Pictures of vacation @ Genting 2008

Room with a view

Taken from the balcony

Presenting: Our new houses with our cars.

Vacation at Genting 2008

Packed up and left home around the afternoon. Met relatives at the petrol station near Tuas area.
The 11 of us travelled to Malaysia in 2 cars. Since it was a Tuesday, there was not many cars at Tuas. It was a smooth journey. We would be staying at Genting View Resort which is located at the bottom of Genting. It was nearly 3 hours before reaching there. On the way, we had a late lunch at KFC at a R&R.
When we 1st saw the place, I was thinking "Oh my God..." My cousins were all having the same thought. The apartment block we saw was liked a set from a horror movie. It was so run-down that it gave us the creeps.
But, luckily, we were not staying there. We stayed at RiverView Apartment which was a series of terrace houses or bungalows, whichever you want to call it. It was big, well, too big for our taste.
My family of 5 and my auntie stayed in one, while the rest of them stayed in another. There were 3 bedrooms in each bungalow. But, my brothers squeezed into the massive master-bedroom with my parents and I shared a room with my auntie.
Next door, only the master bedroom was occupied. After we put our luggage down, we left for the mountain top. We missed the cable car station so we drove all the way up. We had noodles for dinner and walked around a bit. It got me thinking, I don't want Singapore IR at Sentosa to become like this.
Funny enough, not many Singaporeans can be seen. Maybe it's near the end of holiday. The adults went for some Chinese herbal jelly while the young ones went for ice-cream at Baskin Robbins. I had a green apple sorbet with mint ice-cream. Quite nice, minty and sourly.
The next day, we left in the morning for Genting. We ate roti prata for breakfast. As we thought that the prata will be small in size, we ordered more than 10 pieces. But the prata was huge, at least twice the size like that in Singapore's. Hence, we did not finished all. After that, the "children" went to the outdoor amusement park while the adults and I went shopping. I bought 2 tops from Padini Concept Store. After a while, the "children" returned due to the rain. When the rain stopped, they went out again. We then went for a 1 hour foot massage. Before long, they returned once more. We had afternoon tea at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaves. I had a Swedish Berries ice tea and a slice of chocolate fudge cake. We walked around and had clay pot rice for dinner.
We bought cup noodles back to the resort to settle our breakfast the next day.
After breakfast, we packed up and left. We stopped by the cable car station and bought many tidbits home. We dined at KFC at the same R&R again.

Summary of 1st week of holiday

For the past week, I've been really busy, busy to go out and have fun.
On Monday, my sec 4 class organised a BBQ at Pasir Ris Park. And, my friend, Sharon, came back from Indonesia to attend.
On Tuesday, my family went out to watch Kung Fu Panda. It was really funny and all.
On Wednesday, the cousins and I, together with my auntie went to Sentosa. There were lots of new things to try out there. In the evening, we went to Earle's Swensens at VivoCity to celebrate my cousin's birthday. Unfortunately, we went to Fort Siloso and I ended up not sleeping and crying that night...
Thursday and Friday were for doing homework. Bah, I hated the excel project we have to do. Luckily, I had a "secret weapon". Truth be told, I did not really use it, most of the work are original.
On Saturday, me, Sharon, Yiling and WeiJie watched Prince Caspian. It was quite nice although not as good as the 1st. After that, WeiJie left and we had dinner. After that, we went to shop around.
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Seems that for the past 3 Sundays, the family have been dining out at restaurants. We went to at VivoCity to celebrate a belated Mother's Day. Then to at Esplanade to commemorate the dumpling festival. Yesterday, we went to Fisherman's Wharf restaurant to celebrate Father's Day.
Bosses is great, the ambience is not what you expected when you 1st step inside.

4s3 BBQ

Monday's BBQ was fun.
We met together 1st before taking the bus 39 to Pasir Ris Interchange. There were lots of things to carry. We then took another bus to Paris Ris park which is located near Escape Theme Park. But I think we took the wrong bus, so we had to walk all the way there. That was about 5-6+.
The guys were soon playing cards. Another group arrived and the fire was started.
I don't know much about the tactics of bbqing but the food was not cooked or half-cooked. And, that was only the crab-sticks, hot dogs, fish balls, prawn balls, sotong balls and mushrooms. We had to wait for a long time before the food was properly cooked.
Me and my friend went to find a friend, Sharon, who just came back from Indonesia. She came on her own and didn't know the way to the pit. After that, we joined in the bbqing. They started bbqing the chicken wings.
At 9+, our former form teacher came.
At 10.30, we bid goodbye to everyone and took the bus home.
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It was great to see everyone again, although some people didn't came. I had a good time chatting with my secondary 4 friends and this was the last time I will see Sharon before she left for USA. She's a really close friend for 4 years. She says she will still come back but that will be a long time. Well, hope to meet up before she leave. My secondary 4 life is still the best, after all. Nothing can compare to that, certainly not my poly class.
Seems that not everyone is happy with their lives in poly and jc...

End of Mid-sem tests

Ok, mid-semester tests are over.
MicroEcons is alright, I can draw the graphs and answer the questions. It all depends on how I answered the questions and whether I missed out any important points.
POM was a disaster before the test. I was really stressed out as it was all about memorising. I fretted before the test. Nothing seemed to go in at all. But during the test, it was ok, to my surprise. The questions were manageable though I forgot some things. I can t least get a B+, I hope.
Monday, we, 4s3 of 2007 are going to have a bbq gathering. I hope my friend from indonesia can come back for it...Really looking forward to it.

Countdown & Mid-sem test

2 more months to the most anticipating book this year, Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn! I can't wait! When the day comes, I will be rushing to Borders to get it. I saw the preface and the cover and I had a feeling that this is going to be an intense novel. twilightlexiconblog.com has been great in providing any kind of details concerning the upcoming Twilight movie and the 4th novel. Really hope that Twilight will be screened in Singapore...
Today, I had my Business Accounting test. It was...well...ok? I didn't really know how to do the balance sheet. In the end, I just left the balance sheet hanging in the air. I also didn't get my capital and cash at bank info right at the posting. At the last moment, I changed my supposedly correct concept... Ahh...
I can't get any other questions wrong. If there is, I'll be a goner.
On Wednesday, there will be MicroEcons test.
Proud to be a twilighter.