Brainstorm

Recently, my family and I made trips back and forth from Johor Bharu and Singapore. I think it is cool to be able to check out our neighbouring friends and see how culture is like over there. In conclusion, Singapore, the land of the sea lion? the land of ?? ..bla bla.. and bla bla.. is basically, just… ridiculously clean..

13th June 2007

After 5 hours of a butt-abusing drive to JB, we took off to Singapore in a bus, armed with our precious passports and anything I thought might come in handy. Cap? check, bottle? check, useless handphone? check, ipod? check! all ready. Funny that I didn’t carry any cash ;p

First off the event list is a visit to Singapore’s Discovery Science Center. Pretty cool. Everyone speaks english there -_-" boy, don’t i belong there pretty well.. lol. The center is pretty alike to Petrosains, excluding the fact that Singapore does things wayyy better. Preferance wise, I think the centre provided a good outlook on optical illusion and infomation. Biggest flaw that I thought the center had, was the fact that the things to play around with, is equipped with almost 3 paragraphs long of instructions. I was screaming "What do I do to play already??". Admitedly, the center is really good for primary to lower secondary schooling kids..lol. And that’s saying alot.

Note: Malaysians get the privilage of having the biggest attractions at half price or more. Instead of Singapore Dollars, we could also use Ringgit currency. What a big saver! hahaha..

14th June 2007

A trip to Sentosa Island! xD To arrive there, take a bus from Singapore to Vivo City shopping mall, and head towards the 3rd(?) floor and take a monorail train straight there. Either that, or have the luxury of enjoying a cable car ride. Half price for Malaysians again Make sure you’ve brought your passports again.

Sentosa’s package deal offered attractions like Merlion, Sky Tower, Images of Singapore, freebies like a free drink (Sky Cooler) at Skybar and a 6R Digital Photo at Merlion. The Merlion is supposed to be a half mermaid half lion. So on the way back from KL on Saturday, I noticed a place called Merlimau.. half mermaid, half limau =_=" hahaha..

Sky Cooler with marshmallows at Skybar!

15th July 2007

Next up, was a trip to Haw Par Villa xD It is a garden created by the guy who made Tiger Balm for his dead brother :p hahaha. He even depicted 10 levels of the Buddhists’ HELL there. (God knows why.. ) there were many scupltures that also represented the different virtues and vices.

This place is so ideal for naughty kids like me! haha.. In my view, it emphasises on filial piety and doing good. No lying, no cheating, no avoiding paying your taxes :p etc.. The villa also had a depiction of Journey to the West (remember the chinese series played on tv some time back? yeah.. that journey to the west, with the monkey and everything..)

16th July 2007

Yay! On this day, we decided to just "cuti-cuti Malaysia". And that was quite a relieve from travelling and going through immigration and thus, the unknown (dum dum dummm)… So on Saturday, we went to a museum in Johor. It had an elaborate setting of preserved rooms that the Sultan of Johor used or uses (some of the rooms are still in use for special occasions).

Nothing too commercialised like what you will find in Singapore, but admitedly, the museum is rich with tradition and real culture. AND literally rich with silver, gold and piewter. Also, it was boring :p typically a history text book in a larger scale :p :p

After all seen and experienced, we head back to KL with a pretty good week don’t know what else to say but that :p One thing for sure, Malaysia has goooood food for a cheaper price! haha

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