Sunday, February 23, 2014

1 Day Trip to JB

Time to update my 1 day trip to Johor Bahru (JB). 

Frankly speaking, it was my 1st time taking bus from SG to JB with my poly gfs. We had arranged to meet at the MacDonalds @ Bugis Village at 8am. Sounds early but in fact it is not. But I had to confess that I was late for 20mins, thus by the time I reached, my friends were all waiting for me. My bad. Oh yes, I was going with Jasmine, Dawn and Celine. 

After reaching Bugis, we walked across the road (opposite MacDonald) and kept walking straight. You will see a bus terminal where people are queuing to take the shuttle bus to Woodland Checkpoint. In case I forget, the boarding place is at Queen Street. The frequency of the bus was quite fast and we managed to board the bus without hassle. The bus ticket cost $2.50 for each pax. Quite cheap right, isn't it? 

It was quite peaceful and lucky day for us. There was no jam and by the time we reached Woodland Checkpoint, it was only 9am. After that we rushed down and boarded the same bus. Now the bus crossed the borders to JB, surprisingly there was NO queue. We reached Malaysia customs at only 9:30am. Super early right? Haha

Since the time was early, we decided to head to KSL City first. Well, the easier way is to take a cab just right below the overhead bridge. There is a taxi counter. We just need to let the staff know our destination and they will assign the cab driver to drive us there. It only required MYR 10 (i.e. around $3.50) for the journey.

By the time we reached, there weren't many shops opened. Fortunately, the Thai Odessey (Lvl 2) was already opened before 10am. So we decided to pop in and made an appointment for foot reflexology at 11am. The rate for 60mins foot reflexology cost MYR 63.60 (with tax). Since we did not take any breakfast, we had a breakfast at JCO Cafe, selling doughnuts and coffee. This can be found in SG, just that we ran out of choices of what to eat for breakfast. 

Now is time for some beauty pampering. We did our nails at e.Artistic (address: L2-95, Lvl 2, KSL City). The staff were all very young and friendly. I did a classic gelish manicure and pedicure. Initially I wanted to do a Pororo nail art on my thumb, too bad the resolution of the picture was not clear, so it was rather a challenge for the manicurist to do for me. Then, I swapped the nail art picture to Owl instead. Well, owl is not a bad choice afterall they symbolise wisdom. I need that badly, Haha

(My nail art)

This is a collage of our nail pampering

I was pretty satisfied with the overall results including their service. I spent around MYR 240 in total for manicure and pedicure. After conversion, it cost only less than S$88. This is exactly what I usually paid for my nail art only at Ladyfinger (SG). Unbelievable!

Another stunning news is that singing 3hours of KTV only MYR98. After dividing equally among 4 of us, each pax is only MYR25 (i.e. less than S$10) per pax. Incredibly cheap! We had our dinner at Taang Shifu. All about herbs and soup. Nice and refreshing. Total meal cost MYR130. 

(Our Dinner)
Time to say goodbye. Though it is short, in overall we felt very fulfilling and satisfied. This was indeed a good beauty regime to start. Looking forward to next month. 

Sunday, February 2, 2014

2014 - Chinese New Year

Can't believe that the short CNY holidays are coming to an end soon...and guess what??? This means that I have to go back to work tomorrow. OMG! I hate it when the first working day of the month falls on Monday. IT IS A SUPER PEAK DAY FOR ME! Just pray hard that I am able to finish work on time tomorrow. 

Anyway, I had a good rest during these three days. No house-visiting though since the fact that we are not close to our relatives. We watched two CNY movies and went to River Hongbao. Well, the two movies are "Golden Chickensss" and "From Vegas to Macau". If I am to rate these two movies, I would rate the 1st movie - 6 and the latter - 8. I still love hilarious movie. 

It was a tradition for my family to travel to River Hongbao every year. This year is no exception. The River Hongbao is located at the Marina Bay Floating Platform. I love taking photos and below are some of my "masterpiece". Of course, these are the results after filter. FYI, I'm using the apps "Line Camera" to beautify the picture. 


On my way to River Hongbao (I'm taking Bus 502)

Welcome to River Hongbao. God of Fortune is waiting for you!

Taking photo with the peach blossom, hoping they will rub some love-luck into my life.

 A sunset view of the Artscience Museum

An evening view of Marina Bay Sand Hotel, Helix Bridge and Artscience Museum