[S]o [E]xpensive and [N]othing [TO] [S]ee [A]ctually

Okay, thats rather biased. I do have to admit sentosa’s facilities have improved slightly since the last time i visited. This time round, my handy Panasonic GS-300 camcorder. I guess after some practice, still shots off the GS-300 are actually pretty clear and good, despite of course the inferior and rather primitive 3.1 megapixels resolution (versus the likeness of 8.1 to 10 megapixels off a canon/nikon standard these days).

So after Jarred’s ranting and non-stop persuasion on on thursday, i decided to finally wake up at 9.25 am on friday, rushed, bathed and met the TPJBanders over at harbourfront MRT station at 10.15 am, 15 minutes late. Fortunately, some other bunch of band people were later. So spent some time messing with the camera and went to swiss-bake and harbourfront centre and grabbed a croissant. Wow, you really need to try a croissant yakitate (okay the anime/manga really means “freshly baked) in the morning, you can feel the delicious streaks of semi-salted butter run down the layers of bread.

So instead of the monorail which actually cost the same, we spent $3 to take the shuttle bus near the kopititam on the other side of vivocity, reached sentosa, walked to and settled down at Palawan Beach. Ok today was pretty warm (fortunately not too humid). Beach was still pretty empty then so finding a spot under the tree wasn’t much of a problem. Sincerely, i wasn’t there to have fun/play games at the beach, rather more interested with taking pictures so spent most of my time filming and taking pictures:

Oh yeah, then there was this peacock roaming on the sands:

 

Then jarred was a little bored so we walked the wooden bridge over to southermost point of the asian continent (not sure what the name of the place was). And took more shots from the tower, this one was with max opticial zoom:

 

Had a cheng teng with jarred at the koufu foodcourt located just beside palawan beach, and after their captain balls game Jarred, Boon Kiat, Sung Lee and some other band juniors decided to go find a cheap spot to play pool over at siloso beach, so i tagged along. Though we found the $2/game open-air pool spot to have been booked by two white tourist so we headed to Subway, which was a close walk away, to have lunch. Those familiar with www.failblog.wordpress.com would be surprised now… my first contribution (very good one i would say), of a “fail” pic, take a look:

Besides that, i shared a teriyaki chicken subway with boon kiat, which in my opinion tasted very inferior to those you might find back in singaporean “mainland” (not too politically correct i know), the already flavourless (except saltiness, teriyaki was almost absent) chicken masked twice by the vegetables (they serve yellow tomatoes there, a nightmare), and again by the sauce (we had honey mustard, its quite appetising). And apparently, they only had italian and hearty italian [almost (baked lightly) baguette-like breads, taste like it without the that crust], and the way the guy put it to us,

“I can only accept italian and hearty italian”, guess who’s the customer here? Lol.

So after that meal, we tried our luck again, fortunately this time the pool table was freed up and had one game. Before leaving for palawan beach (for bags) again, while i tried americano (yet again, very low standard coffee at sentosa’s coffee bean) when the gang finally decided to leave earlier to catch a movie at vivocity. This time we went by monorail, apparently the gates to the monorail were ez-link like now? (Or am i ignorant that they were since a long time ago?)

We were supposed to watch kungfu panda but were told at the counter “There are only row 1 seats left” so that left us wondering on what to do to satisfy our original intentions of watching a movie. Guess what, we ended up travelling to Tampines safra to play bowling. That took us about an hour and 15 mins of travelling time by MRT. And god, all the bowling lanes were filled up (friday night). So, we ended up playing pool and photo-hunt at the game machine. Something interesting about tampines safra, now they have a computerised dart alley system were you pay $2 for 6 throws, didn’t try it, but apparent a bunch of pros (ah peh champions) were getting 3 bulls-eyes out of 3 throws every round. Had this $4.10 fried rice at the bowling centre, somewhat over-priced but the guy meticulous spent 15 minutes frying the rice and it turned out to be really good. Oh yeah, my one-on-one pool game with jarred ended with jarred hitting the 8-ball in just as he cleared his 2nd last colour (i was left with 4, luck issue, or bloody excuse).

So the day ended with me taking bus 59 and switching to 81 at TPJC busstop.

Oh yeah and so the last packet of 100g japanese cuttlefish ($1.95 offer price) at cheers was purchased by me.

   

 

 

 

 

~ by tysploevil2005 on June 14, 2008.