Wednesday, August 17, 2011

SINGAPORE TRIP

We started our journey at KL Sentral. Our train depart at 11.30 pm. It was a very comfortable journey on the train because our seat type is bed. I fall asleep almost immediately when the train departed. I woke up 6 hours later, and the train almost reach Singapore.

Art & Science Museum

We arrived at Singapore around 7am. Next destination - ArtScience Museum. The gallery
consist of Dalí: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition, Van Gogh Alive - The Exhibition,
and Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds. I love the way they presented the
artwork. There's a video screening, interactive screen that we can interact on, and
most of the information been projected to the wall. There were also quotes from well
known artist on the wall along the way to the gallery.

Art and Science Museum

"Enter The Mind Of a Genius" - Entrance to Dali: mind of a genius exhibition
Van Gogh Alive - The Exhibition was my favourite of the 3 gallery. They presented the
artwork in very unique way: projected it on the wall and the floor. The audience can
saw the artwork in 360 degree. There are background music played at the same time that really made the gallery alive.

Inside the "Van Gogh Alive" exhibition

We got the opportunity to enjoy the view of Singapore from the top of Marina Bay Hotel.
It was a good experience. Too bad that the weather at the time was extremely hot. Im
sure the view was beautiful if we got there at night.

Lion King The Musical



One word: Spectacular. Thats one word that describe the musical. The musical was very
good in almost every aspect: the costume, props, cast, acting, dance chereograph, and
whats impressed me was the voice of the cast, was really similar to the original voice
that we heard from the movie. The acting was amazing, so with the music and vocal from
the cast. The puppetry itself was inspiring as it perfectly mimicked the way animals
moved.

It was a really good performance by the dancers and interesting use of props. Watching
this musical really brings back my childhood memory when i was first watch the movie.
Until today, lion king was still one of my favourite animation of all-time. Lion King
The Musical - I loved every bit of it.

Universal Studio

Our last and final destination on this Singapore trip: Universal Studio. It was raining
heavily when we first got there. Thankfully the rain stopped several minutes later. I
started off at Sci-Fi City with several friends. We first went to  'Lights! Camera!
Action! hosted by Steven Spielberg". its a special effects show taking place in a
stunning hurricane-over-New York setting. I rated this "ride" 8 out of 10.

Sci-Fi City

Next we get on Battlestar Galactica ride.There are 2 track on this ride - Battlestar
Galactica CYLON (blue track) and the red track is for Battlestar Galactica HUMAN. We
first ride the CYCLON track, the hanging roller coaster. It was the most thrilling roller coaster i've ever ride. There's a video been playing on the TV monitor in the area where people queue and waiting for their turn. The video was basically about why we get on this ride. So there's a story behind the ride. We played a role of a character that need to get to some place with this ride.

We didn't get the oppurtunity to ride the HUMAN track because there some technical problem occured. The announcement said that they don't know how much time that they need to overcome that problem. So we decided to went to another ride to avoid wasting our time.

Battlestar Galactica Cyclon

We step into the golden era of ancient Egypt, with huge Egyptian statues looming over
us.The environment was pretty good. You can totally felt that you are really in Egypt.
Theres a people dressed up in ancient Egypt costume, where people can take a picture
together with them. Main attraction at Ancient Egypt was The Revenge of the Mummy. Its
a high speed thrill ride through sharp bends and sudden reverse in the darkness.There's not too many people waiting to ride this thing. We get on the ride almost immediately when we arrived at the queue area (after a long walk).

Egyptian Statue

Then we went to The Lost World. We went to Jurassic Park ride. This is the only ride
that I dissapointed of. We waiting for almost 2 hours in queue area. I felt that I just wasted my 2 hours of my time at Universal Studio waiting to experienced the ride. I guess the reason why so many people waiting at Jurassic Park was because this not an extremely thrilling ride. So its suitable for kids. Since there's many visitors bring along their kids, no wonder that so many people queue up for this ride. The good thing was I didn't get wet at all.

Far Far Away: Shrek 4-D adventure was an amazing experience. Experiencing something new was always fun. I thought I got a good seat in the theater since they said that 1st 5 row was the best seat to experience the 3D effects. Then, the scene where Shrek ride the horses started. I watched my front row seat shaking heavily, but my seat didn't. I was really dissapointed by that, since I cant feel the experience of riding the horse.
But other than that, it was all good. I rated it 9 out of 10. It would be 10 out of 10 if my seat was working properly.

Shrek 4D adventure entrance

Thats the end of our Singapore Trip. We went back To KL at the night. Overall, it was a
bit tiring, but it was fun. I'm surely will visit Singapore again next time!

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