Universal Studio Singapore

Last week was an unusual week for my colleagues & I. We went through lots of major changes, received good as well as some shocking news about the company's future plans. Best of all, to commemorate our achievements in 2009, the Company sponsored us to Universal Studio Singapore.

I have been to Disney Lands, Ocean Parks, but never to Universal Studio. Heard lots of fun and exciting rides in the theme park and I was all geared up and ready for the most exciting rides that day.... But the roller coaster ride was still under some major re-construction, therefore my most 'exciting' ride I had was the mummy return.... not at all exciting. Though I am not young anymore, I still love and enjoy taking high acceleration, fast moving roller coasters with 2 to 3 grade of G forces. Too bad the USS rides did not match up to the criteria.

Perhaps this is Singapore's first time having to build a famous franchise theme park, we should not expect too much? During my visit there, there were 3 breakdowns and technical faults that caused delay to up to 15 minutes each.... So you can imagine we wasted 30 minutes sitting in dismay and disappointment while they get to the fix. Fortunately the technical faults happened during the shows and not the rides!

Nevertheless, with great company and sporty colleagues, I did enjoyed myself very much. Photos are the best evidence of our enjoyment! I am looking forward to bring Natalie there sometime soon....

The icon of USS, The Globe!

Frankenstein had his big and rough hands on Sherli and my neck!

To Far Far Away Land , SHREK!

My favourite charactor in USS, Kong Fu Panda!

My second favourite charactor in USS, the Lion in Madagascar.

These are my wonderful colleagues.

My Donkey ears and tail, cuteee!

Breakfast with Tina at Oomphatico's

Took leave yesterday and met up with Tina for breakfast at Oomphatico's at Tanglin Mall. Since Christmas last December, we could not find time to meet up with each other. Though it was a short 2 hours, I really enjoyed myself.

She just came back from Paris with her husband, it was her long awaited holiday since she had Brayden 2 years ago. Like all mothers, it was difficult to part with the little one therefore she couldn't find a chance to travel. Finally with the help and commitment from her mother and maid she manage to relive her "honeymoon" again with her husband. Actually it was her shopping trip, she planned to go to all her favourite boutiques everyday in Paris.

This year is a good year to go Europe as the currency is lower compared to last year. During breakfast she showed me the goodies she got herself in Paris. It was very tempting and how I wished I could fly over to Paris immediately. I definitely have to go there again!

My omelette breakfast set & Tina's egg benedict set.

This photo makes me hungry every time I look at it. They serve very good breakfast at a reasonable price!

Our breakfast cost about $36.00 in total, looking forward to go there again!

Bukit Timah Saddle Club

Haven't been really catching up with friends ever since I entered my new phase in life. I hope I have not neglected my friends. That's why recently I have been arranging for meet ups and drinking session so that I can kill two birds with a stone!

Met up with Geraldine not long ago and we went to Bukit Timah Saddle Club for lunch. Though it was our first time there, we fell in love with the place immediately. Perhaps it was the peace and quiet the place offered us, and a different scenery all together. We were horse glazing the whole afternoon, making our pick on which one we preferred and teasing the horses at our allocated balcony seats. The view was fantastic, we get to see the horses go for their exercise at a ring, gallopping round and round in circles.

Enjoying a lazy afternoon, eating pasta, relaxing and horse gaze and day dream.

Miko enjoyed her afternoon away from all the phone calls and paper work.

The black beauty, I love black horses.

Geraldine and me.

Well we thought that our eyes played a tricked on us when we saw this. How come there was a cow in Horse Saddle?

Yes we were wrong, it was a horse with brow spots on it's white base. hehehe, I felt that it looked weird on the horse.

I stole all the photos from Geraldine's blog as I didn't bring camera that day. Thank you for contributing to the photos gal! Do catch up soon.

Updates

时间过得真快，愈涵已经九个月大了.
现在她比以前更好动， 非常精力冲佩。我有时候真拿她没办法。
不过,也是因为这样使我的生活过得更多只多彩.
在照顾愈涵的时候学会了很多人生的道理, 和让我培养了耐性.
现在我没那末的暴躁也不会随便发脾气. 凡是看开一点,不要太执著,快乐与否的定义是没有一个标准.
现在我非常满意我目前的生活,有个美满幸福的家庭,健康快乐的宝宝,疼我爱我的丈夫,还有几位知己在身边.

Right that took me about 30 minutes to type in chinese. I figure I should do that more often as I realised my Mandrain is getting from bad to worst... Not in terms of speaking the language but in terms of writing. I guess that is a common problem majority of the Singaporean face. Anyway I managed to find time to blog today, hurray! I will show you some photo's of my blog's star, Natalie, and also some places I been to recently.

提Natalie's current favorite pass time is riding on her tricycle.

Either Jeff or myself will take turns to push her on the tricycle everyday for at least 10 to 20 minutes. She loves the music that comes along with it and she will keep pressing the button for more music, when she hears the one she doesn't like, she will press for the next one, continuously until she hears the one she wants.

Natalie's first tricycle.

Natalie cut her upper lips when she was crawling and lost her balance. She hit her face right onto the floor and her two little teeth knocked onto her lips and she bleed. It must have been a very painful fall as she cried non stop for the next half and hour. Poor baby, I cried too when nothing seems to be able to stop her pain. It was a very emotional night, Jeff couldn't do anything to stop 2 women he loves so much from crying.

I got myself another bag 2 months ago.


The size is just what I was looking for, not too big yet big enough for my long wallet, phone and makeup, I love it!

Went to PNC to do my nails some time back... now it was already gone. Waiting for my next manicure and pedicure appointment. But I just cut my nails this morning because I realized it's dangerous to have long nails when I am with Natalie. Still I will go ahead with the appointment when it's fixed.

We found a new place to eat pasta, it's at Cineleisure 2nd floor. This place serves Japanese style pasta and it suits our taste just fine. Shokudo Japanese Pasta. I am sure many of you have been there before, me very mountain tortoise nowadays ok... hehehe

We ordered two soups, this is their version of clam chowder, in miso soup base.

This is bacon cabbage soup in pork soup base.

Jeff's choice of pasta, with stew beef.

His greedy order, garlic bread.

My choice of pasta, Aglio Olio with chilly buddy! Yummy for those who loves spicy food, this will blow your mind off! And stay clear if you are not a chilly fan.


Took Natalie to East Coast beach during the weekend to show her what is the sea.

Daddy Jeffrey trying to entice Natalie to step onto the sandy beach and get near to the water.

Natalie got frightened when the wave crushed onto the beach and touched her feet.

Daddy Jeffrey insisted that she must carry on her adventure but soon started to cry. He finally gave up when I stopped him from scaring my poor baby.


Jeff and I sneaked out after putting Natalie to bed last weekend and went to Hort Park near Alexandra road to have a drink. I ordered Cosmopolitan and Jeff's pick was Brandy on the rock. That was the first time we went to Hort Park and I was quite impressed by their neat and beautiful landscape. It was too dark to have a paranormal view then but I managed to capture some photos at it's best to show you.

We enjoyed our couple time together even though we are together for many years already.

老夫老妻。
This was one of the view from our drinking place, right in front of us was a pool of water parallel towards us and immediately after it was a piece of greenery.

This was the only restaurant there at Hort Park, serving Thai cuisine and converted into a wine bar after night falls.

It was cooling and refreshing to enjoy a couple of drinks at a serenade environment, away from the city.

Oh I just finished watching F1.... so many crashes and the results was so unpredictable. I didn't expect Alonso of Renault will be number 1 when he was so far behind in the begining. I was putting my bet on Lewis Hamilton from Mac Larens team. I follow F1 since few years ago, though not really the biggest fan of it, I know a few of the popular names in the game. Now Renault must be celebrating at one of the hottest clubs in Singapore. I wonder what will the Ferrari teams do for the night.... poor fellows. The mis interpretation from the system lights at the pit stop caused Massa to loose his number one position and then Raikkonien crushed just before ending the race...

Ok I did my best in updating can summarizing the past events and post photos of Natalie. Hope it won't take me too long to have another update. Got to sleep now, it's Monday in another half an hours time... Sigh... weekend seems so short.

Raining weekend

Picnic on a weekend has always been our plan, and last Sunday we prepared fried rice, hot dog, ham, drinks, straw mat... and drove our way to Sentosa.
Our home made lunch box.

Too bad it was raining when we got there, we ended up picnicking in the car! But we still enjoyed it, it was quite fun eating in the car and hearing raindrops pouring loudly outside. Kinda romantic too!

Our sun, sea and sand plan became a sit back and relax session at Sky bar.

Jeff and his Carlsberg.
I could only have mock tail drink, but it taste real good. It's strawberry ice blend with lychee syrup.

Though our picnic plan was ruin because of the rain, we still enjoyed each other's company. Great to spend one's weekend with the love of your life.

Happy birthday my Dear Dear!

My dear dear's birthday celebration was really all impromptu. Where to go, what to eat and what to do, everything was very last minute. It's all my fault, I didn't pre-plan any surprise for him, neither did I get him any birthday gift. Luckily my dear dear is a very understanding and earthly guy. Therefore in another words, he is very easily to please. Thank god!

Went Vivo City for lunch at the Kim Gary Hong Kong Cafe, what's wrong with all those sudden boom of Hong Kong cafes every where. Majority of them are selling the same food, bake rice, nissin noodles, peanut butter bread... etc etc.

Anyways after the very usual lunch, I thought of doing something different rather then just shopping around Vivo City. Spotted an oriental looking Chinese junk berth at the harbour and wondering where it will take us to. Walked over to Harbour Front and got more information on it. Its the Harbour cruise on The Imperial Cheng Ho.

Our boarding pass to Imperial Cheng Ho.

Our impromptu itinerary, high tea buffet in Imperial Cheng Ho, cruise through the southern channels of Singapore waters. There was a stopover at Kusu Island to visit the quaint Chinese temple. Total duration, a 2 1/2 hours ride.

Look at our happy faces, I was truly excited as it feels like going on a tour. You know I can't travel to anywhere with my current state right... even though I want to and go ahead to a short trip, I guess I am going to invite lots of trouble and commotion from both side parents.

Jeff's photo trade mark, not peace but a 3. Won't tell you why :P

Waiting for the cruise to sail.

It was a bright and sunny sunday afternoon, Jeff couldn't open his eyes for the camera.

Lovely shot, Jeff still couldn't open his eyes... hahaha I told him that he cannot be a movie star. He won't be able to withstand the powerful flash from huge cameras.

After about 45 minutes, we finally reached Kusu Island. Both Jeff and I haven't been to this island for ages, I came here once and that was when I was still a little child. Didn't have much impression on the island except for the Chinese temple.

Opps here you will be able to see my 5 months pregnant tummy.

The Kusu Island Chinese Temple.

Here is a wishing well.

Turtles
Snake

Me and the clean clear beach. Maybe next time we will come here for picnic instead of crowded Sentosa. hehehe

Can you see Shenton way behind us?

It's time to head back to main land Singapore.

I simply love this man!

Alright, let me give you more information on the Imperial Cheng Ho, there are 3 types of cruise,

Type of Cruise	Departure time	Duration	Adult	Child
Morning Glory	10:30 AM	2.5 hrs	$27	$14
High Tea	3:00 PM	2.5 hrs	$32	$16
Imperial Dinner	6:30 PM	2 hrs	$55	$29

It's under Water Tours Pte Ltd and they are located at Harbour Front Centre, call 65339811 for bookings.

Frankly, the food wasn't nice at all.... It was buffet, same goes for the dinner, unless you wanted a different dinning experience and have already tried other cool places, you may want to give it a miss.

Next itinerary was Dinner, and Jeff wanted to have some steak and ribs and we headed down to Suntec City for Tony Romas.


They serve us with 1/4 loaf of jiam tao roti. hehehe

Appetizer, Fried Onions, it's unique and tasty. But must consume them when they are still hot.

Our greens, for good health.

My main course, regular baby back ribs. Huge right, I cannot finish it, gave a portion of it to Jeff.

Jeff's order, Medium done sirloin steak. His plate looked boring without the baby back ribs.

Ah this is better, good things are meant to share.

I believe that I am the one that enjoyed more than Jeff.