Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Pictures
Geck Keat and I went to explore Coney Island back in January this year. It’s my first time going to Coney Island but not Geck Keat’s first time going. In the end, we still took some time to figure out how to get there and were lost a few times on our way there.
Categories: Food, Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Shopping, Travel
I’m quite excited to visit Disneyland, not because of the rides but the beauty and photos I can take there. For those who know me personally, you will know that I never and will never be a rides/amusement park kind of lady.
It’s quite expensive trip though. I spent S$56.22 just on Uber rides from hotel to Disneyland both ways. I went with Revathi and Gulabi so S$56.22 is after splitting the cost threeways. So yes, it is quite expensive. Then the ticket to both parks at Disneyland is S$357.72. Yes, I paid for priority access and I did make use of it a few times so I would say it is worth it. The crowd is just way too scary. So that’s S$413.94 just for the rides and entry ticket for 1 person for a single day. 😮
Will I go back again? Nope, but I would love to visit the one at Florida where they have 7 parks. Haha. It’s like a once in a lifetime experience.
I took lots of photos and given that I went there to take photos, I did manage to capture lots of moments and I uploaded quite a few on my Instagram accounts. I shall share it over here to document this special and expensive memory. Specifically the S$414 memory hahaha.
I brought my backpack for the trip to bring my tripod and camera only to realise that I forgot to pack both items after I reached Disneyland. :/ So all the photos are taken by my iPhone 13 Pro… Oh well, the photo quality would have been better if it is taken by my camera, especially the night shots. I guess I just have to make do with whatever I have.
Food is not more expensive than outside of Disneyland but it certainly tasted quite nice. My standard of asian food quality dropped a lot when I am in US because beggars can’t be choosers. 🙂
Of course I didn’t take the ride. Just look at the ride video below…
Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Pictures, Rants, With my NEX
I went with Alex and Jin Quan to take photos for National Day Parade (NDP) yesterday. Well, it has been like the tradition for many years with them. I’m very glad that I still have friends who are still into camping for taking photos on the NDP day. Last year I joined them at a later time because I don’t want to fall sick just before my surgery. It was my first surgery and also my first time having GA so I want to make sure that my body can handle GA. So I joined them at a later time. This year I planned to join them earlier but I ended up taking more time to pack my luggage. I also started using my hand carry luggage to put mostly my camping essentials rather than the camera. Haha. Should have packed the night before since I am quite a slow packer. Anyway, shortly after I joined them, I saw the rain clouds coming and it started raining heavily. I quickly put in my jacket and started looking for my umbrella in my luggage. I did not expect the rain. One of the rare times the weather forecast is accurate omg.
Anyway, I took some time to set up my tripod to “chope” (reserved) the place then stood there for a while to see if I can find Alex after knowing. I ended up standing in the rain for a few mins before I decided to just seek shelter. Then I forgot to take my Koi black tea latte. Sigh, I only drank 2 sips and it is a large cup. Sighhhhh. I was feeling really irritated by myself when I realised I forgot about it when I reached shelter. Luckily Alex and Jin Quan shouted at me when I walked past them so we managed to reunite at the shelter. Haha.
After the rain somewhat stopped, we went back to the place we “choped” and I had to look for my orange tripod before. So glad that my tripod is bright orange so it is easy to spot it in the sea of black tripods.
I had to throw away my black tea latte even after reuniting with it because it probably got lots of rain water. Oh well. Wasted S$5.60. I also noticed that I am losing the data connectivity on my phone but luckily I didn’t really use my phone much. We watched the NDP show on my iPad using Alex’s data plan. Somehow his phone network is not impacted. Low key irritated that mine was impacted though. I should have paid the S$5 enhanced data connectivity instead for my black tea latte. Lol. Alex didn’t pay for the enhanced data connectivity and is using the same telco as me but was not impacted. So weird…
Alex’s SD card stopped working when he was checking his camera. Luckily he realised it before we need to use our cameras to take photos.
We also met Jin Quan’s photography friend, Ethan, along with some other folks who are like below 20 years old. Happy to meet new people with the same love for photography. Alex and Jin Quan were exchanging Instagram handlers with them but none of them asked me. Lol. Probably quite awkward because I am literally the only lady in the area. Lololol.
While on my way back home, I met this extremely rude and irresponsible for her own safety lady in the train. She fell down and grabbed my hand to break her fall. In the end, she broke 1 of my bracelets and did not offer to compensate. In fact, her stop is the next stop and she just alighted after apologising. Lol. Such a rude lady and now I am a broken bracelet. Luckily it is costume jewellery and not my diamond tennis bracelet. I almost planned to wear that today. Thank goodness I decided not to. So now I have to bring my heated ruby with freshwater pearl bracelet back to ACrysty Co to repair and have to pay for the repairs out of my own pocket. Oh well.
Maybe the bracelet is broken to block some bad/unlucky energy for me? Shrugs. Luckily she didn’t break my rainbow tourmaline bracelet. I will demand for compensation if that’s the case because that is quite expensive even though it is costume jewellery (because it is not using real gold hardware but gold plated hardware).
I came home with tired legs and very tired arms and shoulders. Well, 2 days of gym on 7 and 8 August 2024 is really draining. Lololol. I don’t think I can hit 3 days of exercise this week sadly. Oh well.
Update: Sharing some of the photos I took during NDP this year.
I also uploaded the photos I took in last year NDP events too.
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel, With my NEX
I always love to explore Christmas decorations. It is especially lovely when it is night because the lights will be turned on and it will be quite beautiful.
This time I went to Downtown Santa Monica and took a leisure walk with my colleague friend, Revathi. It was her first time to US and I can see she is a bit anxious haha. I’m just like “aiya, heck care lah” kind of attitude. A bit of a daredevil to be walking at night in US. But it was okay since Santa Monica is like the rich people district. Lololol.
The streets are relatively quiet and is quite different from Singapore.
Categories: Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel
After my work trip in Scottsdale, I extended my US trip with a vacation to Santa Monica, Anaheim and San Francisco.
Flew to LAX and we checked into our hotel near Santa Monica beach/pier. We went to get our lunch at the pier and gosh, it was quite horrible tasting.
It was my second time to Santa Monica Pier. I remembered how I spent so much on an Uber ride from Downtown LA to Santa Monica to catch the sunset and it was one of the most worthy Uber ride ever.
This time I also managed to catch the sunset since I stayed so near to the pier.
This time I wasn’t alone in the trip. I went with my colleague, Revathi, and my friend, Gulabi. Exploring the same place with friends just felt different. 🙂
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