"Since we are already going to fall sick, let's just eat more!" - my cousin.
Well, I DID fall sick. I feel awful now, with a sore throat and kinda runny nose. Haha, at least I ate my fill last night.
Yesterday I went to my uncle's house (who strangely, was overseas with my aunt --his wife la.) to have lunch. After lunch of homecooked food (my mom's curry!) and lazing around (not quite! we cousins played hide and seek, and randomly my cousins would start chasing each other around over some petty thing. thats what my cousin --the one i quoted above-- describes as 'bonding'.), we left for our next desination -- sentosa!
'We' being the whole party of us -- my family, my youngest aunt's family, my 2 married older cousins plus their spouses and one daughter. We didn't manage to persuade my granma to go, as she wanted to go to the temple. So what happened next was this rather interesting but slow journey, 3 cars tailing each other all the way to the temple, then to sentosa. We stopped once or twice at the roadside (ooops!) because we lost the car at the back.
Finally after more than an hour and heavy traffic at sentosa itself, we reached the carpark of sentosa. Why so specific? Because from there we still had a long way to go! The queue for the shutle bus to take us to the flower fair was snaky long. I daresay it was more than a 100 metres long. It took like... 10 over buses before we managed to hop on? While we waited we could eat potato chips, go for a toilet break, take a couple of pictures...
Eventually we reached someplace near Imbiah station. There was this ramp, zigzagging up to the flower fair place. And it was PACKED. I tell you, it wasn't very much fun, getting your feet wet, jostling with thousands of other people. My mom declared that half the population doesn't go visiting and come here instead. I guess she's half right, because that half of the 'population' were mostly non-chinese, expats and tourists. We were the minority.
The whole flower fair thingy seemed like a endless queue to get out. I never knew where it really started, or ended. In the end, after a few more photos, we got so fed up, we filtered our way through to the beach. It was another long walk...
At the beach, we practically did nothing but chill out, because we were all wearing nice clothes and didn't want to get dirty. But it was interesting, as we saw a group of people in the shade, watching another guy outside the shade. In front of him were some small figurines of girls, much like Barbie dolls but much prettier and slightly bigger. (about as tall as a A4 paper vertically? Or a 30 cm ruler?) It was really intriguing, seeing him arrange 2 beach babes posing with a lounge chair behind them. One of the babes held an umbrella, and the guy was combing the doll's hair.
Next, we decided to get out of there, so in short, we took a shuttle bus back to sentosa cove, where we had parked the cars. We had a brilliant idea to picnic out there, so the rest of the night was spent eating bread and leftover curry, chinese new year goodies, and drinking slurpee, coke and cheng tng, under the stars. I think that was the nicest part. Except for the fact that... I ate so much junk, I feel awful now.
Serves me right.