[[ Guts and Gumption; Grit and Grime ]]: Local sightseeing!

Thursday:

Just came back from perth yesterday and went out for dinner right after unloading the luggage. Perth was great, will blog about it soon (:

Canoeing dinner and Pre U Sem dinner clashed, so i went for Pre U Sem one instead. Hmmm

Saw SG14 again, all the nice people, and damn they are flying-high. Dion's actually got a PSC scholarship for a PhD in health sciences and what's more, there's only 2 PSC awardees for poly students, she's one of em. Imba. 0_0

Everyone's doing pretty fine, and they're betting whether i'd utter vulgarities after entering NS. Haha interesting.

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Friday:

Cycling Expedition!

Pic shows a rough area of the route cycled. Whopping 90km.

1) Upp Bt Timah ---> West Coast Park

Cycled from home, met mat at pine grove, went on to West Coast park. Shengkai was there having a little picnic with louiza. hurhur how sweet.

2) West Coast park ---> Seah Im Market

Ok Seah Im Market's actually the hawker centre at Harbourfront bus terminal, just that no one knows it's called Seah Im. Had fruits there. But since we're around the area, we decided to go to HortPark

3) To HortPark, Mount Faber then back to Harbourfront

Crap. Wanted to go to HortPark but apparently we were too amazed by the bridge and walked on it, ended up in Mount Faber.

Really beautiful bridges at HortPark. Back to Harbourfront

4) Harbourfront to Sentosa Cove!

Sentosa cove is b-e-a-utiful! But of course you only get to stay there if you're multi-millionaire.

Got to go in cos Matin's dad actually designs one of the Condos there. Sweet.

The community club has like yachts and jet skis and all. That club's called One^o 15

Shelves of Jet skis and boats parked along side. 0_0

Houses are zen-like, HUGE, mostly angmoh-owned and very beautiful

And there are houses on islands within the place itself, like this:

Oh gosh. Imagine being able to take out your K1 from your own shed anytime you want and paddling it without any winds or choppy water. Woooo

5) Sentosa cove ---> Siloso, Palawan, Tanjong beaches

Nothing special at these beaches. Siloso just closed for ZoukOut tomorrow though.

Palawan Beach. Had to take a photo cos it'd look so out-of-place. HAHA

6) Sentosa ---> Seah Im

Lunch

7) Harbourfront ---> Singapore Flyer

Ok we wanted to go esplanade park but missed it anw, Then went up further to the flyer area to see if the car exhibition was still on and obviously it isn't anymore. Haha (last saw it on Sunday during the marathon)

Ahh there it is. Hmm memorable place. The last 2km+ of the marathon where ankles and knees were really whacked. Heh, and just on the left side is Marina Reservoir actually, where Canoe Marathon was and will be held. (Crap, it's in like 3 weeks and i've not trained yet)

FYI, this stretch of road was actually made for the F1 race. So in a way, we were running and cycling on the best tar road in Singapore. There were some lane marks left behind too, coolness.

8) Singapore flyer ---> Marina Barrage

Took some navigation to get there. Quite far in and not convenient for commuters to go to unless by car. But the ride in was absolutely worth it cos Marina Barrage is exhiiiiiiilarating!

Let the pictures speak for themselves.

When you just first enter. This building's the visitor centre. Nice architecture. Has similar themes to esplanade and all. A very singaporean kind of design. Heh

And on the barrage! See those little viewing points on this barrage, I tell you they are magnificent cos you'd get a beautiful skyline of the whole city, and moreover you can use the bench made of marble for a little picnic table (:

This is the skyline (: (it was super cloudy and going to rain)

In the visitor's centre, you can go up to the rooftop to to the Green Roof. There's this slope up to the roof. Reminds me of the one at NTU, just that his one has field grass unlike the carpet grass hill at NTU.

On the way up the slope. The visitor centre or rather the Pump House.

When you reach the top! Wooh. That's called the Green Roof. Pretty great place to fly a kite or just chill out, picnic.

A fountain when you look down.

Further up, a solar park, the biggest one in singapore, though it looked really small, with not many panels. Btw, each solar panel has only one wire to connect it to a generator. Nice.