Show me... SHOW me.. SHOW ME... SHOW ME HOW TO STAY HERE FOREVER?
Back to postings, cut my crap and so on. Yup, Door2door is the a company of tour bus. They not only carry a small number of passengers, but a great number of passengers as well. The drivers were all friendly and will never hestitate you help you out.
Even if you made a mistake, they will correct you properly and guide you along unlike our local bus driver which freakingly pissed me off and disturb my mindset. Wanna hear out some of my examples (for entertaining purpose) before i continue?
Scroll on and read it.
Scenario 1:
Singapore Local Bus Driver - I believe there were times, you heard driver shouting out loud from his driver seat all the way to the back just because someone had not tapped their card. Alright, i agree that the "someone" might/might not did it on purpose. But no matter what, the driver should always maintain his cool, and not act like a babarian by shouting out loud all the way to the back. It not just embarassed the one who did not tap his/her card, it also irritate and disturb the rest of the passengers.
Australia Local Bus Driver - If you forgotten to tap pay you bus fare, they will not shout like a babarian at you. They might probably say "Oh sir, excuse me, i guess you've forgotten to pay for your bus fare." Isn't it so much nicer?
Scenario 2:
Singapore Local Bus Driver - There are times when we forgotten to bring our ez-link card along, and had to made cash payment. We might be short of 10c or 20c just because we haven't brought enough coins with us. This gave us trouble in makeing cash payment since we got to give them a fix amount. There was once i saw a little boy who placed all his coins into the machine, it was then the bus driver realized that it shorts of 10c. They boy showed him his 2 dollar note, explaining that he had got no coins left. Instead of closing one eye, he made the boy alight. It's so hard on a young kid (8 years old only)
Australia Local Bus Driver - I guess you might not know about their routes, rules and regualtion. I shall made one small briefings before continueing my postings.
In Australia, you paid a fixed sum of money for 2 ways
(To and Back). For example, you paid 2 bucks for a ticket to Pacific Fair
Shopping Centre, hold on to your ticket till you return. Upon taking the
opposite direction back, you only need to show the driver your previous bus
ticket and need not made a second payment.
If you do not have enough coins, there's always a cash box beside the driver and he would exchange coins with you.
If Singapore is to have such system going on, wouldn't it be so much more better compared to now?
Back to postings before your imaginations and rantings run wild with me. Door2door is the company for my bus, but i'm not taking that small bus for the day since we were going to Seaworld whereby there's a higher intake of passengers.
We board a bigger bus for the day. We were rather sad to see no more vacant seats till we realised there's an external staircase to the bottom. We climbed down and realised that there were more seats below. It's damn cool seriously as i had not seen such buses before.
It's damn shiok and only allowed approx 10 people below. It's so much more spacious and you need not cramp with the others.
Isn't it spacious?
It's so spacious that we could simply hopped around the area untill someone came it. It's so sad to see another family joining us. Oh, it's not that disastrous actually. It's just that we've been meeting the same fat kid for the past few days.
Nah, i dislike him. Perhaps his looks reminds me of my childhood being a fat girl. Well, that's not the main reason. The main part is that, he's behaving like a leech who only knows how to play DS instead of behaving well in the bus. Basically i like smart kids more than irritants.
Okok, you can say i'm bad or what ever, it's a reality that everyone has got to accept someday.
Oh hoho, we just past by Movie World which is right beside Sea World.
What does it mean then?
We are reaching soon.
If you have read about the "Scan & Go" system in my previous(day3) post, you would have understand what i mean by now.
Queuing up all over again?
Queuing up under big hot sun?
NOPE, it's not gonna happen in Australia. The pass that we've got can access to 3 theme park. Movie world, Sea World and Dream World. All you've got to do is to keep your tickets safely and it will allow you to move around freely without queuing up over and over again which is such a waste of time.
Wasting time is what we tourist detest the most and yet Singapore haven't been making improvements in these areas at all. Let's not mentioned about what tourist detest. Let's talked about booking of chalet, we still got to wait and wait.
Upon entering, we had some conversation with the staff, wanna hear about it?
Staff: Welcome to Gold Coast, how's your day?
Chris: Oh it's terrible. Raining since the morning.
Staff: Oh yeah, welcome to Sunny Gold Coast then (Sarcastically).
Well, you might not understand the joke i guess. The staff said that as Gold Coast should be sunny 365 days.
Just like other tourist attractions, they have got eateries but at least they ain't selling pathetic stuffs like chips and drinks. They sell sandwiches, fastfood, great varieties of fingerfood, deserts and ice-cream. Woo - hoo, thoughts of it made me drools again.
Next, we went to their aquarium. Well, they seems to be well groomed and revamp seems to be going on as well.
That's me.
I guess you might see dots all over me. Bingo, it's rainwater. Just like what i've mentioned, people here doesn' seems to be using umbrella. They only buy ponchos at most. Even if it's drizzling, you could still see people walking in the rain.
They are kiasu folks who might flutter around when it drizzles. This is one of their culture which i liked the most. I mean it's just a damn rain, there's no purposes to behave in a way like:
"Aiyoyo, rain liao rain liao"
"Run run, raining
now"
"Where got shelter?"
"Jialat le la, never bring umbrella"
I guess there's no such whinings from the local people. Perhaps you can heard these from Typical Kiasu. LOL (",)
Next, we went to purchase boarding pass for the helicopter ride. Woo-hoo, it's the best part of the day man. I'm not just damn excited, i was thrilled totally.
C'mon man, answer my question honestly...
Where can we have a ride in helicopters in Singapore?
Totally no idea.
How much do we have to pay for a helicopter ride in Singapore?
If there is 3000 bucks should never be enough.
Does everyone got the chance to have a ride in a helicopter?
It's obviously impossible.
Even if there is, it gonna squeeze you dry isn't it?
Bankrupt is the max.
Make a guess, how much i've paid for the ride?
55 bucks per person
Do a calculation then?
55 x 1.16 = SGD64 (approx)
Therefore 2 person is only about 130 bucks. It's seriously damn cool man.
Our boarding time is 1.50pm.
Isn't it professional?
Instead of buying tickets and board, we have got boarding time actually. This is where we see their professionalism. It's not like any roller coaster ride whereby you just pay and board.
I'm seriously damn happy with my boarding pass.
Very happy.
Very very happy.
Very very very happy.
Very very very very happy.
Very very very very very happy.
These big bird aren't scared of human at all. They are fence up, but they just flew wherever they want. They won't peck or attack humans at all. They are just living in their own world, stress-free totally.
They have got big man-made ship which allows you to got on it. Oh, you must be curious what's so special about the ship. There's nothing special, it's just that i find it very beautiful and you can have a better view of swimming dolphins when you are on board.
Do you see that?
Aha, it's not fish. It's dolphins. Once again, i wanna complain again. I guess everyone been to Sentosa, some might even pay 20 over bucks just to see that "Pink Dolphin" isn't it?
It's seriously a waste of time to see that so called Pink Dolphin (sarcastically). I don't really see what's so big deal about the dolphins in Singapore. Sentosa made it sound so interesting as if we have got a dolphin in pink. YAH! IN PINK! SO PINKISH TILL I CAN'T EVEN TELL THE COLOR MAN.
See, you tell me lah... Is it pink?
It's just pathetically 2 to 3 dolphins and they made them so "holy" as if it's a wasted trip not to see them. The worst is that you won't get to see them during normal timings except during performances.
Look at Australia, they have got at least 20 dolphins, they don't even bother to lock them up in aquarium. They made an outdoor area for the dolphin to live in. In this way, they would interact with people and people/tourist could have a better view of dolphins. We could also observe the dolphins' behaviour in detail. Isn't it so much better?
What so proud about pink dolphin?
Seriously, i hate pink, therefore i don't give a shit about pink dolphin.
Aha, it's going to rain again i guess.
Oh ya, that's their cable car. They are just like the ones Laiyan, Zhiyan and I took in Bangkok in 2008. The only differences lies between their colours. Basically, the main colour in Sea World is all white. You hardly see colourful stuffs from here.
I like the open air culture on the cable car. Nah, those enclosed ones seriously made me vexed throughout the day. I mean it's going to be damn warm if you were to be stuck in an enclosed area for quite some time.
Look at the next second picture. It's where the dolphins stay.
That's us.
The sealion show is going to be our next destination. Well, it's not the time yet and we shall roam around first before we made our way there.
Look at the bird below. Aha, it's looking at my camera too. Woo-hoo, they just fly around in the Sea World. If you have been there, you might realised that they tend to stay near to sea lion and dolphins. They are not fed in Sea World. Sea World only provide homes for them. They have got to search for their own food.
Honestly, i prefer to see such birds walking around rather than seeing peacocks everywhere. I don't find peacock chio at all. They are just some ugly bird to me. Nono, i should say irritants.
Oh yeah, they have got man made light house also. It's locked therefore we couldn't accessed the roof top.
There is where we are in the light house.
Over here, you would see posters about extinctions. It might talks about how whales a killed and what they are killed for. They will even show you interesting news about people reviving or saving them from danger. It's so much more meaningful. You would have enjoyed reading or knowing that if you are an enviromentalist.
It's pretty cold out here actually.
Seriously, i won't really keep a lookout for interesting plant. The plant below was taken by Chris. I don't give a shit about knowing what it is. As long as it can't be eaten, it's none of my business.
It's finally the time for the Sealion show to begin. We made our way back to where the show begins. Their Sealion show is very different compared to ours. Instead of making Sealions hopping through hulla hoops or jump around, they created a story line.
It's a story about police and thieves. In this story, the sealion would act like a policeman and catch the baddies with the polices. Isn't it interesting?
I love the part whereby the Sealion entered the scene in a police boat. It's so cute and awesome. I've not seen such scenarios before.
See pictures for more as i doubt you will like me being wordy.
Next, it shall be visiting the Polar Bear. Well, Singapore has got only 1 or 2. Similar, they got approx 3 too. Anyway, their Polar Bear were rather yellowish. No no, i mean more yellowish than the usual ones. It was then Chris told me that most of the Polar Bears are not born pure white. There might still be colour differences.
Oh yeah, that's interesting.
Anyway, their Polar Bear was seriously BIG. No, i ain't sarcastic. They are really big animals over here. In Singapore, we always thought that our Polar Bear is big, but the fact isn't that way. Singapore Polar Bear is not big, they look big because we are watching them through a very thick glass.
The thick layer of glass made them look bigger.
In Australia, you can see Polar Bear indoor and outdoor. They made it that way to give us a better view of their animals. Honestly, i saw the Polar Bear, it's at least 1.5 times of ours.
Cool man.
This is the indoor one.
Do you see the 2 pictures on top?
- 1 stingray
- 1 star fish
I guess, we have only seen the usual starlike starfish. Perhaps it could be found in the Underwater World, and i might not have noticed that yet.
We were attempting to touch the starfish when i popped a question to Chris asking him what it was (right above pic). He told me that it's a starfish too. Oh dear, it's so interesting. I mean i've not seen any diamond shaped starfish before, and it's really different from the others.
Below pic show the original starfish. Wow, wow, wow, beautiful pic isn't it?
We could hardly get the chance to touch it in Singapore. How come?
Because you only get to touch it when you pay.
What payment?
You got to pay for Underwater World tickets before you could enter and touch the starfish.
It's ridiculous. For their scenarios/circumstances, it's all display in the outdoor with shades, so that tourist/local could interact with these animals directly. There would always be more than 1 staff guiding you along so that you won't be attacked.
It's so much better and friendlier.
See, even lao niang dare to touch it. Muahahahaha (",)
Seriously, i'm still frightened about it as could feel it's hard and rough body. Just in case you might not know what i'm refering to, i'm actually refering to the starfish.
Look at the picture below.
EEW, it's the sea cucumber. C'mon, i'm not gonna touch it even if you are giving me 100 bucks. They look like some rotton bananas that's could to break open and leak once you hold it up. Okok, i shall not disgust myself further otherwise it's going to be never ending.
Next, we went to see Sharks. Oh yeah, i did not take many pictures of it since i've video-ed part of it. For their shark aquarium, it's alittle different actually. We are viewing the sharks from on top actually. No worries, the water is seriously clear blue and you can observe them clearly.
Those who had read my posts in Bangkok, i guess you might have some impression about the glass boat. Well, they also had one over here. We decided to give it a missed since we could observe directly on top of the water. There's not point taking the glass boat.
Around afternoon timing, you might be able to see divers diving in to feed the animals.
It's 1 hour before boarding time, therefore we decided to take a cable car back to the 1st stop instead of walking back. While waiting...
This was taken when we were in the cable car. Oh yeah, the cable car doesn't move all the way to the next stop. It will stop for approx 1 min in the middle (mid air) so that you could spend some time viewing the beautiful scene and watched the dolphins swim.
Basically, we can't sit at the same side. Well, Chris is about 60Kg while i'm 40 over. If we were to sit on the same side, it's gonna be 100Kg VS 0 Kg. You gonna see a slanting cable car from below.
The scenery from top is awesome and beautiful.
We thought of taking one big round in the monorail but unfortunately, it's under renovation for that particular station. Anyway, it's lunch time again. We gonna eat something light before boarding the helicopter.
That's the lunch for today.
Please, don't pressume that it's damn little from the picture. What you see might not be the truth. It was a very big portion actually and cost like gold. It's AUD18 = 18 x 1.16 = SGD 21 (Approx)
The price is killing Christopher and we still couldn't finish the food. I like their fries the most. Crispy as ever unlike SG local MacD, whom kept using the same oil over and over again.
Tell me...
How can the fries not turn soggy when you reuse the oil again and again?
Let me quote one example...
Tell me..
What would become of you if i made you shower with the same water again and again for 10 days?
Let's not talked about fries, i think even human can turn soggy. LOL (",)
Alright, it's kind of disgusting now, but it's the truth.
I seldom take pictures of sauces, but i took picture of them in Aussie. They are made of gold seriously. AUD 2 bucks of sauces, how can i stop taking photos of them?
They are damn unique and holy.
I always thought Yann's PMS is the holiest(my terms "most holy")things ever. But i never thought the sauces would beat her to it. This made Yann's holy ranking drop into Number 2.
Poor yann, i expect her to rant about this soon, either in my msn or my tagboard.
I bet you saw my eating enviroment from the pictures below. There's an open area whereby you could watch performances while eating. Aha, it's a great time to watch people surf.
Singapore's waves is pathetic. Like what i've mentioned...
Singapore water level:
1 m - till leg
2m - till hip
3 m - till shoulder
4 m - I doubt you could be seen.
Australia water level:
1m - feet
2 m - mid leg
3m - knee cap
4 m - below hip level
It's so pathetic to surf in Singapore. I knew, i knew. You gonna mentioned about the man made little pond at East Coast whereby they hold on the the railings with rope supporting them in the air isn't it?
C'mon man, that' not realistic at all. It's not really surfing seriously. There's nothing great about surfing in that condition no matter how you are being certified. You might be able to surf in that condition, how about surfing in a support free condition in Aussie.
I mean, surfing in the mid sea with no ropes, no wiring, no nothing.
Are you able to do so?
Nah, i doubt so.
It's all so superficial.
Anyway, they have got these surfing performances. I've recorded some videos and took some pictures. Take a look...
Oh yeah, they could do 360 degree turn in the mid sea.
It's so cool to the max level.
It's finally the boarding time. Thousand thanks to the receptionist lady. Our seatings were decided by her and she gave us the best seats.
Aha, you must have thought it's all the same isn't it?
Nah, they aren't the same.
Front seat and Back seat, which one will you choose?
The front seat of coz.
It's damn cool, we were given the front seat. I'm sitting right beside the pilot actually. It's so cool man with the ear phone on and you could hear the pilot speak into the mike.
WOW... WOW... WOW...
I seriously love the fun. You would be able to see the whole of Sea World as well as other beautiful sceneries. It's FANTASTIC.
I'm still damn thrilled after the ride. Woo-hoo ...
That's the blue helicopter which i've board just now. It's chio isn't it?
I'm damn biased, which ever things that made me happy, i'll just love it and sing praises for it.
Next, we wanted to watch the 4D show before the dolphin shows begin, but we missed it by a few minutes. While waiting for the dolphin show to begin, we went walking around and camwhore.
Look at the penguin picture.
Did you spot someone else?
Aha, it's a little girl.
We helped took a photo for her and her parents previously. She was still reluctant to leave when it's our turn. She insisted on staying beside us. She kept playing hide and seek with my camera.
What a cute little girl?
It's the dolphin show.
As usual, Australians were mostly enviromentalist. They always begin their performances by telling you how these animals were being protected. It's ain't something bad. I always thought it's meaningful since it gives us a better idea about what it's going on.
Unlike the Pink Dolphin issues!!!
Oh my goodness, i'm at it again. Never i gonna blurt my unhappiness out.
They only make money using the Pink Dolphin. Still remember years ago, they made it sound so nice that they are going to let the dolphin return to the sea. Oh ya, i mentioned "years ago". How about now?
They are still making money out of them.
They are dolphins, they need better life and not just living in aquarium. Well, perhaps you have got your own views thinking that it might nor survive on it's own etc. I can agree with that. But the truth is that, you are making money out of it.
It's drizzling and people just can't be bothered about holding on to umbrellas. There was this offer whereby you can touch, feed and take pictures with the dolphin for free. They were asking for volunteers actually.
It was then, there was a boy who volunteered willingly. Oh yeah, he was chosen as well. Despite the heavy rain and the cold weather, he just removed his shoe and walked into the water.
It was damn BRAVE.
Kudos to him...
Did you saw the rainbow on top?
It's so beautiful isn't it?
Finally, we were at the 4D show. Hohoho, it's time to begin.
Anyway, don't watch the 4D show when you are there. It's not worth the time wasted. I was totally asleep on Chris's shoulder when the show had started. It's boring.
We then took a Monorail back to the 1st stop.
It's another ending. Goodbye Sea World. Love you.
Before boarding the bus, we saw a big group of indians scooping out rice from pail. A hundred kudos to them as i'm someone who can't eat in such condition. I mean... From a pail, are you able to?
Furthermore, they are tourist, i seriously don't know where their food came from and Chris just can't stop his lame jokes on mutton curry. Fine fine fine, you guys won't understand my pain tolerating his mutton curry jokes.
Perhaps Yann might understand if he happens to do that in front of her.
Back to hotel for a rest before continueing our journey for the day.
Nah, he ain't any newspaper boy. He's holding on to a Surfer Paradise Map actually. He might look like a noobie, but he's the best and fastest in reading a map. I'm someone who still need time to look left and right, but he only need a glance.
We walked quite a distance before we get to this bus stop. I'm whining on and on about walking such damn long distance to a bus stop. Nevermind, as long as we are not lost, i'm fine with anything.
We then took a bus from here.
Oh well well, look at the sky.
It's purple in colour. Isn't it beautiful?
I've never seen such colours in Singapore's sky before. You gonna find it even more beautiful when you were there. It's fantastic.
Their bus system is slightly different from us. Instead of having a fixed route, they have got different route for different timings. Therefore you gonna look carefully at the timings before you board, or you might just seek help from the drivers since they are all friendly folks.
Well, their buses look more or less similar to ours.
Upon reaching, we went walking around before we sat somewhere to had some light meals. We ordered a kebab and one the the snack right below. I'm not sure what it's called, but don't ever try it. It taste like shit to me even though they are made of nuts. It looks yummies but stinks like hell to me.
As for the kebab, it's the best of all.
No worries, though i'm sharing it with Chris, but we won't go hungry.
Make a guess for the Kebab size?
It's actually bigger and wider than the foot long sandwiches at subway.
Let me tell you how yummy this kebab is.
The popiah skin aren't soggy and it's slightly crispy. You can hear crumbs and sound of crisp upon chewing on the vegetable. The meat was crispy on the outer layer and tender in between. The meat break in one bite and you need not pull it off at all.
Oh gosh, even Chris thought of getting one more.
Look at the picture right below.
"Origin kebab" is where we bought our kebab from. Try it out one day and you gonna love it.
Honestly speaking, i'm not exagerating at all about it. We did tried kebab in Singapore before, but the skin is always thick and hard to chew. This kebab in Aussie is the ever best kebab i've tried man.
Although it's winter time, people still eats ice-cream, same for us as well. Chris has got a sweet tooth, he bought an ice-cream and never had enough of it. Hahaha, they ice-cream seems to melt slower in Aussie.
Next stop, TOY'S'RUS
Look at the big transformer, i guess kids gonna like it man.
It seems to be his kingdom more than mine.
I had got one dog at home which look similar to the one below. Mine is 4 times smaller than that. Look at the big dog, it's so huge and i just can't stop resisting from cuddling it. There's one bad thing about it, wanna hear it out?
It's going to occupy 1/2 of my bed at least if i were to bring him home.
Nah, i better change my mind then.
I guess you might not be able to spot me if i were to hide behind the dog. Wahahahaha (",)
See, i took a ride in the horse.
Christopher dare not ride on it as he's worried that i might broke the horse and ended up paying for it. I seriously heck care about that issue since i'm only 40 over Kg, i think it should be alright and ain't that serious afterall.
Oh ho, it's a big house.
Look at that below.
It's like magic to me.
Just remove the pampers and threw it in. It will automatically fold up for you without dirtying you hands.
Seriously, its rather hard to miss out interesting stuffs in Aussie. Look at the picture below.
We always knew that baby's food are normally milk powder or or other liquidfy food. It's my first time seeing their food in packets.
No offence, what could you think of when you saw the packets?
I shall not ans that for you.
In my personal point of view, they looks like dog food to me...
Oh, i'm so sorry...
Oh, i'm so sinful...
Oh, i shouldn't have said that...
Doesn't it looks like dogs food to you?
Below is the Pacific Fair.
We then bought a hot Mocha from it.
It tasted 100 times better than Starbucks man.
If you are a Mango or Zara lover, you gonna walked in Valleygirls. If its not winter, i might get a big grab out of it. It's selling similar stuff as Mango and Zara. Don't expect it to be cheap, it's around the same pricing but more varieties. Woohoo...
We board the same bus back, and paid the bus fare again stupidly without realising our ticket is a returned one.
Silly us...
I'm damn full for the day except Chris. So we bought a MacD meal. It's 10 times yummier than SG ones. There aren't any weird pickles taste in it and the meat was more tender than ever.
The only bad thing about it was that we aren't given any plastic bags.
Just like what i've mentioned, the Australians were all enviromentalist, they would reduce the usage of plactic bags as much as possible.
That's about it. Shall end my day here. Bye
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