I extend my stay in Singapore after the 2 days Ritz-Carlton 5-Star Service Excellent Training program to pay my buddy Liching & Meilee a visit separately. I took the MRT to meet up with buddy Liching for dinner at City Hall, Raffles Place soon after the training finished. We had a good time catching up with each other and discussed about our upcoming trip despite that the hard time to find a dining place due to the peak hour and lost while we were on the way back. After bid goodbye to Liching, I took the MRT to meet up with another buddy of mine, Meilee at Yishun. Both Meilee & Karfai picked me up at the control station and leaded me to their house where I can then take a shower to settle myself for rest. We had a good night long chat after we didn’t see each other for almost a year+ since she has moved to Singapore a year+ ago. From work to personal, from personal to relationship, it is just too much for us to catch up, we only later then realized that it is almost 2am in the
morning. We then continued our chat topics whilst we were on the bed until we were signal off. It’s 4/8… Woke up and refreshed myself to get ready for our visit to Universal Studio Singapore ( USS ). We had our local breakfast near to Meilee’s house before we took MRT to Harbour Front to meet up with another friend of mine, TH who took the trouble to catch up and accompany me to USS. USS was crowded in due to weekend but still fine to pay a visit if one doesn’t mind queue at least 45min for an attraction. We first experienced the Lights! Camera! Action! Hosted by Steven Spielberg in New York zone, we admired the incredible special effects where an empty soundstage with calm day setting suddenly turns into a stormy setting of a Category 5 major hurricane that about to hit the New York City which is then returns and restores itself.
The first ride we went was the Battlestar Galactica: Human vs. Cylon in Sci-Fi City, I was conned by TH to queue the Cylon blue inverted ( legs-free ) roller coaster instead of the Human red traditional seated ones. It was too late to regret because we had queued for almost 30min, so I can only proceed to ride the Cylon under a drizzling rain. Yes! It’s raining… where I ought to buy a raincoat to continue my exploration. I then queued for almost 90min+ for the Revenge of the Mummy Coaster Ride alone which TH had tried before in Ancient Egypt zone. It was even more horrify ride than the legs-free Battlestar Galactica: Cylon ride to me, because of the dark indoor surrounding and one of its sudden reverse tracks. No wonder TH refused to accompany me for this ride… >.<
Rain came again while we were having our lunch break at Discovery Food Court in Jurassic Park / The Lost World zone. While the rain eases a little, we continued to ride the windy Canopy Flyer at Jurassic Park zone. In view of the long queue experience in previous ride, we were smarter now to take the single rider queue instead of the ordinary group queue. The line was way much faster as we only waited for less than 30min to get our turn.
After the windy fly, we watched the WaterWorld Stunt Show at The Lost World zone, a sensational live water show that witnessed a tidal wave of death-defying stunts, along with thrills and spills from real explosions of fire and water. Warning! Always chose to sit right back in the middle instead in front of seating arena to avoid being wet, the show was good in audience involving and interaction. We also experienced the Shrek 4-D Adventure in Far Far Away where we able to see, hear and actually feel the action right from our seat via the miracle OrgreVision lens. Then, we also took the opportunity to snap some photos with Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe & Gloria the hippo as we walked towards the Madagascar zone. We then returned for our last ride of the day, Transformers The Ride: The Ultimate 3D Battle in Sci-Fi City which was early omitted due to technical problem. As strategized, we queued the single rider line that only took us about 30min of waiting time instead of 105min as claimed by the group of riders that share the same new Autobot known as EVAC with me. EVAC carried the riders into the center of a 4min battle between the human-friendly Autobots and the evil Decepticons, zipping through the subway tunnels, city streets and across high-rise rooftops through a variety of simulator and 3D effects as the riders volunteered to save the planet together with Optimus Prime and the Autobots.
Last, we also waited and watched the parade. Though the parade was not as lengthy as compared with the one in Disney Land HK but it’s still worth to watch because of a different experience and different characters. We left Sentosa Island about 9pm and ended the day having dinner at Food Republic, Vivo City Harbour Front before we bid goodbye to TH and headed home to Meilee’s place for a good rest after a tiring day out… zzZ~
...... There gone my weekend in Singapore after I had tea break with TH the next day at Fruit Paradise Café, Vivocity before departure to KL.
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