Universal Studios Singapore

Today, my friends and I visited to South East Asia first Universal Studios theme! Universal Studios Singapore is located at Sentosa island and managed by Resort World Sentosa.

You can reach there by the following options below:

Bus: Take bus RW8 outside Vivo City bus stop,

Train: Alight at Fabourfront Station and change to Sentosa Express (Monorail) at 3F. After which, alight at Waterfront Station.

Taxi/Cab: Tell the driver that you are heading to Sentosa Casino. For the taxi fare and the charges, you may wish to visit to this website, http://www.taxisingapore.com/taxi-fare/

The Universal Studios Singapore is located at 1F. The entrance cost S$66 for non peak seasons (Weekdays) and S$72 for peak seasons (Weekends/Public Holiday/School Vacation). Please book your tickets before hand as on the day itself, the tickets are SOLD OUT. Due to high demand on tourists visiting to Universal Studios Singapore.

Although we went on Monday, but still it was so crowded! Almost all the rides need to queue for almost 30 minutes and those popular rides expected to be queue for 1hr 20 minutes! There are food court as well and it kinda costly but it will be cheaper if you choose the S$5 off voucher on food!

You can also shop for it retails using the S$5 off voucher on shopping as well. I love the scenery! It will be great if the theme park close at 8pm so as to see the night scenery!

It was fun going Universal Studios Singapore with a group of friends!

Circle Line Open House

On the 17 April 2010, 11 stations at Circle Line will officially open to the public. Before it commerces operations, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and SMRT held an Open house today.

My dad and I went to MacPherson station this morning for the open house. There are LIVE performance at this station. Members of the public are so excited to ride the first bounce train which arrives from Tai Seng station.

We board the train towards Dhoby Ghaut and alight at Bras Basah station. We head down to the Singapore Museum and to see the gallery. We thought of seeing the Mummy gallery but it was so long queue that we gave up on this gallery and see another gallery..

After that, we walk back to Brash Basah station and there are so many events going on at the same time. It was out of control and people starting to cut the queue to get the free gift..

After that, my dad wanted to take passport photo so I thought of Suntec City. We board the train towards Dhoby Ghaut as it is one station away and it will bounce back to Tai Seng.

We alight at Esplanade station and walk to Suntec City. We visited to Carrefour as well. After that, we went to the exhibition hall before we board the train back. We board the train to Paya Lebar and see the layout of the station.

I am surprised that this station have three platform!! I am assume that when it is peak hours, the middle platform will be operational to cease the human traffic.

After that, we board the train to MacPherson station and watched the opera performance before going home.

Singapore Train Vs China Train

In the past few years, I had travelled to China 中国 (Hong Kong 香港, Guang Zhou 广州 and Shen Zhen 深圳) and was amazed that their Metro system is better than us!

They have the new train, stations announcement system display in the train, TV NEWS in all the trains. If you find it too noisy, you can go to the quiet train cabin.

They have the platform doors installed in all the open space stations, large gantry gates, bright noticeboard, more handles in the trains.

What more, the passengers know how to give way to alighting passengers before boarding!! I guess our own metro system need to upgrade!

You can take a look at the pictures below which I had complied.

Singapore Metro system

Guang Zhou Metro system

Shen Zhen Metro system

Hong Kong Metro system

Singapore Sightseeing 4

Holland Village in Singapore? That right, Singapore do have Holland Village. It nearest Mrt is Buona Vista station.

Currently, Holland Village undergo MRT construction. Once it complete, access to Holland village is very convenience.

What make it special in Holland Village? In Holland Village, it located near to the hill and there are many shops and delicious food around here.

At night, Holland Village is transform a beautiful night scene. With all the cafe and pub setting up here. Cold Storage supermarket open 24 hours daily which makes this place very popular. You can chill out here and at the same time enjoy the nice scenery.

Even the local media produced the local series drama named "Holland Village" in few years back. If you visit to Holland Village, do visit to the newspaper stand! It believe to be the longest and many variable of magazines from around the world. You cannot even find this in anywhere else!

To visit to Holland Village, take the East-West Bound and alight at Buona Vista and take about 20 minutes scroll walk to Holland Village.

Alternatives, you can alight at Dover station from the East-West Bound and take bus number 106 to Holland Village.