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Manila & SG Day 1 & 2: October 29 - 30, 2009
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Last October, I was one of the lucky ITP who has been selected to participate in that year’s ITP Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since it has only been a couple of months when we left Bela when hubby and I went on our dream vacation, I told hubby that I don’t think I can stand even just one week to be away with her again. So even though airfare prices are really steep (2-3x the price than what I normally book if I avail Cebu Pacific’s seat sale), we still decided that Howell and Bela will be coming with me for this trip.
The conference is from Nov 1 – 4 but after doing some research, we did not find anything interesting for Bela to see in KL so we decided to drop by at Singapore for two days before going to KL.
We took the Cebu Pacific flight on October 29 at 8:30 PM which will arrive in Singapore at 11:55 PM. We decided to book YMCA Hotel again since we already stayed here first time we were in Singapore so we will be sure that we are familiar with the place even if we will be arriving in Singapore at the wee hours of morning.
I went straight to the airport where I met with Bela and Howell. We just had our dinner there and the flight was on time. Bela was able to sleep during the flight but she was wide awake when we arrived in Singapore. We took an airport taxi to take us to the hotel. We doze off to bed after checking in.
The next day, we started a little late. We took a bath, eat breakfast then went to a nearby mall in Orchard road to have our US $ change to SGD $. Then we took the MTR to go to Jurong Bird Park.
It was a very long ride going to the park but it was all worth it since Bela really had fun. We watched almost all the show and Bela was even called on stage during the show for a close encounter with the parrot and she was asked to imitate the crying sound of the parrot. That was one proud mommy moment as she confidently went on stage and played with the parrot, answer the host’s questions and entertain the crowd.
After our trip to Jurong Bird Park, we met with mu best friend and her husband in Suntec City Mall where they treated us for dinner. We haven’t seen each other for years now and so we really had a good chat and we were able to catch up with the old times. They took us to our hotel and it was almost 12 midnight when we decided to call it a night.
You can view more pictures here.
The conference is from Nov 1 – 4 but after doing some research, we did not find anything interesting for Bela to see in KL so we decided to drop by at Singapore for two days before going to KL.
We took the Cebu Pacific flight on October 29 at 8:30 PM which will arrive in Singapore at 11:55 PM. We decided to book YMCA Hotel again since we already stayed here first time we were in Singapore so we will be sure that we are familiar with the place even if we will be arriving in Singapore at the wee hours of morning.
I went straight to the airport where I met with Bela and Howell. We just had our dinner there and the flight was on time. Bela was able to sleep during the flight but she was wide awake when we arrived in Singapore. We took an airport taxi to take us to the hotel. We doze off to bed after checking in.
It was a very long ride going to the park but it was all worth it since Bela really had fun. We watched almost all the show and Bela was even called on stage during the show for a close encounter with the parrot and she was asked to imitate the crying sound of the parrot. That was one proud mommy moment as she confidently went on stage and played with the parrot, answer the host’s questions and entertain the crowd.
After our trip to Jurong Bird Park, we met with mu best friend and her husband in Suntec City Mall where they treated us for dinner. We haven’t seen each other for years now and so we really had a good chat and we were able to catch up with the old times. They took us to our hotel and it was almost 12 midnight when we decided to call it a night.
You can view more pictures here.
