The Rest of Singapore

The places we also visited were Sentosa, Marina Bay and Singapore Flyer.

And I really enjoyed Singapore Flyer. It was my first time riding in a “ferris wheel” because I’m afraid of heights. They gave us a radio with recorded lecture of Singapore’s history and buildings to see during the ride. It was a marvelous sight, you can see everything! It would have been better if you ride during the night.

We went to Sentosa via Cable Car.

That’s the cable car station in Sentosa. We were nearing there.

It’s a spider crab in Underwater World. Really huge crabs; I think they’re the largest species of crabs in the world. There were also lots of sharks, sting rays, fishes of all kinds, jelly fishes, starfishes, and many more.

The cheerful pink dolphin in Dolphin Lagoon.

One of the dolphins jumped gracefully out of the water during the dolphin show.

Singapore Flyer! One whole revolution takes about 30 minutes.

The view inside Singapore Flyer – Marina Bay. The green one is the floating soccer field.

You can only see it in Singapore Flyer. I think this is the future plan for Marina Bay – a city inside a garden.

Singapore Zoo

Of all the tourist spots we visited in Singapore, I enjoyed Singapore Zoo the most! Compared to Manila Zoo, Singapore is really interactive and the animals are not caged! They’re placed in really huge places with boundaries of water to prevent them from escaping or going near the people.  They can really run wild in their natural habitat.

We were given with map of the zoo since the place is really big, somewhere in Woodlands. There were also separate animal shows scheduled in that day, which were quite good and nicely-prepared.

Mousedeer; they kept on hiding inside the bushes

Some black monkey; it was quite cool that they’re free to hang and climb to any trees

Cute otters

Lazy warthogs; they’re all muddy because of the rain

Vicious white tigers

My first time seeing a kangaroo

Emu; large birds that cannot fly

Imagine seeing that during the night

I think it’s a goat; cool horn

A white crane that kept on scratching itself

Giant tortoise

A mountain goat near the cliff

A family of baboons

Hippo drinking in a pond water

Elephant Show!

Sea cows… huge aquatic mammals

Adorable penguins!

Large unmoving crocodile

A viscous Komodo dragon

Inuka – the Polar Bear

Pink flamingos

Bad Cheetah!

Nicely-striped zebra

This is definitely an ostrich

They are sponsored by Abott Growth

Fruit Bat hanging on a branch

That squirrel monkey seem sad

I was a bit disappointed though because there was no panda. Anyway, I had fun!

Arrival To Singapore

April 2, 2009. Tuesday.

We woke up earlier than usual. I really wanted to log in to my internet accounts but my mother told me to take a bath since we couldn’t afford to be late. Then we ate our usual breakfast – hotdog and steamed rice.

As we prepared ourselves, it was odd that I wasn’t excited unlike my younger brother who kept on saying, “Yay! We’re going now. I’m so excited!”. Perhaps I didn’t know what to expect. After all, it would be my first time to ride in an airplance, and my first trip to another country – Singapore.

We have 6 baggage, all full of extra blankets, clothes, and foods such as dried and smoked fish. They were really heavy, good thing my uncle was there to help us put them all in the back of the car. He would also accompany and drive us all the way to  Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.

Food sold in airplanes are really expensive as they say, so we bought some extra food that we could eat during the flight as we arrived at the airport. At 1:30 PM, we checked in. And we went through a lot of things -  they scanned our baggage, then weighed and put them on cargo, then we went to the  Immigration Office, and lastly body inspection. Then we just waited until our airplane arrived – Tiger Airways.

Sadly, I wasn’t able to take pictures of the clouds. They were really fluffy and cute, like cotton candies. And we took off really fast, in just a second, the buildings below became really small like I’m looking at Google Earth. I slept after a few minutes, then ate a cup of noodles we bought in the plane which costs P140! Then after two and a half hours, we arrived at Changi Airport Budget Terminal.

Daddy was already waiting for us to take us in the condominium. But before that, we ate dinner at Burger King. We  also bought SMRT cards – mode of payment for MRT lines and buses in Singapore. Singapore’s transportation is really comfortable, fast and easy. Just tap the card for payment.

And I was surprised to see a lot of condominiums! I guess Singapore is really that small country. And everywhere you turn, there is a badminton court, basketball court, gym equipments and other recreational area.

Singapore – Chua Cho Kang 420