Cely完美的一天

Here we are, the part 3 of my Singapore trip.

In case you missed the previous parts, here are Part 1 and Part 2

(Note: A lot of pictures)

After eating crabs, Caker and Mr Yam brought us to Clarke Quay for beer. (Wikipedia: Clarke Quay.)

Yes, realized that it was still early. But going to Clarke Quay, we needed to travel from Eunos Station to Clarke Quay Station. (Check out the MRTroute map here)

It was not that far. But it was already almost 7pm when we reached Clarke Quay. The night scenes were beautiful. There were a lot of tourist around. (Yea yea, we were tourist also. Caker called us by ‘tourist’ instead of our names.)

Along the riverside.

This kind of water fountain was quite common at everywhere. Kid’s Fun Place.

We chose to sit down at this place, called - BreWerkz.

The ambiance

Yea, we were sitting at outdoor, wanted to see more things and more people. And off coz, easier for our dear smoking friends. Hehe

Opps… the ‘Thanks for not smoking’ signboard was just right above my head.

Me and my Man.

Me and Caker.

After wondering a while here and there, studied the menu, then we placed our order.

We ordered Draft Set (7 different kind of beer) for each of us. It’s only SGD 10.

I don’t know much about beer. But we got sifu here. Mr Yam was our sifu! He was the master of beer drinking.

Our Sifu - My Yam.

Look at Caker’s Funny face.

After trying out all 7 different taste of beers, we decided to take the 1 of them and ordered a tower - Golden Ale. (Ale is not really beer.)

Yes, a tower of beer. This cost us about SGD 69.90.

Which equivalent to 8 glasses of beer. Golden Ale taste a bit sweet, according to Sifu Yam and Caker, which i dont really know la. I tasted all, they were all about the same. Yea.. i was a total failure i know.

But I only drink 1 glass for the whole section because I was a bit ‘wing wing dei’ already after the draft set, Not Drunk.

Mr Yam, Caker and HK.

Due to I already wing wing dei, i ordered some tidbits to eat. How can i not ordering food, right?

Calamari - The fried sotong

Jim and His Mrs ordered the potato skin.

Beer drinking section ended at about 10pm. 3 hours of beer drinking, are we nuts? Absolutely not, we were having fun chit-chatting and enjoying the views.

Jim suggested that we should go to the other side for a walk. As a “tourist”, how can i say no to that?

The other side seems a lot more interesting.

Jim, Caker, Mr Yam and HK. On the bridge, crossing over to other side of Clarke Quay.

Myself. :p

I’ll continue with lotsa pictures. Basically, we were walking around the whole Clarke Quay.

Clarke Quay

Myself.. again :p

All the pubs has own style and unique-ness. I guess we just went to wrong place for beer. All blames went to Caker !

Do you know how many pictures u had viewed? Exactly 30 pictures.

Till then… we finished our walk at Clarke Quay.

Bye Clarke Quay

We took MRT back Bishan.

I think Clarke Quay is a beautiful version of Bangsar. It was well-designed. It was by riverside. Beer was cheap. So many pretty girls and tourist. I was so attracted to that place. If I had a deep pocket, I will definitely went into each and every bar/pub.

Look, we have been ‘walking’ for a whole day. I was wearing high heels somemore. I was so tired. Needed a rest.

Can’t wait to go home for hot bath, rest my feet and sleep topless… opppsss..

There I ended my first day trip in Singapore.

***** Recharging for second day *****

Continue from last post.

Yes, this was what i was talking about - the biggest event of the day.

Ever since i saw the post in Caker’s Blog about this black pepper crab, I’ve been telling Caker to bring me to this Black Pepper crab. (Although the pictures taken were not convincing, but i was attracted to the name - black pepper crab.)

So, on the first day we arrived Singapore, we cant wait to go for these crabs.

We reached this Eng Seng Restaurant before 5pm.

Guess what, there was a queue already! Can you imagine how famous was this pepper crab??

But luckily, we dont have to queue. We took the last table at the corner. Happily order our crabs and patiently waiting for the crabs.

There were not much tables there, roughly about 15 tables.

After waiting for more than 30mins, our food finally were served !

LOOKING EXTREMELY DELICIOUS!!!

The Mayonnaise Yau Char Guay

The Chilli Crab - there were 3 crabs here.

Deliciousssss !!!! Ich-ban des neh !!

The Black Pepper Crab - also 3 crabs here.

Wei, by seeing these pictures, I feel like going back to Singapore for these !!

Everyone was well prepared for the crabs …

Do you think Caker looks better without glasses?

Jim and his Mrs. :p

Mr Yam and HK

Where was myself??? I was holding camera …

After those pictures, everyone start eating crabs, and forgotten about taking my picture. But never mind, that’s not important at all. I myself cant wait to eat also. Keke.

I tell you, those crabs were really yummy-licious.

Firstly, those pictures already helped to show you.

And now, Jim will show you.

It’s Fingers Licking good !!

Overly exciting when eating crabs, till he decided to bring back some souvenir - the Stains. Haha.

About 30mins of actions, we managed to finish everything.

No rice, no noodles. Only crabs!

We were all satisfied.

Some helpful info:

Name: Eng Seng Restaurant
Venue: 241 Joo Chiat Place (junction of Still Road and Joo Chiat Place)
Business Hour: 5pm - 10pm, closed on Wednesday
Price: SGD 20 per person (for this meal)
Famous: Black pepper crab and chilli crab

Therefore, this crabs is a MUST-EAT in Singapore.

Stay tuned for my upcoming events.

Me and HK took bus to Singapore at 11pm (20th Oct 2006).

This bus only have 1 stop at Yong Peng, Johor. Going Singapore by bus actually was a good choice, cheap and fast.

We reached Singapore at around 4.30am (21st Oct 2006). Then we took a cab to go to Caker / Jim’s house at Bishan.

We reached their house about 5.30am. It was early in the morning, I understand. I press the door bell, hoping either caker or Jim will come out open the door and welcome us. BUT, only after 30mins of standing outside the door, pressing the door bell, cursing caker and jim, Caker finally woke up and open the door, welcome us with his sleepy look.

After settle down everything, we all continue sleeping.

Fast forward to 10am. Everyone woke up and get prepared! Coz we were going Karaoke at K-box.

The K-box that we went was at Toa Payoh.

The K-box at Toa Payoh does not have interior design. (Does not look like the K-box in their website.)

According to Caker and Jim, they said the K-box here (at Toa Payoh) was like that, K-box at Town area will be a lot nicer, and off coz the price also higher compare to Toa Payoh.

The K-lunch that included was quite good in taste.

But the sound system was pretty bad. The microphone was ‘old’ and smell a bit odd.

As Caker and Jim said, we cant have high expectations here because Toa Payoh was housing area and price was cheap here compare to town area.

Ok, after 3-hours of singing, we went to orchard road for a walk before we went for the ‘biggest event of the day’.

“What is the biggest event of the day?” you may ask…

“Well, I’ll tell you in my next post.”

But I suppose Fei Jai Jason sure know the answer. He has been cursing me a lot for not bringing him along, while he was all the way at Sentosa. He Sound stupid not reasonable, right?

Continued from Part 1.

Fast forward to the next morning.

We were told to wake up at 6.30am and get prepared for exercise at 7.15am.

But OH BOY GIRL, women/girls in the sleeping area woke up before 6am. And kept on walk in and out, the door kept on open and close. So noisy. Urgghhhh… that’s frustrated. (This is what we learned also - Frustration.)

Without any choices, we woke up at about 6.30am and went prepared ourselves.

Everyone gathered around at the main hall as usual to receive further instructions. We were then told to go downstairs to exercise. What kind of exercise?

Yea, Tai Chi. The master of Tai Chi told us, this exercise will recharge our ‘baterry’.

After the exercise, we have a ‘Refugee Race‘. This race was interesting.

Everyone of us were refugees. Each of us was given a piece of paper listed the family name, age and role. After everyone got it, we gotto find our family and gathered around with at least 7 members before we moved on to the next task. At the end of the day, winner will be announced depends the most money, most vacinations and most food that they got during the race.

Things got crazy when the leader said “GO”. Everyone began to shout for family name , hoping to get family members gathered ASAP and went for next task.

Everyone was busy finding own family members

I finally got all of my family members (10 person) within 10mins, we were now ready to go for next task - applying job and earned money. As you can imagine, there were about 470++ of us rushing to the same place to apply job, the place was damn crowded and very long queue.

Everyone not queue up for jobs intereview.

Some of us went for interviews, some of us went to look for vacinations and food. There were counters around where people queue up for free vacination and food. The camp leader will suddenly announce which counter got free food and vacinations, and there, people will just rush to the particular counter. That’s how refugees run for free food. Else, you will have to earn money and buy vacinations and food.

I experienced frustration, scare and helpless. I cant get a job, I queue up for food, but they announced the free food was over and you need money to buy food. All of sudden, i was told by the leader (they randomly pick up), I’ve infected HIV +, need to go to ‘hospital’ and suspended for 10mins.

It was almost timed and i still haven got any food, jobs, money and vacinations. My other family members has got some money, free food and vacinations. Everything added up still cant make us the winner. I heard other families has got over 100 bucks, whereas we only have 30 bucks. And now i felt disappointed also.

Basically this race wanted us to feel how the refugees felt. The frustration, the helpless condition when you infected HIV+, the urge to get a job and earn money. There was once in the middle of the race, someone shouted “who wanted to be prostitute?”, and there were actually people answered “I want!! I want!!.”

The whole scene off coz was not even close to how the refugee live, but it gave us a rough idea of how hard they gotto work and earn their living.

After the race, we were brought back to the main hall and arranged to the next talks. Yea, talks again.

Topic on Differently-abled Children. How do they climb stairs..

One of the group member was blind-folded, he/she will have to listen to our instructions and walked thru the field that full with land-mines.

We were told that a lot of post-war countries were still full of land-mines. To plant land-mines was easy, but to remove them, it cost a bomb. Therefore, children at those countries were in great danger as no one know where exactly the landmines were located.

But they still need to earn some living, therefore, those straws were represented as bamboo sticks, children (blind-folded) will go and collect the bamboo sticks and sell them at the market. They will listen to the instructions of other group members on how they were suppose to walk, collect the straws and keep away from land-mines.

After those talks, we were gathered again at main hall for break time. This time, we decided to play something.

Chor Tai Di

Break time ended 1 hour later. Continue with reflection time. Everyone in the group was telling us how they felt, what have they learned from the whole camp.

Basically, they learned a lot. Those kids in my group were all below 20. They havent seen things like this before. They didn’t even know there were street children. This camp was absolutely benefits them. As for me, generally i knew almost everything, i mean what’s happening with the kids, like child prostitue, street children, child labour etc etc , what i dont know was the statistic. But right now, i’ve seen much more and experienced the life.

Closing ceremony was simple.

William announced all the winners for the groups with highest scores (we got scores during Q & A session during the talks) and the winners for Refugee Race. Winners got special meal - Domino’s Pizza at the end of the day !

30 minutes before 6pm, organizer started to distribute muffins and soya milk to all the groups.

It was pretty tempting to see food infront of us and we couldn’t touch it.

After every group got the muffins, we were asked to take group picture and did a short video, which will be used as a promo video for next year’s 30-hour famine.

Click here to download the ‘promo video’ (we did mexican wave! :p)
File size: 859kb
File Format: 3gp

When everyone was trying to position themselves, i saw this guy with his cute little socks.

It was like the ‘dont worry, be happy’ kind of socks. Cute hor !?

Now everyone was exciting about the minute of breaking the fast!

We got little countdown session. Glad that things were over!

For now, as a repay for everyone who read my long and boring entry till this moment, i present to you, our leng lui group leader. She was a volunteer.

She is studying in HELP now. Leng lui hor?

After eating the muffins, me and Wan Shen plan to leave the camp.

But before that, we took a picture with William. Good looking, right? But i look super duper tired and ugly! Was hoping so much to get something to cover my face.

I wanna say thank you to

1. My mom, my aunt, my cousin, Robin (my Colleague) and syen for donating money.
2. Wan Shen for telling me this 30-hour famine, bringing me the sleeping bag and donating money.
3. Ah Moi for lending me the sleeping bag.
4. All my friends who read this.

If you noticed, i was just telling you what activities they had for the camp. The information i got from the talks was too long and so much that i could not elaborate here. I was worried that i give wrong information. So, i rather not to give any. But if you joined this camp, you definitely learned something.

In case you are interested for the upcoming 30-hour famine, you could register yourself the mailling list at World Vision Website.

Once again, thank you for reading.