Amanda Wanders: 2016

, by Amanda Ng

All these years when I was with S, I always felt that he was on the losing end for our birthday celebration. Because our birthdays were on the same day, he always ended up being the one planning for it to celebrate for him. So this year (even before he proposed), I decided to plan a day out after his last exam of uni life to celebrate his birthday!

PART 1 - CABLE SKIING

Woke up early in the morning first thing to head to East Coast Park for our first ever cable skiing session! It was a new experience for the both of us at Singapore Wake Park and there was a 2 for 1 November Opening Promotion (yay!) I heard that the new owners actually revamped it to make cable skiing more manageable for beginners like us.

How to cable-ski?

Start off with this squatting position, and then slow stand up straight and attempt to balance while the skis speed off at 40km/hour! Sounds pretty simple? It is, technically, because our instructors Farhan & Yan were really patient and helpful giving us tips on how to balance better. But the nightmare comes when you fall off with the board detached - as it means that you have to swim all the way to the side by yourself and head back to the starting point (which happened pretty frequently for me 😅)

Overall it was super fun and we stopped after 1 hour because our arms were aching from swimming and we were feeling pretty hungry. See how shag we look? HAHAHA.

Level up board which was crazy heavy!

PS, our whole body starting aching the next day although I have no idea why as I don't even remember feeling tired while cable skiing (other than the swimming part), but this proves to be a really good & fun sport!

Next we went to Bedok Mall and decided to head into a random Japanese restaurant to have our lunch as we were both starving after the exercise. The food here at Menya Musashi Takatora was surprisingly good though, and my favourite lava eggs were not overdone!

Some photo taking done in town while waiting for our appointed time for the next program, loving all the Christmas decorations!

PART 2 - ONSEN & MASSAGE

I was really excited after finding out about this new massage place in town which offers COUPLE ONSEN. I missed the natural one in Japan so much, I decided to give Elements Wellness in CentrePoint a go with their Koyamaki Onsen Bath.

So how it works is that they use this Contrast Hydrotherapy which we decided to follow (we tweaked the timing a little by ourselves):

40 minutes - Onsen Therapy

2 minutes - Crystal Cold Shower (turn it all the way to the coldest temperature!)

10 minutes - Steam Bath (we didn't find out about this till the very end, the steam bath is located within the showers itself and you can find the controls outside, beside the water dispenser)

3 minutes - Rinse Off

It is then followed by an hour of Swedish Massage, which was pretty different from the massages we were used to. In my opinion, the onsen was decent but would have been better if the temperatures were higher. The effect/minerals was not as good as compared to the hot springs in Kyoto, but it would most probably one of the better experiences you could have in Singapore.

PART 3 - D BOX

Headed over to Bishan Golden Village after to catch Moana in D-Box. Basically what happens is that the seats will actually move around according to what is happening in the movie.

It was pretty interesting and I can't wait for the proper 4D movie experience in Bangkok soon! Ended our night with DTF XLB (my craving since forever!!!) and that's the end to our Monday-not-blue-at-all 🙌

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, by Amanda Ng

Events

Dester Singapore Gold Cup 2016

I was so happy today, let me tell you, because I got to see horses again!😍 Was super psyched when Singapore Turf Club invited me down for this esteemed event!

The Singapore Gold Cup, one of the most prestigious horse races on the local racing is presented by a new title sponsor – Dester 100% Malt. Shiling and I had the chance to try the Dester Beer and was pleasantly surprised by its taste. It doesn't taste like those typical beers, so even if you're someone who prefers wine (like me), you will find that it tastes pretty good! Here's a picture of us with the pretty decorations thet set up!

Tote Board and Singapore Turf Club also presented donation cheques totalling $1.5 million to 26 selected beneficiary organisations to uplift the local community by Giving Hope to vulnerable groups and Improving Lives of all in Singapore. I believe I helped to contribute by betting on the horses over there too! 😝 It was a really thrilling event as there was no way to know which horse would win. This was the first race we betted on and our horse (number 5 - but forgot its name) won!

Betting was pretty straightforward, the minimum bet was $5 and you could either bet on "WIN" or "PLACE". "WIN" means that the horse you choose will come in first, out of all the other horses, while "PLACE" simply means that the horse will come in as one of the top 3! The rate of return for a WIN (min $6) is generally higher as compared to a PLACE (min $5.10) as the risk is higher as well! Sadly we didn't bring enough cash with us (and there was sadly no ATMs there) and thus we had to restrict ourselves to betting on the minimum each round 🙊

Anyway, we were brought for a tour later in the afternoon to see the horses up close! Don't they look majestic? The white horses at the end are used to guide the race horses in if I'm not wrong, because I always see them leading the way towards the race track.

We have decided to go back to Singapore Turf Club on our own again in future to experience this all over again (while bringing more cash!) I would say that it is a really unique experience that everyone should at least go for once in their life, especially if you can get into the lounge, where you can view the race in comfort - fully air conditioned with all the awesome food (and desserts - macarons!!!) Can't wait for the next one! 😌

Cocktail Themed
Skirt: Megagamie
#OOTD

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