SO SO SORRY SINGAPORE (2 out of 3)

DAY.2
Morning Scenes

Good morning and it's about 10.35 AM. Already dressed up, with a backpack, shorts and jacket in this chilly morning, heading to OG People's park where they provide quite a lot of restaurants and food stall, and offcourse; Foodcourt. (inside me;YEAAY!) So i went to the center part of this lil' dept.store and find "Food Summons" that offers soooo many food options. But again, as a novice traveller who avoid eating bizzare and unfamiliar foods, i chose the safe way, that chicken rice way it is. The chicken broth was boiling hot and it was a perfect breakfast with hainanese rice, all mixed up and collide in my hungry tummy. All good and i'm ready to go to explore SINGAPORE!

Afternoon Scenes

I've decided to go to Clarke Quey area, since the riverside offers a nice boardwalk sight seeing and offcourse various food promenades and shopping malls to hop in. I manage to went into Clark Quey Central and found a crazy cosplay-gimmic-costumes store that sells almost anything you could imagine, like; for real. So many knick-knacks and unique things are on the shelf ready to be picked. I got my eyes on this funny-looking pikachu's hood and take a chance on wearing 'em (since the owner are a very friendly guy to ask-things to) and overlook myself in the mirror. Hell yea, i found ma thang. And ka ching! an 18SG$ Pikachu's hood for the sake of my childhood favourite character (and still is, btw) so heading out of the pan-in-the-box store and took some pictures in the mall, in the riverside boardwalk area. Found it very interresting since there's a lot things seems to be happening at the same time, but still maintaining everythings in order. Since Singapore is well-known for one of the most cleanest country among it's ASEAN countries fellows, i understand what it looks like now. You'd find it quite rare to see people walking and holding a bottle of water, or a plastic plate of snacks and just throw it wherever it might seems possible (like in my country, Indonesia :< -so sad-) so it's been a very pleasant experience to have a stroll around the clark-quey area, and manage to get a one-way river cruise trip heading to Merlion statue, the Icon of Singaporean.  

SO SO SORRY SINGAPORE (1 out of 3)

So, the year 2016 were changing to 2017 and i was holding my breath to mum's approval of me going to SG (for my frikkin' first time) with a very short period of vacay (27-31Dec) and she just said "yes".


VOOOOM!
round trip flight ticket booked
VOOOOOOM!
hostel for 5 days stays booked
VOOOOOOOOOOM!
universal studio singapore e-ticket booked

And here i am on the airport, 27th Dec early morning waiting for my  12.15 flight to Changi. It was a pretty underwhelming experience at first, thinking that i will be spending the entire 5 days there to stroll around and have an amusement park fun, with only one friend to visit (Indonesian working in Singapore) and else than that; NONE
DAY.1 
Arrival Scenes

So. Sunglass on. CGK-SIN with 2 hours flight. Touched Down. And probably like any other foreign ASEAN fellows who's been to Singapore for their very first time, that overwhelming sense of spacious, modern and hi-tech yet natural, comfy and homey ambiance suddenly swept me after the immigration check point. But still; waiting for your one and only luggage could be a lil' bit frustrating if it tooks prolly 10-15 minutes of waiting. Then.. heading right out of the arrival terminal and find myself in this Huuuuuuge T2 where they provide plenty of franchise bistro's and restaurant, singaporean hawker-comfort food to international chain store of junkfoods everywhere. So i decided NOT to have my lunch there at the airport and got my self quickly to the Changi Line MRT station heading towards Chinatown; my home "sweet" home to be.

To spend days in Singapore with a "not-so-minimum" budget is actually quite fun. U'd found a $3SD meal in so many hawkers area (Chinatown, Mixwell, Newton) and a lot better cuisine options with a more pricey nature. But lets talk about food later, now i'm at the reception desk of Capsule Pod Boutique Hostel at chinatown, waiting for a very helpful receptionist who speak english quite well and manage to get me my room and other accommodation booked in advance. So, i'm Thrilled. Both Excited and Anxious, but at the same time tired as hell. 

so i decided to unpack my bags and Nicely arrange my upper pod bed, take a light bath before tucked my weary soul to the comfort white linen sheet and just close my eyes. Ah. . .  

imma sleep this noon off, and i'll find myself something to eat later,

later at the Evening.

;)

DAY.1 

Evening Scenes

Woke up probably at 6.50 PM, i knew it's the perfect time for a stroll around chinatown, a look out for dinner. After a quick shower and a brief change of shirt & shorts, walk outside the hostel. i found it quite easy to explore Chinatown as my hostel located in the outer area of chinatown quartier, right at the side of Outram Park street. Soon after a several blocks of wandering, i found myself in front of (seems to be) a very favored restaurant, seeing the long queue of people that might have been there since probably like, hours ago. I Decided not to participate on that feast and decided to sit on a chicken rice restaurant several building after the restaurant at the Chinatown food street at Smith Street.

you'd found many hawkers offering a variety of foods here at chinatown. Find the intersection between smith street and pagoda street, then you'd find chinatown food street. While zipping a mouthful of chicken broth, i just look across the street and found dominant red ornament (as many chinatown colors would do) throughout the street. Warm and homey feeling just swept in and suddenly throw me back to my childhood, where i grew up and live at West Jakarta, which predominantly occupied by Indonesian-Born Chinese (indigenous chinese, i supposed?) and here, the feeling is almost the same. A hard working, friendly and mind-your-own-problems kind of neighbourhood :)

finished my dinner and then heading back to the hostel, while sightseeing the night view of Singapore. Over viewing the city, it is conceived mainly as a very clean and safe environment consisted mostly office complexes, food promenades and of course; Shopping centers. I already have things-to-do list on my head. so as soon as i landed safely at hostel, went to take a bath and arrange my backpack so i would be prepared for tomorrow. after all is done, i went out to the public terrace to have a bite of snack and water (cuz' ure not allowed to have one inside the dorm room) then went straight to bed in an air con, nicely fragrant and dimly lit dorm. ahh.. what a day.

EXPENSES NOTE
Round trip flight ticket
CGK - SIN w/Batik Air : Rp.1.300.000 (around 98US$)
SIN - CGK w/AirAsia    : Rp. 1.400.000 (around 105US$)

Capsule Pod Boutique Hotel 
a pod in 12-bed mix dorm : Rp.208.000/Day x 5 day
                                        : Rp.1.040.000 (around 79US$)

Universal Advance E-Ticket (via Go-Tix application)
a single admission adult whole day : Rp.638.000 (around 48US$)

Dinner

Hainanese Chicken Rice at Chinatown : 3SG$ (around 2.2US$)

a bottle of mineral water : mostly cost around 0.90 - 1.30SG$ ( around 1 US$)

*all purchased in December 2016

The Mastermin(d)e

quoi de neuf mec? or as they says; "whats up doc?" 
At this very beginning of 2017, it came up to my mind to really manage my blog(s) and it would be a really good thing to do, due to the fact that media social made it's huge "debut" for a whole year in 2016, supporting hoax and every misleading information the internet provides and ironically; empowered mostly by hit-looking digital media. This blog were originally made to really speak up one's mind and really put the 'F' on the 'F'ing Sh*t so people might know that i (or in this case, we) do care about thing's that going on, particularly here in Indonesia. consider it as a "social surveillance agent" where i might put a thing or two about current social affairs, all the hypes, the do's and don't's and even; travelling reportage (yes i am trying to achieve my status as an avid traveler).

so enjoy the Blog. Devour as much as you like. I'f im lucky enough, you'd write me back and we'd have a real convo in this forum. I might learn from you (please do, en-light me) or you might be inspired by this blog. Both ways are fine. The things about millennials are sometimes (well most of the time) the information that one's received might be partial -due to the rapid,instant and fast-moving nature of nowadays's industry- that pushed them (us, i mean) to digest news feed as quick as gulping of glass of water in a hot sunny days. Well, 

enjoy mine zip by zip. 

we are not always in a rush,

aren't we?

:)

Glenovian A.M