| Wednesday, 11-May-2005 00:00 |
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The Great Singapore Trip part 2
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Day 2 - Saturday 7.00am
I woke up quite early since I realised when I looked in the atlas, Katong Shopping Center is nowhere near MRT. It's either we take a cab or bus. So I get myself rdy, woke Forza up and then while waiting for him, practice few runs again. Fast forward 1 and half hour, here we are in Paya Lebar, the nearest MRT station to the event venue. Instead of taking taxi or bus, we decided to walk. Damn, it's quite far away...but i'm kinda happy we decided that way since Forza got to see some petrol station and dogs. He said earlier that he never saw those things since arrived in Singapore *LOL*
After walking for like 30min, we arrived at Katong Shopping Center. This place looks like a smaller version of Pertama Complex...no no, make it a replica of Wilayah Complex. Very old school but nice, newer paint job though. The event venue is Asteroids Cyber, located at one of the main enterance. They have two unit of shop facing each other. It's amazing how they can fit a lot of PCs in such a small place and oh, they lock their PC inside the cabinet. So it's quite hard for pple that brings their own keyboard and stuff (such as me -_-"). The reason for this is that a while ago, somebody managed to unhook the system and steal it away...all under 1 minute when the admins went for a toilet break. Luckily a regular customer saw the incident and quickly run after the theft. Kinda ironic again...
So we proceed with registration...very easy, since all the other details have been made during pre-registration.,they just get our game nickname and our passport number. As we wait for the tourney to start, we head to the nearby shop and grab some breakfast. NFSU 2 tournament finish quite fast as there are only 4 players joining today's prelims and each match only have one race (which is kind of unfair if u ask me). Both me and Forza managed to beat our first opponent and we met each other in the finals. Then, he beat me and we laugh at each other without any particular reason. Another ironic thing...ROFL!
After the match settled, we hooked off our equipment and just lepak around...chat with people and eventually a guy from GameSync.net named Tanvir aproached us to do some interview later on. Well, the interview is actually more to a laughter fest and the real question asked is not even 10 question. We just kept on chatting about games and then laugh...that took almost 2 hours time. We bid farewell to them and then walked to the a bus station nearby to head back to Paya Lebar MRT station.
Next stop, Changi Airport. We can't decide where to eat actually, so my dehydrated brain suggested that we try Changi Airport. Why? No idea...but Changi is a nice place to see actually...see some aeroplane and of course I love their electronic cardboard flipping Departure board. Old school but still modern \""""""m/ There's nothing to eat there...their food court kinda expansive. We saw bunch of school kids studying there...really, it amazed us. So eventually, we head back to Bugis. We end up eating at this shop just below us...a halal restaurant that served nasi lemak all day long. 2nd nasi lemak in a day...*LOL* After that, we get back to the hostel and get some rest...and nap. *LOL*
Day 2 - Saturday around night time
After some rest and nap, we decide to hunt food again. This time, we decide to go to Orchird Road (without the help of the big big atlas!). But somehow, we kinda unfortunate since we arrived around 9.30pm, shops are closing down. Major bummer...so we went back to Bugis and hit Burger King. Got myself Rendang Burger...quite nice, taste like McD's Prosperity Burger than actual rendang. After dinner, we decide to take lazy stroll around Bugis, seeing buildings, people and eventually we found a cinema! Right across the road from our hostel...since we kinda have NBTD, we decide to catch a movie...got to choose between Kingdom of Heaven or The Jacket. We choose The Jacket...i think it's not yet shown in Malaysia. Cost us S$9.50, the movie is quite nice and very twisted. I want to give some spoilers but given the twisted nature of the movie, I dun even know how to spoil it. LOL. After the movie, we stopped by 7-11 for some midnite snacks and then back to the hostel to crash.
Day 3 - Sunday around 8.00am
Uh, it's raining...quite heavy actually. It's time to pack up! We haven't bought our return ticket actually hahahah~ kinda suicidal. But we quite relieved when we checked out, the hostel owner told us not much people going to Malaysia today...they usually went abroad on Saturday. We shoot out straight to the bus station which is 300m away...the ticket for direct to KL buses cost around S$ 26.00. While waiting for our bus, we grab some breakfast and then made our final rounds at Bugis Street for some souvenirs. The heavy rain made our movement although just a short distance between Bugis area and the bus station but still, both of us dripping wet. It doesn't help also when we hop on the bus, it's freaking cold! Garrrrhhhh...
That's basicly concluded my first trip to Singapore without my family. I might be going back on June to accompany Forza (if he can sponsor me of course...nyahahaha) and do coverage of the WCG Singapore 2005 Cybercafe Prelims Finals of NFSU2 since another fella of our clan, luige also qualify to the final round. Also, I'm totally coming back, if nothing clashed in my schedule (and ample money...anybody interested to be my sponsors?) for the September's Singapore WCG National Prelims (they let foreigners take part) and November's WCG 2005 World Final.
Hop on to my Blergh http://chapree.tripod.com/blergh/ for some reflections on the trip and GameSync.net for some more pics during the event and interview.
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