Thursday, September 06, 2007

a little fun under the sun

doodoo and i went to Sentosa yesterday :)~ for some lovely fun with the luge, phototaking and etc.

i've been really lazy to upload pictures lately.. not even those of the clothes.. but this is a real exception :)

we headed down to 4D magix first.. and they were showing some pirate show~ only 15 mins long, and it cost us more than a movie obviously, in case anyone was wondering haha. altogether with the islander membership =/ while we were waiting to go in, i wanted to have some pics of us taken in specs~ one was taken with the light shining directly at our faces and the other wasn't~ but i couldn't decide which looked better~ because i thought the one that actually looks better is the one with a little of my fringe that fell onto my face =/ you might've guessed that i have terrible self-phototaking skills so i couldn't get doodoo's hair in the photo - or he should've taken the photo for me instead since he's taller! i know the pics are blur~ that's cos my phone camera sucks. and i wanted to change my phone to a k800i but damn :( all the velvet black ones are sold out!

one thing about the 4D magix that i didn't like was the moving chairs. its irritating because i'm not viewing the show like i'm the one who's getting hit by a log. so i felt that the bumps were inappropriate at times and they were far too often. an interesting thing was that the bees were right in front of my eyes (hello friends!) and i was so scared of getting stung. the wind did feel like wind since they managed to make it blow from left and right (no worries about getting your hair undone though, it isn't that violent haha).. and i thought that was actually cool, though of course, nothing beats the real thing right?

then tralala we went on as usual to play the luge~ they have that combo deal back again, but the membership perks are still better than that i suppose~ why did they have to remove the combo deal the last time we went T_T! we also took a walk down the beach to take a look at cafe del mar. that's the first time i've ever been there and i personally find it surprising. cos we've known about it ever since the time they started promoting themselves (which is wayy before they opened) and i've never actually gone down to take a look (not even during their opening haha!).

well anyway, we decided to catch the songs of the sea, which is, sorta like the new musical fountain. when we bought the tickets, we had more than an hour before the show started and were considering going to vivo for dinner. but instead we had coffee bean.. and then we still had loads of time to kill when we finished our meal. so beach tram beach tram! i wanted to go on the beach tram, cos it looked much nicer than those at the zoo (LOL) and while we were queuing up, doodoo noticed that the queue to enter the premises of Songs of the Sea was tremedously long! (especially when we were 40 minutes away from the start of the show). so we dropped our beach tram plans and went to queue. it was rather boring standing there and waiting endlessly but guess what? there was free entertainment by the tourists! there were these sparkley, crystal-like lights embedded in the ground, and if you keep your eyes on them long enough, they change colour or something i think. and so some silly peeps actually bent down and started to try and dig those lights out! blimey! those were LIGHTS. i bet they thought they were crystals! but still, did they think crystals on the ground at Sentosa were going to be a naturally lovely souvenir? well maybe i suppose. and hello~ why would Sentosa embed those crystals in the ground if they could be stolen by some digging fingernails? HAHA. worse still, it wasn't just like 1 person doing it, there were different people doing it at different times.

ok enough of the queueing bit. when we entered and sat down, there was a picturesque view of the sunset. i told doodoo that it is so unfair. even the sunset at Sentosa is nicer than any other part of SG (like our homes or something). hmph. haha~ for a moment i thought that watching the B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L sunset was what i paid for. (i never caught the sunset at the musical fountain, as far as i remember?) then the longer i stared, the more i felt that the whole sky looked like a painting of a clear blue background with paintbrush dabs and swishes of dark greys of different shades for clouds, combined with sunsetty-hues of yellow, orange, red and purple~ it was so lovely, there wasn't much of the bright golden-yellow sun so for a few seconds i didn't realise it was the sunset haha :X i simply thought the sky just looked SO PRETTY and started snapping away. well some pics i took were of the sky alone, some with the audience's boppy heads in the foreground and others with the kelongs, or palm trees. well anyway, after a while, i even told doodoo that i felt like i was in a dome, just like the one in The Simpsons Movie. except that this dome was painted clear blue at the top and coming downwards it was all those other colours of the sunset. i was simply absorbed into this painting, and it felt like whooo.. doodoo and i were part of it. doodoo said the sky looked like a perfect painting. how true! and it is REAL, its not some photoshopped picture that you find on the net haha :X oh gawd i just can't stop talking about it~ well this was what i could capture with my phone cam:

about the show, i would describe it as so-so, but the ending was the best, cos that was where the climax of all the water spraying was haha! for some reason i loved the pink&orange and purple&gold comboes. the ending was without a doubt the best, because there were fireworks. and so it was only at the end when i realised why we had to pay to watch this. haha! now we can see small-scale fireworks right in front of our little eyes any and everyday~ :)
bee at 8:28 AM