Mela Diary: SG December Adventure

I was planning on another trip to Singapore by the last weekend of November for the 'Lives Made to Worship' Praise Concert of the YFC's there. Everything was set except for one thing my ticket. It even came to a point where my dad was the one asking me if I would still go, and then my sister suddenly wanted to go to Singapore during her Christmas break and so, I decided to not go anymore for the concert and instead join my sister in December.

Our flight was at around 4 or 5 and my parents were a bit too paranoid, we went to the airport too early. Well, it was really because they still had late lunch to go to and the wedding of my cousin after. So while stuck at the airport and not wanting to go in yet we decided to eat first in Pancake House.

When we were finally done eating and was left with nothing else to do, I decided to play with my newest 'accessories' -- Kola. :)

 

LENS: Red

LENS: Green

LENS: Orange

Kola really is just filters and you can either put it on top of the lens or the flash depending on what you want to achieve. Eventually we had to go to the boarding area and all I did was read. I'm currently reading 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'.

The relief of seeing this sign! Off to Singapoooooore!!!!

Why hello there Singapore!!! (I do suck in taking pictures without a flash)

When we got there we were greeted by Kate. And since we seemed messengers from the Philippines, we still had to do one errand before going home and that is to give shirts to a friend of a friend. We seriously had one whole maleta for all the bilins. And when that was done, we went straight to the house. We fixed up a little, figured out the wi-fi then off we went to Downtown East which was a 5-10 minute walk depending on your speed. Kate left us there since she still had a party to go to and so we were left to explore the place on our own. We decided to have dinner in Burger King then went around the area.

With Mr. Funny and Miss Chatterbox :)

This is basically what I did-- retail therapy

Little Mr and Miss.

The plan for the next day: WE WAIT FOR KATE TO GO HOME, GO WITH KATE TO VIVO, SHE'LL ATTEND SERVICE WHILE WE GO TO SENTOSA TO BUY TICKETS.

What happened that day: We woke up without Kate in the house so we decided to just go shopping in Downtown East at around 2pm we decided to go home and since we had a feeling that Kate wouldn't show up we decided to just walk to the station since we didn't know where it was and the fun started when we started walking to the station, it started drizzling and we didn't mind it as much until the rain came pouring down and we didn't have anything to cover ourselves, but we had no choice but to brave it anyway. Then we started our adventure to Vivo then to Sentosa.

 boo! some photos cant be rotated, I don't want to make you all tilt your head just to see my face! :))

RED M&M's mascot. OMG!!!

So if you're wondering what happened to Kate, well we were supposed to meet up with her for dinner but she was still her hangover self so we just decided to have dinner and while waiting for our food I played with my beloved KOLA again.

When we got home it was such a relief seeing Kate home and since it seemed like we were all back in college we decided to watch an 11:50pm showing of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Yea, we cool like that eh!

The following day, Kate decided to take the day off.

Here we are all fresh waiting for the bus

From Bugis we went Somerset to meet more friends. It was also where Ernest, Paolo and Gico also met us then from there we went to Coldstone. Aaaaaaah. Ice cream!!! <3

Then from Coldstone we had early dinner then went to IHM for Simbang Gabi and to meet with some more YFC's!!!

With the girls: (L-R) Me, Kam, Aika, Elisha, Ellaine

With the boys: (L-R) Kam, Ernest, Gico, Niguel, Allen, Me

We had our little adventure when we got off  the station. We had to walk all the way to the church 'cause they guys weren't really sure what bus to ride and to top this all of we had to walk under the rain and man it was raining really really hard but it was fun!!! When we got to the church we were already seated then we had to move to a different pew since the pew where we were seated was apparently reserved, but then the others followed us upstairs, creating a scene or what? HAHAHA It was such a good feeling seeing old faces. Despite the short amount of time that I got to spend with them the last time I was there I felt warm around them and I did really miss them. And as if we weren't tired from all the walking that we did, we still walked all the way back to the station to go home. So yea, that day was beyond tiring!

The next day was the most anticipated day of the trip, trip to USS!

At the Madagascar ride!

lining up for Shrek 4D

After the lamest show ever-- The Donkey Live (but it was super hi-tech!)

On the other end of USS. That's far far away land!

Battlestar Galactica, my most favorite roller coaster still!

I was really jumping up and down when I saw Bumble Bee

Transformers Ride, this got to be the longest wait ever!

After the Mummy Ride

It would take me 10 years to write what went down in USS it was a crazy day, tiring yet really really fun! After USS we met up with Ernest to have dinner then strolled along Orchard. It was super crowded then there were 'gimmicks' on the side. Pardon the next two pictures, it was rushed and I didn't even get to set it on the right mode.

The worst part of this day was that we had to start re-packing our stuff already. That would have been the most bittersweet moment of 2011, like fo'real!

For our last day, Kate invited us to their school's Christmas Party! OM. She does have super adorable students!!!

We had to leave by lunch then off for last minute shopping! Then we had to rush home fix some things rested awhile then off we go to the airport. Our flight was at 8:50 so we had to be there early on. And as if we didn't have enough adventures, our flight got DELAYED. Our flight was first moved to 10:00pm then to 12:15am. Mind you our ETA in Manila was 12:10. WHAT HAPPENED EH? So while we stranded in the airport, thank goodness Changi was super nice, we went around, abused the wi-fi and eat.

Our meal for the night-- Chicken Rice!

We got back in Manila around 3:45 waited for our luggage for at least 10 minutes and then finally we got home.

So that was it, that was the end of our adventure in Singapore. The five days reminded me of how blessed I really am. It was great to see familiar faces and it was such a great experience to realize a few things in my life. I will never get tired of going to Singapore. Until next time, SG!

PS. Thanks for bearing with my face. :)) Not the best travel entry but yea, thank you still!