Nasi Lemak in the Air

During my journey back to my own motherland, I finally have my most expensive nasi lemak.

A simple nasi lemak that taste normal have cost me a lot more any ruthless nasi kandar can ever get.

I got 4 pieces of tiny brick of chicken meat and a customize mineral water bottle. If you saw the price at the normal time you will said: are you fucking out of your mind to buy that. But in here, you are fucking out of your mind not to eat.

For my stomach, the cost is worth but for my thought of the flight is worthless.

When I saw their logo, I thought that the last letter should be in front of their company name.

Preparing

A lot of thing I need to prepare before my first official trip to Taiwan. Even I have around 10 months to do it, I still manage to put all those stuff at the last few days to finish it.

Make a checklist to double check my stuff. Hopefully nothing that I miss out.

Looking forward to the trip.

My 2012 first breakfast

Although today is new year holiday but still need to work thanks to my fully commitment to customer boss. We must always stay side by side with customer.

Wake up in the morning, prepare myself a nice breakfast.

How to prepare?

A free 3 in 1 Nescafe

A High 5 kaya burn.

Nice for a cheapskate like me.

Big Apple Donut in Subang Airport

After a long day working at customer site, finally it is time to go back to Penang. But before that, I have a nice donut hour. It is not cheap but feel so good at that time.

Someday I will…

In Knight and Day, Tom Cruise tell Cameron Diaz that when you say someday I will, that mean you will never go.

That’s true.

I always say that someday I will go oversea travel and it have been four years.

So today, I am going to do the changes now.

NOW!!

I have bought the air ticket regardless whether I will be free at that time or not.

May, 2012.

I will go to Taiwan.

At least I didn’t wait untill Dec 2012.

Art Science Museum

This is a symbol of saying, I have money and I can build what ever I want no matter it is useful or not.

The building is constructed to represent a lotus flower. It is allocated near the Marina Bay Sands. You need to walk pass the complex center in order to reach there if you travel from Marina Bay MRT station. That is nearly 1KM distance.

Inside the building is nothing much you can expect. Around 4 floor that you can enter. You need to pay to get it.

Seeing from outside, it is better viewing it from the Helix Bridge.

Art Science Museum:Thank you bro

After finish my tour in the museum, I need my ticket to exist the place, It is really weird. I always thought that we only need ticket to go in. The only reason we keep it because it can be change to money later. By the way, this is a place where not many people will come even it is free.

The guard at the exist entrance ask for the ticket and I didn’t have it because I didn’t know it was needed. The guy see me and see the other side of staff. He let me pass it.

Lucky.

Else 30 more dollar is buta given.

Art Science Museum : Shipwreck

After this I realize that if my home plate is sink in the sea for 700 years or more. It will soon become a historical material that worth a study and contain a lot of cultural elements.

Time really can change things.

Art Museum Science: Dali

See these picture and tell me he is not crazy.

Some of his master art.

Art Science Museum : Vincent

I went there because Vincent’s art is showing at there. So does Dali’s art. In addition to that, the museum add in bonus exhibition to patrol to the museum. We can see the shipwreck stuff since the Tang Dynasty.

For Vincent’s art, they use projector to project all Vincent’s art on a hall room. A very unique way for an art exhibition.

If say more plain, it was just a slide show on a big wall that charge you 30 dollars. But for Vincent, it worth my dollar.

Going Casino

I went to casino in a famous shopping complex. From the way I see it, The shopping complex is just a place to hide the casino.

Inside the casino there are just a few type of game that people can play. But that is more than enough. How many way do you want to loose your money?

Local and PR cannot get in without paying some extra fee. Haven’t in already loose money. The people who build it said this is to make sure the local people wouldn’t gamble. So the people are concern of people gambling.

They spend a lot of money to build a place to be a foreign people private club.

Suddenly, my passport like my touch n go card, I can enter the casino easy.

Best part of the casino that I like about here is that the drink is free. There are a lot of drinks provided by the host to make sure you wouldn’t leave the place for refreshing. How hospitality.

I have (couples) of my drink then leave the place. There still have other things to spend on my hard earn money.

Suntech

At my local, there’s is a building called Suntech also. They tend to make it an IT building. But if compare with this Suntech. I let you do the judgment.

It is a very large building that is standard size around here. A small country that contain a lot of large building that didn’t loose its design taste.

Seeing what have design at my place, I guess all the good designer want to earn more money. At least they didn’t need to design onion style building.

A theme park in casino

I don’t if the theme park contain the casino or the casino include the theme park. If the place is only for theme park only. I think it will loose half of it visitor that come here. I have no interested in the casino nor the theme park. I am here for the Universal Studio Park only.

I want to see the globe that spinning the Universal logo, a classic design.

I didn’t have chance to go in the park as ticket was sold out.

At the park there, it also have candy land and some art statue like the Thinker and later I know, the Dali’s elephant statue. I also get to see the Adam and Eve’s statue, a collection of the late owner of this park.

My friend told me once here you can take a free bus trip from anywhere in this country. Later the government here banned it as they afraid people will all coming the casino.

Weird, you build the casino to earn money but you banned people from gambling and you said this is for the best of people.

A discriminated policy that you hard to find in other country then here.

My Staying

My customer have prepare my staying at a hotel allocated at Clarke Quay. The hotel is a stared hotel. I check in at 2pm after my lunch. My room is very nice and for once I am happy that I took the job.

My room didn’t have the street view or what view. Just a swimming pool at below which is too small to watch anything.

The bathroom have a shower and a bath tub. Oh boy. My favorite.

They provide a lot of facilities like HD TV which I didn’t have any cable connection to it. International TV channel that didn’t clear in view. A short cable internet connection, yes, no wireless. A mini bar that I need to pay deposit first just in case I use any.

The room is quite nice and it cost me around 250 per day.

Lucky I didn’t need to pay the bill first.

East Coast Park

My friend picked me up at the airport. Along the way from the airport the side seeing is very nice and if you happen to travel from my national airport. You will know which is better.

My friend took me to East Coast to have our lunch there.

Here is some info about the park.

source here:

With a total land size of 185-hectares, and a scenic coastline that stretches over 15 km, East Coast Park is one of Singapore's most treasured urban getaways, attracting more than 7.5 million visitors a year.

Themed "Recreation for All", East Coast Park offers an exciting diversity of sporting, dining and recreational activities catering to various segments of the public. Bowling alleys, volleyball courts, holiday chalets, restaurants and a hawker centre can all be found in this park.

Come to the park on weekends, sit under the swaying coconut palms, Casuarinas and Ketapangs, and enjoy having your picnics with your families or friends. Sit back and let the inviting waves and fresh perennial sea breeze provide you with an invigorating relief to the stifling city heat and humidity.

For those looking for action, East Coast Park also offers a myriad of sporting opportunities such as cycling, in-line skating, cable skiing and water sporting activities as well as a Xtreme SkatePark for action sports enthusiasts to hone their techniques. In the evenings, bring your families and friends down for a barbecue or indulge in sumptuous cuisines at the East Coast Seafood Centre.

Finally, East Coast Park has been divided into different zones according to the existing attributes of each area. In the future, businesses offering similar activities will be located within close proximity in each zone to create a variety of diverse lifestyle clusters along East Coast Park.

 

 

 

 

Airport: Oversea Airport

After a standard delay of flight, I finally arrived at the other side of airport. This terminal is much bigger than the one I am coming from. Not to mention nicer. From my arrival to the luggage claiming, I need to walk a distance. The design here is very nice. I think only the national terminal can compare with this one. Anyway an ace should compare with an ace not with jester.

Just one thing that I dislike about the airport here, the custom people thought I was going to sneak in to their country to work. I was requested to fill out a form to ensure that I will leave their country in a certain time duration or I will be charge for overstaying due to working at here “illegally”.

Well that’s a typical for me as my fellow nation are the one who build this reputation.

Well done, assholes.

Airport: Local airport Renovation

Currently the local “International Airport” is undergoing a serials of renovation to upgrade the airport. The concept is nice. They hang a lot of what appear to be a drawing of the airport new look. Let people now what is the look of new airport after finished.

It is a nice thing as people will feel much better when they see that what they suffer now is for better future.

But for the drawing, can they put a much clearer picture. Not some small picture that been magnified and have broken pixels. The picture is murky and unclear in a way.

Maybe not all job are done by professional.