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 =))
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.
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
