Bob Chronicals!!! - Macau Day 2

Today Mr Tour Guide say Bob and Mommy have to dress in nicer clothes coz we are going into very GRAND Casinos and will be watching MANY SHOWS! Bob is so excited!

Mommy gave Bob a blue bow tie and Bob looks instantly Bobbbi-some!!! Bob thinks he might meet the right girl today! Mommy wanted me to wear a red carnation, but Bob likes his ears and the red carnation blocked Bob's cute ears so Bob did not wear the un-bobsome flower.

First stop was the Fisherman Wharf! One moment its the chinese Tang Dynasty look-alike,

The next moment is the small cliff houses where the fisherman live bob thinks! they may not look like it, but these are really small houses with really small windows just nice for Bob! Bob's not sure about the chinese thing up there ( which is still not opened for visitors) , but Bob knows tt it is a theme park!!! Bob knows there is volcano there!!! Bob's scared... but Bob's SOOOO excited... What awaits inside???!!!

First stop, Mr Tour Guide brought us into the City Mall for some relieving air conditioning ( Remember how Bob said it was soo hot yesterday??? It's still VERY VERY HOT today) and to buy some cold drinks too! There was no one outside... and there's only the cashier inside... but the drinks are interesting and at a good deal too!

As Mr Tour Guide led us on... we came upon some ancient Rome stone walls that reminds Bob of empty maze filled with menacing traps and dry cracked bones and skulls from people who died of hunger....

There is a quiet and souless galdiator's arena behind the stone wall....

and a empty train left cluelessly in the middle of the plaza... with no train conducter, no passenger and no body around.... only Mommy, Mr Tour Guide... and BOb. o.O

WHERE DID ALL THE PEOPLE GO TOOO!??!??!?! HELLO HELLO??? ANYBODY THERE???!!! THIS IS AN ANCIENT GHOST TOWN!!!!

After all the scary moments, Bob hid back into Bob's bag and the next time Bob came out... Bob was in air-con again sitting on a luxurious chair meant for Bob the Bobby-Some King of all Rabbits! Humans have to bow down to me!!! They must acknowledge Bob's RibbI EmPIRE by wearing Rabbit Themed Clothes or else OFF WiTH THEIR HEADS!!!

So here is Mr Tour Guide with his "Follow the Rabbit" Shirt...

And here's Mommy with Black and White rabbit coming out from Magician's Hat! Bob is the King and Bob RULES!!! Everyone must listen to Bob!!! Then....

Suddenly... Bob.... Bobb.... Bob the King saw Jane the Princess... Jane is sooo sweet... Bob... Bob's mesmerized.... Bob... Bob dun't know what to say... she's beautiful....Bob... Bob....

Bob is in love.......Bob has a song for Jane....

Bob... Bob...........................ZzZzzzzzzZzzz.....

The next time Bob woke up Mommy and Mr TG was watching an AWESOME 3D show with the screen the shape of a DOME!!! Up above us!!!! There was sea creatures... tiger... DRAGONS... Everything look so real!!! But bob forgot where he saw this... will Mr TG tell him?

Bob Chronicals!!! - Macau Day 1

Heylo! I am Bob! Bob go Macau!!!! Bob use Tiger Airways to go Macau! Departure time is 6am!

Bob is all ready for Holidays in Macau and Hong Kong! Bob says invest in a TSA lock or a lauggage with TSA lock to keep your valuables and lock safe and intact and to facilitate checks!

Bob can read itenaries!

Bob loves Siong! Siong is the official tour guide for the holiday!

Bob can eat TWO Macdonalds Breakfast! Just that Bob can't hold fork and knife..... Bob likes the pancakes more! A good breakfast before setting off with Tiger Airways as no food will be provided! You pay for the food and cup noodles up in the air costs as much as a Mac breakfast! Gobble up!

Bob don't like seat belt because bob small, you can't find bob under seat belt...

Bob loves grooming and massage! Bob so SHUANG!

Going to take off soon!

Because we take off at 6am from the East at Changi, we get to see the sunrise from the plane!

And we arrive at Macau!!!!

And Bob is weary because Bob at Changi since 9pm and no sleep.... But bob freshened up later when we reach hotel! The hotel bobbly nice! See Mr Tour Guide saying he found good place for me and mommy to stay! This is the view we see just behind hotel! Me say bobbbly good view! Good Job Mr Tour Guide!

Pousada de Infante Macau! Our Hotel! We looked for budget hotel and ended up in a GRAND FOUR STAR HOTEL! AT BUDGET RATE! Bobilicious!

Looking good inside!

Bob do Bobble Bath in Bobbbily Bob Bath Bub!

Nice clean beds! Carpet floor! Bob took the table!

This is what Bob sees from the window from our room!Next time Bob want to go here! bOB thinks that next time here will be very grand with lots of exciting things like shopping, good food and spa because Bob knows Banyan tree is part of this Grand Construction! Bob coming back in 5 yearS!

See!! This is the causeway Bob travelled from Macau... TO MACAU!!! hehe! As you can see, Macau is made up of islands so we need to travel from the lower part of Taipa where our hotel is to the upper part of Macau where all the BIIGGG and COLOURFULLLLL casinos are!!! But Mommy is on budget and it is SOOOO much more expensive to live in the part of Macau Peninsula where all the big CASINOS are, and sooo much cheaper to stay at the other side! Mr Tour Guide also found a very good hotel!

Anyway, it takes less than 10 mins to travel from one side to the other... its still very convenient!!! See the map bobilow!

This is Wynn dancing water fountain! This is in the day showing casino 4 to 6, Wynn, Starworld and Sands! Below got night time one! Night time one nicer!

AND THIS IS BOB'S HOME!!! My bag in a bag!

And I am OUT!!!! My adventure in CASINOs Begin!!!

People who go to Macau like three things:

1. Dragon and Pheonix
2. Money and coin tree
3. and everything GOLDEN!

And the people in Macau sure know how to please their customers!!!

And when the dragon show ends, the dragon goes back to it's cove and all that's left is the smoke from it's firey breath! Dragon show and Golden Tree show runs every 30 min! Be sure to catch them!

and this is the toilet in Wynn! Fitted for KING BOB~!! Bob is the KING!!!! BOB is King Bob the FIRST! YAY!!!!

And this is the Senado Square!!! Tada Tada Tada!!!! The 3700m, Leal Senado Square is paved with a wave-patterned mosaic of coloured stones, created by Portuguese experts. Bob lovEs this place!!! There is a place (try to locate it!) at the far left of this picture that sells super super delicious warm milk pudding! Mommy will be in charge of introducing all the food we had! Lovely Bob only help to show places Bob bobby bobby bobbiling around!

When its not sooo Hot (but still very hot!!!) we went to the Ruins of St.Paul's Cathedral, by George Chinnery (1774–1852). The cathedral was built in 1602 and destroyed by fire in 1835. Only the southern stone façade remains today. AND VERY WELL PRESERVED!!! Bob's so amazed.... see Bob stand in front of the Ruins... Bob went... BOOOOWwwwwwwwww......

And this is Mommy and Mr Tour Guide!!! They climbed the flight of stairs!!! Bob small rabbit cannot hop up the stair so Mommy carried me in her Bag! Bob also in the picture!!! But Bob small rabbit... try to spot Bob ME on Mommy and Mr TG hands!!!!

Bob's still so so amazed.... see Bob still stand in front of the Ruins... Bob still went... BOOOOWwwwwwwwww......

After that Bob went to Paulo do Monte! It is a Fort!! With Lots of CANONSS!!!! it was built between 1617 and 1626 as part of the church of St. Paul's project and with the added purpose of defending the city from possible attacks. It is VERY HIGH up a hill, Mommy and Mr TG finished a bottle of PoCari in order to reach the peak! But we were vey very well rewarded with a spectecular view of Macau!!!

Then Bob tried to control the Canon and aimed Casinos!!! BOB AIMED AT THE BIGGEST CASINO!!! (Bob did this after he finish going around the casino! Bob Smart rabbit!) But Bob small Rabbit... Bob fell into the Canon and got blasted out from it instead... Bob became KAMAKAZEEEE Bob!!!! It took Mommy and Mr TG hours to find poor Bob among the bushes... these canons are not for rabbits below the age of 3!

Bob with the very colourful night view of Macau's Casino in the background with Wynn's dancing water fountains that shows at every 15min interval! All shows are different cheorographs to different music! You can stay and watch the water fountains cheorographed to dance from classical music to disney's songs! Bobby bobby nice! Whynn Casino is Bob's and Mommy's and Tour Guide's favourite Casino!

But we are good children. We never gamble at all! We *go in watch free dragon show then come out watch free water fountain show then go in watch free golden tree show then come out watch free water fountain then *repeat.... You can get free entertainment ALL day!Bob feels like dancing with the water fountains! La~~~ La~~~ lalalal~~~LAAAAAA!!!~~~~

Bob found a very apprehensive website if you want to find out more about Macau! http://www.reviewjournal.com/webextras/macau/ They tell you about Macau life, casino culture and current happenings too! Go see go see!

ZAIA!

Sorry I can't help it... i love the show so much I will watch it ALL OVER AGAIN!



Experience the Unforgettable!

I want to stay in Macau and Hong Kong... HHaHAAHAHA

Anastasia

This song has been the song in our heads thru Macau and Hong Kong since we watched Zaia at The Venatia in Macau. It was one of the many mysterious but magical songs in the broadway and circus show, a pleasent surprise from Siong and the highlight of my 6 days vacation! It's a resident show by Cirque de Soleil and although its rather pricey, it is really worth a catch if you are going to The Venetian! Before the show, some of the main characters were already interacting with the audiences, like showing off some amazing muscles and throwing popcorn everywhere! We sat at the thrid seat from the stage and could see the actors' amazing and countless emotions and expressions, they are truly masters of the stage! Flying acrobats, clowns on trampolines, fire dance and rola bola... makes you feel like a captivated and amazed silly child all over again =) The company matters alot too ^.^

From the official website, http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/zaia/home.aspx

ZAIA is the most dazzling show ever staged in Asia. This brand new 90-minute mega-production brings together 75 high-calibre artists from all four corners of the globe. ZAIA is the dream of a young girl who journeys into space on a strange, yet familiar voyage of self-discovery. As she travels, she encounters the beauty of humanity and eventually brings it back with her to share with the inhabitants of earth.
ZAIA presents a young girl’s perception of the stars and planets, space and infinity, all populated by a panoply of fantastic, literally out-of-this-world creatures. The title, ZAIA, comes from a Greek name meaning “life” and is also reminiscent of “Gaia,” the living, self-aware, spirit of earth.ZAIA is a show that highlights dance, movement and aerial acrobatics, soaring to the farthest reaches of space and human beauty.

I had once dreamt of being an Astronaut as a primary 1 kid and had a favourite book about the universe which I can memorise sentences from!

Now more about the movie Anastasia - I found out just awhile ago that the main character Anastasia was built upon the character of a real girl, the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. The Grand Duchess was a lively, gifted and mischievous. She was also described as nasty, sometimes to the point of being evil.

"The only surviving child of the Russian Royal Family hooks up with two con men while the undead Rasputin seeks her death." I have never watched the movie before, but for while when I was looking at video, I was wondering why did this particular disney princess adopted a rather smart and not so sweet look, even to the point of having a tint of the evil disney witches look (look at the eyes). But after I realised that Anastasia was built upon the character of the Grand Duchess, I am amazed at how Disney had once again brought characters to life, giving them a whole new satisfying plot for a story of its own. It will be great if I can get my hands on the movie, for I would like to see for myself how Disney had recreated this real and interesting Duchess. For your information, Rasputin was a good friend of the Grand Duchess and her three other elder sisters, so there was a twist here.

Wikipedia, as usual, provides a good summary of Anastasia's life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia

The most queer things of all, today's the 92nd year anniversary of the royal family's death. Realised it as I was reading through.

Money Changer at Lot 1

A post about:

A R J Money Changer at 21 Choa Chu Kang Ave 4 #03-K1 Lot 1 Shoppers' Mall

and I'm all out to tell friends and people NOT TO CHANGE THEIR MONEY THERE! If you are at Lot 1 and desperately need to change money, you can try the one at the basement. I should have done my research before deciding to change as SGForums claims the rates are better for the money changer at basement too.

Let me relate to you my bad experience with them.

I was walking around lot 1 after dinner when I suddenly remembered that I've forgotten to change money for my Hong Kong Grad Trip No. 2 due to fly off the next day at night. It was fortunate that I remembered, coz tomorrow's gonna be a very packed day and it will be difficult to drop by any money changer. (that's why I havent had the chance to do any research)So I simply went to ARJ Money Changer with $600 to be changed into HKD.

They way ARJ works is that they have three counters. Counter 1 and Counter 2 is in charge of collecting and counting the money. They run your money in a automated money counter machine, keep the money, then hand write the amount you are going to change on your queue ticket. (Yes you have to get a queue ticket which the number jumps by the second you miss your queue number. There was a frustrated lady before me who missed the queue as they didn’t bother to wait for her for more than 3 seconds. I almost missed mine simply coz a guy in front of me was making way for me to get to the counter.) I had mine written in hand as $600 -> HKD. Then you have to proceed to the third counter – the checkout counter along the lane to collect the money you want to change into.

Meanwhile, the money is being hand passed from counter 1 to counter 2 then to the checkout counter. While I was waiting for my turn at the checkout counter, I was called back to counter 1, saying that I gave them ONLY $550, not $600. I was however, very sure that I gave them $600 and even saw the machine that the lady ran the money through stating 6 * $50 notes! What’s more, it was the same lady who HANDWROTE the $600 on my queue ticket to acknowledge that I gave her $600. I told her I gave her $600 and she started looking for that missing $50.

After sometime, when it was apparent she could not find it, she wrote me another piece of paper $550. NOW I AM FURIOUS! They lost my $50, and tried to say that I gave them only $550! What kind of outrageous nonsense is this! I still have that queue number stating $600 given to them to be changed into HKD in my hands! And now she is trying to make me take that hand written piece of paper to say that I gave them $550!!!

I told her no. I am not touching that paper. "I gave you $600, and you lost a $50 note. And now you are trying to say that I gave you $550!" So she took that $550 stack of notes, counted it several times, run thru the machine several times just to show me that its $550. How dumb. Of course it’s going to stay as $550! Money doesn’t grow out of money by itself! To make matters worse, she had a Big Guy as reinforcement behind her, telling me to shut up and pointed at the machine that says $550. "You only gave $550. Not $600. Look at the machine! It says $550."

"Of course the machine says $550! Your staff lost $50! Look at this piece of paper. Isn't this her hand writing? She wrote $600 and I left for the collection counter. Would she have written $600 if there was only $550? And now she is trying to give me another paper that says I gave her only $550, when I gave her $600!" AND I was asked to shut up again. I was ready to call the police.

After 10 minutes of arguing, looking for the lost $50 and recounting that stack of $550 that’s gonna stay the same no matter how many times you count it, the smarter looking counter 2 then found the missing $50. ON THE FLOOR!!!! Then they smile at each other... smile at me...smile smile... Ha-Ha-Ha.

Just keep away from that A R J money changer. I will not be the only one to have such a bad experience under their terrible system and service.

I love BOB

I managed to get my Salad Dinner today! From Long John Silver!!! I wanted to get salad from KFC but its OOS so LJS was the next best choice. It's cheap and filling too, with lots of good fresh greens, potatoes (I asked for more greens and less potato) and chicken in the all time fav LJS batter.

I had lunch at Fortunate Restaurant 幸福饮茶 with Siong at vivo city today. I was looking for good and cheap food at hungrygowhere and found the place. The reviews were very accurate! It's high class food served at mid-class price. I wouldn't day it's cheap, the portion's a girl size meal too, but for the splendid taste and good food, I won't mind going back there again.

According to recommendations, we ordered the sliced fish congee. The fish taste was there in the smooth congee with generous fresh white and smooth fish slices at the bottom served in a claypot. At $5.80, I won't mind going back again if I am at vivo. Well, it's considered cheap in Vivo city already! Siong's good at ordering and we had many other dishes like the Glutinous Rice in Lotus leaf ( So So to me, I think the one they offer at Hong Kong Cafe is nicer), Char Siew Bao (it nice and he liked it alot. Soft, fluffy and flavourful to the bite, but its just me that I will NEVER order 70cents bao for $1.50 each....), Fried Dumplings ( SUPER DUPER NICE! Crispy on the outside, juicy at the inside, simply mouth watering! It has shrimps in it) and my favourite of all, the chicken steamed with mushroom. They give you generous thick slices of mushrooms which you will fight for and juicy chicken, well steamed, soft with the just right amount of fats, and filled with aromatic flavour... I'll go back to the restuarant just for this!

Sorry no picture coz the food's simply too good. If you see pictures means the food craving was not strong enough for the photos-first discipline. Everything's priced from $3 - $8 I think... somehow the bill came up to 30 bucks though... I must have missed out some things from the chinese feast...hhmmmmx

Anyways, introducing the newest member in the soft toys family..... BOB!

Aint he cute? He loves to Ji Piong Ji Piong and KAMEKAZEE BOBBBBB!!! and he's gonna have his own Bob chronicles soon. I love Bob sooooooo much so people, please pray that he'll live for more than 3 months!!!! (the average lifespan of soft toys... in my hands)

And OOOhoh! Bob can do the Puss in Boots 'the eyes' pretty well. Look at his pic...He's doing it already! Here's Puss in Boots for comparison!