anyways, was out with my family ytd. daddy wanted to go to singapore flyer in the morning. but then mummy had heights.. haha so i pei-ed her walk ard city hall while my dad and bro went up to the ferris wheel. haha but the problem was there weren't many shops open at 10.30am in city hall -_-''' haha so nwae, they finished the ride at abt 11, and we cabbed down from suntec to meet them for $3.00 (haha fyi, starting fare was $2.80 -.-'') ok then we ate...POPEYES!! ta-dah!! ^^ oh the popeyes there is much much much bigger than the one at airport! hahaha. at least 4 or 5 times bigger i think. yay. i still think popeyes rocks! haha if you westies haven't tried it before, coz it was cooped up at changi airport for too long, pls go try it!! it's real GOOD. it's what made me stop eating kfc...hahahaa. i mean, i've eaten kfc for less than 10 times ever since i started eating popeyes at...sec 4? j1(4 yrs ago!)? hahaha.
anyways, i kind of like the place over there. as in there aren't many shops except restaurants and souvenir shops, so we didn't really walk ard there. but i like the feeling you get there, when you're standing outside all the shops and blah. coz it's reclaimed land over there, and they can't really build high-rise buildings there yet, so all the buildings there are kind of like 1 or 2 storeys tall only. so it's actually quite vast and i felt so good, just standing in the middle of town, and getting to see the nice blue skies and fluffy white clouds like so near me for once. =) yeap, i guess i'm either cooped up around high-rise buildings for too long, or i'm slightly demented; but i really had to urge to stop there, in my midway of heading to the toilet, and just admire the skies. haha!
oh comments from my dad and bro was that there wasn't really much nice stuff to see from up there. hahaa. not that nothing to see, just that doesn't look that nice to them. oh wells~ i duno. i kind of always have the feeling that ferris wheels look nicer from the outside than from the inside. hahaa. maybe coz i haven't been in a country that has a nice enough view to complement the ferris wheel before. -nehh- haha. but still, i want to go take the singapore flyer one day with deardear! yay! =))
oh, and the cabbie who drove us there told us that if you want to book one whole cabin to hold a party of sth inside, it'll cost you $8888. woo! hahaa~
okay, moving on. ytd was kind of a Explore Singapore day for us~ hahaa. coz after that we went....
(http://www.nparks.gov.sg/southernridges.html#htw)haha it's this series of bridges and trails and blahblahblahs that stretches on and on from harbourfront to mt faber to telok blangah hill park to alexandra to hort park to kent ridge park for 9+km. ahaaa~ anyways, we only walked the bit from alexandra (near ex-SAJC!! ^^) to hbf mrt, and it took us 1.5 hours! hahaa. and it was just plain stupid to go at NOON. hahaha. i definitely don't mind returning there again, coz it's great and i think it'd be nice to walk with friends too who wouldn't hurry me to finish it up -_-''' oh but in the morning pls! or evening, if we're gonna catch the pretty lights! hahaa.
anyway, we started just after the alexandra arch, which is basically start from the Forest Walk. (pls refer to the webbie above as you read!) it's really this long long longggggggg and winding metal bridge. and if you're and ex-sajc student or work somewhere near there, i think you'd have at some point, stood somewhere near those foresty patches, and wondered what will happen if you drop down into those -where's-the-bottom- forests, and if anybody ever goes into them.. haha. well, the metal bridge is basically built above those endless patches of forests. and it doesn't seem that scary anymore actually.. haha. the slopes of the bridges are built so gentle and nicely that you'd conquer it easily without realising you've covered so much depth! haha. but it was a long walk, nevertheless.
next was telok blangah hill park there (owtenos/fitness ppl! is that the first 'mountain' we went up for 24hrs camp??!).. there was the Hilltop Walk, but what i really loveeeeeeee is the Henderson Wave man!! it's actually walking inside that huge wave you see in the picture above! ^^ hahaha so coool rite. it's all wood! and the way they make the bridge is like, part of the bridge is also the benches!! haha so ppl just basically sit there and laze very comfortably, and many families gather there to sit around and chat all that. heh heh. and it's very easy to walk! not tedious at all!! (:
then we went on to mt faber! yay! felt so high up.. hahaha. could see quite a bit of stuff. heh. Faber Walk was okay i suppose. the breeze there was definitely cooler, and the land was also somehow nicer to walk on too. hahaa..
last was the trail leadinf from mt faber to harbourfront. i swear that was the scariest of all to me!!! hahaha. Marang Trail wasn't as scary as i made it up to be, of coz. but the problem was, it's basically kind of a trail like those you walk through in macritchie reservoir. but the problem for me was...it's all STEPS winding down and down and down! plus all the sand and little stones around! yes, if you know huiting, the situation i described above is what i had a rich experience and high susceptibility of spraining my leg and flying off from bicycles in. hahaa so i was quite terrified, and walked so slowwwwwly and careeeeefully, and gripped every staircase railing i could find. even my mummy walks faster than me!! =XX hahaa but i really have quite a phobia after falling down and flying the un-heroes way too many times under such circumstances. and i have a secret love for staircases going UP instead of DOWN, coz i fall down more often on my way down. -_-''' so the trail goes down and down and down, and when we're finally at hbf, i was so relieved and happy and proud of myself for not falling down!! wahahhaa ^^
anyways, i definitely am going back one day to complete the wholeeeeee trail of bridges this time, and go to Hort Park too!! really quite disappointed they didn't go to Hort Park! hmmmm.
oh! anyways, here are some random pics taken in a hurry. coz my family walks real fast, and don't have the habbit or liking to take photos. haha so these are real random, and cui coz they are taken with the 1.3M camera phone. hahaha..
yea yeap. i better be off to memorise thy PROTOCOLS now!!! =((
tchao! ^^
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