Short stay at Sentosa
Sentosa is quickly becoming our weekend getaway choice. We’re back again at Rasa Sentosa (2nd stay) and just having a quick lunch at Silver Shell Cafe.
Planning to catch Up 3d in awhile and a walk via Imbiah’s 11th new attraction (after last week’s botanic garden visit, we’re in the nature mood!).
5000 days!
Yh reminded me today that we’ve known each other for 5000 days! The number isn’t exact since neither of us can remember the actual first day we met but we’ve assumed it to be 1st Jan 1995 when we started the year at AJC. It’s interesting how we got assigned to the same class 29/95 and somehow along the way in our individual journeys, got together and here we are 5000 days later, happily married and very much in love.
Revisit of National Museum of Singapore
Day 2 of our Anniversary local vacation starts with a jolt as I realised that it is already 9 plus am and I’m still in bed. Dear Hubby had left me in dozeland to sleep a while more while he sat at the desk with his laptop.
We were running a bit late for breakfast which closed at 10.30am, so we were shown to another lounge of Conrad Hotel to enjoy a longer breakfast till 11am. Breakfast spread was OK, not very interesting nor was it bad. We both enjoyed the cheese especially.
It was a last minute decision to pop by the revamped National Museum of Singapore as we have some free time before our massage appointment in the evening. Ever since the Museum was revamped a few years ago, we have not been there, or rather, ever since my Primary school years?
The new Museum is done beautifully and we were impressed by the high-tech gadgets and the amount of work that went into the upgrade of the place, especially the electronic guide for the displays. All you have to do is to press a number and all the background information of the artifact in front of you will appear on the screen of the gadget which they called the Companion.
We initially thought we could just spend 2 hours in the Museum and then go on to Funan Centre to buy a second TV card (hee, so that I can watch one channel and record the other), but then the trip stretch into a 4 hour one before we managed to see all of the place.
Our favourites should be the innovative swinging lamps at level 2 (didn’t get the official name of the thingy), which oscillates in different pattern at different times of the day. How cool is that?
The day was packed almost back-to-back. After depositing our purchases, we went to The Elements Spa at Orchard Hotel for our massages and Mic was so pleased with the skills of the Masseur that he bought a package. I’m not so keen on massages as I can only take the light strokes of massage.
We popped over to California Pizza for dinner and ordered one of their new creations : Tandoori Mango Pizza. Being a pizza-lover himself, I was quite surprised that Mic has never tried California Pizza before, which I found to be quite good. I fell in love with the Peking Duck Pizza some years back. Anyway was glad that Mic liked the place and he gave the pizza his thumbs-up.
We decided to laze the rest of the night away with a sinful tub of Haagen-Dazs Belgium Chocolate ice-cream.
3 years anniversary @ Conrad Centennial Singapore and a dose of Hairspray
Its been a pretty hectic work for Yh and myself as assignments piled up. By a stroke of luck, Yh won a night’s stay at Conrad at her recent annual dinner. It seemed like a good idea to take the opportunity to extend the stay and so we booked ourselves another night and checked in this afternoon.
Our original room on the 13th floor didn’t have the king sized bed we requested and was on the smoking level! Luckily, after a great buffet dinner at Honjin Japanese Restaurant (more details later in Where2Makan?), Yh called room service and found that a room was now available on the 7th floor. We quickly packed up and moved down. Glad the hotel made the effort to help shift us and we’re glad we decided to extend our stay.
Shortly after, we headed to GV Marina Square to catch Hairspray. I didn’t realise but I had read about John Travolta’s transformation in the movie and that it had enjoyed pretty good reviews in the press. Quite liked the muscial styled movie based on a 1988 screenplay and stage play. The music and dancing was very well coordinated. Its pretty interesting that it chose to potray a time in US’s history about the racial divide. I guess the unversal theme of accepting and integrating people from different cultures is something we can still identify with.
Back to hotel and it 2.45am! Time to hit the sack and looking forward to our “tour” of Singapore on this special weekend getaway in town.