Every year Gardens by the Bay's Flower Dome displays a variety of tulips in an event called Tulipmania. It's my mother's dream to see tulips in real life so when she heard about this and the fact that the event happened to fall around my birthday, she immediately jumped on the opportunity. So if you're wondering if this was my choice of activity for my day of evacuation from the womb, there's your answer.
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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
It's fair to assume that I'm only updating for the sake of updating. That's true, actually. I want to make up for my inactivity last year. I'm not sure what I'll write about when I run out of trips to talk about, but I want to try. At the very least, this year already has more entries than last year.
If you need any more proof that I'm not a fun travel buddy, a terrible human being in general, and the last person you should get to plan itineraries, it's the ArtScience Museum. It's a place I absolutely loved because I am actually a five-year old, but I can't say the same for the Actual Adults who were with me.
It was September three years ago when I first visited the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest. While there were still some flowers back then, I highly recommend visiting this place during spring. I know we here near the equator technically don't have a typical "spring" season, but there's this controlled environment or whatever science-y magic they pull off around here, so all the flowers are in bloom and there's a crapton of orchids in display! They're apparently award winning or something.
On Day 2 we headed back to Sentosa to celebrate my mom and my aunt's birthday at Universal Studios Singapore. The truth is I would like to spend my birthday in Tokyo Disney Sea, but I am in no position to make that happen and will never be, so the closest thing I could get is spending someone else's birthday here.
Since I don't really keep up with airline news or whatever, I don't know how I ended up finding out that there are direct flights from our city to Singapore. But this discovery somehow led to my mother deciding to spend her birthday to Singapore, so off we went with my aunt (who she shares a birthday with) and my cousin. As expected of a budget airline with limited flights, our plane was late and we arrived in our destination later than scheduled. When making itineraries, always take into consideration travel times and late planes!
Recently whenever we travel somewhere for a vacation, I am expected to plan the entire thing. It's not really too bad, especially if we're going to a place I'm generally interested in, but this also means if anything doesn't go according to plan, it's all going to be my fault too.
Well, would you look at that? This blog is spitting out another entry. This one is going to be shorter, though. There are only six photos and there's not much to say.
Look who's finally updating after a million years! I know, I broke my "New Year's Resolution" as soon as I said it and I honestly have no excuse. It's not like absolutely nothing has happened in the past four months since I last updated. A few sort of major things did, actually, but I got too lazy to edit the few photos I did take and thought maybe it wasn't really worth posting if I only had literally three photos...
It was only two? three? weeks ago that I wrote about wanting to be more on time with my posting, but here I am once again with an overdue post. Better late than never?
2016 has finally gone and the consequences of our mistakes over the last year will finally be biting us in the rear soon! Hopefully you all had a good holiday because, at the risk of being called a pessimist, I have not much hope for humanity in general in 2017.
I know, I know. This only took forever. Better late than never, right? Things happened and I got roped into binge watching a 54-episode show, but that's no excuse, is it? Anyway, here it is now.
The weather was much nicer on our second day. We went to Snake Island and climbed up their viewing deck, which was a little dangerous. There was no proper stairs or anything so it was pretty easy to lose one's footing and fall into certain death. Okay, maybe not certain death. If you fall you'l probably just injure yourself badly. But the monkeys there are rabid. They actually warn you not to approach if you spot one.
Alright, I admit I have been putting off editing the photos for a while. But to be fair the past few weeks have been quite busy! I don't know how professional bloggers manage to blog on the road. Finding time to sit down and gather my thoughts at the end of the day is already a challenge even without the exhaustion that comes with daily activity.
Confession: I have yet to import the photos from my DSLR. To be fair, there were still a few technical things to take care of before I can do that. But you're right. I'm just being a lazy butt. There's a lot of photos, okay?! It's hard to get motivated when I'm not in my comfort zone.
You might be thinking, "Hot springs?! In Philippine summer?! Are you insane?!!!!" Perhaps we were. It's always really hot in the Philippines, but summers are especially unforgiving. It was so hot out the day we went to Pampanga that I could feel my face melting.
On the 31st we had lunch at Fatboy's in Avenue K. The taste is nothing mind blowing, but their menu is quite interesting. You can customize your burger from the buns to the patty to anything else you'd like on your burger. If you're too lazy for that, they also have a list of unique burgers to choose from like one with bananas. They have intriguing drinks on the menu as well, although as much as I love bacon, I would never want to drink it.
I'm so glad I found out how to queue posts on Blogger. I probably shouldn't be revealing blogging secrets or whatever, but, hey, who's even reading my blog, right?
The beginning of 2016 was generally uneventful for me, but I did take enough photos for at least three blog entries. The real question now is when will I get around to actually editing all of those photos.
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