Monday, December 10, 2007

Chalet @ Sentosa

Costa Sands resort at night.. taken from my chalet unit's window~
Spent 3D/2N there with my family..

DAY 1
Rain, rain, rain and more rain... A child was screaming 'Rain, Stop! Rain, Stop stop stop!!!' in the lobby of the chalet. Rain douses the spirits of all holiday-goers. So sian...
Did nothing much on that day except for watching 'Gong zhu xiao mei' on youtube using the computer in the chalet's lobby.

DAY 2
Drizzling. But at least it was better than the heavy downpour yesterday. Took the beach tram & 'toured' the beaches. As it was still raining, the beaches were quite empty. Major part of Siloso Beach's cordoned off in preparation for ZoukOut on 8th (one day after i left Sentosa, 23000 people swarmed there to party.. lol)
Went swimming at noon..sounds pretty crazy eh?! But the weather's so nice for a dip in the pool, just a lil chilly.. hehe.. It was like swimming in rainwater^^ oohs (so much rain diluted the chlorine water in the pool) so glad that i didnt reek of chlorine after getting out of the pool.
Night time, went to watch Songs Of The Sea performance with my parents as my bro already left Sentosa for Malaysia in the morning for a trip to a resort there with loads of his univ frens.

Beautiful sight! But a $6 ticket to watch the half hr show's a lil expensive, or maybe i got used to the old free-for-all Musical Fountain performances which were kinda similar to Songs Of the Sea's. Though this is better than another new attraction on Sentosa. 4D Magix $16 for a 15min show *faints*
More beautiful lights & water jetsprays.. of course there were also animals created using laser light beams, which don't look good in pictures. Just in case u couldnt tell.. hehe.. that's a dragon which can talk over there.



Climax: Ending part of the show, there were fireworks across the sky above.
It was so fast i couldnt catch it on camera.. hehe.. what i'd got is merely the remnants of those once glorious fireworks that eventually faded into the night sky.


LUGE & Skyride

A pic koped off the google~ hehe.. i didnt bring my camera up. Too dangerous (dun risk dropping it into the 'wilderness') and too dark to take gd shots.
My legs were dangling at least 10 storeys up high in the air.. Woots.. Wasnt too comfortable initially as i wasnt used to the height yet. High above the trees, the ride offered a nice view of the night lights over the opposite coast. It was darn COLD & WINDY up there. Took the ride with my dad who's afraid of heights.. hehe.. ironically he was the one who suggested going for the rides. He didnt realise it was going to be so high and said he didnt look below us during the ride and told me not to. But i kept looking down and said 'Wow.. so high orh..' Lol. I didnt inherit the phobia~ The troublesome thing was: i was wearing slippers then and had to keep both feet upright, if not my beautiful slippers will become killer litter =x

After taking the skyride uphill, we rode the luge (how to read this word??) down the slope.
The luge is like a go-kart, but it's much easier to manoeuvre as it can only go downslope with the help of gravitational pull, it can't move on it's own (no engine)
Zooming downslope was really FUN! lalala~ I LOVE SPEED!
Dad & i bought tickets for 2 rides cos of the 'Buy 1 get 1 free' promotion hehe.. So 2nd ride's free! 2nd time on the skyride seems short, as we'd gotten used to the height. 2nd time on the luge, zooming all the way as i was more familiar with the track =)

OOHS! Finally did something fun on Sentosa~
Night: Random loud blasts of 'thomp thomp thomp' type of heart-thumping music could be heard from my chalet which is near Siloso Beach. Guess the technicians were testing the audio system over there. I think we neednt sleep if we're still staying there on the 8th. Lol. More than 12h of revelry=unimaginably high noise levels
My dad wanted to book the 7-10th slot using the chalet website initially, but the last slot(s) were taken up as he spent a longggg time reading through the terms and conditons online. Dots. But on hindsight, it may be a good thing hehe.
DAY 3
Swam in the morning before checking out.
Went to Maxwell Food Ctr for an early lunch at 11am. Ate western food from 'Edmund's Corner' AMAZING! We ordered Grilled fish with lemon sauce, Hawaiian Chicken Chop and Mexican Chicken Chop and all 3 orders arrived together. Gd! My grilled fish with cheesy lemon sauce.. Woowa! My fav cheese~ Served with mashed potato (looking like a scoop of ice cream on my plate), garlic toast, baked beans and coleslaw. I can only describe it here as it looked so delicious, i forgot to snap a picture of the dishes before tucking in then.
The young chef emerge from his stall and asked for comments when he saw that we'd finished our meals (we sat just outside of the stall) I was taken by surprise and merely said 'Nice!' as i din prepare any comments. Hehe. He went on to talk about 2 dishes which are more special i guess, Hawaiian & Mexican Chicken Chop. He said he put the pineapple slices on top of the chicken chop to grill for the juices to seep into the tender meat so it took longer to prepare the Hawaiian Chicken chop. As for Mexican Chicken chop, i didnt quite catch the terms he used.. Sorry ah! Cloud cant cook western food so some culinary terms & alien sounding ingredients are like Greek to me. He added that he'll be revising his menu & introducing new dishes next year. Hehe i'm certainly looking forward to that^^
I'm impressed by this earnest chef (shall call him this instead of hawker) cos he really takes pride in his work/creations. Starkly different from the average sulky faced uncle/auntie who barely acknowledge/appreciates it when you order food from them. Drop by that stall if u're in that area orh.. Really v nice and worth the $$$ Chicken Chop for $4.50 & Grilled fish for $5.50 there are also other dishes like spagehetti & other pasta (i dunno how to spell those angmoh names)


That marks the end of my 3 days of 'holidaying' without leaving the country~

yunn. at 2:38 PM