Singapore : Ajak aku piknik, dan aku akan bangun lebih pagi dari kemarin

Traveling. Dya love traveling?

I think all people do, though they’ve different favorite destination. Some people like beaches so much, so they hunt all beaches in the world. Some like history places like palace, museum, monument, etc. Some like city tour and others. What about you? I love them all :D

On last Nov 03-05, 13, my closed friend, my lovely sister, Dewi and I, had a chance to see Singapore. Yea, we planned this long time ago. It was our first experience to go to foreign country. We chose Singapore, cause seems the country looks fascinating.

We only had 3 days for it, due to our duty. Yup, we work, we’re employee, so couldn’t leave our job for long time. We’re superb excited. We prepared it maybe, mmm, around 2-3 months before, hahhahhaa...

We hunted tickets, looked for the cheapest ones, booked a hotel, also looked for the cheapest but finally we got the expensive ones cause we traveled on Sunday, and also on public holiday. Everything turned to be expensive, uh..

We prepared a simple itinerary, bought USS tickets, changed our money, printed MRT map and so on and so on. Hehhhe, we’re a lil bit afraid if we got lost.

Finally, on Nov 03, 2013, on Sunday exactly, I got up very earlier :”>

I always get up early in the morning when I will have traveling. I rarely do this, I’m often late everyday to work, lol. After we’re ready for all, we reached Adi Sucipto airport by catching a taxi. Our flight was at 07.40 am by Air Asia. We checked in, passed the immigration checking, etc etc and yea, we boarded then. Jogja to Singapore took around 2 hours by plane. After arriving at Changi airport, and managed everything including our luggage, we bought an MRT tickets. Many people could speak Indonesian there, so we’re not worried. We bought the EZ Link for 3 days. It's charged 30 SGD. We needed to queue for some minutes to get it.

After getting it, we’re confused where we should go. Oh ya, we got difficulty to see security or someone to ask. Maybe because the country is managed well, so they don’t need security attendant anymore. Maybe.

We then asked to the attendant we met. Our first destination was Amariz Hotel. We already booked a room there, and needed to keep the heavy luggage before continuing to travel. Thanks God, although we’re in doubt, finally we stopped in the right place. We stopped in Bugis.  And the drama continued, seems we still got difficulty to find the hotel. We asked someone, we asked another one, and last I asked a hotel attendant. He told me clearly. The hotel was not too far from there, and we found easily then.

After checking in, we kept our luggage in the room 606 in the sixth floor. We continued our traveling. We went to Esplanade. Hahahha, we’re totally confused where to go. But, we stopped first in Mc D to have lunch. Hmm, there was no rice there, so we only had burger and french fries. After finishing our food, we took a bus. Someone suggested us to take bus 311 if I’m not forgot. But then I re-asked to the driver. The driver said the bus didn’t pass Esplanade. One of the passengers knew our problem. He, then informed us to stop and changed another bus. We followed his instruction since we also had no idea, lol

After changing a bus, I asked to the driver again, and he stopped in a bus station closed to Esplanade. We needed to walk some minutes but it’s not a problem. While walking, we took pictures everywhere. We passed a garden and saw many Singaporean enjoying there. They played a guitar and sang songs. Hmmm, the song was like in Chinese or mandarin language, not too sure. Some of them had food, something like potluck party maybe. Some just talked each other.

 Esplanade was nice. The big Durian buildings, closed to river and Merlion Park. We enjoyed there so much. Took pictures here and there. We came to the Esplanade Mall, just looked around for a while, and we had an uncle ice cream there. The price was 1,2 SGD. It’s so delicious, unfortunately, the Durian flavor was running out, so I bought the blueberry one.

After that, we went to Merlion Park. Everybody who travels in Singapore always having pictures there. We did also, many times =))

Next, we went to Raffless place. We’re a little bit confused again where to go, but then a Singaporean girl told us. We only needed to walk, cause it’s closed. On the way to Raffless Place, we bought a mineral water. The price was around 1 SGD.

Time flew. It turned to be evening fast.

On the evening, we went to Clarke Quay. The place was in Singapore river. Clarke Quay was like Prawirotaman Jogja. There’re many cafes, sold many kinds of food, and we could have it besides the river. We also could take a boat to look around the river but we didn’t. We’re not too interested since we’re lil bit tired. We went there for some hours. Listened to music that was played in the Cafes. Took pictures. Saw the river, saw the people on boat. Huhhmm, it was nice.

After satisfying in Clarke Quay, we moved to China Town. It’s closed enough so we only walked. We looked around China Town, hunted gifts or souvenirs. We got nothing there. The price was not too expensive but we decided to buy in Bugis street, near the hotel. We then went back to hotel since the MRT was only operated till at 00.00 am.

We arrived at Bugis, looked  for dinner. Since we felt full enough, we didn't buy. We went back to our room and had food we brought from Indonesia. We took shower, made instant noodle, charged everything. Our body, our gadgets. Chatted with some friends, uploaded some pictures on FB, updated status, stalked on twitter, ohhhh...

Second day.

I got up earlier (again) than my sister =))

As our itinerary we made, we would spend much time in USS. After having breakfast at the hotel, we went to USS. We already could read the MRT map, so in the second day, we didn’t need to ask many people *benerin kacamata*

We took the MRT in Bugis, went to Vivo Mall. The Mall was opened 24 hours. We lifted to the third floor. Akh, each part of the place were nice. We stopped and stopped and stopped again to have pictures there.

We then bought a ticket to go to Sentosa Island. It's charged 4 SGD. We caught the train, and it only needed around 10 minutes. We arrived in USS and aaaaaa.....loved it.

Before queuing to enter the place, we looked around, found a chocolate world shop, a candy world shop, found a big sea aquarium.

Happyh Happyh Happyh.

 We then queued like others, people from many countries. It made us thirsty and lil bit hungry. After passing the gate, we needed to queue and queue and queue again to play the kinds of playground. First we watched a 3D movie. Aaaa, it was like a real one. We felt the water, the wind, the cold situation, etc.

Then we walked around, played other ones. Something I liked the most was, when we queued, we’re really comfortable. We didn’t feel hot even we queued in outside places. there were always many fan, and, if we’re thirsty, we could take water there.

After spending many hours in USS, we went back to the chocolate shop. We bought many. We continued to Sentosa Island, caught a cable train named Gondola. The ticket was 26 SGD for a person. We’re just two persons, and enjoyed the Gondola around a half an hour. We could see the whole Singapore from above. Aaaaaa...aaaaaa....aaaaa....aaaaaa.....*ketawa norak*

 On that day, it rained. Uhh, lucky us we brought an umbrella :D....after that, we had lunch in KFC. Yea, we had rice there, but the rice was different from what we eat everyday. But that’s OK, delicious also. The rain stopped, we continued to walk around Sentosa Island. Oh ya, we took a train to get there. We went to Siloso beach, saw some lounges, cafes, and all places were so clean. No rubbish everywhere.

We planned to see Song Of The Sea, but the attendant said, if rain came again, there should be no show. So we waited while looking at around. We caught a free tram, looked around the island including to see the Palawan beach.

Oh ya, the Song Of The Sea were played 2 times, at 07.40 pm and 20.40 pm. We finally bought tickets and chose the first show. We bought regular tickets and the price was 12 SGD for one person. The show was around an hour, and woowwww.....it was amazing water fountain, combined by some children who played drama. They sang songs in different languages. We’re happy so much.

 Our socond day was completed by shopping in Bugis. We bought bags, then the seller gave us some earrings and a wallet for bonus. Whoaa, how lucky we’re. We bought other souvenirs like watches, t-shirts, key-chains, etc. The place was like Malioboro. Everything was not too expensive and unlucky, they opened till at 10.00 pm only. So we shopped in hurry and not satisfied.

After buying some things, we looked for a dinner. We walked in Bugis street and found some vendors. I thought the sellers were Malaysian. We bought rice and noodle there. Roughly, the price was about 2-3 SGD. We went back to hotel, had the food, took shower, and packed what we bought. Last we slept so tight, zzzzzzz.....

Third day.

We actually planned to Marina Bay Sand, Orchard Road and Little India, but we had no enough time to do that since we should leave Singapore around at 02.30 pm, so after having breakfast at hotel, we decided to go back to Bugis street. We continued shopping there. Still needed buying several things for Mom, Dad, and friends. 

At 11.00 pm, we went back to hotel, for final packing. We checked out, headed to Changi airport. After checking in Lion counter, we still had much time to wait. We took pictures, had food and drink. Lucky us, the flight was not delayed :D

 We leaft Singapore for Jakarta. Yea, we transited there. We had lunch at BCA Lounge while waiting for our next flight to Jogja. As the schedule, we would leave Jakarta at 07.35 pm, the last flight of Garuda, but the flight was delayed around an hour. Even though we’re tired, but we’re cheer up still.

We arrived at Jogja around 10.00 pm, and I arrived at boarding house 10.30 om. Whoaaa,,, Alhamdulillah :D .... I thanked YOU sooo much my Lord.

Well, I missed some places in the trip, hope someday I’ve a chance again to see them. But, our next plan is going to Thailand. Who’ll be in? Dan pasti, aku akan bangun lebih pagi lagi :D