Thursday, February 06, 2014 - [Science Centre ! ]
HI EVERYONE!
Okay let's ignore the unhappy stuff that happened, and let's focus on the happy. I've found closure and so I can now forgive the people who hurt me. And I also wrote like 4 extremely long draft posts in my blog for myself. Maybe I'll publish them some day because I actually always look back at my drafts.
I also created a new draft today called The Wedding Draft. Why? Because it's almost every girl's biggest dream and happiest planned day in their life. So of course I'm excited too ! So in my unhappy moments I've some how made myself happy. yay!
Okay went to the Science Centre on Tuesday! with Dengyin and Weiyang (: The science centre is actually pretty nice and it's $10 per entry for adults. We also paid $5 to enter the Laser Maze. I always liked the science centre as a kid except for the insect exhibits. lol. We were slightly disappointed because several of the older exhibits have been changed and some areas completely removed like the Movie Studio and the Playground area with the huge slide, giant bubble maker and the chick incubator area is gonnneeeeee ):
Science says that if you insert an object like your hand it'll disrupt a Tornado. Yet... houses and trees are swept into hurricanes and it doesn't stop. This is a really thin one and putting your hand in will break the stream of air.
watched a video of a baby's development in a womb. my god it's so scary how fast it grows and it's movements. It looks like it's so easy for the baby to get tangled in the umbilical cord and kill itself. I can't imagine something like that growing inside me and giving birth AHHH so painful goodness D:
Black lab mice. They were hiding initially so I bent down to get a closer look and as my hair brushed Dengyin's leg she jumped up thinking the mice were on her XDD lololololol . white mice are so much cuter D:
Don't know how this "Naught is Nothing" was projected because no matter how I swiped my hand across the surface the 0 stayed there and the projection never disappeared or got interrupted by my fingers D:
SOOO NINJA on my best try I only hit 2 lights! I did a big jump and phone bounced out and knocked the lasers TT
Om nom nom nom nom .. what's this hard thingy that melts in your mouth ?
Ding ding ding! It's Astronaut's Ice Cream! I guess because they can't have liquidy ice cream that will float around messily in their ship.
The science centre gift shop has a million little toys and gadgets and they sell some of the exhibit stuff too but I was far too afraid to venture in and buy anything because there's so many fake lizards and fake frogs in there I didn't want to embarrass myself. So .. telescope section. SAFE !
Okay let's ignore the unhappy stuff that happened, and let's focus on the happy. I've found closure and so I can now forgive the people who hurt me. And I also wrote like 4 extremely long draft posts in my blog for myself. Maybe I'll publish them some day because I actually always look back at my drafts.
I also created a new draft today called The Wedding Draft. Why? Because it's almost every girl's biggest dream and happiest planned day in their life. So of course I'm excited too ! So in my unhappy moments I've some how made myself happy. yay!
Okay went to the Science Centre on Tuesday! with Dengyin and Weiyang (: The science centre is actually pretty nice and it's $10 per entry for adults. We also paid $5 to enter the Laser Maze. I always liked the science centre as a kid except for the insect exhibits. lol. We were slightly disappointed because several of the older exhibits have been changed and some areas completely removed like the Movie Studio and the Playground area with the huge slide, giant bubble maker and the chick incubator area is gonnneeeeee ):
I'm in a box!
or not? :3
I like how dengyin was asking profusely WHERE'S THE FACE? WHERE? What am I supposed to see besides the ship????
What are you doing weiyang? I just.. I don't know ?
I broke my arm. How? XD
Catbit !
DY: ayeshaaaaa ! I'm too scared, it's so dark, climb into this hole with me D:
Shadowy art, very impressive, they're just little cut outs that form brilliant shadows!
So many interactive things to do in the Science centre like making your own Cloud rings. making a tornado and interactive videos and stations to conduct small experiments.
Dengyin and weiyang are making a Cloud Ring. there's like a smoke generator thingy inside and when you pump the black cushion down it puffs out smoookkkeee in a big Ring . Too fast for my shutter D:
Science says that if you insert an object like your hand it'll disrupt a Tornado. Yet... houses and trees are swept into hurricanes and it doesn't stop. This is a really thin one and putting your hand in will break the stream of air.
we are relatives with da dolphinzzxxx :3
We were at the human body section and there's this giant brain here. It lights up according to which parts of your brains generate feelings during
"New Love"
very surprising isn't it. Isn't new love like a big surge of emotions and constant thoughts about the other party and also great curiosity to learn more about each other.
Au contraire the brain actually gets more involved in long term love and almost the entire brain lighted up at "Maternal Love" (no idea where that photo went)
watched a video of a baby's development in a womb. my god it's so scary how fast it grows and it's movements. It looks like it's so easy for the baby to get tangled in the umbilical cord and kill itself. I can't imagine something like that growing inside me and giving birth AHHH so painful goodness D:
left a note :3 how do people draw on these things! the top right one looks like some distorted penis..
Black lab mice. They were hiding initially so I bent down to get a closer look and as my hair brushed Dengyin's leg she jumped up thinking the mice were on her XDD lololololol . white mice are so much cuter D:
$1 to sit on the electric chair. far too chicken to try D:
Just a 3-handed Einstein climbing up and down the rope between exhibition halls.
Managed to do some work out while I was there too :3
Don't know how this "Naught is Nothing" was projected because no matter how I swiped my hand across the surface the 0 stayed there and the projection never disappeared or got interrupted by my fingers D:
Proceeded to the Sound Room and I cannot understand how this circular piano works because the notes just keep going up and up and up and it doesn't seem to end.
Ear Illusion O_O
DY: WOOOOOO .
DY: hey it's so scary. what if I yell into it and suddenly a head comes rolling down.
lol wat?
There was this series of scents section where you had to smell blindly and vote for your favourite. EUW CITRUS.
Laser Maze time! :D
was hilarious watching dengyin and weiyang roll around. Dy's butt activated soo many lasers hahaha !
SOOO NINJA on my best try I only hit 2 lights! I did a big jump and phone bounced out and knocked the lasers TT
Om nom nom nom nom .. what's this hard thingy that melts in your mouth ?
Ding ding ding! It's Astronaut's Ice Cream! I guess because they can't have liquidy ice cream that will float around messily in their ship.
The science centre gift shop has a million little toys and gadgets and they sell some of the exhibit stuff too but I was far too afraid to venture in and buy anything because there's so many fake lizards and fake frogs in there I didn't want to embarrass myself. So .. telescope section. SAFE !
Labels: astronaut, brain, chair, cloud ring, electric, endless piano, hurricane, ice cream, illusions, laser, maze, science centre, shadows
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9:22 PM.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - [Family Weekend Times :D]
HEERRROOWWWW.. today's post is going to be very very long, so brace yourself *inserts Ned Stark meme* First of all I want to mention something silly. Recently, umm.. the past week and this week, people have suddenly been talking to me on Facebook. "Hey! Glad you update your blog so regularly!" "Hey! I read your posts" "Your blog is really cool! Do you spend alot of time on it?" etc etc. I'm very happy and flattered to have loyal readers.
AND THEN.
They ask "So where are you now?" "Are you Singapore now" "Do you have time to catch-up?" "What have you been doing recently?"
Okay not to be rude to my readers, but whuuuuut?? You say you read it, you like reading it, you notice I have been updating but you DON'T know that I'm home? you DON'T know what I've been up to recently despite all my posts about family? About missing Australia?
So I don't know if you're just using my blog as an excuse to start a conversation with me after not contacting me for years .. or you're acting dumb... or I don't know. Enlighten me? I really don't mean to be rude but you guys are confusing me.
NAO, we begin on Sateeeday. Was very excited because Daddy said we'd go to the park to skatee wooohooooo, I was so excited all day and then this happened . . .
): So we turned away from the park and went to drive down the new $4.3Billion Marina Coastal Expressway which goes under the sea ! I don't really know much about driving, but this is a 5-lane tunnel, Daddy who has been all over the world said he's never been in such a huge tunnel before. Must be fun to drive in (:
ZOOOOOOM. At least this one had speed limits put in. When the KPE tunnel opened there were no speed limits imposed yet and the police clocked up to 240km per hour ! WOOOOOO . Anyway, because it was a Saturday, my brother had his somersault classes and didn't want to miss them so he wasn't with us and we decided to head to Dempsey Hill for one of our family's favourite restaurants - Samy's Curry. Not to be biased as an Indian, but this is really really really really really really good Indian food, and it's a pricey location but the food isn't that pricey if you consider the other high-end restaurants around the area.
Firstly you eat on fresh Banana Leaves (: so fragrant! And also, Indians believe eating with their fingers is the yummiest way to go and the food tastes different. Speaking from experience, yes it does! It's also actually alot more enjoyable eating with your fingers than utensils ^-^ The waiters come with a large bowl of rice and two little bowls of potato curry and daal (some gravy thing I don't really like) to start.
This is usually quite spicy but I just love it too much I have to keep eating even if get a running nose and start sweating and tearing, I WILL STILL EAT IT ALL !!!! GRRRR
This is Chicken 65 I think, or Chicken Tikka, my stepmom was so silly and ordered Chicken 69 :P .. awkward.
There were some other dishes but these two are the main ones we always always order (:
We walked around after looking at expensive stuff .. sister bought a scoop of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and it was $6.90 . niiiiceeeee.... we went to the expensive Swiss Butcher ( but everything was labelled "Imported from Australia" HAH! ) and I saw this very pricey Nutella ): So you can imagine how pricey everything else is in there.
Continued walking to furniture stores, looking at Lambos and Aston Martins and other expensive toys and we came to the Parrots outside some Thai restaurant. I never knew that they could hold their own food in their little claws to eat. [ Fun Fact: If an animal can hold it's own food, it's haram, that means, Muslims can't eat them. Therefore Muslims cannot eat parrots or squirrels but can eat Chickens Cows etc ] Then you're gonna ask me why I can't eat Pork and I'm too lazy to write that out now
Here's some random pictures of my dad's car, because he wants a nice flashy sports car like every man ever, but I told him I really like his car because I love BMW headlights and his car is big and comfy and it has a huge boot which is so useful, after all we have about 3sets of Golf Clubs or like carrying my sister's bicycle to the park, or my millions of luggages whenever I travel. Even tho he smiled at what I said, I know in a couple years this car will be gone like every car we've had.
Oh my my, I'm done with Saturday ! Actually we did come home to play some Board Games but I have accidentally deleted the pictures from my phone and I'm far too lazy to open up the game and snap some pictures but the game is called UBONGO! So if any of you worked at a Board Game Cafe like I did or you went to one before you might know the game. It's really easy and sorta IQ-training kinda game (:
I'm am so sleepy right now, I'm going to speed through the rest X_X
Okay this is probably my favourite place in SG to eat so happy to come here after having excellent Fish-Head the day before :DD
Only ever in Singapore. I bet no where else in the world will have separate return points for Halal and Non-Halal food plates even in a decade's time.
So mega open-air hawker centre or food court with people waiting by each table for seats hehehe, you have to stand beside a group of people and make them feel awkward and uncomfortable and then they'll leave and you can take the table ahaha XD
I wasn't mega hungry so we didn't order the BBQ chicken wings which we usually do, look at the line!
I laugh everytime I see "MEGA FOODCOURT" in Brisbane. Oh Australia, you know nothing.
Sugarcane drink is a muuussssttttt, see they crush the canes in that rolling machine and put it through a sieve and viola !
Satay shop has upgraded and has these little buzzers now :D Apparently only this shop has business and the rest are all sad and ronery.
Everything I ate had Sambal in it. Sambal is a type of Malaysian Chilli, it's not super spicy and doesn't sting like the small red chilli, it has a really really nice taste. I'm sorry I can't really explain it to non-Asian readers ):
My favourite vegetable :D Sambal KangKong :DD I still can't cook it T_____T I need hallppp.
Stepmom ordered something called "Roti John" apparently some English man came to SG and ordered Bread with Eggs and got this and so this dish has been created! Kinda like French Toast I guess.
Had a nice stroll and icecream after dinner :D I went to buy the Atap Seed icecream. I again can't describe this taste, abit like coconut ? But it was really good, I had it that day I had to take my Oath and now again! It's yummmm (:
Atap Seed looks like this, sorta like Nata de Coco, which is the jelly you can put inside Bubble Tea, not the pearls but the Clear Jelly toppings if you've eaten them before. Wikipedia says this thing is called Nyca Fruticans, I really have no idea what fruit or thing this is but it tastes good in ice cream form (:
AND THEN.
They ask "So where are you now?" "Are you Singapore now" "Do you have time to catch-up?" "What have you been doing recently?"
Okay not to be rude to my readers, but whuuuuut?? You say you read it, you like reading it, you notice I have been updating but you DON'T know that I'm home? you DON'T know what I've been up to recently despite all my posts about family? About missing Australia?
So I don't know if you're just using my blog as an excuse to start a conversation with me after not contacting me for years .. or you're acting dumb... or I don't know. Enlighten me? I really don't mean to be rude but you guys are confusing me.
NAO, we begin on Sateeeday. Was very excited because Daddy said we'd go to the park to skatee wooohooooo, I was so excited all day and then this happened . . .
): So we turned away from the park and went to drive down the new $4.3Billion Marina Coastal Expressway which goes under the sea ! I don't really know much about driving, but this is a 5-lane tunnel, Daddy who has been all over the world said he's never been in such a huge tunnel before. Must be fun to drive in (:
ZOOOOOOM. At least this one had speed limits put in. When the KPE tunnel opened there were no speed limits imposed yet and the police clocked up to 240km per hour ! WOOOOOO . Anyway, because it was a Saturday, my brother had his somersault classes and didn't want to miss them so he wasn't with us and we decided to head to Dempsey Hill for one of our family's favourite restaurants - Samy's Curry. Not to be biased as an Indian, but this is really really really really really really good Indian food, and it's a pricey location but the food isn't that pricey if you consider the other high-end restaurants around the area.
Firstly you eat on fresh Banana Leaves (: so fragrant! And also, Indians believe eating with their fingers is the yummiest way to go and the food tastes different. Speaking from experience, yes it does! It's also actually alot more enjoyable eating with your fingers than utensils ^-^ The waiters come with a large bowl of rice and two little bowls of potato curry and daal (some gravy thing I don't really like) to start.
They also have another two bowls of starters which is usually mild chicken curry and cucumber salad. But I believe this has been taken off their menu but Daddy's so popular over here, they actually specially made the cucumber salad for us ! :DD yayyyy !
Although their menu is pretty big, my family only ever comes here because of the Fish-Head Curry, so this cost $20 and it was the most expensive thing we ordered. ( See, this place isn't a mega rip-off like all the other restaurants in Dempsey )
This is usually quite spicy but I just love it too much I have to keep eating even if get a running nose and start sweating and tearing, I WILL STILL EAT IT ALL !!!! GRRRR
This is Chicken 65 I think, or Chicken Tikka, my stepmom was so silly and ordered Chicken 69 :P .. awkward.
There were some other dishes but these two are the main ones we always always order (:
Fold your leaves in half when you're done (:
Some how .. I must be abit blind, the photos look clear on my phone. Im sorreh.
This clever fella could say Hello and Byebye! It was my first time hearing a bird talk. It was so magical .... XD
Here's some random pictures of my dad's car, because he wants a nice flashy sports car like every man ever, but I told him I really like his car because I love BMW headlights and his car is big and comfy and it has a huge boot which is so useful, after all we have about 3sets of Golf Clubs or like carrying my sister's bicycle to the park, or my millions of luggages whenever I travel. Even tho he smiled at what I said, I know in a couple years this car will be gone like every car we've had.
Oh my my, I'm done with Saturday ! Actually we did come home to play some Board Games but I have accidentally deleted the pictures from my phone and I'm far too lazy to open up the game and snap some pictures but the game is called UBONGO! So if any of you worked at a Board Game Cafe like I did or you went to one before you might know the game. It's really easy and sorta IQ-training kinda game (:
I'm am so sleepy right now, I'm going to speed through the rest X_X
Sunday! We had a great family dayyy, my stepmom was actually pretty nice to me this weekend but okay she's abit quiet and ignoring me again today. So anyways we had a little movie sesh in the afternoon. Barfi !
Okay firstly it's a Bollywood film, which my family likes, I do like Bollywood films (: I would not realllly recommend this show, unlike "3 Idiots" or "Delhi Belly" because this show progresses so much slower or maybe because I was feeling sleepy and it's a very quiet film. As in not much dialogue because the main character is deaf and a mute. The other main character is Autistic. So you can imagine how .. strange this movie is. I haven't finished it yet but I didn't really enjoy it as much as other Bollywood films. Now if you're really into Indian films, ask me! I know so many of them, and I know all the good ones (:
At 5pm, we decided to go out because the weather was so much more pleasant than the day before so YOLO time. Grabbed my skates and socks and off to East Coast Park we go ! It's been 2 years since I last wore them!
Here's some old pictures of me when I was very comfortable in skates :3
It did rain in the morning, so the ground as abit wet and sky was cloudy but it was nice and windy and coooling (:
This is like one-fifth of ECP, somehow Google doesn't have a full map. Ohwell. So it's about 20km of nice straight skating path. Maybe longer. I really don't know, Singapore is always expanding every thing. OH IT'S MIDNIGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZAC !! :DDDDD !!! ♥
Back to ECP.
Went to the Jetty for some new cooling breeeeeze and to look at people fishing ~ ( The red part of the jetty is so uneven and wobbly to skate on D: )
I really want to try one of these cycle-carts but they go at an infuriatingly slow speed!
Skated back off the jetty and almost died getting through all these nuts on the ground. They just kept getting caught between the wheels and made me trip a gazziilliiionnnn times. UGH . My encouraging little sister said "Don't worry! Jiejie is brave! She won't fall!"
My first obstacle came, I know you can't tell but there's actually a slope here with those stupid speed controller things .. like this only on the descending side of the slop ._____.
It feels like nothing driving cycling or walking over but it makes a hell of a difference when you're in skates.
I survived!
and survived a second slope :DD "Jiejie take a deep breath and bend your knees!
You won't fall!"
Skated past the Outward Bound Campus :D Outward Bound is such a fun thing.
Everyone should do it once in their lives (:
And then... I was skating back after an hour and a half of rolling around. My sister was really tired from cycling so she got off and handed her bike to my dad to wheel and she wanted to hold my hand and walk while I slowly rolled beside her. So okay.. I skated as close as I could to the pedestrian side and I stopped to take a photo of the people doing stunts .
Remembering the day I actually tried to roll down this and fell and almost died XD
Unfortunately, as I took this photo, a little boy named Dalton or Delton decided to skate pretty fast with his head down and collided into me making me fall on my left arm. Seriously I felt like a bowling pin . Amazingly he didn't fall and managed to continue on and I think he didn't even notice he had knocked me over until his instructor yelled at him and forced him to apologize to me. He still looked very dazed after being scolded and skated in the wrong direction from his class of little skaters.
Well I wasn't in much pain from that fall but now ... now I really am. Jeezus, my left arm has been so weak and useless all day yesterday and today. T__T . 48hours of pain.
At least I was very near the car so I could remove my skates and get back into my comfy slippers and it's dinner time . YAYYYY ! ECP has this really big food court and it looks nice and clean and organized now!
Okay this is probably my favourite place in SG to eat so happy to come here after having excellent Fish-Head the day before :DD
Only ever in Singapore. I bet no where else in the world will have separate return points for Halal and Non-Halal food plates even in a decade's time.
So mega open-air hawker centre or food court with people waiting by each table for seats hehehe, you have to stand beside a group of people and make them feel awkward and uncomfortable and then they'll leave and you can take the table ahaha XD
I wasn't mega hungry so we didn't order the BBQ chicken wings which we usually do, look at the line!
ALL THE YUMMY FOOOOOODS
I laugh everytime I see "MEGA FOODCOURT" in Brisbane. Oh Australia, you know nothing.
Sugarcane drink is a muuussssttttt, see they crush the canes in that rolling machine and put it through a sieve and viola !
3 drinks for SGD$5.
It'll be AUD$5 each if I was back in Briz.
Satay shop has upgraded and has these little buzzers now :D Apparently only this shop has business and the rest are all sad and ronery.
Everything I ate had Sambal in it. Sambal is a type of Malaysian Chilli, it's not super spicy and doesn't sting like the small red chilli, it has a really really nice taste. I'm sorry I can't really explain it to non-Asian readers ):
My favourite vegetable :D Sambal KangKong :DD I still can't cook it T_____T I need hallppp.
BBQ Stingray in Sambal!
Sambal Sotongs! ( Squids )
For my loverleyy Australian friends, do not hate the Stingrays, they're really yummy and their meat comes in shreds, very soft and tasty, like fish.
CHILLI CHILLI ERRDAYYY
LOOOK AT THE SQUIDS HONEY :D ( ugh even though I'm feeling very bloated I want to eat them all again naooo )
Beef Satays!
Stepmom ordered something called "Roti John" apparently some English man came to SG and ordered Bread with Eggs and got this and so this dish has been created! Kinda like French Toast I guess.
Had a nice stroll and icecream after dinner :D I went to buy the Atap Seed icecream. I again can't describe this taste, abit like coconut ? But it was really good, I had it that day I had to take my Oath and now again! It's yummmm (:
Atap Seed looks like this, sorta like Nata de Coco, which is the jelly you can put inside Bubble Tea, not the pearls but the Clear Jelly toppings if you've eaten them before. Wikipedia says this thing is called Nyca Fruticans, I really have no idea what fruit or thing this is but it tastes good in ice cream form (:
Saw someone wake-boarding, but this person didn't fall off XD it's always funny watching teehee
OH GOODNESS I've reached the end. I'm about to collapse. I hope you had a great weekend like I did !~
Goodnight everybawddeeeee.
Labels: atap seed, barfi, cycling, ecp, family, half-pipe, ice cream, jetty, mce, sambal, skates, ubongo, underwater tunnel
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11:22 PM.
