Sentosa

On last monday, being the Vesak Public Holiday, Wayne, Rachel, Dear and I held our picnic in Palawan Beach. We managed to find a shady spot near the beach. And not forgetting to mention, the weather was perfect for the day.

The guys are busily setting up the bright and colourful tent.

We were all so famished by the time we got there.

Here's all the food that we brought from home. There were fried bee hoon, curry chicken, sandwiches, mango pudding, jellies as well as bottles of soft drinks.

We basically didnt do much on the beach except lazing.

It was a rather relaxing afternoon.

I got sunburnt on my arms, legs and face! Hope it will recover real soon.

We headed to The Sentosa Luge and Skyride in the late noon.

The Sentosa Luge allows us to race down or cruise leisurely along a paved track with a unique steering and braking system.

'Stop at the yellow box, yellow yellow box'

(Quotes of the day)

And lastly to the Sentosa 4D Magix. It is Singapore first and Southeast Asia largest 4th dimensional theatre. The 4D show is currently screening "Pirates". The fully-automated show lasted for only 15 minutes. Research has taken place and find that anything above 15 minutes, the audience will not be able to take the surprises in the theatre. This is unlike a normal movie where audiences sit in for 90 minutes.

They are having 2-1 combo package now. It cost $29 per person for 4D Magix and Cine Blast. The usual price is $32 for both.

To end our day, we meet up with Darren and Felicia for our late dinner at Jumbo Seafood, located at East Coast Park.

As usual we ordered their heavenly dishes such as chilli crabs, deep fried baby squid, brocholli greens in garlic, cereal prawns, steamed fish as well as their fried man tou. And followed by desserts at the nearby hawker center.

Tomorrow i will be having department lunch with my colleagues and boss at the Tower Club Singapore!

It was Singapore's Premier Private Business Club.
BA XIAN DINING ROOM
Cantonese Cuisine
The Ba Xian (Eight Immortals) Dining Room features Chinese regional delicacies. Tastefully decorated with Chinese screens, its spaciousness and relaxed ambience has always been its winning features. It comes complete with six cosy private dining rooms perfect for social gatherings. Above all, this grand dining hall never fails to delight your palate each time with its extensive menu of traditional recipes and innovative creations.

Shokodu

Shokudo is a new Japanese restaurant at the Raffles City that has adopted the Marche and Village concept. If you are a fan of marche or Village, chances are you would love shokudo japanese food bazaar. Shokudo shares the similar concept of having several cooking stations under one roof, but with japanese cuisine instead. It was located at the new basement extension of raffles city shopping centre. Upon entering the restaurant, everyone is given a card that they will have to charge all their purchases to.

The most interesting thing about Shokudo is the design of the restaurant. Each section of the restaurant has its own unique Japanese theme. I spotted a kids corner, an anime corner, a traditional Japanese corner, and a Sakura corner. There’s also neoprint machines in the restaurant!

We are able to find the rosti here too, which is a signature potato dish at marche.

There were so many choices and everything looked tempting to me!

The dish is served popiah-style, with the omelette wrapped around the ingredients such as mushroom and cheese and cut into different segments. delicious mayonnaise is then drizzled generously over it.

I LOVE THIS THE MOST!

I’m going back to shokudo soon just to get a taste of the omelette again!

There are quite a few more items we have yet to try, and would probably give it a shot again. If you choose the right stuff to eat, you’d probably get a good deal out of it.

My new HTC touch.

Dear bought the handphone strap for me at The Dotz located at Raffles City with his and my chinese name engraved onto it.

Tuk Tuk in Bangkok

Tuk Tuk in Bangkok.

It is a sort of motorized rickshaw and is very popular in Bangkok.

Bangkok Day 4

~Day 4~

Pratunam Market (Wholesale)

Platinum Mall (Wholesale)

Chinatown

The view of Twin Tower Hotel entrance view.

It was our last day in Bangkok, so we decided to skip our hotel breakfast in the morning to do a last minute shopping spree!

Pratunam market open daily from morning until late afternoon. It is proved to be the great place for clothes at rock bottom prices. However you have to purchase more than three pieces to get the benefit of the wholesale price.

We enjoy walking around checking for quality and bargains.

We also went to the Platinum Complex across the road. It is an up-market version but with air-conditioning and wider aisles.

Platinum Fashion Mall caters especially to wholesale clothing, selling a similar range of clothing to the Pratunam Market. The mall has six floors which are filled with small outlets. Most of them specialising in women's clothing and fashion accessories. Since this is a wholesale mall, the items are at very reasonable prices provided we purchase larger quantities, usually three items and up.

Our buy from Pratunam Market and Platinum Mall.

We went back to the hotel after our last minute shopping at Pratunam Market and Platinum Mall to freshen up and do our last packing for our baggage before we headed to Chinatown for our late lunch.

We order their longan ice blended, tom yam soup, fried rice, fried squid as well as their duck meat. Once again, we are not able to finish up all the dishes. What a waste.

We went back to the hotel to collect our baggage and went straight to the Suvarnabhumi airport by cab. Our flight is at 8.50pm but we reached the Airport at 4pm. It was too early to check in so we decided to chill out at Caffe Nero.

We ordered their iced mocha and iced cappuccino. Furthermore dear insisted to order one additional plate of duck meat to share. I am too full for that. And he managed to finish up all by himself.

The airport charged us a hefty fees of S$108.67 for our overweight bags of 11.5 kilo! It was THB 250 per kilo which is equivalent to S$10 per kilo. We were alarmed! Luckily we were allowed to pay by credit card as we didnt carry much cash with us at that point of time. Each passenger is entitled to check in up to 20KG of baggage and a limit of 7KG of cabin baggage applies for each passenger.

I think we must start purchasing a bag that is small enough to keep us from the temptation of overpacking. :P

We had our quick dinner at DQ before we took our flight back to Singapore.

We reached Singapore Changi Airport at 12.05am in the morning and dear's dad and his brother came to pick us up.

Goodbye bangkok!

Hope to see you soon again...