Sentosa Boardwalk, Sentosa Flowers, Resort World

Taking a cable car to Sentosa? A train ride from Vivo? How about try walking to Sentosa from Vivocity. Yes, now you can with the Sentosa Boardwalk which links the island to mainland.

look out for the boardwalk signage in Vivocity

Once you're out of Vivocity, you'd be able to see this:

Sentosa Boardwalk

walk straight-ahead

Coincidentally, today was also the last day for Sentosa Flowers event, so we got to see flowers everwhere.

CNY flowers

pretty flowers

Actually, there are travelators along the way if you don't quite feel like walking all the way....

hop on to the travelator, travellers!

Went exploring the F&B areas (need to walk down some stairs), and saw this:

sculpture

flowers lined up

And very quickly, we reached Sentosa. Visitors can use their EZ-Link card to enter via the turnstile entrance. After which, we saw RWS...

RWS balloon

this is like the MUST take picture when in RWS?

And because it is CNY, they have this humongous rabbit:

HUGE fortune rabbit

Inside RWS, there's this big candy shop and outside of it you can see candy 'trees'.

candy trees

As it was lunch time, went to eat at Baits, which turned out to be.. Din Tai Fung. Faints. After lunch, went in search of the Sentosa Flowers, which was supposedly somewhere beyond the Merlion Plaza.

walk up to get to the flowers

Along the way, saw sculpted flowers to represent the Chinese zodiac signs:

rabbit sculpted flowers

chicken flowers

mouse and monkey (at far back)

Then, saw this:

'Le Penseur' aka The Thinker

Walked and walked and finally....

Sentosa Flowers start point... even monks also came to see...

wat's up doc? can't a rabbit take a break?

wishing tree

flora

Many many visitors, and there were flowers everywhere. Was also approached to help other people take their pictures, twice. Hahaa!

After being out in the sun for some time, took refuge in the air-conditioned comfort of RWS.

CNY decor

There were some public performances going, so took a look:

musical emsemble

talented girls, and their musical instruments seemed to be transparent.. cool!

MC introducing the next act

Here's the horoscope for Rabbit this year:

After all the walking around, it was time to go back.

ending with boardwalk

travellator

sentosa revisited

Company outing time! This year we went to Sentosa. Began with cable car ride from Harbourfront. Lasted about 10 mins, I think. Well, not as shaky as I thought it would be. It has been ages since I last took the cable car. Probably since I was like 10 years old? Haha!


cable car ride to sentosa


Then we went to play the 'Luge'. Kinda like go-cart, but less bumpy. Round one, I was going pretty slow. So slow that I thought the game warden will signal me out in no time. Heng never. Luge is like a sleigh ride combined with go-cart minus the engine. It can go up to very fast (to me anything past 60kmph is considered fast!). But got lots of corners to turn, so me being a cautious driver... will slow down one lor.

The luge route will take you to Siloso beach, so if you want to return to the starting point, can take the Skyride. Which we did! Only to take the luge a second time! Muahahaha. Oh, Skyride scarier than cable car! :P

Then we went to 4D Magix. Which is basically a cinema showing 3D movie (short one..about 10-15mins) about pirates. The 4th D came in the form of some plastic strips flapping your legs (colleagues who wore skirt or bermudas complained of being 'assaulted' by these!), some wind gushing out onto your neck and some water splashed onto you plus some movements from your seat. Quite fun, but very very kiddish!

Next stop was the Trapeeze area. For $7, you can pretend you're one part of 'Cirque du Soleil'... haha, I think not. Some of the braver ones defied height (and possibly death) and managed to swung their way to safety! Phew.


trapeeze guy


After all the actions, it was time for dinner at Trapizza. So took some pictures of the scenaries.



scenic seaside view



postcard worthy trees?



idylic



getting dark...



peacock!



yummy food (well, ok la.. can makan..)

the central n sentosa

Went to Central today. YT said he wanted to eat at Grains. I wanted to go see the Japanese restaurants and shops there. So we walked one round to look look see see the place. Marutama Ramen has a queue outside. But the shop selling curry udon looked practically empty. YT asked me to choose which place to lunch at so I suggested Waraku (more variety to choose from). Unfortunately, it has a queue too. So we ended up at Tom Ton (because I never tried black pig before and there was no queue)


view from our table


The black pig ramen lunch set (@$13.80++) is only available during weekdays, so had to order something else. He ordered the black pig nabe (@$18.80), while I chose the black pig rice with ginger (@$18.80) in hot stone (like bibimbap kind but without the egg in the center). Side dish was one stick of black pig with leek yakitori (@$4.80). Click here to read the review.


udon soup

ginger rice


After lunch, went to look look see see what's in Central. Basement got Petit Provence, so bought some Pon (cheese ball thingie), Cream and Chocolate Wassant (some croissant thingie). Haven't eat yet, so don't know what they taste like. Marcial Kobe mini doughnuts are really tiny. There's this shop opposite Lao Zhao Pai that sells stuffs from Japan (similar to Lao Zhao Pai concept), so if anyone suddenly got craving for the shiroi koiibito choc de langue.. can get from that shop. There's also a Jap grocery shop called Yamakama.

After that, went to Vivocity and had a belgian mocha (or was it latte?) @ Haagen Daaz.

belgian mocha


chitty chitty bang bang car at Vivo


After that, decided to go Sentosa to burn off some calories. So took the sky train there. Below are some random picture @ Sentosa:



seaside



sand...


jungle trail.. but no la, never go in


hey, look what i found.. a trapeeze!


cafe del mar


some flora... i kinda like this picture


walked this stretch of road...


there were trees...


lifeguard post



some kind of statue


entrance to the hanging bridge


was at the southernmost point of asia continent



nightfall approaching...

Oh ya.. saw Ix Shen (should be him.. else its someone who looks an awful lot like him) playing beach volleyball as well... and yeah, he has a hot bod!