Weekend Mac Ritchie Tree top walk

Ok this is yet another crazy thing that I have suggested. For a person who seldom exercise want to go Mac Ritchie Tree top.... Hubby keep asking if I am sure I want to do this and keep repeating it's 10km walk. hummmm I did reconsider for a few seconds but the more he ask the more I want to challenge myself. If it's walking speed wouldn't be that hard bah. 

So to prove myself that I can do it, I said YES let's go! Hubby said we need to travel light, so told me that we can't carry too much things. No to my portable fan, no to my extra t-shirt, no to my powerbank, no to my snacks...... SAD!

We also jio LH to accompany us, his the only one that will do such things with us lah anyway. hahaha. We meet around 8am at Ang Mo Kio for Mac donald breakfast, must make sure I have enough food and energy as we will not have any snacks with us. 

We reached the place at around 9am and started walking to the tree top. It took us around 1hour walk before we reach the tree top. I was quite surprise to see quite a lot of people at the place, some are in groups, some are couple with young children, some even carrying baby.... = =" There's even some ang mo running, guess they are doing some training. I find it hard to jog there as the path are uneven, if there's rain before hand, some place will be damn muddy. 

Us before we start of our weekend long long walk...

Along the way you will also see monkey, do not feed them as they might get naughty and hurt you. But in general if you don't disturb them they will not come and disturb you. 

There's a few stop where you can take your rest. Only one stop there's toilet and water point, once you see that stop you are almost near the tree top. 

Us half way there....

You will also see a lot of signage that tells you ONE WAY ONLY, Do not turn back. hahaha

And once you reach the tree top it's really ONE WAY ONLY liao! No turn back! You also tend to get stuck in between because everyone wants to take a selfie! Of cause same for us!

Just when you thought ok done with the tree top since we are at the highest point from now it is down hill liao bah! Oh hell NO! There's a long long staircase that you need to climb up! 

And after you go Up, you go down again! OMG I simply got to stop half way the staircase down because see too many yellow lines liao. Until I blur and if don't stop I scare I'll miss my steps and I'll roll down!

After the tree top, we went to the Jelutong Tower, yet more staircase up...

The view up there...

And I saw this butterfly at the bottom of the tower... super big

We completed the walk around 11.30am, using 2.5hrs to finish the walk! Feel super proud of myself to be able to complete the walk. And after the walk our rewarding lunch is our favourite....

Happy Tree Top Walk! Mission Completed!

Long weekend outing - Singapore Heritage Festival

LH jio us for this event, Mediacorp caldecott Broadcast centre open house. Ok lah we since nothing much to do shall go walk walk see see look look. We meet up for lunch at Adam Road hawker centre, my first time there for food. Hubby say prawn noodles and nasi lemak nice. I ordered prawn noodles hubby order nasi lemak. Both stall long queue in the end we had a very long lunch. 

Reach mediacrop caldecott around 2pm then realise no people there. A few uncle and aunty walk out the reception area told us event only start at 5pm. We all were shock as we didn't realise the starting time. Then we search online event actually start 4pm, so we went to a nearby cafe and nua till 4pm. 

Went back again around 4pm then realise security guard directing some people to walk to the back of the media crop caldecott then we saw a banner pointing where the festival is held. 

Follow the banner all the way to the back, then found OMG (Old Main Gate). 

Walk in then we realise there's actually free shutter bus service available at a few location. Faint! Then we also just realise we are only allow to walk around that back space of the festival. HUH....I still thought we can walk around the old mediacorp office.... sian diao. Event space very small. Some food stall, one small event hall for people to sell their merchandise (got no link with mediacorp), one outdoor stage some boring show, one indoor kids stage, one outdoor projector screen with many beanbags, one indoor exhibition. Event just boring.... 

Heard a few uncle also complain event like half F... nothing much should have open more area for people to see. haiz disappointing. Didn't see a single artist we decided to leave the event place after taking photo. haha waste time.

Meet up with my ladies

Been quite long we didn't meet in group, I didn't attend some of the outing in the beginning of the year due to some reason. Finally we managed to did a last minute meet up! And finally a meet up with no hubbies around, sometimes they will bring hubby along. I'm those that doesn't like to bring my hubby along to girls meet up. haha well my hubby also don't like to tag along but I'll tag along with his boys gathering lol. 

At least we can openly have our girls talk finally! Anita came later and we almost finished most of the food we ordered. She was too busy feeding her boy so she didn't ate much too. I see her very stress so we didn't talk much about her boy. Didn't want to stress her further lah. Wonder if I'll behave like her when I have my kids. Hummm hopefully not. 

As we get to be more busy with our own life we don't really meet up that often. So I treasure every meet up, hope we will still continue to meet up and our friendship will never die. Just love these ladies. :) 

Weekend activities ~ March school holiday part 2

Another weekend activities post as the previous one is too long. Other event I decided to went for is the Sea of wonder at Marina Square. It's happening at the event hall in Marina Square, as expected it will be crowded with families. Children playing with the balloons! The thought of it I will think twice if I should go..... What if the children play with the balloons and the balloons start blasting! I'm scare of balloon blast in front of me. 

Aiya they can do such event definitely will have think about it right? They can't be replacing the balloons on and off right? Hahaha yes the balloons they use must be some different type we usually see, suitable for balloon structure. 

So here I go!

The most impressive one is of cause the giant octopus!

I personally prefer the Pororo design, cute!

An event suitable for adults and children! Give a like to the event organizer.

Weekend activities ~ March school holiday

This March school holiday are full of events, as many would have know there's the Art Zoo happening at Floating platform. Quite a few friends went with children to enjoy the giant inflatable balloon set up. When I first get to know the event I also wanted to ask Hubby to bring me go. But after much thought I decided to give it a miss. Reason being there will be full of children and parents, you will in the end knock into someone without knowing and accident may happened. Especially with the clumpy me for those who know. Secondly if I want to go there is for what purpose? Take photo? Well it will be just too crowded and bouncy that I wouldn't end up with good photos. So Ok shall give it a miss. 

But not to worried, there's still a few events going on that I wouldn't miss. One of it is the ilight Marina Bay. We went last year, this is our 2nd year going for the event. Basically are the lighting art installation that we will be looking for. We started walking from Marina Square down to Fullerton Hotel. For the Merlion as the first stop, this year Merlion has got a new lighting on it. 

Well as per expected with lots of Singaporean and Tourist all crowded there taking photo with our Merlion. Just be extra careful with your belongings, I basically was just carrying my handphone taking photos. 

Some photos of my Merlion...

We continue walk down towards Fullerton Hotel, where there's a few lighting installation. A tree and some flowers before we go for our 1st toilet break at the hotel. Another tips is to bring extra water with you, as you know walking such a long way in Singapore's weather you wouldn't want to dehydrate yourself. Although there's places where you can buy drinks but it also quite expensive. 

The butterfly tree & flowers photo.,,,

We then continue walking down towards Marina Bay, there's a few more lighting installation along the way. Some I didn't bother to take any photos, as it didn't turn out well in picture. Example: Eyeballs.....hummmmm 

Of cause if you search on the internet, you will see lots of people taking photo with the moonflower. I was hoping to take nice photo of the moonflower as you can see from  photo I got from Channel newsasia.... 

Photo source from: Channel newsasia

But in fact what you see is full of people in your photo, you simply can't get a nice big plot land full of moonflower photo without people in it.

I can only try my best to get a small plot of land like this....

The funniest part was when the moonflower light turns blue, you start to hear the ladies around you start screaming "Ah!!! Oh!!! WOW!!! Faster!!! Take photo!!! Hurry up!!!" I just quickly take another few shoot of the flowers and left the place. 

The next favourite spot will be the glowing rubber band. Pretty interesting to how the glowing rubber bands will turn out in your photos. Many people taking photos of it as well as selfie. Everyone was just trying to get their best artistic photo with the rubber bands. 

The other interesting lighting installation photo.

One of the installation you will see people queuing, well you do what people do. We queue also loh....What you will be queuing for is I call it the "onion head"....Once you get into one of it...you start to think how should my photo be? People start to use their best artistic angle to take photo, but we were there keep asking ourselves take what huh? Then being a Singaporean, I die die must have a photo of me in the "onion head". So that's how my photo looks like. LOL! 

We ended at Marina Bay Sand, super tired, wanted to go for a drink but the mall is also crowded with people thus we decided to go home straight. It was a great walk at night taking photo at the same time. If you have nothing to do you can go for a walk just like us.