The doting parents and sweet lil Akshatha (I like callilng her putti) cho cuteeeeeee….. one beautiful family… there they were… MY BIL had to hurry to office.. so sis, putti and me zoomed in a taxi… I actually was worried abt toddlers normally being agitated and unable to cope with new faces…etc., but then here was the beautiful princess happily sitting in my lap and cooing at the interiors of the car and trying to pull the car door open…!! My sis already gave me an induction.. abt the sweet lil one… and her naughty ways… With the case deposited carefully and the lil one playing around… we both sat over to have what is called as a quickie catching up … really… it was the same… we talked that way in our childhood too for hours and hours… and it still is the same… I guess It’s the same with every one may be becoz u have an entire childhood and family and so many other things – all in common…
After hogging some food i settled down and kept staring at the view below since their apartment stood on the 11th floor in the lush green Bedok Reservoir View Road. I was actually enjoying the sight of the neat roads … beautiful trees on both sides… a huge parking lot and so much more.. the Traveller in me wide awake … waiting for the opportunity to run out doors… Thought will hold on until I get a tour… :) After settling down and freshing up and other things… we headed to the Tampines Mall – and I felt like a toddler myself trying to learn too many things at the same time.. My sis had already given me the lessons of the pedestrian crossing, currency, dos and donts.. and so on. After a quick browsing at the apple store and a cup of some amazing ice cream.. we started in to the mall and I told them I will finish a round and meet them at the sub way.
From Bossini to Giordano to HANG TEN millions of brands, restaurants, etc etc., Sure a bangalorean will defi enjoy a tour like this :) I walked around until my legs gave away and sat down with them for a quick moment and we headed home.. Initially I must admit that for the first two days I still had that faint sad feeling…. May be bcoz I was missing home… dad… but ssooon I told myself .. listen, this is vacation!! u always will go back… so jus relax and enjoy ok !!
The next couple of days went with visiting more malls, A certain really huge 24/7 Mustafa mall; Sentosa Island and a great deal of public transport usage (bus and the neat and comfortable Metro) BTW I took a small walk in the reservoir park with my sis and was taken aback with the serene beauty of the nature, and ppl of all ages jogging and walking as if their life depended on that!!! We walked until we could and returned home for we had more places to visit… but then I made a mental note that I had to come back to this park once again….
The visits involved munching away some hot idlis and spicy chutneys at the oh so famous murugan’s idli… and so many others… But the best was the Sentosa Island… there is something called as a LUGE which is a sliding thing which u can sit in wearing a helmet and slide on the slopy land. YUHOOOOOOO aint that fun…?? I did it and enjoyed it thoroughly… super cool !! But the best part also was the cable car that we went in to the Sentosa island.. I simply enjoyed that amazing… really my god u sit inside that thing and there… on top of everything and u look down to find abundant huge mighty buildings.. water… water everywhere… and so on… ohhh breathtaking.. is wat I felt… The Sentosa also offers u a merlion Walk and view.. apparently there is a small story abt why and how the name Singapore came and that was shown as a short animated video … the view from the Merlion head was simply superb… I kept clicking and clicking and clicking.. pictures.. and finally ended up trying to click my self with a self timer… and the young American couple offered to help and here.. that was a nice pic … I liked it :) eheheh
The dolphin and an underwater world show… was awesome and enjoyed every bit of it… and I kept clicking away pics … there are creatures from the underwater world … on either side.. and there is an escalator kind of a thing in between and u simply need to stand on it and it takes u thru the biggggggg round……… and u get the view of ohhh thousands and thousands of different variety of sea turtles, fish, amoeba, algae, scorpions, crabs, frogs, snakes…in all possible colours, shapes sizes..… oh mind blowing.. wat an Idea !! simply amazing…
We roamed and roamed and I got in to some tiger … sky viewing… and that and this… almost everything… ohh by 6.30 pm I was so tired… and they told me it has to be dark so that I would get a view of the beauty with all the lights on our way back in the cable car.. and all and so we got a glimpse of the newly opened casino… after looking at those roulette tables in the movies.. I got to see that in real… we had a quick tour of the place.. and one of the things.. reminded me of a scene from the movie – “what happens in vegas” and I saw a real Lamborghini parked in the front.. dunno y though :) may be they would give it to some one who won consecutively :) and we came back in the Cable car and enjoyed every bit of the journey back… amazing.. superb.. cool… awesome.. I kept blabbering.. and they patiently took it.. heeheh I would have given a head ache… to them with my on going exclamations… ahahahah
There is a place called Clark Quay - where we enjoyed a motor boat riding in the night.. oh simply amazing…. In between the calm water and either sides of it u find malls and the spread of the restaurants and the corporate hub which looked more like a zillion diamonds shining… with the lights ON in the night….. WOWOOOOOOOOO… Got a glimpse of something called china town… which is a wide spread of market where u find, almost anything and everything, from a Cuban restaurant and Chinese temple to a wide variety of stones in al possible shades … and so on ….. I happily browsed thru…
The weekend did end and I told them … I would wana do a bit of a sightseeing on my own too… and made a list of places I can go to. I decided take that much awaited walk in the park and click some pics and test my photography skills… :)
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| I took it in at the Reservoir park :) |
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