Maldives

To me going to sentosa is like going for a holiday. Nowadays very scare of sun, old already must take care of my skin.

Sentosa day

Construction in Sentosa still going on

A chinese guy practising his pouring tea stroke..

Celebrities playing volleyball

Chips that I like and eat non stop

National day chopper fly passed

Beautiful Sunset

Mount Faber Point & Henderson Waves

Discover one of the Southern Ridges , comprise a 9-kilometre chain of green, open spaces spanning the rolling hills of Mount Faber Park, Telok Blangah Hill Park and Kent Ridge Park before ending at West Coast Park.

Went to Mount Faber Point, then to Henderson Waves. Very nice panoramic view.

Two little doggie cloud

Sunset

City View

Henderson Waves

The Flyer 18 May 2008

Went to The flyer. Though it would be romantic and nice and quiet. Instead sit inside with a bunch of kids. Damn, I pay $29.50 to suffer for around 35 mins. I have never felt so tortured before. Makes me began to hate kids. Can't shout at them also. Parents may kill me and throw me out of the capsule. Lesson learnt, if have kids, enter another capsule.

Penang

Oh how I wish I can stay longer in Gurney Hotel In Penang. Very shiok. There is even a volleyball court!. So shiok. Didnt get a chance to jump into the pool as stay there one nite only.

After coming back one week I still thinking of Gurney. Gurney I miss you!

oh yeah! My macau/ hongkong trip is next week! 17 Mar to 21 Mar 2008. Finally can eat real good dim sum. Have heard so much about Hongkong finally can go there.

Below the itinerary (Special prepared by dear Kent and Eric):

First Day – 17 Mar 2008

• 1100 Changi Airport Terminal
• 11200 Check In
• 1400 Fly off
• 1730 Arrived in Macau
• 1800 Check in Hotel (Taxi Charge: 80 MOP or $HK, 3 MOP for luggage/ pc, 5 MOP airport surcharge)Holiday InnRUA DE PEQUIM 82-86MACAU SAR, 00000
• 1830 Hunt for dinner A Lorcha, a portuguese restaurant Rua do Almirante Sergio, 289 Bus: 1, 1A, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10A, 11, 18, 21, 21A, 28B, or 34 Just a stone's throw from the Maritime Museum and A-Ma Temple
• 1930 The Venetian Resort (Take hotel shuttle service to ferry terminal for free shuttle)
• 2230 Back to hotel

Second Day – 18 Mar 2008

• 0700 Wake up
• 0800 Checkout hotel
• 0815 Macau ferry terminal
• 0830 Reach ferry terminal (30min interval trip. Est 133/pax)
• 1000 Reach Hong Kong China Ferry Terminal
• 1015 Breakfast at Sweet Dynasty Ground floor, 100 Canton Road – Opp. China Ferry Terminal
• 1130 Check in Dorsett Seaview Hotel (Request for early check in) 268 Shanghai Street Yaumatei Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2782 0882 Alight at Yau Ma Tei MTR (approx. 5 min by foot)
• 1230 HK Island
• 1630 The Peak Take MTR to Central (10 mins ride)Take exit to the PeakWalk up slope for 15 min to tram stationHKD 30 for per person for return trip (HKD 60)On the way up, sit on the right side of the tram operator1700 Reached the peak- go to the north view, take photos etc.1800 Take tram down1845 Dinner at Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront Promenade 2000 Symphony of Lights (Nightly @ 8pm) & Avenue of Stars Exit E of Tsim Sha Tsui MTR
• 2100 Temple Street
• 2230 Back to hotel

Third Day – 19 Mar 2008

• 7.00am Wake up
• 8.00am Breakfast
• 8.30am Ngong Ping 360 - CableTake MTR to Tung Chung, exit B and walk 2 mins to Ngong Ping Skyrail's Tung Chung Terminal (34 mins ride)
• 9.30am Reached Ngong Ping SkyrailWaiting time for Cable car might take up to 60 minsHKD 88 for per pax Return Ngong Ping Skyrail journey only and with Walking with Buddha & Monkey's Tale Theatre attraction. (HKD 230)
• 10.45 am Reached Ngong Ping with 25 mins of travelling time in the cable car.
• 12.00pm Take Skyrail to Tung Chung1.00pm City Gate1.30pm Lunch at City Gate
• 2.30pm Shopping at City Gate (Nike, Pume, NB, Adidas, Quiksilver)
• 6.30pm Dinner at Kowloon
• 9.00pm Back Ladies street, sports street….. Hang Heung Lao Po Bing Wan Chai, 174 Hennessey Rd Causeway Bay, basement of Sogo Department Store Mong Kok, 605A Nathan Road l Wing Wah Lao Po Bing Kiosk Yau Ma Tei,MTR
• 2300 Back to hotel

Fourth Day 20 Mar 2008

• 0700 Wake up
• 0730 Breakfast
• 0800 China Ferry Terminal
• 0915 Arrival at Macau Ferry Terminal
• 0945 Check in Holiday Inn

Fifth Day 21 Mar 2008

• 0700 Wake up0730 Breakfast
• 0830 St Paul's Cathedral, Senado Square

Bus: 8A, 17, 18, 19, or 26. Or a 10-min. walk northwest of Senado Square (off Av. Almeida Ribeiro

• 0900 Macau Tower Largo da Torre de Macau Bus9A, 18, 23, 32
• 1600 Off to the airport

Siloso Beach Resort

Went to Siliso beach resort before I went to Japan. It stated that have sea view. When see outside it was just plants and trees. And they havent totally renovate finished. Therefore,looks like we are in jungle renovated place. But still it was great. Went to Cafe Del Mar but just walk around. We went to Shangri La for a swim at the pool. It was great and relaxing. This pool at Siliso beach was nice also,have jacuzzi. As long as there are jacuzzi, I am easily satisfied. Went to ride the ludge, I wanted to try it out for a long time, finally got a chance. The view was great. Can see the whole view from the top. It was just like I am on top of the world.

Hokkaido Holiday

3 pieces of paper, 10 000 yen cost me SGD400 plus . Felt that it is not enough. Seems like very poor thing.

I went to japan for one week from 29 April till 5 May 2007. Oh travelling were so long, 7 hrs flight and then still have to wait at chitose airport for 3 hrs for transit flight. Total travelling was around 12 hrs. So tired, blur blur like zombie. For the one whole week, I was like zombie.

Didnt think of anything. See any food sample i just eat and eat. Japanese are generous for food tasting sample. Especially chocolate. You would think those chocolate must be cheap stuff but it was not. all are nice and good.

DAY 1 & Day 2

Day 1 was on the plane, Dep at around 11pm. 2nd day,reach the chitose airport around 11am. We visited the salmon aquarium in chitose, one of the only few freshwater fish aquariums left in the world. Here in its underground observation room , you can view thousands of salmon in the Chiotse River swimming towards their bredding ground. However we didnt get to see it. We get to see the salmons in the big fish tank. Went to Otaru music box musuem. What i like was that they have sushi being made as musical box. There are alot of different kind of music box.We got a free procelain cup for free. Mt Moiwa view was just awesome, even though the temperature was around 2-4 degree, but still it was so breathtaking that we just stand there and see the view for around 1/2 an hour.

DAY 3

White chocolate factory was great, we view the process of chocolate making. It was very systematic। The chocolate was delicious. I like the white one more then the black chocolate even though i like dark chocolate more. It taste like a little bit like cheese but yummy. Hokkaido Jingu, one of the Japan's largest shrine was a nice place to go. I pray for good health and good love life. Hope it will be true. Saw some sakura there, but looks pathetic as it has just blossom. Was happy as the first day we went there are only branches.

3rd day in hotel, I didnt try out the hot spring because everyone was tired.

DAY 4

Next place to proceed to Sounkyo Gorge, situated at the foot of Mt Daisetu-zan. The mountain is accented by dramatic columnar cliffs that are lined with waterfall such as shooting star falls. Shooting stars I didnt get to see it. But stars in my eyes I saw it.

DAY 5

Ainu Village was quite interesting, It has the history of their culture. There are bears being feed there and some dogs also. But main show was the culture dancing. One of the woman performed by using a stick and can create music. Inside the room, they have smoked salmon fish also. We almost kena smoked too. The scenery there was great, so soothing and nice.

Next move to Noboribetsu , where we view the Hell valley. There are sulphur valley there, able to see boiling ponds and steaming streams. Sulphur is good for hot spring and good for skin problem and body ache. I love it alot as I like hot spring. It is relaxing. Oh.. interesting part was that when u have your hotspring. Inside all woman are naked. At first was a little bit embarrasing as singapore dont have such acitivities but after a few soaking, we get used to it already. oh.. so shiok to soak open space hot spring. water so hot but outside temperature so cold around 5-10 degrees.

DAY 6 & DAY 7

Going back to sapporo . Beer factory was cool, we get to try out their samples, the orange and apple juice was great. Sapporo beer classic was nice. Get to see the production process, however they were not working on that day. The production area was so clean that maybe it is impossible to find dirt. Quite shiok walking around outside the beer factory as cooling weather, which singapore will never have such weather.

Nijo Fresh seafood market we stayed there for around 45mins. Boring place as we didnt buy any seafood. But lili's sis bought two melon back. One cost around 3,000 Yen which is cost around S$39. S$39 for a melon i dont buy it. But lili said it was very sweet. Susukino Ramen Alley have a lot of ramen restaraunt shops which sell different kind of things,just like orchard road. But they dont have high rise building, all are one storey shops. We went to one of the ramen shop recommended by the tour leader. it was good, but a little bit salty. The dumpling was small but very nice and sweet,yummy. When i think about it my saliva dripping down from my mouth.. I will sip it back. Stayed overnite at Susukino area, it is well know as japan's largest entertainment district. There we saw pachinko parlous, it is quite interesting, our tour leader love to play it alot.But when we went to see it, we dont know what they are doing but only see alot of metal small balls. Our tour leader told us that they have activities like the guy pay an amount of money and then they peep inside a small hole to see the girl strip and the girl will strip slowly to excite him. Siao one, sometimes japanese entertainment are just too much for us.

Sakura, that was the last day that we manage to see it. We were so happy about it and worried for the past 4 days that we will go back empty handed as japan is famous for sakura viewing. Even only a few trees have it but still we were very satisfied.

Overall, quite tiring, but had a great trip. Most of the food I want to try in japan i have tried and I have always dream of going japan. This is my dream come true.

So now have to think of my next trip. Good luck to me...

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