Sentosa, Singapore

Tanjong Beach Sentosa, Singapore




Another view of Tanjong Beach



Photographers with their petite model (I was able to sneak some shots of their model :-) )


Tanjong Beach Sentosa, Singapore


I was able to see Sentosa when my brother had a photo shoot with his friends who are also photographers. Actually they are not really a pro photographers it's just their hobby to take photos with different models. My husband and my kids were so exhausted during our trip to Merlion Park and Esplanade so they decided to stay at our hotel and opted to go swimming in the hotel pool instead.

The last photo was how the photo shoot was held. The photographers took a lot of shots with different angles with their model for 2 hours. I was supposed to take photos of those guys there in the back but my lens was not huge enough to capture them :-). Can't you see them?

After the photo shoot session, we didn't go anywhere we headed straight back to Sembawang since it was about lunch time, my family were very hungry it so sad I did not have time to explore Sentosa. The trip to Sentosa from Sembawang was about 20 to 30 minutes by taxi and my brother paid only ~S$ 25. We will probably go back here and stay here for a week so we can enjoy Singapore.

Bye Singapore, we will see you next time....I hope :-)

SINGAPORE- Merlion Park

Merlion Park


Gulp, gulp..... my son was so thirsty :-)




Singapore Flyer- is the current largest Ferris wheel in the world



Skyscrapers in Singapore


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Our vacation in Singapore was short and unplanned but we....ooppps not we...it's "I" decided to stay there for 2 days hehehe since we had free flight we might as well enjoy it before heading to Philippines.

June 18, 2009- We arrived in Singapore around 5pm in Paya Lebar Air Base and took a taxi from there to the Navy Lodge. It's surprising that taxi driver can take credit cards otherwise we don't have any singapore dollars to pay the driver (there's no money exchange inside the airbase). We're supposed to stay in my brother's flat but plans changed and we opted to stay in Navy Gateway Inns and Suites managed by the US Navy in Sembawang; it's close to Sembawang Shipyard where my brother works. The price per night is $80 but the room is so huge, it has 3 bedroom, with large living room, large kitchen, a large dining room and two bathrooms :-) It can accomodate 3 families. One thing I don't like it, it looks haunted building outside but that's ok as long it's cheap hehehe. We only used 1 room for 4 of us. The air base and inside the navy lodging facilities prohibit taking photos (I don't know why even in a lodging facilities) so I don't have any photos :-( but you can still find their photos when you google them hehehe. By the way, we ate dinner in my brother's flat.

June 19, 2009- My brother and his gf went to our hotel to pick us up; we walked from the hotel down to the Sembawang MRT station. I think it was a 20 minute walk. We were so exhausted, that day... it was really hot! From the cold climate to tropical..... whoaah way too hot to manage! We left Misawa with a temperature of 14C and Singapore was like 30C++. We were sweating, my son hated the weather and kept complaining :-) oh well he had no choice but to walk hehehe.
We took the MRT to Orchard Road and bought tickets from Singapore to Manila from a travel agency. We paid around US$500 for 4 of us, not that bad since our flight was the next day.

From Orchard Road we took the bus to somewhere where I bought my lens cover ( I lost mine when we were walking to MRT) and we walked again to Merlion Park. What a day, it's really hot and humid. From Merlion Park we took the MRT going back to the hotel. We ate dinner in a fast food restaurant, forgot the name.

June 20- hmmmm that would be on my next post hehehe

Esplanade Singapore

Esplanade, Singapore


Our vacation trip:

We were able to fly through space A from Yokota Air Base to Paya Lebar Airbase, Singapore for free. It was a 7-hr flight. I thought the plane was a C-130 but it's DC-8 (4 engine jet liner) thank God, it's not hehehe otherwise it if it's a C-130 we would be wearing earplugs and there would be no windows. We were only16 lucky passengers out of 32 seats available. So we enjoyed the free meals and snacks. That was an awesome trip!

We wandered around the city, the Orchard Road and the malls and we took the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) and the bus, that's another experience!


That's our plane's shadow while we were still on the plane