimi. They combined the 4 plates into one.

Sake Sashimi

We ate many more different dishes... Chawamushi... Miso Soup etc... So, the tower was in progress when i snapshot this...

One tower was coming up

As time passed... the stack of empty dishes were coming up... We reached a point that we could not eat anymore. That's it. Let me introduce the Twin Tower...

So can anyone guess how much is the total bill?

Run for your lives Asia @ Singapore : Survivor and Zombie in Action

Was attending the Survivor run and being a Zombie last Saturday night in Singapore. A friend of mine has signed me up as a Survivor and Zombie. We were posted in the station near The Fullerton Bay Hotel...

Picture captured by my friend

imaging we were at the central business district of Singapore. Luckily, I never bumped into anyone that i know over there. I didn't bring my phone with me so my friend snapshot this picture to show where we were...

Let's roll the gallery and see how the zombie in action...

It's was a good experience with mud, dirt and heavy rainfall when we were running for our lives earlier as the survivors...  due to the heavy rainfall, we do not have any picture of survivors part of the run. Sad~ Anyway,
at the end of the day, we became zombie and snatched for other people lives... Survivors --> Zombies voluntarily... LoL

Survivor and Zombie

Run Run Run for your lives... on 11114

The zombies are coming... Run everyone run... run for your lives.

In a few hours from now... I will be running for my lives cause i will be chased by the Zombie @ Padang, Singapore. This is an interesting run as it's not like the traditional running even like Sundown, Standard Charter, Nike Run etc. This is the zombie come after you for your lives...

My friends have signed me up with two different race... One is the survivor, which I have run from Zombie and another race is to be the Zombie to run after the survivors. Interesting eh~

For more information about the run, you may visit Run for Your Lives Asia website.

Halloween Horror Nights 3 @ Universal Studio Singapore...

I have an important appointment with the Three Vengeful Sisters @ Universal Studio Singapore on Oct 12th 2013. So who are the three Vengeful Sisters?


I yet to know how to react when i see them... Anyway, i'm looking forward to meet them this Saturday. 
Yes~ TZ is going to test his fear... :p

Anyone is planning to go too?

The Phantom of Opera @ Singapore

Finally, the day has come... Another 5 hours i will be watching the Phantom of Opera.

On visiting MacRitchie Trail, Singapore

A lot of people have the same mindset of myself... when we mentioned Singapore, this is the image that comes up to our mind...

Guess what? Singapore has lots more to offer... The MacRitchie Trail is a very nice natural reserve park which covered a very wide area.

MacRitchie Trails Map

We decided to go with the Orange Color trail which is 7.0km return. This trail is not a difficult trail as mentioned in the map... Interesting enough after 200m, we walked into the jungle like path...

The Trail

Along the trail, we are greeted with a small stream parallel with the trail. No fishes were detected...

The Stream

The Trail

After 3.1km, we finally came to the gate of the HSBC TreeTop Walk. The main attraction of MacRitchie Trail. 

Gate to the HSBC TreeTop Walk

It's a one way to the other sides... Meaning you could not walk back to this end. The exit is over the other end of the TreeTop walk.

TreeTop Walk

From the TreeTop Walk, we managed to see the MacRitchie Reservoir... Due to the hot sun... we took a few shots and left the place and back to the trail...

Can you see the MacRitchie Reservoir?

We managed to finished the whole 7km trail within 2.5-3 hrs. The recommended time to complete this trail is 3-4 hours. Hahaha... we still consider Fit :p 

More pictures @ A picture A day.