Friday, October 28, 2005

We were walking by the Singapore River and taking in the sites, comparing the past and the present yesterday. It was indeed interesting. We have never known that the Fullerton Hotel used to be the General Post Office of Singapore in the 50s-60s.


Bronze statues are being erected to show the past activities taking place by the river, the uploading of sacks of rice by labourers onto bullock carts.



Then, there is the Asia Civilisation Musuem that contains artifacts from our diverse historical backgrounds, what the Singapore River used to mean for our forefathers.



The Cavenagh Bridge, the only suspension bridge used by both vehicles and pedestrians right outside the Fullterton hotel. Most of the materials used to build this bridge was made in Scotland.



The view of the Fullerton hotel from outside the Civilisation Museum, quite impressive I thought.. who knows a Post Office could become something as splendid as this!



Bronze sculptures right outside the Fullerton hotel, once again reminding us of the carefree days the children of yesteryears used to enjoy...

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As part of our history lesson thingie, we had to re-discover Singapore. for the past two weeks, we have been going to different places in Singapore and perhaps it was my love for photography, I thought I have some pretty beautiful pictures to share.



We went to Kranji War Memorial and this is the second time I have been here...


The entrance of the memorial, where those who fought bravely for Singapore died and are commemorated until today. Religious service are often being given at this site, at the requests of the relatives of those brave ones who sacrificed themselves.


One could take a peek at the memorial service book that's a sign-in guestbook for all those who visited here. Upon closer inspection, we realised great grand children of some of the people who died here, actualy visited the graves and displayed knick knacks in front of their tombstones.



tombstones are aligned in straight lines, different symbols are being engraved on their tombstones, signifying their rank, their religions etc.



Those tombstones laid out in rows greeting the main entrance are usually tombstones of the allied forces.


That's the cross of sacrifice but until today i dont know its significance.



Inscriptions commemorating the Gurhkas wh ofought bravely for the us.


that's the tombstone of one of our ex-presidents, Yusok Ishak at the presidents burial ground.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Well well well, I sat for a test just now... on communication studies *grin* although I think i talked nonsense, think it shouldn't be too hard to pass... i had the whole clss in stitches.. never knew i was such an entertainer!

One down 2 more to go.
One more presentation tomorrow
One more test
one more assignment

Then its the holidays!!

Hurrah hurrah!!

Friday, October 21, 2005

Aerdna was pestering me to make a post quick because i havent written in a "month"
So here's something for her to ogle at...

Bf and his colleague decided to drive up to KL during the weekend I was supposed to celebrate my birthday, since i was an all expenses paid trip, of course I went.

Needless to say I was very bored during the 4 hours drive up KL, so i decided to amuse myself by taking photos of things I see during the drive up.

There's a picture of an almost dead tree with the oil palm plantation as background


Next we have picture of the really long and winding roads in Malaysia and we are flanked yet again by Oil Palm plantations.




Yes yes more oil palm plantations ... *mutters* so boring right...



Ah.. finally something different! SUgarcane plantation!!!



Deforestation in Malaysia.. now we know whether they are eco-friendly... and the obvious answer is ? ... let u fill in the blanks yourself =D



Ah one of those nonsense photos i took to amuse myself.. obviously I look v gleeful for I wasnt the one driving hahaha.. i was the passenger monkeying about, amusing myself with my cameras.. now can you see that I really cannot live without my cameras?!




After we checked into Melia hotel with our luggages, we went to Genting Highland for a game! I played 200RM and i donated it to the casino! Wah so generous of me yea ?! kekekekee

That's a picture of the hotel up in Genting Highlands, very foggy that day! Because of the heavy rains.




Yea some road sign telling us genting was near.. *Grin*




After Genting, we went back to our hotel in Kl and took dinner at KA SOh very sumptous dinner CHEAP too!

This is the photo we took the very next day. From the lift in our hotel... the red building is called Times Square (we lived opposite Times Square!) and that's their monorail system. It was 8.30am in the morning! The shops were all not opened yet. But they have street basketball competition at Times Square.









We were without breakfast that morning, so we ventured over to Times Square for STarBucks Breakfast! It was absolutely Yummilicious!

My bf studying the map to Sunway lagoon, that's where we are heading off to next!
He's sitted at the hotel's lounge, enjoying our complimentary fruit punch!



That's KLCC we passed while driving to Sunway lagoon



That's the Sunway LAgoon Pyramid shopping arcade. Damn.. they even have a ice-skating ring in the midst of it. However, I dont think it very fun to be skating inside. Too crowded, too small, too many amateurs. I can Ice-skate.. can you? *wink*



An bird's eye view of Sunway lagoon.. Quite a huge place, all the resorts are interconnected by their internal walkways. Cool Stuff!



But i dont find it extremely fun to be there.. probably because I was already tired



On the way back to Singapore, we went over to the market place in JB to enjoy seafood dinner! It was fabulous! Extremely Filling. Bf filled his oil tank to the brim and gave his car a good scrubbing before driving home.

That's all I did for my birthday.. Although it was a long tiring trip, it was still fun.