Singapore Shopping Marathon!!!

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Have you ever heard of a Shopping Marathon before? Well I participated to this Singapore Shopping Marathon and indeed it was a successful and fruitful race. I went to the Singapore Mega Sales!!! They call it Great Sales Singapore (GSS) in Singapore.

First let me introduce you the runners of the marathon.

Ivy in black for the Ivy Team!

Robin in blue for the Robin Team!

At first RongRong wanted to join us but in the end she couldn't come. Anyway let's start the story of this Singapore Shopping Marathon. On Thursday night around 6pm, we took the UCSI shuttle bus to go to Tasik Selatan to take the LRT to Plaza Rayat to go to PuduRaya to buy the bus ticket to Singapore. So on our arrival to Pudu Raya, we spend around 30mins there to find which bus would be available for us the next day. We were trying to find the earliest bus. We were proposed at 9AM and 10AM, but in the end we could finally find the earliest, which is 7AM. After getting the ticket, we went back to Cheras and have Bak Kut Teh in Connaught, the one near KFC. Well according to my friend Mr Kelvin, he said that the Bak Kut Teh is nice but when Ivy and I ate there, it's not so bad and not so good. For me out of 10 I would rate 5, because I've eaten better than that. They claim to be the 100% Klang Bak Kut Teh but I think the KL Bak Kut Teh is nicer than Klang. Anyway someone has to bring me to the best Bak Kut Teh ever! muahaha!!!

Back to the story, after the BKT, I went home, took my shower and took my stuffs such as passport, clothes, toothbrush, etc with me to go stay at Ivy's place so that the next day we could go together. Thanks for Hendra and Jason who came and fetch us to Ivy's house. After that I slept at around 12AM and woke up at 5AM to get ready for our Singapore trip. We left home at 6AM and went to Pudu Raya bus station by cab. Fortunately there were not traffic jam in such an hour and we reached there quite early. Soon we got in the bus and enjoyed our journey to Singapore. The bus left at 7:30pm to Singapore, it was a NON STOP bus of 5hours! Actually we stopped once only, which is good, at least we got chance to pee in a proper place instead of peeing in the bus! :P hehe...

As we reached the Singapore Custom, we met Joshua there. We were supposed to meet him at the Bugis MRT actually but since we met at the custom, so we started our journey together. Oh yeah, there was Josh's cousin also, a pretty looking girl. :) Then we took another bus from the custom to Singapore Keranji station. From there we reached at around 1pm and we spotted a bakery shop which was very attracting to us. Ivy and I were very hungry at that time. So this is the first thing that we bought in Singapore! :) hehe... Hungry people don't care if it's expensive or not, we just need to fulfill our tummy's need. :P hehe... So we were eating at the MRT station there and as we were eating, we got scolded by an old man. We were quite upset at that time but thanks to his scolding because as we entered the MRT, we saw a logo like this:

S$500 FINE for EATING AND DRINKING!!!

Just imagine, if we have eaten in the MRT and station, we would be charged s$500 each!!! This would mean that we have to go back to KL afterwards! :( Our purpose was to shop only and we would just come and got arrested for eating in the MRT and being fined this amount. Well I don't think that it would be enough for us to pay them 'cause the money we brought for shopping was not enough to pay the fine each! Maybe the Singaporean would shot us dead! :( That's terrible!!! Ok ok!!! I stop dreaming so much!!!

Bugis Street for our First Shopping Marathon

So we took the MRT from Keranji station to Bugis MRT Station. It took us exactly 42mins. The MRT is very fast and comes on time as always. On our arrival there, we changed our money at Bugis Junction Money Changer and the Singapore Shopping Marathon had finally started. First target to spot was the Bugis Street. We officially started at around 2pm, it's pretty late i must say. So as we arrived there, we didn't know where to start and we just follow the flow. But it was quite uncomfortable, so we all made separate way and meet back at 5:30PM. We shopped and shopped like crazy and at a very fast pace. I don't know for Ivy and the rest but for me, it was really a shopping marathon. I just go to one shop, see if nice, then try and if nice and good price then I buy. I must praise God for that because in every shop I went, I got a very great discount from everyone. It's not because of the MegaSales but when I asked lower the price, they really lower it for me and I'm blessed. I spent around 1 and half hour in Bugis Street because nothing much interesting as in shirts. They all look the same in every shop. So I left the place to go to Bugis Junction and made the most craziest shopping marathon ever. As the Singaporeans walk very fast, I walked faster than them!!! Isn't that crazy? From shop to shop, I went around and find the best clothes and best price. I could hardly spend 5-10mins in one shop. So just imagine how many shops I've been.

Half way of the Shopping Marathon

5:30pm has arrived and I had to meet Ivy and the rest. I was in the fitting room in Bugis Junction at that time. I had to try faster and buy faster and meet them faster! Ivy already started to sms me, which cost RM1 per sms! I didn't want her to spend her sms, so I rushed as fast as I could. As I reached the meet up point, she said, "okay let's go to Bugis Junction now!" Haiz!!! I just came back from there!!! So we went there for 10-15mins, then decided to go to Orchard Road for the largest shopping place in Singapore. Back to the MRT, rushing here and there again. The escalator in the MRT Station goes very fast, so we had to move very fast as well. We reached Orchard Road and there were nothing special for us to buy there. It was quite expensive compared to Bugis. So after spending around 20-25mins around, we went back to Bugis to continue our Shopping Marathon. We could take a break of 10mins in Orchard Road there then continue again. FYI, we didn't have break at all during the shopping marathon. It's a Marathon, if you stop, you loose! We would have wasted time if we took a lot of break interval and in the end we wouldn't buy our stuffs.

Exhausted after the Shopping Marathon

BUT

Satisfied of the Shopping Marathon!!! :D

We went back to Bugis Street and continue the shopping until 8:30pm and then we had to leave Singapore already else we can't go back to Malaysia and stay overnight at the bus station. Another marathon was waiting for us. We had to rush back to Keranji Bus Station to take the bus back to JB. We didn't get the usual bus but we took another bus to go there. As we took the bus to the other side, we had to pass through the custom again. There, we had to put our thumb there for the identification. Joshua got this crazy idea that we put our thumb into our nose and put it there. Hahaha!!! It was so funny and as crazy as Ivy is, she was about to do it. But in the end she didn't do and me either. It was great fun in the end. We all had a good laugh at it.

Seriously Exhausted Ivy!!!


Shocked Ivy of not getting our usual bus back to JB

As we reached JB, the escalator is very slow and we were complaining 'cause not only it was slow but dirty. The big difference between Singapore and Malaysia, it's a world of different. It's like you come from a rich life and suddenly you got poor and that's what you get in return. Malaysia started to be a slow country for us. Everything was slow. Well I can't compare to Mauritius, it's even slower than that! So Mauritius, you have a lot to catch up to be like Singaporeans!!! C'mon my people!!! :D

Happy People after Singapore trip

On our way back to Joshua's aunty's place, we were all exhausted. As we reached home, we took shower, brush teeth and then sleep until the next day. I was so tired and I think that I was in the same position that I've slept that night. As Joshua said, I was snoring like a pig. Well when I'm terribly tired, I'm like that. I can snore like nobody's business. I slept until 8AM until Ivy woke me up to call the bus station of JB to get an earlier bus so that we could reach KL earlier so that we could go to church. Well it was impossible for 3 people to get an early bus, so we just carry on with the 11:45am bus. On our way back, the bus stopped so many times and I couldn't sleep well. Every time when the bus would start driving, then I would sleep and every time the bus stops I would wake up because I thought that we reached. How I wish that it was the case but it wasn't!!! I could even dream in my sleep also while we were traveling by bus. My dream was so intense that I would wake up with a headache.

Last Picture before go back KL!

Soon we reached KL and Josh, Ivy and I had to rush to get a cab to go to church. We were already late and we managed to take a cab that cost us RM10 each. Well we didn't care about the price as far as he would go fast and bring us to church. Fortunately we could enter the church just after the Praise And Worship and get a seat. We thought that we had to be in the church lobby to watch through the TV. Yeah before that in the bus, I said to Ivy, "what's the purpose of arriving late to church and wear so nice Singapore clothes?" Which is true. We would sit outside of the church and wear nice clothes for nothing. Anyway we reached KL safely and we could reach church just in time for the sermon on "Does Fairy Tale Love Exist?"

finished - 12:08AM