Trip to Singapore (22-25 June 12) - Day 2

Our schedule for today are b'fast at Fullerton, seeing Merlion, walking around Marina Square, taking pictures and have some coffee at the hotel before we finally check out from Fullerton and shifted to Marina Bay Sands.

The b'fast starts at 6.30am-10.00am, and we arrived at 9.30am. We chose the Smoking Area outside and I'm very glad we decided to sat there. The view from our b'fast table was so amazing. Right in front of us is Spore "super clean" river complete with Cavenagh Bridge and Anderson Bridge as a background, added with high rise buildings, clear blue sky, little birds and tourist's river boat that passing once in a while...this is the kind of place where I want to have b'fast every morning for the rest of my life. It's just soo beautiful.

 

Sadly, we can only enjoyed the b'fast until 11.00am, because we need to check-out, put our luggage to concierge and headed to Marina Square to see The Merlion.

Because of the limited time, we missed to check the swimming pool area and to take picture there :(

Image taken from HERE

To get to The Merlion, a lot of tourist will walk around the Fullerton Hotel. But I once read a blog that said Fullerton have a direct tunnel to Merlion for their in-house guest. So we asked one of the staff in the lobby and he showed us the direction.

Located in Fullerton basement, this tunnel gave us convenience access to Merlion without being afraid of sun burn and tired of walking too far. There's a travellator inside and we can also see the history of Fullerton Hotel pictured and framed nicely to the wall.

 

In the end of the tunnel we saw a Starbucks (penting itu :p) and a direct view to the super-amazing Marina Bay Sands Hotel building.

The Merlion is just right in front of us, just a few steps away and finally we can see the famous Singapore's Icon...but...we're disappointed, because it's under renovations, the whole statue was sealed and covered so there's no way we can took picture there :( 

Since our plan to take picture in Merlion already ruined, thus we decided to just sit and cooling down our self at Starbucks. We ordered an Ice grande caramel macchiato and enjoying the view plus chit-chat-ing :D

 

At 1.00PM we returned to the hotel (thru the tunnel again), took our luggage, catch a cab and shifted to Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

Actually, we can always walk from Fullerton to MBS, but today, the sun shine very bright and super hot outside, we're also carrying a huge luggage..*queenwannabe. So we don't want to waste our energy and took a cab instead.

It turns out the distance between two hotels are very near, as seen on the map they both facing on to one another and only being separate by the Marina Lake, thus the taxi costs us not more than S$5 and 5-7 minutes drive only. Cool.

The first thing we saw at MBS lobby is a sea of people, long queue, kids that running around and screaming and shouting like they have no parents, all the waiting chairs are full, it was jam packed!!!

Although MBS lobby is very huge and fancy, but all the luxuries decreases with bunch of people queuing irregularly. We feel like we're on the market, but it's an unbelievably modern market! >__<

After 10 minutes, we finally got our room key.

Once again, another amazingly super luxurious awesome hotel in Singapore, the most famous hotel for its one stop entertainment place. Here we can find hotel, shopping mall, restaurant, branded outlet, spa, museum, convention hall, to none other than famous Marina Bay Sands Casino. You name it and they were all here. 

We're lucky to get a city view room located on 25th floor. We love love love the view..supeerb!

Our Room at MBS

Ps: too bad there's no bathtub inside our room :(

As much as we wanted to stay in the room and enjoy the view, we also realized that we don't want to waste our time here and we really need to find something to eat. So we immediately changed our clothes and rushed to their mall.

MBS hotel and shopping mall were integrated thru underground tunnel. Just headed down the elevator from hotel lobby and we're there. No different from its Hotel, MBS shopping mall is also big, spacious and luxurious. But somehow we feel it's the same like Grand Indonesia, the only thing that makes it different is the currency, all price tags are marked with Singapore dollar :p

We had lunch at the most crowded food court we've ever seen. The whole place full of kids, tourist from all over the world, talking with different language endeblah-endeblih.

There's also an ice skating ring in the middle of the food court, so you can imagine how crowded the place was. We barely even saw an empty seat and if we found it, we need to rushed before someone else took it..geez!

I managed to order Ramen noodle for S$8 and one ice tea which appears to be an "Es Teh Tarik" here. But thank God it tasted good. Meanwhile Desong ordered Bimbimbap rice hotplate that tasted kinda salty but still delicious though.
*maybe it's because we both starving, thus everything seems yummy?!

After our stomach was full, it's time for us to walk around the mall, sightseeing every inches of the mall, and stop by at Prada Outlet because Desong wants to buy a new wallet and finally she bought her self a Limited Prada Red Lamb Skin Wallet. Lovely wallet bebbih.

 

Done with shopping, eating and photo taking, we returned to our room and get ready for swimming on MBS Skypark 57th pool..yaaaay

Hellow SKYPARK :)

Let the picture speaks for its self..cause I'm out of word to describe how breathtaking the view was.

Stress...

Hhhmm...akhirnya gw percaya, kalo kerja udah gada niatnya, setengah hati, males2an, negatif thinking, ga semangat dan manyun..pasti ujung2nya jadi ga bener!

Dari awal berangkat, mood gw emang udah kacaw balaw, malesnya udah ga ketulungan, mata udah kaya digandolin gajaah..beraaat banget2! Alhasil, walopun gw udah gaya2an berjemur diatas Starbucks Kemang Sky plus hajar Ice Caramel Macchiatto plus ngerokok berbatang2, teteep aja mood garis merah ini ga ke-boost! 

"Drama pagi" kaya gini entah kenapa jadi sering menimpa hari2 gw akhir2 ini, ngebayangain kantor yang jauh plus macet udah bisa mendadak bikin mood gw melorot sampe ke mata kaki. Belum lagi ngebayangin suasana kantor yang "begitu2" aja..literally!

This is really Pain in the S! Gw ga pernah kaya gini sebelumnya, selama hampir 10 tahun kerja dibeda2 perusahaan dan beda2 lingkungan, baru dikantor ini aja gw bener2 ngerasa gada semangatnya..i wish i know why? but the thing is i don't!

Stress mikirin never-ending problem ini malah bikin gw kerja males2an, ngacooo beraat, dan ujung2nya gw miss satu kerjaan. Well ga fatal sih, tpi tetep aja jd kepikiran, berasa ada yang kurang klo sampe ga beres semuanya...well, untungnya si Boss ga sampe gimna2 banget! Alhamdulillah

Dan ini semua penyebabnya adalah "stress", one word that ruin my day to day life! Because of stress gw jadi sering mikirin hal-hal yang ga penting dan malah ga mikirin mana yang penting, its all mixed up! I barely think clearly. Which is not who I am, its so not me!

So far, apapun kerjaannya gw selalu menikmati dan bersyukur Alhamdulillah, and disini bisa dibilang kerjaan gw gak se-overload dikantor lama, dimana gw musti handle 4 bosses, but they're all professionals, they know exactly what their PA needs to do to assist them. But here, my new boss, even only 1 boss plus "additional" 2 bosses (yang ga penting2 amet) I feel like I need to learn to become a "Peramal" instead of Personal Assistant! Semuanya musti dikira2, semuanya musti ditebak2, semuanya musti tau..come on, I'm not Ki Joko Bodo kaleeee!!

At first I can say that I'm okay with all of this, but lately I had enough!!!

"A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret
From The Secret Daily Teachings

You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.
You must let the stress go - it is the only way you can bring what you want. The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT have what you want. Stress or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remove it all you have to do is increase your faith!

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions"

#Walopun udah baca email ini tadi pagi :(

Meet w/ Desong at PI

It's always feels good meeting up with friends to share stories, gossiping and have some coffee and just chillin' :)

And that's exactly what I did yesterday when I finally met with Desong again, my besties!

The last time we met was before my trip to HK, it means almost a month ago..geez! well, i know she is super busy with all of her "demanding-boss-thingy" and me who always find a hard time to leave the office early :( that's why we can understand how tricky it is to fixed our timing.

But yesterday, we finally matched our time and decided to meet up at Plaza Indonesia. At first i said to her that i will arrive at PI around 6pm since it took about an hour drive from Daan Mogot. Thus i'll be leaving the office set 5pm. But sadly, my boss asked me to do a last minute job..ie. edited and printed as much as 50 colored presentation pages into a hard copy file!! Sigh! And so i ended up leaving the office around 6pm and arrived there at 7.30pm :( well, what do u expect? traffic like hell in Jakarta!!

First thing we do was find a place to eat. Our plan was actually at Dome so we can sit facing the Bunderan HI view, but the place already closed down and has been renovated to another coffee shop which i forgot the name :( so we ended up eating at Segaffredo, its a smoking area :p we ordered oglio olio pasta and instantly disappointed! the smell of the food reminds us of somekind of a gross smelly sweat..blaah! and when we ordered cappuccino they said that they run out of whipped cream, and the drink i ordered was actually the kind of must-have-whipped-cream-on-top-of-it drink..so w/o whipped cream it would've taste...blaahblahblaah!! over all, we're disappointed, and to make it worst, there's no wifi connection too!! -thank god they allow us to smoke!

After finished eating we went for window shopping. Checking out those beautiful clothes, bags and shoes while salary day is still far far away to come was completely devastating :( however, windows shopping is always a fun thing to do!

The "meet up" wouldn't be complete without taking pictures right? so here it is, the narsis couple :p

Chocolate Caramel Night :p