131021 – 22 Batam

We woke up early to catch the ferry to Batam at Harbourfront. Batam usually has those $38 deals so I bought the ones at Hotel Mercure. For the price (excluding a $28 port tax and tour guide fee), you get a bus guide, ferry tickets, 1 night at a pretty good hotel, breakfast buffet, seafood lunch and massage. Not too bad, considering the prices of hotel in SG is over $80 for just a night, and the room is always so small…

we bought couple shirts from Onepiece at Uniqlo!

Went to the usual choco factory, kueh lapis place and local Batam goods which 00 wasn’t very interested in except the white chocolate. Ended up buying a bag of it and eating it for the next few days.

There was a temple trip included too so we dropped by that as well. Not too bad, there were interesting statues.

00 kept saying the middle one is Dman. Lol.

The seafood lunch wasn’t very appealing to 00 as well T_T I guess it’s because it was shared with another 6 person and doesn’t look very hygienic/tasty.

We visited the mini town that I couldn’t go last time with Yvonne cos of the rain so we had a visit this time. The houses were actually rather poorly built and the animal statues were also not very well made.

We had massage/shopping after that. Massage was done in a couple’s room… never knew there was such a thing. Massage was pretty good as usual! The area around it had shopping centres so we went to explore those as well. I got 2 pairs of contact lens, at less than $8 each. Cheap! We also had our dinner there at Breeks. What a bad choice, I never knew the food was this bad. We learnt that you should always ALWAYS choose a restaurant that has guests (or is packed). Breeks, though the menu looked good, had no guests at all! We had cream spaghetti and baked potatoes and both were horrible. The cream spaghetti almost tasted like water and the cheese on the potato… don’t even know if that’s cheese at all! We were afraid of getting tummyaches so we didn’t finish everything. The oreo smoothie was terrible too. It was just milk + oreo pieces, and very diluted.

Despite the horrific dinner, the day ended with the awesome hotel~! 

Though I think the last hotel I was at, Harmoni, was much better. Still, compared to the small hotels in Singapore, this was good enough. I had to take a call for one of my project, which happens to be an Indonesia-based one. Our toilet couldn't flush properly and we had to call the repairman. zzz.

Our breakfast the next morning also made up for all the bad food we had. Well, I guess nothing can go wrong when there’s bread and cereal?? Heh.

Back in SG, we went over the MBS and Orchard duty free shops to try to find the liquor for my dad. Didn't manage to get anything though.

We checked into Hotel Victoria at Bugis, which I realised is part of the Santa Grand chain. Not too bad. Had dinner at a chinese restaurant near the area. it was already 10+ so we ate it in a hurry and it was served really quickly. Still nice and cheap though!

131020 German Cafe - Stuttgart Blackforest Boutique S-Cafe

Today was pretty lazy, we woke up and went to the German café nearby for brunch. Wonder who will ever be able to remember the long name of the cafe...

It was not too bad but service was awfully slow even though I hit the service button for at least 300 times. They also served the wrong dessert. Zzz. Food wasn’t so bad, but not awfully fantastic.

There wasn’t much people there too. However, the interior decorations were pretty and exotic, and there’s a mini German market for German food. Not too bad, but I wonder how long it’ll be able to sustain.

We also went to the nearby Art Friend to get some materials for the prop. Ended up making the prop for the day after that… T_T

Oh we also frantically searched around for an internet place cos 00 needed a station where his strange device for his online test could work and my laptop was just not installed with the right things. Made me realize that we don’t really have a lot of lan shops around..!

131019 USS Halloween

So on the first day of 00’s arrival we went to USS Halloween at night~ it was actually one of the main reasons why one should visit Singapore in October, since USS is totally different during Halloween as opposed to normal days.

We had dinner at Chilli’s before the night starts, around 7pm~

The theme this year was Chinese opera-centred and they began the night with a magic show, where the performer disappeared to another cage nearby. Still can’t figure out how they did it as I couldn’t see any tunnels linked to the cage, as it was floating in midair. Whoa.

They have some nice projections where there's stuff crawling on this wall - and this is all projected image - not real!

There wasn’t much chance for any rides so we only went on Mommy and Transformer. Unfortunately Cyborg and Human was closed and we took about 2 hours queuing for each haunted house T_T there was 3 in total but we only had time for 2. The waiting time, as we both agreed, is the most horrific event of the day. We nearly went mad because of all the waiting in queues. While trying to book the next hotel in between.

Still, the houses were pretty scary. I remember the opera house where there were heads and wigs hanging and you had to push to get through. And another in the kitchen where a living butcher was chopped loudly the moment you enter, and there were jars of body pieces around the room. Ew. And 00 kept pushing me near the scary people while saying that they're just human. =_=

Found a nice Queen Akasha w followers~

After the night is over, we back to the hotel. Here’s Dear staring blankly at me as I snap a photo of the room. Hee hee so cute.

Since the hotel was just near my office – I brought him up for a night tour since I needed to take some stuff from there. Heh. Our office was Halloween themed too by the way (pictures were taken in the day, since it was all dark with no lights at night..!) 

131018 Arrival

Finally! It was sad to celebrate my birthday without him T_T got to the airport right after my work ended but had to wait quite a while since 00 was caught in the security check for the Attack on Titan prop. Jeez. His luggage was basically the prop/materials and like 3 pieces of shirt. Gg…

Well anyway we took the train to Hotel Bencoolen to rest. It was crazy. We took a taxi from the nearest train station (Bras Basah) to the hotel and it costs 8 bucks!!! It was just a 5mins walking distance but we had no choice because of the rain. GOSH. And we were still pelted by the rain cos the pathway was under construction. Zzz.

It was late by the time we got to the hotel so we just slept the night away.

130831 Milla @ STGCC

so... i was at stgcc early in the morning yesterday in milla. the booths there were pretty awesome, because of the iron man displays. i think it's really the power of putting a hundred of a similar item right in your face, except that they are all of different costumes, which makes it even cooler.

there's the mini versions too (maybe 1/4 of human size?)

and even mini versions, like standard figurine size

hoho. yes you can buy all those there. wooooah. i didn't really take photos of other booths. oh yeah we managed to catch miyuko in her milla costume but there's too many people so this is like the only decent photo yokey helped me took. and the pictures that were posted online by her. i quite like the details of her costume.

ooh there was also a little girl doing a pink mini iron man... so cute!! potential mecha cosplayer in the future???

in the morning, the tales people got to take pictures with Hideo Baba, the producer of the Tales series.

then after the morning event was over, i waited around for our SMLJ peeps to come, and i realised i only took shots with them before i changed out. because they all look so awesome!!!
hohoho さすがSMLJです！

and last pic before i changed out~ tried to make it less yellowish with the rainbow bubbles lol but bleah lousy toilet lighting. hahahahah

our peeps went for dinner at killiney and supper at geylang till almost 2am. it was crazy. but fun!!! (resulting in my headache on sunday gwahhh)