thirtytwo

Feb 10

I woke up early, but I didn’t get up right away. It was too early, not even 7 in the morning, and everybody was still fast asleep. I quietly lie in bed, staring at the ceiling planning our itinerary for the day. After a few minutes, I coudn’t stand the inactivity any longer so I walked over to Evita’s bed and woke her.

“Evita…evita…wake up…do you want to go downstairs…? Lets try the swimming pool. Wake up!!” .She immediately opened her eyes at the mention of the magic word… “swimming pool” she has this affinity with water.

We immediately changed clothes, then we went downstairs to check out the hotel facilities …first we looked at the gym, I didnt pack any gym clothes, so we have no choice but to skip the work out part…next we took a dip in the pool …bbrrrrrr the water in the pool was so cold…so we transferred to the jacuzzi instead….it was very very nice..warm and soothing..just what I needed for my tired and aching leg muscles….. hmmm...last stop …sauna for 15 mins… Afterwards we went back upstairs, to our room…to get ready for the busy day ahead.

We took the usual buffet breakfast at the hotel…the mix of food wasn’t so bad….(The Manila Peninsula buffet breakfast is still on the top of my favorite list....because of the danggit and tocino in the menu …plus the fact that its in the Philippines) …there’s a choice from the usual bacon, pancakes, eggs, hash brown, cereal, ham, sausage to congee, noodles, pasta, smoked fish, cheese, salad and fruits…so everyday there is something that can pick our fancy..

After breakfast, we toured the lobby and then the restaurant adjacent to the hotel

Next, armed with the free map from the airport, we walked from our hotel Rendezvous in Bras Basah Road to the Merlion Statue near Fullerton with many many stops and detours in between..

Bras Basah Road corner Bencoolen St.

Fort Canning Road in front of the National Museum

In front of Singapore Art museum

Chijmes

Stamford road

Capitol building

Since its Sunday, my Mom and Ditse have only one condition for today’s itinerary …we must go to a catholic church. So I’ve included St Andrews Cathedral in our itinerary…ive seen some pictures of the church somewhere and I’ve always wanted to visit the place.

Along the way, we saw a small church, My Mom who’s ever persistent, insisted we stop and hear mass right then and there. I told her not yet, because were going to St Andrew’s which is much better…so we continued walking but she was nagging me non stop along the way…”why do we need to go to st Andrews, when there’s a church we can go already…what if we cant find st Andrews…what if there’s no mass…what if its not a catholic chuch .. and she went on and on …what if…what if what if…. until we finally reached the church….. Then she stopped…maybe because she realized that what I said is true, st. Andrews is much beautiful and bigger…. I stoped myself from saying “I told you so” …simply because she is mom…har har
We went inside the church and attended the mass… afterwards we took a short break in front of the church….before we continued with our walking tour.

Foot ball field near City hall

Chinese, Korean Festival celebration of some sort at the park.

Evita trying to be jang geum…
Me beside my Chinese horoscope

My mom doing her favorite thing and having the time of her life shopping for some Chinese trinkets. She was smiling so happily… probably because she made some good bargain with the store owner.

Still at the festival while taking a short break from the hot Singapore sun

Me at the creek

At the tunnel

At the other side of the river opposite Fullerton Hotel

In front of Asian Civilization Museum…we went inside to pee…lol…

At the bridge ….crossing over to other side of the river (Fullerton Side)

At the other side of the river

At the fountain in front of Fullerton..

Finally at the Merlion

Resting at the gardens of Esplanade Theater

Walking towards the train station….

We took a train to Mustafa Mall…where we shopped shopped and shopped….we went back to the hotel around midnight…geez I was so tired …it feels as if im going to pass out …