Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Genting's Snow world, all new!

I shared about Genting in my previous post and this is a Part 2 for it! I am sure you all who been there remembered the Snow World? NO?

But do you know that it was recently renovated and is open now!

So, if you are not a theme-park kind of person.. How about enjoying the fun indoor at a cooling -6°C? Or have a fun time playing with slides?!
Otherwise, it can be quite a picture worthy place too!

All these we can't get in Singapore but just by crossing over to the border, it's now all possible! I really love short getaway over the weekend!

Visit here for more info: http://www.rwgenting.com.sg/en/themepark/rides/indoor/snowworld/index.htm

p/s: Am really excited to go Genting this season! :)

xoxo.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Genting's late night shopping 9nov - 31dec!

I remembered my first oversea trip with TAN Z Y was to GENTING! :) In fact, that was the first time we celebrate Christmas together backed in 2010.

sharing with you some of their nice christmas decoration back then;



& don't you just love the cooling weather there, especially so when you can go to the themepark and queue without having to sweat?!

Us at their outdoor theme park!

Alright to the main point, which is a BONUS to visit GENTING now!



Late night shopping event at First World Plaza! All the shops in First World Plaza will be open from 10am to 1am, between 9 November to 31 December!

Do you know they have a total of 60 Retail and 70 F&B outlets, not forgetting their outdoor & indoor theme park!

Visit here for your shopping list now: Genting

i am ending with this;



Dont miss the late night shopping at Genting - First World Plaza 9nov-31dec, 10am to 1am! Thats a total of 15hours! Enjoy the holiday season! :) Shopping is really never enough!

xoxo.

Friday, November 02, 2012

Outback Steakhouse!

This post was supposed to be written last week during the long weekend but due to the surprised TAN Z Y gave me. It have been delayed till today.

More on the surprise next time, it's for our 2nd year anniversary and he actually rented a car and bravely drive me out despite not driving for a year after he gotten his licence last year. yes, i know i am truly blessed.

So last friday, we wanted to go for a proper date because as mentioned in the earlier post for all the past weekend(s), he has been busy for his exams.

Guess what, we only managed to leave the house at 5pm LOL.
too much for repaying our sleep debts i guess :P
Went for a good dinner and movie thereafter to compensate!

First time at Outback Steakhouse, definitely not the last time. :)
Top: Bread and Butter (Complimentary)
Mine on the bottom left: Chicken on the Barbie $19.90
TAN Z Y: Outback Special 11oz $33.90
We ordered their sofe drinks too at $4.90 only, it's refillable!
Price is before GST and service charge :D

9 Raffles Boulevard
#01-99 @ Millenia Walk, Singapore 039596
Opening hours: Daily: 11:30 - 14:00, Mon - Thu: 17:30 - 22:30, Fri - Sat: 17:30 - 23:00, Sun & PH: 17:30 - 22:00

For their full menu: Outback Steakhouse

TAN Z Y was saying their steak was very good, he seldom give such good remark so you can take his recommendation :)
Mine was good too and their portion is really generous.
Bonus: Their service was good too, the staff actually take the initiative to help us fill our drinks ~
in all we had a very awesome time there :D

Movie time at Marina Square - Taken 2!



Synopsis: Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.

Personal rating: 4/5
Awesome show i would say, at the same day me and TAN Z Y come home to search for Taken 1 to watch it! :D Very exciting plot too, but do people like the main lead really exist? hmm.

that's about all, we watch SKYFALL on wednesday too!
it's a long 2.5hours and we would reommend that too :)

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

xoxo.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

So I took my first step :)

After much preparation, I finally make my first step. It have been 2 months and I think it's time to start the planning. I hope things turn out well and I shall update here again. *Pray for me pls!

Till then :)

& all the best to the RMIT friends who's having their exams!

I always remember how hard I suffered during my UOLs day. Thankful to have a batch of friend studying together and there to encourage each other. So if you ever feel like giving up, asked what make you come so far and don't!

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a huge battle.


xoxo

Monday, October 22, 2012

Long weekend!

Yay to the long weekend, guess a lot of us is anticipating it :) I am! Need to repay my sleeping debt for sure.

TAN Z Y have been burning our weekend(s) by studying for the past 1 month or so. Of cause i tag along!

So it's finally a break for US! Since his last paper is in nov, we decide that we will go for at least a movie and going to eat at Orange Lobster~ 👫

xoxo.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Ultimate Hawker Fest 2012

Me and TAN Z Y went to the Ultimate Hawker Fest yesterday at Millenia Walk. It'a a fund-raising event that features some of the famous hawker cuisine.


Glad we went and really enjoyed the food. Furthermore, it's all for a good cause!

Here's the Boston Scallop Laksa by celebrity chef, Eric Teo. I insist on queuing for this, and gotten it only after at least 30mins of wait. *Good food are worth the wait :) Love the soup base.

We also quene for this;
Geyland Lor 29 - Hokkien Mee
No picture because TAN Z Y started eating before I get to take it. *He eat a lot and everything! LOL, We love the chili from these!

It started pouring but everyone was still very supportive. Many still continue queuing with umbrella. Thank to the kind soul who lent us the umbrella for us to takeaway 4 Happy boy's taohuey from 592 Geyland Road.

:D we will definitely be back if this is a yearly event. & honestly all these hawker food are really good!
For more information on Ultimate Hawker Fest and the full menu: Ultimate Hawker Fest

These Hawker food are all recommended by the food blogger: Dr Leslie Tay who write on ieatishootipost.sg Now I can't wait to get his book so that TAN Z Y can start to plan for our feasting route :P !

Ending with this;
my 1st Carlo Rino's bag :D
Thanks Jemmawei.com for the $50 voucher, I only pay . .

$14 for a bag that cost $90 originally. Loving the GST absorb by Changi Airport selected stores :)

Love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the ride worth while.

xoxo

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Changi Dash - Final

You can read more about Changi Dash here: Changi Dash - Part 1,this was how we actually proceed to the final :)

We was told to gather at Terminal 3, Changi Airport on the final which took place on 13th October, 10am.

Here's the Final 9 teams, one team drop out due to their personal reason :)
Glad we didn't look too sleepy early in the morning :P

We are Team 4! & I am so surprised they actually bring us into the Transit Area for the final dash! but this would also means those things me and TAN Z Y recce before the race was useless HAHA!

Eugene giving us briefing before the start of the race and the BONUS CHALLENGE, more on that later.

We was then given a file with Challenge #1, Bonus challenge and 5 Code breaker that you will need to decode all the clues. Whenever we complete the station's challenge, we will only be given clue to the next station and we would have to decode it before knowing where it is.

The power of smartphone and google :P

Challenge #1 - History of Changi Airport, where we have fill in the blanks and that's Jonathan & Nadia solving the clue to the next station. The last photo was one of the code breaker.

So the clue lead us to the 2nd stop which is the SWIMMING POOL, i never knew this exist in the airport but it really does, at Terminal 1, Level 3.



Challenge #2 was to take a photo with the swimming pool at the background and BOTH PARTICIPANTS must be in the photo. Thereafter, create a tweet with the photo attached.

Here's our tweet and photo :D Super sunny day! & Thanks to people who helped us retweet the tweet, it actually save us 10 seconds for each retweets!

The next clue we decode lead us to one of the Perfumes and Cosmetic store, here we are to told to find the price of 5 item. Only the name of the item was given to us hence we don't even know how they look like.

This actually slow down quite a few teams and guess what TAN Z Y couldn't even find one. :X He say guys are not good with beauty items LOL.

Challenge #3: We have to compare the price we found with their original price (given to us) calculate the amount save, percentage of savings and total them all up.

Here's us queneing up to let the station master check our answers and hoping hard to get the clue for the next station HAHA!

The next clue we decode was DENDROBIUM, which we manage to solve only after being enlighten by Wendy. Such a killer clue, this was actually the Name of flower at one of the Nature Trail - Orchid Garden & Koi Pond at Terminal 2.

A very picture worthy place, in fact we do see people taking photo there.

Challenge #4: To take photo with the Silkair to Kuala Lumpar sign with at least one member in it and at the same time found out how many daily flight Silkair have to KL. Thereafter upload the photo with the answer to facebook. This TAN Z Y do it himself because it was too far away for me to run :O but only receiving the call later from him asking me to RUN OVER to complete the Bonus Challenge.

Here's our post in facebook, again the like will reduct our final timing by 10 second per like :)

After running over, me and TAN Z Y manage to complete their BONUS CHALLENGE. The challenge was to find either the Silkair's Flight Stewardess or Lead Flight Stewardess to take a photo with them, BOTH member must be in the photo. Thereafter the first to load it onto facebook with all the instruction given (place to tag etc) will get a time bonus.

Each team can only submit ONE photo and claim either ONE of the time bonus. Photo with Silkair's Flight Stewardess will deduct 10 minutes & Photo with Lead Flight Stewardess will deduct 20 minutes.

The bottom one was our photo, we thought it will be safe to take with all of them because if any one of the time bonus was claimed we will still get the other one.

AND BINGO, the 10minutes time bonus was alrady claimed. We gotten the 20minutes time bonus :D *Super happy on this!

Next Clue we manage to decode give us "Garra Rufa", guess what this is the Name of a fish which lead us to the next stop Fish Spa & Foot Reflexology at Terminal 1.

Here there is Tag Team Challenge #5: Where we have to chose one partner to stay at the Fish Spa and another partner to go about. The challenge will only be reveal to each of us after we decide who to stay, and who to go.

So i stayed and my challenge was to . . .

Do fish spa and upload the photo i took to facebook which is the easier one :X

We are not to remove our foot from the water until our partner are back. If we remove, time will be added to our final timing. Here was where i start whatspping the different whatsapp group to gather like! :D

And for my poor partner, he told me he has to run to different Terminals to just complete that challenge.

He was the 2nd to come back then, with his shirt all wet :X Their challenge was to find the wood block to colour their paper with it and he told me those woodblok exist at all terminal so they have to find the right one. :O

Next Clue was the top right hand photo which bring us to Harry's.



Challenge #6: A cocktail was given to us and we have to drink it to guess which was the right one. We will only be given one try to tick one out of the 5 choice given to us. If we are wrong, we are to stay there for 10minutes. The choices given to us tell us what ingredient was in it but some was really too similar so a few team got stuck there.

Luck really shine on us that day because both of us got it right on the 1st try!

Next clue decode bring us to Butterfly Garden at Terminal 3.

Here the Tag Team Challenge #7 was again activated ! my brave partner let me stay this time and again mine was the easier one! *don't know to laugh or cry! I just have to go into the butterfly garden to find answer and fill in the blank while poor partner run around T3 to find art pieces to take photo with!

There are 5 art installation to find and from what he told me, it's from one end to the other.

Again, he come back with wet t-shirt :O while i was massaging myself with the free OTO Powerfoot machine :X

On the sky train to Orchid Cafe at Terminal 2. Did i mentioned throughout the dash, they make us run from one terminal to another?

Arrived at the Orchid Cafe and right behind was the Gaming Room.

Challenge #8: Only one partner is to complete this challenge, and my partner say he want to do it because he see the it's gaming! HAHA, right choice! They are to play the Kinect Bowling and hit 150points to complete the challenge. On top of it, if we can get 200points and above, there will be a bonus given which is 10minutes deduction!

Very focus all of us!

Here's my partner which was the only one who get the time bonus! He actually got 219 points at the end of it and keep telling me it's fun!

We then proceed to the last Pitstop which is the Asia's Largest M&M's store at Terminal 2.

There our time was stopped and i remembered our timing was 3hr12mins! We come in as 2nd before counting all the time bonus and likes/retweet we get!

All team gathered at The Green Market for our lunch sponsered by Changi Airport Group, all i can say is they really took goof care of all of us.

One team actually thought it was the challenge like the initial round and hence they eat really fast until one of the organiser ask them why they are eating so fast LOLS.

& prize presentation time, everyone win something back!

All waiting !

The 4th to 9th team got $200 in Changi Dollar Vouchers as well :)

3rd: Jonathan & Nadia who was actually the first to complete the race. They win $1,000 in Changi Dollar Vouchers and a pair of return SilkAir tickets to Lombok, Indonesia.

2nd: Benjamin & Ding Jie. They win $2,000 in Changi Dollar Vouchers and a pair of return SilkAir tickets to Da Nang, Vietnam.

1st: Me and my partner, Calvin Tan :) We won $5,000 in Changi Dollar Vouchers and a pair of return SilkAir tickets to a any destination of our choice.

I am ending this post who these pictures;

Us with the organisers!

The very nice photo the photographer took!

The hardworking organiser - Changi Airport Group who make this event happen, it was really very fun! Thank you for choosing us to be part of this, we enjoyed every bit of the dash and know Changi Airport a lot better now. :)

Would like to THANKS EVERYONE who have make this happen, it will never be possible without all of you! Deeply appreciated.

p/s: We looked forward to Changi Dash 2013 already! Credit Changi Airport for all the photos! and also the ONLY photographer throughout the race Ray Chng.

Stay positive and always be happy! Not because everything is good, but because you see the good side of everything.

xoxo.