I was scheduled to take a plane to Singapore at 7 am (as far as I could remember) Yogyakarta time (GMT +7). I already packed my stuffs the other day and the day before so no worries. I got to the airport a little past 5. It was less crowded compared to the afternoon and night time. It was a small airport named Adisutjipto International Airport at Sleman, Yogyakarta Special Province. Even though it has "International" in it's name, it's a small airport with so-so facilities. Anyway, I'm not going alone. I'm going with 18 of my friends and 4 teachers plus one guy from ASEAN. It's kinda hard to explain "that guy from ASEAN" but he's some kind of a volunteer for something.
So as soon as I got the airport, I bid goodbye to my family and checked-in for the flight. After Immigration processes and all those kinda stuff, I waited in the waiting room with my friends t get into the plane. After waiting for quite some time, the gate to the plane was open and I eventually entered the plane.
I was seated next to strangers. Well it's not exactly a bad thing. Because seated next to a kid or an obese (let alone an obese kid) is much worse. It took about 1,75 hours to get to Singapore. But I recalled we landed a little sooner because the Changi ATC gave us clearance to land a little sooner than expected too. So then we landed in Changi safely.
I got down from the plane and immediately looked for a toilet. After my toilet business is finished, I did the Immigration processing or whatever it's called and got my luggage in the belt soon after.
After all the airport business is done, we headed to a bus and went to a restaurant. You know, you can't reason with your stomach when it's hungry. We ate at a restaurant called Hejh Maimunah. All the foods there are halal. After we're full, we got back to the bus and were inbound for NEWater.
We got there at noon (I guess). In case you don't know, this NEWater thingy is some kind of a place to recycle water. I'm sure a lot of you people have heard about this. Unfortunately, we couldn't attend the tour there for some reasons that I can't seem to remember. Fortunately, the manager was kind enough to give us a bottle of NEWater each even though we did not attend the tour.
After NEWater, we went to the Sultan Mosque. Almost all of us were Muslims so we had to pray. We took our time and then we continued our journey to the next destination which is the Bugis Market.
In the Bugis Market I only bought 2 T-Shirts (despite how big the place was and how many kinds of things they sold). I'm not a shoppaholic and I tend to forget about people at home so I don't have any reason to buy anything else. However I have reasons not to. One of them is about packing. I'm not good at packing and I'm concerned that I can't pack the things that I buy on the way home. Anyway, we spent like an hour at the Bugis Market. After that, we went back in the bus and set forth to The Merlion.
On the way there, our tour guide said that the Merlion was under maintenance so the so called half lion half something statue wasn't bursting any water out of it's mouth. We only took photos of the Marina Bay there.
Next, we were en route to Sentosa Island. We went to see the famous Universal Studios Globe outside of the theme park itself. We did not go inside the theme park though. We only took pics there. After that we got ready to watch The Wings of Time. It's a water-laser show thingy (I'm sure you get what I mean). The story itself was rather boring. But the effects used in the show was majestic. I mean it's like so cool.
Sentosa was our last significant destination in Singapore. After that we were on our way to Malacca in Malaysia. We went there by bus and we spent some of our night sleeping in it. We arrived at our home stay in Malacca late at night. We rested there. And with that, day-1 ends...
PS: Sorry to make it such a long story.
So as soon as I got the airport, I bid goodbye to my family and checked-in for the flight. After Immigration processes and all those kinda stuff, I waited in the waiting room with my friends t get into the plane. After waiting for quite some time, the gate to the plane was open and I eventually entered the plane.
I was seated next to strangers. Well it's not exactly a bad thing. Because seated next to a kid or an obese (let alone an obese kid) is much worse. It took about 1,75 hours to get to Singapore. But I recalled we landed a little sooner because the Changi ATC gave us clearance to land a little sooner than expected too. So then we landed in Changi safely.I got down from the plane and immediately looked for a toilet. After my toilet business is finished, I did the Immigration processing or whatever it's called and got my luggage in the belt soon after.
After all the airport business is done, we headed to a bus and went to a restaurant. You know, you can't reason with your stomach when it's hungry. We ate at a restaurant called Hejh Maimunah. All the foods there are halal. After we're full, we got back to the bus and were inbound for NEWater.
We got there at noon (I guess). In case you don't know, this NEWater thingy is some kind of a place to recycle water. I'm sure a lot of you people have heard about this. Unfortunately, we couldn't attend the tour there for some reasons that I can't seem to remember. Fortunately, the manager was kind enough to give us a bottle of NEWater each even though we did not attend the tour.After NEWater, we went to the Sultan Mosque. Almost all of us were Muslims so we had to pray. We took our time and then we continued our journey to the next destination which is the Bugis Market.
In the Bugis Market I only bought 2 T-Shirts (despite how big the place was and how many kinds of things they sold). I'm not a shoppaholic and I tend to forget about people at home so I don't have any reason to buy anything else. However I have reasons not to. One of them is about packing. I'm not good at packing and I'm concerned that I can't pack the things that I buy on the way home. Anyway, we spent like an hour at the Bugis Market. After that, we went back in the bus and set forth to The Merlion.
On the way there, our tour guide said that the Merlion was under maintenance so the so called half lion half something statue wasn't bursting any water out of it's mouth. We only took photos of the Marina Bay there.Next, we were en route to Sentosa Island. We went to see the famous Universal Studios Globe outside of the theme park itself. We did not go inside the theme park though. We only took pics there. After that we got ready to watch The Wings of Time. It's a water-laser show thingy (I'm sure you get what I mean). The story itself was rather boring. But the effects used in the show was majestic. I mean it's like so cool.
Sentosa was our last significant destination in Singapore. After that we were on our way to Malacca in Malaysia. We went there by bus and we spent some of our night sleeping in it. We arrived at our home stay in Malacca late at night. We rested there. And with that, day-1 ends...PS: Sorry to make it such a long story.
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