In Memories of….

Forest Adventure is an aerial course built through the trees comprising ladders, bridges, swings, nets, trapezes and giant zip lines.

10 of us, Guowei and girlfriend, Dawn, Guorong, Vernon, Nancy, Karen, Ethan, Jackie and I gathered at Bedok Reservoir Park at 10am to start our forest adventure activity.

We had instructors to demonstrate and brief us on the safety rules before we start on our course.

Zipping across the reservoir was so exciting!

When we reached a free-fall point where we had to do a “Tarzen Swing” to get to a net on the other side, Vernon who was afraid of  heights hesitated for a whole 3 minutes before he dared to jump.

The whole course took us about 2 hours and we were very dehydrated by the time we completed the course. Luckily for us, the weather was quite cloudy and the sun wasn’t very strong.  A prefect weather for such an outdoor activity.

On the 4th day of our Hong Kong trip we went to this restuarant @ Prudential Hotel for Dim Sum Breakfast (I honestly forgot the name of the restaurant but the dim sum is really good!)

My parents & I then went to Mongkok to buy the famous Wing Wah Wife Biscuits. Dad then bought another goose drumstick (his excuse: he won’t get to eat this back in Singapore). We then went to the ferry terminal to join Chae Siong and wife to take the ferry back to Macau.

I think we had too much good food in Hong Kong; we actually find food in Macau quite disappointing.

Later in the evening we went to to the casino in Venetian Macau.

We went to Ocean Park on the 3rd day of our trip. It was a wise choice as that was the only day that did not rain throughout our trip. Dad said we were really lucky.

Dad was amazed by this Asia’s longest (or is it world’s longest) escalator.

I never had the courage to take this roller coaster, not to mention no one is accompanying me to take trill rides this time round!!!

I like this picture of my dad. This is one of his best pictures taken in our trip.

Dad’s tense face when we were on the ferris wheel.

The pandas’ cave has been renovated since my last trip. There’s even a raccoon section!!!

We later went to the peak. Pardon my poor night shots as I have shaky hands.

On the 2nd day of our trip, we went to 大屿山 and Disneyland.

There was a little bit of fog so the Buddha background became a bit blur in mum’s picture.

We have meant to take the cable car to the Great Buddha but dad has a little phobia of heights, so we decided to take the bus up and take the cable car down later, giving him the time to mentally prepare himself. However, it started to rain very heavily so we aborted the idea and took bus 23 back to Tsing Yi Station.

For those who love shopping for good buys, please note that Citygate Shopping Centre beside Tsing Yi MTR is occupied by factory outlets of international brand names like Nike, Addidas, Club21, Levi’s, Espirit etc whose prices are 30-70% cheaper than what you find in the actual boutiques though the designs may be one season older.

When we reached Disneyland, it was still drizzling. Nevertheless, we still managed to have fun on the rides and watch the fireworks.

The day ended with my favourite dessert shop in Hong Kong, 许留山.

I went to Hong Kong & Macau with my parents, Chae Siong & wife last month. Jackie has decided not to join us at the last minute so I had to share a room with my parents. We took the plane to Macau and transferred to Hong Kong via ferry on the 1st Day. I had seasick on the one hour ferry trip. By the time we reached Prudential Hotel in Kowloon, it’s already late evening and all of us were famished.

Dinner was roasted rice near Temple Street. We had roasted goose drumsticks, roasted pigeon, roasted pork, char siew and vegetables. Look at how oily the goose drumsticks are!!!

On 22nd of April, Jackie and I set off to the city of Hong Kong, leaving Kookie and Rinko behind in Singapore.

We arrived in Hong Kong airport @ 10.35am and set off to Nathan Hotel on Airport Express. Jackie was fascinated with the Hong Kong transport system.

The 1st reaction I had when I went into the hotel room was: Oh no!! No bathtub!! How am I going to soak my sore legs after shopping???

Lunch was roasted meat rice as what I’d promised Jackie on the plane and silly him actually asked if we can have that for every meal.

After lunch, we went shopping around Mongkok area. We bought a doggy bed for our dogs and 3 harness for Wonka, Rinko and Kookie at Women’s Street. We also went into several pet shops in Fa Yuen Street and also learnt that Pomeranian is known as 松鼠狗 in Cantonese. Jackie bought himself 2 pairs of shoes from Fa Yuen Street and 2 boxes of Gundam Models from Kwong Wa Street. We also had dessert in my favourite shop, 许留山.

In the evening, we went to to Avenue of Stars and also watched Light of Symphony show.

Before we ended the day, we went to Temple Street for a short walk.

New Year Day was celebrated at Singapore Zoological Gardens with my family. It’s a pity that Dad and Jackie couldn’t join us on the ‘excursion”.

The last time I went to the zoo was 16 years ago when Inuka, the 1st and only polar bear born in the tropics was born. There’s currently 2 polar bears in Singapore. However, the hot climate in Singapore is unsuitable for polar bears and the bears are reported to have shown abnormal behaviour due to heat stress. ACRES (Animal Concerns Research and Education Society) has called for the Zoo to send Inuka away when his mum passes away. Inuka’s mum, Sheba at the age of 29 has way past the normal life expectancy of a polar bear of 25 and is too old to withstand the travelling.

I did not get to watch any animal show this trip but I got to see a sesame plant for the 1st time of my life. I also saw turtles mating and got to touch and feed goats for the very 1st time.